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lancemaincroisettelionlionlance

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blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)

Amherst, or Amhurst

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Blazon

Quarterly: 1st and 4th, as preceding, viz., gules three tilting spears two and one erect or, points argent for AmMHURST, as representing Nicholas Amhurst, living at Judds, in Tudeley, temp. Queen Elizabeth, one of the four sons of Thomas Amherst, of Amherst, and brother of John Amherst, ancestor of Earl Amherst; 2nd, DanreL, per saltire argent and or, two dexter arms fessewise, couped in pale, vested gules cuff azure the hand proper holding a cross crosslet fitchée erect of the third and as many lions rampant in fesse, also of the third; 3rd, TyssEn, or, on a chevron azure between three French marygolds slipped proper two lions passant respecting each other of the first, within a bordure compony argent and of the second. Quartering AucHMuTY, EvVERING, WAYLAND, SypNnor, Morris, EARDE, Bapisrorp, and Leacu

Tinctures

argent (charge)
argent (field)
argent (ordinary)
au naturel (charge)
azur (ordinary)
gueules (field)
or (charge)
or (field)

Charges

bordure (ordinary)
chevron (ordinary)
croisette (meuble)
lance (meuble)
lion (meuble)
main (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    },
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "lance",
            "count": 3,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "or",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "gueules",
          "category": "colour"
        },
        "positions": [
          "1",
          "4"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "main",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "au naturel",
              "category": ""
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "croisette",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "meuble",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "du troisième",
              "category": "",
              "reference": "du troisième"
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "au pied fiché"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "lion",
            "count": 2,
            "category": "meuble",
            "attitudes": [
              "en fasce",
              "rampant"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "2"
        ]
      },
      {
        "charges": [
          {
            "name": "chevron",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "azur",
              "category": "colour"
            },
            "attitudes": [
              "tigé"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "lion",
            "count": 2,
            "category": "meuble",
            "attitudes": [
              "passant"
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "bordure",
            "count": 1,
            "category": "ordinary",
            "tincture": {
              "name": "argent",
              "category": "metal"
            }
          }
        ],
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        },
        "positions": [
          "3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "is_compound": true
}

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