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COLLECTED FROM THE HERALDS’ VISITATIONS, ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS, HERALDIC DICTIONARIES, CHURCH MONUMENTS, PERSONAL SEALS, AND OTHER TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES. BY H. SYDNEY GRAZEBROOK, Esq., Of the Inner Te^jipky Barj'ister-at-Law, Azithor of the '‘^Heraldry of S??iithf VoL. I. A— L. LONDON : JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. 1873- Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/heraldryofworces01graz }! (U. SUBSCRIBERS’ NAMES. Aldritt and Naunton, Messrs., Booksellers, Shrewsbury — t7vo copies. Allsopp, Henry, Esq., Hindlip Hall, Worcester. Amplett, John, Esq., Clent, five copies. Ashwin, W. H., Esq., Bretforton Manor, Evesham. Bailey, E. Wyndham Grevis, Esq., Ightham, Kent. Baker, Colonel James, Grosvenor House, London. Baker, Colonel Valentine, Army and Navy Club, London. . Baker, Slade, Esq., Sandbourne, Bewdley. Ball, Mr. Ephraim, Halesowen, Birmingham. ^ Barker, Rev. W. G., Eolkestone, Kent. Barneby-Lutley, J. H., Esq., Brockhampton, Worcester. >^arrows. Colonel, Hagley, Stourbridge. -^Bartlett, Rev. R., Rectory, Pershore. ^Batten, John, Esq., Aldon, Yeovil. Vo Beauchamp, Right Hon. Earl, Belgrave Square, London. ' Biggs, Rev. G. Hesketh, Eatington Vicarage, Stratford on Avon. 5 Birmingham Library, The, Union Street, Birmingham. ^Bourne, Robert, Esq., Grafton Manor, Bromsgrove — two copies. Bree, Rev. W., Allesley, Coventry. Bright, H. A., Esq., Ashfield, Knotty Ash, Lancashire. '^Brooks, B., Esq., The Uplands, Stourbridge. ' Brown, Charles G., Esq., Bilston, Wolverhampton. ^Bund, J. W. Willis, Esq., Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn, London. tj^ardale, John Bate, Esq., Albury, Guildford. t^Chattock, Christopher, Esq., Haye House, Castle Bromwich. Chattock, Richard Farmer, Esq., Holms Hill, Ridge, Herts. ^ Chester, Col. Joseph L., Bermondsey, London. ^ Clark, G. T., F.S.A., Dowlais House, Merthyr Tydvil. Clarke, E. F., Esq., Aldridge Lodge, Walsall. Collier, The late Vice-Admiral Sir Edward, K.C.B., Blockley. 4 Collis, Rev. John Day, D.D., Vicarage, Stratford on Avon. Colvile, General, Kempsey, Worcester. ^^WQombs, Mr. James, Bookseller, Worcester. IV SUBSCRIBERS^ NAMES. Cooke, W. H., Esq., The Green, Shellesley Kings, Worcester. Cooke, W. H., Esq., Q.C., Wimpole Street, London. Cookes, Rev. W. H., Astley Rectory, Stourport. Corbett, John, Esq., Stoke Grange, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove. Crane, Mrs. Henry, Oakhampton, Stourport. Creeke, Edmund, Esq., Jun., Steeple Aston, Oxon. Culleton, Mr. Thomas, Heraldic Office, Cranbourne Street, London. Curtler, Thomas Gale, Esq., Bevere House, Worcester. Dowdeswell, William, Esq., Pull Court, Tewkesbury. Downing, Mr. W., Bookseller, Birmingham. Edmonds, Mr. Charles, Bookseller, Birmingham. Essington, W. Essington, Esq., Ribbesford House, Bewdley. Eyton, T. C., Esq., Eyton Hall, Wellington, Salop. Fetherston, John, Esq., F.S.A., Warwick. Fetherstonhaugh, Alexander Stephenson, Esq., Hopton Court, Worcester. Forrest, Rev. T. G., Sutton Cheyney, Hinckley. Fox, Edward Charlton, Esq., M.D., Redditch. Freer, Richard L., Esq., Stourbridge. Freer, Alfred, Esq., Stourbridge. Freer, Henry, Esq., Oakfield, Wordsley, Stourbridge. Garmstone, Miss, Grimley, Worcester. Grazebrook, Michael Phillips, Esq., Holly Grove, Hagley. Grazebrook, John Phillips, Esq., The Court, Hagley. Grazebrook, Henry, Esq., Clent Grove, Clent, Stourbridge. Grazebrook, George, Esq., Jun., F.S.A., Liverpool. Griffin, Mr. John, Oldswinford, Stourbridge. Griffith, Mr. George, Severn Cottage, Bewdley. Guest, John, Esq., The Warren, Moseley, Birmingham. Hanbury, W. Allen, Esq., Clapham Common, S.W. Haslewood, Rev. Francis, Benenden, Staplehurst, Kent. Haslewood, Rev. T. G. St. Lawrence, Ramsgate, Kent. Hickman, Rev. Richard, Rectory, Birdingbury, Rugby. Hickman, Henry T., Esq., Hampton Lodge, Stourton, Stourbridge — three copies. Hill, Thomas Rowley, Esq., St. Catherine’s Hill, Worcester. Holcroft, James, Esq., Norton, Stourbridge. Holden, Hyla, Esq., Lark Hill, Worcester. Holland, Francis, Esq., Alvington Villa, Cheltenham. Homfray, Alfred, Esq., Longhurst, Wigan. Homfray, David, Esq., Port Madoc, Carmarthenshire. Homfray, George, Esq., Thistlebury, Newcastle under Lyne. Homfray, Henry, Esq., Broad waters House, Kidderminster. Flomfray, Jeston, Esq., Coleman Hill, Halesowen. Hornyold, J. V., Esq., Blackmore Park, Upton on Severn. Jones, Morris Charles, Esq., F.S.A., Grungrog, Welshpool. ' SUBSCRIBERS^ NAMES. V Knight, F. W., Esq., M.P., Wolverley House, Kidderminster. Lane, Thomas, Esq., Moundsley Hall, Kings Norton. Laslett, William, Esq., M.P., Abberton Hall, Pershore. Lea, Rev. W., St. Peter’s Vicarage, Droitwich. Lechmere, Sir E. A. H., Bart., Rhydd Court, Upton on Severn. Lloyd, Sampson, Esq., Wassell Grove, Hagley, Stourbridge. Lyttelton, Right Hon. Lord, Hagley Park, Stourbridge. Marshall, George W., Esq., F.S.A., Hanley Court, Tenbury. Nash, James, Esq., M.D., The Noak, Hartley, Worcester. Noel, Charles, Esq., Bell Hall, Belbroughton. Noel, Charles Perrott, Esq., Bell Hall, Belbroughton. Norfolk Antiquary, A. Northwick, Right Hon. Lord, Burford House, Tenbury. Onley, J. Deakin, Esq., Bransford, Worcester. Onley, Edward John, Esq., Bransford, Worcester. Pakington, Rt. Hon. Sir John, Bart, G.C.B., M.P., Eaton Square, London. Pakington, J. S., Esq., King’s End, Worcester. Parker, John, Esq., Woodside, Worcester. Pidcock, Charles, Esq., Broad was Court, Worcester. Porter, Miss, Birlingham, Pershore. Potts, The late George, Esq., Broseley, Salop. Prattenton, Rev. G. D. O., Bransford, Worcester. Rea, James P., Esq., Rupert House, Lower Wick, Worcester. Roberts, C. H. Crompton, Esq., Belgrave Square, London. Robinson, Rev. C. J., Norton Canon Vicarage, Weobly. Rogers, Henry, Esq., Hagley Lodge, Hagley — three copies. Rylands, J. Paul, Esq., F.S.A., Highfields, Thelwall, Cheshire. St. Aubyn, John, Esq., 68th Light Infantry, Templemore, Ireland. St. Paul, Sir Horace, Bart., The Ellowes, Dudley — two copies. Sandford, Rev. George, Eldon Vicarage, Sheffield. Sandford, Humphrey, Esq., The Isle, Shrewsbury. Sandys, Myles, Esq., St James’s Square, London. Saunders, Henry, Sen., Esq., Kidderminster. Scobell, The late Col. H. S., The Abbey, Pershore. Scott, Rev. F. T., Vicar of Shepherd swell and Coldred, Kent. Shirley, Evelyn Phillip, Esq., Lower Eatington Park, Stratford on Avon — tivo copies. Shrewsbury and Talbot, Right Hon. the Earl of, Ingestrie Flail, Stafford. Shurt, Rev. Theodore, M.A., Beauchamp Walk, Leamington. Smith, Ferdinando Dudley Lea, Esq., Halesowen Grange, near Birmingham. Smith, W. Lea, Esq., Britannia Square, Worcester. Smythe, Rev. Henry Ralph, Beckbury Rectory, Salop. Southern, Francis Richard, Esq., Ludlow. Sparrow, Arthur, Esq., Preen Manor, Shrewsbury. VI SUBSCRIBERS’ NAMES. Stamford and Warrington, Right Hon. the Earl of, Enville Hall, Stourbridge. Sturgeon, Wentworth, Esq., King’s Bench Walk, Temple. Symonds, Rev. W. S., Pendock Rectory, Tewkesbury. Thoms, Rev. W., Ivy Gate, Worcester. Tritton, J. Herbert, Esq., Lombard Street, London. Turner, Rev. Reginald Pyndar, Churchill Rectory, Kidderminster. Tyssen, John Robert Daniel, Esq., Brighton. Valentine, J. Sutherland, Esq., C. E., Park Street, Westminster. Wadley, Rev. T. P., M.A., Bidford, Warwickshire. Walker, George James Alexander, Esq., Norton, Worcester. Walker, J. Severn, Esq., Stuarts Lodge, Malvern. Watkins, J. Gregory, Esq., Woodfield, Ombersley — two copies. Webb, Colonel Thomas, The Berrow, Ledbury. Webb, Charles, Esq., Dennis Hall, Stourbridge. Weir, Archibald, Esq., St. Munghoe’s, Malvern. Wight, Cathcart Boycott, Esq. (of Ormiston), Rudge Hall, Salop. Whlliams, Charles, Esq., Greenfield, Kingswinford. Willis, Henry, Esq., Pitmaston, Worcester. Willis, John Walpole, Esq., Wick House, Wick Episcopi. Wilson, J. WTi taker, Esq., Caldewell, Pershore. Winn, Charles, Esq., Nostell Priory, Wakefield. Winnington, The late Sir Thomas E., Bart., Stanford Court, Worcester. Wood, Joseph, Esq., Lansdowne Villa, Worcester. Woodward, Robert, Esq., Arley Castle, Bewdley. Woof, Richard, Esq., F.S.A., Worcester. Yorkshire Antiquary, A. ADVE RTI SE M ENT. The author begs respectfully to remind those who may con- sult this work, that he does not profess to have compiled a complete and exhaustive Heraldic Dictionary of all the past and present armigerous families of Worcestershire ; for, to use the language of one of his predecessors,’*' “there are doubtless many others in the said county that are of ancestry, the which are not yet come to his knowledge and acquaint- ance.” For these his sins of omission he must crave the reader’s indulgence ; but he thinks it fight to state that some few of them have been occasioned by the silence of those to whom, after exhausting every available source of information, he ad- dressed letters of enquiry. And not being armed with the potent authority enjoyed by the Heralds of old, he could only ask as a favour what those officers demanded as a right. There is another matter which seems to require a few words of explanation. Inasmuch as the Author has not confined his attention exclusively to the sealed families, — the owners of estates in * ‘‘ J. H.,’’ the author of the Winniugton Manuscript. VI AD VERTISEMENT. the county — it may be asked what in his opinion constitutes a Worcestershire family ? To answer this question fully would be a matter of some difficulty ; but he has in a great measure followed the plan adopted by the Heralds in their periodical visitations of their provinces ; and there will consequently be found in this work heraldic notices of several families and persons who, though not indigenous in Worcestershire, have either by residence, or by filling some important public office, identified themselves with the interests of the county and thereby established a local claim. The Author avails himself of this conspicuous place to return his warmest thanks to the many kind friends who have encouraged and assisted him in this undertaking. More especially does he desire to record his many obligations to the late Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, bart., who took the kindliest interest in his labours, and afforded him on several occasions the most valuable assistance and advice. He is also greatly indebted to the late Thomas William King, York Herald, to Sir Albert W. Woods, Garter King of Arms, to Richard Woof, F.S. A., of Worcester, and to the Rev. T. P. Wadley, M.A., of Bidford, Warwickshire. CONTENTS r-AGE ADVERTISEMENT ....... V INTRODUCTION ....... ix ABBREVIATIONS ....... Iv DICTIONARY ........ I ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA ...... 665 APPENDIX I. THE PENN MANUSCRIPT ..... 679 II. LIST OF SHERIFFS OF WORCESTERSHIRE FROM 1760 TO 1873 689 III. LIST OF FAMILIES WHOSE PEDIGREES AND ARMS WERE RECORDED AT THE SUCCESSIVE HERALDIC VISITATIONS . 692 IV. DISCLAIMERS AT THE VISITATION OF 1 634 . . . 698 V. DISCLAIMERS AT THE VISITATION OF 1 682-3 . . . 702 VI. FINES FOR EXONERATION FROM KNIGHTHOOD AT THE CORONATION OF CHARLES I. . . . . 705 VII. LIST OF THOSE GENTRY THAT ARE TO FIND HORSE IN WORCESTERSHIRE . . . . . . 7 1 2 VIII. WORCESTER ROYALISTS WHO COMPOUNDED FOR THEIR ESTATES . . . . . . .715 IX. ROYAL OAK KNIGHTS . . . . . . 717 X. CATALOGUE OF GENTLE FAMILIES IN WORCESTERSHIRE, A.D. 1660 ....... 718 XL ROMAN CATHOLICS, ETC., WHO REFUSED TO TAKE THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO KING GEORGE I. . . 72I XII. WORCESTERSHIRE LANDOWNERS IN I 703 “ 4 , WITH ludcX loCOriim ' 726 ERRATUM. INTRODUCTION. “ The fashion of armorial bearings” (says a writer in the Quarterly Review"^') “ is one which some may be surprised to find still maintaining itself, in spite of the Utilitarians. It would seem, at first view, a task of difficulty to account for its resistance to that ' reforming spirit of the age,’ which an- nounces such a philosophical scorn for hereditary honours of all kinds. For in truth, besides its apparent ‘inutility,’ the noble science of blazon, with its quaint language and strange symbols — the chiefs, pales, bends, fesses, chevrons, saltires, and so forth — is such an unknown tongue to the million, nay even to the thousands who inscribe these hieroglyphs on their equipages, that it is really almost a matter of marvel how so antiquated, and, with our present habits, incongruous a prac- tice, should not long since have gone out of use, with the jousts and tournaments of the age of chivalry, to which it appropriately belonged ; whereas on the contrary, it has not, that we are aware of, been in the least degree relaxed. Vol. Ivi., p. b X THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. “ It is a strong example of the tenacity of associations once generally adopted. And so enduring is a notion which has once rooted itself in the mind of a people, that even now, though centuries have elapsed since the armour of chivalry was consigned to the museums of the curious, no one who lays claim to gentility, would like to be supposed deficient in his due attributes of crest, shield, and motto.” In these matter-of-fact days men occupy themselves in matters of more vital importance, and though few really de- spise Heraldry, many are apt to look upon it as trivial and fanciful ; and are disposed to regard as childish pageantry what is in fact the distinctive mark of gentle birth. To those, however, who, with a veneration for the actions and events of a by -gone age, devote themselves to historical research, and consume their midnight oil in poring over the records of the past. Heraldry has ever been a fascinating study ; and a knowledge of Armory has been considered by many eminent authors a most efficient aid to the study of our national antiquities. And not only have many his- toric writers derived material assistance from Heraldry, but instances are not wanting in which families have recovered estates by virtue of preserving the armorial escutcheons of their ancestors. Heraldry is daily becoming more popular. It is no longer regarded as the “ science of fools,” still it does not hold the same honourable place in men’s estimation as formerly, when a knowledge of it was deemed (according to Peacham), an INTRODUCTION. XI essential part of a gentleman’s education ; and when, as Die Vernon says, “even my uncle sometimes reads Gzvillim oi winter’s night,” and the armorial shields of county families were as familiar to their brother ’squires as their very surnames. We do not here propose to enter upon the vexed question as to the date of the introduction into European society of hereditary family devices. The old armorists referred them to the most remote period. Gerard Legh, an Elizabethan writer, blazons you the arms of “ Duke” Joshua, Hector of Troy, Alexander the Great, &c., &c. Freron maintains that a Jig leaf was borne for arms by Adam after the fall ; and Sylvanus Morgan assures us that to this was added, Argent, an apple vert^ in right of Eve, because she was an heiress ; whilst a still more daring writer affirms that “ Criste was a gentylman,” and duly entitled to bear arms ! On the other hand, modern writers, with some few exceptions, deny the existence of Armory until late in the 12th century; although it is generally allowed that its origin is to be found in the symbols depicted on the bucklers, and placed on the casques of the warriors of antiquity. Nazi nostrum tantas comp oner e lites, but it is not difficult to conceive how such symbols ultimately became hereditary, for a son would very naturally adopt that familiar and cherished cognizance which had on the paternal helm or scutcheon carried terror and devastation into the ranks of the foe, and so proclaim himself the worthy son of a valiant father. In the infancy of Heraldry, armorial ensigns were assumable b 2 XU THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. at will, the only condition being that the bearer should be of gentle degree, and that the insignia so assumed should not be identical with those borne by any other person or family. So recently as the 15th century Dame Juliana Berners boldly declares that “ Armys bi a manny’s auctoritie taken (if an other man have not borne theym afore), be of strength enoch.”*'' There exists a most interesting record of a cause which took place in the year 1385, from which much valuable information on this point may be derived. This cause, which was brought in the Court of Honour, or Earl Marshal’s Court, was concerning the right to bear a be 7 id or ; the plaintiff being Sir Richard Scrope, and the defendant Sir Robert Grosvenor. We gather from the recorded proceedings, that arms had then long been considered hereditary, indeed one of the witnesses, the Abbot of Vale Royal, asserted that Grosvenor’s ancestor accompanied the Conqueror to England, “ armed in these arms,” whilst numerous witnesses on the part of the plaintiff spoke to the fact of Scrope’s ancestors having also used the coat several generations back. But no evidence was on either side adduced as to the right of the first bearer to assume the arms ; no grant from any properly constituted authority was cited ; but it seems to have been tacitly agreed that the assumption in the first instance was perfectly legal, and the only ground of complaint was that the same were used by two distinct * The ‘‘ Boke of St. Albans,” printed in i486. INTRODUCTION. Xlll families ; and the question was which had, from length of usage, the better right to bear them. The decision was ad- verse to Grosvenor, and he then took for his bearing the golden garb,^ which still adorns the escutcheon of his noble descendant, the Marquis of Westminster ; though, as has been remarked by a recent writer, the forbidden bend shines frequently and conspicuously in the storied panes of Eaton Hall. Not only were arms in these early days thus assumable at will, but when once assumed, they were looked upon as free- hold property, and might be devised by will, or alienated by deed. This manner of granting arms was frequent. Burton, the Leicestershire Antiquary, mentions several examples,! as that of Thomas Grendall, of Fenton, in Huntingdonshire, who, in the 15 th of Richard 1 1., gave unto Sir William Moigne, knt, his “ whole arms,” to hold to him and his heirs for ever ; Thomas de Heronville, by deed dated at Westbromwich, in Staffordshire, the 41 st of Edward HI., granted his escutcheon of arms to Robert de Wyrley ; and John Domville, of Cheshire, granted in a similar manner his arms to Thomas de Holes, in the 6 th of Richard 1 1. The modern custom of devising an estate to a son-in-law, a collateral relation, or an alien in blood, provided that the surname and arms of the testator be assumed * Derived from the shield of the Earls of Chester, it having been admitted at the trial that Grosvenor was descended from a nephew of Hugh Lupus, Earl Palatine of that county. t See Nichols’s Leicestershire^ iv., 963*. XIV THE HEE ALEEV OE WOECESTEESHIEE. by the devisee, seems to be a relic of this practice, though of course it is now necessary that such arms should be confirmed or exemplified to the person so assuming them by the Kings of Arms. The first check to the voluntary assumption of arms seems to have been a proclamation of King Henry V., dated June 2nd, 1417, to the effect that no man, of what estate, degree, or condition soever, should assume arms unless he held them by right of inheritance, or by the donation of some person who had sufficient power to give them ; and that all persons should make it appear to officers, to be appointed by the said king for that purpose, by whose gift they enjoyed such arms as they respectively bore, excepting those who had borne arms with the king at the Battle of Agincourt.^' This exception has been construed by some as authorising the assumption of Armorial bearings by any person who had participated in that decisive victory. Shakespeare adopts this view of the subject, for he makes Henry exclaim : % “ He to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother : be he ne’er so vile This day shall gentle his condition.”^ But the simple meaning of the exception is that those knights, “ Exceptis illis qiii nobiscum apud bellum de Agincourt anna portabant.” A copy of the writ, extracted from the Close Roll of the 5th of Henry V., m. 5. is printed in Grimaldi’s Origines Genealogies, p. 84. See also Edmondson, IntrodHctio 7 i^ p. 158, and Nicolas’s Battle of Agincourt, 3rd edit., p. 170. INTRODUCTION. XV esquires, and gentlemen who had used emblazoned surcoats, shields, or banners, at Agincourt, were, in consideration of their eminent services on that occasion, exempted from proving their respective rights thereto ; thus making the circum- stance of their having then used them, a sufficient title for their being continued. This proclamation did not entirely check the assumption against which it was aimed, and it was not until the establish- ment of the College of Arms, by King Richard III., nearly seventy years later (a° 1485), that armorial affairs were pro- perly regulated. The Heralds were then invested with full powers of sum- moning offenders to the Earl Marshal’s Court, and they were also empowered to grant armorial bearings to persons of newly acquired consequence. This latter privilege, says Dallaway,^ was exercised with discrimination ; and we find arms, which had hitherto been considered war-like symbols, now looked upon as the distinguishing marks of gentility, and the ambition to be heraldically distinguished, descended even- tually to all who had any pretensions to gentle blood. For as the great influx of wealth through commerce elevated men of mean birth into the ranks of gentility, it was necessary that they should bear arms to support their pretensions. The first notice of the exercise by a Herald of this power to grant arms is^^y James Hedingley, Guyen King of Arms, * Inquiries into the origin and p 7 'ogress of Heraldry in England^ by the Rev. James Dallaway, A.M., 4to., 1793. XVI THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. in a grant to Peter Badge, gent, dated as early as 1306, more than a century and a half before the establishment of the Heralds’ College ; but this grant, which is given in extenso by Dallaway, is generally believed to be spurious. Dallaway adds that he has “ transcribed it as a curiosity, rather them deciding upon its authenticity as an imposture.”* It is, I presume, needless to add that the practice of grant- ing arms is still in vogue ; indeed it is by this means alone that a new family can legitimately acquire a coat of arms. The modns operandi is thus set forth by Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms. “ The applicant for a grant of arms may employ any member he pleases of the College of Arms, and through him present a memorial to the Earl Marshal, setting forth that he, the memorialist, is not entitled to arms, or cannot prove his right to such ; and praying that his Grace will issue his warrant to the Kings of Arms, authorising them to grant and confirm to him* due and proper armorial en- signs, to be borne according to the laws of Heraldry by him and his descendants (or the descendants of his father, &c., &c.). This memorial is presented, and a warrant is issued by the Earl Marshal, under which a patent is made out, exhibiting in the corner a painting of the armorial ensigns granted, and describing in official terms the proceedings that have taken * Dallaway, p. 89. Some further observations upon this alleged grant will be found in the Herald and Ge?iealogist, vol. i., p. 515. Another early grant to one Alan Trowte, dated 1376, is given in the Appendix to Lower’s Cwiosities of Heraldry. See also the name Andrews in the present work. INTR OD UCTION. XVI i place, and a correct blazon of the arms. This patent is registered in the books of the Heralds’ College, and receives the signatures of the Garter, and one of the provincial Kings of Arms.”^ Coke in commenting upon Sec. 3 1 of Littleton, in which the latter lays down the law requiring the words of procrea- tion to make an estate tail, says, “This rule extendeth but to lands or tenements, and not to the inheritance which noblemen and gentlemen have in their armories or arms.” A grant of arms is made to a man and his heirs male ; this gives him a fee simple of that particular species which is peculiar to arms, that is to say to him and his heirs male equally and alto- gether, and to his female descendants in a qualified manner, i.e., for life, to bear the arms in a lozenge, or impaled with their husbands’ arms, or if they be heiresses or co-heiresses, on an escutcheon of pretence upon their husbands’ shield ; and in this last case their descendants inherit such maternal arms, but only as a quartering. It therefore follows that to be properly entitled to armorial bearings, a person must be descended in the male line from the first grantee, or from some person to whom and to whose issue such arms may have been limited in the instrument by which they were granted. And no person can legally use the coat armour of his maternal ancestor, even though he be tlie * Contributed to Mr. Timbs’s Things not Genei'ally Known. The fees on a Grant in England amount to ^76 10s. In Ireland a Grant costs ^£^0, and a Confirmation ;£io. c XVlll THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. sole representative of such ancestor ; but he may quarter such arms with his paternal coat if he be an armiger. When, however, a person can prove a male descent from some family or individual to whom arms have been allowed at a Visitation (of which anon), such person is duly entitled to bear such arms. The royal proclamation, before noticed, and the establish- ment of the Heralds’ College having been alike ineffectual to prevent the abuses and irregularities which had crept into all matters appertaining to descents and arms, it was determined to take vigorous measures to reform them. Circuits of the Heralds, called Visitations, were accordingly instituted, and a commission under the great seal of England was issued in the 20th of Henry VHI. (1528-9) to Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms, empowering him to visit^ his province as often as he should deem it necessary, and to convene and call before him, or his deputy, at such time and place as he should appoint, “ all persons that do or pretend to bear arms, or are styled esq^dres or gentleme 7 ii' and to require them to “ pro- duce and shew forth by what authority they do challenge and claim the same.” Power was also given him to enter all houses, castles, and ^ The counties visited by Benolte under this commission were Gloucester- shire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, and Staffordshire. The pedigrees recorded on this occasion are all contained in one volume, marked H. 20, in the College of Arms ; and in consequence of the descents being thus inter- mingled, it is in some instances difficult to assign a county to a particular family. INTR OD UCTION. XIX churches, and to peruse and survey all arms and other devices of all persons within his province authorised to bear any such arms ; and he was enjoined to enter on record notes of their descents, marriages, and issues, in a register book. The un- lawful assumption of arms was treated with extreme rigour. Full power was conferred upon the Heralds to pull down or deface all such arms, “ whether in plate, jewels, paper, parch- ment, windows, tombs, or monuments,” and to “ make infamous by proclamation,” to be made at the Assizes or general Sessions, or elsewhere, all offenders. In pursuance of such commission, the King of Arms issued a warrant directed to the High Constable of the Hundred, or to the Mayor or chief officer of the place where he intended to hold his Visitation, commanding him to warn the several knights, esquires, and gentlemen within his jurisdiction to appear before him at the house and on the day specified in the warrant, and to bring with them their escutcheons and pedigrees, with such evidences and writings as might justify the same, in order to their being registered. ^ If the parties summoned neglected to appear, such neglect was deemed a contempt of the commission, and they were cited before the Earl Marshal to answer for the same. Such persons as had usurped titles or dignities, or had used arms which did not belong to them, were obliged under their own hands to dis- claim all pretence thereto,^ and for their presumption in ^ Lists of the disclaimers at the two Worcestershire Visitations taken in C 2 XX THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. having publicly used such titles or arms without any right, were degraded by proclamation made by the common crier in the market town nearest to their usual places of abode. ^ If any person summoned on these occasions was not legally entitled to arms, the visiting heralds granted a coat, if desired, and received fees proportioned to the rank of the grantee, f Thus a Bishop paid £io \ a Dean 13s. 4.6., ; a gentleman of 100 marks per annum in land, £6 13s. 4d. ; and a gentle- man of inferior revenue, £6. It frequently happened, says Berry that persons who deemed themselves esqtnres or ge^itlemen^ were, from removal, unable to have their escutcheons or attested pedigrees ready to produce to the provincial king, at the time of the Visitation of the particular place in which they were then resident ; in which case such persons were permitted to enter themselves, and as many generations upwards as they could clear, together with such arms as they then used ; which done, a note was entered of the admittance of their claim, or title being respited, till proofs should be brought ; and they were enjoined to pro- 1634 and 1682-3, 3.re given in the Appendix. There is no such list in the Visitation Book of 1569. It is to be observed, with regard to these lists, that it does not necessarily follow that all the persons whose names appear therein were reqtiired to disclaim. Some persons who were summoned to appear, though of gentle position, were ignobiles ” by birth, and therefore, using no arms, had no alternative but to disclaim. Others objected to the expense. '* Edmondson, i. 160, et seq. t Lower, p. 277. ;j; Encyclopcedia Heraldica, sub “ Visitation.’' INTRODUCTION, XXI duce at the Visitation next ensuing, the necessary vouchers, or copies of such of them as were entered in the registry of a former Visitation of the county from which they removed, authenticated upon oath made before a Master in Chancery. These Visitations were usually held once in every forty years or thereabouts ; on which occasions the provincial Kings of Arms, or their deputies, were attended throughout their circuits by a registrar, a draughtsman, and other officers and assistants. The register books kept during these progresses contain the pedigrees and arms of the nobility and gentry, signed by the heads of the respective families, and are of the highest value to the herald and genealogist. The original Visitation books are allowed to be good evidence of pedigree in a court of justice,^ and the principal hereditary arms of the kingdom are borne under their authority. The Heralds’ Visitations continued in full force for upwards of 150 years,! but when the powers of the Earl Marshal’s Court ceased, and the officers of arms could no longer enforce their commands, or punish delinquents, they fell into disuse, and these valuable sources of information were thereby removed. It is not pertinent to this work to enquire how far the * See Blackstone’s Commentaries^ iii., 97. t The last commission of Visitation (for the city of London), was issued to Sir Henry St. George, Clarenceux King of Arms in 1686. Some of the pedigrees registered under it are dated as late as 1704. See K. 9, in Coll. Arm. xxn THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. evidence afforded by these records is trustworthy — as has been already observed, they are admitted as evidence in a court of justice — or whether in all cases the arms allowed to families were unquestionably theirs, for I apprehend that when once officially allowed at a Visitation, whether upon insufficient grounds or otherwise^ a coat of arms became the lawful pro- perty of the family to which it was so allowed ; but with regard to those who disclaimed arms from indifference, or from inability to produce upon a particular occasion the necessary proof, the doctrine that such renunciation of all right to arms is binding on their posterity, though upheld by the Heralds’ College, appears to me unnecessarily harsh : for, as Dallaway very justly observes, it is very doubtful whether the single act of one representative of a family, which from time to time had borne arms, could virtually deprive all his descendants of that right. The Court of Chivalry, or Earl Marshal’s Court, (before which tribunal offenders against heraldic law were summoned to appear), had from abuses become a public grievance, and “ as obnoxious (says Dallaway) as the Star Chamber.” Its dissolution was proposed in Parliament by the Earl of Claren- don as early as 1640. He asserted, however, only its present abuse, and motives of a personal nature are assigned for his resentment.^ “ As it cannot imprison (says Blackstone), and as by the resolutions of the superior courts it is now confined * His near relative had been branded as a usurper of armorial distinctions by the Heralds in their Visitation in 1623. — Dallaway. INTR OD UCTION XXlll to SO narrow and restricted a jurisdiction, it has fallen into contempt and disuse.” It nevertheless lingered on till about the year 1737, when an action was brought against Sir John Blunt, of South Sea notoriety, for usurping the arms of the dis- tinguished family of Blount, of Sodington. But the whole business was imprudently begun, and unskilfully conducted ; the lawyers who were consulted laughed at it ; and although the court proceeded so far as to fine some of the parties, it was unable too carry its decision into effect and so the Blunt family carry to this day with impunity the time-honoured bearings of the Blounts, of Sodington. As late as the year 1 749, or thereabouts, an attempt was made by the College of Arms to assert its authority. John Warburton, Somerset Herald, who had published a map of London and Middlesex, in the margin of which the armorial bearings of the principal families of that city and county were engraved, was required by the then Deputy Earl Marshal to “ desist from taking in any subscriptions for arms, and from advertising or disposing of any maps, until the right of each person respectively to such arms was first proved to the satis- faction of one of the Kings of Arms.”! Forty years previously (a° 1 709), we find the members of the College complaining, * Lower (quoting Noble) p. 241. t Warburton thought proper, he tells us, to submit his proofs rather to the “ impartial publick,^’ than to “ the determination of a person so notoriously remarkable for knowing nothing at all about the matter.” His little book (Lojidon and Middlesex Illustrated) containing these proofs, was published in 1749. XXIV THE H EE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. in a petition to the Earl Marshal, that “ a set of illiterate mechanics ” had usurped their functions ; and that by the “erroneous practices” of these persons, and their “ doings in arms-painting,” these marks and distinctions of honour were “ prostituted to the use of mechanics and all sorts of plebeians that would give money for them, and brought into such dis- esteem, that they were looked upon as things of little value,” and it was submitted to his grace “ whether it might not be proper to revive an order of Henry, late Duke of Norfolk, and Earl Marshal, dated 21st June, 1684, requiring each of the Kings of Arms within their respective provinces, to pull down and deface all such atchievements, escutcheons, &c., as were or should be set up for any person or persons not having a right to the same.” The next and last effort made by the officers of arms, to- wards obtaining relief from the grievances under which they laboured was in 1737, when they petitioned the crown for a new charter. This petition is given inextensohy Edmondson, together with several affidavits of herald-painters in opposition ; for the officers of arms not only asked for a restitution of their ancient powers of punishing offenders, but also claimed the exclusive right of painting, engraving, &c., all arms and atchievements ; and as this right would bring them consider- able emoluments, it was obstinately insisted upon, and as strenuously opposed ; for had it been conceded to them, those only whom they chose to employ could have pursued their callings as herald-painters and engravers, and thus a consider- INTRODUCTION, XXV able number of artisans would have been deprived of the profits of their own skill. From these affidavits, the object of which was to shew that herald-painters had for a considerable time exercised their callings without molestation, or that if interfered with, any proceedings taken against them by the officers of arms had failed, we learn some curious particulars concerning the exist- ence in those days of what are now ambitiously designated “ Heraldic Offices.” William Shiers, a painter-stainer, deposes that he and one Stephen Peters, an arms-painter, were sum- moned before Sir Philip Yorke, the then Attorney General, to shew cause why an information should not be filed against them for establishing an office called “ The Old Office of Arms Painting,” and for taking upon themselves to perform several matters relating to Arms and Heraldry, without lawful authority; but, it is added, “the prosecution dropped.” It further appears that Shiers had formerly kept an office for painting arms in Dean’s Court, St. Paul’s Churchyard, “ which said office hath been an office for painting of arms almost fifty years, and was first erected by Thomas Penson, Arms-painter, and afterwards kept by one James Coates, Arms-painter, and IS now (1738) kept by one George Strong,” none of which persons had ever been interrupted or disturbed by the College of Arms, or by any person or persons whatsoever. *''* To the petition of the College a deliberate negative was given, and * Several documents relating to disputes between the College of Arms and the Painter-stainers, will be found in the Harl. MS. 1099. d XXVI THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. since then no further attempt has been made by the officers to obtain a restitution of their lost authority. In the second volume of the Herald and Genealogist, there is a learned article on “ The Laws of Inheritance as applied to Arms,” in which it is suggested that the Court of Chancery might interfere by injunction to restrain a wrongful usurpation of arms, in the same way as it interdicts the invasion of a trade mark, &c. : for that court appears to have exercised a sort of superintendence over the Court of Chivalry in its latter days. But the fact that no precedent of such a decree could be pro- duced, might prove a serious obstacle in the way of obtaining relief. Since that article was published, the Court of Chancery by the mouth of Vice-Chancellor Wood (now Lord Hatherley) has affirmed, in direct opposition to the recognized laws of arms, that armorial devices used for a certain period, however acquired in the first instance, are the bona fide property of the bearer, and the Vice-Chancellor emphatically declared that nine tenths of the armigeri of this country could show no better title 1 While to mark his sense of the frivolity of the plain- tift’s plea — that “ he had searched the records of the College of Arms, and failed to find any such device recorded to the defendant’s name,”- — although he granted the injunction prayed for, he disallowed the plaintiff the costs of his first affidavit, which asserted this charge of fraud as to the use of a certain crest by the defendant. The case was one in which the defendant had used the trade mark of the plaintiff (an eagle), and alleged in his defence that he was justly entitled to mark INTRODUCTION. XXV 11 his goods with that device (notwithstanding that it was also the plaintiff’s trade mark), because it was his family crest. In Scotland, the Lyon King of Arms still has power to restrain armorial usurpations, and has recently exercised it.^ In Ireland, too, before the Union, some such power was pos- sessed by the Ulster King of Arms, for we read that on the 6th of February, 1758, “ it was ordered by the Lords spiritual and temporal in the Parliament of Ireland assembled, that the King of Arms attended by his proper officers, do blot out and deface all ensigns of honour borne by such persons as have no legal title thereto, upon their carriages, plate, and furniture, and to make regular returns of these proceedings to the clerk of Parliament.”! * In Blackwood’s Magazine for June, 1865, are some very amusing lines, “ How to make a Pedigree,” from which we extract the following : — But I’ll give you here a hint. Your ambitious views to stint, There’s a limit that a wise man will not pass ; You may safely vaunt and vapour While its only done on paper, But you’d better keep from panel and from glass. For if there you lay a brush. It may put you to the blush. Should the Lyon at your ’scutcheon make a dash ; If your arms so well devised. Are not ‘ duly authorised,’ All your quarters may some morning get a smash.” * The remonstrance of the Lord Lyon caused a number of fictitious coats to be removed, which had appeared in the windows erected in Glasgow cathedral. t Annual Register for 1758, p. 82. d — 2 xxviii THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Warburton, in the preface to his London and Middlesex Illitstrated, strongly advocates the revival of the Heralds’ Visitations. “ It is no wonder (he says) that so many at this time are necessitated to apply for grants of new arms, as the difficulty in joining themselves to their old family stock, through the want of Visitations, often proves more expensive to them.”^ “ I mention this the more particularly (he con- tinues), to show the absolute necessity there now is for a revival of Visitations of counties by the Heralds, as of old, an affair indeed worthy of the legislature’s regard, as the rights of inheritance to all estates are more or less affected by it. And this want is at present so great in many counties, that notwithstanding a person’s right may be ever so good to the coat-armour of his ancestors, it is not possible to make the same appear to the satisfaction of any law or other judicial court by the register books in the Heralds’ Office. In a few years more, if some speedy expedient is not found out to pre- vent it, time will terminate all proofs to family arms and pedi- grees, and also bury in oblivion the births, marriages, issues, and deaths of all distinguished families in the kingdom.” Of course the revival of an “ Institution ” so incongruous with modern notions and habits, is not to be seriously enter- tained ; and so long as Peerages, Baronetages, Landed Gentries, * Warburton informs us that the expense of a grant of new, or a confirma- tion of old arms was then ;£‘3o. “ For (he says) no less than two signers and sealers will serve their (the Kings of Arms) turn ; though heretofore one was allowed to be sufficient, and his fee but LSy sometimes less.” INTR OD UCTION. XXIX County Families y &c., &c., continue to be periodically pub- lished, there is little chance of the old herald’s fears being realized. Still there is much that is true in his remarks, and although the College of Arms still receives and registers genealogies, comparatively few persons avail themselves of the privilege. Those genealogies, however, which are thus registered, are thorotighly trustworthy, for it is in all cases necessary to prove every descent before the College will enter a pedigree on its books. It is much to be regretted that there is not even a compulsory official record of the genealogies of titled families. Several baronetcies are very doubtftd, for as there is no tribunal at which claims to this dignity may be sifted, a person whose name is identical with that of some one upon whom a baronetcy has been conferred, may almost dub himself “Sir” with impunity. From 1767 until the commencement of the present century, there existed an official record of the descents of Peers. The Garter King of Arms was required to attend the House officially upon the admission of every Peer, whether by creation or descent, and deliver a pedigree of the family of such Peer “ fairly described on vellum,” and such pedigree, after having been examined by the Committee for Privileges, and verified with the proofs, was filed by the clerk and kept (together with the proofs), among the records of the House, and an authentic copy thereof registered in the College of Arms. Lord Thurlow procured the rescinding of this very useful order, with the intention (it is said) of proposing a new XXX THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. one, which was never accomplished. The last entry in these noble registers is the blazon of the arms of Lord Redesdale, who was created a Peer in 1802.^ There is now no record of the families of Peers save in the fleeting Peerages of the day, and as the editors of such works admit pedigrees on the ipse dixit of the contributor, without demanding any kind of proof, some of them are by no means trustworthy.! With more especial reference to Warburton’s remark touching the difficulty of proving a right to a coat of arms, it is to be observed that now-a-days this difficulty is increased tenfold. Numerous families bear arms to which they can shew no title save length of possession ; and though, as War- burton says, their right may be “ ever so good,” it is scarcely possible “ to make the same appear.” Many are indifferent to such matters ; they display the arms used by their fathers * Grimaldi, Origines Ge 7 iealogicce, p. 259 ; Sims, Genealogist's Manual, p. 177. t The pedigree of Lord Brougham, for example, will not bear a very close examination. Doubtful Pedigrees ” indeed abound in several modern genealogical publications. The extraordinary pretensions to extreme antiquity of the family of Coulthart have been fearlessly exposed in a little book pub- lished in 1865, at Edinburgh, called “Popular Genealogists, or the Art of Pedigree Making.” The author of that book declares that the immense ma- jority of the pedigrees in Burke’s Landed Gentry cannot be characterized as otherwise than utterly worthless. “ Families (he says) of notoriously obscure origin, have their veins filled with the blood of generations of royal personages of the ancient and mythical world. There are not a few minute circumstantial genealogies, of soi-disant old and distinguished families, with high-sounding titles, which families can be proved by documentary evidence never to have had a corporeal existence.” INTRODUCTION. XXXI or grandfathers, and are unable to give any further account of them ; and whether they were in the first instance officially granted, or whether they were assumed without authority, they neither know nor care."' The authorities, however, acknowledge no prescription ; length of possession is deemed of no account ; but male descent from a grantee or from a family whose right to arms has been recognized at some Visitation, is the only title to an hereditary shield accepted. It is no wonder, then, that at the present day the right of a family to a coat of arms should be so difficult to establish, especially when it is considered how recklessly armorial bear- ings have been usurped during the last hundred years. And this unlawful assumption is now so much in vogue, that few persons whom commercial success has elevated into the ranks of gentry, think it worth while to “ sue out their liveries at the Heralds’ Office,” when for the small sum of “ three-and- sixpence in postage stamps,” they can have their “ own proper shields ” supplied in “ heraldic colours,” by sending “ name and county,” to one of the numerous advertising arms- finders. Such persons would seem to believe that a coat of arms belongs to a name, and not to a family, and the recipients “ It is curious to observe,” remarks Dallaway, “ that many who are entirely ignorant of Heraldry, can produce their coat of arms preserved either ui)on furniture or seals, without being able to give any account by whom, or at what time, they were first invented. Such being well satisfied with the arms they bear, as being beyond their memory, and serving all ])urposes of distinc- tion, are inclined to disparage the legal grant, and to contend against its exclusive sanction,” (p. 319). XXXll THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. of these “ ’scutcheons of pretence ” are in some instances actually ignorant of the fact that they are usurping the pro- perty of others, and accept the “ sketch ” transmitted to them, which in their innocence they imagine to be the result of some elaborate “ search,” as the genuine and undeniable hereditary bearings of their family. If the name is one that occurs in an Heraldic Dictionary, the arms-finder has no difficulty ; he simply extracts from it the coat he finds attributed to the name, or to some similar or nearly similar name ; but if not, I presume he i?ivents some device, which is duly transmitted to the applicant, and figures in due course upon his plate and equipages. The honest cypher is erased from his father’s seal, and an imperial eagle or a royal falcon soars majestically in its place. “ Every person,” said a late eminent herald, “ who thus usurps arms invades the prerogative and frequently the property of another. It is not only dishonourable but dis- honest, and an indelible mark of a base mind, as well as of low extraction ; at the same time, by this instance of low pride, he publishes his own dishonour, and injures his pos- terity ; and to see men of the first rank in all professions using false or fictitious arms, is an offence to the public, and a disgrace to the nation.” It is pleasing to turn from the contemplation of these three-and-sixpenny armigeri to the records of the College of Arms, for from the registers of that establishment we find that alt new families do not have recourse to illegitimate sources INTRODUCTION XXXI 1 for their Heraldry. During the thirteen years from 1850 to 1862, four hundred and thirty grants of arms were conceded on voluntary applications ; one hundred and seventy grants were made in consequence of royal licenses ; twenty-six grants were made to wives and spinsters ; and 'during the same period eighteen grants of quarterings, and three of crests, were issued.^ Although the County of Worcester has been four times officially visited by the Heralds, not only have none of its Visitations been published, but no work on its Heraldry or Family History, has yet been issued ; and the only source of information on these matters, accessible to the general public, is Nash’s History , — a ponderous and expensive work, and not always trustworthy. The two adjoining counties of Gloucester and Hereford, have been more fortunate, an Armorial of each having been issued to the public. That relating to the former county was published in 1792,! anonymously, but the Introduction is said to have been written by Dallaway, and the arms collected * These particulars are derived from the return made by the College of Arms to the House of Commons at the instance of Mr. Roebuck, ap 7 -opos of the assumption by Mr. Jones of the surname of Herbert. t “A Collection of Coats of Arms borne Ijy the Nobility and Gentry of the County of Glocester;” 4to., London, 1792. XXXIV THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. by Nayler, afterwards Garter King of Arms.* It it unfinished, but contains the arms of three hundred and seventy-two families, engraved on sixty-two plates. We learn from the Introduction that the work was intended to comprise first the arms mentioned in Atkyns’s History of Gloucestershire, next those mentioned in Rudders History, and lastly the bear- ings of those who had ‘ generously encouraged that attempt.’ The portion published contains the first division, and fifty- four coats of the second division. It is simply a series of engraved shields, without crests, and unaccompanied by descriptive letter-press, so that had the work been completed, it would have been by no means exhaustive. “ The Heraldry of Herefordshire,” by George Strong, M.D. (royal 4to., 1848), is a more pretentious undertaking, and con- tains some important and trustworthy heraldic information concerning some four hundred and seventy-five Herefordshire families, f Warwickshire has also been cared for ; its Heraldry and Family History being now in process of elucidation in the See the Gentleman' : Magazine for September, 1834, p. 319. In a memoir of Sir George Nayler, in the Herald and Genealogist, vol. vii., p. 77, it is stated that the first portion of this collection was issued by Ames, an engraver at Bristol, in 1786. It does not appear (it is added) that Nayler had any- thing to do with it, than as one of the public/’ t The recently published work by the Rev. C. J. Robinson, “ The Man- sions and Manors of Herefordshire,” contains nearly fifty carefully compiled pedigrees of Herefordshire families. “ The Castles of Herefordshire,” by the same author also contains much valuable genealogical information. INTRODUCTION. XXXV W arwickshire AntiqiLarian Magazine^ a periodical devoted to the illustration of the antiquities of that county, and contain- ing, with other interesting matter, a series of pedigrees selected from the two Visitations of 1619, and 1682 ; as well as extracts from several heraldic MSS. relating to the county, preserved in the Harleian collection. In addition to these works, the Rev. F. W. Kittermaster has published a small book on the Heraldry of Warwick- shire (8vo., pp. 103, xii., s.d.), and a similar volume on that of Shropshire (i2mo., pp. 74, xxxv., 1869), which purport to contain the “ Arms and Lineages ” of the families seated in those counties prior to 1650.^ The present attempt to catalogue the armigerous families of Worcestershire, was suggested by, and in some measure formed upon the model of Dr. Strong s work. But desiring to produce less an ouvrage de Luxe than one of authority, the brilliantly illuminated shields which form so conspicuous a portion of that work, are here omitted, — accuracy having been studied rather than ornament, the useful rather than the agreeable. Dr. Nash’s History of Worcestershire was first published * Two singular blunders occur in these works. To a certain Mr. Law- rence., whom he calls “ Sheriff of Rugby,” Mr. Kittermaster has ascribed the arms borne by Lawrence Sheriff, the founder of Rugby school ; and to “ Jus- tice, of Coventry,” he attributes the coat granted in 1602, to Thomas Coven- try, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; in the one case mistaking the name for the ofhce, and in the other the office for the name. ^ e — 2 XXXVl THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. in two folio volumes, in the years 1781 and 1782, and was succeeded by a thin volume of additions and corrections. It does not of course fall within my province to criticise this work as a whole, but as I am indebted to it for a large proportion of the information contained in the following pages, I am constrained, even while acknowledging my great obligations to Dr. Nash, to assert my opinion that as an heraldic authority he is not to be implicitly trusted. Several of his pedigrees are very inaccurate, and the blazon he gives of the arms of families (adopted in many instances verbathn et literatim from the MSS. of Habingdon and Thomas), is often faulty, and sometimes wholly wrong. In several cases, too, the arms which he blazons are attributed to the wrong families. I need not point out a more flagrant example of the latter defect than the coat which, on Habingdon’s authority, he attributes to Smith, and which has been copied into such works as Berry’s Encyclopcedia, and Burke’s Armory, and there, to make confusion worse con- founded, ascribed to “Smith, of Worcestershire A whereas it is really the coat of Sir Thomas Kitson, of H engrave, co. Suffolk, who never had a local habitation in the county, but whose daughter happened to marry a Worcestershire gentle- man, — Sir Thomas Pakington, of Westwood. Towards the end of his second volume {Appendix, p. Ixxxiii.), Nash has printed a list of what he entitles “the arms of Worcestershire families, and of persons mentioned in this work preceded by a short account of the four Visita- INTRODUCTION. XXXV 11 tions of the county. This list (although he leaves his readers in entire ignorance of the fact) was compiled by Dr. William Thomas, rector of St. Nicholas’s, Worcester, the industrious editor of Dugdale’s Warwickshire and the author of A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Worcester (1736) ; who made considerable additions to the MS. collections of Habing- don, and had visited every church in the county of Worcester, for the purpose of “ perusing ” and taking notes of the several arms and monuments existing therein. From the memoranda thus obtained, he appears to have compiled the list in ques- tion ; but it must be obvious that such a list, derived almost exclusively from church gatherings, can by no means be con- sidered a complete catalogue of the arms borne by the fami- lies of Worcestershire, inasmuch as a large proportion of the coats he has accumulated are impalements and quarterings, while the arms of many influential county families are omitted. It is, in fact, little more than a list of the arms then existing in the several Worcestershire churches, and as such, is of course of considerable value. It is to be regretted that Dr. Nash should have shirked the very necessary duty of editing this list. He might have added the residences — so often omitted — of the families whose arms are given, and the churches or other public buildings in which the several coats occur ; and have augmented the list by inserting many coats described in his own pages. But what Nash left undone that assiduous and painstaking antiquary, the late Dr. Prattinton, endeavoured to accomplish ; and among XXXVlll THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. the valuable collections for Worcestershire bequeathed by him to the Society of Antiquaries, is a small qto., containing a revised and annotated copy of this list, entitled “ Coats of arms borne or qiiartered by Worcestershire families, compiled by Dr. Thomas, rector of St. Nicholas’s, Worcester ; with additions by P[eter]. P[rattinton]., 1825.” To this MS. I am under great obligations ; but it is, perhaps, worth men- tioning, that I had undertaken and accomplished a similar task before I had seen Dr. Prattinton’s collections. A com- parison of my own annotated list with that of the doctor, has therefore enabled me to detect some of his errors, and to cor- rect my own. For like his predecessor — and I fear I must add his successor — Dr. Prattinton is not infallible ; and many of his additions being derived from Nash’s text, he has been occasionally sorely misled.* Dr. Thomas’s list, as printed in Nash, forms the text of the present work. I have even deemed it necessary to retain all the coats included therein, whether those of Worcester- shire families or otherwise,! but have striven to rectify its * To Spilsbiiry, for example, he ascribes the arms of Hanhury., and states that the coat occurs in Kidderminster church. This would appear so from Nash, but the coat really belongs to the monument or memorial stone of Capel Hanbury, in the same church. In like manner he has been led to attribute to Clarke the arms of Dowdeswell, occurring in St. Helen’s church, Worcester ; and those of Lacy, occurring at Feckenham, to Houghto7i. t Many of the coats in this list have been copied into Berry’s work, and there ascribed to such a family of “ Worcestershire.” Among others are those of Albany^ Alton, Bosom (the coat of Olney), Burkley, Ca7nville, Bur- INTRODUCTION, XXXIX errors, and to identify the families to which the several coats belong. To the coats derived from this source the letter N, (i.e., Nash) is attached, and for them Dr. Thomas must be held responsible ; though in numerous instances their blazon has been corrected, and their authenticity ascertained, from other sources. I may here appropriately introduce the substance of a paper on Worcestershire Families, read by Mr. Stephen Tucker at the congress of the Archaeological Institute at Worcester, in 1862. It is derived from Nash’s Introduction and other accessible sources, but it comprises in a few words a very just review of the subject. “ At the time of the compilation of Domesday (he says), there were only fifteen''' lay holders in capite in this county, a very large proportion of the county being held by the King and various religious establishments. None of the names of these Norman grantees now exist in the county, a fact which Dr. Nash accounts for by their dispersion and ruin, from siding with the losing cause in the various revolutions and struggles for sovereignty which occurred between the Con- nell, Portwell, Pincepole, and Smith, none of which are really Worcestershire families ; and some of them are blunders, as will be seen on referring to the names in this work. * These were Comes Rogerus (/. e., Roger de Montgomery), Ralph de Todeni, Ralph de Mortimer, Robert de Stadford, Roger de Laci, Osbern FitzRichard, Gislebert FitzTurold, Drogo FitzPons, Herald, hi’ Radiilphi, William FitzAnsculf, William FitzCorbucion, William Goizenboded, Urso de Abbetot, Hugo Lasne, and Eddeve, a female (qusedam foemina). xl THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. quest and the establishment of the first Plantagenet on his throne. ‘‘ At the dissolution of the monasteries, Worcestershire probably underwent a greater change than any other county, for the land was parcelled out among a great many new names. The fifteen chief owners at the time of Domesday had multiplied to some three hundred during the Heralds’ Visitations, at which the pedigrees of some two hundred and forty ^ are recorded. The fool-hardy attempt of Essex in- volved the forfeiture of several of his followers, and amongst these were several Worcestershire properties. In the next reign the Gunpowder Plot had the supposed support of some great Worcestershire families, who suffered deprivation in consequences and in the wars between Charles and his Par- liament, the gentlemen of Worcestershire probably played a more conspicuous part than those of any other county, either on the one side or the other. “The Worcestershire men ranged under Charles’s banner were Talbot, Windsor, Lyttelton, Sandys, Russell, Berkeley, Winford, Barrett (of Droit wich), Clare, Ingram,! Bromley, Hornyold, Wylde, Cocks, Acton, Townshend, Sheldon, Walsh, Exactly 240 pedigrees are entered in the two Visitation Books of 1634 and 1682-3 ; the total number of pedigrees recorded at the four Visitations is upwards of 300 ; but many families, of course, entered their descents at more than one Visitation. t Henry Ingram, of Earl’s Court, was Sheriff of the county when the city of Worcester was surrendered to the Parliament in 1646. INTRODUCTION. xli Habingdon, Fennel, Langston, Herbert, and Pryor.