His own are of an unusual and remarkable blazon, viz., checky argent and gules a chief chapourné gules and or. On the sinister side, the same coat impales that of Cobham. His arms had in both shields been wilfully defaced, as if[…]
chaperonné (hooded)
1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 99:
... deaths' heads, &c., placed upon the heads of horses, either with or without a hood, at pompous funerals; (2) Chaperonné, or chapourné, appears also to be used to signify hooded, being applied to falcons, & c.
