CANADIAN CADENCY

Cadency or Differencing. Marks of Distinction by which different members and branches of a family are distinguished. Cadency or Differencing (effected in the early days of Coat Armour; By changing the tincture of the field - By changing the tincture of the charges - By dividing the shield by different lines of partition - By diminishing the number of the principal figures (very rare) - By altering their position - By surrounding the original charges with a bordure - all these modes have fallen into disuse. This is the Canadian cadency.

Octofoil: A double quatrefoil: a leaf of eight points. When used as a difference it denotes the ninth son.

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CANTON

A Subordinary-Bearing of honour; when borne charged, it often contains some very special symbol granted by the sovereign in reward for the performance of eminent service.

THE CHAPEAU

Granted to British peers and Scottish feudal barons. It is a cap generally of red velvet turned up with ermine, formerly peculiar to dukes (whence it is sometimes called a duciper), but now often used to place crests upon instead of a wreath. Also termed a Cap of Dignity or cap of maintenance, it was formerly a badge of high dignity, being borne by King Edward III. and the succeeding Kings of England, to the time of Edward VI. It was an ancient cap of honour, worn by the highest nobility. Such a cap is said to be have been sent by Pope Julius II., with a sword, to Henry VIII., for writing a book against Martin Luther. Though originally, as said above, to be a very high token of honour, it is to be met with, together with ducal coronets, in the hereditary arms of many private persons— having been granted by the heralds in a somewhat promiscuous manner, on the decline of the exclusive privileges in the matter of bearing arms which so long held sway.

ANUBIS

Symbol of Wisdom

Anubis was an Egyptian god represented under the form of a man with a dog’s head, holding a palm branch (in some cases).

This god the poets generally call the “Barker”, a god, half dog, and a dog, half man. He is also called Hermanubis, because his sagacity is so great, that some take him to be the same with Mercury. Diodorus Siculus tell us, that Anubis, following his father Osiris to war, bore the figure of a dog on his shield, for which reason he was worshipped after his death under the resemblance of that animal.

Anubis was revered as a symbol of wisdom. Contrary to popular and some Egyptologists' opinion, Anubis was not associated with the jackal, but with the desert dog. This is based on inscriptions stating that Anubis' face is "like (that of) a dog".

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