Sire Richarde de Cokfeld, de azure, a une croix e iij _coks_ de or.
Sire Huge de Morieus, de azure, a iij foiles de _moures_ de or.
_Northfolk_:
Sire ---- Mounpynzon, de argent, a un lion de sable, a un
_pinzon_[154] de or en le espandle.
_Cauntebrugescire_:
Sire Giles de Trompintoun, de azure, crusule de or, a ij _trompes_ de
or.
_Derby et Notingham_:
Sire Johan le Fauconer, de argent a iij _faucouns_ de goules.
Sire Johan Bordoun, de goules a iij _bordons_ de argent.
_Huntingdonschire_:
Sire Johan de Swyneford, d'argent a iij testes de _cenglers_ de
goulys.
_Norehaunton et Rotelonde_:
Sire Geffrey Rossel, de or, a un cheveron azure, e iij roses de
goules.
_Leycestreschire_:
Sire William Bernak, de argent, a une fesse and iij _bernaks_ de
sable.
_Herefordeschire_:
Sire Peres Corbet, de or a un _corbyn_ de sable.
Sire Thomas Corbet, de or a iij _corbyns_ de sable.
_Schropschire_:
Sire Walter Hakelut, de goules, a iij _hackes_ daneys de or, et un
daunce de argent.
_Northumberland and Comberland_:
Sire Odynel Heron, de argent a iij herons de azure.
Sire Johan Malebis, de argent, a iij testes de _bis_ de goules.
In addition to these, I may adduce the following very antient families,
whose arms are not traceable to any grant, but have been borne
immemorially as antient arms. The Pelhams bear three _pel_icans, and their
crest is a _pe_acock. The puns in both instances, it must be confessed,
are very poor; still, few will doubt that puns were intended. The Arundels
bear six swallows, in French _hirondelles_. The Barons D'Aquila, temp.
Henry III, bore _eagles_; the Bourgchiers, water-_bowgets_; the
Heringauds, _herrings_; Lupus, Earl of Chester, a _wolf's_ head;
Shouldham, Abbot of St. Saviour's, _shov_ellers; the Bacons, a _boar_; the
Wingfelds, _wings_; the Rokewoods, chess-_rooks_; the Pigots, _pick_-axes;
the Boleynes, _bulls'_ heads; the Shelleys, _shells_; and an infinity of
others.
Dame Julyan Berners was no stranger to such arms, for she distinctly
mentions the coat of Peter de Roches, bishop of Winchester, who "baar iij
rochys (roaches) after his awne naam." The cross-_corded_, borne by the
_roper_ who became a "nobull man," spoken of by that lady, belongs to the
other class of allusive arms, as conveying a hint at his former menial
occupation.
That this kind of charges became too common in the early part of the
seventeenth century, Dallaway is, perhaps, correct in affirming; but those
were punning days, and quaint conceits often took the place of true wit.
Camden, the correctness of whose heraldric taste none will presume to
question, did not hold _arma cantantia_ in so contemptible a light as some
of his successors in office have done; for among the arms granted by him,
a list of which is given by Morgan,[155] the following, among others,
occur:
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