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Identifier: peepsatherald00alle (find matches)
Title: Peeps at heraldry
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, Phoebe
Subjects: Heraldry
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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atever happens she always falls on her feet.She was formerly the emblem of liberty, and was borneon the banners of the ancient Alans and Burgundiansto show that they brooked no servitude. The squirrel is rather a favourite charge, notably inthe arms of landed gentry—such as the Holts, Woods,Warrens—because the little nut-cracker is typical ofparks and woodland property. It occurs either singlyor in pairs or trios. It is always represented sejant, andusually cracking nuts, as seen in the arms of theNuthall family. A hedgehog usually figures in the arms of the Harris,Harrison, Herries, and Herrison families, and is un-doubtedly borne in allusion to their surname, herissonbeing the French for hedgehog. Lord Malmesbury—family name Harris—bears a hedgehog in his coat ofarms. It is generally blazoned as an urcheon inheraldry. The hare occurs but rarely in English arms;the Clelands bear one as a single charge, and theTrussleys charge their shield with three little hares 48 PLA I E 5.
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^TriK# BARON HAWKE. Arms.—A chevron erminois between three pilgrims staves purpure.Crest.—A hawk, wings displayed and inverted ppr. belled and charged onthe brea-t with a fleur de lys or. Supporters.—Dexter, Neptune, Sinister, a Sea-horse.Motto.—Strike. Animal Charges playing bagpipes, probably in allusion to the harestraditional love of music. The rabbit—known to heraldsas a coney—is oftener met with in armorial bearings ;the Strodes of Devon bear three conies couchant; theConesbies, three conies sejant ; the Cunliffes, threeconies courant. Three moles are borne by Sir John Twistledon, ofDartford, Kent—a mole was sometimes blazoned mol-diwarp —whilst the Rattons very aptly bear a rat. We cannot say much of the toads,* tortoises, ser-pents, grasshoppers, spiders, and snails which occur inheraldry. The Gandys of Suffolk bear a single tortoise passant,and a tortoise erected occurs on the Coopers coat of arms. Serpents are blazoned in terms peculiar to themselves.Thus, a

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