Let crests be shown as crests, properly set upon practicable helms, and with competent mantlings treated with all the freedom that they are capable of.
Sir Miles Stapleton and the Soudan de la Trau have black mantlings lined with red.
That the mantlings of all other persons whose arms have been matriculated since 1890 shall be of the livery colours, unless other colours are, as is occasionally the case, specified in the patent of matriculation.
By what rules the colours of the mantlings were decided in early times it is impossible to say.
But probably the reason which governed these mantlings of gules lined with ermine, as also the ermine linings of other mantlings, must be sought outside the strict limits of armory.
Roughly the periods into which the types of mantlings can be divided, when considered from the standpoint of their fashioning, are somewhat as follows.
That the mantlings of all other arms matriculated before 1890 shall be of gules and argent.
In Scottish patents at the present day in which a helmet is painted for each crest the mantlings frequently vary, being in each case in accordance with the livery colours of the quartering to which the crest belongs.
In Scotland, however, the mantlings of peers have always been lined with ermine, and the present Lyon continues this whilst usually making the colours of the outside of the mantlings agree with the principal colour of the arms.
Nearly all the mantlings on the Garter Stall plates are more or less heavily "veined" with gold, and many are heavily diapered and decorated with floral devices.
But a noteworthy characteristic of the mantlings of this early date, and one to which I must draw your particular attention, is that, although stretching their arms boldly about the field, and in MSS.
During the Chippendale fashion all martial elements disappear, helmets and mantlings are swept away, and we see the style of Louis XV.
I put this forward first because of its early date, and it seems that at this time mantlings in heraldic drawings, grants, &c.
Usually mantlings of so early a date as the fourteenth century are of very small dimensions, hacked and lying close on their helmets, clinging to them, as it were, and so fastened under the crest that they could not hang otherwise.
This style continued to the beginning of the nineteenth century, when I have observed very light and graceful mantlings thrown about in airy and much hacked foldings, and generally ending in tassels (see a grant 1803, Miscell.
Although a good many seals continue still with the mantlingskept up about the top of the shield (while sometimes a motto, &c.
These mantlings are rather flat, so that a good space is left for the crest, which thus stands out distinctly.
The jags and flourishes are conjectured to represent the cuts which a valiant knight would receive in battle; and hence the extravagant fashion of painting these mantlings was probably intended as a compliment to the prowess of the bearer.
Herald-painters of the present day neglect this rule, and generally paint the mantlings red, doubled or lined with white or ermine.
Mantlings blazoned with achievements of arms are sometimes adjusted in folds to form a background to the composition, and they are also occasionally differenced with various charges.
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