The key
One row for every element on the plate. The letter is the one written on the drawing — the heralds' short form of the colour. Touch a row and the plate shows you its element.
How sure the record is
candidate — the canonical coat of the surname, at Burke's General Armory 1884 p. 957 — Spurway of Spurway and Oakford in Devon, a family named from the manor it held, and a coat that puns on the name (a spur-rowel for Spurway). It is the surname's coat and not yet this family's: whether this line descends from the Devon house has not been looked at, and that begins with the family, not with a book
belief 0.15 · disbelief 0.15 · unsure 0.70 — the canonical Spurway coat is one family's, of the Devon place the surname comes from — whether this line descends from it has not been looked at, and that begins with the family
These arms are drawn, not painted: the record paints a coat only when it holds it as established. The colours in the key are what the painting would use, on whose word the key says.
Where the drawing comes from
Burke's General Armory 1884 p. 957 'Spurway (Spurway and Oakford, co. Devon)' (SRC-2026-070); the surname's canonical coat, NOT attached to this house
- garb — Graham Johnston, A Complete Guide to Heraldry (Fox-Davies, 1909) — 'Garb of Wheat (1)' · kept as SRC-2026-065
One coat as the register holds it on 2026-08-26: 4 elements, each with its tincture, its drawing register, and the rule-of-tincture verdict. The marshalling of any two houses onto one shield is the Table's work; the other plates are here.