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The Armorial Bearings Exemplified in The
Cheshire
Visitations
illustrated in colour by Martin S. J.
Goldstraw
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Leigh
of Adlington
Arms: Quarterly -
1 & 4 Azure, a plate between three ducal crowns Or, within a
bordure Argent [Corona]
2 Azure, two bars Argent, over all a bendlet gobony Or and Gules [Legh
of Adlington]
3Argent, a cross flory Sable [Belgrave]
Crest: A unicorn's head Argent, couped Gules, armed
Or.
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Leigh
of Lyme
Arms: Quarterly of six -
1 Argent, a cross Sable, in the dexter chief point a fleur-de-lis of
the second [Haydock]
2 Gules, a cross engrailed Argent [Legh of Lyme]
3 Vert, a chevron between three cross-crosslets fitche Or [Boydell]
4 Argent, a mullet Sable charged with a bezant [Walton of Ulnes-Walton]
5 Vert, a cross patonce Or [Boydell]
6 Quarterly:- 1 and 4 Lozengy Argent and Sable [Croft] 2 and 3 Sable, a
chevron between three covered cups Or [Butler]
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or a ram's head Argent, armed of the
first, holding in the mouth a sprig of laurel.
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Robert
Leigh of Adlington
Arms: Azure, two bars Argent Over all a bend gobone Or and Gules.
[This entry is
recorded as a
bend - see previous page where it is recorded as a bendlet]
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Leigh
of the Ridge
Arms: Quarterly -
1 Gules, on a cross engrailed Argent a mullet for difference
2 Gules, two bars gemelles Argent, a chief Ermine.
3 Argent, a chevron Sable between three cocks' heads erased Gules
[Alcock]
4 Checky Or and Vert, a bend Ermine
[Sparke]
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Leigh
of High Leigh, of the East Hall
Arms: Quarterly -
1 & 4 Argent, a lion rampant Gules
2 & 3 Azure, crusily Or, and three eagles displayed of the second
[Alpram]
Crest: A demi lion rampant Gules
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Leigh
of Swinehead and Leigh of Northwood
Arms: Quarterly -
1 & 4 [Or] a lion rampant [Gules] charged with a mullet
2 & 3 Per pale Argent and Sable three boars statant in pale,
counterchanged [Called
Swinehead]
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Leversege
of Wheelock
Arms: Quarterly -
1 & 4 Argent, a chevron between three ploughshares Sable.
2 & 3 Argent, a chevron between three Catherine wheels Sable
[Wheelock]
Crest: A leopard's head jesant-de-lis *
* The upper part of the fleur-de-lis, usually shewn above the leopard's
face, is omitted in the MS.
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Linford
of Cheshire, familie now extinct [out of an old writing]
There then
follows a
pedigree but no arms are recorded for this family.
    
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