Arms of James Hales
The arms attributed to the Hales family: Gules, three arrows Or, feathered and barbed Argent. These were personal or hereditary arms, not arms of the manor.
Open document- Source type
- Heraldic reference
- Provenance
- Blazon recorded in Burke's General Armory (1884), page 440
- Evidence status
- supported
The arms attributed to the Hales family are blazoned “Gu. three arrows or, feathered and barbed ar.”—a red field bearing three gold arrows with silver feathers and points. The accompanying SVG is a modern rendering of that blazon, not a facsimile of a sixteenth-century grant or manuscript.
No symbolic meaning is assigned here to the colours or charges. Such generic “heraldic symbolism” is usually retrospective and is not evidence of what the armiger intended. More importantly, these were the arms of a person or family, not of the Manor of the Dungeon. Their appearance in this archive documents a former lord; it does not make them available to a later purchaser of the lordship.
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 & sons, 1884, p. 440-41.