B956-Amherst,-or-Amhurst

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Name of the family:

Amherst, or Amhurst

Blason:

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, as preceding, viz., gu. three tilting spears two and one erect or, points ar. for Am hobst, as representing Nicholas Amhurst, living at Judds, in Tudeley, temp. Queen Elizabeth, one of the four sons of Thomas Amherst, of Amherst, and brother of John Amherst, ancestor of Earl Amherst; 2nd, Daniel, per saltire ar. and or, two dexter arms fesscwisc, couped in pale, vested gu. cuff az. the hand ppr. holding a cross crosslet fltcheo erect of the third and as many lions ramp. in fesse, also of the third; 3rd, Tyssen, or, on a chev. az. betw. three French marygolds slipped ppr. two lions pass. respecting each other of the first, within a bordure compony ar. and of the second. Quartering Auch mutt, Evebing, Wayland, Stdnor, Mobbis, Eabde, Babisfobd, and Leach.

Info about the family:

Amhurst, co. Kent, Didling-ton Hall, co. Norfolk, and Hackney, co. Middlesex, exemplified, Coll. of Arms, to Willi ah-Amhurst Ttssen-Amhcbst, Esq. of those places

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16

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