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[Illustration: Gyronny]
Ex. Gyronny of eight pieces, azure, argent, and gules.
HABERGEON. A coat of mail: it is also called a corslet and cuirass.
[Illustration: Habergeon]
Ex. Argent, an habergeon proper.
HABITED. Clothed figures, either as charges or supporters, are said to
be habited.
[Illustration: Harpy.]
HARPY. A chimerical animal, having the head and breast of a woman, and
the body and legs of a bird.
HAURIENT. A fish, in a perpendicular direction, with its head upwards.
[Illustration: Haurient]
Ex. Argent, a salmon proper haurient.
HELMET. An ancient piece of defensive armour for the head; it covered
the face, leaving an aperture in the front, secured by bars: this was
called the visor. The helmet is now placed over a coat of arms; and by
the metal from which it is made, the form, and position, denotes the
rank of the person whose arms are emblazoned beneath it.
The helmets of sovereigns are formed of burnished gold; those of
princes and peers, of every degree, silver figured with gold; knights,
esquires, and gentlemen, polished steel.
The helmets of the king, the royal family, and peers, are open-faced
and grated: the number of bars served formerly to distinguish the
bearer's quality. The helmets of knights are open-faced, without bars.
Esquires and gentlemen are known by the close helmet.
[Illustration: Grated helmet, direct front view.]
The position of the helmet is a mark of distinction. The direct front
view of the grated helmet belongs to sovereign princes and dukes.
[Illustration: Grated helmet, profile.]
The grated helmet in profile is common to all degrees of peerage under
a duke.
[Illustration: Open helmet, direct front view.]
The helmet without bars, with the beaver open, standing directly
fronting the spectator, denotes a knight.
[Illustration: Closed helmet, profile.]
The closed helmet seen in profile is appropriated to esquires and
gentlemen. See CREST, BEAVER, MANTLING.
HERALD. An officer at arms, whose business it is to declare war,
proclaim peace, marshal all the solemnities at the coronation;
baptisms, marriages, and funerals of the sovereign and nobility; and
to ascertain and blazon coats of arms.
The principal herald is Garter-King-at-Arms. It is his office to
regulate the solemnities, and emblazon the arms of the sovereign,
knights, and officers of the most noble order of the Garter.
Garter-King-at-Arms likewise presides over all heraldic ceremonies of
the Court. His crown of gold is formed with oak leaves, one shorter
than the other, springing from a circlet of gold, having engraved upon
it the words "MISERERE MEI DEUS." His tabard, as principal herald, is
of crimson velvet, splendidly embroidered with the arms of England.
Clarencieux and Norroy are called provincial kings-at-arms, the former
regulating all things connected with Heraldry in the provinces south
of the Trent; the latter in the provinces north of the Trent. They
have likewise crowns; and though the office of herald is not of so
much importance now as it was formerly, it is still considered a post
of great honour and emolument.
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