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The Armorial Bearings recorded in the
Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates

illustrated in colour by Martin S. J. Goldstraw


 



















Edward Gregge, Gentleman, 1637.
Arms: Quarterly 1 and 4, Or, three trefoils between two chevronels Sable; 2, Argent, a stork Sable, beaked and legged Gules, a crescent for difference; 3, Argent, a tiger statant Sable, a crescent for difference; over all four quarterings, a mullet for difference.

Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or a gryphon's head per pale [Argent and Sable] holding in the beak a trefoil Vert a mullet for difference.
                                                                                                          

 

Mrs ........ Gregge, 1634.
Daughter to Edward Gregg of Chester, dyed the 22nd January 1633[-4].
Arms: Or, three trefoils between two chevronels Sable; a martlet of the first for difference.   

[The blazon for the martlet is, in this instance, quite specific however, it is, in my humble opinion, rather unfortunate that the mark of cadency is recorded as Or. This leaves little option but to place it upon the chevronel thus forcing it to be rather small]                                                                                         

 


Mr. Robert Gregge. [brother to Thomas Gregge of Bradley]
Arms: Quarterly 1 and 4, Or, three trefoils between two chevronels Sable; 2, Argent, a tiger statant Sable, a crescent for difference; 3, Argent, a stork Sable, beaked and legged Gules, a crescent for difference; over all four quarterings, a mullet for difference.                                                                                                             

 

Dame Elizabeth Grosvenor, 1628.
Daughter and sole heir to Sir Peter Warberton of Grafton [1st husband Sir Thomas Stanley of Auderley. 2nd husband Sir Richard Grosvenor of Eaton]

Arms, Quarterly of four: 1, Quarterly, Argent and Gules, in the second and third a fret Or, in the first quarter an ermine spot; over all a crescent for difference; 2, Argent, a chevron between three cormorants Sable; 3, Argent, two chevronels Gules on a canton of the second, a mullet Or; 4, Barry wavy of six Argent and Sable, a chief per pale Ermine and Gules, the latter charged with a fleur de lis Or; a crescent Sable for difference.

[I have not rendered these arms in a lozenge]                                                                               









Mrs Elizabeth Grosvenor, 1619.
Daughter of  Richard Grosvenor of Eaton, she was never married and died without issue.  
Arms (in a lozenge): Azure a garb Or.                                                          

















Richard Grosvenor, Esquire, 1619.
Arms: Quarterly of thirteen coats: 1, Azure, a garb Or; 2, Sable, a cross flory Argent; 3, Azure, three pheasants Or; 4, Quarterly Argent and Sable, a cross flory counterchanged; 5, Vert, three stumps of trees, couped and eradicated Argent; 6, Argent, a bend Sable between three pellets; 7, Azure, an eagle displayed Argent; 8, Gules, three swords erect, two and one Argent, hilts Or; 9, Or, six eagles displayed, three, two and one Sable, a canton Ermine; 10, Argent, three birds (?falcons), close Gules; 11, Sable three owls Or; 12, Azure, two bars Argent; 13, Or, a fess Azure.
Crest: A talbot statant Or.                                           

                       
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