[Illustration: No. 225.--Arms of Saxony.]
_Charge._ Any heraldic figure or device. _Charged_--placed on a shield, banner, &c., as any heraldic figure or device may be.
_Chequeé_, _Chequy_, _Checky_. Divided into three, or into more than three, contiguous rows of small squares, alternately of a metal (or fur) and a colour: No 68.
_Chess rook._ A piece used in the game of Chess: borne by _Roke_wood and others: No. 226.
_Chevron._ One of the Ordinaries: Nos. 123, 125.
_Chevronel._ A diminutive of the Chevron: No. 124.
_Chevroneé_, _Chevrony_. A field composed of a number of pieces divided and disposed _per Chevron_: No. 124A.
_Chief._ One of the Ordinaries: Nos. 71-75. _In Chief_--placed in the upper part of the shield, or arranged in a horizontal row across the upper part of the field.
_Cinque-foil._ A flower or leaf of five foils: No. 227.
_Civic Crown._ A wreath of oak-leaves and acorns.
_Clarion._ An ancient musical instrument, a badge, apparently, of the DE CLARES. By some this charge is supposed to represent a _lance-rest_, and is sometimes so blazoned: No. 228, which shows two varieties of form.
_Clecheé._ A variety of the heraldic Cross: No. 105.
_Closet._ A Diminutive of the Bar, one half its width.
_Cloueé._ Fastened with Nails, and showing the Nail-heads: No. 150.
_Coat Armour._ True armorial or heraldic bearings, duly granted or inherited, and rightly borne: so entitled, from having been depicted by warriors of the Middle Ages upon their _surcoats_, worn by them over their armour.
_Coat of Arms._ A complete armorial composition, properly what would be charged upon a Shield or Banner, but often used as an alternative for _Achievement_, _q.v._
_Cockatrice._ A fabulous creature, represented in No. 229.
_Collar._ One of the insignia of Orders of Knighthood, worn about the neck. Also any ornament or distinction worn in the same manner. Knights occasionally wore collars charged with their own badge. In addition to their badges of the Red and White Rose, examples exist showing that adherents of the rival houses of York and Lancaster sometimes wore collars, the former formed of alternate _Suns and Roses_, No. 230; and the latter, of the letter S continually repeated, No. 231. No certain origin has been discovered for the Lancastrian "Collar of S.," but it has been suggested that it represents the word SOVERAYGNE, the motto of HENRY IV. No. 230 is from the Brass to HENRY BOURCHIER, K.G., Earl of Essex, at Little Easton, Suffolk, A.D. 1483; and No. 231 from the Brass to Lord CAMOYS, K.G., at Trotton, Sussex, A.D. 1424.