4. CANTON. Several families are so designated, but not one of them bears the canton of heraldry. 5. BILLET. The same remark applies. 6. GORE. In various coats, crosslets, lions and bars, but not one _gore_, the only hint at the name being _bulls' heads_ in two or three coats. 7. PILE. A cross and four nails. 8. MASCLE. Some families of _Mascall_ bear barry of eight, others fleur-de-lis and a bordure, and the family of _Mascule_, a fesse. 9. ROUNDLE. _Roundell_ does not bear this charge. 10. BARRY. Of the many families of this name some bear barry, bars and barulets; and BARR bears (int. al.) a _bar_. 11. PALY. Two families bear bends; but not one _paly_. 12. DELVES. The family of Delves bear these in several arrangements. PALE, FESSE, CHIEF, BEND, QUARTER, and an infinity of the names of charges, do not occur as English surnames. Of the etymology of the somewhat common name _Crown-in-shield_, I am entirely ignorant; nor do I find any arms assigned to it. [Illustration: (Rebus of De Aquila.)] CHAPTER VII. Crests, Supporters, Badges, etc. [Illustration: (Gilderedge. Bourchier. Exmew.)] Hitherto our attention has been principally directed to the escocheon and its charges. It now remains to treat of those heraldric ornaments which surround the shield, as crests, helmets, wreaths, mantlings, supporters, scrolls, mottoes, and badges: and first, of crests, and their accompaniments. Every one must have remarked that when the heraldric insignia of a family are represented in full, the shield or escocheon is surmounted with a helmet, the antient covering for the warrior's head. These helmets are drawn according to certain fixed rules. Although their general shapes are as various and fanciful as those of shields, their positions, &c. are regulated by the rank of the bearers: for instance, the sovereign's helmet is of gold, full faced, and open, with six bars; that of dukes is of steel, placed a little in profile, and defended with five gold bars; that of baronets and knights is of steel, full-faced, the visor up, and without bars; and that of esquires and gentlemen is also of steel with the visor down, ornamented with gold, and placed in profile. According to some authors, the helmets of bastards should be turned to the sinister or left side, to denote their illegitimacy.[166] Upon the top of the helmet is the _wreath_, which was originally a kind of chaplet surrounding the warrior's head. It was composed of two bands, or skeins of silk twisted together and tinctured of the principal metal and colour of the arms. The wreath is used in the majority of bearings, but occasionally a ducal coronet or a chapeau occurs instead.[167] From this ornament, whether wreath, chapeau, or coronet, rises the CREST.