The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . seem to have been generally and freely used without theslightest right, and probably with a sincere belief on the part of the wearerthat he was descended from the Hornby Birkbecks, who alone had theright to bear the arms. All the Settle Birkbecks, with the Norfolk branch,had for long used the arms in perfect faith that they were entitled tothem, but on the patent of Baronetcy being made out in 1886, the Collegeof Arms required proof of the descent from Thomas Birkbeck of I soon satisfied myself was not thecase, and fresh arms wer
The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . seem to have been generally and freely used without theslightest right, and probably with a sincere belief on the part of the wearerthat he was descended from the Hornby Birkbecks, who alone had theright to bear the arms. All the Settle Birkbecks, with the Norfolk branch,had for long used the arms in perfect faith that they were entitled tothem, but on the patent of Baronetcy being made out in 1886, the Collegeof Arms required proof of the descent from Thomas Birkbeck of I soon satisfied myself was not thecase, and fresh arms were granted to thedescendants of John Birkbeck of Lynn,my grandfather; they are as close ascould be allowed to the original arms[vide Frontispiece). Arms : Argent, a fess chequy or cottised of the second, betweenthree lions heads erased gules, in thecentre chief point a bow palewise ppr. Crest : Upon a rock in front of ahazel branch, slipped and fructed, a bowpalewise, all ppr. Granted in 1886 to the descendantsof John Birkbeck of Lynn
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