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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
hares' 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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