Burke's General armory gives several possibilities; Horne (Argent a leopard rampant gules); Lincolne (Or a leopard rampant sable armed argent); Etheresset (Azure a leopard rampant or); and Marney, Essex (Gules a leopard rampant argent). Papworth adds Walton; Hun; Astley; and Lancaster. The most likely of these is Lincolne as the tincture of the leopard is sable.
Burke's General armory gives several possibilities; Horne (Argent a leopard rampant gules); Lincolne (Or a leopard rampant sable armed argent); Etheresset (Azure a leopard rampant or); and Marney, Essex (Gules a leopard rampant argent). Papworth adds Walton; Hun; Astley; and Lancaster. The most likely of these is Lincolne as the tincture of the leopard is sable.
Dimensions: Crest On a ducal coronet a leopard statant
Possibilities for Identification:
Fairbairn’s Crests (not illustrated, though it is in 1904 edition): Benthall or De Benthall, of Benthall in Shropshire
Burke’s General armory: Bentall, of Bentall, Shropshire) (on a ducal coronet or a leopard argent spotted sable)
Dimensions: Arms Azure a bend engrailed argent cotised or a crescent for difference Crest A leopard passant holding an escutcheon argent Motto FORTE • SCUTUM • SALUS • DUCUM
Dimensions: Arms Quarterly of six 1 & 6. Vert a chevron between three leopards faces or (ffytche) 2. Or a pellet [roundel] between three cross crosslets fitchy sable (ffytche ancient) 3. Azure a stork wings close argent a bordure ermine (Starkey) 4. Azure a cross flory argent (Goldesborough) 5. illegible, could be Argent on a chevron gules between three torteaux as many quatrefoils or (Comfort) or perhaps Quarterly gules and or four crosses patty a bordure argent all counterchanged (Alger) impaling Argent three bars gules in chief a greyhound courant collared (Skipwith or Skipworth) Crest A leopard...