An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1 |
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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 315 - The Blazon of his Armorial Ensigns reads: "Or a double headed Eagle displayed Gules charged on the breast with an Eastern Crown of the first, on a Chief Vert pendent from a chain two oval Medallions in Pale the one bearing arabic characters and the other a dagger in fess the blade wavy the point towards the dexter in relief Or, the said medallions and chain being a representation of a personal decoration called the Order of the Golden Sword conferred upon him by the Chief or King of Atcheen in Sumatra...
Page 24 - Sutlon ; second and third, or, two bars az. a chief, quarterly, of the second and gu. the first and fourth quarters...
Page 290 - Az. ten billets, four, three, two and one, or, on a chief of the last a demi lion ramp, issuant sa." Of the last is used to prevent a repetition of "or.
Page 272 - Gu on a bend bet 6 crosses crosslet fitchee arg an escutcheon or charged with a demi-lion ramp [pierced through the mouth with an arrow?] within a tressure flory counter-flory of the first...
Page 166 - Duke of Edinburgh, Marquis of the Isle of Ely, Earl of Eltham, Viscount of Launceston, Baron of Snaudon, and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter)5 Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
Page 20 - II. granted to the family a second coat of arms to be quartered with the original coat, viz., Sable, 2 bars argent on a canton of the second, a buck of the first attired Or. 37. — Francis Norris. One of those who refused to subscribe to the regaining of Newcastle. (See No. 15.) One of the first Aldermen of Norwich under the New Charter of 1663, Sheriff of Norwich in 1665, buried at St. Andrew's, Norwich, in August, 1666. 38. — Thomas Johnson, Sheriff of Norwich in...
Page 259 - Canning] or, on a bend az. a mullet betw. two crescents, of the first; in chief, a crescent gu.
Page 83 - ... growing out of a mount, in base, vert ; on a dexter canton of the field, a dexter hand, fesseways, couped, holding a dagger, all ppr.
Page 249 - ... the first. Blage, ar. a pile issuing out of the chief az. charged with three martlets or. — Crest, on a chapeau gu. turned up erm. a martlet ar. Blage, ar. two bends engr.