Constables of Lancaster Castle (1261-2024)

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    A roll of 6 columns titled "The Constables of Lancaster
 Castle (1261 to Present)" background bisque
Argent three bars gemel sable a Lion rampant Gules
 langued and armed Azure caption "1261: Sir Adam de
 Montalt"
then
Argent a bend engrailed sable caption "c.1370: Thomas
 Radcliffe"
then
Argent three stags heads cabossed sable Caption "c.1400:
 William Rigmayden"
then
Argent three boars heads (couped) gules armed or langued
 azure caption "1441: Christopher Barton"
then
Argent a bend engrailed sable caption "1483: Sir Thomas
 Radcliffe"
then
Argent a saltire gules between four eagles displayed
 wings inverted caption "c.1513: Thomas Hampden"
then
azure a bend between six covered cups or caption "c.1523:
 Sir William Butler"
then
Sable three combs argent caption "1527: William Tunstall"
then
Sable three combs argent caption "1553: Sir Marmaduke
 Tunstall"
then
Sable three combs argent caption "1556: Francis Tunstall"
then
Sable three shacklebolts argent shewn higher caption
 "1596: James Anderton"
then
Quarterly 1) and 4) Argent a chevron between three
 leopards' faces shewn smaller higher very much closer
 sable; 2) and 3) Gules three cinquefoils or shewn
 closer higher caption "1597: William Farrington"
then
argent three auks (should be Cormorants) sable caption
 "1601 Sir Richard Warburton"
then
argent three auks (should be Cormorants) sable caption
 "1610 Cecil Warburton"
then
sable three bells argent a canton or caption "1660:
 Henry Porter"
then
Argent two bars gules on a canton of the last a cross
 moline or caption " Coll. Richard Kirkby"
then
Argent a pile sable a chevron counter charged caption
 "1674: John Otway"
then
Argent pile sable overall a chevron counter charged
 caption "1683: Charles Otway"
then
Per chevron azure and gules 3 estoiles gules  on a
 chevron or two doves proper in chief  a serpent nowed
 smaller vert in the base caption "1737: Alexander
 Sherson"
then
gules a fess dancetty ermine between three fleur de
 lys argent  caption "1738: William Marsden"
then
argent on a fesse between three martlets gules as
 many plates caption "1787 to 1803: Thomas Butterworth
 Bayley"
then
azure a chevron between three covered cups or caption
 "1803 to 1828: Alexander Butler"
then
argent a cross engrailed sable a torteaux smaller
 in each quarter with a escutcheon much smaller argent
 stroked sable in chief over all a hand gules in chief
 much higher much higher higher much larger slightly
 larger caption "1811 to 1828: Sir Richard Clayton"
then
argent a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure
 caption "1829: William Hulton"
then
or a chevron sable between three horns stringed sable
 caption "1860: Edward G. Hornby"
then
vert three fleur de lys gules on a fess invected or
 two pheons gules in the chief a horn stringed gules
 in the base caption "1865: Thomas Greene"
then
ermine three annulets or on a bend gules, three leopards
 faces argent on a chief azure caption "1872 to 1874:
 Thomas Batty Addison"
then
quartered 1) and 4) Gules a chevron between three
 leopards faces or smaller higher a arrow in the first
 quarter fesswise argent shewn smaller and dexter slightly
 sinister slightly higher, a arrow in the Second quarter
 fesswise argent shewn smaller and slightly higher
 sinister, a arrow in the base fesswise argent much
 smaller slightly smaller slightly slightly sinister,
 much lower.
2) argent 1 mullet argent  much lower slightly higher
 larger on a fess sable in chief three mullets sable
 in fesse
3) argent a cross flory sable caption "1874 to 1879:
 Robert Townley Parker"
then
quartered 1) and 4) quartered i) and iv) Fusilly ermine
 and sable a canton gules ii) and iii) argent a griffin
 segreant sable
2) and 3) argent a wolf rampant slightly smaller
 smaller
lower three mullets sable in chief in fesse much higher
 much higher much shown higher slightly smaller a escutcheon
 shown much smaller smaller  very much smaller argent
 a wolf rampant smaller
lower three mullets sable in chief in fesse much higher
 much higher much shown higher slightly smaller overall
 shown very much smaller shown lower caption "1879
 to 1892: John Wilson-Patten"
then
argent a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure
   a
escutcheon argent higher higher higher smaller smaller
 higher higher higher higher very much smaller  smaller
 over all a hand gules in chief much higher much higher
 higher much larger slightly larger caption "1892:
 Sir William W. H. Hulton"
then
ermine three crescents sable on a bend argent a bordure
 sable semy-de-lys argent caption "1907 to 1908 Sir
 John Tomlinson Hibbert"
then
azure a chevron ermine a arrow or flighted and barbed
 argent in first quarter, a arrow or flighted and barbed
 argent in second quarter, a arrow or flighted and
 barbed argent in base lower larger
three daws sable beaked and legged gules on a chief
 argent overall a mullet or on a square gules shown
 much dexter very much higher higher dexter higher
 higher larger lower dexter larger much dexter dexter
 caption "1908: Edward Bousfield Dawson"
then
per pale argent and gules barry of twelve countercharged
 caption "1916: Sir William Scott Barret"
then
per chevron or and Argent a chevron nebuly 2 trefoils
 sable in chief an eagle palewise displayed in base
 sable shewn very much larger  very much lower very
 much larger caption "1921: James Williamson"
then
quartered 1) and 4) azure a cross crosslet crossed
 and voided argent an acorn or in dexter chief shewn
 smaller 2) and 3) Argent three chevronels interlaced
 gules three escallops of the field on a chief gules
 caption "1930: Sir James T. Travis-Clegg"
then
azure a cross moline or caption "1942: Hugh Molyneux"
then
Argent three stags head cabossed or on a bend sable
 caption "1972: Hugh H. Stanley"
then
quartered 1) and 4) argent a chevron between three
 brocks sable 2) and 3) argent a chief vairy or and
 gules over all a bend sable caption "1995: Michael
 J. Fitzherbert-Brockholes"
then
vert "Argent on a pale bewteen two lions jambs palewise
 erased azure, each grasping by the stalk proper a
 rose gules leaved, barbed and seeded proper two lighting
 flashes saltire argent (I cannot get this one to work"
 caption "1998: Eric Jones"
then
vert  a letter NO_HERALDRY  in bend argent  Much larger
 very much larger much larger much larger caption "2004:
 Gordon Johnson"
then
per pale azure gules a horse passant argent smaller
 higher very much higher smaller a crown or very much
 smaller  smaller higher much higher much higher dexter
 smaller higher dexter smaller rotated dexter slightly
 higher slightly dexter a planet earth or shewn very
 much smaller smaller dexter higher much dexter much
 smaller dexter higher
a horse reversed argent smaller lower very much lower
 smaller a crown or very much smaller  smaller sinister
 smaller sinister much lower lower rotated sinister
  smaller slightly lower a planet earth or in base
 smaller smaller sinister sinister lower much lower
 sinister higher smaller sinister caption "2014: Pamela
 G. Barker"

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