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 ...

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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.

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