Scrase Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Bletchington, co. Sussex; a very ancient family in that county, the eventual heiress of which, Sally, elder dau. of Charles Scrase, Esq., of Brighton, to. Anthony Dickinb, Prothonotary of the Common Pleas, and was grand¬mother of Charles Scrase Dickins, Esq., of Brighton). Az. a dolphin ar. fins gu. tail or, betw. three escallops of the last. Crest—A falcon, wings endorsed ppr. beaked, membered, and belled or, standing on the stock of a tree, round the last a snake entwined all ppr. This crest was granted in 1616 by Segar, Garter, by a patent which sets forth, that “Tuppin Scras, of Bletchington, in the county of Sussex, beareth for his coat armour, az. a dolphin ar. the fyns gu. and tayle gold betw. three escallops of the same, and was the sonne and heire of Richard, that was the sonnc of Edward, the sonne of Richard, who was the sonne and heire of Richard Scras, of Hamilton, in the county aforesaid, and styled