* Among those who fought for the Protector are recorded Rouse, Lech- mere, Dobyns, Lygon, Salwey, Cookes, Pytts, Dineley, Egioke, Milward (of Alvechurch), More, Smith, Collins (of Kingsnorton), Young, Fownes, Giles, and Symonds.” The earliest heraldic document in which the families of Worcestershire are specially noticed, is a Rollf of the Arms of the Peers and Bannerets of England, compiled between the years 1308 and 1314. In this roll the arms of the several knights are given under their respective counties. It was published by the late eminent antiquary. Sir N. H. Nicolas, in 1829. The then Worcestershire knights were Sir William de Suleye, Sir William de Tracy, Sir John Gif- fard. Sir John Byset, Sir Thomas de Bermyngham, Sir Wil- liam Dabetoot, Sir John de Assheborne, Sir John de Vaus, Sir Alexander de Frevylle, Sir Baldwin de Frevylle, and Sir Bartholomew de Suleye. * Col. Herbert Prior, of Pedmore. See Nash, Appendix^ cv. I have not elsewhere met with this name. Mr. Tucker has extracted these names from Nash. t Several similar Rolls of Arms, (which are of the highest value as autho- rities), are referred to in the text. Many are extant in the libraries of the British Museum, the College of Arms, and the Universities ; and several of them have been printed. Camden {Remaines) says, referring to these ancient Rolls, “ At every expedition, such as were gentlemen of bloud, would repaire to the Earle Marshall, and by his authoritie take coates of armes, which being registered alwaies by officers of Armes made at everie service, whereof manie yet remaine, as that of the Siege of Caerlaveroc, the Battaile of Sterling, the Siege of Calice, and divers Tournaments.” / xlii THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. The latest published work on English Family History, in which the several families are arranged in counties, is Mr. " E. P. Shirley’s Noble and Gentle Men of England, of which three editions have been issued. Mr. Shirley has admitted into his work only those families now existing who were regularly established as landowners of knightly or gentle degree before the commencement of the sixteenth century. He has omitted those who may have assumed the name and arms of their ancestors in the female line, and has also excluded those who, though otherwise qualified, no longer possess a landed estate. As a matter of course, under conditions so strict, a very scanty number of our present county families find a place in his work. In this county Mr. Shirley finds six knightly families : Acton, of Wolverton. Hanford, of Wollashall. Lyttelton, of Frankley. Winnington, of Stanford. Talbot, of Grafton. Noel, of Bell Hall. And iouT gentle : Hornyold, of Blackmore Park. Sebright, of Besford. Lechmere, of Hanley. Boughton, of Rouse Lench. Two of these (Hanford and Hornyold) are since extinct. The absence from this list of the historic name of Blount, of Sodington, will be noticed ; but Mr. Shirley has duly re- corded its honours under Oxfordshire, where the elder branch (now called Croke) resides. The Sheldons, once '‘of Beo- INTR on UCTION xliii ley,” are also noticed, but are here classed as one of the gentle of Warwickshire, and designated “of Brailes,” in that county ; for it is one of Mr. Shirley’s conditions, that when families have sold their ancient estates, they should be noticed under those counties in which they are at present seated. The first Visitation of the county of Worcester (and, in- deed, the first Visitation ever made by the Heralds proceed- ing from royal authority), was taken in 1530-3, by Thomas Benolte, Clarejtceux, King of Arms, under the commission mentioned, ante, p. xviii. ; and the second in 1569,*'' by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux. Of those who recorded their descents on these two occasions, only three f have now property or resi- dence in this county : the Talbots, of Grafton ; the Lyttel- tons, of Frankley ; and the Blounts, of Sodington ; none of whom now actually reside in the mansions they then occupied. * In the Add. MS. (British Museum), No. 19,816, 'is what purports to be “ The Visitacion for Worcestershire, taken by Richard Lee, gent.. Portcullis, Marshall to Clarenceulx, Anno Dom. 1574;” but no official Visitation of the county was made by Lee, or any other Herald, in that year. The Elizabethan Heralds, and especially Lee, occasionally apply the term Visitation to some of their books, which are not strictly entitled to that designation. This so- called Visitation contains the arms of Worcestershire families, taken chiefly from the genuine Visitation of 1569, but no pedigrees. t The Sheldons (who entered their descent in both Visitations) are still extant, but have removed into Warwickshire. The pedigrees of the families of Lygon, Sandys, Hornyold, and Pakington, were also entered in 1569, but all are extinct in the male line ; Lygon is paternally Pyjidar ; Sandys, Hill ; Hornyold, Gandolfi; and Pakington, Russell. y— 2 xliv THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. The third was held in 1634, by George Owen, Vor^ Herald, and Henry Lilly, Rouge Croix Pursuivant, as Marshals and Deputies to Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux, and Sir John Borough, Norroy, who visited jointly by agreement. Among those who then entered their descents, were the following extant families : Lyttelton, Lechmere, Blount, Vernon, Nash, Sebright, Cooke, and Berkeley. The fourth Visitation was commenced in 1682, by Thomas May, Chester Herald, and Gregory King, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, and finished in 1683,^ by Henry Dethicke (Mr. May having “ fallen ill of an ague,” which “ held him a long season ”), and the said Gregory King, by virtue of several deputations from Sir Henry St. George, Clarenceux. On this the last occasion on which the county was visited, the Heralds registered the pedigrees of one hundred and nine families, and they appear to have summoned every beneficed clergyman in the county. We learn from the Life of Kingf that St. George devoted the profits of this, and certain other Visitations, to the re-building certain portions of the College, * Nash, sub Alvechurch, vol. i., p. 26 (or more probably Bishop Lyttelton, from whose MSS. that article was compiled), mentions Dethicke’s Visitation of Worcestershire, made in 1583,'’ and states that two families named Heth and Highley, then resident at Alvechurch, were entered as having right to arms and gentility.” He refers for his authority, to the “ original,” in the College of Arms , but Dethicke visited only with King in 1683 — a hundred years later— and no family of either of these names then entered a pedigree. From what MS. he procured this information, I cannot discover. + Printed by Dallaway in the Appendix to his Heraldic Inquiries. INTR OD UCTJON xlv and that Mr. King, “ out of his zeal for the public, pressed on these Visitations somewhat earnestly.” The proceeds, in all, were which built up the west and south-west corner of the College, from Garters staircase. King was therefore anxious to make these Visitations as lucrative as possible ; and this may account for the numerous “ disclaimers,” among whom we find nearly thirty clergymen, many of whom doubt- less objected to the expense which registration would entail upon them. The arms of twenty-nine of those whose pedi- grees were registered, were either “ disallowed,” or “ respited for proof,” and a few descents were entered without arms. It is not quite apparent why those whose arms were dis- allowed, were admitted to registration without being also re- quired to disclaim, seeing that in some cases the arms they claimed were most clearly usurpations. Mr. Hollington, of Alvechurch, for example, exhibited for his coat armorial, the bearings of the Haringtons, of Exton, from whom he could not have been paternally descended ; but although the coat was very properly disallowed, his name does not appear in the list of disclaimers. Among those who entered pedigrees without arms, were the families of Hastings of Daylesford, and Tyas of Wor- cester. For what possible reason the former, who were of ancient and knightly descent, should have omitted to exhibit the arms they had borne without let or hindrance for centu- ries, and which had been allowed to them more than a century previously, at an Oxfordshire Visitation, it is difficult to say ; xlvi THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. but Alderman John Tyas, of Worcester, who, in the year 1678 had placed upon his father’s monument, in Powick Church, the arms of the extinct Baronial house of Tyes, dis- creetly left his “ ’scutcheon of pretence” behind him. Of those whose arms were disallowed, but descents entered, the Chetles, of Wall-house (now represented by Sir John Pakington, bart.) ; the Old nails, of Worcester ; the Byrds, of Evesham ; the Cookseys, of Whiteladies ; the Wilmots, of Kidderminster, and others, continued to use the arms they claimed, and placed them upon their monuments and seals, in spite of the Heralds’ prohibition. The nature of the proof required by the visiting Heralds has never been exactly ascertained. The arms claimed by the Byrds are those of a Cumberland and Lincolnshire family of that name, from which they probably failed to prove a descent ; those exhibited by Chetle were the arms of the Cheadles, of Cheadle, co. Chester, a family which had then long since merged in that of Bulkeley ; the Cookseys claimed the undifferenced coat of the (presumed to be) extinct family of Cooksey, of Cooksey and Kidderminster ; and the Wil- mots exhibited the bearings of the Earls of Rochester, with whose family they claimed alliance. In all these cases it is obvious that a descent from a previous bearer would have to be established by evidence, and therefore, we can easily under- stand why the several coats were disallowed. But no family of a similar name had, so far as can be ascertained, ever borne the coat claimed by the Oldnalls ; no grant of any such coat INTROD UCTION xlvii appears to be on record ; and strange to say, that exhibited at the Visitation differed slightly (human skulls being sub- stituted for leopard’s faces on the fesse) from that which had previously been placed on their monuments in St. Andrew’s Church, Worcester. We are therefore forced to the pre- sumption that the coat had been invented by some member of the family. It has been frequently remarked that families of established gentility did not always respond to the Heralds’ summons,"^' and one reason that has been assigned for this indifference to heraldic distinction is, that heavy fees were dernanded. But I think too much stress has been laid upon this. The fees were by no means exorbitant ; but the expense of procuring such proof as would satisfy the Heralds, was probably in some instances considerable ; and it is perhaps for this reason that we find the name of John Tristram, of Belbroughton, in the list of disclaimers, although he was acknowledged to be of “ antient descent,” and to have “ a right to bear arms.” The fees payable on these occasions are set forth in a MS. advertised for sale some few years back by a London book- seller : A Gentleman paid £ i 7s. 6d. ; an Esqtdre, £\ 1 7s. 6d. ; a Knight, £ 2 7s. 6d. ; and a Baronet, £2 1 7s. 6d. I have * The Brownes of Herefordshire, for example, though seated at Little Frome, in that county, for nearly four centuries did not appear at any of the Visitations. xlviii THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. now lying before me a copy of the receipt, dated August 22nd, 1682, signed by “ Tho. May, Chesterl' and “ Gre^ King, Rouge Dragonl' for the sum of “ seven and twenty shillings and sixpence,” paid by “ Mr. James Wilmot, in behalf of his brother John Wilmot, and of his nephew Mr. Pinson Wilmot, of Kidderminster Foreign in Com. Wore.,” for registering the pedigree of their family “ in the present Visitation Book of Worcestershire, made in pursuance of His Ma^'®^ comission, under the Great Seal of England.” Mr. Wilmot, it will be perceived, was only a gentleman. As an esquire paid a heavier fee for registration, it was of course requisite that the visiting Heralds should be in a position to decide the question of Who is an Esqidre f Accordingly, Clarenceux issued to May and King, his Depu- ties, the following instructions,"" which are interesting as show- ing who then were accounted esquires : — "‘In the allowance of titles, you shall enter the persons whose descents you take, with no other titles but such as they may justly and lawfully bear according to the Law of Arms. And you shall allow the title of Esqr. to these and no other : — “ I. The heir male of the younger sons of Noblemen. “ 2. The heir male of a Knight. “ 3. Officiary Esq’’®., viz., such who are so made by the King by putting on a collar of SS., or such who are * From the Gentle 7 na?ts Magazhie, 1834, i., p. 51. INTR OD UCTION. xlix SO virhcte officii, without that ceremony, as the High Sheriff of a County, and a Justice of the Peace, during their being in office or commission ; with this caution, that you always enter the said office or qualification in speciall terms. “ As for Sergeants at Law, Doctors in Divinity, and dignified Prebends, you shall register them by those titles or qualifications only, but you shall accept them in quality as an Esq'\ “ Barristers at law^ you shall enter by that title, but you shall accept them as gentlemen only unless otherwise qualified to bear the title of Esq'!' In these days every one not actually a shop-keeper, or the like, is dubbed ; but it will be seen that in 1682, it was a well-defined title, and no one, having the fear of the Heralds’ College before his eyes, would have ventured to assume it without being properly qualified. It now becomes my duty to point out the sources from which the information contained in this work has been de- rived. I have already mentioned that its nucleus was the * Barristers are now always accounted esquires, their right thereto being sufficiently attested by the fact that the Court of Common Pleas refused to hear an affidavit, because a barrister named therein was not called esquire ; and now all the Courts invariably require counsel to be so styled . — See Burke’s Patrician, v., 114, and Bythewood’s Conveyancing ii., 386, where the question of “ Who is an Fisc^uire ?” is discussed at length. 1 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. list of Arms compiled by Dr. Thomas, and that 1 have availed myself of Dr. Prattinton’s annotated copy of that list. I presume too that it is scarcely necessary to repeat, that I am largely indebted to Nash and to the original Visitation Books preserved in the College of Arms. The other authorities consulted are chiefly manuscript. Among them I must specially mention that very valuable MS., No. 1566, of the Harleian Collection, which contains one hundred and eighty six shields of the arms of Worcester- shire families (many with a large number of quarterings), and about two hundred pedigrees, taken principally from the Visitations of 1569 and 1634. It also contains a collection of Worcestershire Arms “ hastily tricked in printed esco- cheons,” by Munday, a herald-painter of the period, and some few coats (says the Harleian catalogue) “ tricked by another hand.” Munday was assisted in this work by Messrs. Dale and Latton. Other MSS. consulted are the Additional MS. (British Museum), 19816 (which contains a copy of the Visita- tion of 1634 ; the Arms of Worcestershire families collected by Lee, in 1574, and other useful matter) ; the Harl. MSS., 615, 1043, 1057, 1077, 1422, 1439, 2113, 6128, &c., &c. ; as well as many collections of grants, and copies of Visitations of the adjoining counties of Gloucester, Hereford, Salop, Warwick, and Stafford. I . take this opportunity of acknow- ledging the very great assistance I have derived from the invaluable htdex of Mr. Sims, without which, indeed, the majority of the Worcestershire Heraldic collections in the British Museum would have been unknowm to me. INTRO D UCTION li One of the most curious and interesting of my manuscript authorities, is a small volume in my own possession, cited in the text as the “ Penn MS.” This MS., which contains about four hundred and thirty coats of arms of Worcester- shire families, is fully described in the Appendix. A further authority, cited as “Win. MS.,” is a somewhat similar volume, the composition of one “ J. H.,” a° 1676, belonging to Sir Thomas E. Winnington, bart., and contain- ing the arms of Worcestershire and Shropshire families. A description of this manuscript, and a copy of its Heraldry, will be found in Notes and Queries, 2nd S. xii., 261.^ Of printed works, the several Heraldic Dictionaries of Edmondson — “ the common stm, whereat our modern writers have all lighted their torches,” — and his successors, cited as “ Her. Die.,” have furnished a great number of the coats ; in- deed, the whole of the arms ascribed in these works to families “ of Worcestershire,” have been transferred to my pages. Besides these indispensable works of reference, much in- formation has been gleaned from the useful little publications of Mr. Nbake, of Worcester; whilst the arms of the several Prelates, who have at various periods filled the See of Wor- * It is a small folio, of about 270 pages, entitled “The Antiquitie of Gen- try, Noblenes, and Coat-Armour-bearinge, demonstrating that ther have been Distinctions, Degrees, and Qualities of men from the beginninge of the World. With severall directions for the Blazoning of Coats. And Explain- inge of the intricate termes in Herauldry. 1676.” Preface signed J. H. Hi THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. cester, have been extracted from Mr. Bedford's Blazon of Episcopacy. Dr. Thomas’s Stirvey of the Cathedral Chttrch of Wor- cester, Mr. Green’s History and Antiquities of Wor- cester, and most of the County Histones, especially those of Dugdale, Erdeswick, Rudder, and Duncumb, have been consulted ; the Commoners and Landed Gentry of Burke, the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, the Topographer and Genealogist, the Herald and Genealogist, and, indeed, every heraldic, topographical, or genealogical work that has fallen in my way (not forgetting the veteran Gentleman s Maga- zine, to which all antiquarian writers are more or less in- debted), have been laid under contribution ; but as the several authorities are for the most part cited in the text, it is not necessary to enumerate them here. I must not omit, however, to acknowledge my great obligations to that useful and important, but, I regret to add, as yet unfinished work, the late Mr. Pap worth’s Ordinary of British Armorials, by the aid of which I have been enabled to correct several errors of my predecessors, and to identify many coats, the bearers of which I could not otherwise have ascertained. The object of this work being rather to supply the enquirer with an accurate blazon of the arms, than to furnish a genealogical account of the several families, the memoirs of such families here given are designedly brief ; but as in most instances an authority is cited, the reader is thereby furnished with the sources from which further information may be ob- INTR OD UCTION. liii tained. It may be objected that I have given many details of family history which are easily accessible in the pages of Nash, or in the various Peerages, Baronetages, and kindred publications ; but I have thought it advisable to add such particulars, acting on the dictum of Hume — certainly no mean authority — who in excusing himself from the charge of repeat- ing the observations of others, declares that “ every book should be as complete as possible within itself, and never refer for anything material to other books.” I can, of course, claim no particular merit on the score of originality, for it is sufficiently obvious that a work of this nature must needs be a compilation ; but, as an old writer quaintly says, such a work should “ not be performed on one leg, but should smell of oil if duly handled.” I venture then to hope, that on the completion of a work which has absorbed much of my .attention for several years, I may be permitted to entertain the belief that my labours will be duly appreciated by the gentlemen of the county whose armorial honours this work is designed to illustrate ; and although I cannot presume to hope that my pages are free from error, I can at least claim to have used my best endeavours to render the work accurate and trustworthy. H. SYDNEY GRAZEBROOK. Aprils 1873 . ABBREVIATIONS, &c. Add. ms. — T he Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum Library. Harl. ms. — T he Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum Library. B. M. — British Museum Library. Bedford. — The Blazon of Episcopacy, by the Rev. W. K. R. Bedford, 1858. Coll. Arm. — C ollege of Arms. Collins. — The Peerage of England, by Arthur Collins (various editions). CouRTHOPE. — The Historic Peerage, by W. Courthope, esq., Somerset Herald, (a revised edition of Sir N. Harris Nicolas’s “Synopsis of thu Peerage.”) Her. Dig. — The Heraldic Dictionaries of Edmondson, Berry, Robson and Burke. Penn MS. — The Manuscript Armorial of W*orcestershire, by Penn, described in the Appendix. Win. ms. — Winnington Manuscript, an heraldic MS., by “ J. H.,” belonging to the late Sir T. E. Winnington, bart. Dingley. — The “ History from Marble, by Thomas Dingley, gent.”, published in fac simile by the Camden Society, from the original MS. penes Sir. T. E. Winnington, bart. Symonds. — The Heraldic Diary of Capt. Richard Symonds during the Civil Wars, published by the Camden Society. N. (/>. Adsh.) — Coats to which this letter is attached are extracted from the List- of Arms compiled by Dr. Thomas, and printed in Nash’s History of Worcestershire. Nash. — Collections for the History of Worcestershire, by Dr. Nash. Thomas’s Survey. — A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Worcester, by Dr. d'homas, 1736. ABB RE VIA TIONS. Prattinton mss. — The Man\iscript Collections for Worcestershire formed by the late Peter Prattinton, M.D., in the library of the Society of Antiquaries. Strong. — The Heraldry of Herefordshire, by George Strong, M.D., 1848. Harwood’s Erdeswick. — A Survey of Staffordshire, by Sampson Erdeswick, written 1593. Edited by Dr. Harwood. (2nd edition, 1844.) Kimber and Johnson. — The Baronetage of England, by Messrs. Kimber and Johnson, 3 vols. 8vo., 1771. Betham. — The Baronetage of England, by the Rev. William Betham, 5 vols. 4to., 1801-5. Shirley. — The Noble and Gentle Men of England, by E. P. Shirley, esq., 1859. Gent. Mag. — The Gentleman’s Magazine. Col. Top. et Gen. — The Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, 1834- 1843, 8 vols. Top. & Gen. — The Topographer and Genealogist, 1846-1858, 3 vols., edited by J. G. Nichols, F.S.A. H. & G. — The Herald and Genealogist, edited by J. G. Nichols, F.S.A. Mis. Gen. et Her. — The Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, edited by J. Jackson Howard, LL.D. N. & Q. — Notes and Queries. Glover’s Roll. — Roll of Arms of the reign of Henry HI., from Glover’s MS. Charles Roll. — A similar Roll of the reigns of Henry HI. and Edward I., from a copy in the handwriting of Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald, a°. 1607. Nicolas Roll. — A Roll of the Arms of the Barons and Knights of England a/ra 1308-1314, edited by Sir N. H. Nicolas, 1829. M. I. — Monumental Inscription. S.P. — Sine prole, f.^., without issue. V.P. — Vita patris, f.^., in the lifetime of his or her father. V.M. — Vita matris — in the lifetime of his or her mother. Jure Uxoris. — In right of his wife. Jure Matris. — In right of his or her mother. Wftt of ®0ra0ter0hire. Abbetot, of Elmley Castle . — Urso D’Abbetot, one of the companions of the Conqueror, (said by some to have been a son of Almericus,"'' Lord of Abtot, in the arrondisse- ment of Havre, and by others of Thurstan le Dispencer, t) obtained large grants of land in this and other counties, and was constituted hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire. He married a lady named Adeliza, by whom he had issue a son, Roger, and a daughter, Emmeline, married to Walter de Beauchamp. The son, Roger, (as William of Malmesbury relates,) was banished by King Henry I., for having, in a fit of ungovernable rage, commanded one of that King’s officers to be slain ; and all his vast pos- sessions were granted to his brother-in-law, Walter de Beauchamp, into whose family the hereditary shrievalt}" also passed. Whether Roger died without issue does not appear to be positively ascertained, but the name of Abbetot did not become extinct in the county until long after. In the reign of Edward I., Geoffrey D’Abbetot * Nash, vol. i. p. 8. In his observations on Domesday, Nash says that Urso was a brother of Hugh, Earl of Montgomery, t Blore’s Rutland. See Spencer. I 2 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. held seven hides in Ridmarley of William de Beauchamp, Urso’s heir; and at the beginning of the succeeding reign the name of William D’Abbetot occurs among the knights of Worcestershire. {See D’Abbetot.) Per pale or and gules, three roundles counterchanged. (JV.) Urso’s badge was a couchant bear; it is carved in stone on every corner of the steeple of Naunton church, which was probably built by him. See Nash, ii. 184. Abenhall, 0/ Adenkall, co. Gloucester, as quartered by Talbot. Or, a fesse gules. {Rudder s Gloticestershire, p. 210.) This coat was borne temp. Edward II., by Sir — Abbehale, of co. Gloucester. (Roll of the date.) Aberbury, of Aberbtcry or Adderbury, co. Oxford, as quar- tered by Throckmorton . — Or, a fesse embattled sable. {N.) Abingdon. See Habingdon. Abrol, or Aboril, of Worcestershire. — Per pale or and gules, three roundles counterchanged. Crest : A lion s head vomiting flames proper. {Her. Die.) These are the arms of Abbetot. Acton, of Acton Hall, Ombersley ; a family which, according to Habingdon, existed in Worcestershire at a period anterior to the Norman Conquest. The various families of Acton formerly resident in this county, are presumed to be all derived from Elias Acton, of Acton, living in the reign of Henry HI.* It is stated in Burke’s Commoners, iv. 687, that the male line of the Actons of Acton, expired with Walter Acton, who died without male issue, leaving his estates to his two daughters and co-heiresses, Joice and Elizabeth,t the one married to Thomas Barneby, and the * Shirley’s Noble and Gentle Men. t On her tomb at Astley she is called Isabel. She died in 1562. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 3 Other first to [Thomas] Broughton [of Longdon, co. Stafford], and secondly to Walter Blount, of Astley. But it appears from a pedigree of the family in the Harl. MS., 1566, that this Walter had a younger brother, Wil- liam Acton, whose son Thomas was of Elmley Lovett, and had issue three sons, Charles, Anthony, and John. John, who was a goldsmith in London, was thrice mar- ried, and had three sons, John, Thomas, and Edward, of whom John, the eldest, was married, and had four children. The said Walter and William Acton were sons of William Acton, of Acton, with whom the pedi- gree commences. — Gules, a chevron between three cin- quefoils argent (as quartered by Barneby at the Visitation of 1569 ; but in the Visitation Book of 1634 the chevron is or). Other variations are Argent, a chevron between three cinquefoils gules; and Gules, a chevron engrailed between three cinquefoils argent. The ancient coat of the family was Barry wavy or and gules j and they are also said to have anciently borne, Or, two bars vaire. {MS. penes E. F, Shirley^ esq.; Pe^m MS. ; Nash; &^c.) Acton, of Sutton Park, Tenbury, and of Rib bes ford and Elm- ley Lovett . — The manuscript pedigrees of this family commence with John Acton, whose son. Sir Roger Acton, of Sutton, knt., was father of Richard Acton, of Sutton, who married Alice, daughter of Richard Acton, of Acton, and had issue three sons, William, Roger, and Richard. William Acton, the eldest son, had issue Richard Acton, of Sutton, who by Isolda his wife, daughter of Humphrey Salwey, of Stanford, had a numerous family, of whom Thomas of Sutton, and Robert of Ribbesford, are alone recorded to have had issue. Joyce, only surviving child of the former, carried the Sutton estate in marriage to I — 2 4 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, knt, (the supposed “Justice Shallow’’ of Shakespeare,) and died in 1595, aged 63. Robert Acton, of Ribbesford, the younger son, was father of two sons, Henry of Ribbesford, who was married and had issue ; and Charles of Elmley Lovett, who had, with other issue, a son. Sir John Acton, of Elmley. Sir John married a daughter of Francis Clare, of Caldwell, by whom he was father of four daughters and co-heiresses. Penelope, married to John Lench, of Shelve; Elizabeth, married to Robert Townshend, from whom came the Townshends, of Elmley ; Anne, married to William Colies ; and Helen, married to Sir Thomas Thornburgh, of Elmley Loyett, knt. — Gules, a fesse ermine within a bordure engrailed of the last. Crest : An arm embowed in armour, holding a sword enfiled with a boar’s head. {D, 12, ColL Arm, fo. 19; Harl, MSS, 1043 1566, &c.) Acton, of Bockleton . — Derived from Sir Roger Acton, knt., (a younger son of Richard Acton, of Sutton,) who acquired the Bockleton estate in marriage with Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Nicholas Fawkes, son of John Fawkes, by Katherine, daughter and heiress of Philip, son of John Bockleton, of Bockleton. His great grandson, Thomas Acton, was of Bockleton at the Visitation of 1569, and then had one son, Nicholas, and five daughters. The pedigree was also entered in 1634, by Thomas Acton, of Bockleton. The last male heir of this branch of the Actons, was Nicholas Acton, who married Mary, sister and co-heiress of Edwin Skrymshire, of Aqualate, CO. Stafford, by whom he had an only daughter and THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 5 heiress, Elizabeth, married to Charles Baldwyn,^ of Elsich, CO. Salop, Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford, whose descendants were afterwards of Aqualate, and owned the Manor of Bockleton in Nash’s time. The present representative of the Baldwyn family is Mr. Childe, of Kinlet, Salop. — Arms, &c., as Acton, of Sut- ton, with a mullet for difference ; quartering Gules, three pheons argent, for Bockleton ; and Sable, on a chevron engrailed between three snakes with their tails in their mouths. ... an ermine spot. (C 30, Coll, Arm, fo. 81 ; and Harl, MSS,, 615 and 1043.) Acton, of Burton and Wo her ton. — Richard Acton, youngest son of Richard Acton, of Sutton, was the founder of this branch of the Actons. He married Margery, daughter and heiress of John Mabe, alias Dore, a descendant of the great house of Mortimer, and with her acquired the Manor of Burton. They had issue John Acton, of Bur- ton, who recorded his descent and arms at the Visitation of 1569, being then aged 84 years. Humphrey Acton, his son and successor, married Alice, sister of William Cooksey, of Wolverton, and died in 1590, having had issue a son, John, who became possessed of Wolverton, and was the direct ancestor of the existing Actons of that place. t — Arms, &c., as Acton of Sutton, with a * Mr. Baldwyn died in 1706, and was buried at Bockleton, where is a handsome monument to his memory ; at the foot are the arms of Acton quar- tering Bockleton ; and Gules, a lion rampant or within a bordure vaire, for Skrymshire. t Mr. Shirley, in his Nbd/e a 7 id Gentle Men, says (following Nash) that the Actons of Wolverton are descended from “a younger son of Sir Roger Acton, of Sutton, and the heiress of Cooksey,” but this does not agree with the pedigrees of the Acton family, in the Harl. MSS., 1043 and 1566.^ 6 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. mullet for difference ; quartering Mabe alias Dore, and Mortimer. {D, 12, Coll. Arm. fo. 19 ; ^xvdHarl. MSS., 1043 and 1566.) The crest now borne by the Actons of Wolverton is thus described by Burke : — An arm in armour embowed proper, in the hand a sword argent hilt or, thereon a boar’s head couped sable distilling blood. Their motto is “ Vaillance avance le homme.” ^ Acton, granted by Sir Christopher Barker, Garter King of Arms, to Sir Robert Acton, of Worcestershire, knt, and to his nephew, Robert, “ who att y® siege of Bulleyn toke Mons. Honingcourt prisoner ; carefully copied out of an olde booke of y® s^- Garter’s.” — Gules, a fesse and bordure engrailed ermine, on a canton or a tree eradi- cated of the first. Crest : An arm embowed in armour sable garnished or, in the gauntlet a sword, thereon im- paled a boar’s head erased of the first, armed of the second. {Harl. MS., 1422.) Acton, of Worcestershire. — Gules, a fesse and bordure both engrailed ermine, in chief a chaplet vert. {Her. Die.) Addehan, Yedfen, or Edefyn, 0/ Yedfen, alias Edvin Loach. ... a fesse. . . . between three fleurs de lis. On the monument of Sir Ralph de Addehan, at Edvin Loach. See Nash, ii., 484. Addenbrooke, of Wollaston Hall, Stourbridge, as granted on 29th April, 1795, to John Addenbrooke Addenbrooke, of Wollaston, High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1798, the son of John Homfray, of Wollaston, by Mary, daughter of the Rev, Jeremiah Addenbrooke. On 21st February, 1792, he and his issue were authorised by royal license to * This crest and motto occur, with the arms of Acton, in a window of Sutton chapel. See Nash, ii. 419. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 7 assume the surname and arms of Addenbrooke ; he having “ represented that Edward Addenbrooke, of Over Sapey, esquire, by will dated 1 7th December, 1 784, had devised to him and the heirs male of his body, certain real estates.”^ Mr. Addenbrooke married in 1780, Eliza- beth, daughter of Michael and Sarah Grazebrook, of Audnam, in the parish of Kingswinford, Staffordshire, by whom he had issue, the late Edward Addenbrooke Ad- denbrooke, of Kingswinford, who married Emma, daugh- ter of John Pidcock, of the Platts,” Stourbridge, and died in 1855, leaving issue ; John Addenbrooke Adden- brooke of Rockingham Hall, Hagley, who died unmar- ried ; and Henry Addenbrooke, who married Louisa, fifth daughter of the said John Pidcock. The family of Ad- denbrooke is of considerable antiquity, in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and Staffordshire ; its most notable mem- bers were John Addenbrooke,! M.A., M.D., of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, founder of “ Addenbrooke’s Hospital,” and the Ven. John Addenbrooke, D.D., Dean of Lich- field, (brother of the above-named Jeremiah,) who married Dorothy, daughter and co-heiress of the last John Wedg- wood, of Harracles, co. Stafford, but died, without issue, in 1776, aged 64. — Quarterly azure and argent, a fesse * Viz. “ The Lea,” in the parish of Over Sapey, co. Hereford, which had been long in the family. See Duncumb’s Herefordshire^ ii., 160. t John Addenbrooke was a Fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge. He proceeded B.A. in 170T, M.A. in 1705, and in 1706 was admitted an extra licentiate of the College of Physicians. He graduated M.D. at Cambridge, in 1712, but of his professional career little is known. He died 7th June, 1719, aged 39, and by his will bequeathed about ;^4ooo “ to erect and main- tain a small physic hospital ” at Cambridge, now known as “ Addenbrooke’s Hospital.” There is an inscription to his memory in the chapel of Catherine Hall. See Monk’s Roll of the College of Physicians.^ 8 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. wavy or, between three crescents counterchanged. Crest : On the banks of a river, an otter passant per pale argent and sable, charged with two crescents counterchanged. Mottoes : “ Vincit qui patitur” and “ Esse quam videri.” (£! ColL Arm.) These arms (but without colours) appear in Over Sapey church, CO. Hereford on the tomb of the Rev. Francis Addenbrooke, many years rector of that parish, who died in 1724, aged 72 ; but at the Visitation of 1682-3 Nicholas Addenbrooke, of Stourbridge,* and Edward Addenbrooke, Vicar of Sapey, co. Worcester, disclaimed all right to arms. Addyes, of Droitwich. — Argent, a chevron between three crosses pattee gules. This family resided at Durance, '^a large old mansion-house,” near Droitwich. (Nash, i., 346.) A William Addyes was M.P. for the city of Worcester in the reign of Queen Mary. Thomas Addyes, of Powick, disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1634. Agge, of Over bury. — Argent, a fesse engrailed sable between three fleurs de lis gules. {Dr. Pratiinton^ Albaney. — Azure, a chevron ermine between three fleurs de lis argent. {N.) This coat is not given in any of the Heraldic Dictionaries, except in that of Berry, where it is inserted evidently on Nash^s authority alone. It is probably a quartering or impalement of some Worces- tershire family. Albini, Earl of Arundel.—GuleSy a lion rampant, or. (A^.) One of the Berkeley quarterings in Spetchley church. The same coat was borne by the Fitzalans, Earls of Arundel, who acquired that title as heirs to the Albini’s, and by virtue of their tenure of Arundel Castle. Some authorities tincture the lion of Albini argent. * Nicholas Addenbrooke, gent., was one of the original Feoffees of Foley’s Hospital at Oldswinford, appointed by the founder in 167a. His daughter Mary married William Cardale, of Dudley. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, 9 Alcock, as borne by John Alcock, Bishop, first of Worcester, and afterwards of Ely, and President of the Marches of Wales. He died in 1500, and was buried in Ely Cathe- dral. — Argent, on a fesse between three cock’s heads erased sable, a mitre or. Crest : On a coronet ... a cock. {Bedford and Berry), The mitre is sometimes omitted;^ and in some examples the arms are surrounded with a bordure gules charged with eight crowns or. Alderford, of Knightwick, and of Priors Salford, co, War- zvick. — Nash says this family obtained their estate at Knightwick by the marriage of Walter Alderford with Joan, daughter of Thomas Brook, of that place. Their pedigree and arms were recorded at the Visitation of this county, taken in 1569, and at that of Warwickshire taken in 1619. — Quarterly, ist. Argent, on a saltire azure a tiger’s head erased or, for Alderford ; 2nd, Or, a chevron vert between three lion’s heads erased sable, for Everard of Luckton ; 3rd, Sheldon and 4th Rtidiztg. {D. 12, Coll. Arm. fo. 48; Harl. MSS., 1563, and 1566; and Penn MS.) Allen. — Per fesse sable and or, a pale engrailed counter- changed, and three talbots passant two and one of the second. {Penn MS.) Allen, of Drake s Place, the Rhydd ; as borne by the late John Henry Allen of that place, and by his son the Rev. Charles Allen, Vicar of Bushley. — Per bend sinister or * It occurs without the mitre in glass at Malvern. t See Sheldon. John Alderford of Knightwick, married Lettice, daughter and heiress of John Sheldon, of Pershore, by the daughter of Hickford. {Harl. MSS.\ 1100, 1167.) 2 10 THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. and sable, six martlets counterchanged. Crest : A mart- let. (Burke’s Landed Gentry). Allsopp of Hindlip Hall ; as borne by Henry Allsopp of that place, J.P., and D.L., son of the late Samuel Allsopp, of Burton upon Trent, co. Stafford, grandson of James Allsopp, of Derby, and great-grandson of Thomas All- sopp, who was the son of Samuel Allsopp of Worcester, by Bridget, daughter of Thomas Bearcroft, also of Wor- cester; claiming descent from an ancient family seated for many generations at Alsop-in-le-Dale, co. Derby. — Sable, three plovers rising argent beaked and legged gules. Crest : A plover wings expanded or, beaked and legged gules, in the beak an ear of wheat gold. (Glover’s Der- byshire, ii., 20 ; and Burke’s Landed Gentry.) Alport. See Fletcher. Alton. — Barry of six or and azure, on a canton gules a cross flory argent. {N.) This should be Aton; it is one of the quarterings of Conyers on the monument of Judge Berkeley, at Spetchley. Berry, misled by Nash, attributes it to “Alton of Worcestershire.” Alye, originally of Northfield, afterwards of Powick, Tewkes- bury, and Hereford. The Pedigrees of this family in the Harl. MS. 1041, and in the Visitation of Gloucestershire A° 1623, commence with John Alye of Northfield, father of William Alye, whose son, Edward, sold his lands in Northfield, and settled at Tewkesbury. Edward Alye, who died in 1660,^ grandson of this Edward, had issue a son, John Alye, of Worcester, apothecary, living in * He was buried at Powick. See Nash, ii. 266. THE HE E ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 1 1 1683, at the Visitation of Herefordshire, taken in that year. Theophilus Alye, mayor of Worcester in 1653,* was a member of this family. — Azure, a lion salient ar- gent. Crest : A leopard’s face or, between two wings dis- played sable. f {Penn MS. ; and Harl. MS., 1041.) The late Jabez Allies, F.S.A., the learned author of the “Anti- quities and Folk-lore of Worcestershire,” claimed descent from this family. Amondeville. — Argent, a cross moline [gules ?] (W.) This coat is evidently misnamed. It appears to be that of the family of Uvedale who quartered for Amondeville Azure, a fret or, which coat was borne, temp. Edward II., by Richard de Monde- ville of Warwickshire. Dugdale mentions that Roger de Amonde- ville held lands in Cotheridge in the 6th of John; and Richard de Mundeville of Berkswell, co. Warwick, had ^51 per annum granted to him out of Beoley and Yardley by one of the earls of Warwick, in the 25 th of Edward I. Amory or D’Amory, of Codrington^ co. Gloucester ; recorded at the Worcestershire Visitation of 1634. — Barry nebulee of six argent and gules, over all a bend engrailed azure. Crest : Out of a mural coronet or a talbot’s head azure eared of the first. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 49.) These arms were confirmed, and the crest granted, to Giles D’Amorie, of Codrington, by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, in 1592. {See. Collins’ Peerage, ed. 1779, viii. 213.) They are now borne, with the motto, “Tu ne cede malis,” by John Amery, J.P., D.L., of Eck- ington (late of Stourbridge) who claims to be seventh in descent from Richard D’Amorie, of Codrington, living in 1610. {See Burke’s Landed Gentry.) The same arms, crest, and motto were borne by the Darners, earls of Dorchester. His name is misprinted Assye in Nash’s List of the Mayors of Worcester, t These bearings were confirmed on 27th November, 1679, to Richard Alye, a merchant of London, on his adducing proof of his descent from the above family. See The Herald and Genealogist, vi. 223. 2 —2 12 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. ' Amphlett, 0/ Hadsor and Clent, anciently of Salwarpe ; de- scended immediately from William Amphlett,^ Lord of the manor of Hadsor, who died in 1662, aged 74. Mem- bers of this family have six times served the office of High Sheriff of Worcestershire, viz., in 1718, 1721, 1746, , 1759, 1780, and 1805. The senior line, that of Hadsor, is now represented by Richard Paul Amphlett, Q.C., of Wychbold Hall, Droitwich, M.P. for the eastern division of this county, the son of the late Rev. Richard Holmden Amphlett, of Hadsor, and grandson of Richard Amphlett, also of Hadsor, High Sheriff in 1780, by Lydia, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of John Holmden, of Crowle. The Clent branch is represented by John Amphlett, only son of the late John Amphlett, of Clent, who died in 1868, and grandson of John Amphlett, of Clent, by Eliza, daughter and co-heiress of Benjamin Benyon, of Haugh- ton, CO. Salop, which last-named John Amphlett was the grandson of John Amphlett, of Clent, by Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Hopwood, of Droitwich, and great-great-grandson of Joseph Amphlett (third son of Richard Amphlett,t of Hadsor), by Anne, daughter of Sir Charles Lyttelton, of Frankley, Bart. Another branch of this family formerly seated at the “ Four Ashes,’' Enville, Staffordshire, was lately represented by James Amphlett Grove, who, dying unmarried, devised his pro- * He married Frances, daughter of John Sparry, of Clent, and not Spar- row^ as in Nash’s pedigree ; and the wife of his grandson William was Anne Janns, not James. t Richard Amphlett’s wife was Anne, daughter of Edward Cookes, of Bentley, and sister of Sir William Cookes, the first baronet of Norgrove. This marriage makes the Amphletts founder’s kin at Worcester College, Oxford. THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 13 perty to the Rev. Charles Dunne, who has assumed, by royal license, the surname and arms of Amphlett only. Argent, a fesse between three lozenges azure, in chief a cinquefoil sable, (the cinquefoil is sometjmes placed on the fesse and tinctured or^'). Crest : A dromedary proper. (A^. &c.) Mr. Amphlett, of Wychbold, quarters Holmden of Crowle ; and the Amphletts of Ctent, are entitled to quarter Hopwood, (Or, a pile azure) and Benyon, (Vaire argent and sable, on a chief of the first three mullets of the second). Andrew, of Beoley, Redditch, Evesham, Offenham, and London. — Gules, a saltire or surmounted by another vert. Allowed at the Visitation of this county in 1634, and “respited for further proof at the London Visitation, taken in the same year. The pedigree in the latter Visitation commences with Thomas An- drew, of Redditch, who, by his wife Elizabeth Cowdall, was father of William Andrew, of Evesham. (See Harl. MS., 1476 ; and C. 30, Coll. Arm. fo. 49b.) Andrews, of Barnes Hall, St. Peter s ; a family, says Nash, originally from Carlisle, and for several generations mer- chants of London, a branch of which came and settled about Alcester, Beoley, and Redditch, at which last place Thomas Andrews, who purchased Barnes Hall in 9th James I., resided before he came to Worcester. The pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3. — Arms, as the preceding. Crest : A Moor s head in profile couped at the shoulders and wreathed about the temples, all proper. {K. 4, Coll. Arm. fo. 158.) The crest is said, in the Harl. MS., 1069, to have been granted to Thomas Andrewes, and his brethren, Ralph, Richard, William, * The arms are thus represented on the monument of John Amphlett (who was born in 1656, and died in 1705) in Clent church. 14 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. James, and Andrew,* by Guyen, King of Arms, in the year 1334; and both arms and crest to have been confirmed, in 1476, to Thomas Andrewe, son and heir of Richard Andrewe, of co. Warwick. In the PeiDi. MS. the same arms are ascribed to Andrews of “ The Hill, near Worcester /’ they were also borne by Theophilus An- drewes. Recorder of Evesham, who died in 1670, aet. 47. Andrews, of Longdon^ and of Elder ton, co. Warwick; as borne by Sir John Andrews, of Longdon and Elderton, living 1618, son of Thomas Andrews, by Jane, daughter of Richard Casey, of Whitfield, co. Gloucester, and grandson of Sir Thomas Andrews, or Andrew, of Char- welton, in Northamptonshire, who died in 1564, by his second wife, Mary, daughter of John Heneage, of Towse, CO. Lincoln. Sir John was ancestor of the Andrews of Creton and Harleston, co. Northampton. — Arms and crest, as Andrews, of Barnes Hall. {Harl. MS., 1566, fo. 154b; and Baker’s Northamptonshire, i. 167.) Andrews, of Leigh-Sinton ; granted 27th March, 1529, 20th Henry VI 1 1 ., by Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, to Richard Andrews, “ de Synton en la Comte de Worcester, gentilhome.” — Argent, on a chevron engrailed gules between three mullets sable, as many quatrefoils or, pierced azure. Crest : A greyhound’s head couped per pale or and sable, on the neck a saltire counterchanged between a pellet and a bezant. {Hart. MS., 1507.) Andrews, of Hanhtry, and of Meriden, co. Warwick . — • Argent, on a bend cottised sable three mullets of the field ; quartering Stafford (Or, on a chevron gules five plates), Jennetts, Wybbe, and Grendon ; in right of the * See the pedigree of Andrew, of Charwelton, in Baker’s Northamptonshire, i. 295. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 15 marriage of Richard Andrews, of H anbury, with Agnes, daughter and heiress of John Stafford, by Matilda his wife, daughter and heiress of Thomas Jennetts, and Alice his wife, eldest sister and co-heiress of Henry Wybbe, of H anbury. Crest : A stag’s head erased argent. {Penn. MS.; Harl. MSS.^ 615, 1566; and Add. MS., 19816.) Attached to these bearings in the Add. MS., 19816, is the fol- lowing, — “ Memorandum : That I, Humphrey Andrewes, of Han- bury, in the Countie of Worcester, gent., doe bynde myselfe to make proofe vnto Mr. Clarencieulx, Kinge of Armes, for the bear- inge of these Armes herein depicted, at the feast of St. Michaell the Archangell next followinge after the date hereof, or after. In witnes whereof I have sett hervnto my hand the Tweluth day of June, in Anno Domini 1569. By me, Humphrey Andrewes.” Annesley, of Arley Castle; as borne by Arthur Lyttelton Annesley, son of Major-General Norman M‘Leod, and nephew and heir of George Annesley, last Earl of Mountmorris, whose surname and arms he assumed on succeeding to the Arley and other estates. — Paly of six argent and azure, a bend gules. Crest : A Moor’s head in profile proper, wreathed about the temples argent and azure. Motto : “ Virtutis amore.” Apletree, of Egioke. — Or, on a fesse gules three lozenges vaire. {M.I. in St. Martin’s Church, Worcester, to Savage, son of John Apletree of Egioke, who died in 1713.) The same arms also occur at Inkberrow, impaling Savage. Appletree. — Sable, a lion rampant or. {Nl) This coat Nash ascribes to 'John Appletree, of Hanbury, High Sheriff in the 9th of William HI. Appurley, of Feckenham if). — Argent, a chevron between i6 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. three pine apples gules. (Seal of ... de Appirle, 1395. Dr. Prattmto 7 i}j Archbold, of Worcester. — Argent, a lion rampant between six fleurs de lis sable, a crescent for difference. Crest : A dove rising argent. These arms were allowed at the Visitation of London, in 1634, to Richard Archbold, of the Middle Temple, third son of Edward Archbold, “ of the College of Worcester.” They likewise occur on the monument of Nicholas Archbold, at St. Michael’s, Bedwardine. The pedigree of Archbold of Sherridge and Bedwardine, was en- tered at the Visitation of 1634, but no arms were exhibited. In the Add. MS.., 19,816, however, the family is stated to bear Argent, a lion rampant between three fleurs de lis sable. Archer, of Welland ; a branch of the Archers of Tanworth and Umberslade, co. Warwick, founded by John, second son of Humphrey Archer, of Tanworth, who married Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Richard Frewen, of Hanley, and had issue Edward, and seven other sons. John Archer died 29th May, 1640, and was buried at Welland. The pedigree was recorded at the two Visita- tions of 1634 and 1682-3. — Azure, three arrows, points downwards, two and one or. Crest : Out of a mural coronet or, a dragon’s head argent. (C. 30, Coll. Arm. fo. 87, and K. 4, fo. 160.) These bearings were confirmed in 1597 by Lee, Clarencieux, to Andrew Archer, of Tanworth (brother of the above John of Wel- land), ancestor of the Lords Archer of Umberslade ; but the mural coronet is tinctured in the Harl. MS., 1069, and it appears to have been so borne by the Lords Archer. Arden, of Park Hall, co. Warwick. The Ardens of Park Hall were Lords of Pedmore, in this county, a manor which they acquired through the marriage of Robert Arden, of Park Hall, with Elizabeth, daughter and THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, 17 heiress of Richard Clodshale, of Saltley. — Ermine, a fesse counter- componee or and azure. {In glass in Ped- more church.) In the Harl. MS., 1563, Arden quarters Clodshale, Bishopesdon, Golafer, and Fyfield.* Arderne. — Gules, three crosses crosslet fitchee or, a chief of the last. {Win. MS.) This is the coat of the Ardernes or Ardens, of Alvanley, co. Chester, as allowed in the successive Visitations of that county. Sir John de Arderne, son of Eustace de Watford, alias de Arderne, had a grant of the lands of Geoffrey de Sautemareis, by writ, to the Sheriff of Worcestershire, in 1216. He sealed with three garbs, the arms of his suzerain Ranulph, Earl of Chester; but his grand- father, Peter de Arderne, sealed with the above arms in 1288. {See The Topogi'apher and Genealogist, i. 215.) A RLE. See Haneord. Arundell. — Sable, six swallows in pile argent, three, two, and one. {Win. MS.) This coat was borne by Renefred Arundel, of Cornwall, Deputy Sheriff of this County in the 4th of Edward IV. The family was connected with that of Nanfan, and their arms are in Birtsmorton church. {See further in Nash, i., 86.) Asgil. — Azure, three ass’s heads erased argent. {Penn MS.) • Edward Asguile occurs in Penn’s list of those who were to find horse during the Civil Wars. Ashborne, as bor7ie te^np. Edward II., by Sir yohn de Asshe- borne,\ of Worcestershire. — Gules, a fesse between six martlets argent. {Roll of the date.) Burke {General Armory) ascribes this coat to ‘‘Ashborne, or Ash- bury, of Worcestershire.” The Crest is, A lion’s gamb holding a flag argent charged with an eagle displayed sable. The same writer also attributes to “ Ashbury, of Worcestershire,” Gules, a fesse be- tween three mullets argent. * Fyfield bore Ermine, on a bend engrailed azure three cinquefoils or. t Perhaps intended for Washborne. 3 i8 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Ashby, of Worcester. “He was Mayor of this Cittie, now deceased, who came of a very good family of the Ash- bies of Leicestershire.”' — Azure, a chevron ermine be- tween three leopard’s faces or. {Penn MS.) These arms are those of the ancient family of Ashby, of Quenby, CO. Leicester. Edward Ashby was Mayor of Worcester in 1659, and died during his year of office ; another Edward Ashby was also Mayor in 1673. The family appeared at the Visitation of 1682 — 3, when the above arms were disallowed, but they appear (with the Crest, On a mural crown, a leopard’s face or,) on the family monu- ment in St. Swithen’s Church, Worcester. Ashe, as quartered by Sebright. — Or, a saltire gules debruised by a fesse sable. {Hart. MS.y 1463,) Nash attributes this coat to Cowper, See Sebright. Ashwin, of Bretforton Manor ; as borne by W. H. Ashwin of Bretforton, son of the late James Ashwin, by Jane, nSe Collins, his wife, and grandson of James Ashwin, by Rebecca his wife, who was the daughter of John Hall, and Sarah his wife, daughter of Thomas Keyte, of the Ebrington family. — Azure, a chevron between three kite’s heads erased or. Crest : A Moor’s head in profile proper. Motto : “ Audax vincendo.” {Communicated^) The arms are those of Keyte, which have been adopted by this family, but are not registered at the College of Arms. Askam. — Gules, a fesse between three dolphins argent. (A^.) On the tomb of Penelope Walwyn, in Great Malvern Church. Astley. — Gules, a lion passant guardant between two crosses crosslet or. {Ni) The field should probably be semee of crosses crosslet. See the Heraldic Dictionaries. Astley, as borne by the Rev. John Astley, who died in 1783, aet. 64. — Azure, a cinquefoil ermine. {M.I. at Fladbttry.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 19 Aston, Lord A s^on, of Forfar ; as borne by the late Rev. Lord Aston, Vicar of Tardebigge. On the death without male issue, of James, fifth Lord Aston of Forfar, in the Peerage of Scotland, that title was claimed and assumed by Philip Aston, stated to be a grandson of Edward Aston, third son of Edward Aston, who was a grandson of William Aston, of Milwich, uncle of the first Lord Aston, in remainder to whose posterity the original patent was framed. This Philip Lord Aston died unmarried, in 1755, and was succeeded by his brother Walter, who dying likewise issueless, the dignity is stated to have passed to his cousin, Walter Aston, the son of Edward Aston, his father’s younger brother. This last named Walter married, in 1766, Anne, daughter of Peter Hutchinson, and, dying in 1805, was succeeded by his only surviving son, the late Walter Hutchinson Aston, Vicar of Tardebigge. One of these peers was a cook in the employ of Sir Mordaunt, bart., and another was a watchmaker. The Vicar of Tardebigge, who always assumed and bore the title of Lord Aston, and was so designated in the Roll of Justices of the Peace for the County of Worcester, presented a petition in 1819, pray- ing that he might be officially declared Baron Aston, of Forfar, but no decision was come to on the subject. He died unmarried on 21st January, 1845, and the title has since remained unclaimed. — Argent, a fesse sable, in chief three lozenges of the last. Crest : A bull’s head couped sable. Supporters : Two Roman knights com- pletely armed, faces, heads, and knees bare, with shields in their exterior hands. Motto: “ Numini et patriae asto.” 3—2 20 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. A TON. See Alton. Attwood, of Wolverley Court, Park A ttwood, and PerdiswelL This very ancient family, whose pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of 1634, was possessed of an estate at Trimpley and Wolverley at a very early period. In the 44th of Edward III., Sir John Attwood, knt., founded a chantry at Trimpley, which he endowed with lands in Kidderminster, Wolverley, and Rushock. The family also possessed estates at North wick, Worcester, Wichen- ford, and other parts of the county. In the reign of Henry VI., they were escheators of the county, justices of the peace, and esquires of the better sort. * The Attwoods continued at Wolverley till the i8th century. Abel Atwood, gent, who died in 1726, aged 66, is called on his tombstone, “ the last heir male of that elder house.” He was the eldest son of Henry Attwood, and appears to have left no surviving male issue. — Gules, a lion rampant double queued argent f (C 30, Coll. Arm, fo. 103.) Crest (as anciently represented in a window of Wolverley Church) : A swan’s head issuing from a coronet. J A branch of this family seated at Stoke Bishop, and Shirehamp- ton, in Gloucestershire, at the Visitation of that County in 1623, bore for arms, Gules, semee of acorns a lion rampant argent. The pedigree was entered by Robert Attwood, of Shirehampton, son of Arthur Attwood, and nephew of Anthony Attwood, of Wolverley. ^ Nash, ii., 471. t Hamlet Smethwick released all right in this coat to John Attwood, of Worcestershire, as having properly belonged to Sir John Attwood. {Pat. 6 H. VL, Ashmole MS., cited by Papworth. ) Nash says the Attwoods anciently bore a lion seizing on a conquered dragon, but that is a device which is fre- quently found on ancient seals, and can hardly be considered armorial. J Vide Nash, ii., 472. THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. 21 Penn attributes the double-tailed lion to “ Attwood of Severe.” ^ It is a “ very noble bearing (he says), and was thus bourne by Simon de Montford, Earle of Leicester, from whom they are de- sceiidedT Attwood, of Northwick. — Argent, a wolf salient gules be- tween three torteaux, all within a bordure of the second. {Penn MS.) In the 2nd of Richard III., John Attwood, esq., was the princi- pal tenant in Northwick. Aubrey. See Harris. Avenant, of Shelsley Walsh ; recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3, by Richard Avenant, grandson of Alexander Avenant, of Kingsnorton. — Ermine, on a pale gules a cross formed flory' or, on a chief sable a billet of the third within a mascle between two escallops argent. Crest : A parrot’s head erased vert, wings expanded per pale azure and gules, double collared or, holding in the beak of the third an olive branch of the first. {K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 118.) The same arms and crest were borne by Sir Alexander Avenon, Lord Mayor of London in 1569, the son of Robert Avenon, or Avenant, of Kingsnorton. See the Visitation of London, a®- 1568. Ayala. — Quarterly ist and 4th, Argent, two wolves passant in pale sable within a bordure gules charged with eight saltires or, for Ayala ; 2nd and 3rd, Or, a four-towered castle azure, for Castile. {N.) These arms were quartered by the Blounts, Lords Montjoy, and through them by the Windsors. Sir Walter Blount, so celebrated * George Attwood, of Bevere, died 17th February, 1732, aet. 80. He married Winifred, daughter and heiress of Thomas, fifth son of William Lord Petre, by Ursula his wife, daughter and heiress of Richard Brook, of Lapley Hill, CO. Stafford. She died 14th December, 1714, aged 77, and was buried with her husband at Claines. i^See Nash, Supplement, p. 18.) 22 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. for his martial prowess in the warlike times of Edward III., Richard IL, and Henry IV., married an attendant of Constantia of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt. This lady was Donna Sanchia de Ayala, daughter of Don Diego de Toledo, by his wife Inez Alfon de Ayala. The Blounts appear to have thought so highly of this descent, that in some instances we find the Spanish coats marshalled before the paternal coat of Blount. (Nichols’ notes to Dingley’s History from Marble.) Aylesbury, of Milto7t Keynes., Bucks. ; as quartered by Staf- ford. — Azure, a cross argent. (A^.) Aynesford, or Eynsford. — Gules, a fret ermine. (A^.) A quartering of Baskerville. Ayre. See Eyre. Babington. — Argent, ten torteaux, four, three, two, and one, a label of three points azure. (A^.) This coat was borne by Sir William Babington, of Kiddington, who obtained a grant of the manor of Broadway on the dissolution of Pershore Abbey. Of the same family was Gervase Babington, Bishop of Worcester, from 1597 to 1610. For a pedigree of this family in its various branches, See the Collectanea Heraldica et Gene- alogica, vols. ii. and viii., and The Topographer a 7 id Genealogist, i. 133. Babthorpe. — Sable, a chevron between three crescents or. Formerly in the Cathedral in glass. See Dr. Thomas’ Survey, p. 14. Bache, or Batch, of Northfielci, as borne by Thomas Bache^ or Batch, High Sheriff 5 th Anne. — Or, a lion rampant gules within a bordure sable bezantee. (N.) A family of this name, seated at Stanton, co. Derby, at Dugdale’s Visitation of that county in 1662-3, bore. Or, a lion rampant, sable, within a bordure azure bezantee. Crest : A lion issuant, holding between the paws a bezant. See Harl. MS. 6104. Badger, of Hatiley Castle. — Ermine, on a bend gules three eagles displayed or. {M. I. at Hanley Castle, to Mary, A Simon Bache, of Suckley, disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1634. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 23 late wife of John, son of Rowland Badger, and daughter of John Wakeman, of Beckford.) These arms were allowed at one of the Gloucestershire Visitations to the family of Badger, alias Bagehott, of Hall Place. The Crest is A bull’s head russet, between the horns a greyhound courant argent collared gules. {Harl. MS. T041.) Elizabeth, daughter and co- heiress of Rowland “ Badghot,” of Hanley Castle, was married to Nathaniel Bostock, M.D.; she died in 1682, and was buried at Sawston, co. Cambridge. Badger, of Pool House, Hanley Castle. — Or, a badger proper. (^•) Badger, of Upton. — Or, a badger passant azure. {Penn MS.) Badlesmere. — Argent, a fesse between two gemelles gules. (^•) This is the coat borne by the Lords Badlesmere. Margaret, third daughter of Bartholomew Lord Badlesmere, and sister and co- heiress of Giles Lord Badlesmere, married John Tiptoft, ancestor of John Earl of Worcester, whose sister and eventual co-heiress, Joice, married Sir Edmund Sutton, knt, son and heir of John Sutton, Lord Dudley. Bagehott, of Droitwich, — Or, on a bend gules three eagles displayed of the field. See Butler. Bagnall, of Wick and Worcester. — Ermines, two bars or, over all a lion rampant double queuee vert. Crest : An antelope sejant argent, billettee sable, horns and tail or, gorged with a collar, thereto affixed a chain reflexed over the back of the same. {N.) In the Penn MS., Bagnall, of Upper Wick, bears Ermines, two bars or, over all a lion rampant azure. Mr. William Bagnall, who bore these arms, is memorable for having mounted King Charles II., after his defeat at Worcester, under the following circumstances. After that disastrous battle his majesty was obliged to alight from his horse, to get into Sidbury Gate, and a cry being made for a horse to mount the king, Mr. Bagnall turned out his own horse, ready- saddled, upon which his majesty fled through St. Martin’s Gate. 24 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, Mr. Bagnall died September 21st, 1652, aged 36, and was buried in the church of St. Nicholas, Worcester. Bagot. — Argent, two chevrons azure. (As quartered by Coningsby). Another, Argent, a chevron gules between three martlets sable. (A".) The last coat is in glass, in the cathedral. These are the arms of the Bagots of Bagobs Bromley, co. Stafford. Sir John Bagot, (grandson of Sir William Bagot, of Bagot’s Bromley, who died in 1296) changed his arms from the two chevrons to a chevron between three black birds, being, says Nichols (History of Leicestershire)^ those of his mother. They took the two chevrons as descended from Stafford, who bore, Or, a chevron gules. Harvey Bagot, being “ in- vested with the Barony of Stafford,” called himself de Stafford, and took the Stafford arms, but charged the chevron with five plates. The Staffords, descended from Harvey, subsequently bore the un- differenced coat of their maternal ancestors ; and so (says Erdes- wick), “ have all the barons and earls of Stafford, and dukes of Bucks, being of that house ever since.” See Erdwicke’s Staffordshire, ed. 1844, p. 152. Bagshaw, of Inkberrow, — A pedigree of this family was en- tered at the Visitation of 1682-3 ; it commences with Arthur Bagshaw of Rush, in Inkberrow, gent., who paid a fine for refusing knighthood at the coronation of Charles I., and who is stated to have died in 1643, aged 105. — A bugle horn between three roses. (Disallowed at the Visitation.) “ Mr. Bagshaw produced a gold seal of these arms which he says was his great grandfather’s, but they are the arms of the Bagshaws of Ridge, and Farewell, co. Stafford. C. 4, 40, Vine. Staff. 107.” (Note in the Visitation Book, K. 4, Coll. Arm. fo. 51.) Baillie. — See Davies. Baker, of Northwick, Claines, — Argent, on a saltire engrailed sable five escallops of the field, on a chief of the second a lion passant of the first. {Penn MS) “ This hath beene, (says Penn,) a family of very good account. