Cheshire (Extinct)
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A garb bound with a motto band. I serve inscribed beneath CHESHIRE on a motto scroll CHESHIRE, all or.
It is an ancient badge and so far as anyone knows the wheatsheaf was borrowed from the arms of Ranulph de Blondeville, Earl of Chester (d. 1232) Ranulph's wheatsheaf may have been originally derived from the Roman military presence in Chester, the Roman device of a bundle of sticks tied round with a thong.
