Historical anecdotes of heraldry and chivalry : tending to shew the origin of many English and foreign coats of arms, circumstances and customs . ton. The family of the Highmores, have for their arms, argent, acrofs bow between two moor-cocks fable, armed gules, on afieldargent. The creft was, a moor-cock of the firllj but /jerc, adefcendant of thofe who firfl gained this coat and crefl, has, byhis own prowefs, caufed an alteration. Abraham Highmore,being an adlive royalift, was given by Charles I. permiflion tobear- (inftead of the family crefl) an arm, armed proper, betweentwo leading pikes,
Historical anecdotes of heraldry and chivalry : tending to shew the origin of many English and foreign coats of arms, circumstances and customs . ton. The family of the Highmores, have for their arms, argent, acrofs bow between two moor-cocks fable, armed gules, on afieldargent. The creft was, a moor-cock of the firllj but /jerc, adefcendant of thofe who firfl gained this coat and crefl, has, byhis own prowefs, caufed an alteration. Abraham Highmore,being an adlive royalift, was given by Charles I. permiflion tobear- (inftead of the family crefl) an arm, armed proper, betweentwo leading pikes, gules. *TV[[_ In the family of Seaton, Earl of Winton, there is a nobleexample of the recompence Heraldry makes to fuch as, by theexercife of valour, virtue, and loyalty, become its this family, though fince attainted, had once an aug-mentation given in memorial of loyalty. Sir Chriftopher Seaton, in the reign of Robert I. bravely floodup to defend the freedom of his country againfl the Englifhufurpation, and was one of thofe Worthies, who, at the battleof Melvin, near Perth, in 1306, refcued the king from the Engl i 111 -V.
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