An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland: Forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials : Upon an Entirely New Plan ...T. Richards, 1874 - Heraldry |
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3-foils slipped 5-foils annulets armed Baron Baronetcy Barry of six bars arg bars gu BEAST bend arg bend betw bend engr bend gu bezants birds Bishop bordure engr bougets bull pass canton erm canton gu Castle chequy Chester chev CHEVRON betw chief gu chief three compony cont Cornwall cotises counterchanged crosses croslet fitchy crosses patty crowned Derby Devon dexter diff Dorset Earl erminois escucheon Essex estoiles fess fleurs-de-lis Gloucester granted guard Harl heads couped heiress Hereford indented Ireland Kent Lancaster Leicester Lincoln lozenges martlets Monsire naiant nebuly Norfolk orle pale arg Paly Paly of six pheons pierced mullets quartering Quarterly arg Salop saltire Scotland sinister Sire six arg Somerset Stafford Suffolk Surrey temp Thomas three 5-foils three bars three crescents three crosses three crosses croslet three eagles displ three escallops three fleurs-de-lis three lions pass three lions ramp three martlets three mullets vair William within....cont York
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Page 294 - Az. ten billets, four, three, two and one, or, on a chief of the la-st a demi lion ramp, issnant sa." Of the last is used to prevent a repetition of
Page 24 - Sutton ; second and third, or, two bars az. a chief, quarterly, of the second and gu. the first and fourth quarters charged with two fleurs-de-lis gold; the second and third, each charged with a 'lion of England ; on a crescent sa. a mullet ar. for diflF.
Page 10 - Lane.] ar. three sheaves of as many arrows ppr. banded gu. ; on a chief az. a bee, volant, or. — Crest, a demi lion ramp.
Page 166 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
Page 351 - It represents a castle surmounted by two others, placed pyramidically, and embattled. The castle stands on a bridge of Gothic work, with water underneath ; on each...
Page 274 - I. gu. on a bend betw. 6 crosses crosslet fitche'e 3O ar. an escutcheon or, charged with a demi-lion ramp, pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure flory counter flory gu.
Page 266 - July 171)3; quartering quarterly or on a pile gu. betw. six fleurs-de-lis az. three lions pass, guard, of the first, with gu.
Page 135 - Scotland] or, a lion ramp. sa. holding in the dexter paw an arrow, and in the sinister a bow, all ppr. within a double tressure counterflory of the second.
Page 368 - But there was another course open — Denbigh County may have taken the Arms of Denbigh Borough, as we shall find Glamorganshire did those of its County Town, and it is not unusual for the Arms of the County and County Town to be identical. The Arms of Denbigh Borough are : " On a mount a castle triple-towered, with spires and fanes on each, on the mount, before the castle, a greyhound couchant. On each side the castle an escutcheon, on the dexter the Arms of France and England, on the sinister...
Page 366 - Quarterly, 1st, az. a castle triple-towered ar. masoned sa. standing on a rock ppr., doors and windows gu., on the top of the middle tower a cock, and on each of the others an eagle or ; 2nd, gyronny of eight or and sa.