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THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
" In this country, in the absence of hereditary rank, coat-armour is the
only distinctive mark of birth and high blood."
Quarterly Review.
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THE
HERALDRY
OF
WORCESTERSHIRE;
BEING
A ROLL OF THE ARMS
BORNE BY THE SEVERAL
NOBLE, KNIGHTLY, AND GENTLE FAMILIES,
WHICH HAVE HAD PROPERTY OR RESIDENCE IN THAT COUNTY, FROM
THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME;
COLLECTED FROM THE HERALDS VISITATIONS, ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS,
HERALDIC DICTIONARIES, CHURCH MONUMENTS, PERSONAL
SEALS, AND OTHER TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES.
BY H. SYDNEY GRAZEBROOK, Esj^f^X
Of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Author of the "Heraldry of Sntfffitf / - f / !>*i
<SrV., <SrV., (SrV.
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Vol. I. A— L.
LONDON:
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.
i»73-
2/9. «.. ■?
1
ADVERTISEMENT.
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 right 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 seated families, — the owners of estates in
# " J. H.," the author of the Winnington Manuscript.
vi ADVERTISEMENT,
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
PAGE
ADVERTISEMENT ....... V
INTRODUCTION ....... ix
ABBREVIATIONS ....... lv
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 1682-3 . . 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 12
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
XI. ROMAN CATHOLICS, ETC, WHO REFUSED TO TAKE THE
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO KING GEORGE I. . 721
XII. WORCESTERSHIRE LANDOWNERS IN 1703-4, WITH Index loCOVUtn 726
ERRATUM.
Page 72, last Ymt, for " Wyatt " read " Cliffe."
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. lvl, p. i #-
x THE HERALDRY OF 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 Gwillim of a
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. Fr£ron maintains that
a fig leaf was borne for arms by Adam after the fall ; and
Sylvanus Morgan assures us that to this was added, Argent.
an apple vert y 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 I 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. Non nostrdm tantas componere
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
xli 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 Azure,
a bend 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. xiii
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 15th of Richard II., 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 41st of Edward III., 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 6th 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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE:
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 toe*
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 qui nobiscum apud bellum de Agincourt arma portabant."
A copy of the writ, extracted from the Close Roll of the 5 th of Henry V., m.
5. is printed in Grimaldi's Otigines Genealogies p. 84. See also Edmondson,
Introduction, p. 158, and Nicolas's Battle of Agincourt, 3rd edit., p. # 170.
INTRODUCTION.
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 by James Hedingley, Guyen King of Arms,
* Inquiries into the origin and progress of Heraldry in England, by the Rev.
James Dallaway, A.M., 4to., 1793.
xvi THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
in a grg.nt to Peter Dadge, 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 -frogue ; indeed it is by this means alone
that a new family can legitimately acquire a coat of arms.
The modus 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 Genealogist, vol. i., p. 515. Another early grant to
one Alan Trowte, dated 1376, is given in the Appendix to Lower's Curiosities
of Heraldry, See also the name Andrews in the present work.
INTRODUCTION. xvii
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,
t.e. y 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 the
• Contributed to Mr. Timbs's Things not Generally Knoitm. The fees on a
Grant in England amount to ^76 10s. In Ireland a Grant costs ^30, and a
Confirmation ;£io.
C
xviii 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 VIII. (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 esquires or gentlemen" 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 coimty to a particular
family.
INTRODUCTION. 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 tafcen in
C — 2
xx THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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 £\o\ a Dean £6 13s. 4& ; a gentleman
of 100 marks per annum in land, £6 13s. 4& ; and a gentle-
man of inferior revenue, £6.
It frequently happened, says Berry,;); that persons who
deemed themselves esquires or gentlemen, 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, are 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 required 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.
% Encyclopedia 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,f 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, Clareneeux King of Arms in 1686. Some of the
pedigrees registered under it are dated as late as 1 704. Sec K. 9, in Coll.
Arm.
xxii THE HERALDRY OP WORCESTERSHIRE.
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 alldwed 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 9
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.
INTRODUCTION. xxiii
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."t 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
(London and Middlesex Illustrated) containing these proofs, was published in
1749-
xxiv THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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 achievements, 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 in extenso by 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-
INTRO D UCTION.
'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 boni 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 ! While to mark his sense of the frivolity of the plain-
tiffs 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. xxvii
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, 1 758, " 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
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Warburton, in the preface to his London and Middlesex
Illustrated, 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 Visitaticftis, 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 £$o. " For (he says) no less than two signers and
sealers will serve their (the Kings of Arms) turn ; though heretofore one was
allowed to be sufficient, and his fee but £$, and sometimes less."
INTRODUCTION. xxix
County Families, &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 thoroughly 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 doubtful, 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 Geneologicce, p. 259 ; Sims, Genealogists 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 u 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* 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
upon 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 purposes of distinc-
tion, are inclined to disparage the legal grant, and to contend against its
exclusive sanction," (p. 319).
xxxii THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
of these " 'scutcheons of pretence " axe 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 invents 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 fathers
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
all new families do not have recourse to illegitimate sources
INTRODUCTION xxxii
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, apropos of
the assumption by Mr. Jones of the surname of Herbert
t " A Collection of Coats of Arms borne by 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 Rudder's 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.!
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, u 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
Warwickshire Antiquarian 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 office, and in the other the office for the name. i
e — 2
xxxvi 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
verbatim 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 Encyclopedia, and
Burke's Armory \ and there, to make confusion worse con-
founded, ascribed to "Smith, of Worcestershire;' whereas
it is really the coat of Sir Thomas Kitson, of Hengrave, 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.
lxxxiii.), 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. xxxvii
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 Dugdales Warwickshire (1730), 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
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the valuable collections for Worcestershire bequeathed by
him to the Society of Antiquaries, is a small 4to., containing
a revised and annotated copy of this list, entitled " Coats of
arms borne or quartered 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 Spilsbury, for example, he ascribes the arms of Hanbury, 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 Houghton.
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), Burklcy, Camville, 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 (i.e., Roger de Montgomery), Ralph de
Todeni, Ralph de Mortimer, Robert de Stadford, Roger de Laci, Osbern
FitzRichard, Gislebert FitzTurold, Drogo FitzPons, Herald. fiT Radulphi,
William FitzAnsculf, William FitzCorbucion, William Goizenboded, Urso de
Abbetot, Hugo Lasne, and Eddeve, a female (quaedam fcemina).
xl THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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
consequence ; 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 Droitwich), 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.
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Habingdon, Pennel, 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. M
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 13 14. 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."
/
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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 four 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-
INTRODUCTION. xliii
ley," are also noticed, but are here classed as one of the
gentle families 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, Clarenceux, 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 t 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 Visitation 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
Herald*, 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 Pyndar; Sandys, Hill;
Hornyold, Gandolfi; and Pakington, Russell.
xliv THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
The third was held in 1634, by George Owen, York 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, Cluster 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 King\
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. thac 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.
t Printed by Dallaway in the Appendix to his Heraldic Inquiries.
INTRODUCTION. xlv
and that Mr. King, " out of his zeal for the public, pressed on
these Visitations somewhat earnestly. " The proceeds, in all,
were ^530, 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 WORCESTERSHIRE.
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
INTRODUCTION. 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 demanded. 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 Esquire, £1 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, Chester" and "Gre y King,
Rouge Dragon" 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 tics 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 Esquire?
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 : —
" 1. 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 Gentleman's Magazine, 1834, i., p. 51.
INTRODUCTION. xlix
so virtute 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 r .
" 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 r ! y
In these days every one not actually a shop-keeper, or the
like, is dubbed esquire ; 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 dp-
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 Esquire ?" is discussed at length.
S
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
list of Arms compiled by Dr. Thomas, and that I 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 Index of Mr. Sims, without which, indeed, the
majority of the Worcestershire Heraldic collections in the
British Museum would have been unknown to me.
INTRO D UCTION.
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 sun, whereat our modern writers
have all lighted their torches/' — and his successors, cited as
11 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. Noake, 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-
tly, 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.
iii THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
cester, have been extracted from Mr. Bedford's Blazon of
Episcopacy.
Dr. Thomas's Survey of the Cathedral Church of Wor-
cester, Mr. Green's History • and Antiquities of Wor-
cester, and most of the County Histories, 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 9 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. Papworth'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-
INTRODUCTION. 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.
April, 1873.
ABBREVIATIONS, &c
Add. MS. — The Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum Library.
Haul. MS. — The 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. — College 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 the
Peerage.")
Her. Die — The Heraldic Dictionaries of Edmondson, Berry, Robson and
Burke.
Penn MS. — The Manuscript Armorial of Worcestershire, by Penn, described
in the Appendix.
Win. MS. — Winnington Manuscript, an heraldic MS., by " J. H.," belonging
to the late Sir T. K 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. (/>. Nash.) — 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.
Thomas, 1736.
Ivi ABBREVIATIONS.
Prattinton MSS. — The Manuscript 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 circa 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., 1 80 1 -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 III., from Glover's MS.
Charles Roll. — A similar Roll of the reigns of Henry III. 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
circa 1308-13 14, edited by SirN. H. Nicolas, 1829.
M. I. — Monumental Inscription.
S.P. — Sine prole, />., without issue.
V.P. — Viti patris, i>., in the lifetime of his or her father.
V.M. — Vit& 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.
Ike Jperalkg of WLoxastzxzhixz.
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 shrievalty
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.
^
2 THE HERALDR Y 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. {N.)
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, of Abenhall, co. Gloucester, as quartered by Talbot.
Or, a fesse gules. {Rudders Gloucestershire, p. 210.)
This coat was borne temp. Edward II., by Sir — Abbehale, of co.
Gloucester. (Roll of the date.)
Aberbury, of Aberbury 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 lions 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 periodanterior
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 III.* 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; and they are also said to have anciently borne, Or, two bars
vaire. (MS. penes E. P. Shirley, esq.; Penn MS.; Nash; 6rc.)
Acton, of Sutton Park, Tenbury, and of Ribbesford 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
1 — 2
4 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, lent, (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 Colles ; and Helen, married to Sir Thomas
Thornburgh, of Elmley Lovett, 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. (Z?. 12, Coll. Arm. fo. 19; Harl.
MSS. 1043 anc * 15661 &c.)
Acton, of Bockleton. — Derived from Sir Roger Acton, lent., (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 K inlet, Salop. — Arms, &c, as Aeton, 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. y 615 and 1043.)
Acton, of Burton and Wolverton. — 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 1 569, 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. f — 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 Noble and 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 J 5 66 -
6 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
mullet for difference ; quartering Mabe alias Dore, and
Mortimer. (D. 12, Coll. Arm. fo. 19 ; and /far/. MSS. f
1043 a™* 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. y 1422.)
Acton, of Worcestershire. — Gules, a fesse and bordure both
engrailed ermine, in chief a chaplet vert. {Her. Die.)
Addehan, Yedfen, or Edefyn, of 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 If all, 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,
1 792, 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,
I 7 I 9> aged 39> and by his will bequeathed about ^4000 " 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 WORCESTERSHIRE.
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."
(E 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 Droitwick. — Argent, a chevron between three
crosses patt6e 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 Overbury. — Argent, a fesse engrailed sable between
three fleurs de lis gules. {Dr. Pratttnton.)
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 — Gules, a lion rampant, or. (N.)
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 1670. 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 Priori Salford, co. War-
wick. — 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, 1st, 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 ;f and 4th Ruding. (D. 12, Coll.
Arm. fo. 48; Harl. MSS. y 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. y 1100, 1167.)
2
io THE HERALDRY 0* 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 Potvick, 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. Sec Nash, ii. 266.
THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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 ?] {N.)
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 ;£ 5 1 per annum granted
to him out of Beoley and Yardley by one of the earls of Warwick,
in the 25th of Edward I.
Amory or D' Amory, of Codrington, co. Gloucester ; recorded
at the Worcestershire Visitation of 1634. — Barry nebulae
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, vm - 2I 3-) 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 16 10. (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.
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12 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Amphlett, of 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 Hop wood, of Droitwich, and
great-great-grandson of Joseph Amphlett (third son of
Richard Amphlett, f 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 3 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 HERALDRY 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 sometimes placed on the
fesse and tinctured or*). Crest : A dromedary proper.
(N. &c.)
Mr. Amphlett, of Wychbold, quarters Holmden of Crowle ; and
the Amphletts of Clent, 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,attd 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 L, resided before he came to Worcester. The
pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3.
— Arms, as the preceding. Crest : A Moors 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 Aims, 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 Penn. MS. the same arms are ascribed to Andrews of " The
Hill, near Worcester f 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 16 1 8, 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 VIII., by Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of
Arms, to Richard Andrews, " de Synton en la Comt6 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 {Harl. MS., 1507.)
Andrews, of Hanbury, 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), Jennetls, 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 Hanbury, 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 Hanbury. Crest : A stag's head erased
argent (Penn. MS.; Harl. MSS. 9 615, 1566; and
Add. MS., 1 98 1 6.)
Attached to these bearings in the Add. MS., 198 16, 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. (N.)
This coat Nash ascribes to John Appletree, of Hanbury, High
Sheriff in the 9th of William III.
Appurley, of Feckentiam (?). — Argent, a chevron between
1 6 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
three pine apples gules. (Seal of ... de Appirle, 1395.
Dr. Prattinton.)
Archbold, of Worcester. — Argent, a Hon 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. MSu> 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 ihe above John of Wei- «
land), ancestor of the Lords Archer of Umberslade ; but the mural
coronet is tinctured guies 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-compon6e or and azure. (In glass in Ped-
more church!)
In the HarL MS. f 1563, Arden quarters Clodshale, Bishopesdon,
Golafer, and Fyfield.*
Arderne. — Gules, three crosses crosslet fitch^e 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 12 16. 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
T/ie Topograp/ur and Genealogist, i. 215.)
A rle. See Hanford.
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, L, 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 borne temp. Edward II., by Sir John 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.
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18 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 axe 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. {Harl. MS., 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,
nie 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. (N.)
On the tomb of Penelope Walwyn, in Great Malvern Church.
Astley. — Gules, a lion passant guardant between two crosses
crosslet or. (N.)
The field should probably be seme'e 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 Fladbury.)
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Aston, Lord Aston, 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 fathers 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 o( Sir Mordaunt, bait, 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 18 19, 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."
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Aton. See Alton.
Attwood, of Wolverley Court, Park Attwood, 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 Northwick, 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 18th century.
Abel Atwood, gent, who died in 1 726, 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, sem& 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.
% Vide Nash, ii., 472.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 21
Penn attributes the double-tailed lion to " Attwood of BevereV' *
It is a " very noble bearing (he says), and was thus bourne by
Simon de Montford, Earle of Leicester, from whom they are de-
scended."
Attwood, of Norlhwick. — Argent, a wolf salient gules be-
tween three torteaux, all within a bprdure 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., f6. 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.
Ay^la. — Quarterly 1st 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, 17 14, aged 77, and was buried
with her husband at Claines. (See Nash, Supplement y p. 18.)
22 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
for his martial prowess in the warlike times of Edward III., Richard
II., 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.)
Aylksbury, of Milton Keynes, Bucks. ; as quartered by Staf-
ford. — Azure, a cross argent. {N.)
Aynesford, or Eynsford. — Gules, a fret ermine. {N.)
A quartering of Baskerville.
Ayre. See Eyre.
Babington. — Argent, ten torteaux, four, three, two, and one,
a label of three points azure. (N.)
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-
a/ogiea, vols. ii. and viii., and The Topographer and Genealogist, L 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 Northfield, as borne by Thomas Bache*
or Batch, High Sheriff 5th Anne. — Or, a lion rampant
gules within a bordure sable bezant^e. (JV.)
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 bezant^e. Crest : A lion issuant, holding
between the paws a bezant See Hart. MS. 6104.
Badger, of Hanley Castle. — Ermine, on a bend gules three
eagles displayed or. (M. f. 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. (Hart. MS. 1041.) 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 queu6e vert. Crest : An
antelope sejant argent, billettde 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 aery 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, {N.)
The last coat is in glass, in the cathedral These are the arms
of the Bagots of Bagot's Bromley, co. Stafford. Sir John Bagot,
(grandson of Sir William Bagot, Qf 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 sal tire 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,
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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. $** Blome's Britannia.
Baker, of Feckenhatn, Worcester, Stourbridge, and London.
— 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
10th May, 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 Harl. MS. 1422, and Mis. Gen. et Her. ii. 1.) 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 invected, 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 Waresley. — Thomas Baker, of Borley in Ombers-
ley, was father, by his wife Elizabeth, nie Aston, of two
sons, John of Waresley, and the Rev. Thomas Baker,
Vicar of Bibury, co. Gloucester, from whom the Bakers
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26 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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 181 2, 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 nie 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 nie 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 Waresley, 1 788.)
It is stated, in the Perm 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 161 1. 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
embowed in mail, the under vest seen at the elbotv vert, the hand 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.
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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 32-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 10th 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 communicated by Col. \Jamei\ Baker.)
Baker, of Northfield and London, confirmed by Ryley, 20th
June, 1646. — Ermine, a fesse engrailed between three
horses heads couped sable ; quartering, (in right of the
marriage of Edward Baker with Jane, daughter and co-
heiress of Clement Underbill, of co. Warwick), Argent,
a chevron sable between three trefoils slipped vert, for
Underbill. Crest : A hand issuing out of clouds proper,
holding a cross calvary sable ; over it, on a scroll, the
motto, " Nemo sine cruce beatus." {Add. MS. 19,816.)
* The Sissinghurst branch bore, for crest, A dexter ami holding a swan's
head.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 29
Baldington. — Argent, on a chevron sable between three
pellets as many roses of the field. (N.)
Quartered by Gates in Broadwas church.
Baldwin, 0/ Aylesbury, Bucks; 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 Church, 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
argent. (Dr. Prattinton.)
John Ballard of Suckley disclaimed arms at the Visitation of
1682-3.
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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
bull's head. (Communicated.)
Bardolphe, of Norfolk and Worcestershire. — Azure, three
cinquefoils pierced or. (Berry's Encyclopedia.)
Barker, of Oakley ', Salwarpe. — Per fesse nebulae sable and or,
three martlets counterchanged. (N., &c.)
Nash attributes the same arms to John Barker, of Worcester,
High Sheriff in 6th Charles II. They also occur in St. Swithen's
Church, Worcester, on the monument of Elizabeth, wife of Simon
Barker, of Worcester, gent, who died in 1694. Vide Nash, Ad-
denda.
Barker, of Churchill, near Bredicot. — Azure, a fesse nebulae
between three martlets or. (M.I. at Churchill 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 1 569,
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 1634 and 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 y in Tredington ; granted to Robert Barnes,
22nd Henry VI., and allowed at the Visitation of 1634.
— Quarterly 1st and 4th, Quarterly or and vert, a cinque-
foil argent, (or Barnes; 2nd and 3rd, Quarterly azure and
32 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
gules, a cross engrailed ermine, for Barney. Crest : A
barnacle, wings displayed proper. (C. 30, Coll. Arm.
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. Arm. fo. 81.)
Barnesley, of Barnesley Hall, near Bromsgrove. — Sable, a
cross between four roses argent, barbed and seeded
proper. Crest : A man's head and bust couped affront^e
proper, the hair grey. Motto : " Ut rosa sic vita." (C
30, Coll. Arm. fo. 107 ; Harl. MS. 1043 \ Penn MS)
•
"There is reason to believe (says Nash, 1 , 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 Worcester y 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 OF 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 Kent's Banner Displayed.)
