John Lawrence
Published: 2017-10-13
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Excerpt from The Genealogy of the Family of John Lawrence: Of Wisset, in Suffolk, England, and of Watertown and Groton, Massachusetts, Continued to the Present Year 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.