| CHAP. | | page |
| I. | INTRODUCTION | 33 |
| Defects of Modern Heraldic Decoration; Appeal to First Principles; English versus Foreign Sources; Definition of Heraldry; Modes of Display; Colours and Furs; Formation of Arms; Divisions of the Shield; Early Authorities: Seals, Monuments, Buildings, Wills and Inventories, Rolls of Arms. |
| II. | THE SHIELD AND ITS TREATMENT | 65 |
| Early Forms of Shields; Later Forms; Shields of Irregular Outline and Surface; The Filling of a Shield; Apparent versus Absolute Uniformity; Modern Rules as to Proportion; The Use and Abuse of Quartering: its Origin and Growth; Differencing of Arms; The Scutcheon of Ulster; Diapering. |
| III. | THE SHIELD AND ITS TREATMENT (cont.) | 109 |
| Armorial Bearings of Ladies; Use of Lozenges and Roundels as variant forms of Shields; Arms of Men on Lozenges; Combinations of Shields with Lozenges and Roundels of Arms on Seals and in Embroideries. |
| IV. | THE TREATMENT OF CRESTS | 123 |
| Origin of Crests; Earliest examples of Crests; Ways of wearing Crests; The Helm and its treatment; Modern use of Helms; Absurd Crests; Use of Crests other than by individuals; The comparative sizes of Helms and Crests. |
| V. | MANTLINGS | 139 |
| Origin of Mantlings; Simple early forms; Colours of Mantlings; Medieval usage as to colours of Mantlings. |
| VI. | CRESTS AND CROWNS, CAPS OF ESTATE, AND WREATHS | 148 |
| Crests within Crowns; Nature and Treatment of Crowns; Caps of Estate: Their possible origin and introduction into Heraldry; The colour of Caps; The placing of Crests upon Caps; Wreaths or Torses; Their Colour; Crests and Mottoes; Use of Crests by Bishops; The ensigning of Arms with Mitres, Cardinals' and Doctors' Hats, and Caps of Estate. |
| VII. | THE USE OF BADGES, KNOTS, AND THE REBUS | 165 |
| Definition of a Badge; Difference between Crests and Badges; Examples of Badges; The Ostrich-Feather Badge; The White Hart, etc.; Introduction of Badges into Heraldry; Their Prevalence; Allusive Badges; Badges of obscure Origin; Knots and Badges; The Rebus. |
| VIII. | SUPPORTERS | 193 |
| 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. |
| IX. | BANNERS OF ARMS | 219 |
| 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. |
| X. | MARSHALLING OF ARMS | 251 |
| 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. |
| XI. | CROWNS, CORONETS, AND COLLARS | 269 |
| 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. |
| XII. | HERALDIC EMBROIDERIES | 319 |
| The introduction of armorial insignia in embroidered Vestments: on Robes: on Beds, etc. |
| XIII. | TUDOR AND LATER HERALDRY | 331 |
| 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 |
| INDEX | 411 |
