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


 


Holford of Davenham
Arms: Argent, a greyhound courant, and a canton Sable.                                                                                                     

 













Hollinshead of Heywood

Arms: Argent, a cross Sable, a canton Ermines
Crest:
A goat's head erased Gules, armed and ducally gorged Or.                                                                      

 












Hollingshead of Heywood

Arms: Argent, on a cross Sable a trefoil slipped of the field, a canton Ermines
Crest:
A goat's head erased Gules, armed and ducally gorged Or and charged on the neck with a trefoil slipped Argent.                                                                                                                  

 










Hollingworth of Hollingworth

Arms: Azure, on a bend Argent three holly leaves Vert.
Crest: A stag lodged Proper.                                                                                  



Horton of Coole

Arms: Sable, a stag's head caboshed Argent attired Or.                                                               

Hulton of Chester
"No Armes proved but a fictitious Cote & Crest drawn by Holmes the paynter at Chester"




Huxley of Brindley

Arms: Ermine, on a bend cottised Gules three crescents Argent.                                           

















Hyde of Norbury
Arms: Azure, a chevron between three lozenges Or.
Crest: An eagle wings addorsed Sable.                                                                              

 















 Jodrell of Yeardsley
Arms: Sable, three round buckles Argent
Crest: A demi cock Or wings addorsed Argent wattled Gules.
"No proofe made of these Armes"                                                                                       



















Jones of Chester

Arms:  Quarterly:
1 & 4 Ermine, a lion rampant Sable
2 Azure, on a fess between six cross-crosslets fitchee Argent three escallopes Gules
3 Per bend sinister Ermine and Ermines, a lion rampant Or;
a crescent for cadency.

Crest: A lion's head erased per pale Ermine and Ermines, a crescent for cadency.

"No proofe made of ye Armes"                             




Kent of Congleton

Arms: A lion passant a chief Ermine*.
"No proofe of these Armes"            

* No tinctur for the field is given so I have takenthe tinctures from the entry in Burke's G. A. for Kent of Thatcham Berks viz: Azure, a lion passant guardant Or, a chief Ermine and retained the lion as simply passant.
                                                                                       



Kinsey of Blackenden

Arms: Argent, a chevron between three squirrels Gules, on an escutcheon of pretense, Argent, on a chevron between three cross-crosslets fitchee Azure as many fleur-de-lis of the field [Birtles]                                                                             
                              

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