Hare

Hare

Hare: the Hare(fr. lièvre). as also the rabbit(fr. lapin), always blazoned coney(and in one case the leveret), are not infrequent in coats of arms, but, so far as has been observed, there are no rules followed as to distinct drawing of these varieties.

They are more frequently represented as sejant, and if no description is given they would be drawn so; but they are found blazoned courant, boltant, passant, salient, and(though wrongly) rampant; also feeding, and issuing from their burrows; the most remarkable of all is the hare playing upon the bagpipes(q.v.). Hares' heads occur in one case.

Argent, three hares(elsewhere conies) courant in pale azure--ARROWOOD, Lancashire.

Azure, a chevron ermine between two hares courant in chief, and a sun in base[elsewhere in chief three suns argent, in base a hare courant]--WATSON, Bp. of Winchester, 1580-84.

Azure, a hare salient guardant argent with a hunting-horn hanging about the neck vert garnished gules within a bordure counter-compony of the second and first--CLELAND, Edinburgh.

Azure, a hare rampant between three mullets or--MARCHANT.

Argent, a chevron gules between three leverets courant sable--LEYVER, or LEVER, co. Lancaster.

Azure, three leverets courant in pale--LEVERINGTON.

Gules, three conies sejant argent within a bordure engrailed sable--Sir Humphry CONESBY, co. Hereford, and CONINGSBY, co. Norfolk.

Argent, [otherwise or,] three conies passant sable--CONYSTON.

Argent, on a chevron azure a coney passant between two fishes hauriant of the first; on a chief checky of the first and second a rose or on a pale of the second--CHEYNEY, Bp. of Bristol, 1562-79.

Argent, a saltire gules between four conies feeding sable--CONY, co. Hertford.

Per fesse argent and vert, a pale counterchanged, three conies issuing from their burrows of the first--BROWGHE.

Argent, on a fesse nebuly sable three hare's heads couped or--HAREWELL, Bp. of Bath and Wells, 1366-86.