event of its dropping asleep the sound of the fallingstone may act as an alarum. Falcons are blazoned armed, jessed and belled.A falcon is usually called goshawk in heraldry. Swans, geese, ducks, and other web-footed birdsoccur rarely in heraldry. The Moore family bear oneswan, the Mellishes two,… … Fig. 43, appear in the arms of the Woolrich family. Threedrakes—a very favourite charge—are borne by theYeos. The Starkeys bear one stork, the Gibsonsthree. Three herons occur in the arms of Heron, one king-fisher in those of one, Christopher Fisher (Fig. 43).Viscount Cullen, whose family nameis…
Heraldry
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