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 plateIn 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 plateIn 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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