When a coat of arms is charged with a mark of cadency, it is always mentioned last in blazoning, and is followed by the words, "for a difference." Thus Fig. 43 should be blazoned, "Or, kingfisher with his beak erected bendways[4] proper with a mullet for a difference gu.," thus showing that the arms are borne by a third son. [Footnote 4: The individual direction of a charge should be blazoned, as well as its position in the field.] CHAPTER V COMMON OR MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES After the "proper charges" which we have just been considering, we come to those termed "common or miscellaneous." (How truly miscellaneous these are we have already shown in our first chapter.) Guillim arranges these charges in the following order: _Celestial Bodies._--Angels, sun, moon, stars, etc. _Metals and Minerals._--Under this latter title rank precious stones and useful stones--such as jewels and millstones, grindstones, etc., also rocks. _Plants and other Vegetatives._ _Living Creatures._--These latter he divides into two classes--viz., "Those which are unreasonable, as all manner of beasts" and "_Man, which is reasonable_." To begin with the heavenly bodies. Angels, as also human beings, are very rare charges, though Guillim quotes the arms of one Maellock Kwrm, of Wales, where three robed kneeling angels are charged upon a chevron, and also the coat of arms of Sir John Adye in the seventeenth century, where three cherubim heads occur on the field. Both angels and men, however, are often used in heraldry as supporters. Charles VI. added two angels as supporters to the arms of France, and two winged angels occur as such in the arms of the Earl of Oxford. Supporters, you must understand, are those figures which are represented standing on either side of a shield of arms, as if they were supporting it. No one may bear these figures except by special grant, the grant being restricted to Peers, Knights of the Garter, Thistle, and St. Patrick, Knights Grand Cross, and Knights Grand Commanders of other orders. Charges of the sun, moon, and other heavenly bodies are comparatively rare. One St. Cleere rather aptly bears the "sun in splendour," which is represented as a human face, surrounded by rays. Sir W. Thompson's shield is charged with the sun and three stars. The sun _eclipsed_ occurs occasionally in armorial bearings; it is then represented thus: Or, the sun sable. The moon occurs very often in early coats of arms, either full, when she is blazoned "the moon in her complement," or in crescent. The Defous bear a very comical crescent, representing a human profile. Of these arms, the old herald says severely: "A weak eye and a weaker judgment have found the face of a man in the moon, wherein we have gotten that fashion of representing the moon with a face." The moon is certainly not in favour with Guillim, for, after declaring that she was the symbol of inconstancy, he quotes the following fable from Pliny to her discredit: