MIDDLETON (Lancashire).
MIDDLETON (Lancashire). Quarterly per pale nebuly gules and argent, on a fesse ermine, between a cross patonce of the second in the first quarter, a mullet sable pierced of the field in the second, a silkworm moth volant in the third, and a rock in base, thereon a stork in the fourth, three sprigs of the cotton-tree slipped and fructed, all proper. And for the Crest — On a wreath of the colours, upon a mount vert, between two boars' heads erect and couped sable, a tower proper, suspended therefrom by a riband gules, an escutcheon or, charged with a lion passant also gules. Motto — " Fortis in Arduis."
[Granted, College of Arms, 28th January 1887.]
Original Source bookofpublicarms00foxd_djvu.txt near line 17302.
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