Argent, three barn-door cocks crested and jowlloppedsable

a cock

Sometimes called barn-door cock or dunghill-cock, but as other species are always mentioned with some additional epithet, no such distinction is necessary. The game-cock is sometimes specially named, and so is the hen.

The Cock is found, though rarely, in ancient rolls of arms. And with the Cock should be grouped the Capon and the Cockerell. It will be observed that in very many instances the charge is borne for the sake of the play upon the name of the bearer.

A Cock with the comb of a different tincture may be blazoned crested or combed of such tincture; so also with the gills, or uncelles, when the term jellopped or wattled is used. Other terms are also found; armed legged or membered, beaked. With the French the term hardi is used when the right leg is raised; and in both English and French arms crowing, when the beak is represented as open.

“Argent, three barn-door cocks crested and jowllopped sable” – Cockayne (also borne by Cockburne, Scotland).
“Gules, three barn-door cocks Argent, armed, crested, and jowllopped Or” – Cock.
“Azure, a dunghill-cock perched upon an escallop Or” – Otterbury.
“Argent, a Cock Gules” – Cheke.
“Azure, three cocks Argent” – Chanticleer, Cornwall.
“Sable, three cocks Or, membered Gules” – Ovington, Kent.
“Argent, three cocks sable, armed, crested, and wattled Or” – Pomfret, 1730.
“Argent, three game-cocks Gules, crested and wattled sable” – Cockman.
“Argent, a fesse between three hens sable” – Ayloft.
“Argent, three capons sable armed, crested, and jowllopped Or” – Caponhurst.
“Argent, on a chevron vert three cockerells of the first membered Gules” – Chickerin, Norwich.
“Gules, a chevron between three cocks crowing Argent” – Crow, Suffolk.

”Argent, on a fesse between three Cock's heads erased sable crested and jellopped Gules a mitre Or, all within a bordure of the third, charged with eight ducal coronets of the fourth” – Jesus College, Cambridge.
“Argent, on a fesse between three Cock's heads erased sable, crested and jellopped Gules, a mitre Or” – John Alcock, Bishop of Rochester, 1472; Bishop of Worcester, 1476; Bishop of Ely, 1486-1500.

Applying to things set up side by side.
 

	Sir John Drayton
the collar of Suns andRoses

Collars studded with the letter S, or consisting of many of that latter linked together, either alone or alternately with other figures, have been at times much worn by persons holding great offices in the State, as well as by the gentry of various ranks from esquires upwards. They were worn by the Lords chief Justices, the Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer, the Lord Mayor of London, the Kings of arms, and Heralds, and the Serjeants at arms, though frequently they are little more than ordinary chain collar with the links twisted so as to resemble the letter S. The signification of the letter S in connection with the collar has been variously explained. Perhaps the best conjectures are, either that the device was invented to represent the word Souerayne, the favourite motto of Henry IV., which he bore when Earl of Derby, and retained when he succeeded to the throne; or else that that word was suggested by an after-thought of some courtier, or perhaps of the royal jeweller himself, as explanatory of the form which the workman had adopted, and which was so suitable to chain-work.

There is ample evidence that the collar of SS was originally a badge of the house of Lancaster, and that Henry IV. was the first sovereign who granted to the nobility as a mark of royal favour a licence to wear it; and, according to an old chronicle, Henry V., on the 25th day of October, 1415, gave to such of his followers as were not already noble permission to wear “un collier semé de letters S de son ordre.”

The right of knights to wear such a collar of gold was recognised by Act of Parliament, 24 Hen. VIII., but restricted to persons who were not below that grade.

The collar of SS begins to appear upon monuments at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and upon distinguished persons of both sexes. It is represented as if worn by Sir Thomas Burton, in 1381, on the brass at Little Casterton Church (though the brass was not executed till circa 1410). It is also represented as worn by Sir Robert de Hattfield, who is attired as a civilian, and by his wife, on the brass in Oulton Church, Yorkshire, which is dated 1409. On a brass in Hereford Cathedral it is represented as worn by Lady Delamere (1435), but not by her husband. The monumental effigy in Little Dunmow Church, Essex, to Matilda, Countess of Huntingdon, who lived temp. King John, is of no value as evidence, as the effigy is of the fifteenth century. The example here given is from the brass of Sir John Drayton, 1411, which exists in Dorchester Church, Oxon.

The collar of Suns and Roses also should be mentioned here, being one of the badges of Henry IV. It occurs on several brasses, and the right to bear this mark of favour was no doubt acquired direct from the sovereign. This collar was not so common as that of the SS. According to Haines, it occurs on brasses at Rougham, Norfolk, c. 1470; at Lillingston Lovell, Oxon, 1471; at Broxbourne, Herts, 1473; at Sardley, Derbyshire, 1478; at St.Albans, 1480; and at Little Easton, Essex, 1483.