There is a pedigree of this family brought down to the year 17 18
in the above cited MS., fo. 59. They were connected with the
Corbetts, of Shropshire.
Bartlet, of Castle-Morton, and of Saintbury, co. Gloucester.
— Quarterly per fesse indented argent and gules, four
crescents counterchanged. Crest : A pheasant proper.
{Harl. MSS. y 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,
1 61 6.* 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 Saintbury, gives a short ac-
count of the Bartiets, 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 VIII., and
president of the College. He acquired a greaj 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*_
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Barton. — Argent, three boar's heads couped sable tusked
gules. (N.)
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 Wolvershill, 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. {N.)
Bassett, of Drayton, co. Stafford. — Or, three piles in point
gules, a canton ermine. (jY.)
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 bezante'e. Ralph Lord
Bassett of Weldon, who died in 1341, had issue a daughter, Joan,
married to Sir Thomas Aylesbury, knt ; their son, Sir John 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 Northamptonshire, i.,
356.)
Bassett ; as quartered by Winter. — Ermine, on a chief in-
dented gules three mullets or. {Harl. MS., 1566.)
Morton family. He appears to be the Thomas Bartlett, gent., a " professor
of physick," who died in 1686, set 49, and to whose 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." {Habingdon.)
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.)
These bearings were granted by Flower, Norroy, 8th February,
1565, to Leonard Bate, of " Lupset," co. York, and his descendants.
{SeeHarl. MS., 1069, and Add. 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. (N.)
Quartered by Copley, of Bredon.
Baude. See Byde.
Baugh, of Pensham, Per shore, Tibberton, and 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. Ami. 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.
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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 Citrines ; 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 Godington, Oxfordshire. — Quarterly 1 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 SAeppard?). 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 1 761. He married the daughter and heiress of Thomas Cookes,
a wealthy attorney of Evesham. (See May's History of Evesham,
and the Gentlernaris Magazine for June, 1846, p. 592.)
Baynham. — Gules, a chevron between three bull's heads
cabossed argent armed or. (N.)
An impalement of Walsh, of Shelsley, and Jeffries, of Home
Castle.
Beake. — Gules, a cross moline argent, a crescent for dif-
ference. {Pain 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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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 Francis 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 : " Clementii
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." {Dr. Prattinton.) Burke attributes to Bear-
croft of Worcestershire — Sable, on 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 mullets 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-
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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 kings 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 swan's head gules in a ducal coronet or. Mr. John Gough
Nichols, in a very able and interesting paper on Livery collars, in the
THE HERALDRY OF 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 Tony, 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, is
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 beart of the ancient house of
Beauchamp.
Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester. Richard Beauchamp Lord
of Abergavenny, A 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 Ehnley, and his
wife, Isabel Mauduit, was elevated to the peerage as
Baron Beauchamp, of Kidderminster, by patent dated
October 10th, 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
* fart 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.
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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., 139 1-2,
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 III.; and she is mentioned as Beauchamp's wife
in records of temp. Edward III. 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 Beauchamp *s Court, A luster,
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.
He 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 Newland 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.Z. at St.
Swttkeris.)
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 y* son of William Beauchamp, merchant in Jxmdon. 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 e 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.
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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 bottonde
or. {Penn MS.)
Beauchamp. — Gules, a fesse between six pears slipped or.
{Penn MS.)
Beauchamp. — Gules, a chevron between three pears, slipped
or. {Penn MS.)
Beaufitz, 0/ East Leach, co. Gloucester. — Barry of six indented
or and azure, a canton argent. {N.)
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 House, Pershore, 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 the 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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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, murally
crowned or, holding between the paws a bezant Motto :
" Animum fortuna sequatur." {Communicated.)
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. (Trick 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 Roll.)
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 Doway,"
i2mo. This William Bel was "cruelly martyred n at Tyburn, nth Dec,
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44 THE HERALDRY OF 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 Dallaway'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 fleurs de lis
gold. {Bedford)
Bellamont, or Beaumont, 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., 1476.) 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 I. The name
was originally de 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
Handbook to Topography and Family History, p. 279.) A Mr. Bell was deputy
steward of the manor of Bromsgrove in the reign of Elizabeth (see Field), but
none of the name appear as lords of either Kingsnorton or Bromsgrove. A
family of the name was, however, anciently seated at Belne (hodie 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 Frankley ; as borne by John 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 horses head argent pierced through the
neck by an arrow in bend sinister point downwards
proper. Motto : " Irrevocable." (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 fitch^e 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 Malvern 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 Spetchley. 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 I. The pedigree was recorded at the Visita-
tions of 1634 and 1682-3. — Gules, a chevron between
ten crosses patt^e, six above and four below argent;
with many quarterings, inter alia, Mowbray, Brewes,
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 II. 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 patte'e or." {Roll of Edward II, &c. — Shirley's Noble
and Gentle Men.) *
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 10th 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 sisters 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 y« 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 Eldersfield, and of Coberley, co. Gloucester. —
Argent, a fesse between three martlets sable. (N.)
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. {N.)
Bermingham, of Birmingham, 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 " engrel6" or, a label gules. {Nicolas' RolL)
Engrelk 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 fusils' of Mareschal, which
in the same roll is called engrailed.* The coat of Walter de Bir-
mingham in the roll of temp. Edward I., is drawn 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 ; he was
strangely wrested (says Dugdale) out of that Lordship by that am-
bitious man, John Dudley, afterwards Duke of Northumberland.
* Ellis's Antiquities of Heraldry, p. 205.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 49
Bermingham. See Barugham.
Berry, of Hampton Poyle, co. Oxford. — Vert, a cross crosslet
or. (N.)
One of the Harewell quarterings. James Berry, or Bury, of
Hampton Poyle (ob. 1588), son of Edmund Berry (ob; 15 12), 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, CoIL Arm., fo. 56.
Berwick, of Hallow Park, Worcester; as borne by Joseph
Berwick, of Hallow, High Sheriff in 1782. His daugh-
ter and heiress, Mary, was married in 1787, to Sir
Anthony Lechmere, bart — Argent, three bears heads
erased sable muzzled or. Crest : A bear's head as in the
arms, ducally gorged or. {Old Engraving.)
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 } Kernpsey, &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, Bilslon, and Wednes-
bury, co. Stafford; a family descended, according to Wal-
ford's County Families, " through a regular line of bene-
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50 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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 Armory.)
There are inscriptions in Elmley church to several of this family.
Three Edward Bests were rectors of the parish in succession, from
1620 to 1708, and a William Best, of Waresley, presented John
Cole to the same living in i'6oo. 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-
zon 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. {N.)
An impalement of Bromley, in Holt church, for Aline, 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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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. (N.)
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 ?
Biddi.e, 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 Saint's church, 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 Francis 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 sal tire, a chief or. (N.)
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52 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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 162 1, 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, 15th Edward IV. See Hart.
MS., 5814, and Nash ii., 198.
Biggory or Biggorge. — Azure, an eagle displayed or, beaked
and membered gules, (N.)
One of the quarterings of Willoughby in Welland church. See
Nash, ii., 455.
Bigot. — Per pale or and vert, a Hon rampant gules. (N.)
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 BUson, 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. 53
slipped vert Crest : A bugle horn or. (Confirmed by
Dethicke in 1582. See Berry's Hampshire Pedigrees!)
Binkworth. See De Aula.
Biscoe, of Abbots 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 see.)
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 II., and endowed by
him and his son Henry, long before the estate was divided
among daughters. For that happened not till the year
1 241, 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 II. " de azure, k les rondells de or." The Heraldic Dic-
tionaries also ascribe to Bisset, of Worcestershire, Azure, three be-
zants, two and one.
54 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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. (See Dugdale's Warwickshire.) In the Charles Roll of
temp. Henry III. and Edward I., "Will de Bissopeston " bears
Bendy of ten or and sable.
Bishopp, of Evesham and London ; 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. (Penn 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 18 14, Thomas Hawkes,
M.P. for Dudley. — Argent, a fesse nebulae, between three
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 55
mullets sable. Crest : On a trumpet a cock proper.
(Gregson's Lancashire.)
Blacket, of Iccomb. — Sable, a bend between six crosses
crosslet fitch^e or. (N.)
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 Court, 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 patt6e of the last '(-Af.)
Blankfront, or Blanchfront, of Alvechurch ; a family
which, says Nash, flourished at Alvechurch in a succes-
sion of knights during the reigns of Henry III. 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." Why this family bore the Mortimer arms
has not been ascertained, but they were probably connected in some
way with that family. The de Hagieys and the Burleys also bore
coats resembling that of Mortimer.
Blayney, of " The Lodge" Evesham. This family claims
descent from the Blayneys, of Kinsham, co. Hereford.
The late Robert Blayney, of The Lodge, was son of
Thomas Blayney, who was born in 1 762, 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 1st 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
Ferlys, 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. (N.)
An impalement in Hanley-Castle church for Alice, wife of H.
Dineley, gent, who died in 1583. See Nash, i., 563.
Blondell. — Quarterly 1st 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 MawUy 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,
Ixworth 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 II. to his throne, changed his
name to Croke, on his return to England, in order to
avoid the revenge of Henry IV/j- 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 1 288, 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 I. — Barry nebulae of six or and sable.
* Genealogy of the Croke Family, by Sir Alexander Croke, 4to., 1823.
t Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men.—" Croke of Studley."
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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 Lozengy 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 nebulte coat in the reign of Edward
II. Sir Thomas le Blount at the same period bore the /esse 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-
rencieux (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."
1 st Blount, as above. 2nd, Gules, a fesse between six martlets argent ;
also for Blount. 3rd, Argent, three leopard's faces jessant de lis
sable ; for Sodington. 4th, Gules, three escutcheons or ; for Mount-
Soy. 5th, Or, a raven sable, a crescent for difference ; for Corbet,
of Stanford, co. Salop. 6th, Or, an escarbuncle of eight rays
fleurette'e sable; for Turet. 7th, 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 ; for Shirley. 9th, Gules, a chevron argent between three
garbs or; for Waldeshefe. 10th, Gules, three swords erect, two and
one, argent pommels and hilts or ; also for Waldeshefe. 1 ith, Azure,
, a lion rampant ducally crowned between seven crosses crosslet or ;
for Braose. 12th, Gules, two bends, that in chief or, the other
argent; for 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.
17 th, Sable, a bend between six martlets or ; for Eceleshall. 18th,
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
Heaven. 23rd, Argent, two pipes joining in base gules, the field
seme'e 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. 26th, as the eleventh, with a crescent for
difference ; for Brewes. 27 th, Azure, a lion rampant argent within
a bordure engrailed or ; for Tyrrell.
Blount, of Hallow, 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 Hampton-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,
knL Habingdon states that the Lords Mountjoy were
descended from " Sir John le Blont of Sodington, whose
father, John le Blont, marry ed Isolda Montjoy, the heyre
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
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60 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 y 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
K inlet The Blounts of K inlet 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 dancett£e 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.y fo. 25.) At the previous Visitation of
1634, Thomas Bloxam, of Offenham, disclaimed arms.t
Bloys, Bishop of Worcester, 12 18 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 WORCESTERSHIRE. 61
Blundell, of 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." {Nash, citing Habingdon, 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. {M.I. in St. Andrews 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. {N.)
An impalement of Walsh at Abberley, and of Mucklow at Mart*
ley. (&*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.) See 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. (N.)
The arms of the Bohuns, Earls of Hereford, Essex, and North-
ampton, as represented in Great Malvern church.
Bois. — Argent, two bars and a canton gules. (N.)
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 III.) con-
siderable estates in Warwickshire and Leicestershire, their chief seat
being at Weston, in Arden. In the Roll of temp. Henry III., and
in that of temp. Edward I., Ernaud de Boys bears this coat. Nicol
du 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 Planche.
Bolen, or Bullen, of Evesham. — Argent, a chevron gules
between three bulls heads couped sable. (Dr. Prattin-
ton, from Whittingham.)
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 church, 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 Edmund 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 sarceltee quarterly or and ermines, on a
chief of the third a rose-en-soleil between two pelicans
of the first {Harl. MS., 5846.)
64 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Bookey, of the " Ford" and the " Brine Pits" — 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, 0/ Worcester and Herts. ; confirmed in 1606. —
Quarterly argent and sable, on a bend cottised gules
three crosses form£e fitch^e or. Crest : Out of a mural
coronet sable, a griffin's head or, gorged with a fesse
between two gemelles gules, (//art. MS., 1 1 15.)
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 Babbesford, 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 III. 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 III., Ralph Burgullon was foreman upon
the inquest of Nones, for the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent. Mr.
Ward, from whose History of Stoke-upon-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 II., 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 Worcestershire. — Argent, on a chevron gules be-
* 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 (Pcnn
MS.)
Bosco, de, or Attwood, of Wichenford. — Gules, a lion ram-
pant double queu^e argent. See Attwood, and Habing-
don.
Bosom, or Botlesham. — Gules, three bird bolts two and one
argent. (N.)
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 " Cbltesham, quartered by Throck-
morton." Nash (or rather Dr. Thomas) erroneously ascribes to
" Bosom n the coat of Olney.
Bostock. — " Sable, a fesse humettde argent, on a quarter of
the second a mullet with six points gules two bars
ermine. In Upton church." (N.)
Habingdon describes an ancient monument, in Upton on-Sevem
church, being the portraiture of a knight, with a shield on his
left arm, " whereon he beareth Gu/es, two bars ermine/' and this
knight he says was a Boteter, 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-compon^e
argent and sable between six crosses patt^e or. (A^.)
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
66 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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 Sudeleybore 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 1 34 1, 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.
{N.)
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. (N.) See Butler.
Botenor. See Butnor.
Botetort, of Weoley Castle, Nortkfield. John de Botetort,
governor of St. Briavers Castle, co. Gloucester, and ad-
miral of the king's fleet in the reigns of Kings Edward I.
and 1 1., was summoned to Parliament as a Baron from 1 9th
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 WORCESTERSHIRE. 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 1 764, 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, Col/. 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 lion's
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 WORCESTERSHIRE.
Thomas Lyttelton, of Spetchley, with Anne, daughter and sole
heiress of John Botreaux.
Boughton- Rouse, of Rous-Lench, Bart " This," says Mr.
Shirley, " is a Warwickshire family, of good antiquity,
traced to Robert de Boreton, 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 1 64 1, 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, 1st and 4th, Sable,
two bars engrailed argent, for Rouse ; 2nd, Argent, on a
chevron between three crosses botton^e fitch6e 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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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 : 1st (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. Prattinton.)
This coat is not given in any of the Heraldic Dictionaries. Mr.
Papworth attributes it to Champion, Donstable, Garncys, 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.; 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 t 634.
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 VIII. See Bctham, i. 416.
79 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 1st and 4th, Argent, a
cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable, a
mullet for difference ; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, billett£e or a
fesse argent {Bedford.)
Bourne, of Battenhall and Wick ; as borne by Sir John
Bourne, principal Secretary of State under Queen Maryl-
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 VIII., a.d.
1544-5, and was sold by his son Anthony, in 13th Eliza-
beth, a.d. 1 5 70- 1. Sir John was also possessed of estates
at Holt, Ombersley, Upton-on-Severn, and elsewhere in
this county ; he died in 1 563, 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 r - of y e Marchant Taylors : he was alsoe
brother of Gilbert Bourne, Bishopp of Bath and Wells and p'sident
of y e Marches of Wales in y* tyme of Q. Mary : he was also cozen
jermen to S r - John Bourne, Secretary to Q. Mary." (See also Harl.
AfSS. 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 1 754, 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, M.D.* Richard Bourne, of Acton Hall, had two sons,
Francis and Richard ; the latter assumed the additional surname of
Charlett, (which set), 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 18th 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 1st and 4th, Azure, a
chevron between three crosses crosslet fitche'e or, within a bordure
engrailed of the last, for Sturges; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a chevron
gules between three lions rampant sable, for Bourne. Crest : A Tal-
bot's head couped. The arms of Page J were a chevron between
three martlets ; and the crest a demi-griffin.
Bourne, 0/ 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.
\ Gwillim, edit. 1724.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 73
Bowater, of Kingsnorton and Astley ; 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 Hanbury
Hall. — Argent, on an inescutcheon sable between eight
martlets, gules, a crescent of the field. (M. I. in Astley
church!)
The crest to this coat is, Out of clouds a rainbow all proper. (Her.
Die.)
Boyes. — Or, a griffin segreant compon^e argent and sable be-
tween six crosses crosslet of the field. {Win. 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 Bewdley. — Or, on a fesse between three cres-
cents gules, a mullet argent. {Penn MS.)
This is the coat of the Yorkshire family of Boynton y 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 fitch^e argent, three
and three, on a chief or three pellets. Crest : A lion
passant, holding in the fore-paws a cross crosslet fich^e.
(On the communion-plate at Rock. — Dr. JRrattinton.)
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 17 16. 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.)
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74 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. *
Brace, of Doverdale, and Hill Court. 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 10th 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. (H. 1 2, C. 30, and K. 4, Coll. Arm.)
These arms are attributed in the Penn 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. y 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, Froxmere; 3rd, Poher; 4th, Sturmey; 5th, Porter. They appear
from this to have been descended from a common ancestor with the
Braceys of Warndon. " This descent of Bracey (it is stated) is true ;
being given*to Richard Lee, and aproved of by a plea and evidences,
1 S73- ly The coat of Brace impaling Sturmey, of Rushock, is given
as being in " his house and church."
Brace, or Bracey, of Warndon and Madresfeld. We learn
from Nash that Robert de Braci held two hides in Warn-
* Nash, i. 292.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 75
don in the reign of Edward I., 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 Braci, 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 arras " Bracy of Warmendon " 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, ncft Bracie's, but Poher's
arms." Penn attributes the coat to Dovcrdale, and says it was
quartered by the Braces of Abberton.
Bradsston. — Argent, on a canton gules a rose or. (N.)
* Nash, ii. 452. See Lygon.
IO — 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 (N.)
Bradley, of Oldswinford and Stourbridge; as impaled by
Edward Vincent, of Kinfare, in right of Anne, his wife,
daughter of Thomas Bradley, of Oldswinford, a.d. 161 2.
— 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 I., 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 177 1, 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, nie 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)
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 Bradley.)
Brain. — Argent, three piles in point vert, on a canton sable
a lion's head erased or. (N.)
Bransford, Bishop of Worcester, 1339-49. — Three lions
passant (Bedford,— from his Seal.)
Brasier, 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, 1 789.)
This coat was granted, according to Burke, on 24th May, 1665,
78 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
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 & la cuisse) sable.
Brettell, 0/ Fins tall House, near Bromsgrove. — See Henzey.
Brewes. — Azure, sem6e of crosses crosslet, a lion rampant
ducally crowned or. (N.)
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, sister 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. (JV.)
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.
(Betham.)
Bridges. — Argent, a chevron engrailed sable between three
garbs gules. {Win. MS.)
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Bridges, or Brugg, of Eastington 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 Hacklmt, 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 sem6e of roundles counterchanged,
wreathed round the temples of the second and azure.
(C 30, Coll. Arm. fo. no; and Harl. MS. 1566, fo. 13 b.)
Bridges, of Worcester. — 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 Earl's Court and of the Grove, St. Johtis
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.
80 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
lions passant regardant azure. Crest : In a mural crown
... a demi lion ... (Penn 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. {Penn MS. ; and LHngley).
" 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 BrighVs 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 Herald 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., 2 119, was descended from the
On the Seal to his will dated 1656. (Prattinton, MSS.)
