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13. Party per chevron, argent and gules, a crescent

counterchanged; name, Chapman.

14. Party per saltire, or and sable, a border counterchanged; name, Shorter.

15. Quarterly or and azure, a cross of four lozenges between as many anaulets counterchanged; name,

Peacock.

16. Argent, a chevron gules, between three scorpions reversed sable; name, Cole.

17. Argent, on a fess, between six martlets gules, three cinquefoils of the field; name, Washbourne. 18. Sable, three scaling-ladders in bend argent; name, Shipstowe.

19. Sable, a falcon or, his wings expanded, trussing a mallard argent, on a chief of the latter, a cross botoné gules; name, Madden.

20. Argent, on a chevron azure, between three trefoils slipped, party per pale gules and vert, as many besants; name, Row.

21. Gules, three dexter arms conjoined at the shoulders, and flexed in triangle, or, with the fists clenched towards the points of the shield proper; name, Tremaine.

22. Gules, the trunk of a tree eradicated (torn up by the roots) and couped in pale, sprouting out two branches argent; name, Borough.

23. Gules, a cherub, having three pair of wings, whereof the uppermost and lowermost

are

counterly crossed, and the middlemost displayed,

or; name, Buocafoco.

24. Argent, a man's heart gules, within two equilateral triangles interlaced; name, Villages.

25. Gules, three besants figured; name, Gamin.

26. Argent, a chevron voided, azure, between three flames of fire proper; name, Wells.

27. Sable, chevron rompu, enhanced between three mullets or; name, Sault.

28. Sable, a chevron engrailed, ermine, between three annulets argent; borne by the Rev. Charles Davy, of One-house, Suffolk.

29. Azure, a bull's head couped affronté, argent, winged and armed or; name, Hoast, of Holland. 30. Or, three stars issuing out of as many crescents gules; name, Bateman, Visc. Bateman.

31. Sable, a chevron or, between three attires of a stag fixed to the scalp, argent; name, Cocks, Lord Somers.

32. Argent, a man's heart gules, ensigned with an im

perial crown or, on a chief azure, three mullets of the field; name, Douglas, of Scotland. The reason of this singular charge is, that one Douglas was sent on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, A.D. 1328, with the heart of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, which, by order of that prince, was to be and is now buried there.

33. Argent, on a bend gules, between three pellets, as many swans proper, rewarded with a canton sinister azure, thereupon a demi-ram mounting argent, armed or, between two fleurs-de-lis of the last, over all a baton dexter-wise, as the second in the canton; this is the arms of Sir John Clarke. The canton was the arms of the Duke of Longueville, and was given as a reward to Sir John Clarke, for his taking in lawful war Lewis of Orleans, Duke of Longueville, prisoner at the battle of the Spurs, near Terouane, August 16, anno Hen. VIII. 5.

34. Azure, three sturgeons naiant in pale argent, and debruised by a fret of eight pieces or; name, Stourgeon.

35. Or, three dice sable each charged with an ace argent; name, Ambesace.

BLAZONING OF PLATE XIV.

1. Argent, a saltire gules, between four wolves' heads couped proper; name, Outlawe.

2. Gules, three demi-lions rampant, a chief or; name, Fisher.

3. Argent, a fess sable, between three lions' heads erased gules, langued azure; name, Farmer.

4. Gules, a lion couchant between six cross-croslets, three in chief, and three in base barwise, argent; name, Tynte.

5. Azure, a lion passant, between three estoiles argent; name, Burrard.

6. Argent, a chevron gules, between three lions passantgardant sable; name, Cooke.

7. Party per chevron, vert and or, in chief a rose or, between two fleurs-de-lis argent; in base a lion rampant-regardant, azure; name, Gideon.

8. Party per pale, argent and sable, a lion rampant or, within a border of the field, engrailed and counterchanged; name, Champneys.

9. Argent, a lion sejant azure, between three torteaux. 10. Argent, a lion saliant, in chief three pellets. 11. Gules, a lion rampant-gardant, double-queuée (or queue fourchée) or, holding in his paws a rosebranch proper; name, Masters.

The term queuée applies to the tail of a beast, and the term fourchée denotes its being forked, as the example.

12. Or, a pale between two lions rampant sable; name,

Naylor.

13. Argent, three bars wavy azure, over all a lion rampant of the first; name, Bulbeck.

14. Argent, a chevron between three bucks tripping sable, attired or; name, Rogers.

15. Vert, a chevron between three bucks standing at gaze or; name, Robinson.

16. Argent, a bend engrailed azure, between two bucks' heads cabosed sable; name, Needham.

17. Argent, three greyhounds current in pale sable, collared or; name, Moore.

18. A hart cumbent upon a hill in a park paled, all proper; the arms of the town of Derby.

19. Argent, three moles sable, their snouts and feet gules; name, Nangothan.

20. Gules, three conies sejant within a bordue engrailed argent; name, Conisbie.

21. Argent, a chevron gules between three talbots passant sable; name, Talbot.

22. Or, a chevron gules between three lions' paws erased and erected sable; name, Austen, of Kent, baronet.

23. Argent, two lions' gambs erased in saltire, the dexter surmounted of the sinister, gules.

24. Sable, three lions' tails erect and erased argent; name, Corke.

The two Plates XV. and XVII., are introduced to show the student of heraldry the concise and easy method which is in practice among heralds, heraldic painters, and engravers, of tricking coats of arms.

HERALDIC ABBREVIATIONS,

Made use of in the heraldic sketches* and blazons of Plates XIV. and XVI.

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ABBREVIATED BLAZON OF PLATE XIV.

1. A, a saltire G, between four wolves' heads couped

Ppr.

2. G, three demi-lions couped A, a chief O,

3 A, on a fess S, between three lions' heads erased G, langued B.

4. G, a lion couched between six cross-croslets, three in chief, and as many in base A.

5. B, a lion passant, between three estoiles A.

6. A, a chevron G, between three lions passant-gar dant S.

7. Party per chevron, V and O, in chief a rose O, between two fleurs-de-lis A, in base a lion rampantregardant B.

8. Party per pale, A and S, within a bordure of the same engrailed and counterchanged, a lion rampant O.

9. A lion sejant B, between three torteaux. 10. A lion saliant Ppr. and in chief three pellets. * Coats thus sketched are by heralds said to be "in trick."

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