CHAPLET.--A wreath of leaves or of flowers and leaves. In the latter the flowers are usually four in number (Fig. 242). When a “chaplet” without further qualification is mentioned, a severely conventionalized form is sometimes employed, consisting of a ring with four flower bosses, as Fig. 243. _See_ Garland. A chaplet of oak is called a civic crown (Fig. 244), and one of laurel a triumphal crown. CHESS-ROOK (Fig. 245).--This is probably the result of a mis-reading of roc, the coronal of a tilting spear. It is always represented with the cleft shape of the latter and never as a castle, the usual form of chess-rook. CINQUE-FOIL (Fig. 246).--A five membered leaf, or conventional flower of five petals. [Illustration: FIG. 245.] [Illustration: FIG. 246.] [Illustration: FIG. 247.] CLARION.--A combination of musical pipes in a hand case, the Syrinx or Pan-pipe. It is of frequent occurrence in the heraldry of the Middle Ages and in a large variety of more or less elaborate forms, one of which is here represented (Fig. 247). It is sometimes called a rest, with the suggestion that it represents the piece fixed on a breast-plate as a support for the tilting spear, but this appears to be extremely improbable. CLOUDS occur as bordures and other ordinaries in various interesting conventional forms and also as points from which emerge arms and other objects. Ordinaries composed of clouds in this way are blazoned nebuly equally with the more simplified nebuly line. There are many examples of this treatment of which Fig. 72, p. 57, will give an idea of a bordure nebuly, as it appears in one of the representations at the Heralds College of the arms of the Mercers Company. [Illustration: FIG. 248.] COCKATRICE.--A wyvern-like monster with a cock’s head, as in the many sixteenth century drawings of the arms of the City of Basle, to which it was a supporter under its other name of Basilisk, as in Fig. 248, part of a drawing by Holbein. CORONETS.--Crown and coronets other than those of rank, already described, may be considered as of two kinds, and are of purely symbolic import. [Illustration: FIG. 249.] Crowns (including coronets) used as charges, are generally those that are more accurately described as heraldic crowns, that is, those which have no allusion to specific rank, but are emblematic in various other ways. The coronet of decorative leaves set on a rim and sometimes called a crest coronet (Fig. 249) is thus borne as a charge in the arms of some of the Companies of London in allusion to events in which kings have been concerned. When, however, a specifically Royal Crown appears it is usually as an Augmentation by special grant from the Sovereign. A fine example of crowns and their distribution as charges on a shield is Fig. 250, from the tomb of Prince Edmund of Langley, at Kings Langley, Herts. The arms are those ascribed to St. Edmund.