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Abney

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Blazon

Argent on a cross sable five bezants. This was the true coat of the family, and was borne by Sir Thomas Apney, Knt., Lord Mayor of London, 1694 (Harleian MSS. 6076), but in consequence of the marriage, circa 1400, of John de Abeney, with the co-heiress of Ingwardby of Willesley, most of the Abneys, descendants thereof, adopted for their hereditary arms the coat of INGwWARDBY, viz., or, on chief gules a lion passant argent Le Neve's "' Knights," gives as the arms of Sir Epwarp Asney, of Willesley, knighted at Whitehall, 2 Aug. 1673, this latter coat

Tinctures

argent (charge)
argent (field)
gueules (ordinary)
sable (ordinary)

Charges

besant (meuble)
borne (meuble)
chef (ordinary)
croix (ordinary)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "argent",
      "category": "metal"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "croix",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "sable",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "besant",
      "count": 5,
      "category": "meuble"
    },
    {
      "name": "borne",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble"
    },
    {
      "name": "chef",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "passant"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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