_Heraldic Query._--I should be greatly indebted to any of your
correspondents who will assist me in tracing the family to which the
following arms belong. Last century they were borne by a gentleman of the
name of Oakes: but I find no grant in the college, nor, in fact, can I
discover any British arms like them. Argent, a pale per pale or, and gules:
between two limbs of an oak fructed proper. On a chief barry of six of the
second and third; a rose between two leopards faces all of the last.