The probable Origin of Supporters; Quasi-Supporters; True Supporters: their Introduction; Supporters of Crested Helms; Pairs of Supporters; Dissimilar Supporters; The use of Supporters by Ladies; Other ways of Supporting Shields.
The Royal Banner of Arms; The Banner of the Arms of the City of London; Shapes of Banners; Sizes of certain Banners; Upright _versus_ Long Banners; Advantages of the upright form; Banners with Achievements of Arms; Modern Use of Banners.
Arms of husband and wife; Dimidiating; Impaling; Scutcheons of Pretence; Impalement with Official Arms; Arms of ladies; Heraldic Drawing; Mottoes; Use and Misuse of the Garter; Lettering and Mottoes.
Crowns and Coronets; Introduction of Coronets; Coronets of Princes, Dukes, and Earls; Bequests of Coronets; Illustrations of Coronets and Crowns; Collars and Chains; Collars of Orders; Lancastrian Collars of SS; Yorkist Collars of Suns and Roses; Tudor Collars of SS; Other Livery Collars; Waits' Collars; Collars and Chains of Mayors, Mayoresses, and Sheriffs; The Revival of Collars; Inordinate Length of modern Collars.
The introduction of armorial insignia in embroidered Vestments: on Robes: on Beds, etc.
Decorative Heraldry of the Reign of Henry VIII; The Decadent Change in the Quality of Heraldry; Examples of Elaborated Arms; Survival of Tradition in Heraldic Art; Elizabethan Heraldry; Heraldry in the Seventeenth Century and Under the Commonwealth; Post-Restoration Heraldry.
CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES OF ILLUSTRATIONS 354
Banner of the arms of King George the Fifth (_Frontispiece_) Title
I. Arms of Milton Abbey from a window in Ibberton church, Dorset, c. 1475. (_From_ "_Archæologia_," vol. xlvii.) 48
II. } Shields in stained glass of the 14th century in 54 III. } the Victoria and Albert Museum. (From coloured 56 drawings by Mr. T. W. Rutter)
IV. Part (reduced) of an early Roll of Arms belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of London 64
IX. Use of lozenges and roundels of arms 112
X. Use of lozenges and roundels of arms 114
XII. Early uses of crests, on seals of William Montagu earl of Salisbury, 1337-44 125
XIV. Examples of crests and mantlings 130
XV. Stall-plate (reduced) of Hugh Stafford lord Bourchier, _c._ 1421 151
XVI. Stall-plate (reduced) of William lord Willoughby, _c._ 1421 154