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 - Great Britain |
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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 cinquefoils 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 pale paly paly of six pheons pierced ppr.-Crest 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 leopards three lions ramp three martlets three mullets trefoils vair wavy wolf's head
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Page 14 - 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 14 - 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 14 - More, MOORE, Marquess of DROGHEDA, Earl of Drogheda, Viscount Moore of Drogheda, and Baron Moore of Mellefont, in the peerage of Ireland ; and Baron Moore of Moore Place, Kent, in that of the UK [Creations, Baron, 20 July, 1610 ; Vise.
Page 7 - London] -quarterly ; first and fourth, or, on a mount vert, a tree ppr. ; on a chief gu. a crescent betw. two mullets ar.
Page 14 - Quyxley, gu. an iuescutcheon, voided, ar. ; over all a bend erm. R RAAN, or RONE, gyronny of twelve, or and sa. RABAN, ar. a chev. chequy, or and az. betw. three boars' heads, erased, sa. ; on a chief erminois, a mount vert, thereon a raven sa. ; a canton gu. charged with a sword or. — Crest, on a mural coronet or, charged with three fire-balls sa. a boar's head, erased, lying fesseways, of the last, holding in the mouth a sword, in pale, ppr. RABBESFORD, erm. a chief sa. fretty or. RABEE, or RABYE,...
Page 25 - Hall, in (he same Co.] sa. three bars ar. with the augmentation of the rose of England, and the thistle of Scotland, impaled in a canton or. — Crest, a bull pass. ar. (A more ancient crest, a bull's head ar. collared with three bars sa.) Supporters, over the gates of Hoghton-Tower, put up in the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, two bulls ar.
Page 12 - ... legs, armed, ppr. conjoined in the centre, at the upper part of the thigh, flexed in triangle, garnished and spurred or; fourth, ar.
Page 14 - Argent two lions rampant combatant gules supporting a dexter hand couped at the wrist of the last, in chief three estoiles of the second, in base waves of the sea therein naiant a salmon all proper. O...
Page 14 - Murray, [Baherton] ar. a fetterlock az. a bordure engr. gu. ; on a chief of the second, three mullets of the first.