The Armorial Bearings Exemplified
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A Fragment of The
Visitation of The City of Chester in the year 1591
illustrated
in colour by Martin S. J.
Goldstraw
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Massye
de Grafton et de Cestr'.
Arms: Quarterly -
1 & 4 Quarterly Gules and Or, in the first quarter a lion passant
Argent, a crescent Sable on a crescent Argent for difference.
2 & 3 Per saltire Sable and Ermine, a lion rampant Or; over the
four quarterings a crescent Azure for difference.
Crest: An owl Sable.
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Badge
of Massye de Grafton et de Cestr'
Standing on a tun Or, a falcon with
wings expanded
Argent beaked and legged of the first, and holding in the dexter claw a
sceptre Gold.
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Greene
of Chester
Arms: Gules, a lion rampant per fesse Argent and Sable, crowned Or, and
charged on the shoulder with a trefoil
Vert.
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Ball
of Chester
Arms: Gules, a human leg couped at the thigh and at the ankle Argent,
pierced through the knee with the coulter of a plough of the second,
the wound bleeding proper, charged on the thigh with a martlet Sable
for difference.
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Jewett
of Chester
Arms: Argent, on a cross Gules five fleur-de-lis of the first, in
dexter chief a crescent of the
second.
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Rogerson - a blank shield
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Bird
of Chester
Arms: Argent, on a cross flory between four martlets Gules, a martlet
Or; a canton Azure, charged with a crescent for difference
Gold.
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Bavant
of Chester
Arms: Ermine, two bars Gules, in chief two boars' heads Sable, couped
close of the second; with an escocheon of pretence, Or, a crescent
Gules, on a chief of the second three trefoils of the first.
Crest: A boar's head, couped close [untinctured]
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Brerewood
of Chester
Arms: Ermine, two pallets vairy [Or] & [Azure]; on a chief [of the
last] a bezant between two garbs [of the second].
Crest: Two swords in saltire [Gules, pomels & hilts Or], enfilled
with a crown [an earl's coronet proper].
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Broughton
of Chester
Arms: Quarterly-
1 Ermine, a lion rampant Sable, charged with a crescent [Argent] for
difference.
2 Vert, a lion rampant Or [Sandiff]
3 [Or], a lion rampant Azure [Gruffith Ap Kadwgon]
4 Vert, three eagles displayed in fesse Or, a crescent for difference
Argent [Owen Gwynedd]
Over the whole a crescent Gules for
difference.
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Gamul
de Knighton modo de Chestr'
Arms: Or, three mallets Sable
Crest: A cubit arm erect, vested Gules, cuffed Argent, holding in the
hand proper three trefoils slipped Or.
Mantled Gules doubled
Argent.
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Wall
of Chester
Arms: Argent, a crescent Azure, between three bears' heads, erased
Gules, muzzled Or; in chief three pellets.
Crest: Out of a mural crown Argent, a bear's head Gules, muzzled and
collared Or, between two wings Azure, endorsed of the third.
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Warburton - a pencil shield, helmet and mantling, but
no arms. Pedigree shown.
  
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