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The Armorial Bearings Exemplified in The
Cheshire
Visitations
illustrated in colour by Martin S. J.
Goldstraw
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The Earls of Chester
Hugh Luph [Lupus]
1st Earl of Chester
Quarterly 1 & 4 Azure, three garbs Or, 2 & 3 Azure,. a wolf's
head
erased Argent.
Crest: In a ducal coronet a garb Or, banded Gules.
Supporters: Two wolves Argent.
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The Barons of Halton, Constables
of Cheshire
Hildeburt de Lacy
Quarterly Or and Gules, a bend Sable over all a lable of five points
Argent.
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de Lacy
Quarterly of six:
1 & 6; Quarterly Or and Gules, a bordure Vair.
2
Gules, four almonds in pale Or.
3. Or, a chief Azure.
4. Quarterly Or
and
Gules, a bend Sable over all a lable of five points Argent.
5. Or, a
lion
rampant Purpure.
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Aldersey of Aldersey and Spurstow
Arms: Gules, on a bend engrailed Argent between two cinquefoils Or
three
leopards' faces Vert.
Crest: A demi-griffin segreant Gules beaked and legged Or issuing
from a plume of five ostrich feathers of the last.
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Aldersey of Middle Aldersey
Arms: Quarterly:
1 & 4 Gules, on a bend engrailed Argent between two
cinquefoils Or three leopards' faces Vert.
2 & 3 Sable, three
standing dishes Argent.
[Standish]
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Alexander of Wistaston
Arms: Barry of ten Argent and Azure, a lion rampant Gules holding a
battle
axe Or the blade charged with a cross pattee of the third.
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Alpram
Azure, crusily and three eagles displayed
Or.
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Aston of Aston
Arms: Quarterly: 1. Per chevron Sable and Argent.
2. Argent, a bend
between six bees volant Sable. [Beeston]
3. Per chevron Vert and
Ermine, a chevron engrailed counterchanged. [Stoke].
4. Quarterly
Argent and Gules, in the second and third quarters a fret Or. [Dutton].
5. Azure, an estoile Or, within the horns of a crescent Argent.
[Minshull].
6. Argent, on a fesse nebule Sable, three hairs' heads Or.
[Hanwell].
7. Argent, a chevron engrailed Sable, a chief of the second.
Crest: An asses' head couped Argent.
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Ardern of Aldford
[Taken from a drawing of a seal at the Visitation of Cheshire 1580]
Gules, three crosses crosslet fitchee (fesswise) and a chief
Or.
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Ardern of Hawarden al's Harden
Gules, three crosses crosslet fitchee Or, a chief of the
second.
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Ardern of Timperley
Arms: Quarterly:
1 & 6 Gules, three crosses crosslet fitchee and a
chief Or.
2. Argent, on a bend engrailed Sable, an annulet
Or.[Radcliffe]
3. Argent, a griffin segreant Gules. [Chatterton].
4.
Quarterly, Argent and Gules, over all a bend Azure. [Assigned to both
Massy and Timperley]
5. Or. a lion rampant Ermines.
Crest: A plume of six ostrich feathers .... charged with a crescent for
difference.
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Audley
[Harl 1424 from two illustrations]
Gules, fretty
Or.
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