JoosteArgent, a chevron Azure between three mascles Gulescontested · the plate →MoutonAzure, a sheep passant Argentcandidate · the plate →RaatsFor centuries the printed books called her Rooy — and the church book never did. The 1739 marriage entry, read at the page, writes her Magdalena Raats, of an Utrecht family. Her house begins anew under its true name; the great European register, asked first at both spellings of it, holds nothingthe true name found · the story →van RensburgThe South African register holds a coat under this name — and its own note says the coat began as a German town’s arms, matched to the name in 1945. The record tells the story and attaches nothinga coat in the books, held at arm’s length · the story →TheronOr, a chevron Azure between three tulips Gulescandidate · the plate →CarrThe great English register holds some two dozen coats under the name, and not one of them can be tied to this house — where her people came from before the Cape is not yet known, so the record chooses none of themmany coats, no thread yet · the story →HumphriesThe great English register holds about ten coats under the name’s spellings, and not one of them can be tied to this house — where her people came from is not yet known, so the record chooses none of themmany coats, no thread yet · the story →CronjeOr, a boatman's hook Sable, the hook downward and to sinistercandidate · the plate →LombardOr, a chevron Gules between three fleurs-de-lis Sable, a chief Azurecandidate · the plate →FishNo coat of this family is written in the old books — the record looked in both that would have held onenone recorded · what was looked for →SpurwayArgent, on a bend Azure a spur-rowel Or between two garbs Argentcandidate · the plate →
A plate is the record's working sheet, in the heralds' own manner: arms were tricked — drawn in line with the colours written — long before they were painted. The marshalling of any two houses onto one shield is the Table's work.