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

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Legh of Baguley
Arms: Quarterly:
1 Azure, two bars Argent over all a bend
Sable [Legh]
2 Or, three lozenges Azure [Baguley]
3 Ermine, on a chief indented Gules three
ducal coronets Or [Leche]
4 Argent, a fleur-de-lis Sable
[Levensholme]
Crest: A bear passant Sable, muzzled,
collared and chained Or.
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Legh of West Hall High Leigh
Arms: Or, a lion rampant Gules.
Crest: A dexter cubit arm vested Or
charged with two pallets Sable holding in
the hand Proper a tilting spear in bend
sinister also Or.
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Leicester of Tabley
Arms: Quarterly:
1 & 4
Azure, a fess Gules fretty Or between
three fleur-de-lis of the last.
2 & 3 Azure, a garb Or [Grosvenor]
Crest: A swan's head and neck erased
Argent guttee de sang.
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Leicester of Toft
Arms: Quarterly:
1 Azure, a fess
Gules fretty Or between three
fleur-de-lis also Or [Leicester]
2 Argent, two chevronels Gules on a canton
of the second a cross-crosslet fitchee Or
[Moburlegh]
3 Sable, a stag lodged Argent [Downes]
4 Argent, three "T"s Sable [Toft]
5 Argent, three boars' heads erased and
erect Sable [Booth]
6 Quarterly Gules and Or, in the first
quarter a lion passant Argent [Massy]
7 Per chevron engrailed [Gules and Or], in
chief two mullets [Argent] and in base a
moorcock [of the first] [Sibill?]
[Actually Heath]
8 Sable, fretty Argent a label Or
[Harrington]
9 Sable, three lion's passant in pale
Argent [English]
10 Argent, on a bend Sable three lozenges
of the field each charged with a cross
Gules [Urswicke]
11 Argent, two bendlets Sable [Bradshaw]
12 Sable, a lion rampant Argent [Verdon]
13 Azure, a fess Gules fretty Or
between three fleur-de-lis also Or
[Leicester of Tabley]
14 Azure, a garb Or [Grosvenor]
15 Sable, a cross patonce Argent [Pulford]
16 Azure, three pheasants Or [Phesant]
Crest: A stag per pale Or and Gules
attired of the second holding in the mouth
a sprig of oak Vert.
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Leigh of the Boothes
Arms: Azure, two bars Argent over all a
bend Gules.
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Leigh of Oughtrington
Arms: Azure, two bars Argent over all a
bend Gules.
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Leigh of Swinshead in High Leigh
Arms: Argent, a lion rampant and a
canton Gules
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Liversedge of Wheelock
Arms: Quarterly
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1 & 4
Argent, a chevron between three
ploughshares Sable.
2 & 3
Argent, a chevron between three
Catherine wheels Sable
[Wheelock]
Crest: A leopard's face Or.
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Lowndes of
Marthall
Pedigree but no arms recorded.
    
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