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 25 and reputation, formerly in this and the neighbouring parishes within this county/’ Baker, of Hill Court ; descended, says Nash, from the Aldingtons of Aldington. — Arms as Baker, of North- wick. Andrew Baker was of Hill Court in 1673. See Blome’s Britan 7 iia. Baker, of Feckenham^ Worcester ^ Stourbridge, and Londo 7 i. — Of this family was Sir William Baker, of London, knt. born 1705, ob. 1770, who married Mary, daughter of Jacob Tonson, the famous bookseller and publisher. Sir William was the son of John Baker, and grandson of Joseph Baker, Minister of St. Andrew’s, Worcester. The family is now seated at Bayfordbury, Herts. A copious pedigree is given in Berry’s Hertfordshire Pedigrees , — Or, a greyhound courant between two bars sable. Crest : A cockatrice ermine combed and wattled gules. (Allowed to Baker, of Feckenham, at the Visitation of 1682-3. K. 4, Coll. Arm, fo. 102.) The same arms and crest were confirmed by Cooke, Clarencieux, on lothMay, 1573, to George Baker, of London, (“son of Christopher Baker of Tenterden, son of John Baker of the same place, who was son of Symond Baker of Feversham,”) and the descendants of his father. (See Hart. MS. 1422, and Mis. Gen. et Her. ii. i.) The Bay- fordbury family received from the Herald’s College, on 1 3th May, 1802, a grant of the following bearings : — Per pale ermine and gules, a greyhound courant between two bars invented, in chief two quatre- foils, and another in base all counterchanged. Crest : A cockatrice per fesse indented erminois and pean, combed, &c., gules, gorged with a collar azure, in the beak a quatrefoil vert. Motto : “ So run that ye may obtain.” Baker, of Wares ley. — Thomas Baker, of Borley in Ombers- ley, was father, by his wife Elizabeth, n^e Aston, of two sons, John of Waresley, and the Rev. Thomas Baker, Vicar of Bibury, co. Gloucester, from whom the Bakers 4 26 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. of Hardwicke Court, in that county, are descended.* The elder son, John Baker, born in 1684, was High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1728. By Joanna, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Slade of Bewdley, he had issue three sons, John, Slade, and George, and a daughter Katherine, married to William Pyndar, brother of Regi- nald Pyndar, ancestor of the Earl Beauchamp. The eldest son, John Baker, of Waresley, married Anne Southall, by whom he was father of an only surviving son, John Baker of Waresley, High Sheriff in 1788; he married Mary only daughter and heiress of William Wal- dron, of Hagley, and of Stourbridge, banker, and had issue, two sons, and four daughters, viz. John of Wares- ley, High Sheriff in 1812, who married Barbara St. John, but left no surviving issue, and Thomas William Waldron Baker, lieutenant in the army, who died s.p. The daughters were all unmarried except Margaret Anne, who espoused Charles Bernard, of Oldcastle, co. Carmar- then ; and the Waresley estate is now possessed by her and her two surviving sisters. Slade Baker, (the second son of John and Joanna n^e Slade,) married Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremy Innes, of Redland Court, co. Glou- cester, and was ancestor of the Bakers of Westhay, co. Somerset. George, their third son, who was rector of Quenington, Gloucestershire, had with other issue, a son Thomas Baker, father of the present Slade Baker, of Sandbourne, near Bewdley, J.P. and D.L., whose eldest son, by his wife Isabella Broome, the Rev. Slade Baker, is vicar of Clifton-on-Teme. — Argent, on a fesse See Lloyd. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 27 engrailed between three swan’s heads and necks erased or, ducally gorged and beaked gules, as many cinquefoils of the last. Crest A naked dexter arm, embowed proper, grasping a swan’s head erased and ducally gorged as in the arms. {Seal of John Baker, of Wares ley, 1 788.) It is slated, in the Penn MS., that the above is the ancient and correct bearing of Baker, but “ of later years they have both altered and left out some part of their former bearing as you may here see,’^ viz. : — Azure, a fesse between three swan’s heads erased argent beaked gules. Baker, of Thorngrove ; and of Lypiat Park, co. Gloucester ; as borne by the late .Samuel Baker of Thorngrove, high sheriff of Worcestershire in 1858. Mr. Baker, (who was born in 1793, and died in 1862,) was descended from an ancient family seated at Cranbrooke, in Kent, as early as the reign of Edward III., the elder branch of which ob- tained a baronetcy in 16 ii. The immediate ancestor of the family, now under notice, was James Baker, of Poole, Dorset, a sea-captain, younger son of Richard Baker, of Cranbrook, and brother of Sir John Baker of Sissing- hurst, CO. Kent, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of the Council, and a Privy Counsellor in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. Seventh in descent from James, was Valentine Baker, whose father, John, grand- father, Joseph, great grandfather, Walter, and many others of the family, were naval officers. This Valentine ^ According to Burke, the crest borne by the Bakers of Westhay is an arm etnhowed in mail, the under vest seen at the elbow vei't, the ha?id proper grasping a swan's neck as in the arms beaked gules. The same writer gives the arms of the Hardwick branch of the family as Azure three swan's heads erased argent ducally gorged or ; but the Rev. William Lloyd Baker bore the arms with the fesse and cinquefoils, as appears from an old engraving of his arms, dated 1789. 4 — 2 28 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Baker, who was born in 1737, commanded the Letter of Marque, “ Caesar,” 18 guns, with which he fought a very- gallant action with a 3 2 -gun French frigate, compelling her to strike her flag. He married Eleanor, daughter of Samuel Mattick, and had, with other issue, the late Samuel Baker of Thorngrove, who married Mary Anne, daughter of Thomas Dobson, of Forty Hill, Enfield, and by her was father of four surviving sons : Sir Samuel Baker, knt., the well-known African explorer, discoverer of the lake Albert Nyanza, John Garland Baker, of Prescot, CO. Gloucester, Valentine Baker, Lieut.-Col. of the loth Hussars, and James Baker, late of the 8th Hussars, and since Lieut.-Col. of the Cambridge Uni- versity Volunteers. — Azure, on a fesse, between three swan’s heads erased or, ducally gorged gules, as many cinquefoils pierced of the last. Crest A swan’s head erased or, ducally gorged gules. Motto : “ Persevero.” (From a pedigree co 7 nmunicated by Col. \yames\ Baker i) Baker, of Northfield and London^ confirmed by Ryley, 20th June, 1646. — Ermine, a fesse engrailed between three horse’s heads couped sable ; quartering, (in right of the marriage of Edward Baker with Jane, daughter and co- heiress of Clement Underhill, of co. Warwick), Argent, a chevron sable between three trefoils slipped vert, for Underhill. Crest : A hand issuing out of clouds proper, holding a cross calvary sable ; over it, on a scroll, the motto, “ Nemo sine cruce beatus.” i^Add. MS. 19,816.) ^ The Sissinghurst branch bore, for crest, A dexter arm holding a swan’s head. THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. 29 Baldington. — Argent, on a chevron sable between three pellets as many roses of the field. (iV.) Quartered by Gates in Broadwas church. Baldwin, of Aylesbttry, Bticks ; as quartered by Pakington, in right of descent from the marriage of Robert Paking- ton with Catherine, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Baldwin, knt, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. — Argent, six oak leaves in three pairs, two in chief, and one in base, the points turning over stalked sable ; quar- tering Arden. This coat occurs among the Pakington quarterings at Hampton Lovett. Nash incorrectly blazons it, Argent, three double stalks with hops sable. Baldwyn, of Diddlebury alias Delbury^ and Elsich^ Salop ; and of Bockleton. — Argent, a saltire sable. Crest : On a mount vert, a cockatrice argent, combed, wattled, beaked, ducally gorged and lined or. {Penn MS.) See Acton. Ball. — Per chevron or and azure, three roundles counter- changed. {M. I. in St. Helens Chtcrch, Worcester^ to Anthony Ball, who died in 1679. — Dr. Prattinton.) Ballard, of Evesham. — Sable, a griffin segreant ermine beak and fore legs or. Crest : A griffin’s head erased argent. {Prattinton MSS.) Philip Ballard, alias Hawford, succeeded Clement Lichfield as Abbot of Evesham ; he died in 1557, and was buried in the Cathe- dral at Worcester. “ There are some of his name at this day (says Dingley) in Evesham.” Ballard, of Suckley. The same, but the griffin segreant ai^gent. {Dr. Prattmtoni) John Ballard of Suckley disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1682-3. 30 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. Bancks, of Bewdley ; descended from Christopher Bancks, of Wigan, CO. Lancaster, who settled at Bewdley circa 1698. — Sable, a cross or between four fleurs de lis argent. Crest : A griffin segreant supporting a fleur de lis {Seal, and Prattinton MSS.) Bandhill ; attributed by Nash to William de Bandhill, or Baudehall, Deputy Sheriff of Worcestershire, in the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of Henry III. — Per pale ermine and sable, a chevron engrailed counterchanged. The Heraldic Dictionaries ascribe a similar coat to Blundell and • Blunder. Barber ; as borne by John Barber, M.A., Barrister- at-law. Captain, Worcestershire Militia, and a County Magistrate. ■ — Argent, two chevrons between three fleurs de lis gules, a bordure of the last. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet, a bulls head. {Communicated^) Bardolphe, of Norfolk and Worcestershire. — Azure, three cinquefoils pierced or. (Berry s EncyclopcBdia.) Barker, of Oakley, Salwarpe. — Per fesse nebulee sable and or, three martlets counterchanged. {N., &c.) Nash attributes the same arms to John Barker, of Worcester, High Sheriff in 6th Charles H. They also occur in St. Swithen’s Clmrch, Worcester, on the monument of Elizabeth, wife of Simon Barker, of Worcester, gent., who died in 1694. Vide Nash, Ad~ de 7 ida. Barker, of Churchill, near Bredicot. — Azure, a fesse nebulee between three martlets or. {M.I. at Chu.r chill to Thomas Barker, qui obiit 1688. — Nash, i., 195.) Barker, of Worcester. — Azure, five escallops in cross or. Crest : On a rock proper, a bird or. {Harl. MSS., 1566 and 5814.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 31 Barkesdale, as borne by Barkesdale, Prebendary of Worcester. — Azure, a fesse argent between a wheel or, and a sword in pale, point upwards, hilt of the last. (Dr, Prattinton.') Barneby, of the Hill or Hull^ and Acton^ since of Brockhamp- ton, CO, Hereford, This ancient family, whose pedigree and arms were recorded at the three Visitations of 1569, 1634, and 1682-3, is extinct in the male line, but is now represented by John Habingdon Barneby- Lutley, of Brockhampton, son of the late John Barneby, sometime M.P. for the eastern division of the county of Worcester, and great-grandson of Bartholomew Richard Lutley, who assumed, by Act of Parliament, in 1735, the surname and arms of Barneby, on succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle, John Barneby, of Brockhampton. The present representative was authorised by Royal Licence, dated 29th November, 1864, to resume the ancient paternal surname of his family, in addition to and after that of Barneby. — Sable, a lion passant guardant between three escallops argent. Crest : A lion couchant guardant sable purfled or. Motto : “ Virtute non vi.’' ' (C 30, and K, 4, Coll, Arm, ff. 82b and 66.) — See Lutley. These were the bearings allowed to the family in i634and 1682-3, but in the Visitation Book of 1569, the field of the arms is argent , and the lion and escallops are sable. {Vide D. 12, Coll. Arm. fo. 38.) Barnes, of Talton, in Tredmgton ; granted to Robert Barnes, 22nd Henry VI., and allowed at the Visitation of 1634. — Quarterly ist and 4th,. Quarterly or and vert, a cinque- foil argent, ior Barnes ; 2nd and 3rd, Quarterly azure and 32 THE HERALDRY OE IVOR CES TER S/LIRE. gules, a cross engrailed ermine, for Barney. Crest : A barnacle, wings displayed proper. (C. 30, Coll. Ar 7 n. fo. 57; Harl. MS. 1566, &c.) Barnesley ; entered at the Visitation of 1533. — Argent, on a bend azure, cottised sable three trefoils or. {H. 20. Coll. Arn^. fo. 81.) Barnesley, of Bai^iiesley Hall, near Bi^oinsgrove. — Sable, a cross between four roses argent, barbed and seeded proper. Crest : A man’s head and bust couped affrontee proper, the hair grey. Motto : “ Ut rosa sic vita.” (C. 30, Coll. Arm. fo. 107 ; Harl. MS. 1043 J MS.) “There is reason to believe (says Nash, i, p. 155) that a family of the same name lived at Barnesley Hall, from a very early period, though no authentic evidence fixes it sooner than the reign of Edward III. They were descended from the Ardens, of Park Hall, in Warwickshire. Barnesley Hall was in the possession of a Mr. Barnesley in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and William Barnesley, of Barnesley Hall, gent, entered his pedigree at the Visitation of 1634.” The Chances of Catshill and Hadsor, appear to have mar- ried an heiress of this family, for Nash mentions that the Barnesley arms are upon the tombstone of William Chance, who died in 1622, at Bromsgrove, and upon that of Christopher Chance, who died in 1625, at Hadsor. Thomas Chance of Hadsor, refused knighthood at the Coronation of Charles I. Barnet ; Bishop of Wo 7 %ester, 1362-3. — Argent, a saltire sable in chief a leopard’s face of the last. {Bedford.) Barney. See Barnes. Barnfield. — Or, on a bend gules three mullets of the field. {N.) In the south window of the south aisle of Severn Stoke Church. Nash ii., 344. Barrett, of Droitwich. — Cheeky argent and sable. {Penn MS.) THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. 33 Barrett, of Bewdley, and of Shropshire. — Gules, on a chief indented argent three escallops sable. Crest : A lion rampant or, holding between the fore paws an escallop sable. {Harl. MS., 1396 ; and Banner Displayed.) There is a pedigree of this family brought down to the year 1718 in the above cited MS., fo. 59. They were connected with the Corbetts, of Shropshire. Bartlet, of Castle-Morton, and of Saintbury, co. Gloticester. — Quarterly per fesse indented argent and gules, four crescents counterchanged. Crest : A pheasant proper. {Harl. MSS., 615 and 1566.) These are really the arms of the family of Stopham, of Stopham, CO. Sussex, as quartered by the Bartelotts of that place, in right of descent from the marriage of John de Bartelott, with Joan, daughter and co-heiress of William de Stopham. The Bartelotts of Stop- ham, (who are placed by Mr. Shirley among the gentle families of Sussex,) bear for arms, Sable, three falconer’s sinister gloves pendent argent tasselled or ; and for crest, A. swan couched argent, wings expanded in dorso. These arms were confirmed, and the crest granted to the family, by William Segar, Garter, on 27 th October, 1616."' Nash, in his second volume, p. no, gives a pedigree of the Bartlets, of Castle-Morton, and there ascribes to them the Stopham coat quartering Sable, three dexter gauntlets open and erect argent, — an evident mis-reading of the arms confirmed by Segar ; but his pedigree does not shew any connection with the Sussex family, nor does Rudder, who, under Samtbury, gives a short ac- count of the Bartlets, suggest any such connection. 'A notable member of the Castle-Morton family was Richard Bartlet (brother of Edmund, of Castle-Morton). He was educated, says Nash, at All Souls’ College, Oxford, was physician to King Henry VIIL, and president of the College. He acquired a great name, and a very considerable fortune, purchased many of the Abbey lands, and died in the year 1556, aged 87. t * See Berry’s Sussex Pedigrees, p. 178. Segar at the same time confirmed to the family several quarterings, inter alia the ensigns of Stopham, Lewknor, D’Oyley, and Tregoz. t A “ Thomas Bartlett, of Evesham,” disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1682-3. Probably he supposed himself to be a descendant of the Castle- 5 34 THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. ' Barton. — Argent, three boar’s heads couped sable tusked gules. (A^.) Barugham, or Bermingham ; as borne by Sir Walter de Barugham, or Bermingham, of Worcestershire. — Sable, a cross between four crescents argent. {Harl. MS., 1566.) Baskerville, of W olvershill, Defford, Sapey, &c. ; a very ancient Herefordshire family, whose arms were quartered by Talbot. Sir Thomas Baskerville, of Wolvershill, (third son of Sir James Baskerville, of Eardisley, co. Hereford, who died in 1546,) married Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Habingdon, of Brockhampton, by whom he had issue an only daughter and heiress, Eleanor, married to John Talbot, father of John, tenth Earl of Shrewsbury. — Argent, a chevron gules between three hurts. (W) Bassett, of Drayton, co. Stafford. — Or, three piles in point gules, a canton ermine. {N.) This coat occurs in glass in Worcester Cathedral, and at Hartle- bury. The Staffords of Grafton quartered for Bassett of Weldon Or, three piles gules within a bordure sable bezantee. Ralph Lord Bassett of Weldon, who died in 1341, had issue a daughter, Joan, married to Sir Thomas Aylesbury, knt. ; their son. Sir J ohn Ayles- bury (who was one of the heirs of Bassett), was father of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, knt., who, by Katherine his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir Lawrence Pabenham, had issue a daughter and co-heiress, Eleanor, married to Sir Humphrey Stafford, of Grafton, knt. {See Nichols’ Leicestershire, iv., 905 ; and Baker’s Northampt 07 ishire, i., 356.) Bassett ; as quartered by Winter. — Ermine, on a chief in- dented gules three mullets or. (Hart. MS., 1566.) Morton family. He appears to be the Thomas Bartlett, gent., a “ professor of physick,” who died in 1686, aet. 49, and to wLose memory there is a small monument in All Saints’ church, Evesham. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 35 Bassett. See Blount. Bastard. “ In a 'scutcheon on a 'scutcheon three leopard’s heads." {Habingdo 7 i.) The arms of Thomas Bastard, rector of Ripple, who died in 1584, as represented in glass in Ripple church. {Dr. Prattinion.) Batch. See Bache. Bate, of Stourbridge ; as borne by George Bate, of Gothers- ley House. — Sable, a fesse engrailed between three dexter hands erased at the wrist and bend-ways argent Crest : A stag’s head erased, transfixed with an arrow proper. Motto : “ Fert palmam, mereat" (Burke’s Armory i) These bearings were granted by Flower, Norroy, 8th February, 1565, to Leonard Bate, of “ Lupset,” co. York, and his descendants. {See Hart. MS., 1069, and Aid. MS., 14,295.) They were used by the late Thomas Bate, of Stourbridge, banker, and by his brothers, Robert Brettell Bate, citizen of London, John Henzey Bate, and George Bate (not Bates, as Burke has it), of Gothersley ; sons of Overs Bate, of Stourbridge, by Susannah his wife, daughter and co- heiress of John Brettell, and Anne his wife, only daughter and heiress of Paul Henzey. See Henzey. Bate. See Dudley. Bateley. — Or, a fesse embattled sable. (A^.) Quartered by Copley, of Bredon. Baude. See Byde. Baugh, of Pensham, Per shore, Tibberton, attd Twining; en- tered at the Visitation of 1682-3. — Gules, a fesse vaire between three mullets argent. Crest : On a ducal coro- net or, a talbot sejant sable. {K. 4, Coll. Arm. ff. 33 and 146.) The pedigree of this family was also recorded at the Visitation of 1634, but no arms were then exhibited. Baugh, ^ of Twining (co. 5—2 36 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Gloucester), also bore Or, a fesse wavy between six labels of three points sable, which arms were impaled by Hancock, in Tewkesbury church, in right of his wife, the eldest of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Baugh, of Twining, who died in 1682. Bayledon, of dairies ; entered at the Visitation of 1634. — Argent, a fesse between three fleurs de lis sable. (C. 30, ColL Arm., fo. 105.) Baylies, of Evesham ; as represented on the monument, in the Church of All Saints’, Evesham, of Anne, wife of Wil- liam Baylies, apothecary, who died Feb. 23rd, 1732, aet. 44. She was the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Fletcher, Rector of Codington, Oxfordshire. — Quarterly i stand 4th: Azure, eleven estoiles, three, two, three, two, and one or ; 2nd and 3rd : Ermine, on a chief sable three battle axes or (for SheppardT). Crest : (as blazoned by Dr. Prat- tinton) A buck salient regardant argent attired or, from a fire-ball vert. • William Baylies, M.D., of Evesham (son of the above William), sometime physician to the Middlesex Hospital, and afterwards to the King of Prussia, unsuccessfully contested the borough of Evesham, in 1761. He married the daughter and heiress of Thomas Cookes, a wealthy attorney of Evesham. {See May’s History of Evesham, and the Gentleman's Magazine for June, 1846, p. 592.) Baynham. — Gules, a chevron between three bull’s heads cabossed argent armed or. (W.) An impalement of Walsh, of Shelsley, and Jeffries, of Home Castle. Beake. — Gules, a cross moline argent, a crescent for dif- ference. {Penn MS.) Beale, See Cooper. Bearcroft, of Mere Hall, near Droitwich, Shurnock Court, and Worcester, This ancient family, which is said to have been resident at Mere Green, as early as the fourteenth THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 37 century, is extinct in the male line; Edward Henry Bear- croft, father of the present Edward Bearcroft, of Mere Hall, High Sheriff in 1854, having assumed the surname and arms on his marriage with the heiress. The family is entitled to quarter the arms of Jennetts in right of the marriage of John Bearcroft, of Mere Green, with Eliza- beth, daughter and co-heiress of Humphrey Jennetts, of Norgrove, (sister of Anne, wife of William Cookes) ; and those of Egioke, in right of the marriage of Philip Bear- croft, (his son), with Elizabeth, second daughter and co- heiress of Erancis Egioke, of Egioke and Shurnock. — Sable, on a chevron, between three bear s heads erased argent, a mullet between two crescents gules. Crest : A demi-bear rampant gules muzzled or. Motto : “ dementia non crudelitate.” {HarL MS., 5841 ; Penn M.S.; and C. 30, and K, 4, Coll. Arm.) “ The above arms and crest were exemplified by Sir Richard St. George, knt, Clarencieux king of arms, to Philip Bearcroft, of Mere Green, and to Thomas Bearcroft, late of Temple Broughton, in Hanbury. In the year 1634, the pedigree of Bearcroft was entered at the visitation then made, by Philip Bearcroft, of Mere Green Hall, and Edmund Bearcroft of Dormston ; and again at the Visita- tion of 1682-3, by John Bearcroft, of Shurnock Court, and Philip Bearcroft of Tibberton.’^ i^Dr. Prattmtonl) Burke attributes to Bear- croft of Worcestershire — Sable, 011 a chevron between three bear's heads erased argent, three swans close of the first; and to Bearcroft of the same county. Argent on a chevron three ^millets sable. Bearpacker, of CO . Gloucester. See Dighton. Beauchamp, of Elmley Castle. Among the most eminent Norman families in the train of the Conqueror, says Burke, was that of Beauchamp, and among those that shared most liberally in the spoils of the conquest, was Hugh de Beauchamp, the companion in arms of the vic- torious Norman, who obtained grants to a very great ex- 38 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. tent, from his triumphant chief. His third son, Walter de Beauchamp, of Elmley castle, married Emmeline, daughter of Urso D’Abbetot, constable of the castle of Worcester, and hereditary sheriff of this county, and was invested with that shrivealty by Henry L; he also ob- tained from the same monarch a grant of all the lands belonging to his wife’s brother, Roger de Worcester, or D’Abbetot (who had been dis-seised of his vast posses- sions for having in a fit of ungovernable rage, commanded one of the king’s officers to be slain,) together with a con- firmation of certain lands given to him by Adeliza, widow of his father-in-law the said Urso. William de Beau- champ, of Elmley castle, (which was the chief seat of the family in Worcestershire,) having married Isabel de Mau- duit, sister and heiress of William de Mauduit, Earl of Warwick, acquired for his family that ancient earldom. He died in 1269, having had with other issue, three sons ; William, from whom came the earls of Warwick; Walter, of Alcester, ancestor of the Lords Beauchamp, of Po- wick, extinct in 1496 ; and John, of Holt, ancestor of the Lords Beauchamp of Kidderminster extinct in 1420. From one of his daughters came the Lords Sudeley, and from another, Sarah, the earls of Shrewsbury were de- scended ; indeed the Beauchamp blood is widely diffused among our high nobility. — Gules, a fesse or. This was the ancient coat of Beauchamp as borne temp. Edward III. by William Beauchamp de “Almeley”; but William Beauchamp, who married Mauduit’s heiress, added six crosses crosslet or to his paternal shield ; other branches of the family bore their fesse between martlets, billets, &c. The crest of the earls of Warwick was a swaiHs head gides in a ducal coronet or. Mr. John Gough Nichols, in a very able and interesting paper on Livery collars, in the THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. 39 Gentleman’s Magazine,” for 1842,* surmises that the swan crest of Beauchamp was derived from the family of Tony. Alice, the sister and co-heiress of Robert de 'fony, was married to Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. His son, Thomas Beauchamp, third earl of Warwick, and K.G., in his very magnificent seal, made in 1343, As represented wearing the swan as a crest. On the seal of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, K.G., (the matrix of which is now pre- served in the British Museum,) he wears for crest a swan rising out of a coronet. The house of Greville, now earls of Warwick, has the same crest, and for supporters two swans, gorged with coronets. Earl Beauchamp also has a swan for his sinister supporter, his dexter supporter being the well-known heart of the ancient house of Beauchamp. Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester. Richard Beauchamp Lord of Abergavenny, second son of Thomas, third- earl of Warwick, was created Earl of Worcester by Henry V., in 1420, for his valour and fidelity in the French wars ; but dying without male issue in 1422, the title became extinct. — Gules, a fesse between six crosses crosslet or. Beauchamp, of Holt Castle. John de Beauchamp, of Holt, great-grandson of William, Lord of Elmley, and his wife, Isabel Mauduit, was elevated to the peerage as Baron Beauchamp, of Kidderminster, by patent dated 'October loth, 1387. This was the first barony conferred by patent in England, but the dignity speedily expired, for Lord Beauchamp was attainted of treason the same year, and beheaded. He had issue by Joan, his wife, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitzwith, a son, John * Part ii. p. 356. t An old cognizance of the earls of Warwick is a bear supporting a ragged staff, which, though attributed to the famous Guy, was probably assumed by the Beauchamps, and derived from the device of their ancestor Urso. On the seal of Richard de Beauchamp, who died in 1439, the shield is supported by two such bears. The same device was also used by the Nevilles and Dudleys, earls of Warwick. 40 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. Beauchamp, who died in 1420, leaving an only daughter and heiress, Margaret, married first to John Pauncefort, and secondly to John Wysham. — Gules, a fesse between six billets or. Crest : A swan’s head and neck argent beaked gules, between two wings sable. Nash says, (vol. i. p. 594,) that Lord Beauchamp had by his wife daughter of Sir John Attwood, hit., a son named John Beauchamp, who, after the death of Sir John Attwood, 15 Richard II., 1391-2, became heir of his lands in Gloucestershire, but enjoyed no part of his Worcestershire estates. He adds that this match between Beauchamp and Attwood is noticed in Holt church, where Beau- champ “ impales Attwood as a match, but doth not quarter Attwood’s arms as his heir.” Joan Fitzwith, Dugdale informs us, proved her age, in 49 Edward HI.; and she is mentioned as Beauchamp’s wife in records of temp. Edward HI. That the second John Beauchamp was her son is certain, for he inherited lands in Warwickshire as heir to his mother. The arms of Fitzwith were Gules, two bends or, and Dingley, in the Alphabet of Arms prefixed to his ‘‘History from Mar- ble,” attributes the same coat to Attwood ; perhaps, therefore, it was this coat which Beauchamp impaled at Holt. The second John Beau- champ, of Holt, married, according to Dugdale, a lady, whose baptis- mal name was Alice, but she could not have been Attwood’s daughter, for, in the year 1392, when he is said to have become heir to Attwood’s lands, he was only 15 years of age.* There is some confusion in the various accounts given of the heirs of John Lord Beauchamp. Dugdale says {sub Bobbenhall), that the Crofts, Guises and Blounts must have been co-heirs of Margaret Beauchamp ; and he particularly names Croft as inheriting from Wysham, though he admits his inability to explain how. Under Shelsley, Nash says that John Wysham mar- ried the co-heir of John Beauchamp, and that when the Beau- champs of Holt failed of issue male, their estates were dispersed among daughters ; John Croft, co-heir of Sir John Beauchamp, and John Guise of Elemore, descended from Wysham’s heir, who in- herited from Sir John Beauchamp, dividing Shelsley between them. But he states in vol. i., p. 594, that the “ other co-heir of Beauchamp married Skull, and he mentions an old monument in Holt church whereon are the arms of Skull impaling Beauchamp. In old MSS., however, Croft quarters Skull, and it is stated that Sir Edward Croft married Joyce, daughter and heiress of Walter Skull, of Holt.” * He was aged 10 at the death of his father in 1387. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, 41 Beauchamp, of Powick, and of Beauchanif s Court,, Alcester, CO, Warwick ; founded by Walter Beauchamp, a younger son of William Beauchamp, Lord of Elmley, and his wife, Isabel Mauduit. John Beauchamp, son of William Beauchamp, by Catherine, daughter and eventually co- heiress of Sir Gerard de Ufflete, knt., was created Baron Beauchamp, of Powick, by patent dated May 2nd, 1447. H e was succeeded by his son Richard, who, dying without male issue, in 1496, the title became extinct, and the estates passed to his daughters as co-heiresses, one of whom, Anne, married, about the year 1483, Thomas Lygon, of Madresfield, ancestor of the Earl Beauchamp. — Gules, a fesse between six martlets or.’^ Beauchamp, of New land and Powick; as borne by John Beau- champ, of Newland, gent, who died in 1674, aet 65, and was buried at St. Swithen’s, Worcester. — Gules, a fesse between six billets or, a canton ermine. Crest : A tiger statant or, vulned in the shoulder proper. {M.L at St. Switked s.) These arms and crest are stated in the HarL MS. 5841, to have been exemplified by letters patent dated February 15th, 1586, 29th Elizabeth, to John Beauchamp of Powick, gent. “From John Beauchamp, Baron of Holt,” says Dingley,t “descended the Beau- champs of Newnham, in Worcestershire, the heire apparent whereof is John T son of William Beauchamp, merchant in London. Of this family was William Beauchamp, the mayor of Worcester city, A.D. 1636 ; and a daughter of this ancient family now living is y® wife of William Swift, esquire. These branches give the same coat, with their ancestor, only with this addition, a canton ermine.” The writer of the Winnington MS. says, “ I know but one of the name now remaininge, which was lately in Bridgnorth, in the visitt of this * The Beauchamps, Barons St. Armand, who were a junior branch of the Powick family, bore this coat within a bordure argent, t “History from Marble,” Camden Society, p. 281. 6 42 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. king’s reign.” These arms are now borne by the baronetical family of Beauchamp-Proctor, who are descended from Ephraim Beau- champ, citizen and mason of London, who died in 1728, aged 67. Beauchamp. — Gules, a fesse between three crosses bottonee or. {Perm MS.) Beauchamp. — Gules, a fesse between six pears slipped or. {Pemt MS.) Beauchamp.^ — Gules, a chevron between three pears, slipped or. {Penn MS.) Beaufitz, of East Leach, co. Gloucester. — Barry of six indented or and azure, a canton argent. (iV.) Sub Hindlip, Nash blazons this coat Lozengy or and azure, a canton argent, which is probably the correct blazon. He also attri- butes to the family Argent, three head-pieces azure. Both these coats were quartered by Habingdon, in right of the marriage of William de Habingdon with Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Beaufitz of East Leach. Beaufo. See Lench. Bedford, of the Abbey Hotise, Per shore, and of Droitwich, a family long settled in the neighbourhood of the latter town. William Bedford, F.S.A., whose mother, Eliza- beth, was the daughter and heiress of John Yeend of Pershore, married, in 1 784, Lydia, eldest daughter and co-heiress of the Rev. Richard Blisse Riland, rector of Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, and died in 1832, having had issue a son, the Rev. William Riland Bedford, rector of Sutton Coldfield, from 1822 to 1843, whose son, (by his wife, Grace Campbell, daughter of Charles Sharpe, of Hoddam Castle, Dumfriesshire,) the Rev. William Kirk- Patrick Riland Bedford, now rector of Sutton Coldfield, author of Blazon of Episcopacy, is the senior represen- tative of the family. The Pershore estate went to John, the second brother of the above William Bedford ; he THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 43 was father of the late John Yeend Bedford, of the Abbey, Pershore, who married in 1822, Catherine, only daughter of Edward Jenner, M.D., by whom he had issue an only child and heiress, Catherine Sarah Jenner, married, in 1854, to Henry Sales Scobell. — Argent, three bears’ paws erased within a bordure engrailed sable ; quartering (for Yeend) Ermine, a chevron vaire between three roses gules. Crest : A demi-lion rampant sable, muraliy crowned or, holding between the paws a bezant. Motto : “ Animum fortuna sequatur.” (Communicated^j Beke. — Gules, a cross moline argent. (A".) One of the Willoughby quarterings in Welland church. Belesme. — Azure, a lion rampant within a plain bordure or, (^■) This coat, which is quartered by Talbot, and sometimes used as the paternal coat of that family, is the bearing attributed to Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury (the “ Comes Rogerus ” of Domesday), who married Mabel, only child and heiress of William de Belesme, called “Talvaise.” The surname de Belesme has been frequently applied to Roger and his family ; but the arms attributed to Belesme are Bendy or and azure, a coat which in different, tinc- tures was also anciently borne by Talbot. Belett. — Argent, on a chief gules three cinquefoils of the field. {l\ick in the Harl. MS., 1566.) Michael Belett, of Wroxton, co. Oxford, was Sheriff of Worces- tershire from the 22nd to the 29th of Henry II. The above coat was borne temp. Edward II. by Sir Yngram Belet, of Norfolk. {Nicolas Eoll.) Bell,'^ of Bromsgrove. — Argent, on a chevron between three * In 1632 there was printed at Douay a curious work, called “The Testa- ment of William Bel, of Temple Broughton, left written in his owne hand, sett ovt above 33 yeares after hys death, with Annotations by his sonne Francise Bel, of the Order of Freers Minors of the College of Dovvay,” i2mo. This William Bel was “cruelly martyred” at Tyburn, nth Dec., 6 — 2 44 THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. escallops gules two barrulets (or rather bars gemelles) of the field, on a chief of the second a hawk’s lure between two falcons of the first. [Penn MS.) A coat resembling this, except that hawk’s bells are substituted for escallops, and martlets for falcons, was granted by Barker, in 1542, to Thomas Bell, of Gloucester, gentleman. The grant is printed in Uallaway’s Heraldry, p. 171. Bell, as borne by John Bell, (a native of this county,) Bishop of Worcester from 1539 to 1543. — Sable, on a chevron argent between three griffins’ heads erased or, as many Moors’ heads couped proper filleted of the second, on a chief of the last a cross potent between two fieurs de lis gold. [Bedford}) Bellamont, or Bex\umont, Earl of Worcester, 1 1 14. — Lozengy or and azure, a bordure gules charged with eight plates. Bellamy. — Sable, on a bend or cottised argent, three crescents azure. Crest : A cubit arm erect vested sable, cuffed argent, in the hand proper a sceptre or, on the top thereof a crescent argent. These arms and crest were allowed at the Visitation of London, in 1633, to Edward Bellamy, of London, fishmonger, son of Robert Bellamy, of Wytham, co. Worcester. [See Harl. MS., A 1643. In his will he gives an account of his ancestors and family, and of the lands held by them in Worcestershire, from the time of Edward 1 . The name was originally dc Belne, afterwards shortened to Bel, or Bell. It is asserted that the manors of Bromsgrove and Kingsnorton belonged to this family. W. Bel, the martyr, came to London as a law student, and shared the “ cham- ber and bed of that worshipfull gentleman, Mr. George Shirley.” (Hotten’s Ha 7 idbook to Topography and Family History, p. 279.) A Mr. Bell was deputy steward of the manor of Bromsgrove in the reign of Elizabeth [see Eield), but none of the name appear as lords of either Kingsnorton or Bromsgrove. A family of the name was, however, anciently seated at Belne [liodie Bell) Hall, in Belbroughton, where Hugo de Belne held five hides temp. Edward I., of the Barony of Dudley. See Nash, i., 57. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 45 Thomas Bellamie, of Kidderminster, disclaimed arms and gentility at the Visitation of 1682-3. Benestede, of Fra 7 tkley ; as borne by J ohn de Benestede, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, temp. Edward II., who was possessed of considerable estates in the counties of Worcester, Cambridge, Suffolk, and Surrey. — Gules, a goat salient argent. (^Nash.) Bennitt ; as granted, circa 1840, to William Bennitt, of Dud- ley, afterwards of Stourton, in the parish of Kinver, near Stourbridge, son of Samuel Bennitt, of Dudley, by Jane his wife, daughter of S. Hodgetts, of Dudley. — Azure, on a chevron or between three martlets in chief and one in base argent, three annulets of the field. Crest : On a mount vert, a horse’s head argent pierced through the neck by an arrow in bend sinister point downwards proper. Motto: “ Irrevocabile.” (Burke’s Authorised Arms^ &c.) These bearings are founded upon those granted in 1768 to John Hodgetts^ of Prestwood, co. Stafford. A very similar coat was also granted to the late T. W. Hodgetts, of Hagley. See that name. Bere, of Cradley, near Stourbridge^ a.d. 1427. ... a chevron ... between three bakers’ peels ... {Nash.) Bereford. — Argent, three fleurs de lis between five crosses crosslet fitchee sable. {N.) In a window of Hadsor church, temp. Habingdon. See Nash, i., 482. Beringham. — Azure, a bend or and a label of three points gules. Crest : A cross moline azure. {Her. Die.) Berington, of Little Malver^i Court. The Little Malvern estate, formerly the property of the ancient family of 46 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Russell, was devised by Mary, widow of Walter Wake- man, to her kinsman, William Berington, of Hereford, father of Charles Michael Berington, of Little Malvern Court, High Sheriff in 1868. This lady, who died issue- less, was the daughter and heiress of Thomas Williams, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Thomas Bering- ton, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Russell, of Little Malvern. The above William Berington was the son of Charles, fourth surviving son of John Berington, of Winsley, co. Hereford, which John was nephew of the Thomas Berington who married Elizabeth Russell. — Sable, three greyhounds courant in pale argent collared gules within a bordure of the last, a crescent for dif- ference. Crest : A greyhound’s head couped argent, collared gules. Berkeley, of SpetcJdey. This ancient family derives its descent from Thomas, youngest son of James, sixth Lord Berkeley, and Isabel his wife, daughter and co- heiress of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, by the Lady Elizabeth Fitzalan, eldest sister and co-heiress of Thomas, Earl of Arundel. Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, was the son of John Lord Mowbray, by Eliza- beth, daughter and heiress of John Lord Segrave, and Margaret his wife, only daughter and heiress of Thomas Plantagenet, called “of Brotherton,” second son of King Edward 1 . The pedigree was recorded at the Visita- tions of 1634 and 1682-3. — Gules, a chevron between ten crosses pattee, six above and four below argent ; with many quarterings, inter alia, Mowbray, Bi'ewes, Segrave, Fitzalan, Albini, Warren, Plantagenet, and THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 47 Conyers. Crest : A bear s head argent, muzzled gules. Motto : “ Dieu avec nous.” (C. 30, and K. 4, Coll. Arms. ; Penn MS. ; Nash, &c.) “ The original arms were Gules, a chevron argent, and were so borne by Moris de Barkele, in the reign of Henry III. The present coat was used by Sir Moris in the reigns of Edward 11. and III., and Richard II. His son, during his father’s life, differenced his arms by a label azure ; Sir Thomas de Berkeley used rosettes instead of crosses ; Sir John de Berkeley, Gules, a chevron argent between three crosses pattee or.” {Roll of Edward //., &c. — Shirley’s Noble and Gentle Aden.) * Berkeley, of Cotheridge Court ; derived from William, eldest son of Rowland Berkeley, of Spetchley, and brother of Sir Robert Berkeley, from whom the Spetchley family is descended. His son. Sir Rowland, who succeeded to Cotheridge, left issue an only daughter, Elizabeth, who became heiress to her brother ; she married Henry Greene, of Wykin, and had issue a son, Rowland, who on succeeding to the Cotheridge estate, assumed the surname and arms of Berkeley, and was High Sheriff of Worcestershire in the loth of Queen Anne. Rowland (Greene) Berkeley was father of two sons, Rowland, and the Rev. Lucy Berkeley ; the former succeeded, but on the decease without issue of his son, the Rev. Henry Berkeley, the estates passed to the Rev. Richard Tomp- kyns, his eldest sister’s son, who assumed the surname of Berkeley in 1832 ; but dying likewise issueless, the repre- sentation of the family devolved upon the descendants of the above-named Rev. Lucy Berkeley ; the present Wil- ^ “ They had ainciently the name of Fitz Harding, as descending of the bloud royall of the Danes. Their coat was filled up with ye 10 crosses for their service p’formed in the Holy Warr. Som ainciently bare Gules, three Danish axes or, descending as aforesaid from Denmark.” ( Win. MS.) 48 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. liam Berkeley, of Cotheridge, being that gentleman’s grandson. — Arms, crest, and motto, as Berkeley, of Spetchley. Berkeley, of Elde7^s field, and of Coberley, co. Gloiccester . — Argent, a fesse between three martlets sable. (A^.) This coat occurs in Eldersfield church, circumscribed “ Willielmus de Berkley, Dominus de Eldersfield, anno primo regis Johannis, Anno Dom. 1200.” It was also quartered by the family of Brydges in right of the marriage of Sir Thomas Brugge, or Brydges, with Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Berkeley, of Coberley, by Elizabeth his wife, sister and heiress of Sir John Chandos, who died in 1430. {^See Nash, i., 374.) Berksdale. — Argent, three bars gules, on a canton of the second a crescent of the first. {Penn MS.) Berlingham.^ — Barry of six gules and argent. (JV.) Bermingham, of Bm^iingham, co. Warwick, Lords of Stock- ton, &c., in this county ; as borne by Sir Thomas de Ber- mingham, of Worcestershire, temp. Edward II. — Azure, a bend “ engrele” or, a label gules. {Nicolas Roll.) Engrele is what would now be called fusily ; and the coat of Ber- mingham is usually blazoned Azure, a bend fusily (or lozengy) or. From the mode in which an ordinary engrailed was drawn in early examples, its appearance was that of fusils or lozenges. This is further illustrated in the case of the bend fusile of Mareschal, which in the same roll is called engrailedl^ The coat of Walter de Bir- mingham in the roll of temp. Edward I., is dr aunt fusily. The de Berminghams also bore Per pale indented argent and sable ; and these two coats arranged quarterly have been adopted as the armo- rial device of the town of Birmingham. Edward Bermingham, who possessed the manor of “ Byllesley in com, Wigorn,’' in the 16th century, was the last Lord of Birmingham of that name ; ne was strangely wrested (says Dugdale) out of that Lordship by that am- bitious man, John Dudley, afterwards Duke of Northumberland. ^ Ellis’s Ajitiquities of Heraldry, p. 205. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 4v Bermingham. See Barugham. Berry, of Hainpton Poyle, co. Oxford. — Vert, a cross crosslet or. {N) One of the Harewell quarterings. James Berry, or Bury, of Hampton Boyle (ob. 1588), son of Edmund Berry (ob. 1512), by Jane, daughter and heiress of John Pincepole, of Winrush, co. Gloucester, had issue, a daughter, Elizabeth, his co-heiress, who was married to Edmund Harewell, of Besford. Bertton. — Argent two bars sable. This appears to be the coat of Brereton ; it was entered at the Visitation of 1533, but it is doubtful whether the family to which it was allowed was of Worcestershire. See H. 20, Coll. Arm., fo. 56. Berwick, of Hallow Park, Worcester ; as borne by J oseph Berwick, of Hallow, High Sheriff in 1782. His daugh- ter and heiress, Mary, was married in 1787, to Sir Anthony Lechmere, bart. — Argent, three bear’s heads erased sable muzzled or. Crest : A bear’s head as in the arms, ducally gorged or. {Old Engravingl) Besford, of Besford ; as quartered by Hanford at the Visita- tion of 1634. — Gules, a fesse between six pears or. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 113.) The same coat was also quartered by Harewell. See that name. Besills, or Beseles. — Azure, ten bezants, four, three, two, and one. {Her. Die.) See Biset. Best, of Church Lench, Kenipsey, &c. — Sable, a cinquefoil between eight crosses crosslet or. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet, an ostrich’s head between two wings argent, in the beak a cross crosslet or. (Burke’s Armory.) Best, of Elmley Lovett, and of Sedgley, Bilston, and Wednes- biLry, CO. Stafford ; a family descended, according to Wal- ford’s County Families, “ through a regular line of bene- 7 50 THE HERALDRY OE PVORCES TER SHIRE. ficed clergy, from John Best, Bishop of Carlisle, and subsequently Bishop of Chester, temp. Elizabeth.” — Argent, on a chevron gules, between two martlets in chief sable and a book closed in base proper, three pheons or. (Burke’s A7^mory.) There are inscriptions in Elmley church to several of this family. Three Edward Bests were rectors of the parish in success'on, from 1620 to 1708, and a William Best, of Waresley, presented John Cole to the same living in 1600. The above arms were granted to the family of Bishop Best, by Dalton, Norroy, but there was another grant by Dethicke, of a somewhat similar coat. {See Bedford’s Bla- Z 071 of Episcopacy.) Thomas Best, of Elmley Lovett, disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1634. Best. — Argent, a bull passant sable. {Penn. MS.) The coat, probably, of Henry Best, who occurs in Penn’s list of those gentry that were to find horse in Worcestershire during the Civil Wars. A Henry Best disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1634. Beswick. — Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two, and one, on a chief or, a lion passant sable. (JV.) An impalement of Bromley, in Holt church, for Anne, daughter of Alderman Beswick, of London, third wife of Sir Henry Bromley, of Holt. She married, secondly, in 1622, Dr. John Thornburgh, Bishop of Worcester, and was buried at Holt in 1628. Bewdley Corporation. — Argent, an anchor in pale azure the ring or, the anchor surmounted with a fetter-lock of the second ; within the fetter-lock, on the dexter side of the anchor, a sword erect of the last pommel and hilt or ; on the sinister side of the anchor (also within the fetter-lock) a rose gules. (Burke’s Armory ; and Town Seal.) Habingdon, (quoted by Nash, ii., 284,) thus describes the arms of Bewdley, as depicted in the church ; — Argent, an anchor azure through a tun or, on the dexter point a sword in chief of the second hiked of the third, on the sinister a rose gules with a branch slipped vert. The same coat was found by Symonds, “ depicted on the wall ” of Bewdley church. See his Diary, published by the Camden THE HE E A ZEE V OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 51 Society. On the town seal the principal charge is a fetter-lock, not a tun, but in some old examples of the coat the base of the fetter-lock is fashioned somewhat like a tun or barrel. Bewris, or Bewry. — Ermine, on a chevron sable two lions passant respectant or. (A^.) This coat is in glass in Clifton church. See Nash i., 248. Beylett, entered at the Visitation of 1533. — Argent, a fesse sable, in chief a horse courant. {H. 20, ColL Arm., fo. 84.) Query if a Worcestershire family.? Biddle, of Evesham and Charlton; as borne by Joseph Biddle, High Sheriff in 1756, ob. 1766, aet. 52. — ...a chevron engrailed . . . charged with a fleur-de-lis, between three escallops. ... Crest : Out of a coronet... a buck’s head. {M.I. in All Sainfs clmrch, Evesham.) The family of Bedell, of Hamerton, in Huntingdonshire, bore, at the Visitation of that county in 1613, Gules, a chevron engrailed between three escallops argent. Crest : Out of a palisado crown, a buck’s head or attired azure. Burke attributes to “ Bedle or Bedell,” of London, a similar coat, except that the chevron is plain and charged with a fleur-de-lis gules, and the whole is within a bordure argent. The crest is A stag’s head erased or, attired and ducally gorged gules. Biddulph, as borne by Fra 7 tcis Biddulph, descended from the ancient Staffordshire family of that name, who married Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Lygon, of Madresfield, widow of Reginald Pyndar. — Vert, an eagle displayed argent, armed, and langued gules. Crest : A wolf sejant regardant argent, vulned in the shoulder gules. Bifield, or Byfield, of Yardley, and of Sheldon, co. War^ wick. — Sable, five bezants in saltire, a chief or. (W) 7—2 52 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTER SHIRE. Bigg, or Biggs, of Lench-Wick, and Norton, near Evesham. Sir Thomas Bigg of Lenchwick was created a baronet on 26th May, 1620, but dying s.p., in 1621, the title be- came extinct. He was the son of Sir Thomas Bigg, of Lenchwick, knt., grandson of Thomas Bigg, also of Lenchwick, and great grandson of John Bigg or Biggs, of Sherbourn, co. Gloucester. Sir Thomas Bigg, bart, sold the Lenchwick estates to the first Lord Craven, from whose family they were purchased by Sir Edward Sey- mour, of Maiden Bradley, Wilts. — Argent, on a fesse between three martlets sable as many annulets or. Crest: A dexter arm embowed habited in leaves vert, holding a snake enwrapping the same gules. These bearings were exemplified to John Bygg by William Hawkeslow, Clarencieux, on 19th May, 15 th Edward IV. See Hart. MS., 5814, and Nash ii., 198. Biggory or Biggorge. — Azure, an eagle displayed or, beaked and membered gules. (W.) One of the quarterings of Willoughby in Welland church. See Nash, ii., 455. Bigot. — Per pale or and vert, a lion rampant gules. (W.) One of the Talbot and Lyttelton quarterings. {See Marshal.) In the Charles Roll of temp. Henry III. and Edward I., Raufe Bigot bears these arms differenced by a bend argent. Bilson, as borne by Thomas Bilson, Bishop of Worcester, 1596-7. This prelate was the son of Harman Bilson, or Belson, and the great-grandson of Arnold Belsonn, a German, whose wife is said to have been a daughter of a Duke of Bavaria. The pedigree was entered at the Visitation of Hampshire, in 1634. — Gules, a demi-rose argent charged with another of the field, conjoined in pale with a demi-pomegranate or, seeded proper, both THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. S3 slipped vert. Crest : A bugle horn or. {Co 7 iJirmed by Dethicke in 1582. See Berry’s Hampshire Pedigrees.) Binkworth. See De Aula. Biscoe, of A bbofs Morton, Powick, &c. ; descended from the marriage of Vincent Biscoe with Mary, daughter of the eighth Duke of Somerset. (This family uses the arms and crest of Briscoe, which seei) Biset, or Bisset, of Kidderminster. Henry II. gave the manor of Kidderminster to his favourite, Manser Biset, his dapifer, who assumed the surname of Biset from a place so called in Warwickshire. “ Anciently,” says Camden, speaking of Kidderminster, “ this place was of note for its Lords, the .Bissets, who were in their time very great men ; whose rich patrimony at length coming to a division among sisters, part went to the barons of Abergavenny, and part to an hospital of leprous women in Wilts ; which house one of these sisters, herself being a leper, built and endowed with her share of the estate.” An editorial note adds, “ This was Maiden Bradley, which was built by Manser Bisset, in King Stephen’s time, or the beginning of Henry IL, and endowed by him and his son Henry, long before the estate was divided among daughters. For that happened not till the year 1241, so that the tradition of the leprous lady is a vulgar fable.” The Sebrights of Besford descend from and quarter the arms of Bisset. — Azure, ten (sometimes six) bezants. Sir John Byset, of Worcestershire, bears in the Roll of temp. Edward IL “ de azure, a les rondells de or.” The Heraldic Dic- tionaries also ascribe to Bisset, of Worcestershire, Azure, three be- zants, two and one. 54 THE HEE ALEEV OE WOECESTEESHIEE. Bishop, of Wigorn and Salop. — Argent, on a bend cottised gules, three bezants. {Win. MS.) Bishopesdon, of Bishopesdon, co. Warwick ; quartered by Arden, through Clodeshall. — Or, four bendlets azure, a canton ermine. (A^.) * Sir John de Bishopesdon was, (temp. Edward III.,) Lord of Little Cokesey, Herdewyk, Pepewell. and Waresleg, and also bailiff to the king, in his forest of Leek-Hay, co. Worcester. His son and heir, Roger, had issue, an only daughter and heiress, Alice, married to Walter de Clodeshale. This Roger bore, according to Dugdale, Bendy of six or and azure, a canton ermine. The male line was carried on by Roger’s brother John, whose grandson, William, left two daughters, his co-heiresses, married respectively to Palmer and Catesby. Dugdale’s Warwickshire.) In the Charles Roll of temp. Henry HI. and Edward I., ‘‘Will de Bissopeston” bears Bendy of ten or and sable. Bisiiopp, of Evesham and Lo 7 idon ; granted by Segar, on 30th November, 1628, to Edward Bishopp of the Middle Temple, son of Edward Bishopp of Evesham. — Argent, on a bend gules, cottised sable, three bezants. Crest : Out of a mural coronet argent, a griffin’s head sable beaked or. {Harl. MS.^ 1069.) Bissell, of Besford. — Gules, on a bend argent, three escallops sable. {Pemi MS.) This coat is given in the Heraldic Dictionaries with no county or place attached to it, and with this crest — A demi eagle, wings dis- played sable, charged on the neck with an escallop or. Bisset. See Biset. Blackburne, of Hawford House, near Worcester ; as borne by John Blackburne of Hawford, and of Liverpool, (of which town he was mayor in 1 788,) whose daughter and heiress, Alice Hannah, married, in 1814, Thomas Hawkes, M.P. for Dudley. — Argent, a fesse nebulee, between three THE HE E A ZEE V OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 55 mullets sable. Crest : On a trumpet a cock proper. (Gregson’s Lancashire.) Blacket, of Iccomb. — Sable, a bend between six crosses crosslet fitchee or. (iV.) Blackmore, of Worcester. — Argent, a fesse between three Moor’s heads erased at the neck sable. Crest : A Moor’s head as in the arms. {In St. Andrew s church, Worces- ter.) Blanchminster. — Azure, a bend or surmounted by another gules, thereon three mullets of the second. {N.) One of the quarterings of Lygon, on Penelope Walwyn’s tomb, at Great Malvern. Bland, of Ham Cotirt, and of Killarney, Ireland ; as borne by Thomas Bland, who married Judith, widow of John Martin, of Ham Court, and daughter and heiress of William Bromley. Mr. Bland, was High Sheriff of this county in 1807. — Ermine, on a bend sable three pheons or. Crest : A cock gules. {Prattinton MSS.) Blandford, as borne by Walter Blandford, Bishop of Wor- cester, 1671-75. — Per chevron sable and or, in chief three crosses pattee of the last. (W.) Blankfront, or Blanchfront, of Alvechttrch ; a family which, says Nash, flourished at Alvechurch in a succes- sion of knights during the reigns of Henry HI. and the three first Edwards. — Barry of six or and azure, on a chief of the last two pallets between as many esquires of the first, an inescutcheon argent, the whole within a bor- dure ermine. {Nash, i., 30, and other authorities.) 56 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. This coat is sometimes blazoned “ Ermine, an inescutcheon of the arms of Mortimer A ‘’Why this family bore the Mortimer arms has not been ascertained, but they were probably connected in some way with that family. The de Hagleys and the Burleys also bore coats resembling that of Mortimer. Blayney, of “ The Lodged' Evesham. This family claims descent from the Blayney s, of K insham, co. Hereford. The late Robert Blayney, of The Lodge, was son of Thomas Blayney, who was born in 1762, and grandson of Robert Blayney, by Katherine, daughter of Joseph Withers, and sister and heiress of Sir Charles Trub- shaw Withers, knt. — Gules, a chevron or and a chief ermine. Crest : An ermine proper. Motto : “Non nobis solum.” These bearings are attributed to the family in Burke’s Commoners, and are also upon a monument in All Saints’ church, Evesham, but in Burke’s Landed Gentry (edit. 1858 and 1863) the arms are stated to be Quarterly ist and 4th, Argent, three boar’s heads couped sable armed gules ; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, a lion rampant regardant or ; quartering Withers and Trubshaw. Crest : A fox argent. Motto : “ I rest to rise.” It appears from a pedigree of Blayney, of Kinsham, in the Add. MS., 19,819 (copied apparently from the Herefordshire Visitation of 1634), that that family used two coats, viz.. Gules, a lion rampant regardant or, with the crest A fox pas- sant argent ; and Gules, a chevron or and a chief ermine. The three boar’s heads are the arms of Ethelstan Glodrydd, Prince of Eerlys, founder of the 4th royal tribe of Wales, from which chief- tain the family claims to be descended. Bletchendon. — Azure, a fesse wavy between three lion’s heads erased or. (W.) An impalement in Hanley-Castle church for Alice, wife of H. Dineley, gent., who died in 1583. See Nash, i., 563. Blondell. — Quarterly ist and 4th, Sable, a cross cheeky or and gules ; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, three leopard’s faces sable. (Trick in Harl. MS., 1566.) Habingdon mentions this coat as being in St. Alban’s church. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 57 Worcester, on the tomb of Edward Blundell, Esquire ; the quarter- ing he attributes to “ Walden or Monk.” See Nash, Appendix^ 122. Blount, of Sodington, and of Mawley Hall, co. Salop, bart. ; a family of extreme antiquity, whose origin has been traced by the late Sir Alexander Croke ^ to the Counts of Guisnes before the Norman Conquest. Robert le Blond, or Blount, whose name is found recorded in Domesday, was a considerable land-holder in Suffolk, I X worth in that county being the seat of his barony. Belton, in Rutlandshire, was afterwards inherited by his descendants from the Odinsels ; and Hampton- Lovett, in Worcestershire, from the Lovett family. In 1404, Nicho- las le Blount, who had been deeply engaged in the con- spiracy to restore Richard 11 . to his throne, changed his name to Croke, on his return to England, in order to avoid the revenge of Henry IV.f From him are de- scended the Crokes, of Studley, in Oxfordshire, the eldest branch of this great family. The Blounts of Sodington are descended from William, second son of Sir Robert le Blount, who died in 1288, and the heiress of Odinsels ; and the Sodington estate was acquired by Walter Blount of Rock, his son, in marriage with Joan, the sister and co-heiress of William de Sodington. The pedigree was recorded at the two Visitations of this county, taken in 1569 and 1634. The baronetcy, which dates from Octo- ber 5th, 1642, was conferred upon Walter Blount, of Sodington, an eminent loyalist, and a great sufferer in the cause of Charles 1 . — Barry nebulee of six or and sable. * Genealogy of the Croke Family, by Sir Alexander Croke, qto., 1823. t Shirley’s Noble and Gentle Men. — “ Croke of Studley.” 8 58 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Crest : The sun in splendour proper, charged in the centre with a slipper (sometimes a gauntlet) azure. Motto : “ Lux tua vita mea.” (C. 30, ColL Arm.,fo. 38.) The more ancient coat was Loze?igy or and sable, which was borne by William le Blount in the reign of Henry III. Sir William le Blount of Warwickshire (so called because he held under the Earl of Warwick), bore the present nebul'ee coat in the reign of Edward II. Sir Thomas le Blount at the same period bore the fesse between martlets, now called the coat of Croke. (Rolls of the dates.) t The following list of the Blount quarterings (extracted from the Supplement to Nash’s History) was revised by Ralph Bigland, Cla- rencienx (afterwards Garter) King of Arms, who had ‘‘ spent a good deal of time in the matter,” and had “proved every one to its source except one, and that,” he says, “ I am sure is the coat of Valetort ; all the rest (he adds) I have chapter and verse for.” I St Blonnt, as above. 2nd, Gules, a fesse between six martlets argent ; also for Bloimt. 3rd, Argent, three, leopard’s faces jessant de lis sable ; for Sodington. 4th, Gules, three escutcheons or ; for Monnt- ioy. 5 th, Or, a raven sable, a crescent for ditference ; for Corbet, of Stanford, co. Salop. 6th, Or, an escarbuncle of eight rays fleurett-ee sable ; for Turet. 7 th, Argent, three bendlets gules within a bordure sable charged with ten bezants ; for Valetort. 8th, Paly of six argent and azure, a canton ermine and a crescent for difference 5 for Shirley. 9th, Gules, a chevron argent between three garbs or; for Waldeshefe. loth. Gules, three swords erect, two and one, argent pommels and hilts or; also for Waldeshefe. nth. Azure, , a lion rampant ducally crowned between seven crosses crosslet or ; for Braose. 12th, Gules, two bends, that in chief or, the other argent; (ox Milo, Earl of Hereford. 13th, Argent, three piles in point gules, on a canton argent a*griffin segreant sable ; for Bassett. 14th, Or, a cinquefoil sable; for Braylesford. 15th, Or, two bars sable, on a canton of the second a cinquefoil of the first ; for Twy- ford. 1 6th, Vaire argent and sable, a canton gules; for Staunton. 17th, Sable, a bend between six martlets or; for Eccleshall. i8th. Paly of six argent and gules, on a bend azure three horse-shoes or ; for Meynell. 19th, Argent, six lions rampant sable; for Savage. 20th, Vaire argent and sable; for De la Ward. 21st, Sable, a lion rampant argent; for Verdon. 22nd, Azure, three boar’s heads couped or, between nine crosses crosslet argent ; for Hevyn, or * Some branches of the family charged the sun with an eye distilling tears, t Shirley. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 59 Heaimi. 23rd, Argent, two pipes joining in base gules, the field semee of crosses crosslet azure ; for Downton. 24th, Barry of six or and gules ; for St. Owen. 25th, Gules, two bars argent in chief three plates ; for Oteby. 2 6lh, as the eleventh, with a crescent for difference; iox Brewes. 27th, Azure, a lion rampant argent within a bordure engrailed or ; for Tyrrell. Blount, recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3. — Arms, as Blount of Sodington. Crest : In the sun or, a gauntlet azure. {K. 4, Coll. Arm.