Insignia of Office

Arms with a Count's coronet

Adornments included in an Achievement, usually in the form of a crown, coronet, mitre, etc. placed above the Arms.

Examples of ecclesiastical insignia follow:

Prelates of the Roman Catholic Church ensign their shields with a hat, the colour and tassels of which indicate their rank.

Cardinal	Patriarch of Venice	Archbishop	Bishop	Abbot

 A cardinal has a scarlet hat with a pendant of fifteen tassels interwoven with gold thread on either side, the patriarch of Venice has a similar hat and a double -traversed cross placed behind the arms in pale, a patriarch has a similar hat but green in colour, an archbishop has a green hat with pendants of ten tassels on either side also with a double-traversed cross, a bishop’s hat is also green with six tassels on each side but with a single traversed cross or a crozier in pale or in bend, and an abbot’s hat is black with pendants of three with a crozier in pale or in bend.  See Ensign