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. Sx
Brindleys of Wistaston, co. Chester. A Richard Brindley was
Mayor of Worcester in 1668.
Brinton, Breinton, or Binton, of Pixam, in 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 Kidderminster ; 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 queu^e between three annu-
lets counter-changed. Crest : In front of a saltire gules,
a beacon fired proper. Motto, " Lux et salus." {Com-
municated.)
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 Sal ton Moss, was the first who adopted the greyhound
and hare for his crest.
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82 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Broad, or Brode, of Dutulent, 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 Cluttons were a very
ancient family seated at Clutton, in the parish of Farn-
don, Cheshire, 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 Clutton, of
Courthyn, temp. Henry VIII., from whose younger bro-
ther Roger spring the Cluttons of Chorlton. The pedi-
gree was recorded at the visitation of 1682-3. — Quarterly
1 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. Crests : 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, for Brock; 2nd,
An owl on a myrtle wreath proper, for Clutton. Motto :
" Virescit vulnere virtus." {Shirley ; Burkes Lattded
Getitry ; and K. 4, Coll. Arm.> fo. 52.)
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 83
Brock hampton, of Brockhampton. — Gules, three lozenges
two and one ; also Gules, a fesse between six mascles or.
(N.)
Both these coats were quartered by Habingdon, the latter is attri-
buted to Hanley % in the Harl. MSS., 5814 and 5871. See 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 Upton-on-Severa ; 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 1 592,) was seated at Holt Castle. By his first
1 1 — 2
84 THE HERALDRY OF 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 oil 9th May, 1 741, Lord Montfort, Baron of
Horseheath, a title which expired on the death of the
third lord in 185 1. — 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 III., 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 e 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. d Gen,
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 85
or. Crest : Out of a mural crown or, on a wreath, a demj-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 m " 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.
Bromley, 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
rv. 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 Chetclton, 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-
celer of England, 1581," being the Bromley arms without inescutcheon or
bordure, quartering Cnetelton, and Clifton. 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 WORCESTERSHIRE.
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.
(N.)
This coat was borne, but with the lion guttle argent, by the family
of Bromwich of Sarnesfield, co. Hereford.
Brook. — Cheeky argent and sable. (N.)
Impaled by Astley, at Severn, Stoke. See Nash, ii., 344.
Broughton, of Worcester. — Gules, three boars passant or, a
canton of the last. (Penn 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 sal tire, 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. (N)
This is a Herefordshire family, seated at Avenbury and Harwood,
and also at Hall Court, in the parish 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. ^also Duncumb's Herefordshire.
* He afterwards assumed the surname of Pauncefote, but the name and
arms of Bromley are borne by the present baronet.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 87
Brown, of Eldersfield, and of Corse, co. Gloucester. Thomas
Brown, of Eldersfield was fined for refusing knighthood
at the Coronation of Charles I. — Or, on a fesse gules
three chess rooks, of the field, in chief as many martlets
sable.
This coat occurs, impaled with Turton, in Eldersfield church, on
the monument of Anne, wife of Richard Turton, of West Brom-
wich, co. Stafford, and daughter of Thomas Brown, gent ; she died
1 66 1. The same coat is attributed, in the Collection of Gloucester-
shire arms, 1792, to Brown, of Norton, in that county, a family
which, according to Rudder, possessed lands in Norton, from the
reign of Edward I. to the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Brown, of Pershore and Little Comberton ; entered at the
Visitation of 1634. — Quarterly 1st and 4th, as Brown of
Eldersfield ; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a chevron engrailed
between three griffin's heads erased sable, for Rake.
(C. 30, Coll. Arm. ff. 50, 114; and Harl. MS., 1566.)
Penn attributes to Browne of Comberton, Argent, three mullets
in bend between two cottises sable.
Brown, of Lea Castle, Wolverley ; as granted to John Brown,
of Lea Castle, High Sheriff in 1833, son of Joshua
Brown, of Dothill, Salop. Mr. Brown's sister Anne
married Edward Westhead, of Manchester, and their
son Joshua Proctor Westhead, assumed by royal license
in 1850, the surname of Brown before that of Westhead,
and the arms of Brown quarterly in the second and third
quarters with those of Westhead. — Azure, on a fesse
argent between three martlets in chief and the Roman
Fasces erect surmounting two swords in saltire and en-
circled by a chaplet in base or, three chess rooks sable.
Crest : A demi eagle displayed with two heads azure,
charged on the breast with the Fasces, swords and chap-
let as in the arms. (Burke's Armory.)
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Browne, of Droitwich. — Sable, three lions passant between
two bendlets and three trefoils slipped argent, in chief a
mullet or, for difference. Crest : A griffin's head erased
sable, collared and charged with a trefoil argent. {In
St. Andrew's church, Droitwich. Dr. Pratlinton)
Browne. — Gules, a chevron engrailed ermine between three
lion's gambs (or eagle's claws) couped and a bordure
invected or. Crest : An eagle's claw erased argent
armed gules holding two open wings sable. {In Crop-
thorne church. Dr. Prattinton.)
Nash (i., p. 273) describes the coat which occurs a* Cropthorne on
a mural monument, to Eleanor Browne, who died in 1756, aged 7
months, as Gules, a chevron ermine between three bear's paws.
Browning. — Barry wavy of six azure and argent {Penn
MS.)
William Browning, of Martley, "disclaimed" in 1683.* The coat
is that of the Brownings, of Cowley, co. Gloucester, whose heiress,
Elizabeth, (daughter of John Browning, by Elizabeth, daughter and
co-heiress of Robert Bridges,) married John Baker Dowell, of Over,
and died in 1725. See Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 225.
Brugg. See Bridges and Brydges.
Bruley. See Brusley.
Brus, or Bruys, Lord of Oldswinford, temp. Edward II. —
A plain cross and a chief. {Seal of Bernard de Brus, 14
Edward II. Nash, ii. 207/)
Bernard de Brus bears in the Rolls of temp. Edward I. and II.,
Azure, a saltire and chief or, which coat was quartered for Brus by
the Harringtons, of Exton.
Brusley. — Ermine, on a bend sable three chevrons argent.
m "
* William Browning, gent., who died in 1697, Sarah his wife, and William
his son, have memorials in Martley church. See Nash, ii., 1 68.
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The bend should be guhs and the chevrons or. It is the coat of
Bruley as quartered by Huband through Danvers.
Bryan. — Or, three piles in point azure. {Penn MS.)
Brydges, Lord Chandos, Lord of Eldersfield. — Argent, ori a
cross sable a leopard's face or ; quartering Berkeley and
Chandos. {Nash, i., 374.) See Berkeley.
Brydges. — Argent, on a cross engrailed gules a leopard's face
or.* (N.)
Nash attributes the same coat to Giles Erugg, of Lower Sapey,
Sheriff 40th Edward lit
Brydges. See Bridges.
Buck. — Barry bendy or and azure, a canton ermine. (Win.
MS.)
Buck, of the Nash, Kempsey ; thef e seated as early as the
14th century. The pedigree was recorded at the Visita-
tions of 1569 and 1634, and is given in Nash, i., ig. —
Per fesse nebulae argent and sable, three buck's attires
fixed to the scalp all counterchanged ; quartering Good,
and Wale of Broadwas. Crest : A buck's attire fixed to
the scalp sable. (D. 1 2, and C 30, Coll. Arm, ; Harl.
MSS, 615, 1566.)
Buckle, of Chaseley ; ds borne by Richard Budkle, High
Sheriff in 1747. — Or, three lions rampant gules. (M.I.
at Chaseley. \)
This coat is not given in Mr. Papworth's Ordinary. " Buckland
or Buckle/' of Somersetshire, bears Gules, three lions rampant ar-
gent, a canton sable charged with a fret or. Crest, On a chapeau,
a talbot sejant or.
* " In the city gaol, it has a racket in the dexter quarter." (N.)
t The same arms are on the monument in Wolfrelow church, co. Hereford,
of Elizabeth, wife of William Buckle, of Chaseley, who died in 1726, aged 67.
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BULKELEY. See BURKLEY.
Bull, of Hallow Park ; entered at the Visitation of 1682-3,
by Edward Bull, soh of Anthony Bull, of London, de-
scended from a Warwickshire family. — Gules, an arm to
the elbow in fesse habited in fluted armour and couped
argent, holding in the hand proper a short sword erect
of the second hilted or. Crest : A bull passant sable
armed or, on a scroll issuing from the mouth this motto :
" God is corteys." {K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 53.)
Buller. — Argent, a chevron between three bull's heads
erased sable. (Penn MS.)
Bullen. See Bolen.
Bullingham, Bishop of Worcester, 1 5 7 1 -6. — Azure, an eagle
displayed argent in the beak a branch of beech or, on a
chief of the last a rose between two crosses botton^e
gules. {Monument at Worcester!)
Burke attributes this coat to Bullingham, of Lincoln, with the
crest, An escallop argent between two palm branches vert. It was
probably granted to Nicholas Bullingham when Bishop of Lincoln,
from which see he was translated to Worcester. He was a native of
this county.*
Bulmer. — Gules, a lion rampant or, billetty sable. (N.)
Sir Raufe de Bolmere and Sir Roger de Bolmere occur in the
Roll of Arms of temp. Edward II. ; the one bore Gules, billetty and
a lion rampant or, and the other Argent, billetty and a lion rampant
gules. The former coat occurs among the Lyttelton quarterings at
Frankley. It was brought in through Talbot, by Neville ; Emma,
the only daughter and heiress of Bertram de Bulmer, of Brancepeth,
Durham, having married in the 12th century, Geoffrey de Neville, by
whom she was mother of a jdaughter and heiress, married to Robert
Fitzmaldred, Lord of Raby, whose son Geoffrey adopted his mother's
* The same coat is impaled by Walsh in Stockton church.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 91
surname of Neville, and was ancestor of the Earls of Abergavenny,
Warwick, Westmoreland, &c.
Bulstrode, of Worcester and Tewkesbury ; an ancient Buck-
inghamshire family. George Gardner Bulstrode, of
Worcester, who died in 1822, aged 77, and Augustus
Bulstrode, who died at Worcester in 1823, were the last
male descendants of Sir Richard Bulstrode, lent, Adju-
tant-General of the Forces, and envoy to the city of
Brussels in the reigns of Charles I. and II., who died at
the age of 10 1, in 171 1, and was lineally descended from
Robert Boulstrode, living temp. Henry III. — Sable, a
stags head cabossed argent attired or, between the attires
a cross pattie fitch^e of the third, through the nostrils
an arrow of the last feathered of the second; with
several quarterings. Crest : A bull's head gules, between
two wings argent. Motto : " Look to the end," (M.I.
in St. Oswald's church, Worcester?)
The same arms are in All Saints church, Evesham, on the monu-
ment of Mary, wife of Edward Bulstrode, of Tewkesbury, and
daughter of Samuel Gardner, of Evesham ; she died in 1715, at. 61.
Bund, of Wick Episcopi; as borne by the late Thomas Henry
Bund, of Wick, Colonel of the Worcestershire Militia,
son of Thomas Bund, of Wick, High Sheriff in 1784,
by Susannah, daughter and co-heiress of Benjamin John-
son, of Worcester ; and grandson of William Bund, by
Mary, daughter and heiress of John Parsons, of Over-
bury. Colonel Bund married Anne, daughter and heiress
of the Rev. Pynson Wilmot, vicar of Halesowen, by
whom he had, with other issue, a daughter, Anne Susan-
nah Kent, married to John Walpole Willis, whose only
son, John William Bund Willis, was authorised by royal
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92 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
license, dated August 5th, 1864, to take the surname of
Bund after that of Willis, and to bear the arms of Bund.
— Quarterly 1st and 4th, Gules, three eagles legs erased
k la cuisse, two and one, or, for Bund; 2nd, Azure, a
chevron ermine between three trefoils slipped argent, for
Parsons; 3rd, Argent, a fesse lozengy between three
lion's heads erased gules, for Johnson. Crest : An eagle's
head erased or. (Burke's Landed Gentry.)
Mr. Willis Bund bears Quarterly 1st and 4th, Bund (as above) ;
2nd and 3rd, Willis (which see). Motto : " Non nobis Domine ;"
but the coat assigned to him in 1864 by the College of Arms for
Willis-Bund was Gules, between two piles ermine three eagle's legs
erased or, all within a bordure of the second. Crest : Two lion's
paws erased, supporting an. eagle's head erased all proper,
Burdett. — Azure, two bars or each charged with three
martlets gules. (N)
Quartered by Stafford of Grafton, in right of the marriage of Sir
Humphrey Stafford, temp. Henry IV., with Elizabeth, daughter and
heiress of Sir John Burdett, of Huncote, knt The Burdetts were
also lords of Jtelbroughton ; see Conway,
Bukford, of Vroitwick^ Richard de Burford, Bishop of
Chichester, a native of Droitwich, is presumed by Nash
to have been descended from a, family of that name,
seated at White- Ladies- Aston. Leland calls him Richard
de la Wiche, from the place of his birth. — Gules, a cross
between four covered cups argent. (Harl. MS., 4632.)
Dallaway, in his Western Sussex, ascribes to Bishop Burford
the coat of Wychc, vix,, Krminc, a pile gules. (Bedford.)
Burghersii or Burwash. — Gules, a lion rampant double queu^e
or. (N.)
This coat was formerly in glass, impaled with Despencer, in St
Andrew's church, Pershore ; it was borne temp. Edward III., by
Sir "Bertilmew de Borovash, v of Kent, (Roll of that date.) Bar-
tholomew de Burghersh, third son of Robert Lord Burghersh, was
THE. HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 95
summoned to Parliament as a baron in 1330; he married Elizabeth,
daughter and co-heiress of Theobald Lord Verdon, and dying in
1355, was succeeded by his son Bartholomew. This nobleman, who
was a knight of the garter, died in 1369, leaving Elizabeth his sole
daughter and heiress, who married Edward Lord Despencer. The
barony of Burghersh, it is presumed, eventually fell into abeyance
between the daughters of Isabel Despencer, by her two husbands,
Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester, and Richard Beauchamp,
Earl of Warwick. Thomas Chaucer, a son of the renowned poet
Geoffrey Chaucer, married Maud, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John
de Burghersh, knt, and had issue an only daughter andheiress, Alice,
who was married, first to Sir John Phelip, and s*e5Kffly to William
De la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, K.G, \^ ^ vw><~* 1 £W~x
Burkley. — Sable, a chevron between three bull's heads ca-
bossed argent (-A^.)
These are the arms of Bulkeley. They occur with six quarterings
on the monument at Wickamford of Sir Edwyn Sandys, knt. (eldeat
son of Sir Samuel Sandys, of Ombersley, knt.), who married, in
1 6 14, Penelope, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley, of Beaumaris,
knt., and sister of the first Viscount Bulkeley. - See Nash, ii. 462.
Burley, of Bromscroft Castle, Salop. — Argent, a lion ram-
pant sajble debruised with a fesse counter-componee or
and azure. {N.)
Thomas Lyttelton, (or Littleton, as his name is usually written),
the learned author of the Tenures, married Joan, daughter and co-
heiress of William Burley, of Bromscroft In Edmondson's Barona-
gium, among the hundred and twenty-two coats quartered by
Lyttelton is that of Mylde alias Burley, as above ; and the same
coat also occurs among the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley. Wil-
liam Burley, who was High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1426, and sub-
sequently speaker of the House of Commons, bore these arms ;
but his father, John Burley, High Sheriff of the same county in
1409, bore Vert, three boar's heads couped close argent, in allusion
to his name, Boreley. An earlier coat, resembling that of Mortimer
(viz. Barry of six sable and or, on a chief of the second two pallets
of the first, an inescutcheon,* ermine charged with three bars gules)
was borne by Sir Simon Burley, Sir Richard Burley, and Sir John
• See Edefyn.
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94 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Burley, all at one time knights of the garter. See the Herald and
Genealogist, vol. i. p. 437-
Burlton, of Wribbenhall and Sandbourne, Bewdley, and of
Kidderminster; as granted to Humphrey Burlton, of
Wribbenhall, on 30th June, 1660, by Walker, and allowed
at the Visitation of 1682-3. — Argent, on a bend sable
three crescents of the field within a bordure of the second
charged with eight estoiles also of the field. {Add. MSS.,
14,293 and 14,294 ; and K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 77.)
The grant recites* the many and great services rendered by the
said Humphrey Burlton to King Charles I. and his successor, as well
as various acts of military valour displayed by him at Bristol, Glou-
cester, and Naseby. At the Visitation of 1634 Humphrey Burlton
disclaimed all right to arms.
Burnavill. — Gules, a rose argent (N.)
Quartered through Andrewes, by Windsor. See Weyland.
Burnell. — Argent, two bars gules in chief three torteaux.
(N.)
No such coat is ascribed to the name of Burnell in any of the
Heraldic Dictionaries. But Hungerford, of Suckley, who bore
Sable, two bars argent in chief three plates, married a co-heiress of
Burnell. The coat occurs at Offenham.
Burnell, of Weoley Castle. — Argent, a lion rampant sable
crowned or, within a bordure azure. (N.)
This coat was borne by Sir Hugh Burnell, who became possessed
of Weoley Castle, in right of his wife, Joyce Botetort, heiress of the
Lords Botetort. He was the son of Nicholas de Handlo, who,
inheriting the estates of his mother, Maud, sister and heiress of
Edward Lord Burnell, assumed that surname, and was summoned
to Parliament as Lord Burnell, in 24th Edward III.
# The original grant was, in 181 3, in the possession of a correspondent of
the Gentleman's Magazine, who signs himself "J. G.," and dates from High
Wycombe.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 95
Burrish. — Gules, a Hon rampant double queu^e or.
" In Hadsor church impaling Waldron." — Dr. Praiiinton. It is
the coat of the Lords Burghersh.
Burton, of Bewdley, and of Gedney> co. Lincoln, and Higley,
co. Salop. — Quarterly ist and 4th, Argent, a bend wavy
sable ; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a fleur-de-lis azure. Crest :
An arm vested gules holding a sword of the same.
Motto : " Dum spiro spero." {Prattinton MSS.)
The Heraldic Dictionaries give this coat to Burton of Yorkshire,
but the Crest is thus blazoned, An arm erect, couped at the elbow,
habited per pale argent and gules cuff of the first, in the hand pro-
per a walking staff of the second, headed, rimmed, and ferruled or.
Burton of Worcester; as borne by John Burton, Mayor of
Worcester, in 1692. — Azure, a fesse between three talbot's
heads erased or. {M.I. in St. Nicholas' church, Worcester!)
Bury, of Abberley ; as borne by Thomas Bury, jun., High
Sheriff in 1 768. — Ermine, on a bend azure, three fleurs-
de-lis or. {Nash.)
Thomas Bury of Abberley (probably an ancestor of the above
gentleman) disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1634.
Bushell, of Cleeve Prior; an ancient family seated at Broad-
marston, in the parish of Petworth, co. Gloucester, as early
as the thirteenth century. Richard Bushell of Broadmar-
ston, grandson of Sir Alan Bushell who died in 1425,
married Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Clement Mu-
sard, and had issue Roger Bushell, who married Eva,
daughter of Geoffrey pabitot of Redmarley. Richard
Bushell, grandson of Roger, married Katherine, daughter
and co-heiress of Sir William Saltmarshe ; and from him
was lineally descended Thomas Bushell, of Cleeve Prior,
who was High Sheriff in 1729. The name is found in
96 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
the parish registers of Cleeve as early as 1604, in which
year Edward Bushell was baptised ; and the family were
seated there at the visitation of 1634, when the pedigree
and arms were recorded. Robert Bushell, of Cleeve,
married, on 6th August, 1696, Diana, daughter and co-
heiress of Sir John Fettiplace, Bart., of Childrey, Berks,
and had issue a son, Charles, who, on succeeding to the
Childrey estate, assumed the surname of Fettiplace.
