Moule 1836
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The map has six coats of arms, of which I can identify five
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| City of Carlisle |
Vert, the base barry wavy of six Argent and Azure, and issuing therefrom a castle between two roses Or, on a chief Gules a lion passant guardant Or These were used on John Speed's map of Cumberland, 1611, where the base is bary wavy of four. Barry wavy of six was used as the city's arms from 1835 to 1924 when the current arms were granted, which are 'Or on a cross patee between four roses Gules a rose Or barbed and seeded proper'. |
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Argent three bars Azure over all three annulets Or 2,1 |
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| Howard of Naworth |
Earl of Carlisle
Gules on a bend between six cross crosslets fitchee Argent on an escutcheon thereon a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory, a mullet for a difference. The escutcheon was allowed after Lord Howard's success at the Battle of Flodden Field; the arrow represents the arrow that pierced James IV's body. |
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| Wyndham |
Earl of Egremont
Azure a chevron Or between three lions head erased Or |
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| Dioces of Carlisle |
Argent on a cross Sable a mitre with labels Or |
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| Lowther |
Lonsdale, Earl of
Or six annulets Sable 3,2,1 |
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