^ fo. 371.) Blount, of Hamptoti- Lovett. The Blounts possessed lands in Hampton- Lovett at a very early period, but these were subsequently enjoyed by the Mountjoy branch, whose immediate ancestor was the heroic Sir Walter Blount, immortalised by Shakespeare. He married Donna San- chia de Ayala, an attendant of Constantia of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt, and had issue Sir Thomas Blount, whose son Walter was created Lord Mountjoy in 1465, and was direct ancestor of Charles, eighth Lord Mount- joy, who in 1603 was created Earl of Devonshire, but dying without legitimate issue the titles expired. The arms of the Lords Mountjoy are quartered by Windsor in right of descent from the marriage of Andrewes Lord Windsor, with Elizabeth, sister and co-heiress of Edward Blount, second Lord Mountjoy, whose mother was Mar- garet, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Echingham, knt. Habingdon states that the Lords Mountjoy were descended from “Sir John le Blont of Sodington, whose father, John le Blont, marryed Isolda Montjoy, the hey re of that family,” but this is incorrect; the John Blount who married Isolda Mountjoy was half-brother to their ancestor. Sir Walter Blount, who was the son of 'Walter Blount, by Eleanor, daughter of John Beauchamp, and 8—2 6o THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. not by the heiress of Sodington. Hampton- Lovett was sold by one of the Lords Mountjoy to the Pakington family. — Arms, &c., as Blount of Sodington ; quartering Ayala. Blount, of Kidderminster^ and of Kinlet, Salop ; a junior branch of the Blounts of Sodington, founded by John, son of Sir John Blount, of Sodington, by his second wife, Isabella, daughter and heiress of Sir Brian Cornewall, of Kinlet. The Blounts of Kinlet obtained the manor of Kidderminster temp. Mary, and it continued in the family till the death of Sir Edward Blount, in 1630, who, leaving no issue, it was by special deed conveyed to the Earl of Newport, and from him passed by sale to Waller the poet.'^ — Arms, &c., as Blount of Sodington ; quarter- ing Cornewall. {M.I. in Kidderminster church.) Bloxam, of Offenham ; entered at the Visitation of 1682-3. Thomas Bloxam, of Offenham, gent, paid a fine for exoneration from knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. — Sable, a fesse dancettee argent between three tiger’s heads erased or. “ Mr Bloxam produced these arms and referred to Oxfordshire. Better proof must be made.” (Note in the Visitation Book of 1682-3. K. 4, Coll. Arm.., fo. 25.) At the previous Visitation of 1634, Thomas Bloxam, of Offenham, disclaimed arms.t Bloys, Bishop of Worcester, 1218 to 1326. — Gules, three pallets vaire, on a chief or an eagle displayed azure. {Bedford) * Nash, ii., 37 ; Burke’s Commoners ; &c. t Sir Matthew Bloxam, Alderman of London, was a native of Evesham, where his father was a schoolmaster. He was knighted in 1800, and died in 1822, aged 79. THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. 6i Blundell, o/ Stoke Prior. — Per chevron ermine and sable, a chevron counterchanged. Crest : A unicorn s head couped argent. {Nash, ii., 379.) “ William Blundell and Juliana his wife, about the reign of Henry II., did give their lands in Stoke to the monks of Worcester. This family of Blundell came in with the Conqueror, and is mentioned in the roll of Battle Abbey. One of this name and family was escheator of the county, 14 Henry IV. They continued here till the reign of Henry VII., and have monuments in Bromsgrove church and St. Alban’s, in Worcester.” (Nask, citing Habmgdon, ii., 379.) Blundell. — Per pale ermine and sable, a chevron engrailed counterchanged. Crest : A unicorn’s horn proper. {N.) Blurton, of Whiteladies, Worcester ; as borne by Richard Blurton, of that place, who married Mary, daughter of Richard Somers, (aunt to the great Lord Somers,) and died in 1667, aged 53, having had issue two sons, who both died young, and a daughter, Mary Anne, married to John Cooksey, of Worcester. — Or, on a bend gules cottised sable, three crescents argent, on a chief azure as many palm leaves or. (Af,/. in St. Andrew s church, Worcester^) The same arms were impaled by Robert Foley, of Stourbridge, A.D. 1676, in right of his wife Anne, daughter of John Blurton, of Worcester. Board. — Per fesse gules and azure, an inescutcheon within an orle of martlets argent. (W.) An impalement of Walsh at Abberley, and of Mucklow at Hart- ley. (6'^^Nash, i., 2, and ii., 168.) The coat is incorrectly blazoned by Nash in his List of Arms, &c. The family were of Sussex, and their pedigree is given in Berry’s Sussex Pedigrees, p. 270. Bockleton, of Bockleton. The heiress of this family, Kathe- The Roll of Battle Abbey is a very questionable authority ; it is not deemed genuine by many able writers. 62 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. rine Bockleton, married John Fawkes, or Foulkes, whose son, Nicholas Fawkes, was Lord of Bockleton, and had issue Anne, married to Sir Roger Acton. — Gules, three pheons argent. (Harl. MS., 1566.) Acton. Body, of Worcester ; as impaled by John Bragden, of Lon- don, in right of Margery his wife, daughter of Thomas Body, of Worcester. — Argent, on a fesse azure three pelicans vulning or. {Harl. MS., 1463.) Bohun. — Azure, a bend cottised argent between six lions rampant or. (W.) The arms of the Bohims, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and North- ampton, as represented in Great Malvern church. Bois. — Argent, two bars and a canton gules. (W.) Symonds in his Diary, published by the Camden Society, men- tions this coat as being “ in very old glasse in the north yle window^’ of the church of All Saint’s, Evesham ; the same coat was also in the east window of Fladbury church. This once powerful family, founded by Ernald de Bosco, possessed (temp. Henry HI.) con- siderable estates in Warwickshire and Leicestershire, their chief seat being at Weston, in Arden. In the Roll of temp. Henry HI., and in that of temp. Edward I., Emaud de Boys bears this coat. Nicol dll Bois, in the latter Roll, bears the same coat with the field ermine ; and Jamus du Bois has the bars and canton sable on a silver field. The canton was sometimes charged with a lion passant argent. A pedigree of the family is given in Nichols’ Leicestershire, iv., 10 2; the heirs married Oliver and De la Blanche. Bolen, or Bullen, of Evesham. — Argent, a chevron gules between three bull’s heads couped sable. {Dr. Prattin- ton, from W hittinghaml) Bonner, of Worcester. — Paly of six or and gules, on a chief azure three lions rampant of the first. {Impaled by Wyatt in St. Albans clmrch, Worcester.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 63 Thomas Bonner was Bailiff of the city of Worcester in 1591 and 1593. Burke attributes the coat to Bonner of Oxfordshire, and gives this crest : A talbot’s head argent collared azure, studded, edged, and ringed or. These bearings appear to have been granted to the family of Bonner, alias Ridell, of Gloucestershire and Oxford- shire, in 1574. The same arms are in St. Helen’s church, impaled with those of Fleet, alias Walsgrove. Bonner, as granted by Barker, Garter, to Edimmd Bonner, Bishop of London, who died in 1569. Bishop Bonner is said by Anthony A’ Wood, to have been the son of George Savage, a priest, of Dunham, co. Chester, who was a natural son of Sir John Savage, K.G., Privy Coun- sellor to King Henry VIII. “The said priest begat Edmund Bonner of one Elizabeth Frodsham, who being with child, was sent out of Cheshire to one who was called Savage, of Elmley, in Worcestershire, and when she was delivered, one Bonner, a sawyer, living with Mr. Armingham, of Potter’s Hanley, married her, and begat other children by her, and afterwards dwelled at Potter’s Hanley, in Worcestershire ; and the said George Savage, priest, begat six other children more by several women.” “Edmund Bonner, (it is added,) did change lands in Essex with the king for Bushley and Ridmarley, which two towns are now in the occupation of one Searle, and Ship- side ; the former is cousin to Bonner, and hath Bushley, and the latter was brother-in-law to Bishop Ridley, and hath Ridmarley.” Notwithstanding this. Lord Lechmere assured Strype that Bonner was the legitimate son of one Boner, an “ honest poor man in a house at Hanley, called Boner’s place.” {Nash, i., 385.) — Quarterly gules and sable, a cross sarcellee quarterly or and ermines, on a chief of the third a rose-en-soleil between two pelicans of the first. {Hart. MS., 5846.) 64 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Bookey, of the “ Forf and the “ Brine PitsT — On a bend cottised three martlets. {Prattinton MSS.) The Heraldic Dictionaries ascribe to Bookey, Gules, on a bend argent three martlets sable within a bordure of the second. Crest : A dove volant argent holding a sprig vert. William Bookey appears in the list of disclaimers at the Visitation of 1634, but his name was subsequently erased. See Penrice. Boraston, of Worcester and Herts.; confirmed in 1606. — Quarterly argent and sable, on a bend cottised gules three crosses formee fitchee or. Crest : Out of a mural coronet sable, a griffin’s head or, gorged with a fesse between two gemelles gules. {Hart. MS., 1115.) Thomas Barraston, of Rock,^ gent., paid a fine for exoneration from knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. The Rev. John Boras- ton, rector of Ribbesford, disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1682-3 ; he was appointed rector in 1638, and died in 1688, set. 85. Borgilon, Bourgilon, or Booguylon, of Worcestershire . — Quarterly or and gules, on a bend sable three annulets of the field. {Her. Die.) This name is found at an early period in Staffordshire and Nor- folk. In the reign of Henry HI. William de Burgaville was Lord of Whitmore in the former county; and circa 1280, a Roger de Burgillon was enfeoffed of land in Whitmore by Sir William de Audley. In 15th Edward HI., Ralph Burgullon was foreman upon the inquest of Nones, for the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent. Mr. Ward, from whose History of Stoke-upo 7 i-Trent these particulars are derived, is “ strongly inclined to think that the de Whitmores were of the Burgaville, or Burgillon race. In the Roll of Arms of temp. Edward IL, Sir Robert de Borgyloun of Norfolk, bears Quarterly or and gules, in the second and third quarters three annulets argent, over all a bend sable. Borne, of W orcestershire. — Argent, on a chevron gules be- 'K A Richard Boraston, of Rock, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Acton, of London, of the family of Acton, of Acton. See Ped. of Acton, in Hart. MS., 1566, fo. 157. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 65 tween three lions rampant sable as many mascles or. {Her. Die.) Borough. — Gules, the trunk of a tree couped and eradicated in pale, sprouting forth two branches argent. {Pemt MS.) Bosco, DE, or Attwood, of Wichenford. — Gules, a lion ram- pant double queuee argent. See Attwood, and H Abing- don. Bosom, or Botlesham. — Gules, three bird bolts two and one argent. (iV.) A quartering of Throckmorton {See Olney). ‘‘ Rauf Bouzon ” bears in the Roll of temp. Edward I., Argent, three bolts gules ; and in that of temp. Edward II., the same coat is borne by Sir “ Peres Bosoun,” of Norfolk. In the last-named Roll also. Sir Thomas de Boltesham, of Northampton and Rutland, bears “ de goules iij bosons de argent.” Mr. Papworth attributes the coat (but with the field sable) in error, to “ Coltesham, quartered by Throck- morton.” Nash (or rather Dr. Thomas) erroneously ascribes to Bosom ” the coat of Olney. Bostock. — “ Sable, a fesse humettee argent, on a quarter of the second a mullet with six points gules two bars ermine. In Upton church.” (A^.) Habingdon describes an ancient monument, in Upton-on-Severn church, being the portraiture of a knight, with a shield on his left arm, ‘^whereon he beareth Gules, two bars ertnineT and this knight he says was a Boteler, whose arms these are. There does not appear to be any coat of Bostock in that church ; but in Elmley Castle church, Savage quarters for Bostock, Sable, a fesse humettee argent. Boteler, Lord Sudeley. — Gules, a fesse counter-componee argent and sable between six crosses pattee or. (7U.) The Heralds found these arms in Kidderminster church, when they visited this county in 1634. They were quartered by Cooksey in right of the marriage of Hugh de Cooksey, with Dionysia le 9 66 THE HEE ALEEV OF IVOECESTEESHIEE. Boteler, daughter and co-heiress of William le Boteler, Baron of Wem ; but in the Roll of temp. Edward II., “ Sir William le Bote- ler de Wemme,” bears Azure, a bend between six cups or. Accord- ing to Burke’s Extinct Peerage, the Lords Sudeley bore Gules, a fesse cheeky argent and sable between six crosses crosslet or, which coat was borne by a Sir William le Botiler in the same roll, and by Ralph le Botiler in those of temp. Henry III. and Edward I. The coat with covered cups was evidently assumed in allusion to the name. Ralph Boteler, of Sudeley Castle, co. Gloucester (descended from William Boteler, of Wem, and Joan his wife, daughter and co-heiress of John de Sudeley) was advanced to the dignity of Baron Sudeley in 1341, but dying s.p. his title became extinct, and his estates devolved upon his sisters as co-heiresses, viz., Elizabeth, wife of Sir Henry Norbury, and Joan, wife of Hamon Belknap, from the latter of whom the Dannetts of Elmbridge were descended. Boteler. — Gules, a chevron between three covered cups or. m This coat was entered at the Visitation of 1533. {See H. 20, Coll. Arm., fo. 71.) It was also borne by Butler of Droitwich, which see. Boteler. — Argent, on a chief indented azure (another sable) three covered cups or. (A^.) See Butler. Botenor. See Butnor. Botetort, of Weoley Castle, Northfield. John de Botetort, governor of St. Briavel’s Castle, co. Gloucester, and ad- miral of the king’s fleet in the reigns of Kings Edward I. and II., was summoned to Parliament as a Baron from 19th June, 33 Edward I., a.d. 1305, to his death in 1324. He was succeeded by his grandson, John de Botetort, who, in right of his mother, Joan, sister and co-heiress of John de Somerie, Baron of Dudley, became possessed of several estates in this county, his chief seat being Weoley Castle. He died very aged, in 1385, leaving Joice, wife of Sir Hugh Burnell, knt., his grand-daughter and heiress ; but she dying s.p. in 1406, the barony fell into abeyance, THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. 67 and Maud and Agnes Botetort, Maurice Berkeley, and Agnes and Joice Wykes, were her next heirs. Maurice Berkeley was the son of Maurice Berkeley, who was a son of Katherine, sister of John Botetort, father of the said Joice ; Agnes and Joice Wykes were daughters of Joan, who was a daughter of Alice, another sister of the said John ; and Maud and Agnes Botetort were the other sisters of the said John, and were nuns. The barony, after having lain dormant from 1406, was called out of abeyance in 1764, in favour of Norborne Berkeley, the lineal descendant and heir of the above Maurice Berke- ley ; but he dying issueless in 1776, the barony again fell into abeyance, and so continued till 1803, when the abey- ance was terminated in favour of Henry Somerset, fifth Duke of Beaufort, one of the co-heirs, he being son and heir of Charles, fourth Duke of Beaufort, by Elizabeth, sister and sole heiress of Norborne, the last lord. His grace obtained a confirmation of the barony to him and the heirs of his body, by patent dated 4th June, 1803. — Or, a saltire engrailed sable. The Heralds found this coat in Kidderminster church, at their Visitation in 1634. See C. 30, Co/L Arm. Bothby. — Argent, on a canton sable a fleur-de-lis bend-ways or. {Penn MS.) Mr. Papworth does not give this coat, nor does it occur in any of the Heraldic Dictionaries; but the baronetical family of Boothby, of Bradley-Ash, co. Derby, bears Argent on a canton sable a IMs gamb erased bendways or. Botreaux. — Argent, a griffin segreant gules. {N.) The arms of Botreaux, of Botreaux Castle, co. Cornwall, as quar tered by the Lytteltons of Mounslow in right of the marriage of 9—2 68 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. Thomas Lyttelton, of Spetchley, with Anne, daughter and sole heiress of John Botreaux. Boughton-Rouse, 0/ Rous-Lenchy Bart. “ This,’' says Mr. Shirley, “ is a Warwickshire family, of good antiquity, traced to Robert de Bore ton, grandfather of William, who lived in the reign of Edward III. In that of Henry VI., by the heiress of Allesley, the family became pos- sessed of the manor of Lawford, which remained their resi- dence till the murder of Sir Theodosius Boughton, Bart., by his brother-in-law, Mr. Donellan, in 1781. After that event, a younger branch succeeding to the estate and title, Lawford Hall was pulled down, and the ninth baronet, on inheriting the property of the Rouses of Rous-Lench, in this county, assumed that name, and made it his seat and residence.” The present represen- tative of this family inherits two baronetcies, one con- ferred in 1641, on William Boughton of Lawford, and the other in 1791. Charles William Boughton, second son of Shuckburgh Boughton, and grandson of Sir William Boughton, of Lawford, Bart., becoming, (on the death of Thomas Phillips Rous), the representative of the Rous family, assumed that surname in 1 768, and was created a baronet in 1791. On the death of his brother, Sir Edward Boughton, in 1 794, he succeeded to the baronetcy of Boughton, and thereupon resumed his paternal sur- name of Boughton^ after that of Rouse. The present baronet is his grandson. — Quarterly, ist and 4th, Sable, two bars engrailed argent, for Rouse ; 2nd, Argent, on a chevron between three crosses bottonee fitchee sable as * He was authorised by the royal licence to use the name and arms of Rouse either before or after those of Boughton. See Rous. THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 69 many stag’s heads cabossed or, on a chief gules a goat passant of the field, for Boughton of Lawford, (by special grant of Henry VIII.);^ 3rd, Sable, three crescents or, for Boughton ancient. Crests : ist (for Rouse) The bust of a man proper, hair, beard, and whiskers sable, the head surrounded and crossed with a ribbon knotted at the top, and flowing from the sides argent ; 2nd (for Boughton) A stork’s head erased chevronny of four sable and argent, in the beak or, a snake proper. Motto: “ Omne bonum, Dei donum.” (Thus exemplified on the creation of the last baronetcy. — Betham’s Baronetage^ IV. 225.) Boulton, of Crumpfields. — Argent, a chevron between three escallops azure. Crest : A garb or. {Dr. Prattintoni) This coat is not given in any of the Heraldic Dictionaries. Mr. Papworth attributes it to Champion^ Donstable^ Garneys, and Little- ton. It was probably used by the Boulton family, but is evidently an assumption. Robert Boulton, of Feckenham, gent., paid a fine for refusing knighthood at the coronation of Charles I.j and the arms of Boulton as represented in Feckenham church are Sable, a hawk perched argent. Mr. Richard Bolton, of Feckenham, dis- claimed arms at the Visitation of 1634. Bound. — Or, on a chevron gules between three cinquefoils sable as many six pointed mullets of the field. {Penn MS.) Thomas Bound occurs in Penn’s list of the Worcestershire Gen- try that were to find horse during the Civil Wars of the 17 th cen- tury. Bourcher, or Boucher, of London and Worcestershire . — Sable, a chevron ermine between three leopards passant * To William Boughton, dated 8th Henry VHI. See Betham, i. 416. 70 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. or. Crest : On a mount vert, a greyhound sejant argent ducally gorged and lined or. These arms and crest were granted by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, on 28th October, 1587, to Thomas Bourcher, of London, son of Richard Bourcher, and grandson of Thomas Bourcher or Boucher, of “ Ponkston,” co. Worcester. {Harl. MSS. 1069, 1422 ; and Add. MS. 14,295.) Bourchier, Bishop of Worcester, 1435-43 ; afterwards Arch- bishop of Canterbury. — Quarterly ist and 4th, Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable, a mullet for difference ; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, billettee or a fesse argent. (Bedford.) Bourne, of Battenhall mid Wick; as borne by Sir John Bourne, principal Secretary of State under Queen Mary ; and by Gilbert Bourne, Bishop of Bath and Wells, who died in 1569. Sir John Bourne, a stanch and zealous Roman Catholic, was raised to sudden eminence on the accession of Queen Mary. He was knighted on the morrow of her coronation, October 2nd, 1553, and licensed to keep forty retainers. He continued one of the princi- pal secretaries of state through Mary’s reign, and figures frequently in the pages of Foxe, who terms him “ a chief stirrer of persecutions.” Battenhall, a manor and park, formerly the country residence of the priors of Worces- ter, was granted to Sir John in 36th Henry VI 1 1 ., a.d. 1544-5, and was sold by his son Anthony, in 13th Eliza- beth, A.D. 1570-1. Sir John was also possessed of estates at Holt, Ombersley, Upton-on-Severn, and elsewhere in this county; he died in 1563, and was succeeded by his son, Anthony Bourne, of Holt, who sold most of the estates to the Bromley family. The only daughter and THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 71 co-heiress of Anthony is said by Nash to have married Sir Herbert Croft, who, with his wife, sold Upton-on- Severn to Sir Henry Bromley.^ — Argent, a chevron gules between three lions rampant sable armed and langued of the second, a chief ermines. Crest : A demi- tiger argent, armed, maned, and tufted sable, gorged with a collar ermines. {C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 54.) These arms, which were allowed to Bourne of Battenhall and Wick at the Visitation of 1634, were confirmed, and the crest granted to Richard Bourne of Wells, co. Somerset, by Dethick, in 1591. “ This Richard Bourne,” says the Harl. MS., 1507, “was sometyme of Lond., and M*"- of y^ Marchant Taylors : he was alsoe brother of Gilbert Bourne, Bishopp of Bath and Wells and p’sident of y® Marches of Wales in y® tyme of Q. Mary : he was also cozen jermen to S*'- John Bourne, Secretary to Q. Mary.” {See also Harl. MSS. 1069 and 1359.) Bourne, of Acton Hall, Ombersley ; descended from the preceding family. The Acton property was purchased by John Bourne from the Barnebys, who had inherited it from the Actons. Richard Bourne of Ombersley died in 1669, set. 90, and Richard Bourne, junr., in 1701, aged 80. Richard Bourne of Acton was High Sheriff in 1731, and died in 1754, aged 68. The family pedigree was re- corded at the visitation of 1682-3. — Argent, a chevron gules between three lions rampant sable, a chief ermines. {K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 19.) This was the coat allowed at the Visitation of 1682-3 (no crest was entered), but Nash attributes to Richard Bourne, of Acton, sheriff in 1731, Sable, a chevron per pale argent and or between three griffin’s heads erased of the second ; a coat which the Heraldic Dictionaries attribute to Bourne, and which, according to the last edition {1724) of Guillim’s Heraldry, was borne by John Bourne, of * Nash, ii. 444; and Notes and Queries 4th S., vi. 216. 72 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Moorfields, Richard Bourne, of Acton Hall, had two sons, Francis and Richard ; the latter assumed the additional surname of Charlett, (which see), and the former that of Page only, in compli- ance with the will of his uncle. Sir Francis Page, the notorious “ hanging judge,’’ who died on i8th December, 1741. Mr. Page, who was of Acton in Nash’s time, was for many years M.P. for the University of Oxford. He died s.p., and was succeeded by his nephew William Sturges, (the son of his youngest sister, Judith,) who assumed the additional surname and arms of Bourne. Mr. Sturges- Bourne was a member of the Privy Council, and, in 1827, Secretary of State. He bore for armsf Quarterly ist and 4th, Azure, a chevron between three crosses crosslet fitchee or, within a bordure engrailed of the last, for Sturges ; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a chevron gules between three lions rampant sable, {ox Bourne. Crest : A Tal- bot’s head couped. The arms of PageJ were a chevron between three martlets ; and the crest a demi-griffin. Bourne, of Grafton Manor, Bromsgrove ; as borne by Robert Bourne, J.P., late of H.M. 54th Regiment, eldest son of the Rev. Robert Bourne, of Donhead St. Andrew, Wilts, grandson of Robert Bourne, M.D., Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and great grandson of Robert Bourne, of Shrawley, who was a son of John Bourne, of Ombersley. — Arms and crest, as Bourne, of Battenhall. Bourne. — Ermine, on a bend azure, three lions passant argent, armed and langued or. {Penn MS.) Perhaps intended by Penn for the coat of Mr. Richard Bourne, who occurs in his “ liste of those that were to finde horse in Worces- tershire.” Bourne. — Argent, on a fesse between three wolfs heads erased sable, as many mullets or. (Win. MS.) This is a mistake, for the arms are those of Wyatt. * The same coat occurs in Newent church, co. Gloucester, on the monu- ment of John Bourne, of Sutton Bourne, co. Somerset, who died in 1708, set. 88. See Rudder’s Gloucestershire, p. 565. t Berry’s Hampshire Pedigrees, p. 336. J Gwillim, edit. 1724. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 73 PowATER, of Kings 7 io 7 don and A stley ; as borne by the Rev. Samuel Bowater, Rector of Astley, the son of William Bowater, of Kingsnorton, yeoman ; he married Anne, youngest daughter of William Field, of the Bells, in Kingsnorton, and died March 21st, 1695-6, in his 63rd year. His daughter married William Vernon, of Kidder- minster, and was mother of Bowater Vernon, of H anbury Hall. — Argent, on an inescutcheon sable between eight martlets, gules, a crescent of the field. {M, /. m Astley churchl) The crest to this coat is. Out of clouds a rainbow all proper. {Her. Die.) Boyes. — Or, a griffin segreant componee argent and sable be- tween six crosses crosslet of the field. {JVin. MS.) This is evidently an incorrect blazon ; the griffin should probably be per fesse azure and sable, and the crosslets placed upon a bordure. A somewhat similar coat is attributed by the Heraldic Dictionaries to Boys, of Kent. Boyleston, of Beivdley. — Or, on a fesse between three cres- cents gules, a mullet argent. {Penn MS.) This is the coat of the Yorkshire family of Boyiiton, differenced by a mullet. Thomas Boyleston, of Bewdley, occurs in Penn’s list of those who were to find horse during the civil wars. Boyleston. — Gules, six crosses crosslet fitchee argent, three and three, on a chief or three pellets. Crest : A lion passant, holding in the fore-paws a cross crosslet fichee. {On the communion-plate at Rock. — Dr. Prattinton.) Pares Boylston, Rector of Rock, disclaimed arms at the visitation of 1682-3. Nash calls him, in his list of rectors, Saresius Boyleston. He was presented to the living by Edward Boyleston, gent, in 1672, and appears to have died in 1716. The above coat is given in the Heraldic Dictionaries, but without the crest Boys, of Worcester. — Or, a griffin segreant sable within a bor- dure gules. {N.) o 74 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Brace, of Dover dale, and Hill Courl. This ancient family, whose pedigree was recorded at the visitations of 1533, 1634, and 1682-3, was seated at an early period at Droit- wich. In 20th Edward III., Richard Brace, of Droitwich, held two hides and a half in Doverdale, which William, the son of Ralph de Doverdale, and his parceners had formerly held ; and in 7th Henry VI., the heir of Richard Brace held the same lands. This heir of Richard was John Brace, who was eschaetor of this county in the 5th and loth of Henry V., and was then a justice of the peace. The family continued at Doverdale for many generations. — Sable, a bend between two arms bendways in mail argent. Crest : An arm embowed habited in mail, holding in the hand, all proper, a sword argent, hilt or. (//. 12, C. 30, and K. 4, Coll. Arm.) These arms are attributed in the Fenn MS. to Brace, of Abberton, and (with the arms embowed) to Brace, of Pershore. The same authority adds that the “ coate they now beare is a bend between two gauntlets argent. In the Harl. MS., 1566, is a pedigree of “ Bracey,” which commences with Richard Bracey, 8 Edward IV. ; his son John married Margery, daughter and heiress of Thomas Froxmere, and had issue John, who married for his second wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of — Power, from which match de- scended Francis Bracey, of Dordall, who married Mary, daughter of Robert Purslowe, and had issue Thomas and three daughters. The arms are as above, quartering Sable, a cross engrailed or, a label. . . . ; 2nd, F 7 'oxme 7 'e ; 3rd, Foher; 4th, Sturmey; 5th, Porter. They appear from this to have been descended from a common ancestor with the Braceys of VVarndon. “ This descent of Bracey (it is stated) is true ; being given to Richard Lee, and aproved of by a plea and evidences, 1573.” The coat of Brace impaling Sturmey, of Rushock, is given as being in “his house and church.” Brace, or Bracey, of Warndon and Madresfield. We learn from Nash that Robert de Brad held two hides in Warn- * Nash, i. 292. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 75 don in the reign of Edward L, and that another Robert held the same lands in the 20th of Edward III., a.d. 1346, and that soon after this the Braceys went to Mad- resfield. In the 7th of Henry VI., a.d. 1428-9, Thomas Lygon was certified in the exchequer to hold lands in Warndon which Robert Braci sometime had ; for in the 7th of Henry V., a.d. 1419-20, Joan Bracj, the heir of this family, had married Thomas Lygon.* — Gules, a fesse or and two mullets in chief argent. Crest (as in Great Malvern church) : A man’s head of a tawney colour, (so described by Habingdon, but, according to Nash, “a man’s head pierced sable.”) In Dr. Thomas’s list of arms “ Bracy of Wannendon' bears Azure, a bend barry indented or and gules, which occurs, it appears, in Hanley Castle church ; and Nash attributes the same coat to Sir Robert de Braci, of Warndon, sub vice comes of Worcestershire in the 26th of Edward I. In the roll of arms of temp. Henry III. and Edward I., William de Braci bears Gules, a fesse argent and two mul- lets pierced or in chief ; and Robert de Braci bears the same arms, • with a label of four points azure. Habingdon says that the fesse and mullets is “ often borne in Malvern’s fair church and elsewhere as Bracie’s arms,” but in his opinion it was the coat of Poher which Braci assumed as heir to Poher. “For (says he) before King Edward III., 13 of his reign, did quarter France and England, all our gen- tlemen bore single coats; insomuch as if a gentleman had married with a gentlewoman who was an inheritrix and had a son by her, this heir, if he would choose his mother’s arms, must refuse his father’s. And it was moreover used to keep his father’s name and bear his mother’s coat ; or, on the contrary, to take his mother’s name and continue his father’s arms. And so Bracie of Warmedon, and the Ligons their heirs, have borne ever since, not Bracie’s, but Poher’s arms.” Penn attributes the coat to Doverdale., and says it was quartered by the Braces of Abberton. Bradeston. — Argent, on a canton gules a rose or. (A^.) * Nash, ii. 452. See Lvgon. 10 — 2 76 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. These arms were borne by Thomas de Bradeston, who was sum- moned to Parliament as a baron from 1342 to 1360, when he died, leaving his grandson Thomas, aged eight years, his heir. Thomas died in 1374, leaving a daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married to Sir William de la Pole, whose* only daughter and heiress married Thomas or Edmund Ingoldesthorpe, whose granddaughter and heiress married John Neville, Marquis of Montague, among the de- scendants of whose daughters and co-heiresses this barony is in abey- ance. {See Courthope’s Historic Peerage.) One of these daughters married Huddleston, of Sawston, by whose descendants this coat was quartered ; and Frances Huddleston married Serjeant Wylde, of Droitwich. The coat occurs in the cathedral in glass. {See Thomas, p. 16.) Bradford. — Sable, a cross engrailed argent. (A^.) Bradley, of Oldswinford and Stoitrbridge ; as impaled by- Edward Vincent, of Kinfare, in right of Anne, his wife, daughter of Thomas Bradley, of Oldswinford, a.d. 1612. — Or, a fesse vert between three round buckles gules. (Add. MS., 19,816.) Roger de Bradeley bears in the roll of temp. Henry III. and Ed- ward L, Or, a fesse gules between three buckles azure. The family of Bradley is of some antiquity in Stourbridge and its neighbourhood, and appears to have been largely engaged in the trade of that dis- trict. Frances, the only daughter and heiress of John Bradley (granddaughter of Thomas Bradley, of Stourbridge, a glass manufac- turer, living in 1691), was married in 1732 to Charles Fox, of Cha- combe Priory, in Northamptonshire. She died in 1771, having had issue a daughter Mary, married to the Rev. R. Wykeham, ancestor of the Wykeham-Martins. Bradley, of Stourbridge ; as borne by John Bradley, an ex- tensive ironmaster at Stourbridge, the son of Gabriel Bradley, of Stourbridge, by Mary, nSe Haden, his wife ; he married Priscilla, daughter of Bate Richards, of Stour- bridge, and sister of John Richards, M.P., of Wassell Grove, Hagley, by whom he was father of the late Henry Bradley, sometime of Leamington, co. Warwick, and THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 77 Others. Mary, widow of the above Gabriel Bradley, mar- ried Henry Foster, of Stourbridge, and was grandmother of William Orme Foster, of Apley Park, Salop. — Argent, a fesse gules between three round buckles vert. Crest : A greyhound statant proper. Motto: “Vigilans et audax.” {Book-plate of John Bradley 1 ) Bradley, of Kidderminster ; an old and respectable family, whose pedigree is deduced by Dr. Prattinton from the Rev. Thomas Bradley, born in 1687, who married, in 1729, Mary Wilmot. Their son, the Rev. Thomas Bradley, vicar of Chaddesley Corbett, was father, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of . . . Highway of Dray- ton, of Thomas Bradley, of Kidderminster, surgeon, who married Mary Waldron of Belbroughton, and had issue Thomas Bradley, also of Kidderminster. — Gules, a chev- ron argent between three boar’s heads and necks couped or. Crest : A boar’s head as in the arms. -Motto : “ In Deo confido.” {Seal of Thomas Bradleyi) Brain. — Argent, three piles in point vert, on a canton sable a lion’s head erased or. (W.) Bransford, Bishop of Worcester, 1339-49. — Three lions passant. {Bedford, — fro 7 n his Seal.) B RASTER, of Bewdley, as borne by James Brasier, attorney-at- law, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Ingram, of Bewdley, sister of Mary, wife of Sir Edward Winning- ton, Bart. — Quarterly per fesse indented or and sable, four cinquefoils counterchanged. {Old Engraving, 1789.) This coat was granted, according to Burke, on 24th May, 1665, 78 THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. to Paul Brasier of Londonderry, Ireland, an officer under Cromwell. The Crest is A demi lion rampant, per pale or and sable. Braylesford. — Or, a cinquefoil, pierced sable. {N.) One of the Blount quarterings. Brecknock, as quartered by Walsh. — Argent, a chevron, be- tween three lion’s gambs erased (in the Harl. MS., 1566 eagle’s legs erased a la cuisse) sable. Brettell, of Finstall House, 7 iear Bromsgrove. — See Henzey. Brewes. — Azure, semee of crosses crosslet, a lion rampant ducally crowned or. {HI) The Heralds found this coat on one of the Cooksey monuments in Kidderminster church at their visitation in 1634. It was quar- tered by Cooksey, in right of the marriage of Sir Walter Cooksey, knt., with Isabella, daughter and heiress of Urian de St. Pierre and Agnes his wife, suiter and heiress of George Brewes or Braose. The same coat is also quartered by Blount. Brian, Bishop of Worcester, 1353-61. — Or, three piles in point azure. {N. ; and Bedford.) Brian (Brampton). — Or, two lions passant gules. {HI) This coat was borne temp. Edward I. by Brian de Brampton, who had two daughters and co-heiresses, the elder married to Robert Harley, ancestor of the Earls of Oxford and Mortimer, and the other to Edmund de Cornewall, whose heiress married Blount. Bridges, of South Littleton, 1578, from whom Sir Brook Bridges, now Lord Fitzwalter is descended. — Azure, three water bougets or within a bordure ermine. Crest : In a ducal coronet or, a moor’s head sable banded argent. {Bet ham.) Bridges. — Argent, a chevron engrailed sable between three garbs gules. {Win. AfS.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 79 Bridges, or Brugg, of Eastingt on in Longdon ; a branch of the family of Brydges, afterwards Dukes of Chandos derived from William Brugg* or Bridges of Dymock, co. Glouces- ter, who married Alice, daughter and heiress of William Eastington, of Eastington. The pedigree was recorded at the visitation of 1634. — Argent, on a cross sable, a leopard’s face or ; quartering, for Hackhdt, Argent, three battle axes erect, two and one gules. Crest : The bust of an old man in profile proper, habited paly of six argent and gules semee of roundles counterchanged, wreathed round the temples of the second and azure. (C. 30, Coll. Arm. fo. 1 10; and Harl. MS. 1566, fo. 13^.) Bridges, of W orcester. — Argent a chief gules, over all on a bend engrailed sable a chaplet or. {Penn MS.) This coat was borne, according to Dr. Strong {Heraldry of Here- fordshire)., by a cadet of the family of Brydges of Bosbury and Tib- berton. The coat assigned by the College of Arms to “ Bridge of Bosbury ” is Argent, a bend engrailed sable charged at the dexter point with a chaplet or. Another variation occurs at Bosbury, viz.. Argent, a chief gules, over all a bend engrailed sable. Crest : Two wings endorsed argent, on each a chevron engrailed sable charged with a chaplet or. But the Bosbury family usually bore, a cross charged with a leopard’s face. Brigginshaw, of EarV s Court and of the Grove, St. fohns Bedwardine. Nash says this family obtained Earl’s Court in marriage with an heiress of Ingram. Timothy Brigginshaw, of Earl’s Court, married Anne, daughter of John Barneby of Brockhampton, by whom he had issue a daughter, and eventually heiress, Mary, married, in 1732, to Edward Cope Hopton, of Worcester. — Or, a fesse embattled counter-embattled ermines between three ^ His brother, Sir John Bridges, was Lord Mayor of London in 1520. 8o THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. lions passant regardant azure. Crest : In a mural crown ... a demi lion ... {Peun MS. ; and Harl. MS. 1468.) A short pedigree of this family was entered in the visitation of Middlesex, a.d. 1663, by Richard Brigginshaw, of Hese, younger brother of William Brigginshaw, of Earl’s Court, and son of Richard Brigginshaw of Hese. The arms are given without colours, and re- ferred to London. Bright, of Worcester. — Azure, a fesse wavy erminois, in chief three crescents argent. {Pe^in MS. ; and Ding ley). This coat of Armes,” says Penn, was bestowed on the bearer by the king, for that he wass a most excellent scholler, and rare teacher of the tongues.” He alludes to the Rev. Henry Bright, M.A., Prebendary of Worcester, who was for forty years master of the College School at Worcester. Mr. Bright, who was the proprie- tor of a considerable estate, called Brockbury, in the parish of Col- wall, CO. Hereford, died in the year 1626, and was buried in the Cathedral at Worcester, where he has a handsome monument, upon which are the above arms. His epitaph is said to have been com- posed by Dr. Joseph Hall, then Dean of Worcester. Anthony Wood says that Bright’s posterity “ do now live in genteel fashion in Worcestershire.” There is no crest (officially recorded) to these arms, but some of the family have borne, An estoile issuing out of a crescent, and others, A demi-lion rampant, holding a battle-axe. Ryley granted to the family during the Commonwealth, A lion ram- pant or, in front of a crescent argent ; but all his grants made during that period were declared void by an order of the king in Council, dated September 4th, 1660. A pedigree of the Bright family will be found in the ILerald and Genealogist. Brindley, of Malvern and Worcester^ and of the Hyde, Kin- fare, CO. Stafford . — Per pale or and sable, a chevron be- tween three escallops counterchanged. (M. I. at Mal- vern, to Richard Brindley, who died 1714, aged 29.) The same arms were impaled’^ by Richard Foley, of Stourbridge, who died in 1657, in right of his wife, Alice, daughter of William Brindley of the Hyde, who, according to a pedigree compiled by Randal Holme, in the Harl. MS., 2119, was descended from the On the Seal to his will dated 1656. {Prattinton, MSS.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 8i Brindleys of Wistaston, co. Chester. A Richard Brindley was Mayor of Worcester in 1668. Brinton, Breinton, or Binton, of Pixa 7 n, m the parish of Powick. — Or, two lions passant gules, armed and langued azure. {Penn MS.) Probably the coat of Thomas Brinton, who occurs in the list of those that were to find horse,” given in the same MS. Brinton, of Kiddermmster ; as borne by John Brinton of Kidderminster, and impaled by Sir Francis Crossley, Bart., in right of his wife Martha Eliza, daughter of Henry Brinton of the same place. — Per pale argent and gules, a lion salient double queuee between three annu- lets counter-changed. Crest : In front of a saltire gules, a beacon fired proper. Motto, “ Lux et salus.” {Com- municatedi) Briscoe, as borne by the Rev. Benjamin Briscoe, Rector of Staunton, (son of Benjamin Briscoe, of Stourbridge, sur- geon, by Eleanor his wife, daughter of John Cardale, of Dudley, surgeon,) who married, in 1759, Elizabeth Lea, youngest sister and co-heiress of Ferdinando Dudley Lea, Lord Dudley. They had issue an only son, the late Rev. William Lea Briscoe, Vicar of Ashton Keynes, Wilts, who died, s.p. — Argent, three greyhounds courant in pale sabje. Crest : A greyhound courant sable, seiz- ing a hare proper. Motto : “ Spero.’’ These are the arms and crest of the Briscos of Crofton, co, Cum- berland. The name, originally de Birkskeugh, was assumed from a place so called near Carlisle. Betham (Baronetage) thinks the arms allude to the name, which, says he, in the British tongue, signifies agility in leaping. John Brisco, son of Robert of Crofton, who was slain at Salton Moss, was the first who adopted the greyhound and hare for his crest. 82 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Broad, or Erode, of Dunclent, Stone, near Kidderminster, en- tered at the Visitation of 1634. — Per pale azure and sable, a fesse humett^e or between three mullets pierced argent. (C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 33b.) Of this family was Edmund Broad, who in 39th Elizabeth gave rent charges upon his estates for charitable purposes at Kiddermin- ster and Stourbridge. His son John was in 1628 of Addis in Elm- bridge, and had issue a son and heir, Edmund. Penn attributes to “ Broade of Dunkley,” Azure, a chevron between three leopard’s faces argent crowned or. Broadway. — Azure, a pale between four lion’s heads erased or. {Penn MS.) Brock-Clutton, of Pensax Court. The Gluttons were a very ancient family seated at Glutton, in the parish of Farn- don, Gheshire, as early as the 21st of Edward I. Those of Pensax, who in the early part of the present century assumed the additional surname and arms of Brock, are descended from Henry son of Owen Glutton, of Gourthyn, temp. Henry VI 1 1 ., from whose younger bro- ther Roger spring the Gluttons of Ghorlton. The pedi- gree was recorded at the visitation of 1682-3. — Quarterly I St and 4th, Gules, three trefoils slipped or, on a chief argent, a lion passant guardant of the first, for Brock ; — 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a chevron ermine between three annulets gules, for Clutton. Grests : A demi-lion ram- pant guardant gules, on the body a chevron or charged with three trefoils slipped vert, holding between the paws an arrow or, barbed and feathered argent, iov Brock ; 2nd, An owl on a myrtle wreath proper, for Clutton. Motto : “ Virescit vulnere virtus.” {Shirley ; Burke’s Landed Gentry ; and K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 52.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 83 Brockhampton, of Brockhampton. — Gules, three lozenges two and one ; also Gules, a fesse between six mascles or. (^•) Both these coats were quartered by Habingdon, the latter is attri- buted to Hanley^ in the Harl. MSS., 5814 and 5871. also Do- multon. Bromage, of Worcestershire. — Gules, a chevron, embattled or between three helmets proper. Crest : Out of a coronet, an arm, holding in the gauntlet a sword, all proper. {Her. Die.) Bromley, of Holt Castle, and of Upto 7 i-on-Severn ; an ancient and knightly family descended from Geoffrey de Brom- leigh, who married Philippa, daughter of John Bagod, of Blymhill, co. Stafford, by Margery, his wife, daughter of Warine de Burwardesley, and sister and co-heiress of Philip and Roger de Burwardesley. It is stated in one of the Harleian MSS. that the Bromleys, having no arms of their own, assumed those of Burwardesley, viz., Quarterly per fesse, indented gules and or ; and it is re- markable that the descendants of the two other co- heiresses of Burwardesley, the Besyns, and the De TEy- tons or Leightons, bore similar coats, as did also the Fitz- warrens, who were descended in common with the Bur- wardesleys from Warine de Metz, of Lorraine, living in 1 1 15. The pedigrees of Bromley, of Holt, and Upton, were recorded at the Visitations of 1634 and 1682-3. The family was descended immediately from Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England, in 1579, whose eldest son, Sir Henry Bromley, (knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1592,) was seated at Holt Castle. By his first 1 1 — 2 84 THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. wife he was ancestor of the Holt line, and by his third, (Anne, daughter of Thomas Scott, of Scott’s Hall,) of the branch seated at Upton. The heiress of the Upton family, Judith, daughter of William Bromley who died in 1756, married first John Martin of Overbury, and secondly Thomas Bland. The Holt line also terminated in an heiress, Mercy, only daughter of William Bromley, who espoused, in 1 704, a gentleman of the same name, viz., John Bromley, son of John Bromley, of St. John’s, in Barbadoes, who came to England and purchased the Manor of Horseheath, in Cambridgeshire. Their only son, Henry Bromley, who was of Holt, jure matris, was created on 9th May, 1741, Lord Montfort, Baron of Horseheath, a title which expired on the death of the third lord in 1851. — Quarterly, per fesse indented gules and or; quartering (in the visitation book of 1634), Ar- gent on a chevron, within a bordure engrailed gules, five bezants, for Chetelton, (in right of the marriage of Wil- liam Bromley, of Badington, temp. Edward HI., with Annabella, sister and heiress of William de Chetelton) ; and. Argent, on a fesse sable between six fleurs de lis gules, three crosses crosslet or, for Clifton. Crest : A pheasant sitting proper. (C. 30, and K. 4, Coll. Arm., ff. 87 and 54). The Lords Montfort bore,'^*' Quarterly per pale dovetail gules and “ The present Lord Montfort bore his arms before he was called into the Peerage in this manner : Quarterly, per fesse dancette G. and O., a border gobony A. and B. Since he was made a lord y^ Heralds altered y® coat, taking away y® border, which, as my lord told me, Y heralds said was a mark of bastardy, and made it Qly. pr. pale crenelle G. and O. sans bordure, and altered y« crest, making it a mural coronet.” (Cole s MSS., Col. Top. et Gen. THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. S5 or. Crest : Out of a mural crown or, on a wreath, a demi-lion sable holding a standard vert, charged with a griffin passant of the first, staff proper, headed argent. Collins’ {Peerage, 5th edit., vii., p. 313), informs us that Sir John Bromley, who in 4 Henry IV., at the memorable battle of Le Corby recovered the Standard of Guienne, had an augmentation to his arms, viz., the said Standard for a crest; and sealed a deed dated 6 Henry V. with the arms of Bromley, and on an inescutcheon a griffin segreant, and the crest as above described. This valiant knight was not, however, an ancestor of the Worcestershire branch. Lord Montfort’s motto was ‘‘Non inferiora secutus and his supporters were : Dexter, A unicorn cream coloured ducally gorged, chained, horned, and unguled or ; Sinister, A horse argent, spotted sable, collared dove-tail azure, thereon three lozenges or. of Abberley ; a junior branch of the Bromleys, of Holt, founded by Francis Bromley, born in 1643, younger son of Henry Bromley, of Holt, who acquired the Abberley estate in marriage, with Anne, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Joseph Walsh. Robert Bromley, the last Bromley of Abberley, only surviving son of William Bromley, by Sarah, daughter and co- heiress of William Pauncefote, died unmarried in 1803, aged 72. His kinsman. Sir George Smith, Bart., of East Stoke, (descended from Elizabeth Pauncefote, another daughter of the above-named William,) assumed in 1778, in compliance with Mr. Bromley’s desire, the surname of iv. 48.) The arms of “Willmus Bromley de Badington” are represented in the Harl. MS., 1507, within a bordure gobony, and with an inescutcheon argent charged with a griffin segreant vert, quarterly with Chetelton, Clifton, and others. The Crest is Out of a ducal coronet or, a demi-lion argent, sup- porting a spear, thereon a flag gules charged with a lion passant guardant or. In the same MS. is a trick of the arms of “ Sir Thomas Bromley, Kt., Chan- cel er of England, 1581,” being the Bromley arms without inescutcheon or bordure, quartering Chetelto 7 i, and Cliftofi. There is no crest to this shield. None of the peerages that we have seen give the paternal ancestry of Lord Montfort. 86 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHFRE. Bromley,*^" and was ancestor of the present baronet of that name. — Quarterly, per fesse indented gules and or. Crest : A pheasant sitting proper. Bromwall. — Sable, a lion rampant or. (Penn MS.) Bromwich. — Gules, three towers or — another argent. (Penn MS.) Bromwych. — Or, a lion rampant sable guttle of the field. m This coat was borne, but with the lion guttee argent, by the family of Bromwich of Sarnesfield, co. Hereford. Brook. — Cheeky argent and sable. (JV.) Impaled by Astley, at Severn, Stoke. See Nash, ii., 344. Broughton, of Worcester. — Gules, three boars passant or, a canton of the last. (f*enn MSS.) This coat is not given in the Heraldic Dictionaries. Broughton, of Hanley. — Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the last, a cross of the first. (Penn MS.) The Heraldic Dictionaries attribute a similar coat, but the canton charged with a saltire, to Broughton of Henley, Salop. The Brough- tons of Broughton, co. Stafford, now represented by Sir Henry Delves Broughton, Bart., bear the coat as given by Penn. Brown, of Little Frome. — Argent, a chevron between three mullets sable. (A^.) This is a Herefordshire family, seated at Avenbury and Harwood, and also at Hall Court, in the paiish of Bishop’s Frome. Dr. Strong blazons their arms thus — Argent, on a chevron between three mul- lets, pierced sable, as many escallops of the field Crest : A demi griffin vert winged and legged or. < 5 Y.h!CLY.,of Bengeworth ; as borne by John Deacle, citizen and draper of London, a native of Bengeworth, and a great benefactor to the town of Evesham. He died in 1 709. — Or, on a chevron azure between three roses slipped proper an eagle displayed of the field. Crest ; On a mural crown argent, an eagle rising or, in the beak a like rose. These arms and crest were granted to the said John Deacle, woollen draper, and to his brothers, William and Edward, and the heirs and descendants of the said John, and to the issue male of his said brothers, by Sir Henry St. George, Garter, and Sir John Van- brugh, Clarencieux, on August loth, 1704. {Add. MS., 14830.) De Aula. — Gules, five lions rampant in cross or. {N.) This is one of the quarterings of Windsor, but is generally attributed to Biniworth, whose arms the Windsors were entitled to quarter through Molyns. Dedicote. — Or, an antelope passant gules on a chief em- battled of the second three escallops of the first. (W.) This is the coat of Arthur Dedicote, or Dericote,* citizen and * It is not improbable that Mr. Dedicote was a Worcestershire man, for the name is often found in this county. John, son of William Dericott, was baptized at St. Helen’s, Worcester, in 1646 ; John Dedicott was incumbent of Abberley in 1656; and a Thomas Dedicott, of Bewdley, grocer, (Mayor of that town in 1661,) issued a token sometime in the 17 th century. William Dedicott also occurs as Mayor of Bewdley, in 1680. THE HE E ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE, 159 draper of London, to whose memory there is a curious brass in Hackney church, Middlesex. He died 12th November, 1562. His daughter, Thomasine, was the first wife of Robert Smith, citizen and draper of London, on whose brass, in Stoke Prior church, in this county, these arms are impaled. De la Hay. See Dannet, and Herst. De la Mere, of Hardwick Court, Elders field, and of Tedstone de la Mere, co. Hereford. — Barry nebulee of six or and gules. (Dr. Strong, Heraldry of Herefordshire.) Dr. Thomas gives. Or, two bars dancettee gules as the coat of this family; and, at the Visitation of 1634, Barneby impaled for Dela 7 nere, Or, three bars dancettee gules. Nash mentions that Delamere’s coat was formerly in the east window of Kyre church. De la Pole. See Pytts. De la Ward. — Vaire argent and sable. (W.) See Meynell. Hugo de Meynell married Joan, daughter and heiress of Robert De la Ward, Steward of the Household to King Edward I., and some of his descendants bore the arms of De la Ward as their paternal coat. Dennis, of Worcester ; as borne by the Rev. Thomas Dennis, Vicar of St. Helen s, Worcester, whose daughter, Eliza- beth, married Robert Wylde, of the Commandery, who was aged 59, in 1682-3. — Ermine, three battle-axes gules. {Impalement in Wylde pedigree. Add. MS, 19819.) Dennis, of Worcester. Gules, three leopard’s faces or jessant de lis azure, over all a bend engrailed of the last. {Penn MS. ; Win. MS.) Gwillim blazons this coat (which is that of the ancient family of Dennis, of Dyrham, co. Gloucester) thus : Gules, a bend engrailed azure between three leopard’s heads or, jess:int flower de lices of the second. “ This,” he says, “ is that ancient coat-armour of that Familie, as appeareth in the Cathedrall Churches of Worcester and Hereford, as also in the churches of Durham and Auste, and many other places ; nevertheless, some have of late yeeres altered the i6o THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, flower-de-lices into Or^ wherein they have much wronged the bearers, in rejecting the ancient forme, which is both warranted by antique monuments, and no way discommendable, sith it is borne in the naturall colour.” {ist Edition^ p. i8o.) Dennis. — Quarterly gules and or, in the first quarter a mullet argent. {N.) This is a mistake ; the coat is that of Vere, as impaled in Tarde- bigge church, by Henry, 5th Lord Windsor, in right of Catherine, his wife, only daughter of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Dent, of Worcester, mid of Slide ley Castle, co. Gloucester ; as granted to Messrs. John and William Dent, the former of whom was High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1850, and the latter of Gloucestershire in 1852. These two gentle- men, who died unmarried, were sons of John Dent of Worcester, and grandsons of Lawrence Dent, of Yarm, CO. York. The present proprietor of Sudeley Castle is John Coucher Dent, son of Thomas Dent, brother of the said John and William, by Mary, daughter of Martin Coucher of Woodmanton. — Ermine, on a bend nebulee azure three lozenges of the field. Crest : An heraldic tiger’s head erased ermine, semee of lozenges azure, flames issuing from the mouth, proper. Motto : “ Con- cordia et industria.” (Burke’s Landed Gentry,) Dethick, of Sedgber row and Obdon, This was a branch of the ancient family formerly seated at Dethick and Bread- sail, in the county of Derby, and was descended immedi- ately from John Dethick, of Sedgberrow, a younger son of Roger Dethick, of co. Derby, by Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Ralph Meynell. They continued at Sedgberrow for several generations, and recorded their descent and arms at the Visitation of 1569. — Quarterly THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. i6i 1st and 4th, Argent, a fesse vaire or and gules between three water bougets sable, a crescent for difference, for Dethick ; 2nd, Paly of six or and gules, on a fesse sable three horseshoes or, for Meynell (an ancient Derbyshire family, whose pedigree can be traced to the reign of Henry II.) ; 3rd, Argent, on a cross sable between four crescents gules five mullets or, for .... Crest A horse’s head erased argent, charged with a crescent for difference. {D. 12, Coll. Arm. fo. 46 ; Harl. MS., 1566.) Dr. Thomas (or Nash) gives as the arms of Dethick, Dominus de Brydsall,” Or, on a bend azure three horseshoes argent, t which is one of the Willoughby quarterings at Welland. Devenish. — Vert, on a saltire engrailed argent between four crosses crosslet fitchee or, a fleur de lis. (Al.) This coat occurs in a window in Great Malvern church, with an inscription setting forth that it is that of “ Nicholas Deuonishe, Esqr.” See Habingdon’s Church Notes in Hart. MS., 2205. Devereux, of Leigh Court and of Castle Bromwich, co. War- wick, barL Sir Walter Devereux, of Leigh Court, the son and successor of Sir Edward Devereux, of Castle Bromwich, who was created a Baronet in 1612, and died in 1622, — served the office of High Sheriff of this county in the 2nd of Charles I., and recorded his descent at the Visitation of 1634. He subsequently succeeded his kins- man, Robert, Earl of Essex, as Viscount Hereford. The Leigh estate was acquired by purchase from the family of Colles. — Argent, a fesse gules, in chief three torteaux. ^ This is the crest of Meynell, which was adopted by the Dethicks, t He also attributes to Meynell, Gules on a bend azure {sic) three horse- shoes or. 21 i 62 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or, a talbot’s head argent eared gules. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 88.) D’Ewes, of Hagley, and of W ellesbourne, co. Warwick ; said to be a branch of the Suffolk family of D’Ewes, of which the famous Sir Symonds D’Ewes was a member. Ber- nard D’Ewes of Hagley, son of John D’Ewes, by Anne, sister and coheiress of Bernard Granville, of Calwich Abbey, co. Stafford, had issue a son, Court D’Ewes, who assumed, in 1825, the surname of Granville, on succeed- ing to the property of his uncle the Rev. John Granville, (formerly D’Ewes,) of Calwich, and was father of the pre- sent Bernard Granville, of Wellesbourne Hall, near War- wick. — Or, three quatrefoils pierced gules, a chief vaire. Crest : A wolf’s head erased or, gorged with a collar vaire, in the mouth a quatrefoil pierced gules, slipped proper. (Bicrkel) Deyfe. — Sable, a chevron between three crescents argent each charged with another gules, a bordure gobonee of the second and third. {Her. Die.) A similar coat is attributed to Deton. Dickens, of Leaton and Bobbington, near E^iville, co. Stafford, and of Churchill, near Kiddermmster , and Great Malver^i. This family possessed the manor of Churchill, from the reign of Henry VI. to that of Queen Elizabeth. The descent and arms were recorded at the Visitation of 1634, by John Dickens, then residing at Great Malvern, the son of William Dickens, of Bobbington, who pre- sented to the rectory of Churchill, in 1584. This John died in 1656, aged 78, and was buried at Great Malvern. THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESIIIEE. 163 Nash gives a pedigree of the family in his ist volume, page 19 1, and refers to C. 10, and C. 36, in Coll, Arm , — Ermine, a cross patonce sable. {C, 30, Coll, Arm, fo. • 48.) Penn attributes to Dickens of Newland, near Malvern, Ermine, a cross flory sable. Dickins, of Powick, — Argent, two bars gules. {Penn MS.) Dickins, of Broadway, granted by Segar in 1625. — Ermine, on a cross flory sable a leopard's face or. Crest : A lion sejant sable, holding a cross flory or. This family is now of Coolhurst, co. Sussex. See Berry’s Pedigrees and Arms of Sussex Fa 7 nilies, p. 367. Dickleston, of Dickleston, or Dixton, co. Gloucester ; as quar- tered by Hanford at the Visitation of 1634. We learn from Rudder,^ that William Dickleston held the"^manors of Dickleston and Alderton in Gloucestershire, in the reign of Edward HI. ; John Dickleston held the same in the 12th of Henry IV. ; Margaret, widow of John Dick- leston, and Thomas, her son, were seised of Dickleston and of the advowson of the church of Alderton, in the 6th of Henry V. ; Sir John Dickleston, brother of Thomas, succeeded him, and died seised thereof in the I St of Henry VI., leaving only female issue. John Hug- ford married Elizabeth, one of his daughters, and had with her the manor of Dickleston. Nash, however, in his pedigree of Hugford, Vol. ii. p. 183, makes the lady who married John Hugford, Maud, daughter and heiress * History of Gloucestershire, p. 220. 2 1 — 2 164 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. of Sir William Dickleston. He adds, that their great grandson, William Hugford, had by Dorothy Vampage, his wife, a daughter and heiress, Margaret, married to Thomas Hanford. Dorothy Vampage was probably a second wife of William Hugford, for Rudder says, that he married Margaret Horgan, and by her had a son John, lineal ancestor of the Rev. ... Higford, the then owner of Dickleston. — Argent, a pile sable. (C 30, ColL Arm. fo. I I 3.) In the hall window of Mr. Higford’s house at Dixton,” the coat is, Sable, a pile argent ; and the same coat, with a chevron gules over all, is on the brass of Richard Dyxton, (who died in 1438,) in Cirencester church. See Rudder. Dighton, of Worcester ; as borne by Christopher Dighton, Alderman and M.P. for Worcester, temp. Elizabeth. He was the son of Christopher Dighton, and grandson of Thomas Dighton, of Lincolnshire. He married, first, Eleanor, daughter of John Fleet, alias Wallsgrove, and secondly, Elizabeth Booth. By the former he had issue a son, John, and two daughters, Martha, and Mary; and by the latter, two sons who both died issueless. — Argent, a lion passant between three crosses formee fitchee gules, a mullet for difference. Crest : On a ducal coronet or, a hawk close argent, beaked and legged gules, belled of the first, and charged with a mullet for difference. {Harl. MS., 1566.) The same arms, quarterly with those of Keyte, w^ere borne by the : Dightons of Clifford Chambers, co. Gloucester, a manor which was purchased by Job Dighton, in 1649. Richard Dighton, grandson of this Job, married Alice, daughter and co-heiress of Francis Keyt, brother of the first baronet of Ebrington, by whom he had issue, THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 165 Francis Keyt Dighton, whose son, Lister Dighton possessed a good estate at Clifford Chambers in 1779, when Rudder wrote/^ Dinely. See Dyneley. Dixon, of Dudley ; as borne by Edward Dixon, of Dudley, High Sheriff in 1799, father, (by Phoebe his wife,) of Edward Dixon, of Dudley and of Ashwood House, Staffordshire, who was High Sheriff in 1815. The last- named gentleman married, in 1809, Maria, daughter of Thomas Burne, and sister of the late Thomas Higgins Burne, of Loynton Hall, near Newport, Salop, and had issue, two sons, Edward and Joseph, who both died with- out issue ; and daughters, one of whom, Maria, married Captain John Hopton, of Canon Frome, co. Hereford. — Sable, on a cross between four hind’s head erased or, a fleur de lis of the field ; quartering Davies (which see). Crest : On a mount vert, a leopard sejant ermine ducally gorged or. {Seal; and Iiatchme^ity in St. Edmtmd' s churchy Dudley.) Dixon, of Dudley, Stourbridge, and Kidderminster ; as borne by Oliver Dixon, of Red Hill House, Oldswinford, Stourbridge, J.P., barrister at law, &c., &c., only child of Jonathan Dixon, of Caldwell Hall, Kidderminster, by Mary, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of John Henzey. Mr. Dixon died in 1803, aged 65, having had issue a daughter, Mary Anne, married to Thomas Jervis, by whom she was mother of Sir John Jervis, lent. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. The family of * The same charges on a field azure, were borne by a Gloucestershire family named Bearpacker. They occur on the monument in Marshfield churchy of John Bearpacker, of Bristol, merchant, who died in 1715, set. 60. i66 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Dixon has been resident in the parish of Dudley from the time of Henry VII., or earlier, in a mansion and estate called Dixons’, which gave the name to an exten- sive district now known as Dixon’s Green.