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Eales, Fish, Fry, Goujon, Haddock, Hake, Herring, Karp- 

 fen. Loach, Mackerel, Mullet, Pike, Roach, Seal, Shelley, 

 Smelt, Sprat, Sturgeon, Tench, Troutbeck, Whalley, Whiting, 

 and no doubt many others. A number more take their 

 cognisance from local names, such as Butt (flounder), 

 Chabot (miller's thumb). Dare (dace), Geddes and Lucy 

 (pike), Sparling (smelt), Tubbe (gurnard), Gobyon (gudgeon), 

 Cobbe (herring-fry), Garvine (garvie or sprat), and Carter 

 (carter-fish or sole) ; while very many others adopt as a 

 crest either some fish which bears a name of proximate 

 resemblance, as Bar (barbel), Sammes (salmon), Conghurst 

 (congers), Piketon (pike), Garling (gar-fish), Heringot 

 (herring), Tarbutt (turbot), Ellis or Elwis (eels) ; or else 

 one upon which, viore heraldico, they can pun or make a 

 joke, as the head of a bull for the Gurneys (a gurnard 

 being also called the " bull's head ") ; a fish-skeleton for 

 armorial bearings because an otter was the crest. The 

 Caters have a salmon because that fish was often the 

 " standard " of an entertainment that had been properly 

 catered for ; the Cheneys a burbot, or coney-fish, with a 

 rabbit ; the Dishingtons a scallop-shell, the pilgrim's dish. 

 The Lucy family has the pike's head, which is arrived at 

 in two ways : first as the head of the luce (the pike), and 

 second as the fleur-de-luce (the fleur-de-lis), which in its 

 shape is like the head of a halberd or pike. 



Another variety of the fish-crest (but still connected with 

 the name) is that in which any fish for which a particular 

 river happens to be famous, is adopted in the arms of 

 families who take their name from that river or an estate 

 upon it. For instance, Yarrell bears the ruffe which 

 abounds in the Yare ; Way (from Wey), a salmon ; Streat- 

 ley, an eel-spear, that place being noted for that form of 

 sport. The Broughams bear a pike, from the abundance 



