There can be no doubt but that, from the mutations our language has experienced within the last six centuries, many of the allusions contained in coats of arms are greatly obscured, while others are totally lost. The arms of the family of Eschales, now written Scales, exhibit eschalops (escallops), and those of Sykes, fountains--a _syke_, in the northern dialects, signifying a spring, or rather that kind of well, which was formerly sunk within the precincts of a camp. * * * * * In order to show how numerous allusive arms are in English armory, I will here give a list of those occurring in the Baronetage as it stood in 1836,[161] omitting, for the sake of brevity, the details of the blazon. BACON. (Crest.) A boar. SHELLEY. Three whelk-_shells_. BURDETT of Bramcote. Six birds (martlets). FOULIS. Three leaves (feuilles, Fr.) PALMER. (Crest.) A demi panther, holding a palm-branch. Motto: "Palma virtuti." RIVERS. Two bars dancetté. Query: if these were not originally _wavy_, to represent _rivers_? MANSELL. Three maunches. HAZLERIGG. Three hazel-leaves. GORING. Three annulets (rings!) WOLSELEY. (Crest.) A wolf's head. BURGOYNE. Three _birds_ (martlets), and three talbots (_canes_). HAMPSON. Three hemp-breaks. SWINBURNE. (Crest.) A demi boar. ASHBURNHAM. (Crest.) An ash tree. BROOKE. (Crest.) A _Brock_ (O. E. for badger). BURDETT of Burthwaite. Three birds (martlets). HEAD. Three unicorns' heads. OXENDEN. Three oxen. PARKER of London. A stag's head. RAMSDEN. Three ram's heads. COLT. Three colts. WARRENDER. (Crest.) A rabbit. FEATHERSTONHAUGH. Three feathers. SHEFFIELD. Three garbs (sheaves). CUNLIFFE. Three conies. WOLFF. (Crest.) A wolf. BERNARD-MORLAND. Quarters a bear. COOTE. Three cootes. HERON. Three herons. SYKES. Three fountains (sykes, vide p. 126). FLETCHER. Four arrow-heads. BEEVOR. (Crest.) A beaver. HUNTER-BLAIR. Three hunting horns. MILLER. A cross moline. CALL. Three trumpets. GOULD. _Or_, a griffin segreant. BARING. A bear's head. LAMB. Three lambs. BOUGHEY-FLETCHER. Four arrows. TROWBRIDGE. An antient bridge. MILNES. Three windmill-sails. BALL. A hand-grenade. BAYNES. Cross bones. METCALFE. Three calves. KAY. (Crest.) A griffin's head holding a key. LETHBRIDGE. A bridge. HARTWELL. A hart. SHELLEY. Three whelk shells, as before. LOCKHART. A heart within a fetter-lock. FRASER. Three cinquefoils, or rather strawberry-leaves (Fr. _fraises_). CORBET. A corby or raven. WOOD of Gatton. A tree. BAIRD. A boar. COCKERELL. Two cocks. FLETCHER of Carrow. Four arrow-heads. SHEAFFE. Three garbs (sheaves). ANDERSON. A saltier or St. Andrew's cross. BROKE. (Crest.) A brock or badger. WYLIE. A [_wily_] fox.