Marshalling: Examples 1a and 1b

The coat-of-arms in Example 1a is that of Henry Godfrey Fausett (1749-1825), and is taken from his bookplate. This armorial shows Godfrey's arms on the left, the arms of his first wife, Susan Sandys, on the right, and the arms of his second wife, Sarah Nott, in pretense at the center.

These arms are blazoned as follows:

Parted per pale, baron and femme; first, quarterly,

1. or a lion rampant sable debruised by a bend gobony argent and azure,   [Fausett]
2. argent three piles meeting in base vert, on a canton sable a lion's head erased or,   [Bryan]
3. sable a chevron between three pelican's heads vulning themselves or,   [Godfrey]
4. argent on a chevron between three greyhound's heads erased sable collared or as many plates;   [Toke]

second, or a fess dancetté between three crosses crosslet fitchy gules;   [Sandys]
over all an escutcheon of pretence azure, a bend between three leopard's faces or.   [Nott]

The coat-of-arms in Example 1b is that of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury (1643-1715), and is taken from his bookplate. This armorial is blazoned as follows:

Parted per pale, baron and femme;
first, azure the Holy Virgin and Child, with sceptre in her left hand, all or;   [the Bishop of Salisbury]
second, argent three holly leaves in chief vert, a hunting horn in base sable stringed gules.   [Burnet]