View source for B55193-Tucker,-Tooker,-or-Toker

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|Name=Tucker, Tooker, or Toker
|Blazon=Barry wavy of ten ar. and az. on a chev. embattled and counter-embattled or, betw. three sea-horses naiant of the first, five gouttes de poix.
|Crest=A lion's gamb erased gu. charged with three billets in pale or, and holding a battle axe or, head az., granted, 1538, by Thomas Hawley, Clarenceux.
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|Info=Exeter, co. Devon
|Comment=As thus blazoned, though with constant variations, this complicated old coat has been borne by various families or lines of Tucker, but none are entitled to it unless proving descent from Robert Tucker, of Exeter, the grantee, or from the Tuckers of Lamerton and Heiland, to whom the same arms were admitted at the Visit. 1620. The difficulty of representing the coat doubtless led to the many discrepancies, the bars varying from twelve to six, the chev. embattled in chief and not in base, the number of the gouttes de poix three, five, seven, or sem&eacute;e, and the bars in some instances being represented as so many barrulets on a white field. The crest also, though always right in the colour and charges on the gamb, is sometimes erased, at others couped, and the battle axe drawn in every conceivable shape. A reference, however, to the wording of the original patent proves that the field " azure and argent wave," without naming bars or their number, was intended to represent the sea in which the " chevaulx marins " (the colour of which is not stated) are swimming. The doubly-embattled golden chev. "draped sabyll," is properly sem&eacute;e of gouttes de poix, while the lion's gamb of the crest must be represented couped, as it is not blazoned as erased or otherwise, and should hold, not a battle axe, but a mace of war (" masse of weyr "), the handle of which is vert, and the head ar. There are many early instances of the sea forming the field or part of the field in coat armour (ex. gr. Trevelyan), aud it is so represented in the Tucker shield in the Record D. 27, in the College of Arms.
|Page=1034
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