Wallop, earl of Portsmouth, 'Argent, a bend wavy sable.' The name of Wallop is local, and it was antiently written Welhop. Wallop, or Welhope, is the name of two parishes in Hampshire, so denominated from a fountain or _well_, springing from a _hope_ or hill in the vicinity, and giving birth to a small river, which becomes tributary to the Tese. Here, in very antient times, this family resided, and from the little river referred to the surname was adopted, while the bend wavy in the arms alludes both to the river and the name. Stourton, Lord Stourton, 'Sable, a bend or, between six fountains proper.' The river Stour rises at Stourton, co. Wilts, from six fountains or springs. The family name is derived from the place, and the arms from this circumstance. The bend may be regarded as the pale of Stourton park, as three of the sources of the river are within that inclosure and three beyond it. Shuckburgh, a parish in Warwickshire, is remarkable for that kind of fossil termed _astroit_, which resembles the mullet of heraldry. The family who, in very antient times, derived their surname from the locality, bear three mullets in their arms.[221] The Swales of Swale-hall, co. York, bear 'Azure, a bend undé argent.' Some consider this a representation of the river Swale, though Peter Le Neve thinks it a rebus for the name of _Nunda_, whose heiress married a Swale.[222] Highmore of High-moor, co. Cumberland: 'Argent, a crossbow erect between _four_ moor-cocks sable; their legs, beaks, and combs, gules.' This family originated in the moors of that county, _unde nomen et arma_. The author of 'Historical and Allusive Arms' says that they branched out into three lines, called from the situation of their respective places of abode, HIGHMORE, MIDDLEMORE, and LOWMORE. It is curious that the Middlemore branch gave as arms the crossbow and _three_ moor-cocks; while the Lowmores bore the crossbow and _two_ moor-cocks only. Had the family ramified still further into '_Lowermore_,' it is probable that branch must have rested content with a _single_ moor-cock, while the '_Lowestmores_,' carrying out the same principle of gradation, could not have claimed even a solitary bird, but must have made shift with their untrophied crossbow. On the other hand, '_Highermore_' would have been entitled to _five_, and '_Highestmore_' to _six_, head of game, in addition to the family weapon!