Robert Fettiplace, of Swinebrook Park, Oxfordshire, and
Charles Fettiplace, of the county of Oxford, were buried
at Cleeve, the former on 28th January, 1799, and the
latter on 28th December, 1805. — Argent, a chevron be-
tween three water-bougets sable. Crest : A cherub's
head winged or. (C 30, Coll. Ann., fo. 35 ; and Harl.
MS. 1566.)
In the Harl. MS. 1566, Bushell quarters, Or, two chevrons azure.
(Afusard?) ; Azure, a chevron or between three bezants (Dabitot1)\
and, Argent, sem^e of crosses crosslet gules, three cinquefoils of the
last, for Saltmarshe. Penn gives two coats for "Busseyll, alias
Bushell, of Cleeve ;" the first as above, and the second, Or, a dol-
phin naiant embowed azure, a chief of the last
Butler, of Droitwick. This family, whose pedigree was re-
corded at the Visitation of 1569, was descended from
the Butlers of Yatton. The first that settled at Wich
was William Butler, son of William Butler of Yatton by
Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Wybbe, whose
mother was an heiress of Froxmore. They continued at
Wich for several generations. — Quarterly 1st, Argent, on
a chief indented sable (azure in Penn MS), three covered
cups or; 2nd, Gules, a chevron between three covered
cups or, both for Butler ; 3rd, Gules, a chevron between
three cinquefoils or, for Wybbe; 4th, Sable a griffin
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segreant between three crosses crosslet fitch^e, argent,
for Froxmore ; 5th, Or, on a bend gules three eagles
displayed of the field, for Bagehott, of Droitwich.*
Crest : Under a branch of a mulberry tree proper, fructed
gules, two birds supporting the same argent, beaked and
legged or. (Harl. MS. 1566; and D. 12, Coll. Arm.,
fo. 49.)
Butler, of Hallow.— Gules, a chevron between three covered
cups or. (Penn MS.)
Butler, Earl of Ormonde, Lord of Bedcote and Oldswinford,
temp. Henry VI. — Or, a chief indented azure.
Butnor, or Botenor. — Or, on a chevron between three lion's
heads erased gules as many bezants.
Borne by William de Wyrcestre (Worcester) who assumed his
mother's surname of Botenor, or Butnor. The family of Botenor
was of Withybrooke, co. Warwick, temp. Henry IV. The same
coat occurs among the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley, and is
attributed by Nash to Somerton.
Button. — Ermine, a fesse gules. (Win. MS.)
This coat was borne by the Buttons of Alton, Wilts., originally of
Button, or Bitton, co. Gloucester. See Berry's Hampshire Pedigrees.
Buxton. — Argent, a lion rampant, tail elevated, sable. (Win.
MS.)
Byde, or Baude, of Worcestershire. — Argent, on a pile en-
grailed azure three anchors of the field. (Dr. Prattin-
ton, from W hittingham.)
Byrd, of Bretforton and Evesham. William Byrd, of Eve-
sham, entered his pedigree at the Visitation of 1682-3 ;
* In right of the marriage of William Butler with Eleanor, daughter and
heiress of John Bagehott of Droitwich. See Harl. MS., 1566.
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98 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
his daughter Anne was married in 1680, to the Rev.
John Brawne, Rector of Saintbury, co. Gloucester, and
had issue a daughter and heiress, married to Joseph
Archer, of co. Warwick. The name of Byrd occurs in
the Bretforton parish registers as early as 1540. — Or, on
a chevron engrailed gules between three lions rampant
sable as many fleurs de lis of the field. (" Respited for
proof" K. 4, Coll. Arm. fo. 148.)
Bysell, of Worcestershire. — Azure, ten bezants, four, three,
two, and one. (Her. Die.)
John de Bezile bears in the Charles Roll of temp. Henry III.
and Edward I., Argent, three torteaux ; but the above coat appears
to be that of Bissd.
Caldwell, of Upton Warren, and of Leicestershire. Edward
Caldwell, of Upton Warren, third son of William Cald-
well, of Burton-upon-Trent, co. Stafford, by Joan, daugh-
ter of William Fishwick, married Mary Skinner, and had,
with daughters, two sons, Robert Caldwell, of Upton
Warren, (who by a daughter of — Smith, of Stoke Prior,
had a son and heir, Edward, aged 6, in 1619,) and
Samuel Caldwell, who resided in Leicestershire, and re-
corded his pedigree at the Visitation of that county in
1619. — Quarterly 1st and 4th, Azure, a cross patt^e
fitch^e within an orle of ten estoiles or; 2nd and 3rd,
Argent, on a fesse dancett^e sable three whale's heads
erect and erased or. Crest : A cocks head argent
(sometimes or) beaked, combed, and wattled gules, be-
tween two wings expanded sable, in the beak a cross
patt£e fitch^e or. Also a more ancient coat, Gules, three
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crosses pattde fitch^e or. (Harl. MS., 1566; and
Nichols's Leicestershire.)
In the Harl. MS., 1422, these bearings are attributed to "Robert
Chedwall potius Caldwall, belonging to Mr. Talbot,* of Grafton, in
com. Wigorn ;" and in the same MS. is a coat stated to have been
confirmed by Wriothesley, Garter, and Benolt, Clarencieux, to Ralph
Caldwell, of Alston, co. Stafford, viz., Argent, on a fesse dancette'e
between three lozenges long-ways gules as many whale's heads erect
and erased or. Crest : A cock's head, &c, as above.
Caldwell, of Bewdley ; as borne by Bonham Caldwell, Bailiff
of Bewdley in 1699 and 1706 awing on a
chief three roundles. Crest : A wing. {Dr. Prattinton.)
Cameron, of Worcester ; as borne by the late Archibald
Cameron, who died in 1846, son of Charles Cameron, of
Worcester, M.D., by Anne, his wife, daughter of Edward
Ingram, and grandson of Thomas Cameron, M.D., also
of Worcester, who died in 1777, aged 73, by Barbara
Anne, daughter of William Plowden, of Plowden, co.
Salop ; which Thomas was the son of the Rev. John
Cameron, minister of Callendar, N.B., a presumed de-
scendant of the Camerons of Lochiel. Mr. Archibald
Campbell married, in 18 19, Mary, daughter of the Rev.
William Hancock Roberts, D.D., and by her, who died
in 1 87 1, was father of the present Archibald Henry
Foley Cameron, M.D., of Liverpool. — Argent, three bars
gules within a bordure azure. Crest : A dexter arm
embowed in armour grasping a sword all proper. (Com-
municated.)
* Edward Caldwell, of Upton, had an elder brother, Robert, who is called
in the Leicestershire Visitation " of Whitford in com. Wigorn." This Robert
had issue a son and heir, Talbot Caldwell. (Set' Nichols's Leicestershire, iv.,
370, and the Visitation of Leicestershire, taken in 16 19, published by the Har-
leian Society.)
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Camoys, as quartered by Sheldon of Broadway, (through
Lewknor,) at the Visitation of 1634. — Or, on a chief
gules three plates. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 97.)
This coat, which is that of the Lords Camoys, was quartered by
Lewknor, in right of the marriage of Sir Roger Lewknor with
Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Lord Camoys. Thomas
Lewknor, the great grandson of this marriage, was father by Bennett
Challoner his wife, of Nicholas Lewknor, of Hadsor, who appears
to have died s.p., and of a daughter Jane, wife of Anthony Sheldon,
of Broadway. (See Berry's Sussex Pedigrees, p. 343.)
Camvill. — Azure, three crescents between nine crosses cross-
let argent (N.)
This is a mistake ; the coat is that of the family of Glanville. It
was borne, according to Glover, by Ranulph de Glanville, Lord of
Coverham, and occurs among the Lyttelton quarterings in Frankley
church. The Staffords, of Grafton, quartered the arms of Camville
through Burdett, in right of the marriage of Robert Burdett (grand-
father of John Burdett, whose daughter Elizabeth married Hum-
phrey Stafford, of Grafton), with Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of
Geoffrey de Camville, of Arrow, co. Warwick; but the arms. so quar-
tered were, Azure, three lions passant in pale argent.
Canning, of Bretforton, and of Foxcote, co. Warwick. —
Argent, three Moors heads in profile couped at the necks
proper, wreathed about the temples or and azure. (Ha-
bingdon.)
Cantelupe. — Gules, a crescent between three fleurs de lis or.
(Penn MS.)
Nash attributes this coat (but without the crescent) to Sir William
de Cantilupe, knt, of Aston Cantilupe, co. Warwick, Sheriff of
Worcestershire in the reign of John.
Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester, 1 236-1 266. — Gules, three
leopard's faces reversed jessant de lis or. (Bedford.)
Capdois, as quartered by Gates in Broadwas church.— Gules,
a cinquefoil argent guttee de poix.
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Cardale, of Dudley and Hagley ; as borne in 1670 by Wil-
liam Cardale, of Dudley, son of William Cardale, of
Hagley, and grandson of William Cardale, living in 1 590.
He married first, Mary, daughter of Nicholas Adden-
brooke, (by whom he had an only son, who died s.p.) and
secondly, Mary, daughter of Henry Finch, and was
father by her (with others) of two sons, John Cardale, of
Dudley, surgeon, and the Rev. Joseph Cardale, Vicar of
Bulkington, co. Warwick, and of Hinckley, co. Leicester,
from whom the Cardales of Leicestershire are descended.
The eldest son, John Cardale, married in 1693, Eleanor
Smith, of Halesowen, by whom he had a numerous
family, but the male descendants of all, save Ferdinando,
who was born in 1718, are extinct. This gentleman,
who was an alderman of Worcester, had, by Susannah
his wife, an only surviving son, William Cardale, born in
1746, who married Elizabeth De La Field, and by her
was father of the late William Cardale, of Bedford Row,
London, whose eldest son (by his wife Mary Anne Ben-
nett, grand-daughter and co-heiress of Francis Say, of
London) is John Bate Cardale, of Albury, near Guildford,
Surrey. — Azure, a chevron argent between three linnets
proper. Crest : A linnet proper. Motto : " Studendo
et contemplando indefessus." (From a pedigree commu-
nicated by the family.)
In the Heraldic Dictionaries there is another coat attributed to
the name of Cardale, viz., Or, a chevron per pale azure and gules
between three Cornish choughs proper. In the Addenda to Berry's
Emyclopadia, this is stated to have been " borne by the late William
Cardale, of Bedford Row."
Carew, of Middle Littleton, of which manor Sir Matthew
Carew, a descendant of the ancient Devonshire family of
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that name, was lord in the seventeenth century. Sir
Matthew, who was born at Wickham, in Kent, in 1590,
had issue a son, Edward Carew, who married Eleanor,
daughter and heiress of William Reynolds, of Shottery,
co. Warwick. The name of " Edward Carew, of Little-
ton, esq.," occurs in the List of Worcestershire Gentry,
a 1673* given in Blomes Britannia; and George "Came"
was one of those who, according to Penn, were to find
horse in Worcestershire during the civil wars. — Or, three
lions passant in pale sable. {M.I. in Littleton church!)
A stone, containing the achievement of Carew has been recently
found in Middle Littleton church on the removal of a pew. The
quarterings, which are twenty-five in number, include the coats of
Fitzstevens, Courcy, Tivyte, GDron, Mohun, Briwere, Courtenay^
Archdeckne, Roche, Haccomb, Talbot of Richard's Castle, &*c, '6r*e.
Carlos, as granted on 21st May, 1658, to the famous Colonel
William Carlos. This gallant cavalier, whose name was
originally Carliss, or Careless, but changed to Carlos, it
is said, at the request of Charles II., was born at Brom-
hall, in Staffordshire, within two miles of Boscobel, of
good parentage, and is said to have been descended from
an ancient family of Carlis, formerly seated at Albrigh-
ton, Salop. Col. Carlos left nearly the whole of his pro-
perty to Edward Carlos, then of Worcester, apothecary,
and his issue. What relationship, if any, existed between
them does not appear, but there was an Anthony Carless
who was Warden of the Clothworkers' Company at Wor-
cester, in 1665, who may have been the father of Edward.
It appears from an inscription in All Saint's church, Wor-
cester, that this Anthony died in 1670, ait. 60, and that
by Mary, his wife, he had a son, Thomas. Walter Car-
less, of Worcester, but afterwards of Powick, apothecary, .
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 103
evidently one of this family, died in 1843, aged 84, and
has a monument at Powick, whereon are represented the
Carlos arms. — Or, on a mount in base vert, an oak tree
proper, over all on a fesse gules three regal crowns of the
field. Crest : A sword argent, hilt and pomel or, and a
sceptre of the last in saltire, enfiled with an oaken civic
crown vert. Motto : " Subditus fidelis Regis, et salus
Regni." (See Notes and Queries \ 1st S. x. 344, 434, &c.)
Carminow. — Azure, a bend or. (N.)
Quartered by Arundel, at Birtsmorton ; Sir John Arundel, knt.,
having married one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Thomas
Carminow.
Carpenter, Bishop of Worcester, 1444-76. — Paly of six ar-
gent and gules, on a chevron of the first three crosses
crosslet sable, in chief a mitre or. {Monument; but Nash
gives Paly of six azure and gules. Crest : A coney
sejant argent.)
Carr, Bishop of Worcester, 1 831 -41. —Gules, on a chevron
argent, three mullets sable. (Bedford!)
Carre. — Argent, on a bend sable, between three Cornish
choughs proper, as many leopard's faces of the field. —
(Penn MS.)
Carter — . . . a tree debruised by a fesse ... (In Hallow
church, Dr. Prattinton.)
Carter, of Perry Court. — Azure, two lions rampant combat-
ant or. (Harl. MS. 1566.)
Carter, of Hanbury. — Azure, a talbot passant or, armed and
langued gules, between three fermaux of the second. —
(Penn MS.)
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Carthorp. — Or, a bend azure. (N.)
One of the quarterings of Bulkeley, on the Sandys monument,
at Wickhamford. See Nash, ii., 463.
Cartwright, of Dudley ; as borne by the late Cornelius Cart-
wright, of Dudley. — Ermine, a fesse sable between three
fire-balls of the last fired proper. Crest : A wolf's head
erased or, pierced with a spear argent {Seal.)
Carwardine, 0/ St. John's, Worcester. This family entered a
pedigree at the Visitation of 1682-3, but their arms were
disallowed. Richard Carwarden occurs in Penn's list of
those who were to find horse during the civil wars. —
Sable, a bow stringed between two pheons argent. (N. ;
Penn MS.; and K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 131.)
Case, of Powick, as borne by Richard Case, High Sheriff in
1 761, who died in 1774, aged 63. He was the son of ...
Case, by the daughter and heiress of Richard Jesson, son
of John Jesson of Hagley, by Sarah, daughter of Paul
Henzey of Stourbridge. — Quarterly 1st and 4th, Argent,
a chevron between three griffin's heads erased gules, for
Case ; 2nd and 3rd, Azure, a fesse embattled or between
three cock's heads erased argent, for Jesson. (M. I. to
Richard Case in Powick Church.)
Cassey. " The Casseys," says Nash, " were an ancient and
honourable family, as appears by their arms in the win-
dows of the Cathedral church of Worcester, and St.
Augustin's, commonly called Dodderhill." Thomas
Cassey married Cecily, sister and co-heiress of Hugh
Cooksey, and by her had two daughters, the elder of
whom, Agnes, married Walter Huddington or Hoding-
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 105
ton, son of John Huddington of Huddington, by Marga-
ret, daughter and heiress of John Golafer. She was
ancestress of the Russells of Strensham, and the Winters
of Huddington. — Argent, on a bend gules three buckles
(sometimes called annulets) or. (IV. ; and Harl. MS. t
1043.)
Castinworth, Chastelyn, or Chestline. — Gules, on a bend
argent three towers sable. Also ... on a bend gules
three lions passant guardant or. (IV.)
The first coat is in one of the windows of Hadsor church. It
was borne, according to Bishop Lyttelton, by Sir Gilbert Chastelyn.
Cave, of Leigh Sinton, and Evesham ; a branch of the ancient
and honourable family of Cave of Stanford, in Leicester-
shire, founded by John, son of John Cave, who was a
second son of Sir John Cave, of Stanford, knt* In the
Harl. MS. 1450, there is a pedigree of seven descents,
commencing with John Cave, of Leigh Sinton, who mar-
ried Margaret, daughter of Thomas Acton, and relict of
. . . Rufford. The pedigree was also recorded at the
visitation of 1682-3. — Azure, fretty argent, on a fesse or
a greyhound courant sable within a bordure of the third
pellett^e. (K. 4, Coll. Arm, fo. 27.)
Penn attributes this coat to Cave, of Horsum, in the parish of
Martley. The arms of the Leicestershire Caves are Azure, fretty
argent, and the same coat occurs on the monument of Adam Cave,
gent., (who died in 1698, aged 29,) in All Saints' church, Evesham.
Cecil, of Lindridge.. — Barry of ten argent and azure, over all
six escutcheons sable, three, two, and one, each charged
with a lion rampant of the first. (M. I. in Litidridge
* See Pedigree in Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iv.
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106 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
churchy to John Cecil, " of this parish, gent, sometime
High Sheriff of the city of Bristol," who died in 1697.)
The same arms were borne by Henry Cecil, of Hanbury, (Tenny-
son's " Lord of Burleigh,") afterwards Marquis of Exeter. See Ver-
non.
Chamberlain. — Argent, an eagle displayed gules armed or.
(N.)
Chamberline. — Gules, an inescutcheon argent (Win. MS.)
Chambers.* — Argent, a chevron sable surmounted by another
ermine, between three chambers placed transverse of the
escutcheon, fired proper. {Win. MS.)
Chambers, of Worcester. — Gules, a chevron between three
cinquefoils or. (M. /., in the cathedral, to William
Chamders, of Worcester, who died 16 16, at. 32.)
Chambers, of Upton-on-Severn, afterwards of Little Marcle %
co. Hereford. — Sable, a cross couped ermine between
four falcons rising or ; quartering, Vert, a chevron or be-
tween three plates, for Pullen. Crest : On a ducal coro-
net or, a demi-eagle displayed gules winged or. (Harl.
MS, 1545.)
Champernon. — Gules, a saltire vaire between twelve billets or.
One of the Willoughby quarterings, at Welland.
Chance, as borne by Edward Chance, of Great Malvern, a
magistrate for this county, son of the late William Chance
of Birmingham, by Phoebe, daughter of James Timmins.
* There was a family of this name formerly seated at Longdon, at a place
now called " Chambers' Court." In 20 Edward III. Robert de la Chamber
held lands in Longdon, and in the 7th Henry VI. the same lands belonged to
Robert Chambers or Att-Chamber. See Nash, ii., 107.
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—Gules, a saltire vaire between two fleurs-de-lis in chief
and base, and as many towers in flanks argent Crest :
A demi-lion rampant gules, sem6e of annulets or, holding
between the paws a sword erect, entwined by a wreath of
oak proper. Motto : " Deo non fortune" {Burke)
Chance, of Hadsor. See Barnesley.
Thomas Chaunce, of Hadsor, gent., paid a fine for not taking
knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. He disclaimed arms at
the visitation of 1634, as well as John Chance of Bromsgrove, John
Chance of Woodcote, and John Chance of " Bedward."
