Faces  Book III, Chapter 5, Section 11
 



Mans face
 


Cuckolds face
 


Satyrs head
 


Womans head
 CLVI. He beareth a Womans head mufflet about the Face with a Cap, turned up.


Satyrs head
 


Satyrs head
 


Harpy
 


Friars head
 CLX. He beareth a Frier or Monks hood, couped at the shoulders with his monks hood or coule hanging about his neck. Monks, Friers and Popish Priests are always born with Bald or Shaven Crowns, having only a Circle of short Hair round about the lower part of the Head and above the Ears.


Virgin Marys head
 


Womans head
 CLXII. He beareth a Womans head couped below the shoulders, on her head a capped tank embowed and tied under her Chin, turned up.
Some take this to be a Demy Woman Pilgrim in her short coat, as Chap. 4. numb. 36.


Annulet
 


Annulet
 


Annulet
 


Annulet
 


Cross taw
 CLXVII. He beareth a Cross Taw, Edged and Fitched at the Ends. What this Instrument is, or what rightly to term it, I have not yet better Learnined; or only to call it else, a Crouch or Crouch Staff, Hooped and Spiced at all ends (till a better name be known) is not amiss.


Cross of Hungary
  Image from published plate
In the Dexter of this Square, is such another like bearing, which at first sight were able to confound a young blazoner what to call it: I found it in Abraham Ortelius his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, to be impaled with Barry of 8, as the Royal Arms of the Kingdom of Hungary: and may be thus Blazoned, on a Hill or Mount of three Cops, a Cross of Hungary...


Drinking Cup
  Image from published plate
In the Sinister Base, is a kind of Drinking Cup, or Vessel made off the higher end, or the small top of a Bull or Cows horn, the Tip end Reversed, Supported by two Feet fixed on a Hoop, invironing the middle of it. It is by some Gentlemens Buttlers termed a Souce, or Goglet, or Goblet.


Papal gonfanon
 CLXVIII. He beareth a Papal Gonfanon or square Banner, Indecked at the Bottom [with] the Staff. This is an Ensign of Triumph, and is ever carried before the Popes Holiness ...


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