Definition of "coronel"

The follovving deſcription of the coronels or coronets, is given by [John] Guillim in his diſplay of heraldry.

1786, Francis Grose, “The Sling”, in A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], footnote x, page 47

Whereupon the said coronel did absolutely yield himself and the fort, with all therein, and craved only mercy, which it being not thought good to show them, both for danger of themselves, if being saved, they should afterwards join with the Irish, and also for terror to the Irish, who were much emboldened by those foreign succours, and also put in hope of more ere long;

1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […]; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809,