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


 















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.                                                                                                                            

 

















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.                                                                                                        

 

















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.
                                                                                                              














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.                                                                                  








Leigh of the Boothes

Arms: Azure, two bars Argent over all a bend Gules.                                                             







Leigh of Oughtrington

Arms: Azure, two bars Argent over all a bend Gules.                                               







Leigh of Swinshead in High Leigh

Arms: Argent, a lion rampant and a canton Gules                                                 
















Liversedge of Wheelock

Arms: Quarterly -
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.                                                 

Lowndes of Marthall
Pedigree but no arms recorded.

                    


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