Cheshire Heraldry - The Armorial Bearings of the Cheshire Visitations

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

Ball of Bickley
Arms: Gules, a leg embowed in pale, couped at the thigh........ and pierced at the knee with the coulter of a plough.

Barnston of Churton
Arms: Quarterly of four -
1 & 4 Azure, a fess dancetty Ermine between six cross-crosslets fitchy Or [Barnston]
2 Gules, a cross patonce between four trefoils slyped Or [Manning]
3 Sable, on a fesse between two cats-a-mountain Or, a cross patee between two crescents Gules [Tayler]

Baskerville
Arms: Argent, three hurts.

Crest: A forester habited Vert, holding over the dexter shoulder a crossbow and with the sinister hand, by a leash, a talbot Argent.

Bellot of Moreton
Arms: Quarterly of four:
1 & 4 Argent, on a chief Gules three cinquefoils of the field [Bellot]
2 & 3 Argent, on a bend Sable three buckles of the field [Moreton]

Bennett of Chester
Arms: Quarterly:
1 & 4 Argent, five pallets Sable, a chief Gules
2 & 3 Or, a lion passant guardant Gules.

Crest: Upon a mount Vert a greyhound statant Or, collared Gules.

Bentley
Arms: Argent, three bendlets Sable.

Crest: A spaniel dog statant guardent Argent.

Bickerton of Townley
Pedigree but no arms recorded

Bird of Broxton
Arms: Argent, a cross patonce between four martlets Gules, a canton Azure.

Blackleigh of Leland, co Lancs., and Maxfield.
Arms: Sable, two bars Or
[No proofe made of these Armes]

Booth of Twemlow
Arms: Argent, three boars' heads erased and erect Sable, a canton of the last.

Booth of Dunham
Arms: Argent, three boars' heads erased and erect Sable.

Bradshaw of Aspull, Lancs.
Arms: Quarterly:
1 & 4 Argent, three mullets between two bendlets Sable [Bradshaw]
2 & 3 Azure, a chevron Or [ Aspull]

Crest: Issuant from a mount Vert, an oak tree proper, fructed Or, in front thereof a buck statant also proper, charged on the shoulder with a trefoil slipped Gold.