Alternate spellings: Short, Shortt

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Pages cxxxii-clx

Magna Britannia: Volume 6, Devonshire. Originally published by T Cadell and W Davies, London, 1822.

Short, now of Bickham, in Kenne. — Four descents of this family are described in the visitation of 1620, as of Newton St. Cyres and of Exeter. John Short of Newton married the heiress of Shirland. The representative of this family is Francis Baring Short, Esq.

Arms: — G., a griffin segreant, Or, a chief, Ermine.

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see also:

Index to Burke's dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland
By Bernard Burke, pg 294

Peter Short, Esq, lord of the manor of East Keal, c. Lincoln, citizen and merchant-tailor of London to whom was granted by King Charles II, AD 1666, the coat of arms now borne by this branch of the family ...

Arms - Sa. a griffin passant, arg., on a chief, of the last five ermine spots, of the field.

see also:

Title:	   The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales;
	   comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to
	   the present time. By Sir Bernard Burke ...
Author:    Burke, Bernard, Sir, 1814-1892.
Publisher: London, Harrison, 1878.

pg 924

Short (Tenterden, co. Kent; granted 1614). Az. a griffin segreant betw. three estoiles or. Crest—A griffin's head or, betw. two wings az. charged with estoiles gold.

Short (co. Essex). Same Arms. Crest—A griffin's head betw. two wings.

Short (London, and Doncaster, co. York; granted 3 June, 1663). Sa. a griffin pass. segreant ar. a chief erm.
Short (London). Az. (another, sa.) a griffin pass. or, betw. three mullets ar. Crest-A griffin's head or, in the beak a trefoil slipped vert.

Short (Newham Hall, co. York). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, az. a griffin seagreant ar. a chief erm., for Short; 2nd, or, on a bend gu. three goats trippant ar., for Holwell; 3rd, sa.. a stag's head couped betw. three buglehorns or, stringed and garnished az., for THURSTON. Crest-A griffin's head couped or, betw. two wings az.

Short (Newton and Exeter, co. Devon; John Short, of Newton, aged 36, 1620, son of John Short, and grandson of
John SHORT, both of Exeter. Visit. Devon, 1620). Gu. a griffin segreant or, a chief erm.

Short (Bickham, co. Devon). Same Arms. Crest—A griffin's head or, betw. two wings az. each charged with an
estoile of the first.

Short (Edlington Grove, co. Lincoln). Sa... a griffin pass. ar.
on a chief of the last five erm. spots of the field. Crest—A griffin's head and neck, wings elevated sa.. collared erm.

Motto-Sinceritas.
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see also:

A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland

volume 2, pg 1092

Burke, Bernard, 1814-1892.

London, Harrison, 1858.