Shropshire's Punning Heraldry - Hunt

Hunt

Hunt of Goulstone

Arms: Argent, a stag's head cabossed Sable.

Hunt of Boreatton

Arms: quarterly; 1st & 4th, Argent, a stag's head cabossed Sable; 2nd, Gules, a hind, or fawn, trippant Argent between 3 bugles stringed Or; 3rd, Argent, on a pale Sable a shark's, or lucy's, head couped Or.

Crest 1: A talbot sejant Sable collared Or lined Azure the line tied to a halbert in pale Or headed Azure.

Crest 2: A hind, or fawn's head and neck Argent.

Crest 3: A shark, or lucy's head erect Or langued Gules.

(Visitations) 

The arms of Hunt of Boreatton.

There is more than one heraldic pun (or "cant") at play in these quartered arms; the whole achievement lends the impression that the family married more than one heraldic heiress from a hunting family. We have a visual pun that references the name of the bearer through its imagery. In this case, a stag, a hind and a lucy (pike, a predatory fresh water fish) are all hunted creatures, and it perfectly puns on the surname Hunt.