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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
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Glossary of Terms

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BER   [ 37 I   BER

BBNYoN, Suff., on a mount, vert, (as at p1.26, n. 24) a griffin sejant, ar. n. 15, same plate.

—, Salop., ib., charged with a canton, az.

—, Salop., a griffin segreant, wings elevated, ar. p1. 26, n. 28.

BEannocx, Load., in a gauntlet in fess, ppr., garnished or, lined gu., he lower part of a spear in pale, of the second. pl. 54, n. 4.

B ERDMORE. See BliminmonE.

13ERE, Kent and Berks., on a garb, or, a bird, sa. pl. 66, n. 29.

–, a tiger sejant, az., bezan- tee,. maned and tufted, or. pl. 11, a. 4.

--, Devon., a bear's head erased, sa., muzzled, or. pl. 16, a. 19.

BEREARLY, Load., a cross potent fitchee, between two wings expanded. pl. 94, n. 13.

BERENGER, on a mount, a tree, vert. pl. 94, n. 33.

BEREFORD, Staff., an ostrich's head, (p1.81, n. 8, without the horse-shoe, and not erased) between two palm-branches.

BERENS, Kent, a demi-bear salient, sa. p1. 16, n. 24.

BERESETH, a griffin's head erased, ppr., collared, or. pl. 27, n. 20. BERESFORD, Viscount and Baron, (Beresford); out of a mural coronet, or, a dragon's head, per fess wavy az. and gu., pierced in the neck with a broken tilting-lance, in bend, of the first, and holding the upper part of the spear in the mouth. pl. 29, n. 38. Nil nisi emcee.

—, Baron Decies. See DEEIES.

, Marquess of Waterford. See WATERFORD.

—, Bart., same as BERESFORD, Visct. —, Kent and Derb., a dragon's head erased, az., pierced through the neck with a broken spear, or, end holding a part of the same in the mouth, headed ar. pl. 29, n. 38, (without the coronet.)

—, the same, but couped, and a broken sword, instead of a spear, in the mouth. pl. 23, a. 4.

, a dolphin erect, on its tail. p1.33, n. 21.

BERGER, a lion's paw erased, sa., holding a dagger, ppr. pl. 14, n. 16. BERIFFE, Ess., in grass, ppr., a beaver passant, also ppr., collared or. pl. 34, n. 19.

Ess., out of a mural coronet, gu., a demi-lion rampant, or. (p1. 3, n. 17,) ducally crowned of the first, as at pl. 4, n. 32, and holding in the dente

paw a trefoil slipped, vert, (as at pl. 3, n. 27.)

BERINGER, Bucks., a stem of a holly-tree, raguled and trunked, jacent, sprouting out a branch in pale, leaved and fructed, all ppr. p1. 72, n. 26, (without the owl.)

BERINGHAM, Wore., a cross moline, az. pl. 86, n. 13.

—, an arm in armour embowed, holding a spiked club, all par. p1. 62, n. 34.

BERINGTON, a lion sejant,    . pl. 6,
n. 11, crowned, —.

—, Chesh., out of a ducal coronet, or, a greyhound's head, ar., (collared gu.) pl. 32, n. 13.

BERKELEY, Earl of, and Baron, Visct. Dursley, (Berkeley) ; a mitre, gu., labelled and garnished, or, charged with a cheveron between ten crosses pat-tee, ar. pl. 91, n. 1. Dieu area polls. —, a bishop's mitre, ppr. pl. 91, n. 1.
   , Wore., a bear's head couped, ar.,
muzzled gat. pl. 16, a. 19. Dieu avec nous,

DIMIKENHEAD, out of a ducal coronet, a hand (as pl. GO, n. 7,) holding a sheaf of arrows, but points downward, (as p1. 58, n. 36.)

BERKHEAD, Cumb., a goat's head erased, party per fess, or and gu., attired sa. pl. 21, n. 12.

—, a goat salient, ar., attired or, resting the dexter forepaw on a garb, of the last. pl. 21, n. 10.

BERKLEY, a unicorn passant, gu., armed and crined or. pl. 41, n. 10.

, a bear's head, ar., muzzled, gu. pl. 16, n. 19.

BERMINGHAM, Warw., two lions' paws in saltier, sa. pl. 16, n. 5.

13Eaistanra a demi-lion rampant, gu, pl. 5, a. 18.

BERNARD, Viscount.   See MINDoN,
(Earl of.)

   , Line. and Bucks., a demi-bear,

muzzled and collared, or. pl. 16,   24.
Bear and fin-bear.

TIERNERS, Baron, (Wilson.) Crest not found.

   , Herts., a monkey, ppr., covered
about the loins and lined, or. pl. 33, n. 14.

BERNEY, Bart., Norf., a plume of six ostrich-feathers, per pale, az. and gu. alternately. pl. 98, n. 19. Nil tenierë neque timore.

   , Norf., the same.

—, Norf., a sheaf of reeds, or. pl. 9, n. 40.

—, Norf., a garb, or. pl. 96, n. 37. —, an eagle's head, ppr., gorged with an eastern coronet, or, and in the