Ebook The Genealogy of the Family of John Lawrence

Sir robert, of Ashton Hall, Lancashire, England, from his sovereign, Richard Coeur de Lion, received his arms, Argent, a cross raguly gules, A. D. 1191. The same was the coat of arms of the Lancashire branch generally. There were distinctions, as He beareth Ermine, a cross raguled gules, by the name of Law rence, of Lancashire. Raguled is a term to represent the rough-hewn stems of a tree from which the branches have been rudely lopped. The Gloucestershire and Buckinghamshire branches had the same arms, the crest A demi turbot, or tail inverted and erect or again, The tail (or hindmost half) of a chub (fish) inverted and erect. Other crests were used by these fami lies, as, Two laurel branches vert, form ing a chaplet.