Cheshire Heraldry - The Armorial Bearings recorded in the Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates

The Armorial Bearings recorded in the
Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates
illustrated in colour by Martin S. J. Goldstraw

Sir Urian Legh, Knight, 1627.

Arms: Quarterly 1, Azure, two bars Argent, over all a bend gobony, Or and Gules; 2, Argent, a lion rampant Gules; 3, Azure, a chevron between three ducal coronets Or; 4, Gules, three cross crosslets fitchee Or, a chief of the second; 5, Azure, a bend Or within a bordure Argent; 6, Argent, a cross patonce Sable.

Crest: An unicorn's head Argent, couped Gules, armed and maned Or.

Mrs. Elizabeth Leigh, 1634.
(Leigh of Boothes)
Daughter of Thomas Edwards of the Mould, in the County of Flint, gent.
Arms: Quarterly of 4: 1 and 4 Barry of six Or and Azure, on a canton Ermine, a rose Gules; 2, Argent, a cross engrailed Gules debruised by a bendlet Azure (over these two quarterings a label of three points Sable); 3, Gules, five fusils in pale Argent.
Impaling, Quarterly of seven: 1, ....... a cross engrailed fleury between four birds; 2, Or a lion passant guardant Gules; 3, Azure, on a bend Argent, a lion passant Sable; 4, Gules, a lion rampant reguardant Or; 5, Per bend sinister Ermine and Ermines, a lion rampant Or; 6, Azure, a lion rampant Argent (?) crowned Or, within a bordure of the second; 7, Or, a lion's gamb bendways erased Gules.

Another coat, quarterly of 6: 1, Azure, two bars Argent, over all a bend Gules; 2, Or, a lion rampant Gules; 3, Per pale Argent and Sable, three boars passant in pale counterchanged; 4, Or, three lozenges Azure; 5, Argent, a fess dancettee Gules; 6, Azure, a chevron between three ducal coronets Or. Impaling, quarterly of 7, vt supra.

Mrs. Jane Leycester, Widow, 1629.
Daughter of William Stokes of Chester.
Arms: Quarterly 1 and 4, Azure on a fess Gules between three fleurs-de-lis Or, a martlet Argent for difference; 2 and 3 Azure a lion rampant Argent; over all four quarterings, a crescent for difference Or; impaling Gules, a lion rampant Ermine, a mullet for difference Or.

John Littler, Alderman, 1619.
[An imperfect trick of Arms] ..... on a chevron ..... between three ....... a crescent for difference.
This should be: Argent, on a chevron Sable between three squirrels Gules a crescent for difference.

Mrs. Alice Lloyd, Spinster, 1631.
Arms: (in a lozenge): Gules, a chevron between three mullets Or.

Humphrey Lloyd, Alderman, 1624.

Arms: Quarterly of eight coats: 1, Argent, a cross engrailed the ends fleury Sable, between four Cornish choughs proper; 2, Or, a lion passant guardant Gules; 3, Azure, three fishes, their heads towards the fess point Argent; 4, Sable a chevron between three goats' heads erased Or; 5, Argent, a rose Gules barbed and seeded proper; 6, Sable, a lion rampant Argent; 7, Per pale Azure and Sable three fleurs-de-lis Or; 8, Sable, three nags' heads erased Argent. Over the whole, a martlet for difference.

John Lloyd, L.L.B., 1608.
Arms: A trick of arms. On a chevron between three dolphins nowed an annulet.
This is believed to be Tenny, a chevron Or between three fishes naiant Argent.

See my comments upon this "trick" on my weblog:
https://weblog.heraldryaddict.uk/2021/06/john-lloyd-llb-1608.html

Thomas Lyneall, Alderman, 1603.

Arms: Azure, on a bend Argent, three crosses patonce Sable; on a chief Or a trefoil slipped of the third between two garbs of the first.