(last updated on November 16, 2001)
SCALES
COATS OF ARMS
There are 4 entries for the above surname in Burke's "General Armory", pg. 902.
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...PIMBLEY'S DICTIONARY OF HERALDRY
...A GLOSSARY OF TERMS
USED IN HERALDRY by JAMES PARKER
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...Scales of Middleton, co. Norfolk,
England
NOTE:..Temp. Henry VI.
ARMS:..Gules (red), six escallops, three, two and one Argent (silver).
CREST:..Out of a ducal coronet Or (gold), a plume of ostrich feathers Argent (silver).
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...Scales
of co. York, England
ARMS:..Argent (silver), a chevron Azure (blue).
CREST:..N/A.
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NOTE:..Abeyance temp. Edward IV....Sir Robert de Scales, son of Robert de Scales, Lord of Newselles, co. Herts, having distinguished himself in the Scotch war temp. Edward I., was summoned to Parliament 1299...Thomas, seventh Baron Scales, d. 1400, leaving an only dau. Elizabeth, m. first, Henry Bourchier, and second, Anthony Woodville, who was summoned to Parliment as Baron Scales, jure uxoris...She d.s.p., when the barony fell into abeyance among the descendants of the sisters of the fourth baron.
ARMS:..Gules (red), six escallops, three, two and one Or (gold).
CREST:..?
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...Scales
ARMS:..Gules (red), six escallops, three, two and one Or (gold), a bend Azure (blue).
CREST:..N/A.
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