Name
Machell
4 coats of arms in 2 sources
Attestations: what are they?
Some arms carry an “Attested: in Renesse’s dictionary…” or “in … Ordinary” note. It points to a reference work, separate from the armorial that gives the blazon, where this name appears with these arms. It is independent corroboration: two books that agree are worth more than one.
Papworth, Ordinary of British Armorials (1874) and Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms (Scotland, 1893): sort arms by their design and name who bears them.
Only sure matches are counted (same name in Renesse, a confirmed entry in Papworth). Each coat’s page lists every citation, with a link to the scanned printed page.
The parser reads these blazons the same way. Each source keeps its own text, shown here: a word the parser does not keep can tell them apart.
Read identically in 2 sources (2 coats of arms)
- Machell, Mauchael, or Mauchel Burke (General Armory) · co. Westmoreland — Attested : in Papworth’s Ordinary (1)
- Machell of Crackenthorpe Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) · GB — Attested : in Papworth’s Ordinary (1)
- Burke (General Armory) Sable three greyhounds courant in pale argent collared or
- Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) Sable, three greyhounds courant in pale argent, collared or.
Other coats of arms of the name
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Machell Burke (General Armory) · co. Lancaster
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, sable three greyhounds courant in pale argent collared or; 2nd and 3rd, azure five fleurs-de-lis or
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Machell Burke (General Armory) · co. Lincoln
Sable three greyhounds courant in pale argent collared gules a bordure engrailed or
Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (1) · see the citations →