High Sheriffs of Lancashire 1200-1290

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    a roll of 6 columns title "High Sheriffs of Lancashire
 1200 to 1290" background bisque
argent a fess azure caption "1200 to 05: Richard de
 Vernon"
then
argent a fesse gules caption "1205: William de Vernon"
then
argent two bars gules a lion passant guardant or on
 a canton gules caption "1205 to 15: Gilbert Fitzreinfrid"
then
argent a arm sinister bendwise inverted gules higher
 much dexter much higher   much higher  much dexter
 caption "1215: Reginald de Cornehill" (Hand should
 be clenched)
then
azure three garbs or caption "1216 to 22: Randulph
 de Blundevill"
then
sable three garbs argent caption "1222 to 23: Stephen
 de Sedgrave"
then
gules three escutcheons or caption "1223 to 26: Robert
 de Montjoy"
then
vairy or and gules 12 horseshoes argent in orle on
 a bordure azure caption "1223 to 27: William de Ferrers"
then
barry of six argent gules caption "1226 to 27: Gerard
 Etwell"
then
argent two bars gules a lion passant guardant or on
 a canton gules caption "1232 to 46: William de Lancaster
 III"
then
argent three escarbuncles or on a bend gules caption
 "1234 to 41: Simon de Thornton"
then
or three plates on a chief indented azure caption
 "c.1236: Robert de Lathum"
then
argent two bars gules a lion passant guardant or on
 a canton gules caption "1240 to 41: John de Lancaster"
then
azure a bend or three covered cups or in second quarter
 three covered cups smaller in third quarter or smaller
 caption "1241 to 46: Richard de Boteler"
then
gules three cushions ermine tasselled or caption "1246
 to 49: Matthew de Redmayne"
then
or three plates on a chief indented azure caption
 "1249 to 55: Robert de Lathum"
then
azure a bend or three covered cups or in second quarter
 three covered cups smaller in third quarter or smaller
 caption "1259: William de Boteler"
then
argent a griffin segreant gules a bordure sable bezanty
 caption "1259 to 61: Geoffrey de Chetham"
then
argent three bars gemel sable over all a lion rampant
 gules langued and armed azure  very much larger  very
 much larger caption "1261 to 64: Adam de Montalt"
then
or three plates on a chief indented azure caption
 "1264 to 65: Robert de Lathum"
then
argent two bars gules a lion passant guardant or on
 a canton gules caption "1265 to 67: John de Lancaster"
then
azure a bend or three covered cups or in second quarter
 three covered cups smaller in third quarter or smaller
 caption "c.1266: Richard de Boteler"
then
gules three lions passant guardant or in pale a label
 of three azure semy-de-lys or caption "1267-95: Edmund
 Plantagenet"
then
argent fretty sable caption "c.1270: John de Cantsfield"
then
Azure five escallops gules on a cross or caption "c.1272
 to 74: Randulph de Dacre"
then
argent three bars sable caption "c.1282 to 85: Henry
 de Lea"
then
sable on a bend argent three mullets gules caption
 "1284 to 1290: Gilbert de Clifton"

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