Chapeau, of Worcester. — Argent, two bars azure. Crest : A
hawk rising proper. (At Martin Hussingtree, impaling
Stephens. — Dr. Prattinton.)
Chaplin. — Ermine, on a chief indented vert three griffin's
heads erased or. (Dr. Prattinton, from Whittingham.)
Chapman, of Hanging Aston. — Per chevron argent and
gules, a crescent, counterchanged. (N.)
Charlett, of Hill and Moor, Fladbury ; as borne by Arthur
Charlett of Hill and Moor, son of John Charlett of the
same place, and nephew of Dr. Arthur Charlett, Master
of University College, Oxford. Of this family also was
the Reverend John Charlett, Prebendary of Worcester
in 1607. The Charletts were originally of Cleeve Prior,
where their old stone-gabled house, having the date
1 6 19 on one of the mullions of the windows, yet stands.
The earliest entry of the name in the Cleeve Prior regis-
ters occurs in 1 598, when Richard, son of Richard Char-
lett, was baptized ; and the last entry is the burial of John
Charlett, of Evesham, surgeon, in 1807. — Or, a lion
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108 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
rampant within a bordure engrailed azure. Crest ; A
stag's head couped or. (Prattinton MSS.)
Nash, and Burke (General Armory) give the lion and bordure
vert, but the master of University College bore them azure. (See
Papworth.) Arthur Charlett of Hill, and John Charlett of Piddle
"disclaimed" at the Visitation of 1682-3.
Charlett, as borne by the late James Wakeman Newport-
Charlett, who assumed the surname of Charlett, in addi-
tion to that of Newport, on succeeding, in July, 182 1, on
the death of his cousin, Richard Bourne Charlett of Elm-
ley Castle, (High Sheriff in 1785,) to that portion of the
Charlett property in which there was a reversionary in-
terest. Mr. Newport-Charlett was the son of James
Wakeman, who had assumed the surname of Newport
on his marriage in 1 760, with Elizabeth, daughter and
heiress of John Newport, of Hanley Court (See New-
port.) Quarterly 1st and 4th, Gules, a lion rampant
within a bordure engrailed argent, for Charlett ; 2nd and
3rd, Argent, a fesse between three crescents sable, for
Newport. Crests : A stags head or, for C/iarlelt; and A
fleur de lis or, for Newport. (Burke.)
Charlton. (Lord Powys). — Or, a lion rampant gules. (N.)
Quartered by the Lords Dudley, and by Lea-Smith of Halesowen
Grange. There was a family of this name seated at Charlton, in
Cropthorne, of which Nash gives a short account. He supposes
that the heiress married Handsacre, for, he says, the coat of Charl-
ton (Or, a lion rampant gules) is quartered on the tomb of Francis
Dineley, at Cropthorne, next after Handsacre.
Charlton- Lechmere, of Hanley Castle, and of Ludford, co.
Hereford. Sir Job Charlton of Ludford, one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, was created a
baronet in 1686. He was succeeded by his eldest son,
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 109
Sir Francis, whose son and successor, Sir Blundel Charl-
ton, married Mary, sister of Lord Foley, and was father
of two sons : Sir Francis, the fourth baronet, who died un-
married in 1784, and the Rev. Robert Job Charlton, vicar
of Kidderminster, also unmarried ; and of a daughter, and
eventually sole heiress, Elizabeth, married to Edmund
Lechmere,* of Hanley Castle, M.P. for Worcestershire
in 1734. Nicholas Lechmere, the son of this marriage,
succeeded to the Charlton estates upon the death of his
uncle, Sir Francis, and assumed by royal license, dated
January 13th, 1785, the additional surname and arms of
Charlton. He was ancestor of the late Francis Lech-
mere Charlton, of Ludford, on whose death, in 1857, this
branch of the family became extinct — Quarterly, 1st and
4th, Or, a lion rampant gules, for Charlton; 2nd and 3rd
Lechmere (which see). Crests : 1st, A leopard's head
affront^e gules, for Charlton; 2nd, In a ducal coronet, a
pelican vulning proper, for Lechmere.
Charnells. — Azure, a cross engrailed or, in the dexter quar-
ter a mullet. (A^)
An impalement of Bracy at Madresfield.
Chastelyn. See Castinworth.
Chatelon (or Cofton ?). — Sable, a lion passant guardant be-
tween ten crosses crosslet argent The same between
six, and again eight. Quartered by Leycester of Cofton
Hackett {Dr. Prattinton.)
The Heraldic Dictionaries attribute to the name of Chastelon,
Sable, a lion, passant argent crowned or, between six crosses crosslet
of the second.
* The Lechmeres of the Rhydd are descended from this Edmund by his
second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. John Whitmore.
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Chattock, of King's Norton. Cornelius Chattock, of King's
Norton, the son of John Chattock, of Haye House,
Castle Bromwich, co. Warwick (where the family has
been seated for many generations) by Mary, his wife,
daughter of John Jesson, of Graiseley, co. Stafford,
married Miss Lyttelton of Halesowen, and had a son,
Sandys Chattock, and a daughter, Elizabeth, married
to Henry Ward, of Moat House, Castle Bromwich. His
elder brother, Thomas Chattock, was father, by Anne
Prattenton, of Hartlebury, his wife, of Thomas Chattock,
of Castle Bromwich, who married Sarah, sister of the
Reverend Mark Noble, M.A., F.S.A., and by her was
father of Christopher Chattock, of Castle Bromwich,
who married Elizabeth Farmer, of the Manwoods, co.
Stafford, and had issue the present Christopher Chattock,
of Haye House, Castle Bromwich. — Gules, an ines-
cutcheon argent charged with a plain cross of the field,
within an orle of martlets of the second. Crest : On a
ducal coronet or, a martlet gules. {Communicated by C.
Chattock^ esq.)
Chatwin, or Chetwynd. — Azure, a chevron between three
mullets or. {N.)
This coat occurs at Alvechurch on the monument of Philip Chat-
win, gentleman usher to King Henry VIII., who died in 1525. See
Nash L, 32.
Chedworth. — Azure, a chevron between three wolfs heads
erased or. {Penn MS.)
Cheek, of Evesham ; as borne by Mr. Cheek, Mayor of Eve-
sham in 1 84 1, descended, according to Burke's General
Armory, from Sir John Cheeke, preceptor to King Ed-
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ward VI. — Argent, three crescents gules. Crest : A cres-
cent, therefrom issuant a cross patt6e fitch6e gules. Ancient
crest : A leopard sejant collared and chained. {Burke.)
Cheesman. See Colles.
Cheiney, or Cheyney, of Westmancote ; as quartered by Rouse,
in right of descent from the marriage of Thomas Rouse
with Anne, daughter of Sir John Cheiney, of Westman-
cote. — Cheeky or and azure, a fesse gules fretty ermine.
m
Nash (sab Bayton) says, quoting Habingdon, that the arms of
Meysey, impaling Cheeky or and azure, a fesse argent fretty sable,
for Cheyney, were painted in the east window of Bayton church.
In a note he adds that the present family of Meysey quarter the
arms of Cheyney, but different from those here described.
Chester, Earls of, of a different family. — Azure, three garbs
or. — Azure, a wolf's head erased argent. (N.)
These coats occur among the quarterings of Russell of Stren-
sham. The several earls palatine of Chester were Hugh Lupus*
ob. noi, Richard, his son, ob. s.p., 1119, Randolph de Meschines,
his cousin, ob. n 28, Randle Gernons, his son, ob. 1155, Hugh
Cyfelioc, his son, who died in 1181, and was succeeded by Randle
Blundeville, who dying s.p. in 1232, the earldom was conferred
upon John le Scot, son of David, earl of Huntingdon, (brother of
William, king of Scotland,) by Maud eldest sister and coheiress of
Randle Blundeville. To Hugh Lupus is attributed the wolfs
head as above, in allusion to his name. — Gernons bore Or, a lion
rampant gules ; Meschines Azure, six garbs or, three, two, and one
(others bore three garbs) ; and to Richard is ascribed Gules, a wolf's
head erased argent, within an orle of crosses crosslet or.
Chetelton. See Bromley.
Chetle, of the Wall-house ; an ancient and respectable family,
whose descent was recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3.
Thomas Cheatle of Worcester, gent, paid a fine to avoid
knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. He was pro-
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bably the Thomas Chetle, whose two daughters, Marga-
ret and Eleanor, were married respectively to William
Berkeley, of Cotheridge, and Edward Vernon of Han-
bury ; the former died in 1649, aged 63, and the latter in
1673, a g e d 84. A Thomas Chetle, of the Wall-house,
was also Sheriff of Worcestershire, in the 9th of Anne.
The family is now represented by Sir John Pakington,
bait.; his grandfather, Thomas Russell, of Powick, having
married Anne Chetle, the granddaughter and heiress of
Thomas Chetle, of the Wall-house, Attorney-at-law,*
and one of the Proctors of the Consistory Court of Wor-
cester. — Argent, a fesse dancett^e gules. (" Disallowed"
at the Visitation of 1682-3. See K. 4, Coll. Artn., fo.
98.)
This coat is that of the Cheadles of Cheadle, co. Chester, from
which family Mr. Chetle evidently failed to establish his descent at
the Visitation. In 1634 a Thomas Chetle called of "Drayton
Basset" disclaimed arms.
Child, of London and Worcestershire ; granted January 28th,
1 700. — Gules, a chevron engrailed ermine, between three
eagles close argent, each gorged with a ducal coronet or.
Crest : On a rock proper, an eagle rising with wings en-
dorsed argent, gorged with a ducal coronet or, in the beak
an adder proper. (Her. Die)
Childe, of Northwick. The Childes were seated at North-
wick as early as the fourteenth century ; they were also
of Blockley, where they held a lease, under the see of
Worcester, of the old episcopal residence. From 1620
to 1644 they were patrons of the church of Shrawley.
The family pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of
* See Nash, ii., 319.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 113
1634, by William Childe, of Northwick, son of Wil-
liam Childe, of Northwick, who died in 1633, aged
80, and grandson of William Childe, of Pensax, High
Sheriff in the 41st Elizabeth, whose father, William
Childe, High Sheriff in the 28th Elizabeth, was the
son of Edmund Childe of Northwick, and grandson
of William Childe, of the same place. William Childe,
living 1634, married Catherine, daughter of Thomas
Coventry, of Croome, and was father, with others, of
Thomas Childe, of Northwick, and John, (second son,)
from whom the Earls Tylney claimed* to be descended.
The family continued at Northwick until the reign of
Charles II., when they disposed of the manor of North-
wick to the Rushout family. Sir William Childe, knt,
LL.D., a master in Chancery, and a younger son of this
house, married Anne Lacon, only daughter of Rowland
Lacon, of K inlet, Salop, and was grandfather of William
Lacon Childe, of K inlet, whose daughter and eventually
sole heiress, married Charles Baldwyn, and had issue a
son, William, who assumed the surname and arms of
Childe, and was ancestor of the Childes of that place. —
Gules, a chevron ermine between three eagles close ar-
gent Crest : An eagle with wings expanded argent,
enveloped round the neck and body with a snake pro-
per. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 676; Harl. MS, 1566; and
Penn MS.)
Chiner. — Or, a chevron engrailed gules. {Her. Die.)
Cholmley, of Ripple ; granted 1599. — Gules, in chief two
helmets argent and in base a garb or, on a fleur-de-lis of
* This descent, however, is not proven.
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the last a crescent for difference. Crest : A helmet
argent (Her. Die.)
Cholmley. — Gules, a sword in fesse argent handle or (alluding
to the sword of Justice), between a helmet of the second
in chief and two garbs of the third in base.* (N.)
This was the coat borne by Sir Roger Cholmley, knt., Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer, and afterwards Lord Chief Justice of the
Queen's Bench temp. Elizabeth, whose daughter and coheiress
married Sir Thomas Russell, of Strensham, knt. Sir Roger was the
natural son of Sir Richard Cholmley, knt, Lieutenant of the Tower.
Christopher, of Stoke Prior. The pedigree of this family
was recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3. Thomas
Christopher, only son of Thomas Christopher, of Stoke
Prior, had issue (with a son John, who died s.p.) a daugh-
ter, Jane, his heiress, married to Edmund Makepeace, of
Pensham, who died in 1 766, aged 66. — Argent, a chevron
sable between three pine cones vert, a chief of the
second. (Disallowed at the Visitation, K. 4, Coll. Arm. %
fo. 49.)
Clapham. — Argent, on a bend azure six fleurs-de-lis in couples
or. (Penn MS.)
Clare, of Caldwell Hall, Kidderminster, and Croome UAH-
tot ; as borne by Sir Ralph Clare, of Caldwell, who was
created a knight of the Bath at the coronation of
Charles I. This gallant cavalier, who died in 1670, aged
84, was the eldest son of Sir Francis Clare, of Caldwell,
by Muriel, daughter of Ralph Sheldon, of Beoley, grand-
son of Simon Clare, by Anne, daughter of Edward
* Not in chief as in Nash. See a cut of the arms in the Gentleman's Maga-
zine for April, 1834, p. 381.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 115
Blount, of Kidderminster, and great grandson of Gilbert
Clare, who was a son of Nicholas Clare, by Margaret,
daughter of Symon Ryce, of Croome D' Abitot ; which
Simon Ryce was the son of Thomas Ryce, of Shrews-
bury, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of John, son of
Sir Geoffrey D'Abitot, of Croome. The family pedi-
gree was recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3. Francis
Clare, of Caldwell, High Sheriff in 1754, the great grand-
son of Sir Ralph, died in 1777, aged upwards of 86, and
was succeeded by his nephew, Anthony Deane, (only son
of Anthony Deane, of Whittington, co. Stafford, by the
sister of Mr. Clare,) who in 1786 sold the manors of
Habberley, Over Mitton, and other lands of the Clares,
(including Caldwell House, then in the occupation of
Joseph Harpur,) to Matthew Jefferies of Kidderminster,
gentleman, and Thomas Jefferies, of Cockspur Street,
London, silversmith. — Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or, three
chevrons gules within a bordure engrailed azure, for
Clare (as confirmed to Simon Clare, of Croome, the
lineal descendant of Gilbert Clare, of Worcestershire,
by William Harvey, Clarencieux, in 1562); 2nd, Argent,
a chevron between three spear heads gules, on a chief
azure three birds or, for Ryce ; 3rd, Or, two lions passant
guardant, the one gules, the other azure, for UAbitoL
Crest:* A buck's head cabossed gules attired proper.
(/far/. MSS n 1566 and 1422 ; and K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo.
26.)
Clare. — Or, three chevrons gules. " This was the coat of
* No crest is given in the Visitation Book of 1682-3,
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Ri. de Clare, who lyeth buried at Tewkesbury ; some
give, on a fesse azur, three eagles or." {Win. MS.)
Clarke.— Argent, on a bend gules between three roundles
as many birds (probably swans).
The arms of Eleanor, daughter of . . . Clarke, of Worcester-
shire, and wife of Richard, fifth son of Robert Vincent, of Kinfare,
co. Stafford. See Add. MS., 19816.
Clavering. — Quarterly or and gules, a bend sable. (N.)
This coat was borne temp. Edward II., by Robert Fitz Roger,
whose son, John, assumed the surname of Clavering. From the
same stock came the Barons Eure or Evers. It occurs (together
with the coats of Fitznigel, Lizures, and Merley) among the Lyttel-
ton quarterings in Frankley church, to which family it came through
Talbot and Neville. •
Cleiveland, of " The Lowe," Lindridge ; as borne by the
Reverend William Cleiveland, Rector of All Saints',
Worcester, who married, in 1725, Elizabeth, daughter
and heiress of Joshua Lowe, and had issue a son, the
Reverend William Cleiveland, who inherited the Lowe
estate. — Per chevron sable and ermine, a chevron en-
* Ralph Neville, Lord Neville, who died in 133 1, is stated by the genealo-
gists to have married one Euphemia de Clavering, supposed by some to have
been identical with Eva, daughter and heiress of John Lord Clavering, but
conjectured by Baker {History of Northamptonshire, i., 545,) to have been
his sister. This John Clavering being doubtful of having male issue, made a
feoffment to Stephen de Trafford, whereby he vested the inheritance of his
castle and manor of Warkworth in the said Stephen, with other manors, to the
intent that he should reconvey them to his lordship for life, with remainder to
the king and his heirs. In consideration whereof the king granted unto the
baron and his heirs divers lands and hereditaments. His lordship died at
his manor of Aynho, in Northamptonshire, in 133 1, when these great estates
falling to the Crown, were divided between Henry de Percy and Ralph de
Neville. Some observations upon this capricious settlement of the Clavering
estates and the relationship of Ralph Neville's wife to Lord Clavering will be
found in Baker's Northamptonshire (ut si/pra) and in Townsend's additions to
Dugdale's Baronage, Col. Top. et Gen., vii., 51.
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grailed counterchanged. Crest : The head and neck of
a white fishing eagle erased. (Nash ; and NichoFs Lei-
cestershire, vol. iv.)
Clent, of Knightwick ; an ancient and influential family,
whose descent and arms were recorded at the Visitation
of 1634. Nash says that the lands in Knightwick passed
to John Clent from the Washborne family. John Clent
married Lettice, daughter of Sir Edward Littleton, of
Pillaton Hall, Staffordshire, knt, and widow of William
Washborne, of Wichenford, and he entered and signed
the Washborne pedigree at the Visitation of 1634, for
his stepson, John Washborne who was then under age,
" aged about 1 5 yeares." The same John paid a fine for ex-
oneration from knighthood at the coronation of Charles I.
The family is now represented by the Fountaines of
Narford. Colonel Edward Clent married Elizabeth, sis-
ter and heiress of Sir Andrew Fountaine, knt, who died
s.p., in 1753, and had issue by her, an only daughter,
Elizabeth Clent, married to Captain William Price ; their
son, Brigg Price, assumed the surname and arms of
Fountaine, and was ancestor of the Fountaines of Nar-
ford Hall, co. Norfolk. — Argent, a fesse wavy between
three lion's gambs erased bendways sable. Crest : Two
lions gambs erect sable supporting a chaplet vert. (C 30,
Coll. Arm., fo. 45 ; N.; and Penn, MS.)
Littleton Clent, of Knightwick, occurs in Penn's list of those
who were to find horse in Worcestershire, and also in Blome's list
of the gentry of Worcestershire, a 1673.
Clerke, of Dudley ; as quartered by Ruding of Westcotes,
co. Leicester. — Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Barry of four
gules and vert three plates two and one, for Clerke; 2nd
n8 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
and 3rd, Sable, three fleurs-de-lis argent, within an orle
of seven crosses crosslet fitch^e of the same, a canton
ermine, for Watercroft*
William Clerke, of Dudley, living 39th Henry VI., son of Ellys
Clerke, and grandson of John Clerke, married Prudence, daughter
and heiress of ... . Watercroft, and had issue, two sons, John
Clerke, of Rowley Regis, whose daughter and eventual heiress mar-
ried John Hill of Rowley, and Richard Clerke, alias Sheldon, who
married Joan, second daughter and co-heiress of Richard Wester-
dale (HarL MS., 6128). It is not known how the Rudings ac-
quired the right to quarter these bearings, but they occur on the
tomb of Richard Ruding, of Leicestershire, who died in 1582.
Cliffe, of Great Witley and Mathon ; as borne by Alan
Cliffe, of Witley, High Sheriff of Worcestershire, 4th
William III. — Argent, on a fesse between three griffin's
heads erased sable, as many mullets or. {Nash; and
Win. MS.)