Some kings of arms and Heralds have also encircled their arms with the collars pertaining to their degrees.
 

A term applied by writers on falconry to the bird with head erect when preparing to take flight, and may be found applied by some Heralds to the eagle also.
 

Said of two animals facing each other.
 

Those charges which have been imported into heraldry from all quarters, representing an array of objects, natural and artificial, from reptiles and insects to human being and celestial figures.

“The charge is that which is borne upon the color, except it be a coat divided only by partition.” – Peacham.

The rank of a knight Companion of certain orders.
 

Fullness; the moon in her complement = “full moon”.
 

Sable, a bordure compony counter-compony azure and Or

The same as Compony but arranged in two rows.
 

Arms composed are the addition by a gentleman to his own armorial bearings of a portion of those borne by his wife. The practice is now obsolete, the device of marshalling the arms of one's wife with his own having rendered its continuance unnecessary.
 

Composed crosses are those which are made of other parts, or even of other cross forms. Generally the objects are composed with their business ends joined in the center. The cross of Damascus is an exception to this rule. crosses which fall into this category include the cross pheony, trefly, and avellane, to name a few. This process may be applied to any number of objects in the creation of unique devices.
 

(Fr.) Applied to a Dolphin much curved, the head nearly touching the tail (i.e. like a spiral shell).
 

Said of two animals facing each other.
 

Joined together or touching.
 

This is the heraldic rabbit.
 

A water-fowl so called.
 

A raven; a Crow used as a charge.
 

Cords by themselves are but seldom borne, but are very frequently attached to other charges, which are there described as corded, and this is used of almost any charge bound with or having cords, when those cords are of a different tincture, e.g. a bale, woolpack, bag, bow, harp, etc., though some of these are described also as stringed. In one or two exceptional cases an ordinary is corded, e.g. a bar, cross, etc., meaning that it is wreathed round with a cord, and not to be confused with cabled.

“Or, a chevron ermine between three cords erased at each end and tied in knots vert” – Cleaver.
“Azure, four hawk's bells Or conjoined in saltire by a double and wreathed cord alternately Argent and sable” – Sir Ralph Josselyn, Alderman of London.
“Sable, two bars Argent, corded Or wreathed Gules” – Waye, Devonshire, (confirmed 1574).

A string of the robe of state, composed of silk and gold threads, twisted like a cord, and having a tassel at the end.
 

Bound with cords.
 

One of the Herald's of the Office of arms, Ireland.
 

Argent, a cross sable between four sea aylets of the second, beaked and membered gules

The bird in the arms of Warburton, and forming a portion of the insignia of Liverpool, is a cormorant, but it is known and blazoned there by name of the lever. Perhaps the Sea Aylet also may be considered similar to the cormorant. Cormorants’ heads sometimes are borne, as also Sea Aylet heads.

“Sable, a cormorant Argent” – Popellar.
“Azure, three Cormorants Or” – Sevens, or Sevans, Kent.
“Gules, on a bird wavy Argent three Cormorants sable, beaked and membered Or” – Sir Robert Reade (Puisne Justice of the King's Bench, 1496).
“Argent, a cormorant sable, beaked and legged Gules, holding in the beak a branch of sea-weed called laver inverted vert” – City of Liverpool
“Or, on a chevron Azure between three cormorant's heads erased sable as many acorns slipped of the first” – Chidderlegh, Cornwall.
“Argent, a cross sable between four sea aylets of the second, beaked and membered Gules” – John Aylmer (Bishop of London, 1577).
“Quarterly; first and fourth, Argent a chevron between three Cormorants sable; second and third, a fret” – Warburton (Bishop of Gloucester, 1760-79).

“Argent, a chevron counter Compony vert and Azure between three gannapies of the last membered Gules” – Wykes (Glover's ordinary).
“Argent, a chevron chequy Azure and vert between three gannapies proper” – Wikes, Devon.
“Argent, a chevron sable between three gannapies (elsewhere drakes) Azure” – Yeo, Colliton, Devon.

When the horns of a beast, such as the bull, are of a different tincture from that of the body he is then said to be corned of that tincture.
 

Adorned with a cornish or molding.
 

a coronated cross

An anserated cross. Given in theoretical works, but not attested.
 

Corrupted crosses are those which have, over time, been mutated from previously formed crosses. crosses which fall into this category include the cross anchory and cross portate.
 

A chevron issuing from the side is said to be couched.
 

Applied to the double horns of animals when borne two one way and two another – in opposite directions.