Crossword-Solution: CHEQUY 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 23

There he hung in triumph just within the front door, fluttering and swaying a little on his pins whenever a draught came in; and there stood Lawrence Frith, freshly aware of him, and unable to repress the exclamation, ‘I say! isn’t he a guy?’ ‘Sir Guy de Warrenne,’ began Emily composedly; ‘don’t you see his coat of arms? “chequy argent and azure.”’ ‘Does your brother keep him there to scare away the tramps?’ Emily’s countenance was a study.

His patronymic, FitzAlan, merged in Stewart (later Stuart), and the family cognizance, the _fesse chequy_ in azure and argent, represents the Board of Exchequer.

Only the eldest sons bore the Chevron chequy, the rest of the family bore the Beauchamp crosses crosslet.

The arms Thomas bore were Chequy or and azure, a chevron gules, which his ancestors assumed to show they held their lands from the Earls of Warwick, whose Chevron was Ermine on the like field.[381] The descendants of William of Rodburne,[382] the second son of Henry de Ardern, were more fortunate than their cousins.

Thomas married Lucia (6 John), and had Thomas de Arden of Hanwell, Sir Robert de Arderne de Draiton, and Ralph.[383] Thomas,[384] who bore as arms Ermine a fesse chequy, or and azure, as now borne, married Rose, daughter of Ralph de Vernon, with whom he obtained the lordship of Hanwell.