The pedigree of this family was recorded at the Visitation of
J634, (C 30, Coll. Arm.), but no arms were then exhibited. The
above coat, (which is nearly identical with that formerly borne
by the Clives of Styche,t co. Salop, now represented by Lord Powis),
occurs at Witley, on the monument of William Cliffe, one of the
sons of Humphrey Cliffe of Great Witley, who died in 1695, ag^
68. (Nash, ii., 466.) Burke ascribes it to Cliffe, of "Whitley, co.
Salop, and Matherne, co. Hereford," and adds the following crest-
Two lion's gambs in saltire erased each holding a seax in pale
proper.
* The same arms and quartering were borne by John Clarke Auditor of
the Duchy of Lancaster in the reign of Henry VII. He married Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress of Robert Drewe, and widow of John Otter. His arms
as above blazoned, impaling those of his wife, were in a window of Mr.
Price's house, at Washingley, co. Huntingdon, when Nicholas Charles, the
deputy of Camden, visited Huntingdonshire, in 161 3. See the Visitation
published by the Camden Society, p. 30.
t Mr. Shirley states that three wolf's heads erased sable were added to the
original coat of the Clives of Styche (on a fessethree mullets) in 4 Edward
VI. They are now omitted.
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Clifford, of Droitwich. — Cheeky or and azure, a fesse gules.
{Penn MS.)
Clifford, Earl of Cumberland. — Cheeky or and azure, a fesse
gules. (N)
Formerly in the chapel at Hartlebury Castle (see Nash, 1., 572),
and in the cathedral in glass (see Thomas, p. 16).
Clifford, Baron of Corskam. — Cheeky or and azure, a bend
gules. (N.)
One of the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley. The same coat
(but with the bend charged with 3 lions passant guardant or,) occurs
for " Henry ClyfFord, Senescal of Longeney," in one of the windows
of Great Malvern church.
Clifford, Bishop of Worcester, 1401-7. — Cheeky or and
azure, on a fesse gules within a bordure of the second a
mitre stringed argent {Bedford.)
Clifton. — Argent, a chevron sable between three roses gules.
{Penn MS)
Clifton, of Clifton. — Cheeky or and gules, a bend ermine.
(Visitation of 1533, H. 20, Coll. Arm., fo. 69.)
This coat was quartered by Frere, of the Blankets, through Wy-
sham, in right of descent from an heiress or co-heiress of Sir Adam
Clifton. Mr. Papworth attributes the same coat to Sir Adam de
Clifton, of Norfolk, ancestor of the Barons Clifton.
Clifton, of Worcester ; as borne by the late J. Hill Clifton.
— Sable sem6e of cinquefoils, a lion rampant argent.
Crest : Out of a ducal coronet gules, a demi-peacock per
pale argent and sable, wings expanded counterchanged.
Motto : " Tenez le droit" {Seal ; and Monument in the
Cathedral.)
These are the bearings of the ancient baronetical family of Clif-
ton, of Clifton Notts, whose title has recently become extinct.
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Clifton. See Bromley.
Clintox. — Argent, on a chief azure two mullets of six points
pierced or. (X.)
This is the coat of the Clintons, of Maxtoke, co. Warwick, and
was borne by Sir John de Clintooe " de Madestoke " temp. Edward
II. (Roll of the date.) The Clintons of Coleshill in die same
county charged their chief with two fleurs-de-lis or. The coat occurs
in glass at Hadsor.
Clinton, Earl of Lincoln. — Argent, six crosses crosslet fitchde
sable, a chief azure charged with two mullets or, pierced
gules. (N.)
This coat occurs in glass in the cathedraL (Set Thomas, p. 20.)
u The Clintons," says Mr. Shirley, " are traced to the reign of Henry
I., when, by favour of that king, Geoffrey de Clinton was 4 raised
from the dust,' as a contemporary writer affirms, and made Justice
of England. He was enriched by large grants of land from die
Crown, and built the Casde of Kenilworth. The present Duke of
Newcasde descends from the brother of this Geoffrey, whose issue
were of Coleshill and Maxtoke, in Warwickshire, of which latter
place John de Clinton was created Baron in 1 298. His descendant,
Edward Lord Clinton, was advanced to the earldom of Lincoln, in
1572." Henry, 9th earl of Lincoln, inherited, in 1768, the duke-
dom of Newcastle, upon the demise of his wife's uncle, upon whom
that dignity had been conferred, in 1756, with special remainder to
him. The crosses crosslet fitchee were added to the original coat,
in the reign of Edward III.
Clive. See Windsor. Vide also Cliffe.
Clodshale, of Sal/ley, co. Warwick, and of Pedmore* co.
Worcester. The name of this family is derived, accord-
ing to Habingdon, from a place so called in the parish of
Inkberrow. Their arms were in one of the windows of
Pedmore church, temp. Nash. — Azure, six estoiles be-
tween two bars wavy gemelles or. (HarL MS., 1 100.)
Gules, nine estoiles, three, three, and three or, and two
bars wavy gemelles of the last, (HarL MS., 1563.)
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Dugdale states (Warwickshire, p. 619) that Richard de Clodshale
living in the reign of Edward III., sealed with Per pale indented,
and certain martlets in the place of a bordure on the dexter part of
his shield, " which," says he, " was doubtless in reference to the
tenure of his ancient lands from the Birminghams, whose coat it so
nearly resembles." His grandson, Richard (whose daughter and
heiress, Elizabeth, married Robert Arden) bore a coat " which did
much differ from his grandfather's, as his seal manifesteth, being two
bars nebule'e betwixt six estoiles, which coat I, (Dugdale,) believe
he assumed for the allusion it hath to his name, sci/., the representa-
tion of clouds to ClodsYidlt." The descendants of this Robert Arden
became Lords of Pedmore (and also of Saltley, and other lands in
Warwickshire) in right of descent from Clodshale. The Clodshales
were entitled to quarter the arms of Bishopesdon, Pipard, Sheldon,
Golafre, Edgbaston, and others.
Clopton, as ascribed by Nash to William Clopton, deputy
sheriff of Worcestershire, 9th Henry IV. — Per pale or
and gules, a cross patt£e fitch6e counterchanged.
Glutton. See Brock.
Cobham, Bishop of Worcester, 1317-28. — Gules, on a chevron
or three fleurs-de-lis azure. (Bedford!)
Cocke. — Argent, a chevron sable between three cock's heads
erased gules. (Penn MS.)
Cockett, of Hadsor and Droitwick* This family was of
Ampton in Suffolk, but acquired property in this county
in right of the marriage of Edward Cockett with
Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Froxmore, of
Crowle and Wich. The pedigree was recorded at the
Visitation of 1634. — Per bend argent and sable, three
fleurs-de-lis in bend counterchanged ; quartering (in the
HarL MS., 1566), Walden, Owgan, Kirkley, Staunton,
Hereford, Mallyfant, Roche, Millbourne, Joyce % Frox-
more, Fitzlangley, Fillingley, and Ruding. Crest : A
man's head in profile, couped below the shoulders proper,
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122 tHE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
on the head, upon a wreath argent and sable, a cap bendy
wavy or and azure. (Harl. MS., 1566 ; and C. 30, Coll.
Arm., fo. 66.)
Cocks, of Crowle and Worcester. This family is said to have
been seated in the county of Kent in the reign of
Edward I., and to have removed thence into Gloucester-
shire in that of Henry VIII.* The present family is
descended immediately from Richard Cocks of Castle-
ditch, co. Hereford, who died about the year 1624 ; he
was a younger son of Thomas Cocks, of Crowle, and of
Bishop's Cleeve, co. Gloucester. From him descended
Charles Cocks, of Worcester, who represented that city
in Parliament at the end of the 1 7th century ; he married
Mary, eldest sister and eventually sole heiress of " the
great" Lord Somers, who died issueless in 1716, and was
grandfather of Charles Cocks, who was created a baronet
in 1772, and elevated to the Peerage as Baron Somers of
Evesham, on 17th May, 1784. His son and successor,
John Somers Cocks, was advanced to the dignities of
Viscount Eastnor and Earl Somers, on 17th July, 1821,
and was grandfather of Charles Somers Cocks, the pre-
sent peer, whose heir-presumptivef is the Reverend
Charles Richard Somers Cocks, Vicar of Wolverley.
The family pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of
1634.$ — Sable, a chevron between three attires of a stag
argent ; quartering, (for Somers,) Vert, a fesse dancett^e
ermine. Crest : On a mount vert, a stag lodged regard-
*
* See the Peerages. There is a pedigree of the Cocks family certified by
C. G. Young, then York Herald, a° 1840, in Dr. Howard's Miscellanea Gene-
alogiea et Heraldica, L, 238.
t To the Barony of Somers only. J C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 57.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 123
ant argent attired sable. Supporters : On either side a
lion rampant ermine, collared dancett^e vert Mottoes :
" Prodesse quam conspici," {Somers), and " Spes nescia
vinci," {Cocks). See Somers.
Cofton. See Chatelon.
Coke, of Suckley. This family, which is a younger branch of
the Cokes of Trusley, is now of Brookhill Hall, co.
Derby, and is descended immediately from the marriage
of D'Ewes Coke, of Suckley, in 1720, with Frances,
second daughter and co-heiress of his distant relative,
William Coke, of Trusley. D'Ewes Coke was the son
of Heigham Coke, of Suckley, by Mary, daughter of
Judge Lechmere, and the great grandson of George
Coke, D.D., Bishop of Hereford from 1636 to 1640.
— Gules, three crescents and a canton or. Crest : The
sun in splendour or. {Nash, \u, 398 ; Shirley's Noble and
Gentlemen ; and Burke's Commoners, iv., 273.)
Colbrand, or Coleborne, of Dudley and Kinver, anciently of
Colbrand Hall, near Dudley. — Argent, a chevron between
three bugle horns sable stringed or. Crest : Out of a
ducal coronet, a reindeer's head argent attired or. {Her.
Die. ; and Nichols's Leicestershire, iv., 394.)
Cole, Dr. — Argent, a bull sable within a bordure of the same
bezantde. (N.)
Cole, of Offenham. — A chevron embattled between three dol-
phins. {Dr. Prattinton.)
The Heraldic Dictionaries give sub Cole, (of Maiden, Essex). —
Aigent, on a chevron embattled azure between three dolphins em
bowed sable as many estoiles or*
COLEBROOKE. See KlLRINGTON.
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124 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Cqlepepper. See Culpepper.
Coleshull, or Coleshill. — Cheeky or and sable (gules in
Penn MS.) a chief argent gutt£e de sang. (N.)
One of the quarterings of Nanfan of Birtsmorton,
Colles, of Suckley, Grimley, and Leigh Court ; a family, ac-
cording to Habingdon, of four hundred years' continuance
in this county, and "anciently resident at Colles Place,
Suckley. The first of the family that settled in Worces-
tershire, however, appears to have been Richard Colle or
Colles of Alfrick, said, in the Visitation Book of War-
wickshire, a° 1 6 19, to have been "e familiS Collesorum
de com. Somerset/' who was buried at Powick, in 1440.
His grandson, William Colles, married Margaret, sister
and co-heiress of John Hitch, and died in 1558, aged 63,
having had issue Edmund Colles, (of whom, presently,)
Michael Colles, of Hampton, in Arden, co. Warwick,
and Bradwell, Bucks ; William Colles, of Parkbury,
Herts ; and John Colles, of Hatfield Court, co. Hereford.
The eldest son, Edmund Colles, purchased the Manor of
Leigh, and was High Sheriff of this county in the reign
of Queen Elizabeth, He died in 1606, aged 76, having
had issue William, his successor ; Edmund, of Grimley ;
and Richard, who married a Miss Whitgift, and had issue,
a son, John Colles, of Bushley, William Colles, of Leigh,
married Mary, daughter and heiress of Jerome Palmer,
by whom he left issue at his decease, in 161 5, (with
others,) an eldest son, Edmund, who married Martha,
daughter of William Tyrwhit, of Kettleby, co. Lincoln,
and had issue four sons, William, John, Thomas, and
Robert. Habingdon informs us that this. Edmund, being
THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. ' 125
loaded with debts, thought proper to sell Leigh to Sir
Walter Devereux. The Pedigree was recorded at the
Visitation of 1634, and also at the Warwickshire Visita-
tation taken in 16 19. — Gules, on a chevron argent pel-
lett^e four barrulets of the field, between three lion's
heads erased or. Crest : A sea pie with expanded wings
or guttle de poix standing upon a dolphin lying upon its
back of the first (C. 30, Coll. Ann., ff. 25, 108.)
Nash says that the family bore anciently for arms a chevron
between three birds. In the Harl. MS., 1566, and in the Warwick-
shire Visitation of 161 9 the sea-pie is sable guttle d'eau and the
dolphin is argent. Colles quartered, Per fesse or and sable, three
estoiles counterchanged, for Hitch; Azure, a fleur-de-lis in chief and
two trefoils slipped in base argent, all within a bordure engrailed or,
for Palmer; Argent, two bars vert, for Herthull; Gules, a bend cot-
tised between six martlets or, for Mounteney; and Per chevron
embattled sable and argent, three mullets counterchanged, for
Cheestnan. Penn attributes to "Collis* of Lye" Gules, on a chevron
argent between three lion's heads erased or, as many cinquefoils of
the field ; and the coat as allowed at the Visitation he gives under
the name of " Coules."
Collet, as borne by Samuel Collet, of Worcestershire, 1 789.
— Sable, on a chevron between three hinds trippant
argent five annulets of the field. (Old Engraving.)
Collier, of Blockley ; as borne by Vice- Admiral Sir Edward
Collier, K.C.B. — Sable, a cross patt£e fitch£e or. Crest;
A cross patt£e fitch£e between two wings displayed or.
Motto : " Nemo sine cruce beatus." (Communicated by
the family.)
* William Blow Collis, of Stourbridge, mercer, sealed in the year 1762 with
the arms and crest of Colles of Leigh, and the motto, " Sola virtus invicta."
His nephew, George Collis, was the ancestor of the Collises of Stourbridge, who
daim to be descended from the Leigh family through some younger son, who
settled in Hampshire.
126 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Collins, of Worcester. — Gules, on a bend or three martlets
sable. {Penn MS.)
Probably intended by Penn for the coat of William Collins who
occurs in his list of those gentry who were to find horse in Worces-
tershire during the civil wars.
Columbell. — Sable, three doves argent beaked and legged or.
An impalement of Windsor.
Colvile, of Kempsey ; as borne by Lieut-General Henry
Robert Colvile, of Kempsey, fourth son of the late
Robert Colvile, of Newton Hall, co. Cambridge. This
family is descended from one of the companions in arms
of William the Conqueror, who obtained grants of lands
at Carlton Colvile, in Suffolk. By marriage with the
heiress of De Marisco, in 1262, the family became pos-
sessed of Newton, in the Isle of Ely, where they resided
till the same was sold, in 1792, when the representative
of the family, Sir Charles Colvile, knt, eldest brother of
General Colvile, settled in Derbyshire, in consequence of
his marriage with Miss Bonnel, of Duffield. Of this
family was Sir John Colvile, of Newton, of whom a very
gallant action is recorded. The day before the battle of
Cressy, he crossed the brook which separated the English
and French armies, encountered a French knight, and re-
crossed the brook in safety.* His grandson, another Sir
John, was, in 1409, sent on an embassy to Rome. He
was Governor of Wisbech Castle, and had a patent to
found a chantry in the chapel of St. Mary at Newton.
Later down, William Colvile, of Newton, was one of the
* Euhgium Historianum, iii., 210.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 127
intended knights of the Royal Oak. — Azure, a lion ram-
pant argent, a label of five* points throughout gules.
Crest : On a chapeau, a lion statant, tail extended, argent,
gorged with a label of three points gules. Motto : " Per-
severe." {Communicated by the family!)
Colwell, of Yorkshire, Feverskam, co. Kent, and Worcester-
shire. — Argent, three chevrons sable each charged with
five bezants. (Harl. MS., 1566.)
Combes, of A st ley, and Alvechurch, and of Stratford-on-Avon,
co. Warwick ; as borne by John Combe, of Alvechurch,
son of George, who was the brother of John A'Combe,
" the usurer/' the friend of Shakespeare. — Ermine, three
lions passant in pale gules. Crest : A dexter arm in
armour embowed sable garnished or, wreathed about the
arm argent and gules, in the hand a broken tilting spear
of the second. (Penn MS., &c.)
These arms were granted in 1584, by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux,
to John Combes, father of the usurer. (See Hunter's Illustrations of
Shakespeare, and Bellew's Shakesperts Home.)
Compton, of Compton, co. Warwick; as granted 14th De-
cember, 4 Henry VIII., to Sir William Compton, knt,
Constable of Hanley Castle, and High Sheriff of Worces-
tershire from the 8th to the 20th of Henry VIII., in which
latter year he died " possessed, (says Collins,) of such
a number of manors and estates in Warwickshire, Wor-
cestershire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Devonshire, &c, &c,
* The label has been variously borne with three and five points. The coat
as above described was borne temp. Edward II. by Sir Geoffrey de Colvile.
\RoU of the date.)
ra* THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
that, were they now in the family, it would be the greatest
landed estate possessed by any person in the kingdom."
Sir William's grandson, Henry, was created Baron
Compton,. of Compton, and from him is derived the
noble family of Northampton. — Sable, a lion passant
guardant or between three close helmets proper. Crest :
A demi-dragon erased gules within a coronet of gold.
(Dugdales Wanvickshire ; and Collins's Peerage!)
Compton, of Hartbury, co. Gloucester > and of Hindlip. Wal-
ter Compton, of Hartbury, father of William Compton,
who was created a Baronet in 1686, married Mary,
daughter of Thomas Habingdon, of Hindlip, the Wor-
cestershire collector. His grandson, Sir William Comp-
ton, who was of Hindlip, (that estate having been left to
the family by Thomas Habingdon,) had issue a son and
successor also named William, who died in 1758, leaving
two sons, William and Walter, who inherited the Baron-
etcy in succession. On the death of the last, Sir Walter,
in 1773, the title expired, and his three sisters became his
co-heiresses. Of these, Jane, the eldest, alone had issue.
She married John Berkeley, younger brother of Robert
Berkeley, of Spetchley, and by him was mother of two
daughters and co-heiresses, Catherine, wife of Robert
Canning, of Foxcote, co. Warwick, who died s.p. in 1823,
and Jane, married to Thomas Anthony, Viscount South-
well, between whom the Compton estates were divided ;
Mr. Canning taking Hartbury, and Lord Southwell
Hindlfp. — Argent, a fesse nebulae gules, on a chief of the
last a helmet between two hawk's heads erased or.
Crest: A beacon proper. " Motto: "Nisi Dominiis**
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{HarL MS*, 104 1 ; Rudder's Gloucestershire; and Burke's
Extinct Baronetage.)
From the following MS. note in a copy of Wotton's Baronetage
(says the Editor of Tke Herald and Genealogist), it appears that the
arms of the Marquis of Northampton were unwarrantably assumed
by the last Baronet of Hartbury. " He pretends he's of the North'-
ton family, and gives the same arms.* He has a good estate, and
lately married his maid." Probably, however, he was not the first
of his family that used the Northampton arms, for Rudder (p. 477)
mentions them as being in Hartbury church.
Comyn. — Gules, three garbs within a double tressure flory and
counter-flory or. (N.)
The coat of Comyn, of Badenoch, as quartered by the Talbots,
Earls of Shrewsbury, and by the Lytteltons, through Talbot
Coningsby, of Rock % \ and of Hampton Court, co. Hereford.