* Oliver Dixon, eldest son of Oliver Dixon, and grandson of Arthur Dixon, who was buried at Dudley, in 1570, held a Captain’s commission in the Royal Army during the Civil War. His son Oliver was Mayor of Dudley in 1690. Of the same family was the late Joseph Hoper Dixon, of Stourbridge, solicitor, son of Edward Dixon, of Stourbridge, surgeon, by Mary, his wife, daughter of Philip Hoper, of Leominster. — Gules, a chevron vaire between three eagles displayed or. Crest : A demi eagle displayed or, winged vaire. Motto : “ In recto fides.” (Seal.) These bearings have been used by this family for several genera- tions, but they are those of Wihner^ of Ryton, co. Warwick, and Sywell, CO. Northampton, and were probably assumed in consequence of some match with an heiress or coheiress of that family. Precisely the same armst were also used by a family named Brettell, of Brettell, in Kingswinford, perhaps for a similar reason. Mr. Jervis, the father of Lord Chief Justice Jervis, however, impaled a different coat, viz., Or, a cross formee throughout the field gules, between four eagles displayed sable, which the Heraldic Dictionaries attri- bute to Dixon, of Heldon, Kent. Dobyns, of Kidderminster ; as borne by Thomas Dobyns, (of the Herefordshire family of that name,) High Sheriff of See Noake’s Rambler in Worcestershire, sub. Dudley. + Nash informs us that the same arms are represented on a “table” in St. Edmund’s church, Dudley. A Thomas Wilmer, of Dudley, married Mar- tha, one of the natural daughters of Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley, and sister of the famous Dud Dudley. The wife of Oliver Dixon (son of Capt. Dixon) was Frances daughter of Gilbert Jellian, by Elizabeth his wife, nee Wilmore. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 167 this county in the 1 7th of Charles I. — Azure, a chevron between three annulets or. {Nash; and Penn MS.) Dod, of Lea Hall, Yardley. — Quarterly ist and 4th, Argent, a chevron gules between three cyanus flowers slipped proper, for Clover ley ; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a fesse gules cottised wavy sable, for Dod. {M. I. at Yardley.) There is a long pedigree of this family, (which is of Cloverley, Salop), in Dr. Howard’s Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Dolman, of Harborottgh and Broom; as borne by the Rev. Thomas Dolman, of Broom, who married Mary, one of the daughters and coheiresses of William Penn, of Har- borough, and aunt of William Shenstone, the poet. He was a member of the Staffordshire family of that name resident at Aldridge. — Argent, on a bend cottised sable a dolphin or. (Shaw's Staffordshire, ii. loi.) Domulton, or Dumbleton, as quartered by Daston. —Or, a fesse wavy between six billets sable. ^ (W.) The same coat was quartered by Habingdon in right of the marriage of William Habingdon with Elizabeth, the elder of the two daughters and coheiresses of John Domulton of Brockhampton. Nash likewise attributes to Domulton, Gules, a fesse between six mascles or, which was also one of the Habingdon quarterings, but which appears to be the coat of Brockhampton. Domvile, as borne by the Rev. Henry Barry Domvile, who married Mary Russell, half-sister of Sir John Somerset Pakington, bart., and heiress to her mother, Mary, daughter and coheiress of Joseph Cocks, brother of Charles Lord Somers. He died in 1856, leaving four * The Dowdeswells, of Pull Court, bear precisely the same arms. i68 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. sons. — Azure, a lion rampant argent collared gules. Crest : A lion’s head erased argent ducally crowned or. Motto : “ Qui stat caveat.” {Barofietage.') Dore, alias Mabbe, of Burton, and of Dore, co. Hereford. John Mabbe, by his marriage with Isabel, (otherwise Elizabeth,) daughter and heiress of Robert Browne by Alizon, his wife, the daughter and heiress of Roger, third son of Sir John Mortimer, became possessed of the manor of Burton/''* “ King Edward IV. in the third year of his reign,” says Nash,t quoting from a manuscript in the College of Arms, “caused all the children of John Mabbe, Lord of Burton, which he begat on Isabel Browne, his wife, to be called Dore, which seems to have been done as a mark of respect for the sufferings of this family in his cause, and on account of their relationship to the house of York, as being descended from the Mortimers, from whom he claimed the Crown.” Richard Acton, the youngest son of Richard Acton, of Sutton, having married Margery Dore, daughter of the said John Mabbe, became possessed of Burton ; and his son, John Acton, quartered the arms of Dore and Mortimer, at the Visitation of 1569. — Per pale azure and gules, three bees or. {Harl. MSS., 615 and 1043.) Burke (General Armory) attributes to “Dower, or Door, of Wor- cestershire,” Paly of six gules and azure, three cinquefoils or. “Another, — Per pale azure and gules.” In April, 1605, a family named Door, of Cornwall and Devonshire, had a confirmation from Camden of the following “ coate and creaste ” -Per pale gules and azure, three bees or. Crest : A demi tiger azure supporting an escallop or. (See Harl. MS., 1422.) * Harl. MS., 615. t Vol. i. p. 246. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHLRE. 169 Dorleston. See Daston. Dormer, of Ripple, John Dormer, of Lee, Bucks., eldest son of Sir Fleetwood Dormer, knt, of the same place, married Catherine, daughter and heiress of Thomas Woodward, of Ripple. Their eldest son, John Dormer, of Ripple, and of Lee, Bucks., was created a baronet in 1661, and died in 1675, leaving issue, William, who succeeded him, and a daughter Susannah, wife of Francis Sheldon, of Abberton. Sir William, the second baronet, died un- married in March, 1725-6, when the title became extinct. “John Dormer, of Ripple, Esq.,’' and “Sir John Dor- mer,” of the same place, “Knt. and Bart,” occur in Blome’s List of the Gentry of Worcestershire, a° 1673. — - Azure, ten billets or, four, three, two, and one, on a chief of the second a demi lion issuant sable. {N, ; and Penn MS) ' Dotchen, of Beoley, and Wick, The pedigree of this family is given in the Harl, MS.^ 1566. It commences with Francis Dotchen, of Beoley, 1478, whose son John mar- ried the daughter of — Wylde, and dying in 1498, left issue, John, of “ The Wiche, co. Worcester,” and William, of Tewkesbury. The former married Elizabeth Pudding, and had issue, Henry Dotchen, who, by his wife, a daugh- ter of Reade, of Mitton, had a son Robert — Argent, a chevron gules fretty or, between three roses of the second slipped and leaved vert. Crest : A stork’s head erased argent, between two wings expanded sable. {Harl, MS.^ 1566.) The same arms and crest were allowed to a Warwickshire family 22 170 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESJERSHIRE. named Decons, at the Visitation of that County, in 1619. {See the Warwickshire Magazine; dSidi Harl. MS., 1167. Doughtie, or Doughton, of Horsham, in Martleyj^ — Argent, two bars sable, between three mullets of the second, each charged with a bezant. (Penn MS.) William “Dowty,” of Horsham, and Thomas Dowty,” disclaimed at the Visitation of 1634. • Douglas, as granted by the Lyon office, to the Rev. Henry Douglas, canon of Durham, a descendant of the noble house of Dalkeith, and now borne by his son the Rev. William Willoughby Douglas, M.A., rector of Salwarpe, nephew of Archibald Douglas-Gresley, of High Park. — Argent, three piles issuant from a chief gules, the latter charged with two mullets of the field, all within a bordure ermine charged with three crosses crosslet fitchee sable, for difference. Crest : A human heart gules, ensigned with an imperial crown between two wings or. Motto : (over) “Spero.’^ {Co7n77itmicatecl by R. A. Douglas- Gresley, esq.) Doverdale, of Doverdale. — Gules, a fesse or, in chief two mullets argent. “ This coate (says Penn) standeth in the parish church of (sic) in one of the windowes, and is quartered by the worthie and honourable family of the Braces of Abberton, which place is now * Chambers {^Biographical Illustrations of Worcestershire) gives an account of John Doughtie, D.D., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, who was born at Martley, “ of genteel parents,” in 1597, and educated at Worceker, under the famous Mr. Bright. After the Restoration, he became one of the Prebenda- ries of Westminster, Rector of Chearne, in Surrey, and was created D.D. He died 25th December, 1672, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Dr. Dough- tie was the author of several theological works. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. T7T belonging to the noble family of the Sheldons, who are descended from the Sheldons of Beelie.” Penn is mistaken ; the coat is that of Foher. {See Brace.) The family of Brace, Nash says, was descended from, or nearly allied to that of Doverdale ; but it would (he says) “ be very difficult to trace the lineal descent of the Doverdales. They matched with reputable persons, and among others with the Sodingtons. By an assize, taken at Southampton, after the death of William de Sodington, Eustachia, wife of William de Doverdale, was discovered to be one of his sisters and coheirs. The Doverdales maintained their footing here till the 6th of Edward III., when their male line expired.’’ They were succeeded at Doverdale by the Tenches and Braces. (Nash, i. 292.) Dowdeswell, of Pull Coitrt, Bushley. This family, which has been seated in Worcestershire for more than two centu- ries, probably derives its name from the place so called in the county of Gloucester, where a William de Dowdes- well was seated in the reign of Edward the First. The immediate ancestor of the family before us, however, is John Dowdeswell, of Hill House, in the parish of Bush- ley, whose son Roger acquired considerable landed pro- perty, partly by purchase and partly by his marriage with Martha, daughter of Giles Blomer, the heir of the Tyn- dales of Pull, early in the 17th century. This gentle- man, who was fined for declining the honour of knight- hood at the coronation of Charles I., was succeeded by his son, Richard Dowdeswell, a zealous loyalist during the Civil War, and M.P. for Tewkesbury after the Resto- ration. His son William, High Sheriff of the county in 29 Charles IL, was father of Richard Dowdeswell, Mem- ber in ten successive Parliaments for the Borough of Tewkesbury, and High Sheriff of Worcestershire in the 2nd of William and Mary. Richard’s son William Dowdes- well, (who likewise represented Tewkesbury in Parliament, and was High Sheriff in 1727,) was hither, by Anne Ham- 22 — 2 172 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CESTER SHIRE. mond, his wife, of the Rt. Hon. William Dowdeswell, of Pull Court, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1765, grandfather of the present William Dowdeswell, of Pull Court, sometime M.P. for Tewkesbury, and High Sheriff of this county in 1855, whose eldest son William Edward Dowdeswell is M.P. for the Western Division of the county. — Or, a fesse wavy between six billets sable ; quartering, (for Hammond) Argent, on a chevron sable between three ogresses each charged with a martlet of the field, as many escallops or, all within a bordure en- grailed vert. Crest An eagle’s head erased sable, col- lared with a rose gules issuing rays or. (Book-plates^ &c.) Dowdeswell, of the Down House^ Redmarley ; a junior branch of the Dowdeswells, of Pull, springing from George Dow- deswell, M.D., a younger brother of the Rt. Hon. William Dowdeswell, of Pull Court. — Arms, &c., as the preced- ing. Downes. — Or, a bend between two eagles displayed sable. (Pemi MS.) This coat is not given in the Heraldic Dictionaries. Papworth ascribes it to Saltonstall. Downton. See Blount. Dowsell alias Doughswell. — Sable, on a bend between two lilies (so described, but tricked as fleurs de lis,) argent, three roses gules. (Pe^in MS.) ^ This is the crest of Hammond, which has been adopted by the Dowdes- wells. Previous to the match with that family no crest was used. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. ^73 “ These flowers (says Penn) may very well please the fancy of the bearer, when of these sorts of flowers they commonly make Dowells^ or, as some call them. Posies., which have a very near allusion to the name.” The coat is not given in the Heraldic Dictionaries, nor does it occur in Mr. Papworth’s Ordinary. It seems probable that Penn intended it for the bearing of Dowdeswell, for the name of Richard Doughswell,” who must have been the Cavalier, Richard Dowdeswell, of Pull, appears in his list of those who were to find horse. Draper. — Gules four bends or, on a chief ermine three fleurs de lis sable. {M. /. in All Saints church., Worcester^ to Cocker Draper^ of that city., clothier, who died in 1 7 1 6, aged 40.) Draper. — Argent, on a fesse between three annulets gules a mullet between two covered cups or. {Penn MS.) A Gregory Draper, of Burton in Sapey, ‘disclaimed” at the Visi- tation of 1634. Drew. — Ermine, a lion passant gules. (A^.) One of the Windsor quarterings. Droitwich, Town of. — Argent, two lions passant in pale sur- mounting a sword of state in pale point downwards ; impaling, quarterly ist and 4th, Cheeky argent and sable ; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, two barrows* or. The seal of the Statute Merchant of Droitwich bears Cheeky argent and sable ; impaling the two barrows. {See cut in Nash, i. 295 ; and trick in Harl. MS., 1043.) Drokensford. — Quarterly or and azure, four roses counter- changed. {Nl) * “At Nantwich and Droitwich, the conical baskets wherein they put the salt to let the water drain from it, are called barroiost^ (Halliweirs Die- t ionary.) 174 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. An impalement of Windsor ; William de Windsor, who died in 7 Edward I., having married Margaret, daughter of John Drokensford, and sister of Sir John Drokensford, knt . — See Collins’ Peerage. Duckes. — Per pale argent and azure, three chaplets counter- changed. {Win. MS.) Dudley alias Sutton. See Sutton. Dudley, of Russell's Hall, near Dicdley, and of Feckenham ; a branch of the Suttons alias Dudley. Geffrey Dudley, (a younger son of Edward Lord Dudley, by Cecilie, daughter of Sir Thomas Willoughby, knt,,) was father, by Eleanor, his wife, natural daughter of Sir Gilbert Talbot, of Grafton, of Thomas Dudley, of Russells’, and of a daughter Catherine, married to Simon Dickin- son, of Bradley, co. Stafford. Geffrey Dudley, his son or grandson, married, in 1611, Elizabeth, sister of Dud Dudley, the ironmaster, and was ancestor of John Dud- ley, of Russells’, gent., the last male heir of this branch of the great house of Sutton alias Dudley, who died intes- tate and without issue, about 1723, leaving a widow Katherine, afterwards married to William Winter, and various persons in low stations of life, (the descendants of his grandfather, Thomas Dudley,) his coheirs-at-law. — Or, a lion rampant double queuee vert ; quartering Somerie, &c. Crest : In a ducal coronet or, a lion’s head azure. Dudley, of Ehnley Lovett ; as confirmed to John Dudley, of Hackney, Middlesex, serjeant of the pastry to Queen Elizabeth, son of Sim.on^' Dudley, of Elmley Lovett, The will of Simon Dudley is dated 3rd December, 1555. He had three children: John, Paul (who was under age in 1555), and Dorotliy. John, the THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. ns esquire, by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, by patent dated 3rd March, 1588. — Or, two lions passant in pale azure, within a bordure engrailed of the last. Crest : In a viscount’s coronet or, pearled argent, a lion’s head azure collared of the first. {Harl. MS., 1069 ; and Add. MS., 14295.) Dudley, of Dudley, and of Sedgley and Tiptoji, co. Stafford. This ancient family is presumed by Erdeswick to be paternally descended from the Someries Lords Dudley. Edward Dudley of Tipton, a Captain in the Parliament- ary Army during the Civil War, the son of Thomas Dudley of Tipton, by Katherine, one of the sisters of Dud Dudley, the ironmaster, was the great grandfather of Thomas Dudley, the representative of this family at the end of the last century. The said Thomas Dudley married Anna Maria, daughter and coheiress of Richard Keelinge,'”' and by her (who died on 23rd January, 1790,) had issue two sons : Thomas Dudley, of Shutt End, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, and the Rev. John Dudley, rector of Himley, and of Broom. The former married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Bree, rector of Allesley, co. Warwick, by whom he left issue at his death, on September 3rd, 1826, (with daughters,) three Serjeant of the pastry, had a son Henry, to whom administration of his father’s effects was granted in 1593. {See Adlard’s Sutton- Dudleys) Susan, daughter of a John Dudley, whose arms' were Or, three {sed qucere\.yNot) lions passant azure in a bordure of the same, married the Rev. George Bard, vicar of Staines, who died in 1616. {See Col. Top. et Gen. iv. 59.) * William Dudley married Anne, another of the daughters of Richard Keelinge. She died (it is believed s. p.) on 20th Feb., 1784. 176 THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. sons, the Rev. Edward Dudley, rector of Broom ; Robert Dudley, of Summerhill, co. Stafford ; and Charles Dudley, Captain H. E. I. C. S., who died s. p. The eldest son, the Rev. Edward Dudley, married Christiana Mary, daughter of Joseph Amphlett, of Tipton, and by her, (who died in 1840, aged 60,) he left issue at his decease in 1858, several sons and daughters, of whom Thomas and Edward died unmarried; John and Charles, M.D., emigrated to New Zealand, and have issue ; Joseph, rector of Sarnesfield, co. Hereford, married and has issue ; and Walter, who emi- grated to Canada, also has issue. Of the daughters, Elizabeth is married to Thomas Amphlett of Clent ; Sophia is unmarried; and Mary died without issue. Robert Dudley, of Summerhill, (the second surviving son of Thomas,) married Eliza Mary, daughter of George Briscoe, of Summerhill, and died in 1856, aged 72, having had issue four sons, Robert, George, Edwin, and Alfred. Of these, George is of Compton, near Enville ; he married his cousin, Sidney Stone, daughter of Samuel Stone Briscoe, of Summerhill, and has issue ; and Alfred is of Neston, co. Chester, and is married to Eliza, daughter of the late Thomas Higgins Burne, of Loynton Hall, Staffordshire, and has issue ; Robert, the eldest, is also married, and has issue. — Azure, a chevron between three lion s heads erased or. Crest : A female’s head in profile proper, on the head a wreath, thereon a pointed cap (apparently formed of leaves) vert, the hair dishevelled, and the bust enveloped with drapery. Motto : Galea spes salutis.” (Sealy &c.) The Dudleys of Clopton, or Clapton, in Northamptonshire, bore the same arms and motto, but their crest is thus described in the THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 177 Baronetages ; — In a ducal crown or, a woman’s bust, her hair dis- hevelled, bosom bare, a helmet on her head with the stay or throat- latch loose proper.* The arms as above described, but with the chevron engrailed, were in 1597 in Bilston chapel near Wolver- hampton, inscribed ‘‘Johannes Dudley Armiger and it appears from Shaw’s Staffordshire^ that Joan, late wife of John Duddeley, gave certain lands for this chapel in the 36th Henry VI. (1457-8). There is a pedigree of the Tipton Dudleys in the Harl. MS., 6128, com- mencing with Thomas Dudley of “Tybington,” who married Joan, * “ The occasion of obtaining this crest (says Burke in his Extinct Baronet- age) is thus mentioned in a manuscript written in 1390 by a monk who was parson of Clapton ; — ‘ The father of Agnes Hotot, the great heiress who mar- ried Dudley, having a dispute with one Ringsdale about the title to a piece of land, they agreed to meet on the disputed ground and decide the affair by combat. Hotot on the day appointed was laid up with the gout, but his daughter Agnes, rather than the land should be lost, armed herself cap-a-pie, and mounting her father’s steed, went and encountered Ringsdale, whom, after a stubborn contest, she unhorsed ; and when he was on the ground, she loosened her throat-latch, lifted up her helmet, and let down her hair about her shoulders, thus discovering her sex.’ In commemoration of this ex- ploit the crest was adopted, and ever afterwards used.” Whether the Clopton Dudleys were descended from those of Sedgley and Tipton is not precisely known, but from similarity of arms it is presumed they were, or vice versa. As to the above anecdote, si non e vero e ben trovato. Of course Sir Bernard Burke only copies from his predecessors, but the account he gives of the Clopton family is simply absurd. “John de Sutton,” he says, “was summoned to Parliament as Baron Sutton of Dudley, in 1342. A descendant of his, John Sutton, assumed the name of Dudley, and from him is stated to have derived Thomas, who settled at Clapton in the county of Northumberland and was one of the lords of Clapton Manor. His grandson .... de Dudley, married, in 1395, Agnes Hotot, the eventual heiress of the ancient family of Hotot, and from that marriage lineally descended William Dudley, who was created a Baronet in 1660.” The monk’s account of the encounter is dated, it will be noticed, five years before the marriage of Agnes Hotot with Dudley ; and a person living in 1395 is described to be the grandson of an individual who was derived from 2i descenda?it of a person living in 1342 ! Baker (Northamptonshire, i., 470), states that Thomas Sutton, younger brother of John Lord Dudley who died in 1396-7, is “said to be ancestor of Dudley of Clopton.” But some derive them from Sir Richard Dudley, of Dudley, who married Isabel {nee Charlton), the widow of another John Li>rd Dudley. 23 178 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. daughter and co-heiress of John Wells, a/ias Clarke. He had issue, a son, Cornelius Dudley, and a daughter, Margaret, married to John Phillips. Cornelius married Anne Hoo, and had two sons, Thomas and Richard. The former was father, by Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Edward Swinnerton, of Edward Dudley, who was the father of the Thomas who married Katherine Dudley. Dudley, of Woi^cester, and of Netherton Hall, near Dtidley ; entered at the Visitation of Staffordshire, in 1663, by Dud Dudley, one of the earliest Staffordshire Ironmas- ters, a colonel in the Royal army, general of the ord- nance to Prince Maurice, and author of the treatise called “ Metallum Martis.” He was one of the natural children of Edward Lord Dudley, by Elizabeth, daughter of William Tomlinson, of Dudley, his “concubine/' Dud- ley was born in 1599, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford ; he died at Worcester, on 25th October\ 1684, and was buried in St. Helen's church, where a handsome monument was erected to his memory and to that of his wife, Eleanor, daughter of Francis Heaton, of Grovel ey.f It appears from the Visitation that he had two brothers, Robert of Netherton Hall, “ squire," and John, who died young ; and seven sisters, Elizabeth, wife of Geoffrey Dudley of Russell's Hall; Jane, wife of Richard Parkes- house of Sedgley ; Catherine, wife of Thomas Dudley, of Tipton ; Alice, wife of George Guest of the Hole, co. By Alice, daughter and heiress of Roger Roberts of Tettenhall, and Joan, his wife, the daughter and heiress of Henry Foliolde. See Harl. MS., 6128, fo. 25b. t In the parish registers of St. Helen’s are the following entries : — “Anno Dm. 1626. Dudd Dudley and Ellinor Heaton were married 12 October.” “ Mrs. Dudley, y® wife of Dodo Dudley, was buried y® 3d of Decem- ber, 1675.” “ Colonell Dodo Dudley was buried y® 25th of October,” 1684. THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE, 179 Worcester; Dorothy, wife of Thomas Brookes of Sedg- ley ; Susan died young ; and Martha, wife of Thomas Wilmer of Dudley. The monument in St. Helen’s Church, is now fast hastening to decay ; the inscription has almost entirely perished, but fortunately is preserved in Nash, ii., Appendix, 149. — Quarterly, ist and 4th, Or, a lion rampant double queuee vert, in the dexter chief a crescent for difference, for Stitton alias Dudley ; 2nd and 3rd, Or, two lions passant in pale azure, for Some 7 de ; the whole debruised with a bendlet sinister gules. ( Visita- tion Pedigree^ ut supra, in Mr. Bagnall’s reprint of Metal- lum Martis.) Dud’s monument in St. Helen’s church, is surmounted with an escutcheon bearing a lion rampant double queuee, impaling six trefoils arranged two and one, two and one, for Heaton; and two crests, the first A lion’s head affrontee in a ducal coronet ; the second A pelican, vulning, for Heaton. It is remarkable that there is no sinister bendlet or other difference upon these arms, nor is Dud’s illegitimate birth referred to in the inscription. Dudley, as borne by Sir Henry Bate- Dudley, Bart., so created in 1813, “descended from a respectable family settled in Worcestershire and Staffordshire as early as the reign of Charles He was the son of the Rev. Henry Bate, Incumbent of St. Nicholas, Worcester,! and was born in 1745. In 1784 he assumed the surname of Dudley, in compliance with the will of a relation be- longing to that family, and died without issue in 1824. — Sable, on a fesse argent between two lions passant in chief and a sinister hand bendways couped at the wrist in base or, a buck courant gules. Crest : A buck’s head * Burke’s Extinct Baro7ietage. t His name does not appear in Nash’s list of the Incumbents. 23—2 i8o THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. erased argent, attired sable, the neck transfixed with an arrow barbed and flighted proper, gorged with a collar gules therefrom pendent an escutcheon of the second charged with a hand as in the arms. Motto : “ Sine arcu.” (Baronetage^ and Burke’s Ainnory)) Dudley Town, incorporated 1865. — Gules, on a fesse en- grailed argent, between in chief a representation of the keep of Dudley Castle, and in base a Salamander in flames proper, a trilobite (or “Dudley locust,”) between an anchor cabled on the dexter, and a Davy lamp on the sinister. Crest : A lion’s head couped. (From an im- pressio 7 i of the Town Seal.) These arms (which were designed, it is believed, by Mr. Frede- rick Smith, the first Mayor of Dudley,) have not been registered in the Heralds’ College. The crest is intended for that of the Lords Dudley, but it should properly proceed from a ducal coronet. The trilobite, anchor, and safety lamp are allusive to the geology and trade of the district, and the Salamander in base is a portion of the armorial bearings of Mr. Smith, besides being allusive to the neigh- bouring furnaces and fires. Duffield. — Azure, a chevron between three swallows argent. (Penn AfS.) Colepepper quartered the same arms on a field gules, for Duf- field. {Dr. Prattinton.) Dumbleton. See Domulton. Dunclent, of Duncleiit. — On a bend cottised three escallops. (W.) These arms are on a seal appended to a charter, dated 42 Edward III., whereby John de Dunclent grants to John, son of Edmund de Dunclent, a rent of six shillings issuing out of Churchill Mill, which Clement de Dunclent, his father, had of the gift of John Melford, formerly Lord of Churchill juxta Kidderminster. (6'c^Nash, i. 190.) Duncombe, of WribbenhalL and Kiddemninster ; as borne by THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. iSt John Duncombe, of Wribbenhall, son of Stynt Dun- combe, who was a nephew of Sir Francis Duncombe, of Tangley, co. Surrey, Bart., so created in 1670. John Duncombe had two surviving sons, George, of Kidder- minster, attorney-at-law, whose daughter, Sarah, married .... Cox, of London, and Joseph, whose daughter and heiress married S. F. Perkins. He had also a daughter, Mary, married to John Ingram, of Bewdley. — Per chev- ron engrailed gules and argent, three talbot’s heads erased counterchanged. Crest : In a ducal coronet or, a horse’s hind leg couped at the thigh sable, the shoe argent. Also, In a like coronet or, a lion’s gamb sable, grasping a horse-shoe argent. (Berry’s Surrey Pedigrees, p. 49; Nichols’ Leicestershire; and Burke’s Extmct Baronetagei) Dunne, of Galley Park, co. Hereford, and of Ear Vs Croome. — Azure, a wolf salient or. Crest : Six snakes erect, contrary posed three and three, encircled with a ribbon. fDr. Prattintoni) The same arms were borne, according to the Harl. MS., 588, by Sir Daniel Dunne, knt.. Master of Requests, and Judge of the Ad- miralty, temp. James I. : but Berry giv^es Azure, a wolf salient, and a chief argent, which he says was granted to Sir Daniel on loth February, 1605. A Daniel Dunne, esq., was living at Kingsnorton in 1673. Blome’s Britannia. Durant, of Clent Hall, and of Tong Castle, co. Salop ; as borne by General George Durant, M.P., of Clent, who purchased Tong Castle, in 1765. His son, George Du- rant, of Tong Castle, was born on 25th April, 1776, and died in 1844, leaving issue by his first wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Francis Eld, of Seighford, co. Stafford, six surviving sons ; and by his second, a French lady, five 1 82 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. children. The Rev. George Durant was incumbent of Blockley, in 1627; and the Rev. Robert Durant, of Hagley, in 1 706 ; the latter was succeeded in the rectory of Hagley, in 1732, by the Rev. Josiah Durant,* and he in 1764, by the Rev. John Durant. — Sable, a fesse dan- cettee argent, in chief three fleurs-de-lis of the last.t Crest : A fleur-de-lis argent. Motto : “Bead qui durant.” Durban. — Azure, on a chief argent a demi-lion rampant issuant gules. (JV.) Durvessas. — Sable, a fesse counter-compon^e or and gules be- tween six escallops argent. (A^.) This is the coat of Durvassal, a/ias Spernore, whose' pedigree is given in Dugdale’s Warwickshire, ist ed., p. 531. It occurs in glass in Worcester Cathedral, inscribed “ Durvassal, Lord of Spernore.” See Dr. Thomas’ Stu'vey, p. 14. Dutton. — Quarterly argent and gules, in the second and third quarters a fret or. (tV.) One of the quarterings of Savage, of Elmley Castle. Dyer. at Eldersfield, to Richard Dyer, who died in 1722, aged 71,) — Or, a chief indented gules. {Nash.) Dyneley, Dineley. or Dingley, of Charlton. “Charlton,” says Camden, “ was once the estate of a famous knightly family, the Handsacres, but now of the Dinlies or Ding- * The Rev. Josiah Durant manied a sister of Wild Buckeridge, of Lich- field, and his daughter, Margaret, married her cousin, the Rev. Theophilus Buckeridge, M.A., a well-known Staffordshire antiquary, and correspondent of Silvanus Urban. See Harwood’s Erdeswick, preface, p. Ixvii. + These arms were entered as those of Durant, according to Berry [Hamp- shire Pedigrees) at the Visitation of Hants, in 1634 ; but the pedigree he gives terminates with Thomas Durant, 7 Edward HI. A pedigree of the same family was entered at the Visitation of Rutland, in 1618, but the paternal coat of Durant is given as Sable, a cross potent ermine which wasborne quarterly with St. Lise^ and the coat mentioned above. THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 183 lies, who being descended of an ancient family of that name in Lancashire"" came to it by inheritance, by the marriage of Richard Dinley, temp. Edward III., with Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Sir Simon Handsacre.” The family continued at Charlton for many generations, frequently serving the office of high sheriff, and inter- marrying with influential families, until it expired in the person of Sir Edward Dyneley, knight, who was aged 48 at the Visitation of 1682. He married Erances, daughter of Lewis Lord Rockingham, and left an only surviving daughter, Eleanor, his heiress, who was mar- ried to Sir Edward Goodere, of Burghope, co. Hereford, Bart, so created in 1707. Sir Edward Goodere died at an advanced age in 1 739, and was succeeded by his son. Sir J ohn, who added the surname of Dyneley to his patro- nymic. This gentleman was barbarously murdered by his brother Samuel, captain of the “ Ruby,” man-of-war, who suffered the extreme penalty of the law therefor in 174T. The representation of the family then devolved upon John Eoote, son of Samuel Foote, of Truro, Corn- wall, by Eleanor, sister of the murdered baronet, who, as heir to his uncle, assumed the surname of Dyneley. Another son of Samuel Foote and Eleanor Dyneley was * This is also asserted on the monument of Francis “ Dingley,” who died in 1624, but Habingdon thought they came from Dineley or Dingley in Northamptonshire; “and so,” he says, “thought Mr. Henry Dineley,” (of Hanley Castle), “ a gentleman expert in Armoury.” Habingdon was certainly mistaken in imagining that such was the notion of Henry Dinely, for Mr. Nichols, in his introduction to Dingley’s History from Marble^ p. 175, quotes a letter addressed by Henry Dineley to Sir Simon Archer, in which he says that his family came from Lancashire, and were anciently Lords of Downham in that county. Mr. Nichols has clearly shown that Thomas Dingley, the author of the above curious work was not a member of the Charlton family, but of the Hampshire family of that name. i84 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. the famous Samuel Foote, the “ English Aristophanes.” Dame Mary Dyneley Goodere, widow of Sir John who was murdered, held the Charlton estate in dower ; she married secondly William Rayner, a printer in London, who, (says Nash) “being thus in possession, partly by his marriage, and partly by purchase from Mr. Foote-Dyne- ley, became seised of the whole in fee, and sold Charlton to Joseph Biddle, of Evesham.” The manor and estate now belong to Mr. Henry Workman, formerly of Eve- sham. The Dyneleys of Charlton recorded their descent at the Visitations of 1634 and 1682-3. At the latter Visitation also were recorded the pedigrees of three junior branches of the family, seated respectively at Hanley Castle, Bromsgrove, and Redmarley. — Argent, a fesse sable, in chief a mullet of the last, between two pellets ; quartering Ermine, three chess rooks gules, for Hafidsacre ; Gules, a saltire engrailed argent between four mullets or, for Hardwicke ; Ermine, a chief quarterly or and gules, for St. Nicholas ; Argent, on a chevron sable three talbots passant of the held, for Martin ; and many others. Crest : In a ducal coronet or, a dragon’s head of the same. (C 30, Coll. Arm, fo. 91 ; K. 4, fo. 29, &c., &c.) The arms of Goodere are Gules, a fesse between two chevrons vaire ; and those of Foote, Vert, a chevron between three doves argent. Dyson, of Inkberrow and Hollow Fields, afterwards of “ The Hollies,” Enville, Staffordshire. The pedigree of this family, as recorded at the Visitation of 1634, com- mences with Henry Dyson, of Inkberrow, who mar- ried a daughter of ... . Dethick. His great grandson. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 1^5 Henry Dyson, was of Inkberrow in 1634; he married Jane, daughter of John Grosvenor or Gravenor of “The Hollies,” and had issue, Henry, Jane, Tabitha, Edward, and Elizabeth. Grosvenor Dyson, of “ The Hollies,” was High Sheriff of Staffordshire, in the 4th of William HI. ; his arms are engraved in the margin of the map of Staf- fordshire in Plot’s Natural History of that county, pub- lished in 1686. — Azure, the sun or, partially eclipsed sable (i.e., per pale wavy sable and or.) Crest : On a mount vert, a paschal lamb argent, the head surmounted with a nimbus or. Motto : “ Mortale non opto.” (C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 72 ; and Harl. MS., 1566.) Earle, Bishop of Worcester, 1662-3 J granted by Walker. — Ermine, on a chief engrailed sable three antique crowns or. {Bedfordi) Easte, or Este, of Hay Hall, Yardky. Thomas Easte, “ yeoman of the crown,” living in the fifth of Henry VI., married Marion, daughter and heiress of William de la Hay and Marion his wife, presumed to have been the daughter and heiress of Philip de Pyrie.^ His grandson Henry, son of his son Thomas, is described as of Hay Hall. — Gules, a pair of wings conjoined in lure or. (The Heraldic Dictionaries give, GvX^s, a chevron between three pairs of wings conjoined in lure or.) These arms occur at Yardley, on the monument of Edward Este, (who died in 1703), descended from .... Este, of Kenilworth, gen- tleman of the Bedchamber to Henry V. and Henry VI. In the same church are monumental inscriptions to the above-named Tho- See Dugdale’s Warwickshire, ist edit, p. 622. 24 i86 THE HEE ALEEV OE WOECESTEESHIEE. mas Este, and Marion, his wife, (ob. 1462), and to Henry Este, esq., and Margery, his wife (1504). See Nash, ii., 481. Eai'on. — Sable, three bars argent. (A^.) In a window of Bredon church. Eaton. — Argent, three trefoils slipped proper ; also Argent, six trefoils slipped proper, three, two, and one ; and the same between two flaunches sable. {Penn MS.) “ Whether,” says Penn, commenting on the last coat, “ these two flaunches were taken for a difference to distinguish the one family from the other, (before the sett forme for differences was certainly knowne), or whether it was given for an augmentation, is not att this time to be answered.” See Heaton. Eccleshall. — Sable, a bend between six martlets or. (N.) One of the Blount quarterings. Berry, of Hampton Poyle, quar- ters for Eccleshall in Besford church. Sable, a bend or, voided of the field between six martlets of the second. See Nash, i., 80. EciiiNGHAM. — Azure, a fret or. (A^.) Quartered by Windsor, in right of descent from the marriage of Andrewes Lord Windsor, with Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of William Blount, (son of Walter Lord Mount] oy), and Margaret, his wife-j daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Echingham, knt. Edeeyn. — Ermine, three barulets gules. (A^.) This is an inescutcheon upon the arms of Burley, as borne by Sir John Burley, and his two sons. Sir John and Sir Simon, all at the same time Knights of the Garter. Dr. Thomas, in his Survey of AVorcester Cathedral, supposes it to be a distinct coat, and ascribes it to Edefyn ; hence its appearance in Nash’s list. But as the arms of Burley are almost identical with those of Mortimer, which family a /so /)ore an inescutcheoii, {see Mortimer), it is very improbable that Burley’s inescutcheon was a separate coat. The Burleys held Burley in the county of Hereford, under the Mortimers, for which reason, probably, they assumed a coat resembling that of their superior Lords. Guillim likewise supposes this inescutcheon to be a distinct coat, but attributes it to Hussey, and says that it was so borne by Sir Simon Burley, in the time of Richard the Second.* In Dallaway’s Heraldry is an engraving of a seal, purporting to be that THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 187 “ Edmund, St., King and Martyr.^’ — Azure, three crowns or. m This coat occurs in glass in Worcester Cathedral, (see Thomas, p. 20). It is that ascribed by Glover and others to Edmund the Elder, who was stabbed by Leolf in a.d. 946. Edmunds. — Argent, on a cross engrailed sable five cinque- foils pierced or. {Penn MS.) Eedes, as borne by Richard Eedes, Dean of Worcester, who died in 1604. — Azure, a chevron engrailed between three leopard’s faces argent. Crest : A lion’s foot argent out of a laurel vert, “ expressing,” says Habingdon, “ his excellency in poetry.” These bearings are upon his monument in the Cathedral ; but Habingdon and Thomas call the field of the arms vert. In the Harl. MS. 965, the field is given as azure., the chevron argent, and the leopard’s faces or. Penn gives the field azure, and the charges all argent, Egioke, Egioke and Shurnock Court, Inkberrow. In the 5th of Henry IV., Thomas Egioke, of Egioke, “a gentleman of great repute,” was regarder of the forest of Fecken- ham. The manuscript pedigrees of the family commence with Thomas Egioke, of Egioke, who, by Elizabeth, nSc Morgan, his wife, was father of Humphrey Egioke, who married Margaret, daughter of Henry Moore, and had of Sir Simon Burley, K.G. It exhibits a heater-shaped shield, supported by two greyhounds, and divided per pale into three compartments. In the centre are the arms of Stafford, (Or, a chevron gules) ; on the dexter those of Ros, (Gules, three water bougets argent) ; and on the sinister Burley, (with the in- escutcheon). Now as Sir Richard Barley, K.G., (Sir Simon’s nephew), is stated to have married Beatrice, relict of Thomas Lord Ros, and daughter of Ralph, first earl of Stagord, it is almost certain that this seal is that of the said Beatrice, for it contains her paternal arms impaled with those of her two husbands. The seal, it should be added, has no legend. 24 — 2 i88 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. (with other issue), a son, John Egioke, of Egioke, father (by Anne, his wife, daughter of . . . Huband of Ipsley), of Sir Francis Egioke, of Egioke and Shurnock, knt, and of two daughters, Dorothy and Elizabeth. Sir Francis married Eleanor, daughter of Francis Dineley, of Charlton, and by her was father of two co-heiresses, Mary and Elizabeth, the one married to William Lygon, of Madresfield, and the other to Philip Bearcroft. —Azure, two cinquefoils in chief, and a fleur-de-lis in base or. Crest : A griffin with wings displayed, passant per pale or and azure. {Hart. MS., 1566; and other authorities.) These arms occur at Inkberrow, on the tomb of John Egioke, of Egioke, gent, who died in 1596, set. 64. In the Hark MSS., 1352 and 1566, another coat of Egioke is given, viz.. Per pale azure and argent, a griffin passant counterchanged ; and this coat with the crest A demi lion rampant holding in the paws a serpent nowed proper, is attributed by the Heraldic Dictionaries to ’‘^Eiioke, of Worcester- shire.^’ The same authorities also ascribe to “ Edicoke or Egioke, of Worcestershire,” Sable, a griffin passant ermine, beaked, legged, and ducally gorged or. Crest : A demi griffin ermine, beaked and legged or, holding a broken tilting spear. V^iAA^, of Kempsey ; as granted on 14th February, 1817, to the family of Sir Henry Walton Ellis, K.C.B., who was slain at Waterloo, the son of Major General John Joyner Ellis, of Kempsey. — Gules, on a fesse or, three escallops of the field between two crescents in chief, and an urn in base argent ; pendent from the chief point by a ribbon and clasp, a representation of the gold cross and clasp presented, by the royal command, to the late Sir H. W. Ellis, as a mark of his Majesty’s approbation of his ser- vices in the Peninsula, &c.; on a chief embattled of the second, pendent by a ribbon gules fimbriated azure, a THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 189 representation of the silver medal struck in commemora- tion of the Battle of Waterloo, and presented to the family of the said Sir H. W. Ellis ; beneath it the word “ Waterloo,’' and a branch of palm, and another of cypress proper. Crest : On a wreath of the colours, out of a mural crown or, a cubit arm in bend vested gules, cuffed azure, the hand grasping a sword proper, pomel and hilt gold, the blade broken and encircled by a wreath of cypress, from the wrist a representation of the said Waterloo medal pendent by a ribbon as in the arms. Mottoes : “ Decorum pro patria mori and (over the crest) “ Bello dextra.” (Chambers’ Biographical Illustra- tions of Worcestershire ; and Ellis’s Notes on Ellis Fami- lies i) Elmerugge, or Elmbridge, of Elmbridge. Ynardus de El- merugge is mentioned in the Testa de Nevil as holding four parts of a knight’s fee in Elmerugge. Roger, son and heir of Adam de Elmerugge, held Elmerugge and Wychbold, at his death in the ist of Edward III. ; his son, Sir Roger, married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Euphemia, sister and heiress of Mary Comyne, of Sane- combe, Herts., by William de la Beche. Anne, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Elmerugge, of Elme- rugge, was married to Sir John Dannet, and was ances- tress of the Dannets of Elmbridge ; she was three years old at the death of her father (in 1507). — Cheeky argent and sable. Crest : A griffin’s head. {Col. Top. et Gen.., V., 169.) Adam de Elmerugge bears in the Roll of temp. Henry III., and Edward I. — Cheeky argent and sable, on a chief or, three elm leaves slipped proper. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 190 Elmes. — Ermine, two bars sable each charged with five elm leaves transposed or. [Win. MS.) Ely, as borne by Nicholas of Ely^ Bishop of Worcester, 1266-8. — Barry of six azure and argent, a bend gules. — Another coat attributed to him Is Argent, a fesse en- grailed sable between six fleurs-de-lis. {Bedford^) Emerson. — Azure, on a bend or between two mullets argent three torteaux. {Penn MS.) Emms. See Cooper. Empson, of Ripple ; as borne by John William Empson, of Ripple Hall, and of Yoke-fleet Hall, Howden, York- shire, a magistrate for Worcestershire. — Azure a chevron between three crosses pattee argent. Crest : A tent argent, adorned or, lined azure, charged In the Interior with a cross pattee of the first. Motto : “Corona mea Chrlstus.” {Co 7 nfmmicated by the family i) Enoke. See Egioke. Erdeswicke. — Argent, on a chevron gules five bezants. {N.) This family was originally of Erdeswicke, in Cheshire, but after- wards seated at Sandon, co. Stafford, an estate acquired temp. Ed- ward IIL, in marriage with an heiress of Stafford. Of this family was Sampson Erdeswick, the well-known author of a Suri’ey of Staffoj'dshire. The original coat was Or, a fesse azure ; the above was adopted in commemoration of the match with Stafford’s heir. Sir John Salwey, the eldest son of Humphrey Salwey, (escheator for this county in the 22nd of Henry VI.,) married Margery, daughter of Hugh Erdeswicke, of Sandon, and had issue, three daughters and co-heiresses, one of whom. Cicely, married Thomas Coningsby, of Hampton Court, co. Hereford. See Coningsby. Erdington. — Azure, two Hons passant In pale or. {N.) The coat of the family of Erdington, of Erdington, co. Warwick, as in Belbroughton church. Sir Henry de Erdington, knt., married THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 191 temp. Edward I., Maud, one of the daughters of Roger de Somerie, Baron of Dudley, and co-heiress to her mother, Nichola D’Albini, “ for which respect,” says Dugdale. ‘‘ as it is most probable, he bore these arms (sometimes with a border of bezants) having so near a resemblance to the coat of Somerie.” Sir Henry de Erdington bore the coat within a bordure gules temp. Edward II. ; and some of the family bore the two lions debruised with a bend. Essington, of Ribbesford House, Bewdley ; as borne by Wil- liam Essington-Essington, J.P., of Ribbesford, son of the late William Webb Essington (formerly Ward), of Rock and Great Malvern, who was authorized by royal license, dated January 4th, 1828, to assume the surname and arms of Essington only, in lieu of those of Ward, in compliance with the testamentary injunction of Vice- Admiral Sir William Essington, K,C. B., who died July 1 2th, 1816. — Sable, on a cross argent five fusils conjoined in cross azure. Crest : On a mount vert, a fusil fesse ways argent in front of a cubit arm erect proper, the hand holding a fusil. Motto : “ Sea or land.” {Grant by Coll, of Arms.) These bearings are slightly varied from those exemplified by Segar, Garter King of Arms, in 1610, to the Essingtons of Cowley, CO. Gloucester, viz.. Sable five fusils in cross or. Crest : a hand proper, holding a fusil or. (See the Harl. MS., 1476.) Este. See Easte. Esteney. — Per pale gules and azure, three lions rampant argent. (W.) Dr. Prattinton says this coat occurs “ at Malvern,* in glass.” It * It is the third quartering in an unnamed (by Habingdon) shield in one of the windows of Great Malvern Church, which is thus blazoned by Nash, from Habingdon’s MSS. — Quarterly ist. Per fesse indented azure and argent, in the dexter quarter a lion rampant or ; 2nd, Gules, three lions rampant ar- gent ; 3rd, Esteney (as above described); 4th, “broken, except in chief gules three stag’s heads or.” 192 THE HERALDRY OE IVOR CES TER SHIRE. appears from Papworth’s Ordinary that it was borne by “Sir Richard Esteney/’ at some period unnamed; but it bears a strong resemblance to the Welsh coat borne by the Herberts and others of the same blood. Esthop, or E SCOTT. — Sable, six escallops three, two, and one or. {Penn MS.) Probably the coat of “ Mr. Esthop, Major,” who occurs in Penn’s list of those who were to find horse in Worcestershire during the civil wars. Eston, of St. Johns. — Azure, a chevron between three mul- lets or. {Dr. Prattinton^ This coat occurs in a window of the church of St. John Bedwar- dine. {See Nash, ii., 312.) Esturmey. See Sturmey. ‘ Evans, of Stourbridge, and of Er bistock, co. Flint; as borne by the late Sir John Evans,^ knt, of Erbistock, and by his brothers, William Evans of Stourbridge, surgeon, and Captain Robert Evans, R.N., “descended,’^ (says Burke), from Ririd Flaidd, a north Welsh chieftain of the eleventh century.’^ Capt. Evans left a son who died s.p. in 1861. — Vert, a chevron ermine between three wolfs heads erased argent, langued gules. Crest : A wolf’s head as in the arms. {Bttrke) Evans, of Ship st on-on- Stour ; as borne by the Rev. William Evans, B.D., Rector. — Argent, three boar s heads couped sable. Crest : A demi lion rampant regardant or, hold- ing between the paws a boar’s head, as in the arms. (Burke’s Armory.) * Sir John was knighted on July ist, 1817, being then High Sheriff of Merionethshire; he died in 1825. THE HERALDRY OF FORCES TER SHIRE. 193 Evans, of Welland ; as borne by the Rev. Thomas Evans, incumbent, who died in 1671, aged 65. — * Argent, a cross flory engrailed sable between four Cornish choughs pro- per, on a chief azure, a boar s head couped of the first, tusked or, and langued gules. {M.I. at Welland.) Evans, of Worcester ; as granted to Thomas Evans, of Upper Mill Pool, CO. Montgomery, and borne by the late Edward Evans, of Thorneloe House, Worcester, J.P., and by his only son, Edward Bickerton Evans, of Whit- bourne Hall, CO. Hereford, a magistrate for Worcester- shire. — Per pale argent and gules, a lion passant regard- ant between two fleurs-de-lis in chief, and in base a bundle of rods banded, all counterchanged. Crest : A lion passant regardant argent, the body charged with three crosses moline gules, resting the dexter paw upon a bundle of rods banded, also gules. {Enrolled with pedi- gree in Coll. Arm., 24th July, 1867.) Evans, as borne by the Rev. Thomas Evans, D.D., archdea- con of Worcester, and rector of Severn Stoke, who died 1 2th August, 1815. — Argent, a fesse engrailed between three eagle’s heads erased sable. Crest : An eagle’s head erased sable. {Engraving in Green’s Worcester.) Everard, of Ltickton; as quartered by Alderford, in right of the marriage of William, son of John Alderford, with Maud, daughter and heiress of Thomas Everard. They had issue, Walter Alderford, who in right of his wife, Joan, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Brook, became of Knightwick. — Or, a chevron vert between three lion’s heads erased sable. {Harl. MS., 1352.) 25 194 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTER SHIRE. Evesham, of Evesham^ afterwards of Herefordshire. — Azure, on a bend or three Moor’s heads couped sable. Crest : In a helmet or, a Moor’s head sable. {Hart. MS.y 615.) Evesham, Borough of. — Azure, a Prince’s coronet between two ostrich feathers in chief, and a garb in base or, banded of the last and sable, all within a bordure sable bezantee. Evesham obtained its charter of incorporation in the 3rd of James I., through the interest of Henry, Prince of Wales ; hence the above coat, which contains the coronet and ostrich feathers of the Prince of Wales, the garb of the Earldom of Chester, and the bezantee bordu 7 'e of the Earldom of Cornwall. Evesham Abbey. — Azure, a chain in chevron fastened to a horse-lock on the dexter, and a ring on the sinister, be- tween three mitres argent labelled or. These arms allude to the legend of the founder going to Rome on account of the sins of his youth with his legs chained and fet- tered with a horse-lock, the key of which he threw into the sea, or as some say, the Avon, declaring that he would not be released till God, by a miracle, had declared the forgiveness of his sins. As he was returning to the English shore a fish jumped into the boat, and in its belly was found the key ; others say he bought the fish at Rome. See Nash, i., 396. Evett, of W oodhall ; an ancient family, whose pedigree and arms were recorded at the Visitation of 1634, and of whom there are memorials in Grimley church. — Or, a cross pattee flory gules charged in the centre with a bezant. Crest : A demi-dragon or, holding in the paws a cross patee gules, (C 30, Coll. Arm.^ fo. 76 ; and Pe 7 in MS.) Eynford. — Gules, a fret engrailed ermine. {Pemt MS.) Eyre, of Hartlebury. “ This family of the Eyers,” says Penn, “ have been seated in the parish of Hartlebury, THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. i95 this many yeares, and anciently descended from the stemme of the Eyers that were descended from the noble Simon Eyer, Lord Mayor of London, as appeareth by the armes.”^ The family pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of 1634. — Argent, on a chevron sable three quatrefoils or, in chief a torteaux. (C. 30, Coll. Ar^n.^ fo. 75b ; and Penn MS.) Eyston, of Overbury ; as borne by Ferdinand Eyston, of that place, J.P., a member of the family of that name seated at East Hendred, in Berkshire. — Sable, three lions ram- pant or. Crest : A lion sejant or. {Burke) Farley, of Worcester . — Per pale or and sable, an annulet for difference. {Penn MS.) This family appears to be of ancient standing at Worcester, Several of the name occur in the Roll of Bailiffs and Mayors of that city, from Thomas Farley, in 1514, to Thomas Farley in 1778. Humphrey Farley, of Bosbury, co. Hereford, living in 1591, bore, Per pale argent and sable, and for crest, A boar’s head couped sable. {See Strong’s Heraldry of Herefordshirel) Farley (Turner), of Eastham, Slc. The Rev. Charles Turner, rector of Eastham, afterwards of Moor Hall, Stourport, third surviving son of Jacob Turner, of Park Hall, near Kidderminster, was granted the royal license, dated 22nd April, 1848, to take the name of Farley after Tur- ner, and bear the arms of Farley quarterly with his own family arms, in compliance with the will of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Farley, of Henwick.f Mr. Turner- * According to Stowe, Sir Simon Eyre, Lord Mayor of London in 1445, bore for arms, Gules, a porcupine salient argent quilled and chained or. He was the son of John Eyre, of Brandon, in Suffolk. t Thomas Farley was High Sheriff in 1794; and George Farley, of Hen- wick, in 1827. 196 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Farley died unmarried, and was succeeded by his nephew Thomas Macnaghten Turner, (son of Thomas Jacob Turner, and grandson of the above Jacob Turner, of Park Hall,) who by royal license, dated 1867, likewise assumed the additional surname and arms of Farley. — Quarterly ist and 4th, Paly of six sable gutte d’eau, and or, for Farley ; 2nd and 3rd, Sable, within a cross argent voided of the field, a cross pattee fitchee of the second between four mill-rinds of the first, for Ttcrner, Crests : 1st, for Farley, A boar’s head lying fesseways couped, paly of six, as the arms ; 2nd for Ftrner, A lion passant guardant sable, charged on the body with three crosses pattee fitchee argent, resting the dexter fore paw upon a shield of the last, charged with a mill-rind of the first. Motto : “ Avito viret honore.” See Turner. Farmer. — Gules, a chevron cheeky argent and azure, between three lions rampant or. {Penn MS.) These arms (but with the chevron vaire) and the crest, A tiger passant ermine, were granted by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, to Alex- ander Fermor, of Welches, co. Sussex, Nov. loth, 1575. {See Berry’s Sussex Pedigrees, p. 180.) Farmer, of London, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, and Wor- cester shire. — Argent, on a fesse sable between three lion’s heads erased gules, as many anchors or. {Her. Die.) The same authorities attribute to Farmer, of Worcestershire, a similar coat, but with acorns slipped or instead of anchors. Farmount. See Feriman. Farnwell, as quartered by Coningsby. — Argent, a lion sejant rampant gules, within a bordure engrailed sable. {Harl. MS., 1507.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 197 Fatio, or Faccio, of Worcester; as borne by Nicholas Faccio or Fatio de Duillier, “a man of considerable learning, who, becoming connected with the French prophets, stood in the pillory at Charing Cross, in 1 707, for favouring those enthusiasts in their wicked and counterfeit prophe- cies. Oppressed with derision and contempt, he about the year 1720, retired to this county, and died at Worces- ter, in 1753, aged 90. Dr. Johnstone, of Kidderminster, had in his possession a MS. written by Faccio, contain- ing commentaries and illustrations of different parts of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia^ and many other MSS. by him.^ — Quarterly ist and 4th, . . . three trees, on a chief ... a mullet. 2nd and 3rd ... two fishes addorsed. (From a broken seal in the possessio 7 i of the Rev. Mr. Rttdd, of Ke^npsey, \ fh Oct,, 1815, who has several letters from him to Sir Isaac Newton. — Dr. Prattintonl) Fayting, of Worcester ; and of Woodcote, in the parish of Bromsgrove, where the family was seated, according to the Magna Britannia, for “ above five hundred years.” Of this family was Nicholas Fayting, mayor of Worcester in 1695. — Argent, six hearts, three, two, and one gules, issuing out blood from the sinister side proper, between two bars gemelles sable. Crest : On a mount vert, a holly leaf. Motto : “ Fideli distillant sanguine corda.” (Magna Britannia ; Add. MS., 14,834 ; and M.I. in All Saints Church, Worcester. Feckenham. — Sable, a chevron argent. (Rudder.) In the year 1332 a controversy arose between Sir John Sitsylt * Chambers’s Biographical Illusirations of Worcestershire. 198 THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTER SHIRE. (Cecil) and Sir William Fecknaham, about the right to bear, Barry- argent and azure, six escutcheons sable with so many lions rampant of the field incensed gules. The dispute was decided in favour of Sitsylt, whose descendants still bear these arms. The case is given (from Boswell’s Heraldry) by Duncumb, in his History of Hereford- shire^ vol. ii., p. 503. Feild, of Worcester and Pagenhall^ co, Gloueester. — Or, afesse between a double-headed eagle displayed in chief, and a stag’s head cabossed in base, all sable. {IfarL MS.y 1041.) See Phelps, FeilT). — Vert, a chevron between three garbs or. {Penn MS.) See Field. Feild, or Field, as borne by Nicholas Field, who died in 1 702. — ... a chevron engrailed . . . between three garbs . . . This coat occurs on Mr. Field’s monument in St. Lawrence’s church, Evesham, but he disclaimed all right to arms at the Visita- tion of 1682-3 ; as did also Edward Feild, of Evesham, and John Feild, of Worcester. F eild. See F ield. Feldridge, of Worees ter shire. — -Argent, on afesse azure three lozenges or. Crest : A bird or, holding in the beak a nut branch vert fructed proper. (Burke’s Armory ; — but these are the bearings of Fielding i) P'ell. — Argent, on two bars, sable, three crosses pattee fitchee or. {N) These arms were borne by the family of Fell, of Hall Court, co. Hereford, of which was John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, who died in 1686. The same arms (with the crest, A pelican vulning, wings elevated) are on the monument of Philip Fel, B.D., Fellow of Eton, THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. 199 in Worcester Cathedral. Warburton, in his Loiidoii and Middlesex Illustrated^ states that Bishop Fell obtained a grant of Or, three lozenges conjoined in fesse azure, on the middle one a Catherine wheel, thereon a cross pattee fitchee of the first, in chief a rose be- tween a portcullis and a leopard’s face of the second, all within a bordure gules charged with four lozenges and as many escallops alternately argent. This grant was then in the possession of John Fell, citizen of London, his descendant. Fenzell, of Worcester ; as impaled by Humphrey Soley, in St. Nicholas’ church, Worcester, in right of his wife, Susannah, daughter of John Fenzell; she died in 1704, aged 32. — Per bend sinister or and sable, a lion rampant, counterchanged. Fereby. — Sable, a fesse ermine between three goat’s heads erased argent. {N.) Quartered by Coningsby, at Rock. Feriman, or Farmount, of Worcester. — Gules, three horse’s heads bridled, couped at the neck argent, within a bor- dure engrailed of the last. {N.; and trick in Hart. MS., 1566, fo. 147b.) Three generations of a family bearing this name and arms were rectors of Harvington, near Evesham. Ferrars, as borne by Sir Edward Ferrars, sheriff of this county from the 21st to the 27th of Henry VI 1 1 . — Gules, seven mascles conjoined, three, three, and one, or, a canton ermine. (Nashi) Ferrars, of Groby, co. Leicester. — Vaire or and gules. (N) Fetherston, of Kingsnorton. Thomas Fetherston, M.A., M.D., (fourth son of John Fetherston, of Packwood, co. Warwick, who died in 1645,) niarried Elizabeth, daughter 200 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. of William Field, of Kingsnorton, and had issue by her, Thomas Fetherston of Kingsnorton, who became possessed of much property in that parish, in right of his wife, Margery, the daughter and heiress of William Harrison, son of Stephen Harrison, by Alice, his wife, sister and co-heiress of Edward Norton of Headley Heath, Kings- norton. The Fetherstons of Pack wood were a very ancient family, supposed to be derived from the Feather- stonhaughs of Fetherstonhaugh, co. ‘Northumberland. They were seated at Pack wood as early as the reign of Edward IV., but are now extinct in the male* line. — Gules, on a chevron between three ostrich feathers argent as many annulets sable. Crest : An antelope’s head erased gules, armed and langued vert. (Seal) F ETHERSTONHAUGH, of Hoptofi Court ; as granted to Alexan- der Stephenson Fetherstonhaugh, of Hop ton Court. This family of Fetherstonhaugh is of Saxon origin, and is said to have been seated at Fetherstonhaugh in North- umberland before the Conquest, that part of the county having been allotted to its progenitor, a Saxon officer, for his gallant conduct against the Britons. Co-heiresses succeeded to the castle estate, in 1659, the one married P. Dodson, of Kirkby Overblow, Yorkshire, and the other John Blenkensopp, of Blenkensopp Castle. Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, of Alston Moor, Mayor of Newcastle- on-Tyne, in 1711, grandfather of the late baronet of Up The present representative of the family, in the female line, assumed the surname of Fetherston in lieu of his patronymic (Dilke), by royal license, in 1833- THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 201 Park, Sussex, repurchased the Castle estate from the Earl of Carlisle, and died February 24th,* 1762, aged 100 years. Sir Albany Fetherstonhaugh, of Fetherston- haugh Castle, had three sons. Sir Alexander, Henry, and Nicholas. The latter died unmarried ; Henry, who was of Kirkoswald, was father of Sir Timothy who raised a troop of horse at his own expense, was knighted under the king’s banner, taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester, and beheaded by Cromwell’s party in 1651 ; his representa- tive, Charles Smallwood, assumed his name on ist Sept. 1797. Sir Alexander’s line, of Fetherstonhaugh Castle, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, and of Alston Moor, Cum- berland, has continued in direct male descent, from the earliest period, to the present time, and from his grand- son, Albany, of Kirkhaugh, registered in the College of Arms. Richard, of Alston, eighth son of Alexander, of Kirkhaugh, married Mary, sister of Thomas Stephenson, of the Ty thing, Worcester, and great niece of Sir Wil- liam Stephenson, knt.. Lord Mayor of London, in 1764, by whom he had issue, Alexander Stephenson Fether- stonhaugh, of Hopton Court, Thomas, Joseph, John and Maria. — Gules, two chevrons engrailed between three ostrich feathers within a bordure also engrailed argent. Crest : An heraldic antelope’s head erased gules, sur- mounted by two ostrich feathers in saltire argent. Motto : “ Ne vile velis.” {Communicated by the family i) Fettiplace. — Gules, two chevrons argent. See Bushell. Feyce. — Barry of eight argent and azure. (W.) .This coat occurs among the quarterings of Willoughby in Welland church, but Nash under Welland (vol. ii., p. 455) attributes it to ‘‘ Steyce (;r rather Grey.” From its position in the shield (between 26 202 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE, Maltravers and D’Aumerle or Danmerle), however, it is clear that it is intended for Sivrefasi, whose arms are Argent, three bars gemelles azure. The coat was brought in (through Cheney and Stafford), by Maltravers ; the mother of Sir John Maltravers who married the co-heiress of D’Aumerle, and whose daughter, Elizabeth, married Sir Humphrey Stafford, of Southwick, having been Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of Robert Sivrefast, of Hooke. The Wil- loughbys acquired the right to quarter Stafford,, through the mar- riage of Sir John Willoughby with Anne Cheney, daughter and co- heiress of Edmund Cheney, by Alice, his wife, the daughter and eventually co-heiress of Sir Humphrey Stafford, and Elizabeth Mal- travers. F lELD. See F eild. Field, of Kingsnorton and Moseley. This family was of posi- tion and importance at Kingsnorton during the i6th, 17th, and the early part of the i8th centuries, but it appears t© have subsequently fallen into poverty.