The Armorial Bearings
Exemplified in The
Cheshire Visitations
illustrated in colour by
Martin S. J. Goldstraw
Blackamore of Over
Pedigree but
no arms given.
Blackshaw of
Adlington
Pedigree but no arms given.

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Bold of Upton
Two arms taken from Seals and a further
quarterly achievement complete with crest.
Arms from Seals: (1) A fesse between three
fleur-de-lis in chief, and a leopards face
in base. [Warwicke]
(2) Three cross-crosslets fitchee, and a
chief [Arderne]
[These arms are also recorded in the
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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].
[These arms are also recorded in the
Visitations of 1580]
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Booth of Twemlow
Pedigree but
no arms given.

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Bosdon of Newbold Astbury
Arms: Argent, a fess
between three d
Sable
[ Arms from an
image temp Henry VII in The
College of Arms*]
* The charge in this coat has been
called a fish hook, a Roman S and a bird
bolt, but it does not seem to be any of
these. Mr. Everard Green, Rouge Dragon,
who has contributed the drawing from
which the above facsimily representation
is taken, suggests that the object may
perhaps be a winding-horn, worn around
the neck of the huntsman.
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Bostock of Churton
Arms: Quarterly - Sable, a fesse humette
Argent, a crescent for difference.
2. Or, a bend Azure [Vernon].
3. Quarterly Or and Gules, a bend Sable
[Malbank].
4. Azure, three garbs Or [Randolph
Blunderville].
5. Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure
indented Or. [Dee].
6. Vert, a bend Ermine. [Wettenhall]
7. Argent, a scythe erect Sable.
[Snelstone]
8. Azure, three fishes, two in chief and
one in base, their heads meeting in the
fesse point Argent. [Troutbeck?]
Over all an escucheon of pretence, per
pale Gules and Azure, a wolf sejant Or.
vulned in the shoulder proper. [Hancky]
Crest: An heraldic antelope passant
Argent, armed, mained and tufted Or, a
crescent for difference.
[These arms are also recorded in the
Visitations of 1580]
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Bostock of Moulton
Arms: Quarterly - 1. Sable, a fesse
humette Argent, a mullet for difference.
2. Or, a bend Azure [Vernon].
3. Quarterly Or and Gules, a bend Sable
[Malbank].
4. Azure, three garbs Or [Randolph
Blunderville].
5. Argent, three piles, one emitting from
the chief, between two in base Sable
[Hulme].
6. Ermine, three lions gambs erased Gules,
a crescent for difference [Pickmeir?].
Crest: As Bostock of Bostock (An heraldic
antelope passant Argent, armed, mained and
tufted Or), with a mullet.
[These arms are also recorded in the
Visitations of 1580]
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Brayne of Aston
in Mondrum
Pedigree
but no arms given.

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Brereton of Ashley
Arms: Quarterly of twelve.
1 Argent, two bars Sable, a crescent for
cadency [Brereton]
2 Gules, three pheons Or [Egerton]
3 Argent, a lion rampant Gules between
three pheons Sable [Egerton]
4 Ermine, five chevronels Gules, on a
canton of the second a lion passant Or
[Orreby]
5 Or, two ravens in pale Sable [Corbet]
6 Quarterly Argent and Gules, over all on
a bend Sable three mullets of the first
[Ashley]
7 Argent, a fess dancety Gules [Chedle?]
8 Gules, three cross-crosslets fitchy and
a chief Or, a crescent [Sable] for cadency
[Arderne]
9 Argent, a bend engrailed Sable
[Radcliffe]
10 Gules, a cross-crosslet potent Or
[Chaderton]
11 Quarterly Argent and Gules, a bend
Azure [Timperley]
12 Gules, a lion rampant Sable guttee de
l'armes*
[
] ?
*Quarter 12 is marked as "dubious".
These same arms and quarterings are
tricked in Harl MS 1070 fo. 118 impaling:
Quarterly of six, with an escutcheon of
pretence Argent, a chevron Gules between
three cormorants Sable [Warburton]
1 Quarterly Argent and Gules, in the
second and third a fret Or, a crescent for
difference [Dutton]
2 Argent, two chevrons Gules, on a canton
of the last a mullet Or [Warburton
ancient]
3 Argent, an orle within eight martlets in
orle Sable [Winnington]
4 Azure, a garb Or [Grosvenor]
5 Azure, three pheasants Or [Pheasaunt]
6 Sable, a cross patonce Argent [Pulford]
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Brereton of Wettenhall
Arms: Quarterly of eight -
1 Argent, two bars Sable in fess point
four ermine spots in cross Sable
[Brereton]
2 Argent, a chevron between three
crescents Gules [Ipstones]
3 Ermine, three mascles Gules [Blumhill]
4 Or, a raven Sable [Corbet]
5 Argent [Or], an escarbuncle Sable
[Turet]
6 Argent, a cross flory Sable [Swinnerton]
7 Gules, a cross Ermine [Beck]
8 Azure, a chief Gules, over all a lion
rampant Or [Hastang]
Crest: A bear's head couped Sable, muzzled
Or, the neck charged with four ermine
spots in cross
Argent.
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Brereton of
Chester
Pedigree but no arms given.
Brerewood of
Chester
Pedigree but no arms given.

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Bressey of Tiverton
Arms:
Quarterly, per fess dancety Sable and
Argent, in dexter quarter a mallard of the
second, beaked
Gules.
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