This family claimed descent from the Coningsbys of
Morton Bagot, co. Warwick. Thomas Coningsby, living
in the reign of Henry VIII., son of Sir Humphrey Co-
ningsby, lent, married Cecily, daughter and co-heiress of
John Salwey, of Stanford, and was ancestor of the
Coningsbys of Rock and Hampton Court, of whom was
Thomas Coningsby created Earl of Coningsby in 1 719.
Cecilia,} the daughter of Thomas Fitzwilliam Coningsby,
of Hampton Court, married David Hyde of Early Court,
Berks, by whom she was mother of a daughter and co-
heiress, Cecilia, married in 1676 to Richard Norbury,
* The crest now borne by the Marquis of Northampton is a beacon fired,
and about it the motto "Nisi Dominus," both of which were used by the
Hartbury Baronets. The crest granted to Sir Wiliiam Compton, ancestor of
the Marquis, has been described in the preceding memoir.
t The family is said, in the Winnington MS., to have been "ainciently of
the Rock."
X See Burke's Extinct Peerage.
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i 3 o THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
of Droitwich, and was great grandmother of Coningsby
Norbury, whose daughter and heiress, Mary Anne, mar-
ried, in 1827, Thomas Jones of Sherridge. — Gules, three
conies sejant argent within a bordure engrailed or.
Crest : A coney sejant argent (N. ; Harl. MS., 1507,
&c.)
On the Coningsby tomb at Rock the bordure is omitted from the
arms. The family, quartered Solers, Bagot, Frene, Withal, Corbet,
Farnwell, Lochard, Greete, CotlieHngton, Fereby, Salwey, Wash-
borne, Musard, and Tromwyn. (See Harl. MS., 1507.) The crest of
Lord Coningsby was A coney sejant in a bunch of black feathers
springing from a ducal coronet proper. See Dingley's History from
Marble.
Consul, Robert, Earl of Gloucester. — Azure, a lion rampant
guardant on Consul, William, son of. — Gules, three
rests or. (N.)
Both these coats occur in glass at Eldersfield. The first is that
ascribed to Robert Fitzhamon, Lord of Gloucester, who died in
1 107 ; the second is that of William Earl of Gloucester, son of
Robert Consul (who was a natural son of King Henry L), by Mabel,
daughter and cc-heiress of the said Robert Fitzhamon.
Conway, of Belbroughton. Edward Conway, Gentleman Usher
to King Henry VIII., acquired the manors of Belne,
Ablench, Upton- Warren, Upton-on-Severn, Beoley, Elm-
bridge, &c, in marriage with Anne, daughter and heiress
of Robert Burdett. He was ancestor of the Lords Con-
way, whose chief seat was at Arrow in Warwickshire
formerly the property of the Burdetts and Camvilles. —
Sable, on a bend cottised argent a rose between two an-
nulets gules. Crest : A Moor's head in profile proper,
bound round the temples argent and azure. (Dugdale
and Nash.)
Conyers. —Azure, a maunch or, a crescent for difference. (A^.)
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The coat of Conyers of Sokeburne, Durham, as impaled by Berke-
ley on the monument of Sir Robert Berkeley, knt, at Spetchley, in
right of his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Con-
yers of East Barnet Conyers quartered Aton, Vcscy, Warwick, and
Prette ox Pert.
Cooke, of Claims, Redmarlcy Oliver, and Staunton. Thomas
Cooke, of Redmarley and of the Inner Temple, (son of
Thomas Cooke of Claines, by Mary, daughter of James
Pichard of the city of Worcester, and grandson of John
Cooke of Harpley, co. Norfolk,) recorded his descent and
arms at the Visitation of 1634. He died in 1641, having
had, with other issue, a son, Thomas Cooke, aged 2 in
1634, of Redmarley, and Staunton, and of East Acton,
Middlesex, who was knighted on 23rd January, 1661-2.
Sir Thomas Cooke purchased Staunton from William
Horton. Habingdon says his grandfather by the mater-
nal line was a descendant of the family of Pichard, " who,
besides their lands in the counties of Hereford and
Brecknock, had the Lordship of Nether Sapey in the
parish of Clifton upon Teme." — Or, a fesse between two
lions passant gules. Crest : An heraldic tigers head
erased argent, ducally gorged gules, studded of the first.
(C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 39.)
These arms and crest were granted* (according to the Add.
MS., 14295) by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, to "Thomas Cooke of
Redmarley Oliver, son and heir of Thomas, second son of John
Cooke of Norfolk." They are now borne with the motto " Pro rege
et patria," by W. H. Cooke, of The Green, Shelsley Kings, to whom
they were confirmed by the College of Arms on 2nd December, 1869,
on his adducing proof of his descent from Richard Cooke, a younger
? son of the above-named Thomas Cooke of Redmarley.
* This grant is not on record at the College of Arms, but the bearings were
allowed at the Visitation of 1 634.
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Cooke. — Per pale gules and azure, three eagles displayed
argent (Win. MS.)
Cooke, of Nether Arley. — Argent, a bend between two annu-
lets azure. (Penn MS.)
Cookes, of " Tarbicke" and Norgrove. — Barry of six argent
and sable, in chief three mullets gules. (Penn MS.)
" There are some," says Penn, " that are of opinion that instead
of these mullets there should be as many annuletts gules, but this I
can assure, that there are some who are descended of this family
that bear it with the mulletts." Burke gives the coat with annulets
. sable to Cookes. John Cookes of Bentley disclaimed arms at the
Visitation of 1634, and the family subsequently bore those of Jen-
netts. See next Memoir.
Cookes, of Norgrove and Bentley. This family has been
seated for many generations at Tardebigge and else-
where in the county of Worcester, and recorded its pedi-
gree at the Visitation of 1682-3 \ ^ ut ^ at lt "came into
England with the Conqueror," as stated by Burke in his
Extinct Baronetage and Landed Gentry \ is certainly " not
proven." William Cookes, the son of Edward Cookes of
Bentley, and grandson of William Cookes, by Anne,
daughter and co-heiress of Humphrey Jennetts of Nor-
grove, was created a Baronet in 1 664, for his zeal in sup-
port of the royal cause ; he was succeeded by his son,
Sir Thomas of Norgrove and Bentley, who founded
Worcester College, Oxford, and greatly augmented, by
endowing with an annual sum, the Grammar Schools of
Bromsgrove and Feckenham. Sir Thomas Cookes died
unmarried in 1701, leaving an only sister, Mercy, married
to Henry Winford of Astley ; whereupon the male re-
presentation of the family devolved upon John Cookes
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of London, linen draper, the son of Henry Cookes of
Barbourne, who was the second son of Edward Cookes,
father of the first Baronet. The present representative
of the family is Thomas Henry Cookes of Woodhamp-
ton, sometime M.P. for East Worcestershire, eldest son
of the late Rev. Denham James Joseph Cookes, rector of
Stanford, and grandson of the Rev. Thomas Cookes by
Anne daughter and heiress of John Denham ; which
Thomas Cookes was the son of Henry Cookes, and
grandson of the above John Cookes of London. —
Argent, two chevrons gules between six martlets, three,
two, and one of the last. Crest : Out of a mural coronet
or, a cubit arm in armour erect proper holding a short
sword argent pomel and hilt gold, on the arm two chev-
rons gules. Motto : " Deo, Regi, Vicino." (Nash; and
K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 106.) See Jennetts,
Nash says that the William Cookes of Norgrove who married Anne
Jennetts, "bore the martlets sable, which have ever since been
gules"; but the coat is that of Jennetts, and previous to the marriage
of William Cookes with the co-heiress of that family the Cookes pro-
bably used the coat which Penn attributes to them (see preceding
memoir), though at the Visitation of 1634 they disclaimed. Ed-
mondson attributes to Cdokes of Norgrove — " Two coats quarterly,
the first, Argent,* two chevrons gules between six martlets sable ; the
second, Sable, a buck's head cabossed or," the latter being probably
the coat of Wybb which Jennetts quartered.
Cooksey, or Cokesey, of Cookscy in Upton-Warren, Kidder-
minster, Witley, and Mitton. This ancient knightly
family was descended from Sir Walter Cooksey, of Cook-
* These quartered coats (impaling Red) appear on the monument, at
Powick, of William Cookes, who died s. p. He was the only brother of the
founder of Worcester College.
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sey, who flourished in the reign of Edward I. His son,
Hugh Cooksey, married Dionysia, daughter of William
le Boteler, Baron of Wem, co. Salop, and had issue Sir
Walter Cooksey, knt, who, by Isabella his wife, daughter
and heiress of Sir Urian de St. Pierre, knt, was father
of Walter Cooksey, whose widow, Maud, married secondly
Sir John Phelip, of Denington, co. Suffolk, knt. Walters
son, Hugh Cooksey, died without issue, in 1445-6, leaving
his sisters, Cecily, wife of Thomas Cassey, and Joice,
wife of John Greville, of Campden, co. Gloucester, his
co-heiresses. From the former the Winters, of Hudding-
ton, and the Russells, of Strensham, were maternally
descended. John Greville had by Joice, his wife, a son,
Sir John Greville, whose son, Sir Thomas, K.B., assumed
the surname of Cooksey ; but, dying without issue, in the
14th of Henry VII., the Russells and Winters were
found by inquisition to be his heirs.* — Argent, on a
bend azure (sometimes between two cottises dancett^ef
gules) three cinquefoils or. Crest : A bunch of cinque-
foils stalked vert and flowered or, bound gules.
On the Cooksey monument, "«at Kidderminster, these arms are
supported by two otters proper. In the Roll of temp. Edward I.,
Walter de Coksey bears, Gules ; semee of cross crosslets, a fesse
argent, a coat resembling that of Beauchamp.
Cooksey, of Little Wolverton, and Evesham. John Cooksey,
of Evesham, son of Richard Cooksey, of Mitton, mar-
ried Margaret, daughter of Robert Hunck, of Evesham,
and had issue, (with a son William, who died s. p.,) three
# See an account of the family of Cooksey, by H. S. G., in the Herald and
Genealogist^ vol. vi.
t Called engrailed 'in the Visitation Book of 1634, where the coat is men-
tioned as occurring at Kidderminster.
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daughters, — Margaret, married to John Croft, or Crosse, of
Holt ; Alice, to Humphrey Acton, ancestor of the Actons
• of Wolverton; and Elizabeth, wife of ... Hall. — Argent,
a bend azure charged with three cinquefoils or, between
two mullets sable, all within a bordure gules bezantde.
Crest : A wolfs head sable, charged on the neck with a
cinquefoil between two bars or. (HarL MSS. t 615, 1 566,
and 5814.)
Cooksey, of White- Ladies y Worcester. — The pedigree of this
family, as recorded at the Visitation of 1682-3, commences
with John Cooksey, of Worcester, who died in 1648,
aged 62. He was father, by Margaret his wife, daughter
of Roger Brooks of Worcester, of Edward Cooksey, of
Worcester, mayor of that city in 1665, aged 68 in 1683,
who by Joice, his wife, daughter of George Longmore, of
Upper Arley, had, with other issue, George Cooksey, of
Worcester, then aged 34, and John Cooksey, of White-
Ladies, who died in 1679. According to Nash, this
family derived from Richard Cooksey, of Worcester, son
of Sir Thomas Greville, alias Cooksey, of Kiddermin-
ster ; but it is clear that Sir Thomas died without issue.
The representative of this family, when Nash wrote, was
Holland Cooksey, of Braces Leigh, barrister-at-law, the
son of Richard, and grandson of John Cooksey by Mary
Anne his wife, daughter and heiress of Richard Blurton,
of White-Ladies. Holland Cooksey died in 1 792, having
had issue a son Richard, of whom presently, and four
daughters, — Charlotte, wife of John Evans, of Nottingham;
Mary, a lunatic ; Harriet ; and Sarah, married to Thomas
Yeates, of Charles Street, Westminster, mariner. The
136 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
son, Richard, was born in 1761 ; in 1788 he published
proposals for a History of Worcestershire, by subscription,
in one volume, which was never printed. He died un-
married, in London, in 1 798. Holland Cooksey had a
brother, the Rev. John Cooksey, who married Sophia,
tUe Boote, relict of Edward Winnington, of Broadway,
and mother of Sir Edward Winnington, the first Baronet,
of Stanford ; he died at Wimbledon, of which parish he
was incumbent, in 1777. There were also two sisters,
Anne and Sarah ; the former was married to Edward In-
gram, (by whom she had a son, Richard Ingram, and a
daughter, Anne, married first to Mr. Chambers, and
secondly to Charles Cameron, M.D.,) and the latter to
Thomas Thomas. — Argent, on a bend azure three
cinquefoils on (" No proof," K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 163.)
These amis occur on the monument of the Rev. John Cooksey,
at Wimbledon, with a talbot passant for crest, and the motto
" Prodesse quam conspici." (See the Herald and Genealogist,
vii. 93.)
Cooksey. — Azure, a cross argent within a bordure engrailed
gules. — Sable, a cross within a bordure engrailed or.
These two coats, which are ascribed by the Heraldic Dictionaries
to Cooksey, are different readings of the coat of Greville. See
Cooksey of Cooksey.
Coombe, of Hallow ; as borne by William Coombe, High
Sheriff 4th Charles II. — Ermine, three lions passant in
pale gules. {Nash.)
Cooper, of Bengeworlh ; as borne by the late Thomas Beale
Cooper, M.D., of the Mansion House, Bengeworth, J. P.,
D.L., " descended from an ancient family, possessed for
many generations of estates in Oxfordshire; of which
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was Thomas Cooper, Colonel in Cromwell's army, called
to the Protectors Upper House in 1658."* Dr. Beale
Cooper was the son of the late Rev. Samuel Cooper,
Vicar of Loxley, by Sibylla, his wife, daughter and
eventually heiress of Thomas Beale, of Newent —
Quarterly, 1st, Argent, on a chevron between three
martlets gules as many annulets or, a chief engrailed
ermine, for Cooper ; 2nd, Sable, on a chevron between*
three griffin's heads erased argent as many estoiles gules,
. for Beale; 3rd, Argent, on a bend sable three fleurs-de-
lis or, a chief of the second charged with a lion passant
of the third, for Hayward ; 4th, Or, out of a fesse sable
a demi-lion issuant gules, for Emms. Crest : An arm
embowed in armour proper, holding a branch vert.
Motto : " Frango dura patientia." (Burke's Armory)
Coote. See Nanfan.
Cope, of Iccombe ; a branch of the baronetical family of Cope,
springing from William Cope, of Iccombe, son of Richard
Cope, of Wicklow, Ireland, brother of Sir William Cope,
Bart. The heiress of this family, Elizabeth, daughter of
William Cope, married Thomas Geers, serjeant-at-law, of
" The Marsh," co. Hereford, by whom she was mother
of Elizabeth Geers, married in 1 705 to Richard Hopton,
of Canon Frome, co. Hereford, father of Edward Cope
Hopton, High Sheriff of this county in 1752. — Argent,
on a chevron azure between three roses gules slipped
proper, as many fleurs-de-lis or. Crest : A fleur-de-lis or,
issuing from the top thereof a dragon's head gules.
The ancient arms of Cope were — Argent, a boar passant sable.
* Burke.
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138 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
William Cope, cofferer to King Henry VII., abandoned this for
Argent, three coffers sable, allusive to his office ; but he subsequently
took the bearings as above described, which have ever since been
borne by the family. (See Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 106.)
Copley, of Norton, in Bredon ; an ancient family, which came
from Bedingfield, in Suffolk. Thomas Copley, of Beding-
field, purchased, conjointly with George Hornyold, the
manor of Bredon, in the 18th Elizabeth, and recorded his
pedigree at the Visitation of 1569, as did Thomas Copley,
his son, at that of 1634. The latter paid a fine for not
taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles L —
Argent, a cross moline sable charged with a martlet or.
Crest : A standing cup or. (D. 12, Coll. Arm., fo. 41,
and C. 30, fo. 105 ; Prattinton MS. ; Penn MS. ; and
Harl. MSS., 615, 1566, 1043, & c )
" There is another of this name" (says Penn) " that was a bene-
factor towards the setting up of the organns in the Colledge of
Worcester before these desturbed times, that did beare a lozenge or
upon the cross, as may be seene on the back side the organn case to
this day."*
Corbet. — Or, a raven close sable. (N.)
This coat is quartered by Coningsby in the Harl. MS., 1507. It
is that of the Corbets, of Moreton- Corbet, co. Salop.
Corbett, of Chaddesley-Corbett. Nash gives a very meagre
account of this family ; he says they removed to Cowley,
in the parish of Leigh, and that William Corbett, dying
s.p., temp. Henry the Seventh, his estates went to his
sisters and co-heiresses, Elizabeth, wife of Ralph Hack-
lute, and Eleanor, married to Roger Harewell. Roger
# A blazon of the several " Armes of the Benefactors to the late erected
Organe of the Cathedrall Church of Worcester, a.d. 16 14," is given by
Habingdon (in the HarL MS., 2205), but he omits the names of the bearers.
Dr. Thomas has printed it in his Survey of the Cathedral.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 139
Corbett, of Chaddesley, died in 1 7th Edward I., when it
was found by inquisition that William Corbett was his
son and heir, and aged eight years, and that Alda, or
Ada, who was the wife of William Corbett, and mother
of the said Roger, held a third part of the Manor of
Chaddesley in dower. The same Alda also held the
Manor of Imney in dower, of Peter Corbett, by reason
of the minority of William, the son and heir of Roger
Corbett.* — Or, a raven sable within a bordure engrailed
gules. (N.)
This coat occurs in glass at Hadsor, and is by Nash attributed to
Corbett of Chaddesley, but to Corbet of Cowley he ascribes the
same coat within a bordure sable bezantee. The arms of Corbett,
however, as quartered by Harewell, in the /far/. MS., 1566, are —
Argent, two bendlets indented gules and vert, a coat which is usually
ascribed to Ruyhall (see that name). A Roger Corbett bears in the
Roll of temp. Edward I., Or, three ravens sable.
Corbin, alias Corbett. — Or, a raven proper, a crescent for
difference. (Penn MS.)
The coat probably used by John Corbin, who occurs in Penn's
list of those Worcestershire gentry that were to find horse during the
civil wars of the 17th century.
Corbyn. See Lutley.
Cornerd, alias Connerd, of Hanbury. — Azure, a fesse be-
tween two chevrons or. {Penn AfS.)
Dr. Prattinton says this coat was quartered by Culpepper. The
same coat was anciently borne by the family of Cornerth, and sub-
sequently by the Grays, of Cornerth, co. Suffolk, who married their
heiress ; and (says Mr. Shirley) it was u doubtless derived from their
superior lords, the Baynards." (Noble and Gentlemen, 1st. ed., p.
143)
Cornewall, of Burford, near Tenbury. This family, which
# Escheats 18 Edward I., No. 27 ; and 19 Edward I., No. 8.
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at one time possessed very considerable estates in the
counties of Worcester, Salop, and Hereford, is descended
from Richard de Cornubia, a natural* son of Richard,
Earl of Cornwall, second son of King John, and brother
of King Henry III. The family seat was for many
generations at Burford, but no remains are now left of
the mansion there. f Of this family was Ffolliot Herbert
Walker Cornewall, D.D., successively Bishop of Bristol,
Hereford, and Worcester, who died in 1831, leaving two
sons, the younger of whom, Herbert Cornewall, is of
Delbury, near Ludlow, Salop, an estate which was pur-
chased by Frederick Cornewall, father of the late Bishop
of Worcester. — Ermine, J a lion rampant gules ducally
crowned or within a bordure engrailed sable bezantde.
