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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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BRAHAN, a lion rampant guardant, —. pl. 6, n. 5.

BRAID, Eng. and Sco., a demi-lion, gu.

p1.5, n. 18. Floreat majestas. BRAIDFooT, Sco., a demi-griffin, or.

pl. 25, n. 33.

BRAIDWOOD, Sco., an oak-tree, acorned, ppr. pl. 94, n. 33. Vigueur de dessus.

BRAILSFORD, out of a ducal coronet,

—, a dragon's head, —. p1.23, n. 10. BRAIN, a torteau, az., charged with a

talbot's head erased, or. pl. 13, n. 33. BRAINE, Glouc., a leopard's head, ar.

pl. 10, n. 17.

BRArrirwAIT, York., a greyhound couchant, ar., collared and lined, go. pl. 37, n. 13.

—, on a mount, vert, a greyhound couchant, —. pl. 32, n. 25.

BRAKSDALL, a sheaf of arrows, ppr., feathered and banded go. ph 99,

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BRAKA7N, Comb., a hawk's head erased, ar., (ducally gorged, or.) pl. 80,

n. 17.

—, a whale's head erect, (between
two cinquefoils,) ppr. pl. 36, n. G.

BRAMFELL, out of a ducal coronet, an arm embowed, wielding a scymitar, —. pl. 49, n. 17.

BRAMHALI, Ches., a lion passant, or. pl. 1, n. 33.

, Loud., the same, but with a crescent on the shoulder for difference. ib.

BRAMLEY, a pheasant, ppr. pl. 71,

n. 23.

BRAMPTON, Norf., on a tiger, or., bridled, —, a naked man astride, ppr•, wreathed about the temples, of the first and gu. p1.10, n. 8.

—, Norf., a lion rampant, or. pl. 1, n. S.

—, Norf., out of a mural coronet, a talbot's head, gu., eared ar. pl. 12,

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—, a demi-marine, vested ppr., holding in the sinister hand nit anchor, and in the dexter a spear. p1. 47,

n. 19.

—, on a tun, or, (as p1. 97, n. 14) a dove, ppr., in the beak a branch, veil, fructed go. (as at pi. 76, n. 6.) BRAMSON, and Branson, an arm from

the elbow (as pl. 49, n.24) holding in

the hand a scorpion erect, (as p1.36,

n. 27) all ppr.

BRAIISTON, Ess., a lion sejant, or, gorged with a collar, so., charged with three plates. pl. 6, n. 11.

BRAMWELL, out of a ducal coronet, or, Inv lion's paws in saltier, ppr. (as at n. 15.) pl. 14, n. 11.

BRANCH, out of a ducal coronet, or, a cock's head, az. combed gu., holding in the beak a branch, vert. p1. 75,

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BRAND, Suff. and Lond., out of a ducal coronet, or, a leopard's head, ar., seine° of roundles, of the colours. pl. 10, n. 35.

by the side of a tree a stag statant, ppr. pl. 41, n.25.

—, on the stomp of a tree, shooting forth a new branch, erased and lying fesswise, an eagle statant regardant, —. pl. 67, n. 19.

Lond., a leopard's head and neck erased guardant, quarterly ar. and or, semee of roundles, sa., vert, and go. p1. 10, n. 39.

—, Surr., out of a ducal coronet, or, a cockatrice's head, gu. (as p1.24, n. 22) between two wings (as at pl. 29, n. 37.)

   , a hand holding a battle-axe, ppr.
p1. 49, n. 8.

, Sco., two proboscides of an elephant, ar., the dexter charged with three muscles, and the sinister with three spur-rowels, so.   p1. 19, n. 7.

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13RANDEETir, a lamb couchant, ar. p1. 31, n. 8.

BRANI,nu, Hants., a demi-ploenix issu-
ing from flames, ppr. pl. 67, D. 20.

, Surr. and Sco., a dove regardant, in the beak an olive-branch, ppr. pl. 7)1, n. 10.

—, Sco., a dove with an olive-branch, ppr. pl. 70, n. 6.

    an elephant passant, ar. p1. 19,

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—, an arm from the elbow, ppr„ vested cliequy, or and az., holding a branch of palm, of the first. p1. 51, n. 29.

BRANDESTON, a dexter hand cooped in fess, gu. p1. 61, n. 33.

BliANDFORD, an eagle rising, or, (in the beak a sprig of oak fructed, Fort.) pi. 79, n. 10.

BRANDLING, Northumb., the stump of a tree, cooped and erased, from the top issuing Dames, from the sides sprigs, accrued and leaved, all ppr. p1. 84, n.29.

BRANDON, Lend., a bon's head erased, or., (charged with two bars, go., on each of which three besants.) pl. 7,

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—, Suff., a lion's head erased, or, ;suttee so., crowned with a ducal coronet, party per fess or. and gu. p1.6, n. 27.

—, a dove regardant, in the beak an olive-branch, ppr. pl. 76, n.10.