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Armorial Notes on Docwra

Dockwra, Lord Dockwra, created 1620, extinct at death of 2nd Lord Dockwra

Arms: Sable a chevron engrailed argent between three plates each charged with a pallet gules.
Crest: A demi-lion rampant or; holding between the paws a plate charged with a pallet gules.
Supporters: Two knights in armour proper, a plume of three ostrich feathers on each helmet argent azure gules, breeches also gules, hose, boots and spurs proper, each holding in their exterior hand a spear also proper the point imbrued with drops of blood.
Motto: Fides amicitiae periculosa libertas [Trans: Faith in friendship is dangerous to liberty]

Dockwra, (Fulbourne, C. Cambridge, 1619, and Nuburne, Co. Northumberland)

Arms: Sable a chevron argent between three plates each charged with a pallet gules.

Dockwra (London)

Arms: Sable a chevron engrailed argent between three plates each charged with a pallet gules on a chief of the second a cross of the third.
[Note: These are the arms of Sir Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem]

Dockwra (C. York)

Arms: Sable three plates each charged with a pallet gules.
Crest: A heart gules within a fetterlock azure.

Source: "The General Armory" B. Burke, 1884, Published: Harrison, p 289

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