^ The family estates at Kingsnorton were The Dells^ The Moats ^ Black-greaves^ and JVeatheroak Hill, The last landed estate of the family was sold by a descendant, so recently as 1777. William Field, of Kingsnorton, was fined for refusing Knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. ; and John Field of the Bells was High Sheriff of the county in the reign of Queen Anne. Dr. Prattinton gives a pedigree of the family, supported with extracts from the Kingsnorton Registers. Of this family was Henry Field, of Weatheroak Hill, who purchased in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, an estate at Holdfast, in Ripple, which devolved upon Anne (the daughter of John Field), his niece and heiress, who carried it in marriage to Sir Wil- * Possibly Isaac Field, shoemaker, and for 62 years parish clerk of Kings- norton, who died in 1757 aged 85, and Henry Field, his son, who was also parish clerk there, and died in 1795, aged 81, were members of this once in- fluential family. THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 203 Ham Whorwood, of Sandwell, co. Stafford. — Sable, a chevron between three garbs argent.^ This was the coat quartered for Field, by Whorwood, at the Visit- ation of Oxfordshire, in 1634; but at the Visitation of this county, in the same year, John Field, Thomas Field, and William Field, all of Kingsnorton, “disclaimed.” Fillingley, as quartered by Cockett, through Froxmore. — Sable, a chevron engrailed between three leopard’s faces or. {Harl. MS\, 1566.) F iLYLODE. See Lutley. F INCH, of Rtishock Court. Connected by marriage with the Windsors of Hewell ; as borne by Francis Finch, of Rushock, a°. 1673. — Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant sable. (W. ; and Penn MS.) Fincher, of Shelve and Worcester. Shelve or Shell is a hamlet near Himbleton, where, as early as the reign of » Edward VI., this family had an estate. The pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of 1682, but the arms were disallowed. — Bendy of six or and sable, a fesse ermine. {Penn MS. ; and AT. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 69.) In Himbleton church is an inscription to Philip Fincher of Shell, “ the last branch in the male line of a very respectable family of Shell, in this neighbourhood, who resided on their estate more than 200 years.” He died December nth, 1755, in his 73rd year, and * On a seal appended to an admission to a copyhold estate in Kingsnor- ton, in the 3rd of James I. (of which manor Edward Field was then steward) is this coat. — On a fesse between six crosslets, three stars. The seal bears the initials E. F., and is circumscribed with the following legend. “ . . . . It capitatt .... senescalli de Kingesnorton.” Dr. Prattinton attributes the same coat to Bell, of Bromsgrove, and says it occurs on the seal of . . . Bell, Deputy Steward of that manor temp, Elizabeth. He probably refers to the same seal. 26 — 2 204 ^ the heraldry OF WORCESTERSHIRE. left three daughters, Margaret, Mary, and Anne, who erected the monument. Fisher. — Or, a fesse cottised sable. (A^.) Impaled at Longdon, by Christopher Helme, in right of his wife, Mary, daughter of John Fisher, 1629. P'iSHER, of Wig 07 'n a 7 td Salop. — Argent, a chevron vaire be- tween three lions rampant gules. (Win. MS.) This coat (but with Lemi lions erased) was borne by the Fishers of Packwood, co. Warwick, and Dothill, Salop. Fisher, of Ltidlow and Worcester . — Per bend or and gules, a griffin segreant counterchanged within a bordure vaire. Crest : On a branch trunked and ragulee lying fesseways vert, with a honeysuckle proper sprouting from the dex- ter end, a kingfisher also proper, holding in his beak a fish argent. {Add. MS., 14,314, fo. 140.) Fiton. — Argent, on a bend gules three garbs or. (JV.) The coat of Richard Fiton as represented in one of the windows of Worcester cathedral. {See Habingdon’s Church Notes, in Harl. MS., 2205.) Fitz, of Hanhtry. “ This family, ’’ (says Penn) “is almost worne out, for I cannot heare of any more than one that is now living, which is at Cotheridge ; who by his trade is a clothier, and for the most part dwelleth in the Cittie of Worcester.” — Argent, guttee de sang, on a cross gules five mullets pierced of the field. {Pe 7 m MS.) Symonds in his Diary (Camden Society, p. 79) mentions a coat which he found in Tavistock church : Guttee de sang a cross en- grailed. This, he says, is the coat of Sir John Fays, who “hath a faire house in this parish.” Fitz Alan, of Chin. — Argent, a chief azure. {Ni) The arms of the great Shropshire house of FitzAlan were. Gules, a lion rampant or. The above coat is quartered by their descend- ants for Chin. Both coats occur among the Berkeley quarterings. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 205 Fitzansculf, of Dudley, said to have been borne by William FitzAnsculf, feudal baron of Dudley at the Conquest. — Or, two lions passant in pale azure. {Berry.) See SOMERIE. Fitzer, as represented on the tomb, at Broad was, of Hum- phrey Fitzer, gent., who died in 1679 — a lion ram- pant {Nash, i. 138.) Fitz-Geoffrey. — Quarterly or and gules, a bordure vaire. (iV.) One of the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley ; brought in by Beauchamp. Fitz-langley, as quartered by Cockett through Froxmore. — Argent, a fesse between six leaves gules. {Harl, MS., 1566.) Fitz-randolph. See Middleham. Fitz-simon. — Azure, a lion rampant ermine, a label of four points gules. {N.) Formerly in a window of Salwarpe church. Fitz-walter. — Or, a fesse between two chevrons gules. (W.) Fitz- WARREN, of Uptou Warren; as borne by Sir William Fitzwarren, a judge of the Common Pleas, and Sheriff of Worcestershire temp. Henry HI. Asceline, his only daughter and heiress, married Thomas de Luttelton, ancestor of Lord Lyttelton, by whom the arms are quartered. — Quarterly per fesse indented argent and gules. Fitz- WILLIAM. — Lozengy argent and gules. (W.) An impalement of Coningsby at Rock. 2o6 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Fleet, alias Wallsgrove, of Worcester and Hallow ; de- scended, according to Penn, “ from the family of Walde- grave in the county of Chester, and have been seated for this many yeares in this aforesaid parish of Hollow.” — Per pale azure and gules, an annulet for dilference. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or, a plume of feathers per pale azure and gules. (M, /. to John Fleets Esq,^ in St. Helens chtirch, Worcester.) Penn gives the arms. Per pale argent and gules, differenced by a mullet within an annulet, for “ the third brother of a fifth house and Dingley, in the alphabet of arms prefixed to his History from Marbky attributes to Fleets Per pale gules and argent. The Win. MS. gives sub Fleet, “ Pal. argent and gules, an annulet or, of the first.” Of this family were Thomas Wallesgrave, M.P. for the city of Worcester in the 14th of Elizabeth, and John Walsgrave, alias Flete, who represented the same city in Parliament in the 31st of Elizabeth. Fleet, or Flete. — Argent, a lion rampant gules, debruised with a bend sable thereon three mullets or. {H.) Formerly in one of the windows of the cathedral cloisters. See Thomas, p. 28. Fleetwood, Bishop of Worcester, 1675-83. — Per pale nebu- lee azure and or, six martlets, two, two, and two, counter- changed. {Monument in the cathedrali) P" LETCHER, Bishop of Worcester, 1593-4. — Sable, a cross patonce azure, plain pierced of the field, between four escallops of the second. {Bedford.) Fletcher, of Dudley, now of Lawneswood House, Stafford- shire, near Stourbridge; as borne by Thomas William Fletcher, of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, a major in the Staffordshire Militia, and a magistrate for Wor- cestershire and Staffordshire. — Quarterly ist and 4th, THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 207 Argent, a cross engrailed sable between four pellets each charged with a pheon or, a canton azure thereon a ducal coronet gold, ior Fletcher ; 2nd, Barry wavy of eight argent and azure, over all a bend or charged with three mullets gules, for Alport ; 3rd, Gules, between two lions rampant or, a bend engrailed of the last charged with three scaling ladders of the field, for Keelinge, Crests : ist, A horse’s head erased argent, ducally gorged azure, for Fletcher ; 2nd, On a chapeau, a scaling ladder or, for Keelinge. Motto : “ Sub cruce salus.” (Burke’s Landed Gentry.) In Burke’s Com 7 no 7 iers^ vol. iv., p. 52, the following bearings are attributed to this family : — Argent, a Pcross engrailed sable, sur- mounted of a plain cross ermine, between four pheons azure, each within an annulet of the second. Crest : A horse’s head erased argent, gorged with a collar sable thereon three pheons or, in the mouth a rose gules slipped proper ; and it is there stated that the more ancient arms of the family were Sable, a cross flory between four escallop shells argent. Flood, of WoUas Hall^ Per shore. See Hanford. Flower. — Ermine, on a canton gules an owl argent, ducally gorged or. (Nl) This is an impalement of Sheldon in Beoley church. It is the coat of Walter Fowler (not Flower), of St. Thomas’s, co. Stafford, who married Mary, daughter of Ralph Sheldon, of Beoley. ( Vide Nash, sub. Beoley^ and Harwood’s Erdeswick^ j). 157). The coat, however, is really that of Barton, an heiress of which family was married to Henry Fowler, ancestor of the above-named Walt er The proper coat of Fowler is. Azure, on a chevron argent between three lions passant guardant or, as many crosses pattee sable. Flowre. — Ermines, a cinquefoil ermine. {K.) The arms of John Flower, of Rutland, who married Jane, daugh- ter of Ralph Sheldon, of Beoley. Fokeriiam, of Stockton. William de Fokerham held, temp. Edward I., the manor of Warley- Wigorn under Roger de 2o8 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Somerie. In the 2nd of Edward I., Roger Fokerham was Lord of Warley ; and in the 3rd of Edward II., Richard Fokerham possessed the same manor. Roger Fokerham left issue a son William, a knight, whose son Richard Fokerham resided principally at Stockton. — Or, a bend engrailed sable. {Nash, ii., 523.) . This coat, but with the bend azure, was borne by Sir Richard de Fokerham, of Berkshire, temp. Edward II. {Nicolas Roll.) Foley, of Willey Court. The family of Foley, says Collins, has been “ of ancient standing in Worcestershire and some of the adjoining counties but the ‘ first he meets with, ancestor to the Lord Foley,’ was Richard Foley, who. Sir Simon Degge informs us, “ was first a seller of nails, afterwards a forge-master, and a very honest man of Stourbridge.”* Richard Foley was twice married; by his first wife he had a son Richard, f of Longton, in Staffordshire, who died without surviving male issue ; and by his second, Alice eldest daughter of William Brindley, of “the Hyde,” in the parish of Kinver, Staf- fordshire, he had several sons, of whom Thomas was the grandfather of the first Lord Foley; Robert was ancestor of the Foleys of Stourbridge ; and from Samuel, the * Richard Foley disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1634. He is said to have been originally an itinerant musician, who fiddled his way to Sweden, where he discovered the method (then a secret) employed in that country for splitting iron into rods for the purpose of making nails. But Shaw, on Dr. Wilkes’s authority, relates a similar anecdote of one of the Brindleys of Kinver. Richard Foley was the son of one Edward Foley, beyond whom the pedigree has not been traced. t Richard Foley of Longton, married three wives, one of them being Margaret Brindley, sister of his father’s second wife. Joan, another of the daughters of William Brindley, married an Edward Foley of Bristol. {See the Pedigree of Brindley, in Harl. MS., 2119, fo. 67.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 209 fourth son, was descended Robert Foley,* rector of Old- swinford from 1777 to 1797. Thomas, the eldest sur- viving son of Richard Foley, was (we quote Collins) “ a person highly esteemed ; and has left such a lasting monument of his pious and charitable disposition, as will perpetuate his memory to the latest posterity, having at his own cost raised and suitably endowed that noble hospital at .Oldswinford, in the County of Worcester, for the maintenance, clothing, education, and putting out sixty poor boys of that and the neighbouring parishes.’' The greatness of the fortune accumulated by this gentle- man may be imagined when we mention that, besides his magnificent endowment of Oldswinford Hospital, each of his three sons possessed a splendid estate ; Thomas, the eldest, had Witley Court, Paul, the second, had Stoke Edith, in Herefordshire, and Philip, the youngest, had Prestwood, in Staffordshire. Of Thomas Foley, the founder of Oldswinford Hospital, we have some interest- ing notices in the gossiping Diary of Samuel Pepys. We read of “ Folly the Ironmonger” treating that worthy and some other persons connected with the Navy office, to “ a good plain dinner ” (1664), which the absence of “ musique ” seems to have rendered unpalatable to that fastidious gentleman, although it was seasoned with “right merry discourse.” And on the 17th November This gentleman married first, Elizabeth, daughter of Aston Harris, of Bradford House, Belbroughton (by whom he had two daughters, one of whom, Mary, married Sir Christopher Smith, bart., of Eardiston), and secondly, Anne, daughter of Richard Walwyn, of Hereford, by whom he was father of the Rev. John Foley, rector of Holt, and Astley, who married Martha, daughter of Edward Hickman, of Oldswinford. 27 210 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. following, we find Mr. Foley presenting the diarist with an iron chest, “ but for me,” he naively adds, “ to pay for, if I like.” But under loth June, 1668, Foley appears in a far more interesting light. We read^of him visiting Christ’s Hospital “ to see how the lands were settled he probably then contemplated that act of munificence to which Collins so gracefully alludes, the foundation of the noble hospital at Oldswinford. Some fair pedigrees of the junior branches of the Foley family will be found in Edmondson’s Baronagium ; the Rev. Philip Foley there named was the father of the Rev. Thomas Philip Foley, who succeeded his kinsman, Robert Foley, in the rectory of Oldswinford, and who rendered himself so unhappily notorious in connection with the fanatic Johanna South- cott. This gentleman was father of the late Rev. Richard Foley, B.D., for many years rector of North Cadbury, Somerset. The pedigree and arms of Foley of Witley Magna, were recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3. — Argent, a fesse engrailed between three cinquefoils sable all within a bordure of the last. Crest : A lion sejant argent holding between the fore paws an escutcheon of the arms. Mottoes : “ Ut prosim,” and “ Vince malum bono.” (W. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 114.) Lord Foley and Mr. Hodgetts-Foley of Prestwood, co. Staiford, now bear the lion in the crest rampant ; and the former has the fol- lowing supporters : — On either side a lion rampant argent, semee of cinquefoils sable. Foley, of Stourbridge ; as granted by Walker, Garter King of Arms, on the 12th of December, 1671, to Robert Foley, of Stourbridge, then High Sheriff of Worcestershire, a younger son of Richard Foley and Alice Brindley. — Argent, a fesse engrailed between three cinquefoils within THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 21 I a bordure sable, on a canton gules a ducal coronet or. Crest : A lion sejant argent holding between the fore paws a ducal coronet or. {K, 4, Coll, Arm.^ fo. 80; Harl, MS., 1172 ; and Add. MS. 14,293.) The grant recites that the said Robert “hath at all times been a loyal and faithful subject, and since His Majesty’s happy restoration hath in regard both of his own inclination and of his great stock, and ability in managing the manufacture of iron, been chiefly in- trusted to supply His Majesty’s naval stores therewith, wherein he hath employed vast sums of money, and hath with singular care and industry acquitted himself therein, and still pursues the same.” Foliot. — Gules, a bend argent charged with a martlet sable. Crest : A battle-axe proper. Motto : ‘‘ Hope to come.” Dr. Prattinton thinks this is “ a mistake of Dr. Thomas’s.” Burke attributes the bearings to Foliot of “ Bromyard, co. Worcester S (but Habingdon). The arms recorded to “Folyott” of this county, at the Visitation of 1533, were Gules, a bend argent; and those of “Folyot of Thorndon, co. Gloucester,” in the same Visitation were. Argent, a lion rampant double queuee gules. {H. 20, Coll. Arm., ff. 57, 67.) Sir Richard Foliot bears the bend in the Rolls of Glover, Charles, and Nicolas. F OLLiOTT, of Morto 7 i-Folliott, in Longdon ; and of Pirton and Lickhill. “The Folliotts,” (says Nash), “were a most ancient family in this county. We meet with them in the reign of Henry I., and their first habitation was at Morton-Folliott, now called Castle-Morton, in the parish of Longdon.” They possessed lands in Pirton at least as early as the reign of Edward HI., which they probably acquired in marriage with an heiress of Pirton ; and they continued there till the early part of the 1 7th century, when the manor and estate of Pirton was sold by Sir John Folliott, lent, to Sir William Courteen, lent The family pedigree and arms were recorded at the Visi- 27 — 2 212 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. tation of 1569. A descendant of this family, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Folliott, son of Thomas Folliott,''" of Pirton, was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland, in 1619, as Baron Folliott, of Ballyshannon. His grandson, the third lord, married Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co- heiress of Henry Pudsey, of Langley, co. Warwick, but dying, s.p., in 1716, the title became extinct. He had five sisters and co-heiresses ; Anne married to John Soley, of Lickhill ; Rebecca married to Job Walker,t of Wooton, CO. Salop ; Elizabeth married first to Samuel Powell, and secondly to the Rev. Thomas Jones ; Frances married to Mr. Mason ; and Mary, wife of Rowland Baugh, of Stonehouse, co. Salop. Rebecca Lugg, widow of Arthur Lugg, and daughter of the above John Soley, dying issueless, devised the manors of Lickhill, Mitton, &c., to Lieutenant-General John Folliott, her nearest relative of that name. General Folliott died without issue, in 1762, and devised the same estates to his first cousin, Mr. Folliott, M.P. for Kingsale, whose present representative resides at Hollybrook House, co. Sligo. — Argent, a lion rampant double queuee purpure, ducally crowned or. {D, 12, ColL Arm,, fo. i6b.) These,” (says Nash), “ are the arms of Stiiry, which, coming to Folliott by some marriage, are borne as his proper coat, whereas the ancient coat of Folliott is Gules, a bend argent.” Penn gives the bend as the a 7 icient coat, and the double tailed lion as that “ assumed * Sir Henry Folliott, Lord Folliott of Ballyshannon, was the son of Thomas Folliott, of Pirton, by his second wife, Katherine, daughter of William Lygon, of Madresfield, {see Harl. MS., 1566) ; but Nash makes him the eldest son of Roger Folliott, eight generations earlier ! Thomas Folliott’s sister Katherine, married Hugh Lygon, of Upton-on-Severn, a younger son of the above Wil- liam Lygon. t See Walker and Herbert. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 213 of late years.” He adds that another family o/ Folliott in this county, bears, Or, a lion rampant sable crowned of the first.* The Lords Folliott bore the silver bend, and supported their escutcheon with two lions crowned. The bend is also borne by Mr. Folliott, of Hollybrook, with the crest, A lion rampant, per pale gules and argent, double queue'e, murally crowned or ; and the motto : “ Quo virtus et Fata vocant.” In the Harl. MS., 1566, Folliot quarters five coats, ist. Argent, on a chief gules three buck’s heads cabossed or, for Greet ; 2nd, Or, two bends gules, between them, in the dex- ter chief, an escallop sable, for Tracy of North Piddle; 3rd, Sable, a chevron argent between three crescents or, for Spiney ; 4th Azure, a bend or cottised ermine between six martlets of the second, for .... 5th, Cheeky vert and gules, on a bend or, three moor cocks sable, for Moore^ of Dimclent. In the same MS., on fo. 43, is another escutcheon of the family with 23 quarterings. Fordham. — Or, two bars wavy gules, on a chief azure two towers of the held. (A^.) This coat was borne by John Fordham, Prior of Worcester, and was formerly represented in glass in Worcester Cathedral. {See Ha- bingdon’s Clmrch Notes in the Harl. MS., 2205; and Thomas’s Survey.) Foreign. — Gules, ten bezants. (TV.) This coat occurs in glass in the Cathedral. {See Thomas, p. 22.) Forest. — Two forked arrows in saltire. (A^.) This is rather a badge or device^ than a coat annorial ; it occurs on the monument, in Chaddesley church, of Thomas Forest, ^‘parca- rius de Dunclent.” {See Nash, i., p. 188.) Forester, of Elmley Lovett ; as borne by the late Rev. Robert Townshend Forester, of Elmley Lodge, who died in 1867, son of George Townshend Forester, of Elmley, and grandson of Cecil Forester, by Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Townshend of Elmley. Cecil * This coat was claimed by a family of Folliott, of Martin Hussingtree, at the Visitation of 1682-3, but not allowed. 214 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Weld Forester, eldest son of the above Cecil, inherited the estates of the Welds of Willey, co. Salop, and was created in 1821 Lord Forester. — Quarterly per fesse in- dented argent and sable, in the first and fourth quarters a bugle horn stringed of the second. Crest : A talbot pas- sant argent, collared and chained or. {Burke.) Forster, or Foster, of Wick, Newnham, and Knighton ; and of Trotto 7 t^ CO. Sussex. The pedigree of this family was recorded at the Visitation of 1569. Robert Forster, of Knighton, married the daughter of . . . Cooke, and had issue, Richard of Knighton and Newnham, who, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Richard Acton, had a son, Thomas of Newnham, and of Trotton, co. Sussex, in right of his wife Constance, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Sir Roger Lewknor, of Trotton. Thomas had issue, two sons and three daughters ; Richard, the elder son, (who is called “ of Wich,’') married Mary Brad- ley, of Dordall, by whom he had a son, Francis ; and Anthony the younger, (who was of Trotton in 1634,) mar- ried Elizabeth Buckland, and had five daughters and co- heiresses, by whom the Trotton estate was sold. — Sable, on a chevron argent between three pheons or, as many escallops of the field. Crest : A stag’s (sometimes an antelope’s) head erased argent, attired and collared or, a ring and line flowing from the front of the collar of the last. {D. 12, Coll. Arm.y fo. 34 ; Harl. MSS.y 615 and 1 566 ; and Berry’s Sussex PedigreeSy p. 7.) This coat, with the stag’s head crest, and the motto : “ Sit Fors ter felix,” is now used by Charles Forster, of Lysways Hall, co. Stafford, M.P. for Walsall ; and with the antelope’s head and the motto, Ex- citari non hebescere,” by William Orme Foster, of Apley Park, THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 215 Salop, late M.P. for South Staffordshire. Mr. W. O. Foster is the son of the late William Foster, of Wordsley, near Stourbridge, and nephew of the late James Foster, of Stourton Castle, High Sheriff of this county in 1840, and at one time M.P. for Bridgnorth, who acquired a large fortune in the iron trade. These two gentlemen were sons of Henry Foster, of Stourbridge, and grandsons of Hugh Foster, of Nantwich, Cheshire. . Mr. Forster of Lysways Hall, is the son of Charles Smith Forster, grandson of Charles Forster of Walsall, and great grandson of William Forster, of Birtsmorton in this county, by Margaret Smith, stated to be a descendant and co- representative of the famous Capt. John Smith, governor of Virginia, temp. James I. Forster. — Sable, a chevron between three pheons or. (Penn MS) Fortescue. — Azure, a bend engrailed argent between two cottises or. (Peiin MS.) Fortescue, 0/ Cookhill, and of Wethell, co. Warwick ; a natural branch of the Devonshire house of Fortescue, founded by Nicholas Fortescue,^ groom porter to Henry VIII., natural son of John Fortescue, of Spirelston, co. Devon. This gentleman had a grant of the lands belong- ing to the dissolved nunnery of Cookhill, in the 34th of Henry VI 1 1 ., and also purchased the manor of Wethell. He died on the 28th of August, in the 3rd of Edward VI., leaving by Catherine, his wife, daughter of Robert Skinner, a son and heir, William of Cookhill, then aged 9, who mar- ried Ursula Newport, and was father, by her, of Sir Nicholas Fortescue, of Cookhill, knt, who, by Prudence, his wife, * In Burke’s Commoners, ii., 542, Nicholas is called second legidmate son of John Fortescue, of Spirelston ; and it is stated that his grandson John was of Cookhill, at the time of the civil wars, and paid a composition for his estate. In the Catalogue of Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen that have compounded, the name of “ Jc>hn Fortescue, of Cookhill, esq.” appears as paying ;;£'2 34 15s. 5d., but he was probably the John, son of William, by Joan Wylde. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 216 had issue, William, Francis, Edward, John, Nicholas, Martha, and Prudence. William, the eldest son, married Joan, second daughter of Thomas Wylde, of Kempsey, by whom he had two sons, John and Francis. The Ge 7 t- tlemans Magazine, for 1808, records the death, at his seat, Cookhill,''' of John Fortescue, Capt. R.N., in his 87th year; he was supposed to be the last survivor of the crew of the Centurion, who accompanied Lord Anson in his celebrated voyage round the world. — Azure, a bend engrailed argent between two cottises or, within a bor- dure gobonee of the second and first. {Hart. MS., 1566 ; Add. MS., 19,819; and Dugdale’s Warwickshire, p. 591.) Fortington, of Tewkesbury and Worcestershire, 1253. — A chevron between three escallops, . . . over all (sometimes omitted) a pilgrim’s staff in pale. (Papworthi) Foster. — Quarterly per fesse indented argent and sable, in the first and fourth quarters, a bugle horn of the second. m Dr. Prattinton says this coat (which appears to be that of Fores- ter) was quartered by Houghton of Leigh. Fowke, of Hallway. — Vert, a fleur-de-lis or. (C 30, ColL Ar 77 t., fo. 108.) Fownes, of Dodford and Stoke Prior ; recorded at the Visita- tion of 1682-3. — Azure, two eagles displayed in chief, and a mullet in base argent. {K. 4, Cotl. Arm., fo. 89.) No crest is entered at the Visitation, but Penn gives, The trunk *= The Cookhill estate was sold by the late John Fortescue to J ohn Phillips, of Edstone, co. Warwick. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 217 of a laurel tree eradicated and couped at the top of the body, sprouting out branches proper. John Fownes of Dodford occurs in Penn’s list of those who were to hnd horse in Worcestershire during the civil wars. Fox, of Greet, Yardley, and Kmgsnorton. Thomas Fox, of Greet, had issue a son, Edward Fox, of Birmingham, who married in 1603 Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Hugh Gresbrooke, of Hints, co. Stafford. By her, who was baptized in 1586, he had several children, of whom Joseph married the Hon. Thomasine Blayney, and was ancestor of the Lords Bingley; and Timothy, rector of Drayton Bassett, co. Stafford, the fourth son, was ancestor of the family of Fox, seated at Osmaston, co. Derby. — Argent, a chevron between three fox’s heads erased gules. Crest : A fox passant gules. (Glover’s Derby- shire, &c.) Among the arms in the windows of the Deanery at Worcester (formerly the Bishop’s palace) is the following escutcheon : — Quar- terly, I St, Fox, (as above) ; 2nd, Argent, on a bend sable three dolphins or {Stokes) \ 3rd, Per pale pily sable and or ; impaling. Sable, a bordure argent; with this inscription, “ Edmundus Fox, secundus filius Caroli Fox, 1586.”* It appears from a pedigree of Fox in the Harl. MS., 1396, that this Edmund was the second son of Charles Fox, of Bromiield, Salop, one of the Council of the Marches of Wales. This was, however, a different family to the Foxes of Greet, in Worcestershire, though, oddly enough, the above Charles had a brother Edward, who is described as of Grete, co. Salop. Frances, of Nannton Court, representing Lyttelton of Naun- ton. — Quarterly first and fourth. Argent, a chevron be- tween three eagles displayed gules, for Frances; second and third. Argent, a chevron between three escallops sable, for Lyttelton. Crest : A falcon rising or, in the beak a vine branch, fructed proper. {Commitnicatedi) Notes and Queries, ist S., vii., 204. 28 2i8 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Frankley, of Frankley. — . . a cross between four mullets . . . (Seal of Thomas de Frankley^ alias Tally nton^ 1 2 Edward II.) Frawsham. — Per pale indented or and azure, six martlets counterchanged. (N.) Quartered by Talbot of Salwarpe. Freake, Bishop of Worcester, 1584-91, granted by Dethick in 1572. — Per pale argent and azure, a fesse between three fleurs-de-lis counterchanged. (Bedford.) Freeman, of Edvin-Loach. — Gules, a lion rampant holding a mullet within a bordure indented or. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or, a demi-lion rampant holding a mullet also or. (Prat tint on MSS.) Freeman, of Blockley, and of Batsford, co. Gloucester, In the Harl. MS., 6139, is a copious pedigree of this family, “ taken from the Visitation Books of London and Wor- cestershire in 1633 and 1634, and examined and com- pared with divers original deeds belonging to the family, in the custody of York Herald.’’ The Blockley branch sprang from Thomas, a younger son of William Freeman of Eberton, living i Henry VIII. Edward Freeman of Emlode, son of William of Batsford (who was another son of the above William of Eberton), was ancestor to the Freemans of Emlode and Neen Sobers, who inter- married with heiresses of Coningsby and Cludde of Orle- ton. Another branch of the family was seated at Bush- ley, and differenced their arms with a crescent upon a crescent. Penn says : — “ There was one of this family in the late wars, a captaine in the service for Charles the First — of ever blessed memory — and neere Worcester THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 219 was kild, brought into the cittie, and honourably buried, champion-like, with three volley shotts of the horse which he was captaine of.” — Azure, three lozenges conjoined in fesse or. Crest : A demi-wolf argent, holding between the paws a lozenge or. {Harl. MS. supra; Pemi MS.; and C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 46 The same arms are borne by the Freemans of Gaines, in Here- fordshire, an estate which they acquired in marriage with an heiress of Gower of Suckley. Freer. — See Frere. Frems. — Or, three bendlets gules. (A'.) Quartered by Leighton in Kingsnorton Church. {Dr. Frattintofi.) French. — Per saltire argent and sable, a lion rampant coun- terchanged. {Penn. MS.) French, of Pershore, recorded at the Visitation of 1634. William, son of Robert French, sold lands in Pershore in 1573; his brother, Edward, married Susan Savage, and was great grandfather of George and Maria French, who were buried at Pershore in 1660, ^the one aged nineteen, and the other nine. George French, of Pershore, was fined for refusing knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. — Per bend sinister engrailed or and sable, a lion ram- pant counterchanged. Crest : A fleur-de-lis sable, seeded or. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 51 ; and Prat Union MSS.) Penn gives the arms as, Per bend sinister argent and sable, a lion rampant counterchanged. Frene, of Neen S oilers, Salop, and of The Bower, Rock, temp. Edward III.; the heiress married Coningsby. — Or, a lion rampant gules within a bordure engrailed sable. {N. ; and Her. Die) See Pomeroy, 28 — 2 220 THE HERALDRY OE IVOR CES TER SHIRE. Frere, Fryer, or Freere, of The Blankets, Claines. The first ascertained ancestor of this family is Jeffrey Frere, who was M.P. for the city of Worcester early in the fif- teenth century. He married Elizabeth, daughter and sole heiress of John Lyttelton, of Frankley, and by her had issue a son, Thomas Frere, of Charlton Castle, who, by Margaret his wife, daughter and heiress of John Wysham (son of Sir William Wysham, of Charlton, by Margaret, daughter of Sir Adam Clifton, knt), was father of Humphrey Frere, of Charlton and of The Blankets.^ Humphrey Frere married Anne, daughter of Richard Walsh, of Shelsley, and had (with other issue) a son Richard, of The Blankets, whose grandson Humphrey, aged twenty-nine in 1569, married Cecily, natural daugh- ter of Edward Grey, Lord Powis, and had issue, Jeremy, Edward, and three daughters. The family pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of 1569, but they did not appear at that of 1634. Penn asserts that “there is not of this family one living that I can finde; therefore (says he) I thinke they are extincte, for I have made very diligent enquirie to satisfie myselfe in this doubt, but cannot.’T — Sable, a chevron between three dolphins ^ The Blankets property was anciently possessed by a family of the same name, and is said to have been acquired by the Freres in marriage with an heiress of that family ; but no such marriage is shown in any of the MS. pedi- grees. Nash mentions that Robert Blanket, descended from Osbert Blanket, held, temp. Edward I., half a hide in Northwick; and in succeeding reigns Beatrice Blanket also held lands there. Humphrey Frere, he also informs us, held the Blankets, “ once the property of Agnes Blanket,” in the 2nd of Richard II. But Humphrey Frere lived at least a century later, for his wife’s grand- father was alive in 1435. account of the family of Frere in the Herald and Genealogist, v., 427. + Charles Thomas Ereer, of The Coplow,” co. Leicester, High Sheriff of that county in 1858, and a family of Freer, resident at Stourbridge (now repre- THE HE E ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 221 naiant embowed argent ; quartering Lyttelton, Wysham, and Clifton. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or, an ante- lope’s head argent, armed, crined, and tufted of the first. {p. 12, Coll. Arm., fo. 30; Harl. MSS., 1396 and 1566, &c.) Penn gives the field of the arms azure. Freville, as borne, temp. Edward IL, by Sir Alexander de Freville, of (?) Wichenford, Worcestershire. — Or, a cross mascaly vaire and gules. {Roll, of temp. Edward II.) In the same Roll Sir Baldwin Freville, of Worcestershire, bears Or, on a cross gules another mascaly vaire. The seal of Baldwin Freville, dated 1334, is engraved in Dallaway’s Heraldry; it bears a cross flory or patonce, with a garb springing from a ducal coronet for crest. The chief seat of the Frevilles was Tamworth Castle, Warwickshire. Frewen, of Hanley and Worcester. Richard Frewen was bailiff of the city of Worcester in 1473, and from him the Frewens of Ilmer, co. Bucks, and Northam, co. Sussex, are stated to derive. John Archer, of Hanley and Wel- land, who died in 1640, married Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Richard Frewen, of Hanley. — Ermine, four bars azure, in chief a demi-lion rampant issuant proper. {Papworth; Harl. MS., 1566, &c.) Frey. See Westwood. Frogmer, of Claines, recorded at the Visitation of 1634. — > Argent, a griffin segreant between three crosses crosslet fitchee sable. Crest : A demi-griffin wings endorsed argent, holding between the paws a cross crosslet sable. {C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 70^; Penn MS., &c.) sented by Richard Leacroft Freer, J.P.), claim descent from the Blankets family, and bear the above arms and crest, with the motto, “ Aime ton Frere.” 2-22 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Froxmore, of Froxmore Court, Crowle, and of Wick. John Froxmore, living in the reigns of Henry IV. and Henry V., married Alice, daughter and heiress of ... . Fitz- langley, and had issue, William, who married Margaret, daughter and heiress of J ohn F illingley, by whom he had Thomas of Wich, who by his wife Catherine, daughter of Thomas Cornwallis, had three daughters and co-heiresses : Margery, married to John Bracey; Anne, married to Edward Cockett; and Elizabeth. — Sable, a griffin se- greant between three crosses crosslet fitchee argent. {N . ; and Hart. MS., 1566.) The same coat was entered for “ Frokesame ” at the Visitation of 1533. (H. 20, Coll. Arm., fo. 73.) also Butler. Furneaux. — Gules, a bend between six crosses crosslet or. {N) See Stury. Furnival. — Argent, a bend between six martlets gules. {Ni) This coat, which occurs in several of the early Rolls (it was borne by Gerard de Furnival, temp. Henry III.), is one of the quarterings of Talbot.* William, fourth Baron Furnival (descended from Gerard de Furnival and Maud, his wife, daughter and heiress of William de Love tot. Lord of Hallamshire, co. York), had issue, by Thomasine, his wife, daughter and heiress of Dagworth, an only child, Joan, married to Thomas Nevill, brother of Ralph, Earl of West- moreland, and by him (who, though summoned to Parliament as “ Thome Nevill de Halomshire,” was always styled Lord Furnival) she was mother of a daughter, Maud, who was married to Sir John Talbot. This Sir John was summoned to Parliament from 1409 to 1421 as Lord Furnival, and was subsequently created Earl of Shrews- bury. On the death of Gilbert, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1616, without male issue, the earldom passed to his brother; but the barony of Furnival, together with those of Talbot, and Strange of Blackmere, devolved (eventually) upon his daughter Alethea, wife of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, and are now in abeyance between the Lords Stourton and Petre. Th^coat of Furnival is also quartered by Lygon, through Ufflete, which see. ^ Through Talbot the Lytteltons acquired the right to quarter Furnival. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 223 Gage, of Bentley, co. Sussex, A few descents of this family are entered in the Visitation Book of 1634. Their only connection with Worcestershire arises from the marriage of John Gage, of Bentley, with Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Habingdon, of Brockhampton, the widow of Sir Thomas Baskerville. — Per saltire azure and argent, a saltire gules. (C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 104.) Gainsford. — Argent, on a chevron gules between three grey- hounds courant sable an annulet or. (W.) An impalement of Saxilby in Stockton Church. See Nash, ii., 377. Galton, of Hadsor ; as borne by John Howard Gal ton. High Sheriff in 1834, the third surviving son of the late Samuel Galton, of Duddeston House, Birmingham, by Lucy, eldest daughter of Robert Barclay, of Ury, N.B., and grandson of Samuel Galton, also of Duddeston, who was a son of John Galton, of Yatton, co. Somerset, descended from a family of that name seated in Dorsetshire. — • Ermine, on a fesse engrailed gules between six fleurs-de- lis of the last, an eagle’s head erased argent between two bezants. Crest : On a mount vert, an eagle ermine looking up at the sun or, the claw resting upon a fleur-de- lis gules. Motto : “ Gaudet luce.” (Burke’s Landed Gentry.) Gandolfi. See Hornyold. Gardener, of Hhnbleto^i ; granted to Richard Gardener, of Himbleton, by Robert Cooke, Clare^icieux King-of-arms, on the I St of June, 1 592. — Argent, a chevron gules between three pomegranates proper leaved vert. Crest : Out of a mural crown or, an arm embowed in armour proper 224 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. supporting a flag-staff, thereon a split pennon gules, flow- ing to the sinister, charged with two staves in saltire fired or. {Harl. MSS.^ 1422 and 1459; but Edmondson gives the pennon charged with a pomegranate or.) Gardiner, of Evesham, a 7 id Shipston-on-Stoitr ; as borne by George Gardiner, High Sheriff in the 8th of Queen Anne. — Azure, a chevron ermine between three griffin’s heads erased argent. {M. /. at Evesham^j Gardner. — Per chevron azure and gules, on a chevron be- tween three lion’s heads erased argent as many escallops sable. {Penn MS.) Garrett or Gerrard. — Argent, a saltire gules. {Penn MS.) Henry Garrett, of Broadway, gent., paid a fine for exoneration from knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. ; and at the Visita- tion of 1634, Henry Garrett, and John Garrett, of Bromsgrove, “ disclaimed.” Garston, of Stau 7 ito 7 i Court, and of Corse. — ... a fesse ermine between a crescent in chief and a lion passant in base. . . . {M. I. m Elder sfield Church ; — Nash, i., 375.) Garway, of Wo 7 ^cester. — Gules, a pile between four leopard’s faces or, over all a fesse azure. {Her. Die.) The coat, probably, of John Garway, who was Mayor of Worcester in 1735. He purchased in 1744 the manor of Brace’s Leigh from the heirs of Chambers Slaughter, and disposed of it in 1758 to Holland Cooksey. The heiress of this family, Maria Eliza Garway, daughter of Caleb Garway, of Worcester, was married in 1796 to Sir Nigel Bowyer Gresley, bart. A family of Garway, bearing the above arms, with the field argent and the charges gules, formerly resided at the Lea, co. Hereford. (^See Dingley’s History from Marble.) Gates. — Per pale gules and azure, three lions rampant guard- ant argent. Crest : A demi-lion rampant guardant argent. THE HERALDRY OF IVORCESTERSH/RE. 225 This coat, quartering Baldmgton^ Capdois, and Gildisburgh, occurs at Broadwas on the monument of Elizabeth, wife of Charles Crat- ford, and daughter of Anthony Gates, Master of University College, Oxford, who died in 1623. Gauden, Bishop of Worcester, 1662. — Azure, a chevron ermine between three leopard’s faces or, within a bordure of the second. {Bedfoi^d.) Geffreys, of EarVs Croome. J efferies. George, of Whittington. — Ermine, a lion rampant gules within a bordure sable. {Penn MS.) Penn adds in the margin that “ the bordure should be engrailed.” The coat is not given in the Heraldic Dictionaries. Robert George of Badsey disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1682-3. Gernon. — Argent, on a bend azure three escallops or. (M.) Gerrard. See Garrett. Gervis, of Weoley. See J ervoise. Ghest, Geast, or Guest, of Row Heath. This family, whose pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of 1634, is descended from John Gheste of Handsworth, co. Stafford, living temp. Henry VII. ; he had three sons — Richard of Handsworth, who died in 1541 ; Lawrence of Row Heath, in Kingsnorton ; and Thomas, father of Edmund Gheste, Bishop of Rochester, and afterwards of Salisbury. Richard Geast, a lineal descendant of the above-named Richard of Handsworth, married, in 1722, Jane, daughter and co-heiress of William Dugdale of Blyth Hall, co. Warwick, son of Sir John Dugdale, and grandson of Sir William Dugdale, the celebrated antiquary and genealo- gist. Their son Richard Geast assumed in 1799 the surname and arms of Dugdale, and was grandfather of 29 226 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, William Stratford Dugdale of Merevale, co. Warwick. — Azure, a chevron or between three swan’s heads erased proper. Crest : A swan’s head erased proper, between two ostrich feathers or. (C. 30, ColL Arm,^ fo. 69b. ; and Hamper’s Life of Dugdalei) Giiinucci, as borne by yeroine de Ghinucci^ Bishop of Wor- cester, 1523-35. — Vaire or and vert, a serpent in bend wavy proper, on a plate voided azure a quatrefoil argent, all within a bordure of the last. {Bedford.) Mr. Woodward (in the Herald and Gejiealogist, vii., 447) says these arms appear to be incorrect. The blazon of the family, as given by Riestap, is. Ermine, a serpent azure vorant an infant proper, on a canton of the second a Katherine wheel argent. Gibbons, of the “ Leasowes'" Halesowen ; as borne by Benjamin Gibbons, descended from a highly respectable family long seated at Sedgley, co. Stafford. — Sable, a lion rampant between three escallops argent. Crest : A demi-lion regardant sable, holding between the paws an escallop argent. (Burke’s Landed Gentry.) Gibbs, of Comber ton and London. — Azure, three battle-axes argent within a bordure or. Crest : An arm embowed in armour proper, holding in the gauntlet a battle-axe, head argent staff gules. {A llowed at the Visitation of London^ 1633-4. See Hart. MS.y 1476.) Gibbs, of Worcester. — Argent, three Danish hatchets erect in fesse sable. {Penn MS.) Gibbs. — On a chevron between three .... heads cabossed, as many battle-axes. {M. I. in Berrow Chtcrch to Edward Gibbs y who died 1703 ; Nash, i., p. 75.) Gibson, of Coonie Abbey, co. Warwick, and of Worcester; as THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE, 227 borne by Sir Isaac Gibson, who was knighted on the 8th of Nov., 1674; he died in 1706, and was buried at Wor- cester. — Gules, a stork between three crescents argent. {M, /. in St, Nicholas s Chirch, Worcester.) Giffard, Bishop of Worcester, 1268-1302. — Argent, ten tor- teaux, four, three, two, and one. Mr. Bedford attributes to this Prelate, Gules, three lions passant in pale arge 7 it, on the authority of the Harl. MS., 6100; but he cer- tainly bore ten torteaux (as above), a coat which is identical with that of the see of Worcester. “ Bishop Giffard (says Habingdon), the King’s cousin, could not want arms of his own, but these he be- queathed as an ornament to his family.” Rudder, too, informs us that the Giffards of Wotton-sub-Edge, co. Gloucester, “the better to announce their descent from this Prelate, gave for their arms, Argent, teji torteaux, which are those of the bishopric of Worcester.” That these were, however, the arms of the family, and not those of the see adopted by the family, appears to be proved by their being given in the Roll of temp. Henry III. and Edward I. as the bearings of Sir Alexander Giffard, the Bishop’s elder brother, who died before 1279.'^ Sir John Giffard of Worcestershire also bears, in the Roll of 1308, Argent, seinee of torteaux. The three passant lions were borne by the Dukes of Buckingham and the Giffards of Brimsfield, and are now quartered as their ancient coat by the Giffards of Chillington, co. Stafford. They also occur, among the Lygon quarterings, on the tomb of Penelope Walwyn at Great Malvern. Gigles, or De Lilliis, Bishops of Worcester, 1497-8, and 1499-1521. — ... a fesse between two lilies . . . {Bed- ford.) Gildisburgh. — Argent, three piles in point gules. {N.) Quartered by Gates in Broad was Church. Giles, or Gyles, of Astley and Prickley. The pedigree of this family was recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3 by ' * Herald and Genealogist, iv., 222. Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester, died 30 Edward I., when his nephew John, son of William Giffard, was founcl to be his heir. {Esc. 30, E. i., iVo. 41.) 29 — 2 228 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. John Gyles of Prickley, then aged thirty-three, the son of Samuel Gyles of Solhampton, in Astley sixty- three), by Joice, his first wife, daughter and co-heiress of John Harris of Prickley, and the grandson of John Gyles by a daughter of the Rev. John Wood, rector of Astley ; which John Gyles was the son of Anthony Gyles of Astley by the daughter and co-heiress of Potter of Areley. John Gyles of Prickley, above-named, married Martha, daughter of James Nash of Pudford, in Martley, and had issue, John, James, Samuel, Mary, Martha, and Joice. The eldest son, John, is said'"' to have settled at March, in Somersetshire, and to have had issue, William Giles, whose son (by Sarah Gilling, his wife), William Giles, married Anne Giblett, and had issue, John Giles, whose son William was father (with others) of Francis Giles, now of Stourbridge, surgeon. — Gules, a cross be- tween four chalices (or uncovered cups) or, on a chief of the last three pelicans sable, vulning proper. Crest : A chalice or, out of it three pansey flowers proper. (W. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 155.) See Harris. These bearings appear to have been allowed in 168 2-3, t but Samuel Gyles of Astley disclaimed on the same occasion, as did his father, John Gyles of Astley, at the Visitation of 1634. The last- named John Gyles was fined ^10 for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. Giles, of Powick. — As Giles of Astley, but the chief argent. {Penn MS.) Giles, of White- Ladies Aston . — As Giles of Astley, but * In a pedigree in the possession of Mr. F. Giles of Stourbridge, t They are given in the Heraldic Dictionaries as the arms of “ Giles, of I.ondon and Worcestershire,” and are also stated to have been granted to “ Gyles of London ” on the 28th of July, 1579. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 229 (according to Penn) the chief argent, and charged with three eagles displayed sable. Edmund Giles of White-Ladies Aston was fined for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. He also disclaimed at the Visitation of 1634. Giles, of Worcestershire. — Gules, a cross between four standards or, on a chief argent three swans sable. {Win. MS.) This is probably a mis-reading of the coat blazoned under Giles of Astley. Glanvill. See Camvill. Glodsall, of W oreestershire. — Barry of six sable and argent, nine estoiles three, three, and three or. (Burke’s Amnory, but evidently in error for Clodshale, which seei) Goarge. — Mascaly or and azure. {Penn MS.) Godard. — Gules, a fesse counter-componee or and azure. (iV.) On Mrs. Walwyn’s monument at Great Malvern. i^Dr. Prattinton.') Golafer, of Golafers, in N afford, and of Borrow ; quartered by Russell of Strensham and Winter of Huddington, in right of descent from the marriage of John Hodington with Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Golafer. — Barry wavy of six argent and gules, on a bend sable six bezants. {N.; and Hart. MS., 1043.) Goldesburgh. — “ Per pale or and azure, on a chevron three fleurs-de-lis between three bullocks (forsan puttocBs) heads erased all counterchanged.” (W.) “ This,” says Dr. Prattinton, “ is not Goldesburgh’s coat. See Pope.” It occurs in the cathedral at Worcester on the monument of Abigail, widow of Godfrey Goldesburgh, Bishop of Gloucester ; but, as Dr. Prattinton observes, it is really the coat of Pope, of which the following is a more accurate blazon. Per pale or and azure, on a 230 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. chevron between three griffiti^s heads erased, four fleurs-de-lis all counterchanged. Dr. Thomas, in his Survey, also describes the heads as those of a “puttock.’’ The arms borne by Dr. Goldes- burgh, as on his tomb in Gloucester Cathedral, were — Quarterly ist and 4th, Argent, a cross flory sable ; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, three chevrons sable, in the middle a mullet gules. He died in 1604. Good, of Redmarley d' A bitot ; entered at the Visitation of 1634, and borne by Thomas Good, High Sheriff in the 9th of Charles I. — Gules, a chevron or between three lions rampant argent. (C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 68.) Good, as quartered by Btick of the Nash. — Sable, a fesse be- tween three dolphins argent. {Harl. MS., 615.) Goodere. See Dyneley. Goodwin, of Wigorn and Salop. — Per pale or and gules, a lion rampant between three fleurs-de-lis counterchanged. {Win. MS.) Gospatrick. — Gules, on a saltire argent a martlet sable. {N.) Quartered by Talbot and Lyttelton. The ‘‘ silver saltire upon martial red” was borne by the great house of Nevill, whose ancestor, Robert Fitz-Maldred, Lord ofRaby (grandson of Earl Gospatrick, and lineal heir male of Uchtred, Earl of Northumberland in the days of King Edmund Ironside), married in the thirteenth century the heiress of the early Nevills, and had issue by her a son, Geoffrey, who adopted his mother’s surname, and was ancestor of the Earls of Westmoreland, Salisbury, Warwick, &c. See Nevill. Gough, alias Googe. — ^Azure, three boars passant argent, two and one. {Penn MS.) Gourney. — Paly of six or and azure, an annulet gules. {N.) In glass in the Cathedral. (See Dr. Thomas’ Survey, p. 12.) Gower, of Woodhall, Colemers\ Boughton, Droitwich, &c. ; a “ right ancient” family, whose pedigree was recorded at all the Visitations. — Azure, a chevron between three THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTER SHIRE. 231 wolf’s heads erased or. Crest : A wolf’s head erased or. (//’. 20, D. 12, C. 30, and K. 4, Coll. Ar 7 n.) The arms of Gower of Colemers’, as impaled by Humphrey Lyt- telton in Kingsnorton Church, in right of his wife Martha, daughter of Robert Gower of Colemers’, are the same as those now borne by the Leveson Gowers, viz., Barry of six argent and gules, a cross patonce sable, with which are quartered the arms of Griiidall (Ermine, a cross patonce gules). William Gower of Colemers’ mar- ried in 1694* Eleanor, daughter and heiress of John Coyney of Weston Coyney, co. Stafford, and succeeded in her right to the Coyney estates. His only son, William Gower, was unfairly slain {s.p^ in a duel at a tavern in Drury Lane, in 1725, by Major Oneby, who was tried and found guilty of murder, but committed suicide in prison. (Burke’s Cominoners., ii., 44.) Gower, of EarFs Court. John Gower of Earl’s Court, a natural son of Arnold Gower of the Woodhall family, had issue an only daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, who carried Earl’s Court in marriage to the Ingrams. — Arms as Gower of Woodhall, debruised by a sinister bendlet. [Add. MS., 19,816.) Gower. — Azure, a chevron between three talbots passant argent. (^Entered at the Visitation of 1533, but Query if ^of Worcestershire f) Gower, of Warwickshire and Worcestershire. — Gules, a fesse ermine between six crosses crosslet fitchee argent. {Her. Die. from Glover’s Ordinary) Gower, of Thorne, in Inkberrow. — “ Azure, a chevron or be- * Sic Burke, but it appears from her tombstone in Old St. Pancras’ church- yard that she died in 1718, aged thirty-six, so that she would have been only twelve years old in 1694. John, her son, died in 1720, aged twenty-one, and William, her son, in 1723, aged twenty-six. William Gower of Colemers’, the husband, died in 1736. See Cansick’s Epitaphs of Middlesex. 232 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. tween two bird’s heads erased sable langued gules and a mullet gold in chief, and two mullets with one bird’s head in base.” (Prattinton MSS.) Grafton, 0/ Grafton Fly ford. — This family,” says Penn, “ did formerly enjoy a long revenue of lands both in Wor- cester and Worcestershire, as at Grafton-att- Fly ford, and at Pendock in this county; as also other lands in the county of Stafford.” In the Harl. MSS., 1450 and 1102, are pedigrees of this family, commencing with Richard Grafton of Grafton Flyford, “ who had many possessions in the counties of Worcester, Stafford, and Salop.” His son John was father of Robert Grafton, “ Bayley of y® citty of Worcester in temp. E. 4,”^ whose grandson Richard was a clothier at Worcester, and had issue a son, Thomas Grafton of Worcester. Nash says that the same family possessed the Manor of Grafton, near Bromsgrove. Junior branches of the family were seated at Wolver- hampton and Shrewsbury. — Per saltire sable and ermine, a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules. Crest : On the trunk of a tree couped and eradicated, an eagle with expanded wings all or. A second crest is given in the Harl. MS., 1450, viz.. On a tun lying fesseways or, a falcon rising argent supporting by the dexter claw a spear erect, the handle behind the tun. {Penn MS. ; and Harl. MSS., ut sttpra.) Nash says that Ralph de Grafton, of Grafton Flyford, Sheriff in the loth of Richard I., bore for arms, Sable, a fret argent, the field replenished with fleurs-de-lis or. * Hugh and Robert Grafton were Bailiffs of the city in 1452, Robert and William Grafton in 1465, and John Grafton in 1480. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTER SHIRE. 233 Graham. — Or, on a chief sable three escallops of the field, a crescent gules for difference. These arms, impaled with those of Coventry, occur on the monu- ment (in Elmley Castle church) of Thomas, first Earl of Coventry, whose second wife was Elizabeth Grimes., one of his domestic ser- vants, and a niece of Frances Grimes, sometime maid to Winifred, Lady Coventry, the Earl’s first wife. On this monument she is called the daughter of Richard Graham, esquire, ‘‘a nobili Gra- hamorum familia,” which is untrue, for her father, Richard Grimes,^ was “ a mean person,” and “ by trade a turner,” and her brother was a common waterman. The arms (which are those of the Grahams of Norton Conyers, co. York) were placed upon the monument by the direction of Gregory King, Lancaster Herald, who, it seems, had married for his second wife Frances Grimes, t a sister of the countess. This monument, with its false inscription and arms, gave great offence to the second Earl of Coventry, who not only refused to allow it to be erected in the church at Croome, but instituted proceedings in the Court of Chivalry against Gregory King “for assigning false arms to the said Elizabeth,” and for “ contriving, forging, and framing so notoriously false and arrogant an inscription.” A full account of this curious affair is given in the Herald and Ge- nealogist, vol. vii., p. 97. The Countess married, secondly, Thomas Savage, of Elmley Castle, and lived to the year 1724, when the fol- lowing notice of her appeared in the Historical Register: — “ April 12. Dy’d Elizabeth, Countess Dowager of Coventry, relict of Thomas, Earl of Coventry, after whose death she marry’d Thomas Savage, esq. She was a fortunate lady, being but of mean extrac- tion, daughter [it should be sister'\ of ... . Grimes, a lighterman on the river Thames, and household servant to the Earl who marry’d her.” {H. G., ut supra.) Grange ; as qttartered by Greswolde . — Per saltire or and sable, four griffin’s heads erased counterchanged. Grantham. — Ermine, a griffin segreant gules. (TV.) In glass in Kingsnorton Church. {Dr. Prattinton.) * A John Grymes, M.A., was appointed vicar of Longdofi in 1661. He disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1682-3. t This lady also is called Graham on Gregory King’s monument in the church of St. Benet, Paul’s Wharf. 30 234 THE HEE ALEEV OF IVOECESTEESHIEE. Grantmesnil, of Hinckley^ co, Leicester, — Gules, a pale or. m One of the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley.] Graves, of Poden in Chttrch Honeybourne^ and of Mickleton^ CO. Gloucester. — Gules, an eagle displayed or, beaked, membered, and ducally crowned argent, between eight crosses crosslet of the second. Crest : A demi-eagle erased or, environed with a ducal coronet gules, in the beak a cross crosslet fitchee of the last. Mottoes used at various times by the family : “ Superna quserite \ “ Esse quam videri “Gravis dum suavis and “Graves disce mores.’’ {Nash, i., p. 198.) Grazebrook, of StoiLrbridge ; now represented by Michael Phillips Grazebrook of Holly Grove, Hagley, eldest son of the late Michael Grazebrook of Audnam, near Stour- bridge (where the family has been located for several generations), by Elizabeth Wallis, only daughter and heiress of John Phillips of Birmingham ; and grandson of Michael Grazebrook of Audnam, by Mary Anne, daughter and eventually sole heiress of Thomas Needs of London, which last-named Michael was the second son of Michael Grazebrook, also of Audnam, by Sarah, only child and heiress of Thomas Worrall of Stourton, co. Stafford, and younger brother of Thomas Worrall Grazebrook of Stourton Castle, co. Stafford. The late Michael Graze- brook of Audnam, who died on the 24th of April, 1854, succeeded to the male representation of the family in 1846, on the death s.p. of his first cousin, Thomas Worrall Smith Grazebrook of Dallicott House, Salop, and Stour- ton, only son of the above-named Thomas Worrall THE HE E A ZEE V OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 235 Grazebrook of Stourton Castle. This family claims to represent the ancient family of Gresbrooke, which came originally -from Gresbrooke, co. York, but which was seated, from the thirteenth to the commencement of the eighteenth century, at Shenstone, in Staffordshire, and at Middleton, in Warwickshire. — Quarterly ist and 4th, Argent, an eagle displayed gules armed or, on a chief sable three bezants each charged with a fleur-de-lis azure; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, three coneys gules (both for G 7 'aze- brook). Crest : A bear s head or, muzzled sable, charged on the neck with three fleurs-de-lis fesseways azure. Mottoes: “ Bear and forbear;” and “Nec sinit esse feros.” {Edmondson ; HarL MS., 1563; a 7 id family seals.) Greaves, of Kingsno 7 do 7 i . — Or, a mullet gules, on a chief sable three escallops of the first. (W.) Greaves, Greves, or Grevis, of Moseley Hall, Ki 7 igs 7 iorto 7 i. The pedigree of this ancient family, some of whose monu- ments in Kingsnorton church are figured in Nash, was recorded at the Visitation of 1634 by Thomas Greaves, and at that of 1682-3 by Richard Greaves, his nephew. Sir Richard Greves of Moseley, knt, was High Sheriff in the 8th of James I. ; and Thomas Greves of Moseley, gent., refused knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. It is said that Ancheatt Grevis, whose burial as a pauper on 27th August, 1788, is found in the parish register of Kingsnorton, was a lineal descendant of this family. The name is not yet extinct in the parish. — Argent, on a fesse azure between three pellets each charged with a lion’s head erased of the field, a griffin passant between two escallops or. Crest : An eagle with two heads dis- 30—2 236 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. played sable, beaked and membered or ; also, A squirrel holding between its paws an escallop or.^ (C 30, ColL Arm., fo. 61 ; and K. 4, fo. 108, &c.) A more ancient coat, Argent, an eagle with two heads displayed sable, is represented on the tomb of Richard Grevis of Moseley, who died in 1600. Greene. — Gules, a lion rampant per fesse argent and ermine crowned or. {Penn MS.) Probably the coat of Nicholas Greene, who occurs in Penn’s list of those who were to find horse in Worcestershire during the civil wars. Greene — ... a cross crosslet ermine within a bordure or and sable. Azure, three bucks trippant or. Argent, a hunter s horn between live chough’s heads erased sable. {IVm. MS.) Greete, of Nmtnton . — Argent (or ermine), on a chief gules three buck’s heads cabossed or. {Papworth, &c.) A similar coat was confirmed in 1655 to a family of Greet of Staveley, co. York. In the Harl. MS., .1507, Coningsby quarters for Greet, Argent, a saltire within a bordure both engrailed azure ; a coat which the Heraldic Dictionaries attribute (but with the bordure or) to Locherd and Lockard. See Lochard. Grendon, of Grendon, co. Stafford. — Argent, two chevrons gules. This is one of the coats quartered by Lyttelton at Frankley. It was brought in by Burley ; the mother of Joan Burley, who married I'homas Littleton (the famous author of the Tenures), having been Ellen, daughter and heiress of John Grendon of Grendon, co. Staf- ford. • * Demetrius Grevis, son of Charles Grevis, ‘‘formerly,” says Burke {Com- m?ners, i., 398), “ of Moseley Hall,” by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and even- tually sole heiress of Demetrius James of Ightham Court, in Kent, assumed in 1817 the surname and arms of James in addition to those of Grevis, the latter being as those above described. The same arms are also borne by Mr. Greaves of Avonside, co. Warwick, who claims descent from the Moseley family. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 237 Gresley, of Salwarpe ; as borne by Philip Gresley, High Sherifif in 1790. Mr. Gresley, who was born in 1751, and died s.p. in 1825, was the only son of Philip Gresley (born 1713, ob. 1763) by Elizabeth Surman of Pershore, and grandson of the Rev. Francis Gresley, rector of Strensham, by Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Barton of Besford. This last-named reverend and venerable gen- tleman, who was born in the year 1674, and died in 1773, at the patriarchal age of ninety-nine, was one of the sons of Henry Gresley by his second wife, Eleanor, daughter of Gervase Buck, and grandson of John Gresley by Joan, daughter of Jasper More of Larden, Salop; which John Gresley was next brother to George Gresley of Drakelow, who was created a baronet in 1611.