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The Book of Family Crests
Their Source and Significations

Published 1882 By
Reeves and Turner

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Comprising nearly
EVERY FAMILY BEARING
properly
BLAZONED AND EXPLAINED
Accompanied by Upwards of
FOUR THOUSAND ENGRAVINGS
Illustrative of the crests of the peers and Baronets -- Nearly every family of England, Wales and Scotland and Ireland, The Colonies, etc etc
With the
SURNAMES OF THE BEARERS
Alphabetically arranged
A Dictionary of Mottos
An essay on the origins of arms, crests, etc
And a
Glossary of Terms

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BAILLIE, a crow, ppr. pl. 76, n. 30. Be not wanting.

Sco., a hand holding a pen, ppr. pl. 60, D. 15.   Fides scrvata ditat.

—, a cockatrice, wings expanded. pl. 24, n. 20.

BAILWOOD, a bull's head couped, sa. pl. 18, n. 21.

BAILY, out of a ducal coronet, a wyvern's head. p1. 24, n. 14.

BAIN, Northumb., a hand holding a scroll of paper. p1. 60, n. 18. Virtate.

—, a dexter arm in armour embowed, ppr., garnished or, grasping a dagger, also ppr. pl. 56, n. 16. Et marte et arts.

Sco., an arm embowed, holding a dagger, ppr. pl. 49, n. 16, (without the cloud.) Ft arts et marte.

—, a lion rampant, gu. between two wings, or. pl. 1, n. 18.

BAINBRIDGE, an arm from the shoul-

der (but issuing from the sea), hold' ing an anchor corded, all ppr. pl. 9,

n. 32.

BAINBRIGGE, Derb., (on a mount, vert,) a goat passant, sa., horned and unguled or, with a collar, and therefrom a bell. pl. 21, n. 20.

BAINES, a bone and a palm-branch in saltier, ppr. p1. 88, n. 26.

—, a cubit-arm erect, holding a leg-

bone in bend sinister, ar. pl. 51, n. 13. —, a wild-duck among flags, ppr. p1. 66, n. 4.

—, Sco., a cubit-arm holding a dagger, ppr. pl. 61, n. 14.

BAIRD, Bart., Sco., (of Fern Tower, co.

Perth); first, a mameluke on horseback, holding in his dexter hand a ' scymitar, all ppr. pl. 43, n. 36 ; and secondly, a boar's head erased, or, pl. 19, n. 20. Vi et virtute.

—, Bart., (of Saughton Hall, Edinburgh); a boar's head erased, or. pl. 19, n. 20. Motto, same as last.

—, Sco., a boar's head erased, ppr. p1. 19, n. 20 ; and another, charged with a crescent.

—, Sco., an eagle's head erased, ppl' p1. 78, n. 9. _Dorninns pelt.

—, Sco., an eagle's head, ppr. p1. 78, n. 7.

Sco., a ship in full sail, ppr. p1. 96, a. 23.

, Sco., a dove, wings expanded, ppr. p1. 76, n. 7. Virtute et honors.

, a cockatrice, wings indorsed, gu. pl. 24, n. 24.

BAIRNESFATHER, Sco., a boar's head couped, or. p1. 19, a. 14.

BAIRSTOW, out of a crescent, a demieagle displayed. pl. 66, a. t.O.

BAKE, a demi-man in armour, wielding

a sword, all ppr. p1. 64, n. 10. BAKER, Bart., Devon., a dexter arm em-

bowed, vested az., cuffed ar., holding

in the hand, ppr., an arrow, of the

last. pl. 52, n. 23.

—, Bart., Suss., first, a nag's head erased, ar., charged on the neck with a cross pattee fitched, gu., (and in the mouth a trefoil, slipped, vert.) for Baker. pl. 43, a. 13 ; 2. between two wings elevated, or, an arm in armour embowed, ppr., garnished or, the hand, in a gauntlet, grasping an arrow, entwined with an olive-branch, ppr., for Littlehales. pl. 53, n. 18. Finis coronat opus.

—, Bart., Surr., out of an antique crown, a demi-lion rampant, per fess indented ernainois and pagan, supporting between the paws an escallop, ar., charged with an ermine-spot. pl. 2, n. 34. Fidel coticula crux.

, Kent, a dexter arm, ppr., holding, a swan's head erased, ar., beaked gu. pl. 52, n. 26.

   , a boar's head couped, or. p1. 19, n. 14.

—, a rose-tree, vert, flowered, or. pl. 100, n. 31.

   , Kent and Suss., a musk-rose branch, vert, flowered, ar., seeded, or. pl. 96, n. 15.

, out of a cloud, a dexter arm in fess, raising a garb, all ppr. pl. 60, n. 29.

—, an ostrich's head erased, or, in the mouth a horse-shoe, ar. p1. 81, n. 8. —, a cockatrice, erm., combed and wattled gu. pl. 24, n. 20.

—, a dexter hand, gu., holding a club, sa. pl. 59, n. 28, (without the cloud.) —, Line. and Norf., a demi-unicorn (erased), ar., armed and maned or. pl. 43, n. 19.

—, a t;:wer, ar., between two laurel-branches, ppr. pl. 85, n. 24.

, Salop., out of a ducal coronet, a dexter arm embowed and vested, or, the hand gauntleted, and holding a broken tilting-spear in bend, of the same, enfiled with a garland, vert. pl. 53, n. 11.

—, a dexter arm in armour embowed, holding an arrow, ppr. p1. 57, n. 33. —, a naked dexter arm embowed, holding an arrow, ppr. pl. 58, n. 40. —, a naked dexter arm holding up a purse. pl. 61, n. 27.

—, Norf., a stag's head cabossed, or (pl. 40, n. 4); but on a chapeau, az., turned up, erm., (as at pl. 38, a. 22.)

—, Wel., a hawk's head, ar., between two wings, gu., holding in the beak