The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . Machell, the Westmorland antiquarian, who was a cousin of the HornbyBirkbecks, writing in 1664, quotes Dugdales Visitation: The Arms,Arg. a Fess chequy or, <%? sab. Between three Lyons heads errased. Gules,but I believe this is a mistake in ye tracing it, for in all their Arms atthornby, the Fess is contercompone, or ^ azure, he bore 3 Lyons heads ^ sometimes he bore 2 Lyons heads in chiefe <^ a F Bores head in bass :which I have seen confirmed in Visit. West. <^ Cumb. circa temp. Hen. 8. In Dwnns Visitation of Wales and part of
The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . Machell, the Westmorland antiquarian, who was a cousin of the HornbyBirkbecks, writing in 1664, quotes Dugdales Visitation: The Arms,Arg. a Fess chequy or, <%? sab. Between three Lyons heads errased. Gules,but I believe this is a mistake in ye tracing it, for in all their Arms atthornby, the Fess is contercompone, or ^ azure, he bore 3 Lyons heads ^ sometimes he bore 2 Lyons heads in chiefe <^ a F Bores head in bass :which I have seen confirmed in Visit. West. <^ Cumb. circa temp. Hen. 8. In Dwnns Visitation of Wales and part of the Marches between theyears 1586 and 1613, vol. i., p. 191, is the pedigree of Syr HylbertByrbeck, Vickar off Lamffae in Pembrokeshire, 1608. He bereth Argenta ffes check Or an G. : 2 leions hiets erasyd G. : in bas powynts a Borshieds kopied G.—o duw nad gamwedd, O God, Prevent error. Syr. Hylbert was certainly the Rev. Cuthbert Birkbeck, son of Edward Birkbeckof Hornby (fide post, p. 20). The prefix Sir was formerly generallyapplied to clergymen who had not taken a University degree. 4 THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. Dugdales Visitation of Yorkshire, 1666,^ certifies the arms ofThomas Birkbeck of Sheffield, and of Peter Birkbeck, Rector of Castleford,CO. York, as grandsons of Thomas Birkbeck of Orton in Com. West-morl., of the family of Morton Tinmouth in Com. Palat. Dunelm,
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