^ Mr. Philip Gresley devised his estates to Robert Archibald Douglas, with a proviso that he should assume the name and bear the arms of Gresley. — Vaire ermine and gules. (A^.) Douglas-Gresley, of High Park, Salwarpe; as exemplified by the College of Arms in 1830 to Robert Archibald Douglas, second son of the late Rev. Robert Douglas, rector of Salwarpe, on his assuming the surname and arms of Gresley. {See preceding memoir i ) — Vaire ermine and gules, and (for distinction) a canton vert. Crest : A lion passant argent gorged (for distinction) with a collar vaire ermine and gules. Motto : “ Meliore fide quam fortuna.” Mr. Douglas-Gresley bears these arms quarterly, in the first and fourth quarters, with those of Douglas, and also uses the Douglas crest in addition to that of Gresley. ^ From a pedigree registered in the College of Arms, communicated by R. A. Douglas-Gresley, esq. 238 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Greswolde, of Yardley, and of Solihull^ co. Warwick ; an ancient family, whose pedigree was recorded at the Visi- tations of Warwickshire and Worcestershire taken in the years 1619 and 1634 respectively. Henry Greswolde of Yardley (younger son of Richard Greswolde of Solihull, and great-grandson of Richard Greswolde of Longdon by Joan, daughter and heiress of Thomas .Stockley of Yoxal, CO. Stafford) married Dorothy, daughter and co-heiress of Henry James of Forfield Court, Bellbroughton, by whom he had issue four sons, George, Humphrey, William, and Richard. Humphrey Greswolde of Yardley was fined for refusing knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. ; he married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Fulke Bourne^ of Purshill Green, by whom he had, with other issue, a daughter, Anne, married to Henry Palmer of Olton End, co. Warwick, in whose descendants the re- . presentation of the family ultimately vested. Mary Gres- wolde, the daughter and heiress (by Martha his wife, daughter and co-heiress of William Makepeace of Pen- sham) of the Rev. Marshall Greswolde, who was a grand- son of the above-named Humphrey, espoused David Lewis, and had a son and successor, Henry Greswolde Lewis of Malvern Hall, Warwickshire. He died s.p. in 1829, and was succeeded by his kinsman, Edmund Mey- sey Wigley, who thereupon assumed the surname and arms of Greswolde, but dying likewise issueless in 1833, the representation of the family devolved upon his uncle, Henry Wigley, who also assumed the name and arms of * Fulke Bourne of Elmbridge paid a fine to be exonerated from knighthood at the coronation of Charles L, and “disclaimed” at the Visitation of 1634. , THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 239 Greswolde only. Malvern Hall is now occupied by Francis Edward Williams, who married in 1838 Anne, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of the said Henry Greswolde. — Argent, a fesse gules between two grey- hounds courant sable. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 90b.) In Solihull church the two greyhounds are in chief, one above the other. No crest appears to be registered to this family in the Col- lege of Arms, but they have sometimes used, A greyhound passant. In Solihull church one of [their escutcheons is surmounted with, A hand couped at the wrist, thereon a hawk close proper. In Yardley church they quarter Groome, Gi'ange, Hawes, Stockley, Hewet, James, and others. Greville. — Sable, a cross engrailed within a bordure also en- grailed or, the former charged with five pellets. (W.) This coat was borne by the Grevilles of Milcote, co. Warwick, who were Lords of Goldicote in Alderminster. It occurs at Lindridge, impaled by Edward Penell of Woodstone, who married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edward Greville of Milcote, and died in 1657. Greville, of Arle s Court, near Cheltenham ; as quartered by Hanford at the Visitation of 1634. — The same within a plain bordure or. (C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 113.) The same coat was quartered by Harewell through Vampage {see Vampage) : and by Lygon, in right of the marriage of Sir Richard Lygon of Madresfield with Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of William Greville by the heiress of Arle. Greville ; as borne by J ohn Greville, who married the heiress of Cooksey. — Or, on a cross engrailed within a bordure also engrailed sable, ten annulets of the first, in the dexter quarter a mullet. (Collins’ Peeragei) His son, John Greville, expunged the annulets. See Cooksey. Grevis. See Greaves. Grey, Bishop of Worcester, 1214-16. — Barry of six argent and azure, over all a bend gules. {Bedford.) 240 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Grey. — Barry of six argent and azure, on a bend gules three mullets or. (iV.) This coat occurs among the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley (but in or and azure), and is by Nash attributed to Grey of Ruthin. It is really, however, the coat of Peinbridge^ and was brought in by Burley, in right of the marriage of Sir John Burley of Bromscroft (father of Sir John Burley, whose daughter married Thomas Lyttelton) with Alice, sister and heiress of Walter Pembridge. The coat (in or and azure) is borne, in the Roll of temp. Edward II., by Sir John de Penbruge of Herefordshire ; but Dr. Strong {Heraldry of Hereford- shire) informs us that on the monument of Sir Richard Pembridge, K.G. (father of the above Alice), in Hereford Cathedral the bend is uncharged. Greystock. — Barry of six argent and azure, three chaplets two and one gules. (A^.) An impalement of Talbot in Bromsgrove Church. See Morpeth. Griffith, of Worcester. — Azure, a chevron between three dolphins embowed, the two in chief respecting each other, argent. This coat occurs in the cathedral at Worcester on the monument of Frances, wife of John Griffith, A.M,, Minor Canon, and daughter of John Bromley, esq., who died in 1682. It was exhibited at the Visitation of 1682-3, but “ not admitted.” {See K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 121.) Griffiths, of Thorngrove Park; as borne by Richard Griffiths of that place. High Sheriff in 1820. — Or, a lion rampant gules. Crest : A demi-lion rampant gules. (Burke’s Armory) Grindall. See Gower. Grisewood, of Day les ford Hottse ; as borne by the late Har- man Grisewood of Daylesford, High Sheriff in 1864. — Argent, a lion passant environed with laurel vert, between three garbs azure, banded or. Crest : A demi-lion THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. 241 rampant guardant argent, environed with laurel vert, and holding a garb as in the arms. Motto : “Nil despe- randum.” Grismund, of Worcester. — Or, a bend componee of the first and gules ; quartering . . . three cinquefoils or. {M.I. to Richard Grismtmd, and Elizabeth his wife, in St. Martinis church, Worcester. — Nash, Appendix, 143.) Groome, of Khnenhall ; as quartered by Greswolde in Yard- ley Church. — Or, three piles meeting in base gules, on a chief indented azure two close helmets of the first. Grosvenor. — Azure, a garb or. {N.) The coat of the great Cheshire house of Grosvenor, as quartered by Bulkeley on the Sandys monument at Wickamford. {See Nash, ii., p. 463.) Grove ; as quartered by Sheldon of Beoley. — Argent, a chev- ron between three fir-cones gules. {Ha^d. MS., 1167.) Grove. — .... three cannons upon wheels .... two and one. Crest: Nine swords, points downwards .... Motto: “ Memento novissima tua.” These singular bearings (impaling .... a bull couchant .... in flames) occur upon an altar tomb in the churchyard of St. Oswald, Worcester, with a Latin inscription, setting forth that there lies buried the body of John Grove, esquire, who died in 1730, aged forty-seven. The same tomb also commemorates “Gulielmus Smith,” who died in 1770. Guest. See Ghest. Guise, of Elmore, eo. Gloucester, and of Clmr chill, near Bredi- cote, in Worcestershire. — One of this ancient family, John de Guise (son of Reginald de Guise, who died in 1420), married an heiress of Wysham, and had with her the manor of Churchill. — Gules, seven lozenges vaire, on a 31 242 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. canton or, a mullet pierced sable ; quartering Wysham. (Rudder’s Gloucester shir H ABINGDON, of HiudHp, and Wichenford. The pedigree of this ancient family was recorded at the Visitations of 1569 and 1634. It is traced to Philip Abington, of Abington, co. Cambridge, sixth in descent from whom was William Abington or Habingdon, of St. John’s, Bed- wardine, who married Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Beaufitz of East Leach, co. Gloucester, and was ancestor (says Nash) of the families of that name in the counties of Worcester, Gloucester, and Dorset. His son, William Habingdon, was of Wichenford (in which parish the family had large possessions), and was the direct an- cestor of Richard Habingdon of Brockhampton, co. Here- ford, who by Eleanor his wife, daughter and co-heiress of John Hanley of Hanley-William, had two sons, Richard of JBrockhampton (one of whose daughters and co-heiresses, Mary, espoused Richard Barneby of Acton) and John Habingdon, Cofferer to Queen Elizabeth, who purchased the manor of Hindlip from the Coningsby family, and re- built the mansion-house there about the year 1572. This gentleman was the father of Thomas Habingdon, whose valuable collections for the history of Worcestershire were so extensively used by Nash. Thomas Habingdon was born at Thorpe, near Chertsey, in Surrey, in 1560, and was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford. “ Bigoted to his religion (says Nash), and pitying the hard fate of Mary, Queen of Scots, he engaged in designs for releasing her which had nearly cost him his life. He was, however, pardoned, and permitted to retire to Hindlip, which had THE HE E A ZEE V OF WOECESZEESHIEE, 243 been settled upon him by his father on his marriage with Mary, eldest daughter of Edward Lord Morley. Not- withstanding this escape, Mr. Habingdon could not help engaging in the Gunpowder Plot, wherein if he was not directly concerned, yet for entertaining Garnet, Oldcorne, and others, he was committed to the Tower; but by the intercession of his wife’s father. Lord Morley, and being Queen Elizabeth’s godson, he was reprieved and par- doned, on condition that he should retire to Hindlip and never stir out of Worcestershire.” In this retreat he gave himself up entirely to the study of the antiquities of Wor- cestershire, and formed those well-known collections from which Nash’s work is chiefly compiled. These collections received additions from his son, and afterwards from Dr. Thomas ; they were purchased from the latter by Bishop Lyttelton, and by him presented to the Society of Anti- quaries, where they still remain. Mr. Habingdon’s son William,''' who was born at Hindlip in 1605, married Lucy, daughter of William Herbert, first Lord Powis, by whom he had a son Thomas, who, dying without issue, devised his estate to his kinsman. Sir William Compton. — Quarterly ist. Argent, on a bend gules three eagles displayed or, for Habingdon (granted to John Habingdon on January 5th, 1577); 2nd, Or, a fesse wavy between six billets sable, for Donmlton ; 3rd, Gules, a fesse be- tween six mascles or, for Brockhampto^i ; 4th, Ermine, on a chief gules three buck’s heads cabossed or, for Hartley. * According to Mr. Chambers’s Biographical Illustrations of Worcestershire, William Habingdon (who was the author of several poems) died, befu'e his father, on 13th November, 1645; but Nash gives the date of his death as November 30th, 1654. 31—2 244 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Crest : An eagle displayed or, ducally crowned azure. (C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 103 ; Harl. MS., 1566.) In the Harl. MS., 1566, are two atchievements of Habingdon ; the one as above, and the other, “ from y® labored pettigree,’^ containing eleven quarterings, as follows : — ist, Habingdofi ; 2nd, Gules, a lion rampant double queuee argent, for Atiivood of Wichenford ; 3rd, Ermine, a chief bendy sinister or and sable, for UAbitot ; 4th, Gules, a fesse and two mullets in chief argent, for Poker ; 5th, Sable, five bezants in saltire, two, one, and two, a chief or, for Byfield; 6th, Sable, a fesse nebulee between six billets ory" 7th, Or, a fesse wavy between six billets .sable, for Doniulton; 8th, Gules, a fesse between six lozenges or; 9th, Gules, a fesse between six mascles or;t loth. Gules, a bend argent, for Foliot of Bromyard. Crests: ist, A bull argent, armed, collared, and lined or ; 2nd, A cubit arm in armour holding a battle-axe ; 3rd, A buck’s head cabossed In Hindlip church is a large atchievement of Habingdon, comprising some addi- tional quarterings ; among others. Argent, three helmets azure ; and, Lozengy or and azure, a canton argent, both stated to be for Beau- fitz. The crests are : — First, On a wreath argent and gules, an armed arm holding a battle-axe, with the motto, “ Hope to come Second, An eagle close or, and over it “ Habingdon’s Seal, 3 Edward II. Third, A bull salient sable, armed, collared, and chained gules. Hackett, of St. Johns. — Argent, two bends gules. “This (says Penn) was the bearing of Master Thomas Hackett, Justice of the Cittie of Worcester, and is thus borne by his eldest sonne, who liveth at St. John’s, who is a very noble and worthy gen- tleman.” Thomas Hackett was Mayor of Worcester in i644.§ Nash ascribes this coat to Domulton. t These two coats (8 and 9) were, according to Nash, “the arms of a second house of Marescall and Brockhampton, which after them Domulton and Ha- bingdon inherited.” J The crest {a battle-axe) and the above motto (with the arms. Gules, a bend argent, differenced with a martlet) are attributed by Dr. Thomas to Foliot of Bromyard. {See also Burke’s Annory.) Anthony Habingdon of Dowdeswell, CO. Gloucester, Gentleman Usher to Queen Elizabeth, who derived his descent from the Habingdons of Wichenford, received in 1595 a confirmation of the Habingdon arms (with an annulet for difference), and this crest : An arm em- bowed in armour, the elbow resting on the wreath, holding a battle-axe. {See Add. MS., 14,295, and Harl. MS., 1041.) § A family named Hackett formerly possessed a considerable estate in Grimley. Henry Hackett of Grim ley, gent., compounded for his estate with THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. 245 Hackluit ; as quartered by Bridges of Eastington at the Visi- tation of 1634. — Argent, three battle-axes erect, two, and one, gules. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. no.) Haden, of Dudley, and of Rowley Regis and Wolverhampton, CO. StaffoiA. — Argent, a human leg embowed couped at the thigh azure. Crest : A cubit arm erect in armour . . . holding an arrow . . . (Seal of . . . Haden of W olverhamp- ton, gent., 1750.) Hadlow. — Argent, a lion rampant azure guttee d’or. {Nt) This coat was formerly in one of the windows of Upton-Snodsbury church, with the inscription, “ Orate pro anima Johannis Hadlo.” {See Nash, ii., 439.) Hagley, of Hagley. — Per pale or and azure, three bars coun- terchanged, in chief two pallets and as many gyrons all counterchanged as before, an inescutcheon argent. (TV.) Henry de Haggeley, who was Eschaetor of Worcestershire in 1395, and Sheriff in 1398, 1399, and 1403, sealed with this coat in the 1 2th of Henry IV. ; and the same is represented in one of the windows of Hagley Church. Vincent, however, maintains that it is the bearing of Alortimer ; whilst Brooke declares that it is either “ the antick design of the painter’s brain ” or the coat of some other family ; for, says he, “ Mortimer was never Lord of Hagley.” In a manuscript note to his own book, however, Vincent says : — “ This is the bearing of Hagley, having seen a fair impression of it on a seal since this book was published.” The same coat is attributed to the family of Hagley in the Harl. MSS., 1392 and 1459, and the Coit. MS., Tib. D., 10. In the Harl. MS., 807, on fo. 106, the coat again occurs, with this note : — “ This is the true compounded coate of Mortymer, as I have scene it represented in a very owlde . glasse wyndowe in the parishe church of Hagley in Worcestershire, 1599 ; p. Yorke R. Brooke.” {See Nash, i., 489; Papworth’s Ordinary, and the MSS. there cited.) The Blankfronts of Alvechurch and the Burleys of Bromscroft also bore coats resembling that of Mortimer. the Parliamentary Committee at ;£‘3oo. A William Hackett of Upton-on- Severn, gent., was fined for declining knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. His name also appears in the list of disclaimers at the Visitation of 1634. 246 THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. Haigh, of Worcester ; as borne by William Haigh, late of St. John’s, Worcester, now of Shirley Hall, Northampton- shire, a Deputy-Lieutenant for this county, and formerly Mayor of the city of Worcester. — Azure, a saltire can- toned with two stars in chief and base, and with as many crescents addorsed in the flanks argent. Crest : A rock proper. Mottoes : (above) “ Tyde what may (below) “ Sola virtus invicta.” (CominunieatecDj Haines, of W 07 ^cester ; as borne by Francis Haines, Mayor of that city in 1683, who died in 1707, aged seventy-one. — Argent, three crescents gules. {M,L in St, Nichotass cJmrch, Worcester.) Haines ; as borne by Thomas Hahies, Serjeant of His Ma- jesty’s Chapel Royal, who died in 1687, the grandson of the Rev. John Wilkinson, rector of St. Martin’s, Wor- cester. — Argent, on a fesse between three annulets gules, as many ducal coronets or. {M.I. in St. Martins churchi) Halesowen, Abbey of. — Azure, a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis or. {Edmondson.) Hall, of Henwick ajid Mathon. The pedigree of this family was recorded at the Visitations of 1569 and 1634. John Hall of Henwick had issue Thomas Hall, whose son John had issue, by Mary his wife, Edward, Anne, Eliza- beth, and Emma. Of the same family was Anthony Hall of Henwick, whose second son, William Hall of Rotherhithe, near London, and of Leicestershire, recorded his pedigree at the Visitation of the last-named county in 1619. Anthony’s elder son Anthony, described as of THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. 247 Mathon, had issue three sons, Thomas (aged forty in 1619), William, and Henry. — ^ Argent, between nine crosses crosslet azure, three talbot’s heads erased sable. Crest : A dragon’s head couped azure, gorged with a collar engrailed argent thereon three roundles. {D. 12, Coll. Arm., fo. 52, and C. 30, fo. io6b. ; Add. MS., 19,816; Harl. MS., 1566.) In the Harl. MS., 1072, Hall of Henwick bears. Ermine, on two bars gules three escutcheons two and one or. A further coat is attri- buted to the family by Dr. Prattinton, viz.. Ermine, a chevron be- tween three talbot’s heads erased sable. Dr. Thomas attributes to Hall of Hallow, Ermine, three hound’s heads erased .... which, it appears, occurs on the monument of Edward Hall, who died in 1616, in Hallow church. Estbury, which, as well as Henwick, is in the chapelry of Hallow, was also the property of the Hall family ; it was purchased by Thomas Hall from Sir Humphrey Stafford, knt. Penn gives the coat of Hall of “ Esbury” as. Argent, three talbot’s heads erased sable laugued gules. It appears from Nash (i., 475) that in 1617 Thomas Hall was of Estbury, Edward Hall of Henwick, and another Edward Hall of Hallow. Hall; as borne by John Hall, Bishop of Bristol, who died in 1709-10, aged seventy-seven, and was buried at Broms- grove. He was the son of the Rev. John Hall, vicar of Bromsgrove, and grandson of Richard Hall of Worcester, clothier, by Elizabeth, nee Bonner, his wife. Bishop Hall died without issue ; his sister and heiress was married to the Rev. John Spilsbury, the ejected vicar of Bromsgrove, who had issue by her an only child, John Spilsbury, whom the Bishop appointed his executor. — Sable, crusuly argent, three talbot’s heads erased of the last langued gules. {M.I. at Bromsgrovei) See Spilsburie. Hall. — Argent, a chevron *sable between three columbines proper. — Argent, a chevron engrailed between three 24S THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. talbot’s heads erased sable. — Azure, a chevron counter- batded or. (Win. MS.) The first coat is ascribed in the Heraldic Dictionaries to Hall of Coventry, co. Warwick.” It is identical with the coat of William Coventry, Lord Mayor of London in 1425 ; but a similar coat was borne by Timothy Hall, Bishop of Oxford, 1688-90. The third coat is that of Hale of King’s Walden, Herts. (See Berry’s Hertfordshire Pedigrees, and Papworth’s Ordmaryl) Halxiday, of “ The Leasowes,'^ Halesowen ; as borne by the late Major John Delap Halliday, to whose memory there is a handsome monument in Halesowen church. — Argent, a crescent, therefrom issuant a sword erect gules, a chief ermine and a canton of the second, the latter charged with a saltire of the field. Crests: ist, A dexter arm embowed in armour lying fesseways and holding a sword embrued proper ; 2nd, A boar s head couped argent armed or ; 3rd, A boar s head erased sable. (Burke’s Amttoiyi) Hallughton, of Crowtieast, St. Johns. “In the reign of Edward III. (says Nash) Crowneast became the inhe- ritance of Robert Hallughton ; and, in the T4th of Henry VI., Isabel, widow of Humphrey Hallughton, died seised thereof, when, by inquisition, Leake of Derbyshire was declared the next heir thereto.” The family of the Hal- lughtons of St. John’s, he adds in a note, “is of great antiquity, as appears by evidences. Robert Hallughton granted to James de Abingdon one messuage, &c., which was purchased of Robert Roberts within the manor of Wyke ; witnessed by Thomas de Abingdon, William Vallet, and Giles de Brug, Sheriff of Worcester ; dated at Wichenford, the 40th of Edward HI. The seal, a cross patonce.” (Vol. ii., p. 311.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 249 Hammond. See Dowdeswell. Hampden. — Argent, a saltire gules between four eagles dis- played or. {Win. MS.) H ANBURY, of Hanbicry^ ajid of Beanhall in Feckenham ; an ancient family, whose descent and arms were recorded at the Visitation of 1569. From Roger de H anbury, who was of H anbury in the twelfth century, sprang Geoffrey de Hanbury, father of Henry de Hanbury, who, in the 26th of Edward HI., sealed with the arms still borne by - the family. John Hanbury of Hanbury, living in 1400, had three sons — William, who carried on the line at Hanbury; John of Beanhall, from whom the Hanburys of Kelmarsh, in Northamptonshire (now represented by Lord Bateman), are descended ; and Richard of Elmley Lovett, ancestor of Lord Sudeley and of the Hanburys of Pontypool. — Or, a bend engrailed vert plain cottised sable. Crest : Out of a mural crown sable, upon a wreath or and vert, a demi-lion gold holding in the dexter paw a battle-axe of the last helved of the first. {D. 12, Coll. Ann., fo. 42; Penn MS."^ ; Harl. MS., 1566; Burke’s Peerage, Landed Gentry, &c.) John Hanbury of Feckenham, gent, and John Hanbury of Wor- cester, gent, were each fined ;£'io for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. “ Mr. Hanbury of Feckenham” also occurs in Penn’s list of those Worcestershire gentlemen who were to find horse during the civil wars. He appears to be the John Hanbury of Feckenham who was High Sheriff in 1649-50, and who, according to Burke, was “ a stanch Parliamentarian, and high in the confidence of * Penn’s comments on these arms are not very complimentary to their then bearer : — Heare (he says) the bend is formed of to (two) bunched lines that carrys a hollow and bending crooke, which may signifie the bearer to be a most crooked dealer with his foes and contry’s enemies, insoemuch that they should never know when he would fight them.” 32 250 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Oliver Cromwell.” Burke also identifies him with the John Hanbury of Purcell Green, co. Worcester, to whom Camden confirmed the Hanbury arms, with a mullet for difference, and granted the crest as above described, but charged on the shoulder with a trefoil vert.^^ In the Hark MS., 1566, however, the grantee of the crest is stated to have been “John Hanbury of London, draper, and of Chelmarsh, CO. Northampton.” The Hanbury arms occur in Kidderminster church on the tablet of “ Caple Hanbury, esq.,” who died in 1704, aged seventy-eight. Hancock, of Norton in Bredon, and of Twining, co. Glou- cester ; recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3. Charles Hancock married the eldest of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Baugh of Twining, and died seised of the manor of Twining in 1717. Peter Hancock, of Norton and Twining, died in 1776, leaving two daugh- ters, Anne and Charlotte, his co-heiresses, the one mar- ried to George Maxwell, and the other to John Embery.f — Gules, a dexter hand couped argent on a chief of the last three cocks of the first. Crest : A cock gules. (K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 32.) The pedigree entered by the family at the Visitation commences with William Hancock of Twining, “ descended out of Devonshire,” to which county the arms were “ referred ;” but, it is added, “ this * The Hanbury arms, within a bordure engrailed vert, charged with trefoils, and with a mullet in the sinister chief for distinction, are registered in the College of Arms as appertaining to William Allen Hanbury of Schloss Jack- schonau, near Perschiitz, in Prussia, the grandson of Capel Hanbury of Ware, CO. Herts. They were granted by Sir C. G. Young, Garter, together with the Hanbury crest (gorged for distinction with a collar vert), and the motto, “Nil desperandum, Christus duxit.” This gentleman is descended from a Richard Hanbury, who is supposed to have been a son of Philip Hanbury, second son of Richard Hanbury of Elmley Lovett. On the 25th of April, 1664, Dugdale granted a coat to Francis Hanbury of Wolverhampton, gent, (a descendant of the Hanburys of Hanbury), in which the engrailed bend is altered in tincture to purpure, and is charged with three bezants. This Francis, who was also of Norton Hall, co. Stafford, was born in 1637, and died in 1703, leaving issue, t Rudder’s Gloucestershire, p. 781. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 251 without the hand was granted to Edward Hancock of Comb Martin, CO. Devon, by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux. — See Grants, ii., 549.” Hancocks, of Wolverley Court, a 7 id Blakeshall ; registered in the College of Arms. — Per chevron azure and gules, in chief a garb between two cocks respecting each other, in base a lion rampant or. Crest : On a mount vert, a cock gules, .in his dexter claw an ear of wheat or. Motto : “ Redeem time.” (Burke’s La^ided Gentry,) The lion rampant in the base of the shield is derived apparently from the coat of Talbot, William Hancocks of Wolverley having married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Talbott. See Talbot^ Handsacre, of Handsacre, co. Stafford ; as quartered by Dyneley. In the 20th of Edward II. the Handsacres were owners of Charlton. Sir Simon de Handsacre, who was Lord of Handsacre and Charlton in 5th Edward HI., left a daughter Eleanor, his heiress, who marrying Richard Dyneley, carried Charlton to that family. — Ermine, three chess rooks gules. Hanford, of W ollas-hall, W ollashutl, or W oilers Hill, This is one of Mr. Shirley’s k 7 iightly families of Worcester- shire. “ Hanford, or Honford, in Cheshire,” he says, “ was the original seat of this family, descended from Thomas Hanford and Margaret Huggeford, the heiress of Wollashill ; which Thomas was son of Lawrence, second son of Robert Hanford, of Hanford, who was sixth in descent from Sir John Hanford, of Hanford, in Cheshire. The elder line of the family became extinct in 1513. The present branch has been seated at Wol- ‘lashill since 1536.” The pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of 1634. The family is now extinct; its last male representative, John Compton Hanford, having died 32—2 252 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. without issue on the 19th of June, i860. Wollashall is now the seat of William Hanford Flood, High Sheriff of this county in 1871, who married Mr. Hanford’s only surviving sister, Frances, and added in consequence the surname of Hanford to his patronymic. — Sable, an estoile of eight rays argent ; quartering (in the Visitation Book of 1634) I St., Vert, on a chevron between three stag’s heads cabossed or, as many mullets gules, for HtLgford ; 2nd, Argent, a pile sable, for Dickleston ; 3rd, Gules, a fesse between six pears or, for Besford ; 4th, Azure, an eagle displayed argent within a tressure dory and coun- ter-dory or, for Vampage ; 5th, Argent, a wolf passant sable, for W ollashull ; 6th, Argent, a chevron azure be- tween three garbs vert banded or, for Sarrell ; 7th, Sable, on a cross engrailed within a bordure or, dve pellets, for Greville ; 8th, Or, a bird rising vert within a bordure argent charged with deurs-de-lis sable, ior A rle 9th, Argent, a chevron engrailed between three griidn’s heads erased sable, for Rake. Crest : On a chapeau, a wyvern gules, wings expanded argent. Motto : “ Me- morare novissima.” (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 113 ; Harl. MS., 1566 ; &c., &c.) Nash in blazoning the quarterings of Harewell, states that this coat also occurs in St Peters church, at Wich, but whose it is,” says he, “ I cannot guess.” In blazoning Hanford’s atchievement, however, he ascribes it to Aiiell. The same coat occurs among the Lygon quarterings on Penelope Walwyn’s monument at Great Malvern. It was brought in by Greville; William Greville, son of Richard Greville, of Leamington, having married the daughter of John Arle, of Arle’s Court, Cheltenham, by whom he had issue three daughters, his co-heiresses, Eleanor, Anne, and Margaret ; the first married to Robert Vampage, and the last to Sir Richard Lygon, of Madres- field, knt. Harl. MS., 1566.) T'HE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 253 Hanley, of Hanley -William, hi Easthain, Thomas de Han- ley held lands in Hanley-William in the 13th of Edward I. “Several branches/’ says Nash (i., 365), “proceeded . from this stock of the Hanleys ; the first was by a mar- riage between Peter de Washborne and Isold, daughter of John de Hanley, 29 Edward HI. ; from this marriage sprang the family of the Washbornes. The second branch was by a marriage of Richard de Hop ton with Joan de Hanley, 43 Edward HI. ; from this marriage descended the Hoptons, of Hopton, in the county of Salop. The third branch was from the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heiress of Simon Hanley, with Robert Stanshawe, alias Stanlaw ; and the last from the marriage of Richard Habingdon, of Brockhampton, with Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of John Hanley; from this match descended two sons, Richard Habingdon and John Habingdon ; the last was Habingdon, of Hindlip, who was born in 1515, at Brockhampton, formerly the manor-house of John Hanley. The name of Hanley became extinct in the reign of Edward VI.” — Ermine, on a chief gules three stag’s heads cabossed or. {N. ; and Penn MS.) Hanley. — Or, on a saltire sable five mullets of the field. {Penn MS.) Harcourt. — Or, two bars gules.^' (Al.) The coat of the ancient and illustrious family of Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxon., Staffordshire, Warwickshire, &c., as iin- * The usual coat of Harcourt is Gules, two bars or, which occurs on the tomb of a knight of this family in the cathedral at Worcester. See Thomas’s Survey, p. 72, 254 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. paled by Cooksey and Phelip, in Kidderminster church, and in Wor- cester cathedral. Harding, as impaled by John Smith, of Copcote, whose daughter and heiress, Joan, married William Wheeler, of Martin Hussingtree. — Gules, three greyhounds courant in pale or, collared azure. {Harl. MS., 1566, fo. 171). Hardwicke, of Droitwich. — Argent, a saltire engrailed azure, on a chief of the last three cinquefoils of the first. (Pemi MS.) The coat probably of the Rev. Humphrey Hardwicke, incumbent of St. Mary Witton, Droitwich, who, says Nash (i,, 326), “was a zealous champion on the side of the Parliament ; he not only preached for them, but enlisted himself as a soldier under the Earl of Essex, for which he was deprived, and the profits of his living given to Richard Jennings, gentleman of the King’s chamber. There are among the Archives of the Dean and Chapter, letters from Charles I. about this matter, dated from Oxford, February 24th, 1642, and July 5th, 1643.” The following is Penn’s comment on this coat : “ Peace and wisdome being disturbed, yet it’s willing to pass by some affronts ; but finding a continual torture, readie to fall, can rest no more with patience, but startle up to a head and in wisdome puts them to the foyl."' Harewell, of Besford Cottrt ; a junior branch of the Hare- wells, of Wootton-Wawen, co. Warwick. The pedigree of this family in the Harl. MS., 1566, commences with John Harewell, who had two sons — John, living in the 7th -of Henry V. ; and William. The latter married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of John Dickleston (descended from Besford, of Besford), and had issue Roger Harewell, who married the daughter and heiress of Corbet, by the daughter and heiress of Cowley. Their grandson, Thomas Harewell, married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Vampage, by whom he had a son, Edmund Harewell, of Besford, who THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 255 by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of James Berry, of Hampton Poyle, Oxon., was father of Sir Edmund Harewell, -Knight of the Bath, Sheriff of Worcestershire in the 39th of Elizabeth ; and of Erancis Harewell, of Birlingham, who married Mary Sheldon, daughter of Richard Sheldon,^ of Spetchley. Sir Edmund Harewell married Susan, daughter of Ed- mund Colies, of Leigh ; he sold the Besford estate to the Sebrights, and with him the name seems to have expired in Worcestershire. The family did not appear at any of the Visitations of this county. — Argent, on a fesse nebulee sable three hare’s heads erased (sometimes couped) of the field ; quartering Dickleston, Besford.^ Co 7 'bett,\ Cowley, Vamp age, W ollashull, Greville, Arle, Sarrell, Berry, and Pincepole. Crest : A hare’s head erased or. {Harl. MSS., 615, 1566; Nash; Pe;m. MS.) Harford, or Hawford. — Argent, on a chief sable three buck’s heads cabossed or. {Penn. MS.) Hargrave. — Or, a chief indented gules. (W.) This is probably a mistake for Heiigrave, whose coat {^Argent, a chief dancettee gules) occurs among the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley. Harley. — Or, a bend cottised sable. (W.) ^ By Margaret, daughter of John Harman, which Margaret afterwards married Thomas Harewell, uncle of Sir Edmund and Francis, and died in 1600. t Viz., Argent, two bendlets indented gules and vert, in Harl. MSS., iit supra. Dr. Thomas and Nash ascribe this coat to Ruyhail. The latter says that among the Harewell quarterings at Birlingham, is one coat that does not occur at Besford, viz., Argent, a raven proper within a bordure sable bezantee, which (says he) Mr. Habingdon takes to be Corbett, of Cowleigh. See Ruv- HALL. 256 THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. The coat of Harley, of Brampton-Brian, co. Hereford, afterwards Earls of Oxford and Mortimer. It occurs at Birtsmorton, impaled by Giles Nanfan, whose wife Elizabeth was the daughter of John Harley of Brampton-Brian. Harman. — Argent, on a cross sable a stag’s head.^ (A^.) An impalement of Harewell (which see). Harmanville. — Or, two bars gules. (N.) This is an impalement of Cooksey and Phelip, in Kidderminster ■ church and Worcester cathedral, but it should be Harcourt. Nash does not appear to be responsible for this mistake, 'for Dr. Thomas ascribes the impalement to Harmanville in his Survey of ihe Cathe- dral. A family of Harmanville bore the same coat ; it is attributed to “ Sir . . . de Harmonville in the MS. Glover’s Ordinary, cited by Mr. Pap worth. Harnehull, of Harnehull, co. Gloucester; as quartered by Walsh. William de Harnehull died seised of Harne- hull, in the 17th of Edward H. ; Edward Stonor died seised thereof, in the 5th of Richard 1 1 ., and John, his son and heir, in the 13th of the same king’s reign. — Or, three roses gules seeded of the field. (W) Harpur, of Chesterton, co. Warwick, atid Broctonf co. Wor- cester. — Gules, a cross or. (Dugdale’s W arwiekshire'.) Harrington. — Argent, a fret sable. {Penn. MS.) The arms of the Haringtons of Exton, &c., are Sable, a fret argent ; by what family the coat given by Penn was borne, has not been ascertained ; but there is an inscription in Upton Warren * John Harman, atlas Voysey or Vesey, consecrated Bishop of Exeter in 1519, bore Argent, on a cross sable a stag’s head couped between four mart- lets of the field. He is said to have adopted the name of Voysey from a friend who brought him up, his proper surname being Harman. Mr. Clive, in his work on the Marches of Wales, gives his arms with the addition of a chief azure charged with a cross crosslet or between two roses proper seeded and leaved argent. On his monument at Sutton Coldfield, the chief (says Mr. Bedford) is charged with a cross patonce between two roses or, barbed and seeded proper. The Harmans were of *More Hall, co. Warwick. THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. 257 church, to Mary, daughter of John Arden, and wife of Charles Har- rington, esquire, of Hytonhey, in Lancashire, who died in 1713, aged twenty-four. Harris, of Worcester. — Vert (should probably be aziire), a chevron ermine between three hedgehogs or. Crest : An arm grasping a dart. (iV.) This coat occurs in St. Peter’s church, Worcester, on the monu- ment of Thomas Harris, juris-consultus.^ who died in 1681, and others of the family. They were connected with the Andrews of Barnes-hall. Harris, of Prickley m Martley^ and of Walton, co. Gloticester, and London ; descended from John Prickley, of Prickley, “ who called himself Harris, after the name of his father- in-law, who lived at Prickley” {Hart. MS., 1476). The pedigree and arms of this family were recorded at the Visitation of London by one of the family, in 1633-4. John Harris, of Prickley, living in 1658, had two daugh- ters and co-heiresses, Joyce and Elizabeth. The former was married to Samuel Gyles, of Astley (son of John Gyles, of Astley), and had issue (with others) a son, John Gyles, who w^as of Prickley at the Visitation of 1682-3, and then aged thirty-three. Elizabeth, the other daughter, espoused J. Green, of Hartley, and was mother of an only child, Elizabeth, married to Passey. There is an M.I. at St. Helen’s, Worcester, to John Harris, “ late keeper of the castle of Worcester,” a de- scendant of this family, who died in 1685, aged sixty. — Or, a chevron ermine between three passion-nails azure ; quartering (in the Hart. MS., 1566) Gules, a lion ram- pant regardant argent, for Massey ; and Gules, three griffin’s heads erased argent, on a chief of the last as many cinquefoils vert, for Attbrey. Crest : On a chapeau, 33 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTER SHIRE. 258 a mural crown argent, therein an arm embowed in armour proper vambraced or, holding a battle-axe of the last armed sable. {HarL MSS., 1476 and 1566 ; Penn. MS.) See Prickley. Harris. — Or, three greyhounds courant in pale sable. Motto : “ Cum luce labor.” {Pe 7 in. MS.) These arms are on the monument in Worcester cathedral, of Thomas Harryes, M.A., who died in 1621, aged thirty-two. (See Thomas’s Survey, p. 65.) Dr. Prattinton ascribes the same arms (but with the greyhounds collared gules) to “ R. Harris, Prebendary of Worcester.” Harrison, of Temple Laughern ; as borne by Richard Har- rison, High Sheriff in 1787. — Azure, three demi-lions rampant or. Crest : A demi-lion rampant argent, holding a laurel wreath proper. (Dr. Prattintonl) See Yeomans. Harward, or Herew ard, of Hartlebury ; an old family originally seated in Warwickshire. Their pedigree in the Harl. MSS., 1043 1566, commences with Richard Hereward, of Warwickshire, who married Eliza- beth Greville, and had issue a son, John, whose grand- son, Richard, was father (by Joan his wife, daughter of Richard Hollins) of Thomas Hereward, of Hartlebury. Thomas married Joan Nash, and had issue two sons : Francis, Proctor of the Arches, who married Sibell, daughter of Hugh Parry, of Aconbury, and had issue William, Edmund, Robert, and Thomas; and John Hereward, or Harward, of Hartlebury, who by Jane his wife, daughter of John Barnesley, of Barnesley Hall, had three sons, Thomas, Charles, and John, and three daugh- ters. — Cheeky or and azure, on a bend gules three double-headed eagles displayed argent. (Harl. MSS., 615, 1043, and 1566.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 259 This coat was borne temp. Edward II. by Sir Robert Hereward, of Cambridgeshire. (Ro// of the date.) Penn attributes the coat (but with the eagles smgle-h.&2idQ^ and tinctured or) to “ Harwood, of Hartlebury and the Heraldic Dictionaries ascribe the same coat to “ Harward, of Cornwall and Worcestershire.” It is now borne (with an eagle’s head erased for Crest) by the Harwards of Winterfold, Chaddesley Corbett, who, we believe, claim descent from the Hartlebury family.* Harwood. — “ Gules, a bend ’twixt six crosslets fitchee argent In Staffordshire, Argent, a chevron ’twixt three buck’s heads cabossed sable.” {Win. MS.) The first coat is that of Howard ; the last that of Whorwood., of Stourton Castle, Sandwell, &c., co. Stafford. Haselrigge. — Argent, a chevron sable between three hazel leaves slipped vert (A^.) Impaled by Edward Rouse, of Rouse-Lench, who died in 1611, in right of Mary, his wife, the daughter of Miles Haselrigge, of Noseley, co. Leicester. Haselwood, of Wick-W arren and Offenham. This was a junior branch of the ancient family of Haselwood of Maid- well, in Northamptonshire, founded by Edward Haseb wood of Wick-Warren, third son of Edmund Haselwood * In the church of Boulton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, is a monument with these arms (the eagles single-headed) to Kemp Harward, M.D., who died January T5th, 1743, aged sixty-six, and whose only daughter and heiress, Lucy, was married at Batsford on 28th May, 1747, to John Head, of Hod- cutt, Berks. Dr. Harward was descended from a family seated for several generations at Harvington, near Evesham. He was baptized at Blockley, in 1677, the son of Kemp Harward, of Harvington, and Elizabeth, iiee Carter, his wife. On 22nd July, 1595, Robert Harward was married at Harvington to Magdalen Kempe, and at the same place were baptized Thomas (1596), Kempe (1598), Anthony (1600), Thomas (1607), and Robert (1609), the children of Robert Harward. A branch of the family was also seated at Bretforton ; William Canning, of Foxcote, co. Warwick, living in 1619, mar- ried the daughter and heiress of Thomas Harward, of that place. ( Ex. inf. Rev. T. P. Wadley.) 33-2 26o THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. of Maidwell, by Jane his wife, daughter and heiress of John Billington, and grandson of Thomas Haselwood by (it is presumed) Christiana his wife, daughter and heiress of Thomas Hewet.^' This Edward married Martha Skerne, or Sherne, of London, and had (with other issue) a son, Fulke Haselwood of Wick-Warren,, who recorded his descent and arms at the Visitation of 1569. He mar- ried his cousin Elizabeth,! daughter of Thomas Babing- ton of Kiddington, Oxon, and was direct ancestor ^ of Francis Haselwood of Wick-Warren, Wick-Burnell, and Offenham, who was fined 10^. for not taking knight- hood- at the coronation of Charles L, and who died on the 1 6th of August, i 655.§ His son and successor, Thomas, ^ The Visitation pedigree (a® 1569) commences with Thomas Haselwood, whose son Edmund of Maidwell married Jane . . . and had issue, John (eldest son), Thomas, Edward (of Wick-Warren), and others. The wife of Thomas is not given, but it is almost certain that he was the Thomas who (according to the Harl. MS,, 1417, fo. 23), married Christiana Hewet, and whose son Edmund married Jane Eillmgtoji. It is almost equally certain that John, Edmund’s eldest son, was the John of Maidwell who married the heiress of Marmion of Gadby, and whose descendants are given in Nichols’s Leicestershire., ii., 569. t Elizabeth’s mother, Margaret, was the daughter of Edmund Haselwood and Jane Billington. i^See Harl. MS., rqiy.) f According to Nash’s pedigree of Haselwood (vol. i. p. 203), Francis was son of Thomas, and grandson of Fulke. The following Haselwood entries appear in the parish registers of Offenham : — 1603- 4, Feb. 6. Married, Mr. Lanclett Spooner and Mrs. Marie Haslewoode. 1604- 5, Bur., Mr. William Haselewood. 1606, May 19. Bur,, Mrs. Dorothy Haselewoode. 1626, Nov. I. Bur., Edward, son of Francis Haslewoode, esq. 1628, Dec. 21. Bapt, Elizab., da. of Francis Haslewood, esq., and Ann his wife. Henry Dinglie, Eliz. Dinglie, and Eliz. Cradocke, Suretyes. 1639-40, March ii. Bur., John Haselwood, gentleman. 1652, Dec. 17. Bapt., Thomas, son of Mr. Francis Haslewood, esq., and Sarah his wife. 1665, Aug. 22, Bur., Mr. Francis Haslewood, esq. § M.I. at Offenham. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 261 was knighted in 1681, and served as High Sheriff of Worcestershire in the 35th of Charles II. Sir Thomas died on the 24th of September, 1720, aged sixty-eight,^' having had issue, by Margaret his wife, an eldest son, Thomas Haselwood of Wick-Warren, who died on the loth of January, 1732,! leaving a son James, married (ac- cording to Nash) to the daughter of . . . Andrewes. What subsequently became of the family does not appear. The senior branch continued for several generations at Maid- well, and at Gadby in Leicestershire, and intermarried with heiresses of the families of Marmion of Gadby, and Osborne of Kelmarsh. It eventually ended in an heiress, Elizabeth, only surviving child of Sir William Haselwood of Maidwell (knighted in 1669, in cetat. thirty- nine), who was married to Christopher Viscount Hatton. Another branch of the family, seated at Belton, co. Rut- land, also terminated in co-heiresses ; but a younger son of this branch removed to Norwich, where he married and, it is believed, left issue. — Argent, on a*chevron gules between three owls sable as many lozenges ermine, on a chief azure three hazel branches or. J Crest : A squirrel sejant azure, collared or and charged with three bezants in pale, holding an oak branch proper fructed gold. {D. 12, Coll. Arm., fo. 51 ; Penn MS.; Harl. MSS., 1566, 1417, 1043, &c., &c.) ^ M.I. at Pershore. t M.I. at Offenham. f The chief was sometimes omitted. By some strange blunder, these arms are attributed by the Heraldic Dictionaries to “ Foulke of Worcestershire.” Foulke was the baptismal name of the Haselwood who recorded the pedigree in 1569. 262 THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE, It is stated in an old pedigree (a copy of which is in the hands of the Rev. Francis Haslewood* of Benenden, near Staplehurst, Kent) that this family was anciently seated at Hazlewood Hall, near Tadcaster, CO. York, which estate was carried by Mabel, the daughter and heiress of Henry Haselwood, in marriage to the Vavasours. It is added that its ancient coat of arms was. Argent, a chevron between three hazel leaves vert, which the Maidwell branch “ left for that of LazencrofC' (the chevron and owls), in consequence of their descent from the marriage of Thomas Haselwood with Judith, daughter and sole heiress of John Lazencroft. Le Neve, in his Pedigrees of Knights (Harl. MS., 5801, fo. 88), refers to what appears to be the same pedigree, viz., “an old roll of parchment, drawn about 1600,” but (he adds) “ I am afraid forged! Thomas Haselwood, who mar- ried the heiress of He wet, is omitted from this pedigree, Edmund, the husband of Jane Billington, being there called a son of Edmund Haselwood t by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Thomas Lovell, whose arms were. Argent, a chevron between three squirrels sejant gules. Le Neve gives the Billington arms, from the “parchment roll,” as. Per pale or and azure, a chevron charged with two bars gemelles, between three fleurs-de-lis all counterchanged ; but in Mr. Haselwood’s copy they are given as. Argent, on a saltire engrailed azure five fleurs-de-lis or. The Belton branch (which was founded by Thomas, the second son of Edmund Haselwood and Jane Billing- ton) entered the following atchievement at the Visitation of Rutland taken in 1618 (we quote the copy printed by the Harleian Society): — Quarterly 1st, Argent, a chevron between three hazel leaves vert; 2nd, Sable, a chevron ermine between three owls argent, on a chief . . . three hazel branches . . . ; 3rd, ... a chevron between three squirrels sejant gules ; 4th, Or, on a chevron azure between three fleurs-de-lis sable, as many bars gemelles . . . ; 5th, ... a chevron between two trefoils in chief and a fleur-de-lis in base sable. Very similar quarterings occur (impaling Hnngerford and quarterings) on the monument^ of Fulke Haselwood and Dorothy his wife, at Per- * This gentleman is descended from a Shropshire family of the name long resident in the neighbourhood of Bridgnorth. + This Edmund was the son of Bryan Haselwood by Ursula, daughter and heiress of John Bradstone (Arms: Argent, on a canton gules an owl of the field), and grandson of Thomas Haselwood and Judith Lazencroft ; which Thomas was the second son of Thomas Haselwood by Anne, daughter of Sir Adam Newmarch. (Zy Thomas Jolliffe (then aged 65) the husband of Margaret Skinner ; he was the son of William Jolliffe, and grandson of Thomas Jolliffe, of Leek, who was a son of John Jollie, alias Jolliffe, of the same place. The present representative of The family is Lord Hylton (so created in 1866), son of the Rev. Wil- liam John Jolliffe, and grandson of William Jolliffe, M.P., by Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Hylton,^ bart. ; which William Jolliffe was the son of John Jol- liffe, whose father, Benjamin Jolliffe, was the eldest sur- viving son of Thomas Jolliffe and Margaret Skinner. — Argent, on a pile vert, three dexter hands erect of the field. Crest : A cubit arm erect habited vert, charged with a pile argent, holding a sword erect proper pommel and hilt or. {K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 82.) On the petition of William Jollye, of Leek, (father of Thomas of Cofton), to have his arms confirmed and a suitable crest added, Cla- rencieux ‘‘ condescended thereunto,” and assigned to him the above bearings on the 2 yth of August, 1614. {See Sleigh’s History of Leek.) Lord Hylton bears the pile azure, and charges it with three dexter gauntlets or his - crest is A cubit arm erect in armour, holding a broadsword all proper, and his motto, “Tant que je puis.” Sir Richard’s patronymic was Musgrave, but he assumed his mother’s surname of Hylton. t He quarters in the second and third quarters, the arms of Hylton (Argent, THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. 321 Jones, of “ The Bower',' Rock. — Gules, a cross crosslet set on three degrees or steps or. {Penn MS.) The family entered this coat without colours at the Visitation of 1682-3 (K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 152). Gwillim says that it was quar- tered by Edward Jones of Lanvaire, in the county of Denbigh, whose paternal arms were Per bend sinister ermine and ermines, a lion rampant or, within a bordure engrailed of the last, (ist edit., pp. 212, 240.) Jones, of Edvin-Loach. This family was seated at Edvin Loach, according to Nash, “ for several hundred years.'' The representative, in his time, was Philip Jones. The arms were entered at the Visitation of 1682-3. — C)r, a lion rampant within a bordure sable. {K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. lOI.) This was the coat as allowed at the Visitation, but Dr. Prattinton attributes to the family. Per bend ermine and erminois, a lion ram- pant . . . Crest : A demi-lion rampant . . . Jones, of Liilsley. — Gules, a lion rampant between six trefoils slipped argent, all within a bordure of the last. {Dr. Prattintonl) Jones, of Worcester, and of Chastleton in Oxfordshire. — Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure indented or. Crest : A demi-lion rampant or, holding between the fore paws a mullet gules. These arms were granted in the 45th of Elizabeth by William De- thick, Garter, to “Walter Jones, of the Citty of Worcester, bom at Whitteney, in Com. Oxf., with y® consent of y® Rt. Honble. Gilbert, E. of Shrewsb., who beareth y® same armes ; which Walter Jones was s. of Joh. Jones, second s. of Joh. Jones, of Greysmund, in Com. Monmouth.” {Harl. MS., 1422.) There is a pedigree of the family, accompanied by an escutcheon of seven quarterings, in two bars azure,) and also bears the Hylton crest in addition to that of Jolliffe, viz., The head of Moses, horned and radiated proper. 41 322 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. the Add. AfS., 19,819.* Arthur Jones of C 4 rastleton, the last male heir of this family (the son of Henry Jones of Chastleton, and grandson of Walter Jones, by Anne, daughter of Richard Whitmore, of Lower Slaughter, in Gloucestershire), died in 1828, and devised his estates to his kinsman, John Henry Whitmore, on condition that he assumed the additional surname and arms of Jones. This gen- tleman’s father, William Whitmore, was the second son of Charles Whitmore, and grandson of William Whitmore of Apley, Salop, brother of the above-named Richard Whitmore. The present family of Whitmore-Jones bears Quarterly, ist and 4th, Jo 7 ies., as above, with a canton ermine for distinction ; 2nd and 3rd, Vert, fretty or, for Whitmore. JoNETSON. — Sable, a bend argent between two fleurs-de-lis or. (Pen7i MS.) JoRDANE. — Gules, a fesse between three lion’s heads erased argent, collared or. {Penn MS.) .Jordan, alias ]erdon. — Gules, a fret or. — In the margin, “three cressants sable on the frett.” {Penn MS.\ . “ Whether any of this family be now living in this Countie, (says Penn,) I am not certaine. They beare a mullett for dilference.” ^ Joy. — Gules, on a bend engrailed argent, three roses of the field. {Penn MS.) JuYCE, of Worcester. — Gules, three laurel leaves slipped argent, in the fesse point a crescent or. {Penn MS.) “ This crescent,” says Penn, “ may be taken for a difference, they descending from the W^'orthie family of Juyse, Lords of Pringuest (Prendergast) in Wales ; but there’s not any of this name to be found of any note in this Citty nor County.” The Rev. Samuel Juice, rector of Birtsmorton, disclaimed at the Visitation of 1682-3. The arms of Joyce of Prendergast, are usually blazoned three nettle leaves. Cockett quarters in the Hark MS. 1566, Argent, a chevron between three leaves gules, for Joyce. % “Tire genealogy of the anti ent family of Jones, heretofore of Grismund, CO. Monmouth, and now of Chasleton, in the County of Oxford, continued down to this present year 1728. Sett forth by Edward Stibbs, Chester.” THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 323 Keelinge, or Kelynge. William Kelynge, “ of the county of Worcester,” was father, by Margery Ingelthorpe, his wife, of three sons, John, William, and Richard. The eldest son, John, married Alice, daughter of Gregory Waterhouse of Halifax, and had issue (with three daugh- ters) a son Sir John Keelinge, knt., of Southill Beds, knighted January 21st, 1661-2, appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench in 1665, died 1671. — Argent, three scaling-ladders in bend gules. Crest : A lion sejant or, supporting a scaling-ladder gules. {Harl. MS.^ 1487). Keelinge. See Fletcher. Kendall, of Stourbridge, and of Austrey, co. Warwiek ; claiming descent from the Kendalls of Twycross, co. Leicester. — Gules, a fesse cheeky or and azure between three eagles displayed of the second. Crest : An eagle displayed (sometimes double-headed) or. These arms (which were granted in the 31st of Henry VI. to John Kendall, of Twycross), occur, impaling Cotton, on the tomb of Edward Kendall, in Oldswinford Churchyard. He was born in 1684, and married, in 1712, Anna, daughter of William Cotton, by whom he was father of : Jonathan Kendall, of Stourbridge, who died s.p.; Henry, from whom the Kendalls of Austrey are descended; and George, whose son, Edward Jonathan Kendall, of London, haberdasher, living in 1791, married Frances Lucy, daughter of . . . Gill, of Stourbridge, by Anne, only child of William Pike, of the same place. Kendrick, of Suckley. — Argent, five pallets sable., {Dr. Prattintoni) K ENRiCK, of Stock-and-Bradley, and of SiUton, co. Northamp- ton . — Ermine, a lion rampant sable. Crest : On a bundle 41—2 324 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. of arrows lying fesseways or, feathered and headed ar- gent, bound sable, a hawk close of the second, beaked and belled of the first. (Baker’s Northamptonshire^ i., 694. Kettleby, of Cotheridge. — Azure, a saltire ragul6e between four martlets argent. (Penn. MS.) Dr. Thomas in his Survey of the Cathedral, blazons among the arms of those who subscribed towards the erection of the organ gallery, in 1614, the following arms — Quarterly ist and 4th, Argent, two chevrons engrailed sable ; 2nd and 3rd Sable, a saltire ragulee between four martlets argent. He does not appropriate these arms, but the Kettlebys of Steple, co. Salop, bore Argent, two chevrons sable, a label of three point gules {Add. MS., 14,314). These quartered arms were therefore probably set up for some benefactor named Kettleby. Keyle, or Kelly. See Prynne. Keynes, of Milton Keynes, co. Bucks; as quartered by Staf- ford, in right of the marriage of Sir Philip de Aylesbury (ancestor of Eleanor, wife of Sir Humphrey Stafford, of Grafton) with Margaret, daughter and heiress of Robert de Keynes. — Vaire, two bars gules. (Baker’s Northamp- tonshire). See Palgrave. Keyte, of Bishampton ; and of Ebrington, co. Gloucester. William Keyte of Bishampton, and of Ebrington (at which latter place. Rudder says, the family had been seated for three hundred years), was High Sheriff of this county in the 19th of James I. He died in 1632, aged 78, and was succeeded by his son John Keyte, who was Hiofh Sheriff of Worcestershire, in the loth of Charles I., and of Gloucestershire in 1651. His son John was created a baronet in 1660, which title became extinct on the death of the fifth baronet in 1784. The pedigree THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 325 was recorded at the Visitation of this county in 1634. — Azure, on a chevron, between three kite’s heads erased or, as many trefoils slipped gules. Crest : A kite’s head erased or. (C. 30, ColL Arm., fo. 99.) See Ashwin. The Keyte family appear to have generally borne the chevron un- charged. It is so given by Penn, and occurs thus on the monument, at Ebrington, of the above-named William Keyte, who died in 1632. Kidwally. — Argent, a fesse dancettee gules. (A^.) This is a mistake ; it is the coat of Chedle of Cheadle, co. Ches- ter, and occurs among the Bulkeley quarterings on the Sandys monu- ment at Wickamford. A family named Kidwally bore a similar coat with the field or. Kighley, Keighley, or Keightley, of South Littleton; an ancient family which came from Yorkshire and Lanca- shire, and settled at South Littleton about the commence- ment of the sixteenth century.^ The family pedigree was recorded at the two Visitations of 1569 and 1634. — Argent, on a fesse sable a mullet of the field. Crest : A dragon’s head couped vert (sometimes sable) with three tongues gules, charged with a mullet or. {D. 12, and C, 30, Coll. Arm., ff. 26 and 36b; Harl, MSS., 615 and 1566, &c.) The following entries in the registers at South Littleton, relating to this family, have been kindly communicated by the Rev. T. P. Wadley. 5th Ed- ward VI., April 6th, “Born and christened, Judyth, d. of Mr. Rye. Kytley, freeholder of thys parryssh.’^ ist, Mary, Aug. 17 th, “Born and ch**®**- Eliz***-, da. of Mr. Rychard Kytley, freholder.” — 1565, May 27th, “ Ch'^- Joyes da. of Bartholomewe Kighley.” At the same church were also baptised Philip, Anne, Thomas, William, Francis, and Frances, children of Bartholomew Kighley ; and in 1603-4 was baptised “ Philip, da. of Sir Philip Kighley, knt., and the ladie Elizabeth.” John “ Keighley,” of South Littleton, married, January 9th, 1604-5, “Mrs. Elizabeth Sheldon she was [the eldest daughter •’nd coheiress of Thomas Sheldon of Broadway. (Sheldon “ Keightley” was •aptised at Middle Littleton in 1669.) 326 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Nash mentions under Alvechurch (vol. i., p. 26), a family named Highley, who, he says, entered their arms at the Visitation made by Dethick in 1583. The arms were as above, and the crest A lion’s head sable ; but Dethick visited in 1683, and no family named either Highley or Kighley of Alvechurch then entered a pedigree. Kilrington. — Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised with a fesse or, thereon three crosses formee fi tehee sable. (iV.) An impalement of Vere in Tardebigge church, John de Vere, father of the 15 th Earl of Oxford, having married Alice, daughter' of Walter Kilrington, a/ias Colebrooke. Kinsworth. — Argent, a chevron wavy gules between three greyhounds passant sable collared or. {Penn MS.) Kirbie. — Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the last, a cross patonce of the first. {Penn MS) Kirkby. — Azure, six lions rampant argent, on a canton or, a mullet gules. {N.) A quartering of Walsh, which see. Kirkham, of Blackdown, co. Devo 7 i ; as quartered by Blount, in right of the marriage of Sir George Blount, the second baronet, with Mary, daughter and heiress of Richard Kirkham of Blackdown. — Argent, three lions rampant gules within a bordure engrailed sable. {See Nash, ii., 158-) Knight, of Beoley, afterwards of Barretts, co. Warwick. — Ar- gent, three bendlets gules, on a canton azure, a spur or. {Visitatio}i of CO. Warwick, 2!". 1682.) Knight. — Sable, a cross gules between four maiden’s heads proper. (^V.) “Iwryte heerc,” says Habingdon, in describing this coat, ‘'as I fynd THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 327 as it is, not ever as it should bee.” The arms occur on the surcoat of one Sir Richard Knight in a window of Great Malvern church. (See Harl. MS. 2205.) Knight. — Argent, on a canton gules a spear in bend or. (Wm. MS.) Knight. — Argent, on a canton gules a spur with leathers, rowells downwards or, within a bordure engrailed sable. (Penn MS.) Knight, of Stoke Prior ; ... as borne by Stephen Knight, esq. — ... three bars ... on a canton, a spur. Crest : An eagle’s head between two wings ... in the beak a spur. These bearings were exhibited (without colours) at the Visitation of 1682-3, but disallowed. (See K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 50. X NIGHT, of Daylesford, and of Sotithmead, co. Gloiicester ; as borne by Jacob Knight, who purchased the Daylesford estate from Samuel Hastings in 1715. The family is now represented by the Webbs of “ The Berrow,” near Led- bury. (See that name.) — Argent, three pallets gules, on a canton of the last a spur of the first. (M.I, in Westbicry Chiu^ch, G loicces ter shir ei) . Knight, of Wolverley, a 7 id of Simonsbath^ co. Devon. This family is descended from Richard Knight, of Castle Green, Madeley, Salop, (the son of John Knight, of Little Stretton, in the same county, and a presumed descendant of the ancient family of Knight of Shrewsbury), who ac- quired a fortune in the iron trade during the Common- wealth. His son Richard settled at Downton, in the county of Hereford, and was ancestor of the Knights of Downton Castle, and Henley Hall, and of the present THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. 328 Frederick Winn Knight, of Wolverley, M.P. for West Worcestershire, who is son of the late John Knight, of Lea Castle, Wolverley, by the Hon. Jane Elizabeth Winn, his wife, daughter of Lord Headley. Edward Knight, junior, of Wolverley, was High Sheriff of this county in 1769, Edward Knight in 1804, John Knight, of Lea Castle, in 1814. — Argent, three pallets gules within a bor- dure engrailed azure, on a canton of the second, a spur or. Crest : On a spur lying fesse-ways or, an eagle per fesse argent and azure, wings expanded of the first, beaked and legged gules. {From the MS. of the late Joseph Morris, of Shrewsbtcryi) The descent of this family from the Knights of Shrewsbury, &c., not being actually proved, the authorities assigned a somewhat diffe- rent coat to Mr. A. J. Rouse-Boughton (son of Sir W. E. Rouse- Boughton, bart., by Charlotte, daughter and co-heiress of the late Thomas Andrew Knight, of Downton Castle) on his assuming, by royal license in 1857, the additional surname of Knight, in compli- ance with the will of the said T. A. Knight ; viz., Argent, three pallets gules within a bordure engrailed azure, on a chief of the last three spurs or. Crest : On a spur lying fesse-ways or, an eagle wings ex- panded proper, supporting in the beak a spear erect gold, resting on the spur. Knightley.