Burke’s Encyclopaedia of Heraldry: Purves and Purvis Entries

Description

A single page from Encyclopaedia of Heraldry: Or General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, compiled by John Burke and his son Bernard Burke and published in London in 1844. The page contains brief heraldic entries for four related family lines: Purves of that Ilk, Purves of Scotland, Purvis of Darsham, and Purvis — recording the arms (and where given, the crests and mottoes) borne by each.
Burke's General Armory was the standard nineteenth-century reference for British family heraldry, drawing on grants registered with the College of Arms alongside earlier rolls and ordinaries. Its inclusion of the Purves and Purvis lines side by side reflects the long-recognised connection between the Scottish Purves families and the Purvis branches that established themselves in England, Darsham in Suffolk among them.