The British Herald; Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, from the Earliest to the Present Time: With a Complete Glossary of Heraldic Terms: to which is Prefixed a History of Heraldry, Collected and Arranged ...author, 1830 |
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annulets arms.-Crest attired Baron barry of six bars gu Bart beaked bend betw bend engr bend gu bezants boars bordure engr cabossed canton chequy chev chief gu chief three collared Cornw cottised counterchanged couped cross crosslets fitchée cross engr cross pattée demi lion ramp Devons dexter hand ducal coronet ducally gorged eagle displ embowed erased erect erminois escutcheon Essex etoiles fesse betw fesse gu field.-Crest first.-Crest flory fretty Glouc griffin gu.-Crest guttée hand ppr haurient indented Ireland Kent Lanc last.-Crest Leic Linc lion pass lion's head London mascles Midd Motto mount vert N.amp naiant Norf or.-Crest orle pale paly paly of six pheons pierced quarterly roses gu sa.-Crest Salop saltier engr Scotland second.-Crest sejant sinister Suff sword three bars three cinquefoils three crescents three cross three cross crosslets three escallops three fleurs-de-lis three garbs three leopards three lions ramp three martlets three mullets trefoils vair wavy wolf's head
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Page 2 - Argent, a lion passant, sable; on a chief of the second, three mullets of the first. Crest: Out of the clouds, proper, a demi-lion, rampant, sable, powdered with estoiles, argent, holding a globe, or.
Page 65 - Calnstone, in the County of Wilts, and Lord Wycombe, Baron of Chipping- Wycombe, in the County of Bucks, in the Peerage of Great Britain ; Earl of Kerry and Earl of Shelburne, Viscount Clanmaurice and Fitzmaurice, Baron of Kerry, Lixnaw. and Dunkerron, in the Peerage of Ireland ; Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of St.
Page 65 - Argent on a bend sable, three mascles of the field. CREST — Out of a ducal coronet or, a unicorn's head sable, the horn twisted of the first and second.
Page 65 - PILESBOROUGH, [Essex] per fesse, sa. and az. ; on an eagle displ. ar. three griffins' heads, erased, of the second. PILGRIM, or, three pilgrim's staves sa. — Crest, a dexter arm, embowed, in armour, ppr. garnished or, holding in the hand a cutlas of the first, hilt and pomel of the last. Pilgrim, or Pilgrime, az.
Page 75 - Sexton, [London] ar. three chaplets, in bend, gu. betw. two bend lets of the last. — Crest, out of a ducal coronet or, a dexter arm, in armour, embowed, ppr. garnished of the first, holding in the gauntlet an anchor sa. fluke and cable or. Sexton, ar. three sinister wings gu. — Crest, a woman, couped at the waist, ppr. habited gu. hair flowing or, holding in the dexter hand a chaplet vert. Sexton, or, an eagle displ. vert, armed az. oppressed with a bend, gobonated, ar. and or. Sexton, or, an...