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Marshalling: Examples 1(a) and 1(b)

The coat-of-arms in Example 1(a) is that of Henry Godfrey Fausett (1749-1825), and is taken from his bookplate. This armorial show Godfrey's arms on the left, the arms of his first wife, Susan Sandys, on the right, and the arms of his second wife, Sarah Nott, in pretense at the center. It is blazoned as follows:

family represented

Parted per pale, baron and femme; first, quarterly,


1 - or a lion rampant sable debruised by a bend gobony argent
and azure,
2 - argent three piles meeting in base vert, on a canton sable
a lion's head erased or,
3 - sable a chevron between three pelican's heads vulning themselves or,
4 - argent on a chevron between three greyhound's heads
erased sable collared or as many plates;


1 - Fausett

2 - Bryan

3 - Godfrey

4 - Toke


second, or a fess dancetté between three crosses crosslet
fitchy gules;


--- Sandys


over all an escutcheon of pretence azure, a bend between
three leopard's faces or.


--- Nott

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The coat-of-arms in Example 1(b) is that of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury (1643-1715), and is taken from his bookplate. This armorial is blazoned as follows:

representing

Parted per pale, baron and femme;


first, azure the Holy Virgin and Child, with sceptre in her left
hand, all or;


the Bishop of Salisbury


second, argent three holly leaves in chief vert, a hunting horn
in base stringed gules.


Burnet


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