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Title: The Herald and genealogist
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873
Subjects: Heraldry
Publisher: London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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st be regarded with general interest. ^ We may add that in the pedigree of Sandys, which includes that ofBirket of Bii-ket Houses, we find the name of the Editor himself.Mr Joseph Foster is the eldest son of the late Mr. Joseph Foster ofSunderland, who was an elder brother of Mr. Myles Birket Foster,a distinguished and well-known member of the Old Water-ColourSociety. Myles is an old name with the Birkets, and previously formany generations an old name with the Sandys. In the same tablealso occurs the name of the late Mr. Davics Gilbert, President of theRoyal Society, who, through the families of Davies and Noy, was, itwill be recollected, a coheir of the Barony of Sandys of the Vine. In the modern armory of Lancashii-e there is a somewhat favouritecharge, which in its import is as creditable as any other badge what-ever of honourable distinction. We allude to the Bee. The first SirRobert Peel, whose motto was tNinjsTiiiA, placed a bee upon the chief 172 COUNTY FAMILIES OF LANCASHIRE.
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COUNTY FAMILIES OF LANCASHIRE. 173 of his armorial shield, and a shuttle in the paws of the demi-lion, hiscrest. Sir Thomas Bazley, a cotton prince of. more recent days, hasalso adopted a bee, an emblem of similar perseverance, and of similarsuccess. We give the engraving of his arms, as a specimen ofMr. Fosters armorial illustrations, and add their blason : Per paleazure and sable, a bee volant or between three fleurs-de-lys argent.Crest, a cubit arm proper, charged with a bee volant or, the hand hold-ing a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, the whole between two branches ofoak vert. This was formed, we perceive, upon a former coat of Bazley,which we find in Burkes General Armory, as. Azure, three fleurs-de-lis argent; with Crest, a hand holding a chapeau between two branchesof laurel in orle. Again, we may remark that a bee plays a similarpartin the arms of Fort of Read Hall, another Lancashire family, twoof whose members have represented the borough of Clitheroe; andagain in that of

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