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The Armorial Bearings  Exemplified in  The Cheshire Visitations
illustrated in colour by Martin S. J. Goldstraw





 
Bouth of Dunham
Arms : Quarterly of fifteen
1. Argent, three boars' heads erect and erased Sable, langed Gules, a crescent for difference.
2. Argent, a fesse engrailed Gules [Called Barton]
3. Quarterly Gules and Or, in the first quarter a lion passant Argent [Massey of Dunham]
4. Azure, two bars, and in chief  as many mullets Argent [Venables of Bollin]
5. Paly of six, Or and Gules, a chief Vair [Whitney?]
6. Argent, on a bend Azure, three garbs Or [Fitton]
7. Argent, two chevrons, and a canton Gules [Orrery]?
8. Argent, on a bend Gules, three escarbuncles Or [Thornton]
9. Vert, a cross engrailed Ermine [Kingsley]
10. Argent, a bugle horn stringed Sable, in dexter chief a cinquefoil [Kingsley's Forester's coat]
11. Or, a saltire Sable [Helsby]
12. Azure, four bendlets Or [Bendy of ten, Or and Azure] [Mountford]
13. Argent, a mullet Sable [Ashton]
14. Argent, a chevron engrailed Azure [Stayley?]
15. Gules, a cross engrailed Ermine, within a bordure gobony Or and Azure

Crest: A lion passant Argent

Another Crest: A demi figure of St. Catherine proper, rested and attired in a robe Gules, collared and edged Ermine, ducally crowned Or, holding in the dexter hand a catherine wheel Gold, and in the sinister hand a sword, point downwards [proper].
                                                                               

Bouth of Twemlow - a pedigree is shown but no arms.

Bradfeld - a pedigree is shown but no arms.

 






Bressy of Bulkeley
Arms:  Quarterly
1. Quarterly per fess indented Sable and Argent, in the first quarter a mallard of the first (this is incorrect - it should surely read "of the last") billed Gules.
2. Gules, a dexter hand, couped and erect Argent, in chief three mullets of the second.
3. Sable, a chevron between three bulls' heads cabossed Argent [Bulkeley]
4. Argent, on a chevron Sable, three trefoils of the field [Brett?]

Crest: A mallard Argent, billed Gules                                                                                                                                     

 








Bressy of Tiverton
Arms: Quarterly 1 and 4 Quarterly per fess indented Sable and Argent, in the first quarter
a mallard of the second, billed Gules
2 and 3 Argent an inescucheon Gules, within an orle of martlets Sable [Hulgreve]

Crest: A mallard Argent, billed Gules                                                                                                      

 
Brindley of Wistaston
Arms: Quarterly
1 and 4 - Per pale Or and Sable, a chevron between three escollops counterchanged.
2. Quarterly  per fess indented Sable and Argent, in the first quarter a mallard of the second [Bressy]
3. Azure, a lion rampant Argent [Crewe]                                                                                                                    






Brereton of Brereton
Arms: Quarterly -
1. Argent, two bars Sable
2. Gules. three pheons Argent [Malpas]
3. Argent, a cross flory Azure [Malpas]
4. Argent, a lion rampant Gules, between three pheons Sable [Egerton]
5. Or, two ravens Sable [Corbet]
6. Ermine, three chevrons Gules, on a canton of the second, a lion passant Or [Orreby?]
7. Gules, two lions passant Argent, a label of three points Or [Strange]

Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or, a bears head Sable, muzzled Gules.


Arms from a Seal
Two lions passant in pale, within a bordure engrailed.
Hugo la Strange de Chesworthin

Arms from a Seal
Two lions passant in pale, impaling a cross engrailed
S. Matildis le Strange

Arms from a Seal
Ermine, a chevron ................................
  S. John'is Kinaston    

 










Brereton of Malpas
Arms: Quarterly 1 and 4 Argent, two bars Sable, a crescent for difference Or.
2 and 3 Argent a chevron between three crescents Gules [Ipstones]

Crest: A bear's head erased Sable, muzzled Gules.                                                                                                     

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