The following 291 arms are from the heralds' visitations of Cornwall of 1530, 1573, and 1620.
20 of the arms were either examples of quartered arms or had no field tincture listed. For the purposes of gathering statistical data, I have kept these 20 arms separated, and just considered the remaining 271 arms. A link to the complete list of the arms (alphabetical by blazon) can be found at the end of the article.
| Field tincture | Number | Percent |
| Argent | 110 | 40.6% |
| Sable | 43 | 15.9% |
| Gules | 34 | 12.5% |
| Or | 25 | 9.2% |
| Azure | 18 | 6.6% |
| Divided | 18 | 6.6% |
| Ermine | 14 | 5.2% |
| Vair | 2 | 0.7% |
| Vert | 1 | 0.4% |
| Erm.1 | 1 | 0.4% |
| Division | Number | Percent |
| Checky | 3 | 16.7% |
| Per pale [plain] | 3 | 16.7% |
| Paly of six | 2 | 11.1% |
| Per chevron | 2 | 11.1% |
| Per pale [complex] | 2 | 11.1% |
| Barry lozengy | 1 | 5.6% |
| Barry wavy | 1 | 5.6% |
| Bendy of six | 1 | 5.6% |
| Per fess [plain] | 1 | 5.6% |
| Per fess [complex] | 1 | 5.6% |
| Quarterly | 1 | 5.6% |
| Charge type | Number | Percent |
| Ordinary | 152 | 56% |
| Other | 54 | 20% |
| Beast | 33 | 12.2% |
| Bird/Bird part | 16 | 6% |
| None3 | 12 | 4.4% |
| Monster2 | 6 | 2.2% |
In this table, diminutives are grouped with their parent charges (e.g, bendlets with bends, bars with fesses, etc.)
| Charge type | Number | Percent |
| Chevron [plain] | 63 | 41.4% |
| Fess [plain] | 29 | 19% |
| Bend [plain] | 23 | 15.1% |
| Chevron [complex] | 9 | 5.9% |
| Fess [complex] | 6 | 3.9% |
| Saltire [plain] | 6 | 3.9% |
| Cross [complex] | 5 | 3.2% |
| Bend [complex] | 4 | 2.6% |
| Cross [plain] | 4 | 2.6% |
| Saltire [complex] | 2 | 1.3% |
| Pale [plain] | 1 | 0.7% |
| Tincture number | Number | Percent |
| Two | 144 | 53.1% |
| Three | 94 | 34.7% |
| Four | 25 | 9.2% |
| Five | 4 | 1.5% |
| One | 1 | 0.4% |
Raw data
List of quartered arms and arms without field tinctures
Notes
1 While 'erm.' usually abbreviates 'ermine' in this source, in this case, it abbreviatives 'ermines', e.g. 'counterermine', per Papworth.
2 There were examples of griffins, cockatrices, and sea dogs.
3 This category includes arms with no charges at all, and ones with peripheral ordinaries.
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