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

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

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Arms
from a Seal
Two lions passant in pale,
within a bordure engrailed.
Hugo la Strange de Chesworthin
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Arms
from a Seal
Two lions passant in pale,
impaling a cross engrailed
S. Matildis le Strange
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Arms
from a Seal
Ermine, a chevron
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S. John'is Kinaston
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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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