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[Bookplate for Lockwood]

This bookplate's design features an escutcheon, argent (silver) and sable (black), charged with three martlets. Another martlet rests above the escutcheon on the stump of an oak tree, erased and the Lockwood family motto appears in a banner below.

Heraldry

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According to a written description in Burke's, 'The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time,' this bookplate's heraldic design appears to be a combination of the coat of arms of the Lockwoods of county Stafford and the crest of the Lockwoods of counties Essex and Northampton. The motto displayed is used by both Wood and Lockwood families.
References:
1) Burke, Bernard. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. London: Shaw Publishing Co., 1937, Centenary (15th) Edition.
2) Burke, Bernard. The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time. London: Harrison, 1884. Accessed on 22 March 2010 at http://books.google.ca/books?id=WmpmAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PT18&dq=burke%27s+gentry&client=firefox-a&cd=6#v=onepage&q=lockwood&f=false

RBSC Bookplates

2010

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