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Argent, three caps sable bended or.
Quarterly, azure and or four caps counterchanged.
Argent, three chapeaus sable (or cap of maintenance). (The peculiar tincturing
of this charge are standardised, as I'll describe below.)
Quarterly ermine and azure, a chapeau gules turned up of the first between two
greyhounds courant in pale or.
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The principal caps in use as charges, parts of crests, or accessories to coats
of arms, are the following:
The Lord Mayor's cap usually placed over the insignia of the city of London, or arms of a lord mayor, is thus represented. It is worn by the sword-bearer, and is of brown fur.
The caps borne by Maundefeld are of a peculiar form, similar to that of the "Doge's cap." Those borne by Drokensford, and called "pilia pastoralia" (if caps at all), were possibly similar.
A "Cardinal's cap" or hat is always red, and has tassels pendent from its labels in five rows, instituted by Innocent IV., at the Council of Lyons, 1245. The continental archbishops and bishops (especially those of France) bear green hats of the same form over their mitres, the former with five rows of tassels, and the latter with four. A black cap of the same shape, with three rows of tassels, belongs to abbats. Prothonotaries use a similar hat with two rows of tassels. A black hat or cap, with one tassel on each side, belongs to all other clergymen.
"Cap of dignity" or "maintenance," called also "chapeau," is a cap generally of red velvet turned up with ermine, formerly peculiar to dukes (whence it is sometimes called a "duciper,") but now often used to place crests upon instead of a wreath.
The term "chapeau," however, is variously used for a cap or hat of any kind. In the arms of Cope it is probably a cap of maintenance; it that of Kingeston it is probably a hat of some kind. (Argent, a chapeau azure [elsewhere a steel cap proper], with a plume of ostrich feathers in front gules -- John Kingeston, 1390.)
The "doctor's cap" in the arms of Sugar refers probably to the University degree. (Sable, three sugar-loaves argent, in chief a doctor's cap proper -- Sugar, Somerset.)
The "long cap," of a peculiar shape, which occurs in the crests of Walpole and Brydges, is shown attached, and a cap somewhat similar is termed an "Albanian bonnet," probably that worn by the peasantry.
The "abacot," a mere corruption of "bycocket," is said in Spelman's Glossary to have been given to a cap worn by ancient kings of England, and is so copied into heraldic books.
The "infula" is used in one case in the sense of a cap. (Argent, an infula embowed at the end gules, turned up in form of a hat, and engrailed with a button and tassel at the top or -- Brunt.) I can provide no image of this.
Caps (fr. chaperons) are also used for falcons.
I have mentioned caps of steel, basinet/basnet, burgonet and morion earlier.
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