Oakes. Three oak branches.

Trotter. (Crest.) A horse!

Brooke of Colebrook. A brock again.

Dalrymple-Horn (Elphinstone). Three bugle-horns.

Key. Three keys.

Foster (Antiently written Forester). Three bugle-horns.

Holyoake-Goodricke. (Crest.) An oak tree with a scroll containing the words “Sacra Quercus.”

Paulett. Three swords. The sword was the distinctive mark of St. Paul.

Roe. (Crest.) A roebuck.

A more thorough acquaintance with English archaisms and provincialisms would probably enable one to detect numerous other bearings corresponding with the surnames of the bearers; but these seventy examples, cited from one branch of our lesser nobility only, are fully sufficient to prove that there is nothing mean or disgraceful in canting or allusive arms.