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| | Jewish Heraldry |
 | | A manuscript of 1383 shows the arms of Samuel, son of Doctor Samuel of Venice, per fess a lion issuant and a fess wavy. |
 | | Later peers include Rufus Isaacs (baron 1914, viscount 1916, marquis of Reading 1926), Samuel (viscount Bearsted in 1925), Herbert Samuel (viscount Samuel 1937), Montagu Samuel-Montagu (baron Swaythling in 1907), Jessel (baron Jessel in 1924), Mond (baron Melchett in 1928), Samuel (baron Mancroft in 1937), Nathan (baron Nathan in 1940), Silkin (baron Silkin in 1950). |
 | | Their coats of arms sometimes contain allusions to their origins: the supporters of lord Swaythling are "soldiers of ancient Judea", the crest of viscount Bearsted is "a dexter arm embowed proper grasping a battle-axe argent, the head charged with two triangles interlaced sable" (i.e., the star of David). |
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