REPLY1850
The Arms of Godin
By J. R. C.
My attention has been drawn to a Query from Mr. KERSLEY, in page 439. of Vol. i., relative to the arms of Godin. I have seen these arms blazoned variously. Mr. Godin Shiffner bears them quarterly with his own coat of Shiffner, and blazons them thus:—*Party per fess, azure and gules, a barr or; in chief, a dexter and sinister hand grasping a cup, all proper*. I am inclined to think this is an innovation upon the original arms, as I have them painted on an old piece of china *azure, a cup or*. They are here impaled with the arms of Du Fon, an ancient French family that intermarried with the Godi…