* — Quarterly, ermine, and paly of six or and gules. {Wm. MS.; and Penn MS.) This is the coat of the ancient and distinguished family of Knight- ley, of Fawsley, co. Northampton, who possessed for some time the manor and advowson of Oldberrow. Thomas Knightley, of Burg- hall, CO. Stafford, (son of Sir Valentine Knightley, of Fawsley) pre- sented to the church in 1 6 1 5 ; his second son, Samuel, was of Beau- * A family of Knightley, descended from George Knightley, of Trimpley, CO. Worcester, appeared at the Visitation of London in 1633-4, and entered a pedigree of four descents, but exhibited no arms. {See Harl. MS., 1476, fo. 272.) THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CESTERSH/RE, 329 champ s Courts Porrick, and recorded his descent and arms at the Visitation of 1634, the latter being as above within a bordure azure. Samuel Knightley married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Pleydell, and widow of Sir William Lygon, knt., but had no issue by her. The advowson of Oldberrow afterwards came to Thomas Foley, of Stoke Edith, co. Hereford, who married Anne, the daugh- ter and heiress of Essex Knightley. Knightley. — Or, two pallets gules. (A^.) This coat occurs on the tomb of John Knotsford, at Great Mal- vern ; and also on that of William Savage, at Elmley, who married Anne, one of Knotsford’s daughters and co-heiresses. This John Knotsford married Jane, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Knightley, of Upton, in Northamptonshiref (of the Fawsley family), and died in 1589, having had issue by her five daughters. Knighton. — Vert, two lions rampant in fesse or. (Penn MS.) Knotforth, of Worcestershire. — Argent, four fusils in fesse sable. (Berry.) This coat was borne by a family of Knottesford, of Studley, co. Warwick. (See the Harl. MS., 6060.) Knotsford, of Great Malvern ; as borne by John Knotsford, Serjeant-at-law, High Sheriff in the ist of Elizabeth. — Sable, on a cross engrailed argent an annulet of the field. (W.) This coat occurs on John Knotsford’s tomb at Great Malvern, im- paling Knightley (see Knightley). There was a family of this name seated at Holdfast, in Ripple, at the Visitation of 1634, when the pedigree, without arms, was entered. Of this family was John Knotsford, of Holdfast, gent., who paid a fine for exoneration from knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. Knoville, or Knowell. — Argent, three mullets gules. ^ Mr. Foley sold the advowson of Oldberrow in 1705 to William Holyoake, jun., from whose family it was purchased in 1761, by the Rev. John Pearsall (otherwise “Sir John Peshall, bart”), of Guildford, Surrey. t According to an old pedigree in Howard’s Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. ii., p. 278, John Knotsford impaled for Knightley the quarterly * coat within a bordure azure described in the preceding memoir. 42 330 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. This coat was quartered by Russell and Winter (through Hoding- ton) in right of descent from the marriage of Sir Baldwin Hodington (son of Sir Richard Hodington, by Lucy, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Cromeley) with Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir John Knoville, or KnowelL {Harl. MS.^ io43-) Kyrle, of Much March, co. Hereford. — Vert, a chevron be- tween three fleurs-de-lis or. (N.; and Penn MS.) The coat of Thomas Kyrle, of Much Marcle, who married Frances, one of the five daughters and co-heiresses of John Knots- ford, of Malvern. It occurs in Great Malvern church, impaling Knotsford. ‘‘ Mr. Kyrle ” occurs in Penn’s list of those who were to find horse in Worcestershire during the civil wars. Lacon. — Quarterly per fesse indented azure and ermine, in the first quarter a hawk belled, &c., argent. (A^.) Impaled in Sutton chapel, near Tenbury, by Thomas Acton, of Sutton, in right of Mary, his wife, the daughter of Sir Thomas Lacon, of Wylley, co. Salop, knt. By her he had issue an only child, Joice, married to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, co. Warwick, knt. (See Nash, ii., pp. 419-20.) Lacy. — Or, a fesse gules. (JV.) One of the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley. Roger de Laci (son of Walter de Laci, one of the companions of the Conqueror) held four manors in this county, U?np. Domesday. He was in arms for Robert Duke of Normandy against William Rufus, for which offence he was banished and his estates given to his brother Hugh. In the Charles roll Adam de Laci bears. Or a fesse gules, in chief three martlets of the last; and Sir John de Laci, of Herefordshire, bears the same in the roll of temp. Edward H. The Earls of Lincoln, who were descended from Ilbert de Laci (by some said to have been a brother of the above Walter) bore for arms. Or, a lion rampant purpure. (See the Caerlaveroc roll.) Lacy. See Hobday. Lambert, of Great Malvern ; as borne by the late Sir Henry Edward Francis Lambert, bart. (heir presumptive to the Malvern estates of Lady Emily Foley), the son of Sir THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 331 Henry John Lambert, fifth baronet, by Anna Maria, youngest daughter of the Hon. Edward Foley, and great- great-grandson of John Lambert,''' an opulent London merchant, who was created a baronet in 1 7 1 1 as a reward for his exertions to uphold the public credit. Sir Henry married Eliza Catherine, daughter of Lionel Charles Hervey, and dying in 1872, was succeeded by his son, Henry Foley Lambert, born in 1861, the present and seventh baronet. — Argent, on a mount an oak-tree vert, and a greyhound passant gules. Crest : In a ducal coronet or, three ostrich feathers argent. Motto : “ Se- quitando si giunge.” {Betham and Burke)) Lane, of Moundsley Hall, Kingsnorton ; as borne by Thomas Lane of that place, a magistrate for the county of Wor- cester. — Per pale azure and gules, three saltires couped or. Crest : Two eagle’s heads addorsed, the one gules, the other azure, issuing out of a crescent or. {Communi- cated by the family)) Lane, of Tenbtiry. — Sable, a chevron between three arrows. Crest : An arm holding a battle axe. These arms, which were borne, according to the Harl. MSS., 1563, and 6060, by Nicholas Lane, of Stratford-on-Avon, occur with the above crest upon a token issued in the 17 th century by Edmund Lane, of Tenbury, who died in 1717, aged 81. (fe his M.I. at Tenbury.) Langford. — Paly of six or and gules, (corrected to azure) a bend argent. {Penn MS.) George Langford, alias Oliver, disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1634. This gentleman was of French extraction, _^but the family is said to have come originally from Devonshire. 42 2 332 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, Langley. — Argent, a cockatrice sable beaked, &c., gules. {IV.) One of the Leighton quarterings in Kingsnorton church. {Dr. Prattinton.) Langstone, of Sedgeberrow and Malvern ; recorded at the Visitation of 1634. — The pedigree commences with . . . . Langstone, of Sedgeberrow, who had two sons, Nicholas and Henry, both of Sedgeberrow. The former married Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of George Daston, by whom he had two daughters, Eleanor and Jane, his co- heiresses, married respectively to William Tanner and James Bridgman. The latter married Anne Daston, sister of Eleanor, and had four sons, Erancis, William, Arthur, and Henry ; and three daughters, Elizabeth, Anne, and Judith. — Or, a chevron gules between two roses of the last in chief, and a dolphin embowed in base azure. (C 30, Coll. Arm.y/o. 59; a 7 id Har I . MS.^ 1566.) Nicholas Langstone, and William, his son and heir, were fined ^£’15 for declining knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. Wil- liam Langstone occurs in Penn’s list of those who were to find horse \ and William Langstone, of St. Clement Danes, co. Middlesex, who possessed an estate at Sedgeberrow worth los. per annum, was one of those who refused to take the oath of allegiance to George I. Henry Langstone presented to the church of Sedgeberrow in 1551, and Anthony Langstone in 1605. Langston. — Azure, three fleurs-de-lis in pale between two pallets engrailed or. {Pe^tn MS.) Langton. — Argent, three chevrons gules. (W.) L’Arciideacon. — Argent, three chevrons sable. (W.) Quartered by Mortimer in All Saints’ church, Worcester, and by Carew at Littleton. The Archdeacons, or Archdecknes, were lords of Cotheridge. Elizabeth, sister and co-heiress of John Talbot, of Richard’s Castle, marrying wfith Sir Warine L’Archdeckne, of Lan- THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 333 herne, in Cornwall, transferred the barony, and along with it Cothe- ridge, to that family. Sir Warine had issue three daughters, his co- heiresses : Eleanor married to Walter de Lucy ; Philippa, wife of Hugh Courtenay (by whom she had a daughter, Joan, married first to Sir Nicholas Carew, and afterwards to Sir Robert de Vere) ; and Margaret, married to Thomas Arundel. {See Nash, i., 358 ; and Courthope and Burke’s Peerages.') Laslett, of Abberton Hall^ near Pershore ; as borne by William Laslett, Barrister-at-law, M.P. for the city of Worcester and lord of the manor of Abberton. — Argent, on a fesse sable three buckles or. Crest : A demi-lion rampant sable charged with five bezants. Motto : “ Finem respice.” {Communicated by the family i) Latham. — Or, on a chief indented azure three plates. (W) Nash gives this under Lutham. It is the coat of Latham, of La- tham, CO. Lancaster, and occurs among the Stanley quarterings on GeorgeLyttelton’s monument at Bromsgrove. Latham, of Hartley. — Or, on a chief dancettee azure three plates or bezants. {Penn MS.) Latimer. — Gules, a cross fleurettee or. (W.) One of the quarterings of Willoughby at Welland. The same coat was formerly in a window of the chapel at Hartlebury Castle. {See Nash,i., 572.) Latimer, Bishop of Woreester, 1535-1539. — Gules, a cross patonce or, over all a bend azure, semee de lis of the second. {Bedford.) Lawrence. — Ermine, a cross ragulee gules, a canton ermines. {Penn MS.) Probably intended by Penn for the coat of Giles Lawrence, who occurs in his list of those who “ were to find horse.” A Giles Lawrence, of Bengeworth, paid ^16 13s. 4d. as a composition for his estate to the Parliamentary Commissioners, te 77 tp. Cromwell ; and “ Mr. Gyles Lawrence” was a freeholder at Holy Cross, Pershore, in 1703. The name of Lawrence also occurs in a list of the gentle 334 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. families of Worcestershire, a® 1660, in the Add. MS. 19,816. The arms are precisely the same as those granted in 1652 to Sir John Lawrence,'^ Lord Mayor of London in 1665. Lea, of Halesowen Grange. William Lea, of Lea Green, in the parish of Kingsnorton, and of Halesowen Grange jure uxoris, married Joice, daughter and heiress of John Ive, of Kingsnorton (who acquired the Grange estate in 1556) and died in 1612, leaving issue (with others) a son, John Lea, of the Grange, who married Anne, sister of George Tibbots, and dying in 1657, left issue (with daughters) three sons, William, John, and Thomas. The eldest son, William Lea, of Halesowen Grange, was High Sheriff of this county in the 8th of William HI. He died unmarried on the 24th of June, 1702, and was succeeded by his nephew, William Lea, born in 1677, (the only son of the above John Lea, by Mary, his wife, daughter of William Deeley, of Warley-Wigorn), who married, in 1709, Frances, only daughter of the Hon. William Ward, and sister and, in her issue, sole heiress of Edward and William, successively Barons Dudley and Ward. By this lady Mr. Lea had issue two sons, Ferdi- nando Dudley Lea, born in 1710 (of whom presently), and William Lea, born in 1722, who died unmarried on the 22nd of January, 1 741-2. He had also five daughters, who became co-heiresses to their brother, viz, Anne, born in 1714, married in 1737, to William Smith, of Stoke Prior; Frances, born in 1717, married to Walter Woodcock, t and had issue ; Mary, married to Joseph * Sir John Lawrence was of Flemish descent, yet the Heralds granted him the ragulee cross of the English Lawrences differenced only by a canton. t Mr. Woodcock, who was a magistrate for the county of Salop, died in 1794, leaving issue two sons, Walter and Ferdinando, who both died issueless, THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 335 Harvey. M.D., of Stourbridge, and died s.p. ; Catherine, born in 1726, married to Thomas Jordan, jun., of Birming- ham, and died s.p. ; and Elizabeth, born in 1728, married in 1759, to the Rev. Benjamin Briscoe. (See that name.) The only surviving son, Ferdinando Dudley Lea, suc- ceeded his maternal uncle on the 20th of May, 1740, as Baron Dudley, and took his seat in the Upper House on the 26th of November following. Lord Dudley died un- married at the Grange on the 21st of October, 1757, when the ancient barony of Dudley fell into abeyance among his sisters, and his estates passed, under his will, to his nephew, Ferdinando Smith, grandfather of the present Ferdinando Dudley Lea-Smith, of Halesowen Grange, who is thus senior co-heir to the abeyant barony. — Argent, on a pale between two leopard’s faces sable, three cres- cents or. Crest : A unicorn argent guttee de poix gorged with a double tressure flory and counter-dory gules. Sup- porters, (granted to Ferdinando, Lord Dudley, on the 19th of November, 1740) : On either side a lion double queuee vert, armed and langued gules, gorged with a ducal coronet, thereto a cordon passing between the fore- and six daughters, his co-heiresses, to some of whose descendants, says Sir Bernard Burke, “Dame Fortune has been most chary in the distribution of her favours.” One of them married Benjamin Smart, whose only child, Joseph, was a butcher at Halesowen. Another married William Wilmot, who, though the son of a clergyman (the Rev. Charles Wilmot, M. A., rector of Oddingley), and a member of a family which recorded its descent at the Visitation of 1682-3, appears to have fallen into poverty : for one of his sons kept a turnpike gate near Dudley, “ almost under the very walls,” as Mr. Long observes {Royal Descents)^ “ of those feudal towers that gave name to the barony of which he was a co-heir.” A memoir of the Barony of Dudley, and an account of its co-heirs from the pen of the present writer, will be found in the Herald and Genealogist^ vol. v. 336 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. legs and reflexed over the back or. . Mottoes ; “ Con- tentus panels ” and “In seipso totus teres.” See Smith. These arms and crest were borne by William Lea, when High Sheriff of Worcestershire in the reign of William III. ; but not being “ properly recorded with his pedigree in the College of Arms,” they were confirmed by John Anstis, Garter^ and Knox Ward, Clarencieux., to his nephew, William Lea, by grant dated November the 12th, 1 740. The original grant, and also the grant of supporters to Lord Dudley, are in the possession of F. D. Lea-Smith, esq. Lea, of The Hill, near Stourbridge ; as borne by J oseph Lea, High Sheriff in 1816, the son of William Lea. He mar- ried Lydia, daughter of Wade Browne, of Monkton Far- leigh, CO. Wilts., and by her (who married secondly John Addenbrooke-Addenbrooke, of Wollaston Hall) had issue an only child, Lydia, married to Col. Philip Wode- house, nephew of John, first Lord Wodehouse. — Quarterly ist and 4th, Sable, a lion rampant argent; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, a chevron between three escallops or. Crest : A lion rampant argent. (Seal.) These arms are now borne by the Rev. William Lea, of St. Peter’s, Droitwich, and by his brothers, the Rev. Josiah Turner Lea, of the Far Forest, Bewdley, and John Wildman Thomas Lea, of Netherton House, Bewdley, sons of the late William Lea, of Areley House (younger brother of the above Joseph), by Eliza Frances, his wife, daughter of Jacob Turner, of Park Hall, near Kidderminster. Lea, of Astley Hall ; as borne by Thomas Simcox Lea, of Astley, High Sheriff of the county in 1845, the son of John Lea, of Kidderminster, by Anne, daughter of Thomas Simcox, of West Bromwich, co. Stafford, and grandson of Francis Lea, also of Kidderminster, by Hannah, daughter of John Broom, which Francis Lea was the great grandson of Stephen Lea, of Kidder- minster, clothier, living in 1686. — Ermine, a fesse dan- cett^e vert, flory and counter-dory or, between in chief THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. 337 two lions passant sable and in base a stag lodged proper . collared and chain reflexed over the back of the third. Crest : A beaver proper, semee-de-lis or, holding in the mouth a branch of willow also proper. Motto : “ Spe vitae melioris.” (Burke’s Landed Gentry, and Heraldic Illnstrations.) Le BoYsf as borne by William le Boys, de Bois, or Attwood, abbot of Evesham, who died June 13, 1367. — Gules, a lion rampant double queuee argent, on the head an abbot’s mitre or.j' This coat occurs in glass at Church Honeyborne . — See Nash, i., 199. Leche. — Ermine, on a chief indented gules three ducal coro- nets or. {Ni) This coat is given in Nash’s List under Leneh. It is one of the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley. Le Dispenser, Lords of Hanley Castle, 8ic . — Quarterly argent and gules, in the second and third quarters a fret or, over all a bendlet sable. See Spencer. Lechmere of Hanley Castle, and Rhydd Court, Upton-ott- Severn ; a family (says Mr. Shirley) of great antiquity, said to have migrated from the Low Countries, and to have received a grant of land, called ‘ Lechmere’s Field,’ in Hanley, from William the Conqueror. The first in the pedigree is Reginald de Lechm’e de Hanlee, mentioned in a deed without date. He was father of Adam de Lech- mere, who married Isabella, and was the ancestor of this venerable house, whose ancient seat at Severn-End, in Hanley, with the exception of a period of thirty years, has ever since remained in the family.” The Lechmeres 43 338 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. recorded their descent at the Visitation of 1634, but did not appear in 1682-3. An eminent member of this family was Nicholas Lechmere, second son of Edmund Lechmere, of Hanley, who having filled the offices of solicitor and attorney-general, was elevated to the peer- age in the dignity of Baron Lechmere, of Evesham, by letters patent, dated the 4th of September, ^721; but dying without issue in 1727, the title became extinct. His elder brother, Anthony, M.P., was father of Edmund Lechmere, M . P., H igh Sheriff in 1 73 3, who by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Blundel Charlton, bart., was ancestor of the Lechmere-Charltons, of Ludford; and by his second, Elizabeth Whitmore, was father of Anthony Lechmere, who was created a baronet in 1818. Sir Anthony married Mary, daughter and heiress of Joseph Berwick, of Hallow Park, and had issue an eldest son. Sir Edmund Hungerford Lechmere, bart., High Sheriff in 1852, father of Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lech- mere, the present and third baronet. — Quarterly, ist Gules, a fesse or, in chief two pelicans of the last vulning themselves proper, for Lechmere; 2nd, Vert, fretty or, for W hitmore^ of Hanley ; 3rd, Argent, a chevron en- grailed between three chess-rooks sable, for 4th, Argent, three bear s heads erased sable muzzled or, for Berwick. Crest : A pelican azure, vulning proper. Mottoes : “ Christus pelicano,” and “ Ducit amor patriae.’’ {C. 30, Coll. Arm.^ fo. 79; Penn MS.; Shirley; and Nashy i., 560.) Ledsam, of Northfield ; as borne by Joseph Frederick Led- sam, High Sheriff in 1849. “The family of Ledsam THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 339 (says Burke) is of considerable antiquity in the counties of Chester and Flint. A branch became established in the sister island at Cloghjordan, co. Tipperary, and from it sprang the Ledsams of Birmingham, of whom Mr. J. F. Ledsam is a member.” — Quarterly sable and argent, four leopard’s faces counterchanged. Crest : A Cornish chough proper. Motto: “Fac et spera.” (Burke’s Landed Gentry.') Lee, of Worcester and London ; as borne by Sir Richard Lee, knt, Lord Mayor of London in 1460, the son of Simon Lee, of Worcester. — Azure, on a fesse cottised or three leopard’s faces gules. {Stowe, and Heylin^j Robert Berkeley, of Spetchley, married, in 1792, Appolonia, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Lee, of Clytha, co. Monmouth, who claimed descent from this family, and bore the above arms. Leighton, ^ Feckenha 7 n. “ The manor of Feckenham (says Nash) was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Thomas Leighton, knt., who married her kinswoman,^ Mrs. Elizabeth Knolles, in which family it continued only two descents.” In the 5th of Charles I. Edward Leigh- ton was lord of Feckenham and H anbury. It appears from one of the pedigrees produced in evidence at the Shrewsbury peerage claim, that Sherington Talbot, of Salwarpe, married for his first wife “ Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Leighton, of Fecknam, in com. Worces- ter, knt, governour of Guernsey, and of Anne his wife, daughter of Sir Francis Knowles, k*^ of y® Garter, &c., and sister to William, Earle of Banbury.” But it is stated in Betham’s Baronetage that Sir Thomas Leighton * Her mother was Catherine, daughter of William Carey, by Mary his wife, sister of Queen Anne Boleyn. 43-2 340 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. (who was knighted in 1 5 79) had issue by the daughter of Sir Francis Knolles, a son, Thomas Leighton, who married Mary,^' daughter and co-heiress of Edward Lord Zouche, of Harringworth, by whom he had two daughters, his co-heiresses, Elizabeth, married to Sherington Talbot, and Anne, wife of Sir John St. John. (See also Court- hope's Historic Peeragei) Sir Thomas was a younger son of John Leighton, of Wattlesborough, co. Salop. — Quarterly per fesse indented or and gules. Crest : A wyvern with wings expanded sable. {N as i., 440, 548 ; and Betham^ iii., 98.) The same arms are upon the monument at Kingsnorton, of Sir Richard Greves, of Moseley, knt. (ob. 1632), whose wife, Anne, was the daughter of Thomas Leighton, of Wattlesborough. Lench, of Lenchy Doverdale, and Wich. This ancient family, whose descent was recorded at the Visitations of 1533 and 1634, flourished, says Nash, “in many parts of the county, and chiefly in Lench-Randolf, or Rous- Lench. They continued in Doverdale till Habingdon’s time, if not in elevated, yet in competent circumstances. It appears that the family continued at Doverdale long after Habingdon's time, for there is an inscription in the church to George Lench, gent.,J who died in 1704, aged forty-seven ; and the name of George Lench appears in * From Elizabeth, the elder sister of Mary Leighton, the present Baroness Zouche, of Harringworth, is descended. + John Lench, of Shelve, in Doverdale, married Penelope, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Acton, of Elmley Lovett, knt, by which match the family estate was considerably increased. X Henry Bromley, of Upton-on-Severn, married Elizabeth daughter and heiress of George Lench, of Dover Court, and had a son William, born in 1685. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 341 the Freeholders Book for 1703-4, under Doverdale. Randulph de Lench was Sheriff of Worcestershire from the 17th to the 21st of Henry II. ; and in the 13th of Edward L, Randulph de Lench held half a knight’s fee in Hob- Lench. John Lench, of Doverdale, suffered death in the reign of Edward IV. for the part he took in support of Henry VI. His lands were forfeited, but afterwards restored to John, his son, by Henry VI I., in the fourth year of his reign. The pedigree (of the Wich family) recorded in 1634, commences with John Lench, of Wich, who married Jane, daughter and heiress of William Beaufo, of co. Rutland, by whom he had a son, William, who by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Ralph Sheldon, of Beoley, had (with daughters) six sons, the eldest of whom, Ralph, married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fynch, and had a daughter Anne. The other sons were John, William, Peter, Philip, and Thomas. — Quarterly ist and 4th, Argent, two bars engrailed azure each charged with three cinquefoils or, for Lench ; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, on a chevron azure three crosses pattee or, for Beaufo. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 64 ; Peiin MS. ; Harl. MS., 1566; and Nash.) Nash attributes to Randulph de Lench, Sheriff feniL. Henry IT., Sable two bars engrailed argent, being the coat now borne by Rouse, of which family it is not improbable he was the paternal ancestor. Lenthall. — Argent, on a bend cottised sable three mullets pierced or. (W.) An impalement of Russell in Strensham church. Leveson. — Azure, a fesse wavy between three oak leaves slipped or. (Penn MS.) 342 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Leveson. — Azure, a fesse between three oak leaves slipped argent. {Penn MS.) Leveson. — Azure, a fesse per fesse nebulee or and sable, be- tween three laurel leaves of the second. {N.) This coat occurs on one of the Sheldon monuments at Beoley, for Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, of Lilleshall, co. Stafford, and wife of William, second son of William Sheldon, of Beoley. Lewes. — Cheeky argent and gules, on a fesse vert three leopard’s faces of the first. {Penn MS.) Le WESTON, of Iccomb.— Gules, three halberts, two and one, argent. (A^.) See Poxwell. Lewknor, of Hadzor ; a famous old Sussex family, derived from Sir Roger Lewknor, living temp. Edward IV., and Eleanor his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Lord Camoys. Nicholas, son of Thomas Lewknor,^ by Benet Challoner his first wife, and great-grandson of the above Sir Roger, purchased Hadzor from the Pakingtons, and recorded his descent at the Visitation of 1569. He appears to have died unmarried, leaving a sister and heiress, Jane, married to Anthony Sheldon, of Broadway, by which family the arms of Lewknor were quartered at the Visitation of 1634. — Azure, three chevrons argent; * In the parish register of South Littleton is the following entry : “ i. Philip, Nov’'. 22. Lie. Thom’s. Lewkenor, gentylma’., of the parish of Al- churche, and Jane Coomes, wyddow, gentylwoma’., of the parish of Brodwey. Bawdon Sheldon was her fyrst husbande dwellyng in Brodwey ; after hym John a Coomes of Stredford” (Stratford-upon-Avon). This lady was the daughter of John Wheeler. Nash, in his pedigree of Sheldon, calls her Anne. By Baldwin Sheldon, she was mother of the above Anthony Sheldon, who married Jane, the daughter of her third husband by his first wife. An- thony Sheldon’s sister, Ursula, married Hugh James, of Astley, whose mother Joan, was a daughter of John a Coomes. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 343 quartering Bardolf, Camoys, and others. Crests : A greyhound courant argent collared or ; and A unicorn’s head erased azure bezantee, horned and maned or. (D. 12, Coll. Arm., fo. 40 ; Penn MS. ; and Berry’s Sussex Pedigrees, pp. 130, 343.) The Forsters of Wich quartered Lewknor in right of the mar- riage of Thomas Forster with Constance Lewknor, of Trotton, grand-daughter of Sir Roger Lewknor and the co-heiress of Camoys. See Forster. Leybock. — Argent, six lions rampant gules. {N.) One of the Willoughby quarterings at Welland, but attributed to Ytyborfie by Nash, vol. ii., p. 455. It is perhaps intended for Cheney, who bore Azure, six lions rampant argent. See Feyce. Leyborn. — Gules, six lions rampant argent. {N.) This coat occurs among the Blount quarterings at Mamble {see Nash, ii., 160), but Bigland says it is the coat of St Helena, which the Blounts of Sodington are not entitled to quarter. {See Blount.) Leycester, of Co f ton Hackett. — Azure, a fesse argent be- tween three fleurs-de-lis or, all within a bordure of the second, a crescent for difference. Crest : A unicorn’s head couped argent, horned or. (Prattinton MSS. ; and Nash, i., 251.) In his List of Arms Nash gives. Argent, a fesse gules between three fleurs-de-lis or, which coat (but within a bordure argent) he describes as being on the tomb of William Leycester, lord of Cofton, who died in 1508. Leyte. — Or, three mullets in fesse between two bars sable. {Penn MS.) Lichfield. — Per chevron sable and argent, in chief three leopard’s faces or. (N.) Habingdon mentions this coat as being in one of the windows of All Saints’ church, Worcester. It is the same as that borne by the Swynfens, of Swynfen, co. Stafford. Roger Lichfield, of Worcester, 344 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. a/ias Roger Swynfen^' is noticed in Nichols’s Leicester s Mr e/xY.., 31 1 ; and in 1411, William Lichfield, cousin and heir of Adomar Taverner, occurs. 429.) 'Shdcw {History of StaffordsMre) men- tions a deed whereby William Lichfield, “ alias William Taverner, esq.,” grants certain lands to Thomas de Swynfen, which deed is sealed (he says) with the coat of Swynfen, but circumscribed ‘ Sig.’ Will.’ de Lichfield.’ ” The same coat was probably borne by Cle- ment Lichfield, the last Abbot but one of Evesham, who, according to the register of the parish of All Saints’, in that town, was buried on the 9th of October, 1546. Liddiat, or Lydeate, of Wollaston, and of Himley and Enville, co. Stafford. — The pedigree of this family was recorded at the Visitation of this county in 1634, and at the Staffordshire Visitation of 1664. John Liddiat, of Wollaston, was fined ^18 for declining knighthood at the coronation of Charles 1 . He was also one of those who were to find horse in Worcestershire during the civil wars ; his son John was of Enville in 1664, and then aged thirty-four. John Liddiat, of Wollaston, was the son of Hugh Liddiat, and grandson of John, whose younger brother, George, was father of Edward Lid- diat, of Himley, aged sixty-six, in 1664. John and George were the sons of Hugh Liddiat, and grandsons of Thomas Liddiat, of Himley. — Gules, a fesse erminois between three wolf’s heads couped or. Crest : A wolfs head erased, per pale erminois and gules. {C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 63b ; and Harl. MS., 6104, fo. 21b.) Lilly, of Bromsgrove, Stoke Prior, and London. — This family did not appear at any of the Visitations; but it appears, from a pedigree in the Harl. MS., 1566, that Lilly, of Bromsgrove, had two sons, Lilly, and Thomas Lilly (of whom presently). The former had issue (with a daughter, Margaret, married to Richard Bradley), three THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, 345 sons : — Gilbert, of London, merchant tailor, who had a daughter, Judith ; Reginald, of Bromsgrove, who, by- Margaret, his wife, daughter of Bradley, of Stour- bridge, had Gilbert, of Bromsgrove, Nicholas and Wil- liam, of Alvechurch, all married, and a daughter, Mar- garet, wife of Francis Knight ; and Thomas, of Worcester, who had three sons, Richard, of Worcester, Edmund, of London, and William. Thomas Lilly, of Bromsgrove, above named, had issue (with daughters) three sons : — John, who purchased lands in Warwickshire ; Richard ; and Thomas, of Stoke Prior. The latter was twice mar- ried : first, to Philippa, daughter of Thomas Marshall, and secondly, to Jane, daughter and co-heiress of Hem- ming, of the Vale of Evesham. By the latter he had issue a son, Edward, of London, who had a son, George; and by the former he had : — Richard, who died s.p , ; Thomas, who had a son, Henry ; George, of Wikin, who had a daughter, Sarah ; and John, of London, who married Mary, daughter of John Gabbett, and had two sons, John and Henry. The latter, (Henry,) was of London, pursuivant of arms ; he married Elizabeth, daughter of Flynt, of Eisherton, co. Wilts, and by her, who died September loth, 1635, had issue two chil- dren, Henry and Elizabeth. William Lilly, of Alve- church, above named, (son of Reginald Lilly, of Broms- grove), married Christian, daughter of Thompson, of Suffolk, and had issue, Reginald, Nicholas, Gilbert, and Margaret. The children (if any) of his brothers, Gilbert and Nicholas, are not given in the manuscript. — Ermine, a lion rampant azure ; also Gules, three lilies slipped argent. Crests : A swan’s head erased argent, 44 346 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. and, A heart gules, winged or, ensigned with a fleur-de-lis of the last. {Harl. MSS., 1450, 1566, 5814 ; and Pen 7 i MS.) Nicholas Lilly, of Bromsgrovc, gent., was fined 6s. 8d. for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. Lingen, of The Hurst, co. Salop, and of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. — Barry of six or and azure, on a bend gules three roses argent ; quartering (in the Harl. MS., 615), Argent, on a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis sable as many water-bougets or. Crest : In a ducal coronet or, a bundle of leeks, stems vert, heads argent. {Wm. MS.; and Harl. MSS., 615 and 6157.) Lisle. — Gules, a lion passant guardant argent crowned or. (A^.) One of the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley. Lloyd, as borne by William Lloyd, D.D., Bishop of Worces- ter, 1700-1717, the descendant of an ancient Welsh family, whose pedigree is carried back to Rhodri Mawr, king of all Wales, in the ninth century. Bishop Lloyd was the son of the Rev. Richard Lloyd, rector of Tile- hurst, CO. Berks, and grandson of Davyd Llywd, of Henblas, in Anglesea. On the 3rd of October, 1680, he was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph, and was one of the seven prelates committed to the Tower in 1688. He was afterwards translated to Lichfield, and thence to Worces- ter. He died, in 1717, aged 90, and was buried at Fladbury, where there is a handsome monument to his memory. His only son, William Lloyd, D.D., born October 20th, 1674, was chancellor to his father, and rector of Fladbury and Ripple ; he was married,^ first, to * Rudder, in his History of Gloucestershire (p. 827), states that Chancellor T.loyd had two daughters, his co-heiresses (Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Soley); and in THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 347 Elizabeth Poulden, by whom he had issue two daughters, Margaret, married to John Cox, of Clent, and Elizabeth, to John Soley, of Sandbourne. By his second wife, Jane Thompson, of Askrigg, co. York, Chancellor Lloyd had further issue, viz., a son, the Rev. John Lloyd, rector of Ryton, CO. Durham ; and a daughter, Mary, married to the Rev. Thomas Baker, rector of Bibury, in Gloucester- shire, younger brother of John Baker, of Waresley, in this county. The Rev. John Lloyd married Mary Lightfoot, and by her was father of an only daughter and heiress, Mary, who was married to her cousin, the Rev. William Lloyd-Baker, of Stout’s Hill, co. Gloucester (son of the above Thomas Baker), by whom she had issue an only son, Thomas John Lloyd-Baker, of Hardwicke Court, co. Gloucester, father of the present Thomas Barwick Lloyd- Baker, of that place. — Argent, a chevron between three crows sable, in each of their bills an ermine spot. (Bed- ford ; Nash, i, 449, &c.) Lloyd (quartered by Porter, at the Visitation of 1634). — Vert, a chevron between three wolfs heads erased argent. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 75.) Lloyd, of Great Malvern. — a lion passant guardant. . . . (Thoinas s Dttgdale.) Lochard (quartered by Conmgsby). — Sable, three loaches naiant in pale argent. (Harl. MS., 1507.) Longchamp, of Wilton, eo. Hereford ; as borne by Sir Henry the Gentlemail s Magazine, for November, 1826, p. 394, where there is a pedigree of Bishop Lloyd’s family, it is asserted that the Chancellor died with- out issue. The above memoir has been compiled from information kindly supplied by Mr. Lloyd Baker, of Hardwicke. ' 44—2 348 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Longchamp, of Wilton, who was appointed Sheriff of Worcestershire, for three years, in the 7 th of Richard I. — Vaire, two pallets or. {Nash) According to Dr. Strong, Henry de Longchamp, who was Sheriff of Herefordshire, in the 2nd and 5 th of Richard I., bore Or, three crescents gules each charged with a mullet argent ; and he is pro- bably correct, for “ Henri d’Lunch’mp ” bears the same coat in the Roll of temp. Henry HI. and Edward I. Longcroft, of W ot^cestershire. — Gules, two bars argent each charged with three martlets sable. Crest : A bull’s head couped. (Burke’s At^mory.) Longmore, of Worcester. — Sable, a chevron or, and a canton ermine. Crest : Two spears or. (W) Humphrey Longmore was Mayor of Worcester in 1663. The coat is impaled in St. Andrew’s church, Worcester, by Edward Cooksey, who died on the i6th of March, 1692-3, in right of Joice, his wife, the daughter of George' Longmore, of Upper Arley. Lord, Hallow Pa7^k ; as borne by John P. Lord, J.P. — Argent, a cross embattled gules, on a chief of the last a lion passant guardant .... Crest : A squirrel .... with a nut. . . . {Seal.) These bearings are not given in the Heraldic Dictionaries. The family of Lawrence, of Iver, co. Bucks., bore a similar coat. Loveband. — Gules, on a bend between three martlets argent, a lion’s head erased of the field. {Pemi MS.) Lovel, or “ Love-well, as some call them.” — Argent, a chevron azure between three squirrels sejant gules. Crest : A garb vert banded or. {Penn MS.) “ The naturall acts of this family agree with the last expression of the name (Love-well), as proves by their neighbours and repute.” {Penn.) Dr. Thomas ascribes to Lovel, Barry wavy (or nebulee) or and gules, a chevron between three squirrels of the last. The Lords Lovel of Tichmersh, co. Northampton, bore Barry nebule'e of six or and gules. {See the Roll of tonp. Edward H.) In Welland church, is THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE: 349 the following inscription : — ‘‘ Near this place lyeth inteiTed the body of Sarah, the beloved wife of Edward Wheeler, of this parish, yeoman ; she was the youngest daughter of Thomas Lovel, by Mary, his wife, and one of the co-heiresses of that antient estate of her fathers’, which hath been in the family of the Lovels ever since the time of King Henry the First, which is near 595 years. She died March 16, 1729, aged 34 years, very much lamented by all who knew her, leaving issue, by Edward Wheeler, one only daughter, nnmed Sarah.” {Nash, ii., 456.) Lovell. See Haselwood. Lovetot. — Argent, a lion rampant per fesse gules and sable. (W.) Quartered by Talbot, Lygon, and Rouse. See Furnival. Lovett, of Elmley- Lovett, Hampton-Lovett, &c. ; descended from Robert, youngest son of Richard de Louet de Nor- mania te 7 np, Co 7 iq. His grandson, Henry Lovett, of Elmley, married Isabella, daughter of Sir John St. Maur, and had issue, a son. Sir John Lovett, lord of Elmley, who died, leaving female issue only, viz., Cecilia and Alice ; and they dying issueless, the estates of the Lovetts came to the issue of William Blount, who had married the widow of Henry Lovett. — Sable, three wolfs heads or. {Bethain, iv., 83 ; and Nash, i., 377, 536, &c.) Nash, under Bayton (i., p. 55), mentions an ancient seal upon which the Lovett arms are a fesse between three wolfs heads erased. Lowe. — Ermine, on a bend azure three cinquefoils or. {Penn MS.) The same coat (but the bend engrailed) was quartered by Arden, for Lowe, a/ias Fyfield. Lowe, of Enfield. — Argent, on a bend azure three wolfs heads erased of the field. {Penn MS.) This family was of Enville and Whittington, in Staffordshire. The heiress, Eleanor, daughter of Humphrey Lowe, married Robert Grey, ancestor of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington. {See Shaw’s Staffordshire and Harwood’s Erdeswick.) 350 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Lowe, of The Lowe, Lindridge. Of this ancient family, Nash . gives a copious pedigree, compiled by Bishop Percy, who was a descendant of the family. Arthur Lowe, son of Arthur Lowe, of The Lowe, and brother of Elizabeth, wife of John Percy (grandfather of Dr. Percy), married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Pakington, by whom he had issue a daughter, Elizabeth, his heiress, married to Joshua Lowe, of Birmingham, son of William, and grandson of George Lowe, of Warley-Wigorn, Halesowen. They had issue, an only surviving daugh- ter and heiress, Elizabeth, married, in 1725, to the Rev. William Cleiveland, rector of All Saints’, Worcester, son of the Rev. William Cleiveland, vicar of Dudley. — Gules, two wolves passant argent. Crest : An ermine proper, collared, lined, and ringed gules. These bearings were allowed to a junior branch of the family, at the Visitation of London, in 1633-4. The ancient coat of Lowe, as * quartered by Fennel, was a single wolf passant on a field gules. Lowe, of Bromsgrove, “ once (says Penn) High Sheriffe of this countie.” Humphrey Lowe, of Chadwick, near Broms- grove, served that office in the 27th of Charles 1 1 . The Lowes, of Bromsgrove, area branch of the Lowes, of The Lowe,, springing from Humphrey (who died before 1637), youngest son of Henry Lowe, of The Lowe. He had two sons : — Thomas, who died unmarried ; and Humphrey, of Bromsgrove, who married Rebecca, daughter of Ben- jamin Joliffe, of Cofton Hackett, and was grandfather of Thomas Humphrey Lowe, who married, in 1780, Lucy, the elder of the two daughters and co’-heiresses of Thomas Hill, of Court of Hill, co. Salop, and died in 1798, having had issue two sons, the Rev. Thomas Hill Peregrine THE HE E ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 351 Furye Lowe, D.D., dean of Exeter, and Arthur Charles Lowe, of Court of Hill, both married. — Or, on a bend cottised sable three lion s head erased of the field. Crest : A demi-griffin segreant or. These bearings were granted to the family, by Bysshe, on the 8th of February, 1657 ; but, according to Burke, (Commoners, iv., 39), they now bear the bend and cottises sinister charged with three wolfs heads, on a field argent. The motto now used is ‘‘Spero meliora.” Roger Lowe, of Bromsgrove, gent., was fined for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I., and his name ap- pears in the list of disclaimers at the Visitation of 1634 ; but he is not mentioned in the pedigree of this family, given by Burke, in the Cominoners and Landed Gentry, Lowle, of Yarciley, afterwards of Somersetshire. — Sable, a dexter hand couped at the wrist grasping three pointless darts or bird-bolts, one in pale and twQ in saltire, argent. Richard Lowle, great grandson of William Lowle, of Yardley, by the daughter of Lyttelton, ‘Myed at Yardley, in com. Worster, and is there buried with this coate.” (Hart, MS., 1559 , fo. 215, quoted in the Herald and Gefiealogist, iv. 75.) Loxton. — Argent, a chevron cheeky ermine and sable, be- tween three griffin’s heads erased gules guttee d’or. {Penn MS.) Loyd, of “ Wigot^n and Salop!' — Argent, a quiver gules banded and replenished with arrows or, between three pheons sable. (Win. MS.) Lucy ; as borne by Robert de Luey, Sheriff of Worcestershire in the 21st of Henry H. — Gules three hides haurient proper, two and one. {Mask.) Lucy, of Charlecote, co. Warzuiek, atid of Stdlott Park, Ten- bttry ; as borne by Sir Thomas Lucy, knt. (the ‘‘ Justice Shallow ” of Shakespeare), who was High Sheriff of this county in the 28th of Elizabeth. Sir Thomas obtained 352 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. the Sutton estate in marriage with Joice, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Acton, of Sutton.- — Gules, semee of crosses-crosslet, three lucies, or pike fish, haurient argent. Crest : In a ducal coronet gules, a boar’s head argent between two wings displayed sable, semee of billets or. {N. ; and Catalogue of staitdards^ badges^ a 7 td crests, te7itp. Henry VIII., in the Col. Top. et Gen., iii., 88.) Nash (ii., 419) states that in the east window of the chapel at Sutton was formerly an escutcheon of these arms : — “ Lucy, Montfort, Higfoi'd, Golafer, Grey, De la Pla^iche, Olney, and Trayley ; im- paling Acton of Sutton.” He does not hlazo 7 i this atchievement \ but in appropriating the coats, he, or the writer (probably Dr. Thomas) from whom he derived his information, has been misled by accidental resemblances : for there is no doubt that what he supposes to be the coat of Montfort is that of Fourches .•* Grey that of Paben- ham;\ and Olney that oi Haversham.X Golafer alone is puzzling, for the position it occupies shews that it was brought in by Hugford; and in a similar atchievement in one of the stained windows at Charlecote House, (described in the Col. Top. et Gen., iv., 346), the fourth quarter contains the arms of Midleton,^ (Azure, a stag’s head cabossed or), which does not in the least resemble the coat of Golafer. ^ Gules, a lion rampant double-tailed, crowned argent This coat occurs (impaled by Lucy) in stained glass at Charlecote, inscribed, “ Sir Wylliam Lucy, weddyd to Pernel, dawghter and heir of Sir Rogere Fourches.” (The pedigrees say he married A? 7 ticia, daughter and heiress of William de Fourches.) It should be added, however, that the Lucys claim descent from a certain Thurstan de Charlecote, who is said to have been a younger son of Thurstan de Montfort. t See Pabenham. J Azure, a fesse between six crosses-crosslet argent. This coat also occurs at Charlecote, inscribed “ Nicholas Haversam.” § Walter Hugford, nth Edward I., married the daughter and heiress of William Midleton, of Midleton, co. Salop, by whom he had issue. Sir William Hugford, knt., who married the heiress of Pabenham. Alice, the daughter and heiress of Sir William Hugford, was married to Sir Thomas Lucy, knt., who died in 1415. The arms of Hugford, as quartered’ by Lucy, are. Or, an eagle displayed sable collared argent ; but Blakeway, in his Sheriffs of Shropshire, attributes to Sir William Hugford, of Midleton, Sheriff in 1392 ; — on a chevron between three buck’s heads cabossed, as many mullets. {See Hugford.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 353 Ludington, of Shrawley and Worcester. — “ This family of the Ludingtons (says Penn) were of a great estate, of whom there was one took a large travail to the seeing of many countries where our Saviour wrought His miracles, as is declared by his monument in the College of Worcester, where he is interred.” He alludes to Robert Ludington, gent., a Turkey merchant, who (according to the inscrip- tion on his monument) travelled through Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, &c., &c. He died in 1625, aged 76. — -Quarterly ist and 4th, Paly of six argent and azure, on a chief gules a lion passant guardant or, for Ltidingto 7 i ; 2nd and 3rd, Sable, a fesse nebulee argent guttee de sang between three elephant’s heads couped or, for Suckling. Crest (as in Shrawley church) : A swan sejant proper, in the beak a branch. {Nash ; Penn MS. ; and M. I. in Worcester Cathedrali) Burke gives for crest to the above coat A palmer’s staff erect sable. Lumley. — Argent, a fesse gules between three pansey flowers proper. {Penn MS.) The usual Lumley coat is Argent, a fesse gules between three popin- jays proper. Lushel, or Lusells. — Argent, a pale fusily gules within a bordure azure bezantee. (W.) One of the Windsor quarterings. {^See Samborne.) Lutham. See Latham. Lutley, of Bro 77 tseroft Castle, Salop ; as borne, quarterly with Barneby, by John Habingdon Barneby-Lutley, of Brock- hampton, co. Hereford, the representative of the Barnebys of Acton. Lutley is in the parish of Enville, co. Stafford, 45 354 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. and Philip de Lutley was lord thereof in the the 20th of Edward I. “He was (says Mr. Shirley) the ancestor of a family the direct line of which terminated in an heiress in the reign of Henry VI. But Adam de Lutley, younger brother of Philip above-named, was grandfather of Sir William Lutley, knt, of Munslow Hall, co. Salop, whose lineal descendant, John Lutley, was of Bromscroft Castle, in the same county, in 1623.’’ Philip Lutley, of Lawton Hall, CO. Salop, great grandson of John last-named, mar- ried Penelope, only daughter and eventually heiress of Richard Barneby, of Brockhampton, and by her (who was the representative of the Habingdons of Brockhampton and the Shirleys of Stockton), he was father of Bartholo- mew Richard Lutley (afterwards Barneby), of Brock- . hampton, the great grandfather of the above J. H. Barneby-Lutley, who has recently resumed, by royal license, his ancient paternal surname. — Quarterly or and azure, four lions rampant counterchanged. (See Barneby.) With these bearings the Lutleys quarter in the Add. MS., 143 14, the ensigns of Corbyn (Argent, in chief three crows sable), and Filylode (Argent, in chief a lion passant guardant gules, in base three leopard’s faces sable), in right of the marriage of John Lutley with Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Thomas Corbyn and Elizabeth, his wufe, the daughter and co-heiress of Giles Filylode, of Alveley, Salop. Lutwyche, of Lutwyche, Salop, and of Bretforton. — Or, a tiger passant gules. Crest : A tiger s head erased gules, crined and tufted or. {Visitation of Salop, a'’ 1623.) Lyde, of London, afid of Nether ton, co. Worcester . — Ermine, a fesse . . . between three eagles displayed . . . Crest : A tiger’s (?) head couped . . . {Hart. MS., 1476.) THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 355 Lydeate. — Argent, three bars vaire or and gules, in chief as many annulets sable. {Penn MS.) Lydeate. See Liddiat. Lygon, of Madres field and Warndon. — This ancient family, whose pedigree and arms were recorded at the Visitations of 1569, 1634, and 1682-3, is extinct in the male line, but is represented in the female line by Earl Beauchamp. In the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV., members of this family were escheators of the county of Worcester ; and in the sixth of the last-named reign, Thomas Lygon represented the county in Parliament. Thomas Lygon, who was living in the reign of Henry IV., married Joan, the richly-endowed heiress of William Bracey, of Madres- field and Warndon. Their eldest son. Sir William Lygon, left issue an only son, who died young. Richard, their second son, was father, (by the daughter and heiress of .... Giffard,) of Richard Lygon, of Madresfield, who married Anne, second daughter and co-heiress of Richard Lord Beauchamp, of Powick, (a branch of the memorable historical family of Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick,) with whom, says Nash, “ he had Beauchamp’s Court, in Powick,” and other estates. By her he had a large family, of whom Michael, the seventh son, was of Beau- champ’s Court. Sir Richard Lygon, the eldest son, married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of William Greville, of Arle, Judge of the Common Pleas, and had two surviving sons, William, his successor, and Henry Lygon, whose son. Sir Arnold Lygon, was High Sheriff of the county in the 7th of James I., and died 5*./. in 1612. William Lygon married Eleanor, daughter of Sir William 45—2 356 T'HE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Dennis, of Dyrham, co. Gloucester, and had by her a large family of sons and daughters. The eldest son, Richard Lygon, was twice married — first, to Mary, daugh- ter of Sir Thomas Russell, of Strensham ; and secondly, to Margaret, widow of his cousin. Sir Arnold Lygon, and daughter of Sir John Talbot. His eldest son by his first wife. Sir William Lygon, of Madresfield, was born in 1567, served as High Sheriff of Worcestershire in the 35th of Elizabeth, and died in 1619, having had issue by Elizabeth, his wife, the daughter of Edmund Harewell, of Besford, an eldest son. Sir William Lygon, who was a great spendthrift, and sold much of the family property. This Sir William married Elizabeth, daughter and co- heiress of John Pleydell, and by her (who was married secondly to SamueH Knightley) was father of William Lygon, High Sheriff in 1647, a colonel in the Parlia- mentary Army, who married Mary, daughter of Sir Erancis Egioke, and co-heiress of her brother, and by her had issue (with others) William Lygon, whose daughter Margaret (by his wife, Margaret, daughter and heiress of Thomas Corbyn, of Hall End, co. Warwick) became eventually sole heiress of the Lygons. She was born in 1694, and married, in 1713, Reginald Pyndar, of Kempley, CO. Gloucester, by whom she left issue, at her death, in 1736, a son and successor, Reginald Pyndar, born in 1714, who assumed, by Act of Parliament, the surname of Lygon, and was father of William Lygon, of Madresfield, Not Edmund Knightley of Grandborough, as in Brydges’s edition of Collins. {See Knightley.) Edmund Knightley, of Grandborough, married Alice Bury. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 357 for thirty years representative in Parliament of this county, who was created, in 1 806, Baron Beauchamp of Powick, and, in 1815, was advanced to the dignities of Viscount Elmley and Earl Beauchamp. He was the grandfather of Frederick Lygon, present and sixth Earl Beauchamp.^ — Argent, two lions passant in pale double queuee gules, armed and langued azure.t Crest : A Saracen’s head affrontee couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed about the temples argent and gules. {D. 1 2, Coll. Arm., fo. 14 ; C. 2>o,fo. 4.8I ; and K. 4,fo. 142 ; Harl. MS., 1566; Penn MS., &c.) Supporters: Dexter, — A bear proper, muzzled, collared, and chained or ; Sinister, — A swan argent, wings elevated gules, ducally gorged and lined or ; on the breast of each supporter, a shield sus- pended from the collar and coronet, charged with the arms of Beauchamp, viz., — Gules, a fesse between six martlets or. Motto : Ex fide fords.” See Pyndar. Among the quarterings to which the Lygons are entitled, are the coats of Bracey,X Blanchminster, Giffard, Beauchamp , D'Abitot, Ufflete, Furnival, Lovetoft, Verdon, Greville, Arle, Sarrell, Bley dell, Egioke, Corbyn,and Sturniey. Lynol,§ or Lynell, of Worcester. — Gules, on a bend argent * These particulars have been chiefly derived from Sir J. Egerton Brydges’s edition of Collins’s Peerage, vol. ix., p. 507. The pedigree given by Nash is extremely inaccurate. t William Lygon sealed with this coat in the i6th of Edward III., and Richard Lygon in the loth of Henry IV; X See Maddersfield and Brace. § One John Lineall published, in 1658, a work in qto, called ‘Hter Medi- terraneum : a true account given of the proceedings of Lord Glin, and the Hon. Baron Hill, in their summer circuit in the counties of Berks., Oxford, Gloucester, Monmouth, Hereford, Worcester, Saloppe, and Stafford. Are to be sold by John Felton, in Stafford.” Anthony k Wood says that great en- 358 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTER SHIRE. three crosses bottonee sable, on a chief or, a trefoil be- tween two garbs of the third. (iV.) This coat is impaled in St. Helen’s church, Worcester, by Edmund Wyatt, mayor of Worcester in 1695, in right of Dorothy, his wife, daughter of John Lynol, gent. She died in 1702, aged 40, and he in 1726. John Lynall of Worcester disclaimed at the Visitation of 1682-3. the Harl. MS., 2163, at fo. 92, are the arms of “ Thom^as Lyneall, of the city of Chester, Alderman and Justice of the Peace, and Maior thereof in 1591, sonne and heire to Thomas Lyneall of Hordely, co. Salop, who married Elizabeth Cornewall, of co. Wor- cester.” The arms are. Azure, on a bend argent three crosses bot- tonee sable, on a chief or, a trefoil of the third between two garbs of the field. Crest : A garb azure between two trefoils slipped sable. The same bearings are also attributed to “ Liniall of Chester,” in the Harl. MS., 1535. Lysons, of Worcester ; as borne by Thomas Lysons, who in his official capacity as mayor of Worcester, proclaimed Charles II., King of Great Britain, in 1651 . He was the son of William Lysons, of Westbury, co. Gloucester, of the family now seated at Hempstead Court, in that county. — Gules, on a chief azure a bend nebulee, issuant therefrom rays of the sun proper. {Her. Die., &c.) Lyttelton, of Frankley, now of Hagley Hall. This family, whose name is derived from Littleton, in the Vale of Evesham, is of very ancient standing in this county, and is placed by Mr. Shirley among the knightley families of Worcestershire. So early as the reign of Edward 1 1., Thomas de Luttelton was chosen M.P. for the county. His son was esquire of the body to Kings Richard 1 1., and Henry IV. and V. ; and his great grandson was the quiries were made by Lord Glynne after the author of ‘‘ this drolling verse ” to have him punished for the smart reflections upon him. There was a family of this name resident for many generations at Linehill, alias Lineall, in the parish of Penkridge, co. Stafford. THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE. 359 celebrated author of the Tenures so learnedly commented upon by Coke. The lands of Frankley were acquired in the reign of Henry III. by Thomas de Luttelton in mar- riage with Emma, daughter and heiress of Simon de Frankley ; but the issue of that marriage was an only daughter, who espoused Auger de Tatlynton, of Treding- ton. Thomas de Luttelton married secondly Asceline, the daughter and heiress of William Fitz-Warren, of Upton Warren, &c.. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and by her had issue an only surviving son, Thomas, who succeeded. Thomas married Juliana, daughter and heiress of Robert de Somerie, and had issue two sons, Thomas (of whom presently) and John, who, by Beatrice, his wife, the daughter of Humphrey Freville, had issue an only child and heiress, Elizabeth, married to Jeffrey P'rere, ancestor of the Freres of The Blankets. The elder son, Thomas (who sealed with a chevron between three escallops, and a greyhound’s head collared for crest) married Maud, daughter and sole heiress of Richard Quartremain, of Rycote, Oxon. This Thomas recovered the manor of Frankley on failure of issue to his cousin, Thomas de Tatlynton; and in his person the male line of Lyttelton became extinct ; he having had issue by his said wife an only child, Elizabeth, who married Thomas Westcote, of Westcote in Devon- shire, a gentleman of ancient descent, who assumed the surname of Lyttelton, and was direct ancestor of the present family. John Lyttelton, of Frankley, his great grandson, married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Gilbert Talbot, of Grafton, knt., “ whereby,” as Habingdon expresses it, “he endowed his family with 360 THE HERALDRY Oj- IVOR CES TER SHIRE. abundance of noble blood ; she being daughter of Talbot, by Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Paston, by Anne, sister and co-heiress of Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, grandson of John of Gaunt ; and his posterity have lawfully quartered the arms of France and England within a border gobony, and likewise all the arms and quarterings of Talbot and Paston.” In 1618, a baronetcy was conferred upon Sir Thomas Lyttelton, knt. ; and in 1757, a peerage, by the title of Lord Lyttelton, Baron of Frankley, was bestowed upon Sir George, the fifth baronet. This latter dignity expired upon the death, without issue, of his son Thomas, but the baronetcy re- verted to William Henry Lyttelton (uncle of the said Thomas and younger son of the fourth baronet, by Christian Temple), who had, in 1776, been elevated to the peerage of Ireland, as Baron Westcote of Ballymore. The English barony of Lyttelton of Frankley was re- vived in his favour, in 1 794, and has, together with the baronetcy and the Irish title, lineally descended to the present George William, Lord Lyttelton,^ Lord Lieu- tenant and Gustos Rotulorum of Worcestershire. t — * The present Lord Lyttelton is heir presumptive to the Viscounty and Barony of Cobham, which dignities were respectively conferred, in 1714 and 1718, upon Sir Richard Temple, bart., with remainder in seniority to his sisters, Hester, wife of Richard Grenville, of Wotton, and Christian, wife of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, bart. (father of the first Lord Lyttelton of the second creation), and their male issue and descendants. In conformity with such limitation, these dignities have descended to the present Duke of Buckingham ; but as he has female issue only, the Viscounty and Barony of Cobham will on his decease revert to the male heir of Christian Lyttelton. t The above account of the Lyttelton family is chiefly derived from the memoir drawn up by Charles Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle (one of the younger sons of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, the fourth baronet), and printed in Collins’s Peerage. The pedigree given by Nash requires some corrections. THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, 361 Quarterly, ist, Argent, a chevron between three escallops sable, ior Lyttelton ; 2nd, Argent, a bend cottised sable within a bordure engrailed gules bezantee, for Westcote 3rd, Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or, for Talbot ; 4th, France and England quarterly, within a bordure componee argent and azure, for Beaufort, Crest :t A moor s head in profile couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed about the temples argent and sable (being the crest of Westeote), Supporters : On either side a merman proper, in his exterior hand a trident or. Motto : “ Ung Dieu ung Roy.”J The arms of the Lyttelton family were anciently supported by a single merman, an almost unique example of such a practice in Eng- lish Armory. In the Harl. MS., 1566, under a trick of the escutcheon thus supported, is the following note : — “ Sir Will’m Lyttelton, of Frankley, knt., did seale with this supporter and sele of armes.” The shield of Judge Lyttelton (or Littleton, as his name is generally written) is thus represented on his monument in the cathedral at Worcester, but, as Bishop Lyttleton says, erroneously ; for his eldest son, Sir William, was the first that used it. The ancient crest of the family was a greyhound’s head collared, on a chapeau ; a trick of this crest, from an old seal, is given in the Harl. MS., 5841, and also another crest formerly used by the family, viz., A dragon’s head couped, charged with a mullet. At the Visitation of Shrop- shire, in 1623, Lyttelton quartered eighty-four coats, including Sofnerie, Beauchamp, Talbot, Easton, Beaufort, Neville, Grey, &c. ; and in Edmundson’s Baronagium, a plate of the Lyttelton atchieve- ment, contributed by Bishop Lyttelton, contains 122 quarterings. * At the Visitation of 1569, the coat of Westcote was entered as the paternal coat of Lyttelton of Frankley. — See D. 12, Coll. Arm., fo. 9. The pedigree was also entered at the Visitation of 1634. t The Moor’s head crest is represented at Frankley with a dagger in the mouth held by a hand armed azure. This addition seems to have been adopted by the third son of Judge Lyttelton, or his descendants, one of whom was the Lord Keeper Lyttelton. {See Nash, i., 466.) i When William Henry Lyttelton was created Lord Westcote, he adopted for his motto, “ Renovato nomine,” alluding to his having taken for his title the ancient paternal surname of his family. 46 362 THE HERALDRY OF IVOR CES TER SHIRE. corresponding for the most part with the atchievement in Frankley church blazoned by Nash (i., 465), but containing several additional quarterings brought in by Crompton and Temple. Lyttelton, of Naimton-Beatichamp ^ Groveley, and Halesowen ; and of Shtdley, co, Warwick. This was a junior branch of the Lytteltons of Frankley, descended from Roger Lyttelton of Grovel ey, in Kingsnorton, (a younger son of John Lyttelton of Frankley, by Elizabeth, co-heiress of Talbot,) to whom his father gave his lands at Coulesdon and Naunton. Roger married Elizabeth, daughter of John Stanley, of Westbromwich, co. Stafford, and had issue by her four sons and four daughters. His eldest son, Humphrey, of Groveley and Naunton, married first, Martha, daughter of Robert Gower, of Colemers’, and secondly, Margaret, daughter of Westfaling, and widow of Dr. Eedes, dean of Worcester. His first wife died in 1588, and to her memory he erected an altar tomb in Kingsnorton church, upon which he himself is represented in armour, and his name is mentioned in the inscription ; but he lived many years after this monument was erected, and was buried at Naunton, where he also has a monument, in 1624. Francis, Roger’s second son, married Maria Belingsera, a German lady, and had issue, William of Naunton, (who had a daughter, Maria), and another son, who settled at Antwerp. George, another of Roger’s sons, was a barrister-at-law ; he died without issue in 1600, and was buried at Bromsgrove. Humphrey Lyttelton of Halesowen, a descendant of this family, had, by Elizabeth, his wife, three sons, Humphrey, Thomas, and Sandys; and three daughters, viz., Elizabeth married, in 1774, to Ferdinando Smith, of Halesowen Grange; THE HEE ALEEV OF WOECESTEESHIEE. 363 Dorothy, wife of Thomas Roper ; and Mary, who died unmarried. Humphrey Lyttelton, the eldest son, pur- chased Naunton Court from his relative, Mr. Lyttelton of Studley,^ and died unmarried in 1801 ; Thomas died in 1789, and was buried at Naunton ; and Sandys, who was afterwards of Naunton Court, was father, by Eliza- beth, nSe Smith, his wife, of an only daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married to Richard Frances, of Droitwich, to which family the manor and estate of Naunton now belong. — Arms, &c., as Lyttelton of Frankley. {Prattinton MSS. ; Penn MS. ; Harl. MS. 6128, &c.) ^ The Lytteltons of Studley Castle (which estate they appear to have ac- quired in marriage with an heiress of Phillips of that place) are now repre- sented by Sir Harry Holyoake Goodricke, bart., whose grandfather, Francis Holyoake, married Dorothy, daughter of Robert Lyttelton, and niece and heiress of Phillips Lyttelton, of Studley Castle. END OF VOL. I. HILLING, PRINTER, GUILDFORD, SURREY. J t I » ?■' r {,