BIRKENHEAD (Cheshire).

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BIRKENHEAD (Cheshire). Quarterly or and argent, on a cross gules between a lion passant of the last in the first quarter, an oak tree issuant from a mount proper in the second, an estoile azure in the third, and two lions passant of the third in the fourth, a crosier in pale of the first, and two crescents in fesse of the second. Crest — On a wreath of the colours, upon a rock proper in front of a crosier erect or, a lion azure resting the dexter paw on an anchor also or, Motto — " Ubi fides ibi lux et robur."

[This grant, dated 28th August 1878, is printed " Hist. Soc. of Lanes, and Cheshire," xlii. 13.]

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