. The genealogy of the Cushing family, an account of the ancestors and descendants of Matthew Cushing, who came to America in 1638. ear 1563, in which the mar-riage is given of John Oldham, Shimpling, of Norfolk,with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Francis Cushin (page19) of Hingham, Norfolk, the Gushing arms are describedas follows :— Gules, an eagle displayed argent; qunrtering, gules, three right hands torn from the wrists, a cantonchequery or and az. Based on this description, whichis obviously slightly indefinite as regards the position ofthe hands, we have the following forms:— First, th
. The genealogy of the Cushing family, an account of the ancestors and descendants of Matthew Cushing, who came to America in 1638. ear 1563, in which the mar-riage is given of John Oldham, Shimpling, of Norfolk,with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Francis Cushin (page19) of Hingham, Norfolk, the Gushing arms are describedas follows :— Gules, an eagle displayed argent; qunrtering, gules, three right hands torn from the wrists, a cantonchequery or and az. Based on this description, whichis obviously slightly indefinite as regards the position ofthe hands, we have the following forms:— First, that given as a frontispiece to this volume andconsidered by the writer as most authoritative. This isthe form advocated by the late H. G. Somerby of Englandas the result of several years research in the records anddeeds of Norfolk Gounty, and it is quoted in the Registerof the New England Historical and Genealogical Society. 10 iNTRODUCTlOisr. Fig. 2. As to the position of the hand behind the canton, whennot otherwise expressly specified three hands would beplaced two in chief and one in base, and a canton used tobe placed on a shield without altering in the least thearrangement of the original emblem. Second, the shield used in thefirst edition of this work. (Fig, 2)For this arrangement we canfind no authority and are forcedto the conclusion that the posi-tion of the hands and the color-ing of half the shield argent aredue to the artists ideas fact, the late Lemuel Gushingacknowledged that it was inaccurate. The cut is quotedhere because through the last edition it has been givenwide circulation. Third, the arms found on thetombstone of ThomasGushing,in the Granary BuryingGround, Boston, Mass., dated1788 (Fig. 3). These are alsothe arms in the Gore Rollof Arms (Heraldic Journal,Vol. I, 1865), They are espe-cially worthy of note as beingthe earliest arms of which we have any record as beingborne by an Ameri
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