Chiswick Auctions are offering for sale on 10th October the Grant of Arms to Sir William Beechey of Craven Hill, Bayswater and also to his wife Anne Phyllis nee Jessup as co-heir of William Jessup of Norwich. Auctioneer’s estimate £400 – £600.
The text notes that “the Armorial Bearings borne by his family have not been duly established and being unwilling to continue to use thereof without lawful authority he therefore requested the favour of His Grace’s Warrant for our granting and assigning such Armorial Ensigns as may be proper to be borne by him and his descendants.“.
Beechey
Arms: Per fess Azure and Ermine a pale counterchanged on a chevron Gules between three eagles displayed Or a knights helmet proper between two chaplets gold.
Crest: An eagle displayed Azure charged on the breast and wings with an ermine spot Or each claw resting on a chaplet as in the Arms.
Motto: Persta Atque Obdura
Jessup
Arms: Or between two bars as many mullets Gules in chief three leopards faces and in base a mullet of the last.
Dated: 16th February 1829
Garter: Sir George Nayler
Clarenceux: Ralph Bigland
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