Bishop Cornewall quartered, Per pale azure and gules, three lions
rampant argent, for Herbert; and Gules, a cross ragutee between four
lion's heads erased argent crowned or, for Walker. In a note to his
Pedigree of Meysey (i. 54), Nash says that Thomas Meysey, of
Shakenhurst, had a natural son, Humphrey, begotten on the body of
Dame Mary, wife of Sir George Cornewall, of Berrington, co. Here-
ford, knt, which Humphrey assuming the name and arms of Corne-
wall, Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, on the com-
plaint of John Nanfan, of Birtsmorton, heir-at-law to Sir George, §
* This illegitimacy was denied at the Visitation of Shropshire, in 1623,
by Sir Thomas Cornwall, of Burford, who stated that the said Richard was
the legitimate son of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall, by Sanchia, of
Provence, his second wife. (Shirley.)
t The modern mansion at Burford is the property and residence of Lord
North wick.
% The field ermine was bestowed upon Sir Geoffrey Cornewall, knt., who
married a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Hugh Mortimer, of Richard's Castle
and Burford, after having taken the Duke of Brittany prisoner, the field
ermine being the arms of Brittany. (See Dingley's History from Marble, and
Nash's Supplement, p. 80.)
§ John Nanfan, of Birtsmorton, had married Maud, daughter of Sir Richard
Cornewall, and sister of Sir George.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 141
commanded the Heralds to make proclamation of his birth at the
Visitations of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, in 1569. The
existing family of Cornewall are descended from Humphrey, son and
heir of Sir George and Mary.
Cornwall, of Kinlet, Salop. — Argent, a lion rampant gules
ducally crowned or within a bordure engrailed gules
bezant£e. (N.)
Sir Brian Cornewall, of Kinlet, who was Sheriff of Shropshire in
1378, bears in the roll of temp. Richard II. the arms with the field
ermine. His daughter and heiress, Isabel, married Sir John Blount,
and was ancestress of the Childes, of Kinlet. The Cornewall arms
are upon the Blount monument at Kidderminster.
Cornwallis, of Blakeley Grange> Oldbury. " In 1648," says
Nash, " Charles Cornwallis, a younger branch of the
Lords Cornwallis, of Suffolk, occurs as Lord of Oldbury.
By Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of ... Calmore, he had
two daughters and co-heiresses, Anne, married to Anthony
Mingey, and Frances to William Fetherston, who, in
right of their wives, were joint Lords of the Manor.
Mingey died s.p., whereupon the whole devolved upon
Frances Fetherston, who left two daughters, her co-
heiresses, Anne, wife of William Addington, and Eliza-
beth, married to ... Paston ; the latter died s.p. Adding-
ton had daughters only, Frances and Anne, the elder of
whom married Christopher Wright, of Coventry, and the
younger Richard Grimshaw. Grimshaw left one son,
who died unmarried ; of him Christopher Wright pur-
chased a moiety of the manor. He married the widow
of Richard Parrot, of Hawkesbury, near Coventry, and
is sole Lord of the Manor, but has no child." The
above William Addington died in 1725 ; he appears to
have had a son, William Fetherston Addington, who
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died issueless, in 171 5. — Sable, guttle d'eau, on a fesse
argent three Cornish choughs proper.
Cornwallis, of Rock ; as borne by Charles Cornwallis, of
Rock, 1673. — The same arms. (Blome s Britannia.)
Cotes, " Wigornand Salop." — Quarterly 1st and 4th, Ermine ;
2nd and 3rd, Paly of six or and gules. {Win. MS.)
Cotherington, as quartered by Coningsby. — Argent, a fesse
embattled counter-embattled sable fretty or, between
three lions passant guardant of the second. (Harl. MS.,
1507.)
Cotterell, of Broadway. John Brookes, of Broadway, mar-
ried Anne, only daughter of Edward Cotterell, of Saint-
bury, co. Gloucester, and had issue by her an only son,
John Brookes, who assumed, in compliance with the
testamentary injunction of his maternal uncle, Thomas
Cotterell, the surname and arms of Cotterell. His son,
Sir John Brookes Cotterell, knt, was father, by Anne, his
wife, daughter and heiress of John Geers, of Garnons, co.
Hereford, of John Geers Cotterell, born in 1757, who
was created a Baronet in 1805, and was ancestor of the
Cotterells of Garnons. — Quarterly or and argent, a cross
engrailed per pale sable and gules, in the second quarter
two escallops and in the third one of the third, over all a
bend of the last. (A combination of the two coats of Cot-
terell and Brookes) * Crest : An armed arm embowed
proper, holding by the top an escutcheon argent charged
# Viz., Cotterell. — Argent, a bend between three escallops sable ; Brookes,
Argent, a cross engrailed per pale sable and gules. The Crest of Cotterell
was a talbot's head erased sable collared and chained or.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 143
with a talbot's head sable collared and chained or. Motto :
11 Non rapui sed recepi." {Baronetages)
Cotton. — Azure, a chevron between three hanks of cotton
argent Crest : A hawk argent, beaked and legged or.
(N. ; and Burke's Armory.)
These arms were on the monument in St. Helen's Church, Wor-
cester, of John Cotton, descended from the Cottons of Bellaport.
{See Nash, Appendix.)
Coucher. See Cowcher.
Couper, or Cupper, of Powick. — Argent, on a bend engrailed
between two lions rampant sable three plates. (Penn
MS.)
This coat occurs at Powick, on the tomb of Richard Cupper,
gent., who died 13th January, 1740, jet. 63.
Courteene, of Aldington, or Ann ton. This was a foreign
refugee family, springing from William Courten, the son
of a tailor at Menin, who arrived in London with his
wife, Margaret Cusiere, in 1568. With a son-in-law,
named Peter Boudeau, he established himself in business
in Abchurch Lane, and is said to have owed his early
• prosperity to the manufacture of French hoods. Two
sons, William and Peter, were born in London, in the
years 1572 and 1581, and were afterwards sent as factors
to Haarlem and Cologne. William married for his first
wife the daughter of Peter Cromling, an opulent mer-
chant at Haarlem, by whom he had an only son, Sir
Peter Courteene, w r ho was created a baronet in 1622, and
married a daughter of Lord Stanhope, but died prema-
turely, without issue, in 1624. The father, William
Courteene, was knighted on 30th May, 1622, just after
144 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
the Baronetcy had been conferred upon his son ; and his
brother, Peter, was also knighted, at Whitehall, on 22nd
February, 1623-4. By his second wife, Hester, daughter
of Peter Tryon, and sister of Sir Samuel Tryon, bart,
Sir William Courteene had another son, William, who
became his heir, and married Lady Katherine Egerton,
daughter of John, Earl of Bridgewater. They were the
parents of William Courteene, who formed an extensive
collection of natural history, and other curiosities, which,
having devolved to his friend and executor, Sir Hans
Sloane, contributed to the foundation of the British
Museum in 1753.* — Or, a talbot passant sable. Crest:
A demi-talbot sable. (Harl. MS., 1476.)
Courtenay. — Or, three torteaux and a label azure. (N.)
This coat occurs in the Cathedral in glass ; it is that of the
noble house of Devon, and was quartered by Carew of Littleton, in
right of the marriage of Sir Nicholas Carew with Joan, daughter of
Sir Hugh Courtenay, of Haccombe, Devonshire.
Coventry, of Croome UAbitot. This family claims to be
descended from John, son of William Coventry, of
Coventry, co. Warwick, a rich mercer of London, Lord
Mayor of that city in 1425, and one of the executors* to
the will of the famous Sir Richard Whittington ; but the
descent does not appear to be clearly established. The
alderman bore for his arms — Argent, a chevron sable,
between three columbines proper; those borne by the
Coventrys of Croome were granted or confirmed by
Camden on 10th October, i6o2,f to Thomas Coventry,
* From The Herald and Genealogist, L, 167.
t Add. MS. 14,295. It is somewhat remarkable that the Coventrys did
not record their pedigree at any of the Worcestershire Visitations.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 145
of Croome, then a bencher of the Inner Temple, and
afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, whose
son, (by his wife Margaret, daughter* of William Jefferies,
of Croome,) the lord keeper Coventry, was created Baron
Coventry in 1628. Thomas, the fifth Lord Coventry,
was advanced to a Viscounty and Earldom by Ring
William III., in 1697, as Viscount Deerhurst and Earl
of Coventry, with limitation, failing his issue male, to
Francis Coventry, of Mortlake, Surrey, younger son of
Thomas the first baron, and the heirs male of his body ;
remainder to William, Thomas, and Henry, children of
Walter Coventry, of London, merchant, descended from
a younger brother of the lord keeper. On the death of
Gilbert, the fourth earl, without male issue, the Barony
became extinct, but his other honours devolved upon
William Coventry, the son of Walter Coventry, of Lon-
don, agreeable to the limitation ; and from him George
William, the present Earl of Coventry, is lineally de-
scended. — Sable, a fesse ermine between three crescents
or. Crest : A cock gules, combed, wattled, and legged
or, perched on a garb lying fesseways of the last. Sup-
porters : Two eagles with expanded wings argent,
beaked and legged or. Motto : " Candide et constanter."
Cowcher, or Coucher, of Claims, and of Woodmancote, in
Clifton-on- Temc, which last estate was purchased in 1 569,
by John Coucher, who was bailiff of the city of
Worcester in 1563 and 1565. His son John filled the
same office in 1593 and 1595, and was member in
# The Peerages call this lady an heiress ; but see Nash's pedigree of Jeffe-
ries, i., 267.
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several parliaments for the city in the reigns of James I.
and Charles I. The old moated mansion at Woodman-
ton was taken down and rebuilt in the early part of the
present century by the late Martin Coucher. — Sable, on a
fesse between three cinquefoils or, as many martlets of
the field (in Penn MS., azure.) Crest : A bird holding a
branch in its bill. (N.; Penn MS.; and Prattinton MSS.)
Thomas Coucher, v " eldest son of the Alderman at Worcester/*
disclaimed arms at the Visitation of 1634.
Cowdall, (as impaled by Thomas Andrew, of Redditch). —
Gules, a chevron between three buck's heads cabossed
argent. (HarL MS., 1476.) See Andrew.
Cowleigh, of Cowleigh, (as quartered by Harewell). — Or, a
chevron ermine between three cow's heads cabossed
sable.* {Harl. MS., 1566; and N.)
This coat occurs impaled with Ruyhall or Corbett, in Birtsmorton
church. See Harewell.
Cox, of Clent, and of Stone, and Kidderminster ; a family
connected with the Vernons of Hanbury, the Ingrams of
Horn Castle, and the Tristrams of Moor Hall. — Gules,
three cocks argent two and one. {M.I. at Clent to John
Cox, who died 1 705, at. 75 ; and at Kidderminster to
Joseph Cox, Attorney-at-Law, born 1677, °& 1 737)-
Coxwell, of Malvern ; as borne by Charles Rogers Coxwell,
J. P., second surviving son of the late Rev. Charles Cox-
* John Cowley, whose daughter, Anne, married John Barneby, great
grandfather (according to an ancient pedigree quoted in Burke's Common-
ers, iv. 2), of Thomas Barneby, who married the heiress of Acton, is said to
have borne Argent, a chevron between three bull's (probably cow's) heads
sable. See Burke, ut supra.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 147
well, rector of Dowdeswell, co. Gloucester, descended
from an ancient Gloucestershire family. — Argent, a bend
wavy between six cocks gules ; quartering (for Rogers)
Argent a mullet sable, on a chief gules a fleur-de-lis or.
Crest : A dragon's head argent, between two dragons
wings expanded gules. {Burke.)
Cratford, of Chelmarsh, Salop \ and of Claines and Broadwas,
as recorded by Charles Cratford, at the Visitation of
1634. — Argent, a unicorn salient gules armed or. Crest :
A demi-lion rampant guardant erminois, ducally gorged
azure. (C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 105.)
Craven, of Lenchwick, Norton, near Evesham. — Quarterly 1st
and 4th, Argent, a fesse between six crosses crosslet
fitch^e gules ; 2nd and 3rd, Or, five fleurs-de-lis in cross
sable, a chief wavy azure, both for Craven. Crest : On a
chapeau, a griffin statant ermine beaked or. Motto :
"Virtus in actione consistit." (Penn MS.; Blome's Bru
tannia; &c.)
In the Harl. MS., 1507, the fleurs-de-lis and wavy chief together
with the following crest, On a square pedestal sable, a falcon with
expanded wings azure, beaked gules, are stated to have been " given
to William Craven, alderman and sheriff of London, who came in
Sheriff Smyth's place, being lately put out of his office in Feb.,
1600, which armes and crest was given by Dethicke and Camden,
4 Feb., 1600, 43, Eliz." This gentleman (Sir William Craven) was
sheriff of London in 1601, and lord mayor in 161 1. His eldest son
William was created Baron, Viscount, and Earl Craven, the Barony
with remainder to his brothers, and to Sir William Craven of Lench-
wick, and Anthony Craven his cousins. Sir William Craven, of
Lenchwick, died, without male issue, in 1665, and his only daugh-
ter, Elizabeth, married Theophilus Leigh, of Adlestrop. The
Lenchwick estate was subsequently possessed by Charles Craven,
who was high sheriff of this county, in 1724. He was the eighth
son of Sir William Craven, of Coombe Abbey, co. Warwick, and
his descendants are now of Brockhampton Park, co. Gloucester.
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i 4 8 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Croft, of Blockley, Kyre, &c. — Quarterly per fesse indented
azure and argent, in the first quarter a lion passant guar-
dant or. (N.)
This coat was formerly in Martley church, set up probably for Sir
Edward Croft, knt, who was steward of the manor in 19 Henry
VIII. It also occurs at Tenbury, impaled by William Acton, in
right of his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Croft, of Kyre.
The family was of Croft Castle, co. Hereford.
Cromeley, or Cromelyn, as quartered by Russell and Win-
ter. — Azure, three fishes naiant in pale or. (Harl. MS.,
1043 5 but Nash gives the field argent and the fishes
azure.)
According to a pedigree of Russell, in the Harl. MS., 1043, Sir
Richard Cromeley, knt., married Margaret, widow of Ralph Basset,
daughter of Roger de Somerie, Baron of Dudley, and co-heiress of
her mother the said Roger's first wife, Nichola, one of the four sis-
ters and co-heiresses of Hugh D'Albini, earl of Arundel ; and
among the fourteen quarterings on the Russell shield is the coat
of Cromeley, followed by Somerie and Albini. But it is quite clear
from the post-mortem inquisitions, 55 Henry III., No. 14, and
1 Edward I., No. 1 5, that Margaret Somerie married not Sir Richard
Cromeley, but Ralph Cromwell, by whom she was ancestress of the
Cromwells of Tatshall, co. Lincoln. By his second wife, Amabilia,
daughter and co-heiress of Sir Roger de Chacombe, Somerie was
father (with others) of a daughter also named Margaret, who was
married first to Urian de St Pierre, and secondly to Ralph Bassett.
This lady may possibly have been married a third time, to Sir Richard
Cromeley, but this would not, of course, confer upon her issue by
him a right to quarter Somerie and Albini.
Cromer. — Argent, a chevron engrailed sable between three
crows proper. (N.)
An impalement of Lovell at Droitwich. (Dr. Prattinton.)
Cromwell. " There is a family of Cromwell/* says Mark
Noble,* " at Bromsgrove, who came from Devizes, co.
* Memoirs of the Cromwell Family.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 149
Wilts. The grandfather of them was a schoolmaster,
and their great-grandfather a clergyman. Cromwell, of
Wilts, says Edmondson, bears the arms and crest of
Cromwell before the augmentation, i.e. — Sable, a lion
rampant argent. Crest : A demi-lion rampant argent,
holding the shaft of a broken spear staff proper." A Mr.
John Cromwell was living at Bromsgrove in 1 784.
Crooke. — Fusily or and gules, a chief azure. (Penn MS.)
Crosse, of Holt. — Quarterly... and... in the first quarter a cross
potent (Harl. MS., 1566 ; and M. I. at Holt, to
Joshua Crosse, of Oxfordshire, who died in 1 708.)
Crowley, of Stourbridge. Ambrose Crowley, of Stourbridge,
a member of a respectable Quaker family, disclaimed all
right to arms and gentility at the Visitation of 1682-3.
He was largely engaged in the trade of the district, and
raised a considerable fortune, which was inherited by his
son, Sir Ambrose Crowley, knt, Sheriff of London in
1706-7. This worthy knight, who is said to have been
the "Jack Anvil," alias "Sir John D'Enville," of the
Spectator, had issue a daughter, Elizabeth, married in
1725 to John, 10th Lord St. John of Bletshoe. The
name of Crowley frequently occurs in the register of
births, marriages, and burials, belonging to the Society of
Friends at Stourbridge.* — Vert, on a chevron or, a star
of sixteen points between two roses gules. Crest : On
a mount vert, a sun or charged with a rose gules.
* See Scott's History of Stourbridge, Ambrose Crowley granted by Inden-
ture, in 1688, the Friends' Meeting House and Burial Ground, at Stourbridge,
to certain Trustees for one thousand years, at a pepper-corn rent.
150 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
These bearings were granted to the said Sir Ambrose Crowley,
knt., on the 14th of June, 1707, by Sir Henry St. George, Garter, and
Sir John Vanbrugh, Clarencieux. See Add. AfS. 9 14830.
Crump, of Bretforton. This family was of Bretforton, early
in the 16th century. On the 1st of August, 1546, Wil-
liam Crompe, of " Brodforton," was married at South
Litdeton to Catherine Kyghley, "cozen to Rychard
Kyghtley, of this parish." In 1575 a William Crumpe
was Chaplain of Badsey, a parish adjoining Bretforton ;
and in 1643 John Crump was presented to the Rectory
of Oddingley, and died 1657. Anthony Crump, of Bret-
forton, gent, occurs in Blome's list of the gentry of Wor-
cestershire in 1673. — Argent, three pallets gules, a chief
or. {Communicated!)
Lawrence Crump, or Cromp, (perhaps a member of this family),
originally a herald painter, at Worcester, and an officer in the militia,
was appointed, through the interest of Lord Windsor, Portcullis Pur-
suivant, and afterwards York Herald. The Lords Proprietors of the
Province of Carolina gave him a patent, dated June 1st, 1705, ap-
pointing him Carolina Herald, with the power to grant arms to the
Caciques and Landgraves. He died June 1 1 th, 1 7 1 5, and was buried
in the cemetery of St. Bennett's, Paul's Wharf. (See Noble's His-
tory of the College of Arms.)
Culpepper, or Colepepper, of Astwood Court, Feckenham; as
borne by John Culpepper, of Astwood, High Sheriff
22nd James I. — Argent, a bend engrailed gules. Crest :
A falcon, wings expanded argent, beaked and belled or.
(N.)
In Feckenham church is a monument with these arms to Sir
Martin Culpepper, of Deane, co. Oxford, knt, who died in 1604,
aged 25, son and heir of Martin Culpepper, of Astwood. Martin
Culpepper purchased the advowson* of Feckenham, from the heir
* Martin Culpepper, M.D., presented to the rectory of Feckenham, in
1602 ; and Fulke Harbach "ex concess. Joh. Culpepper de Astwood," in
1625. (&*Nash.)
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 151
of the Markhams ; and on the death of his son, the above Sir Martin,
the rectory, with Astwood and its appurtenances, devolved to Mr.
Culpepper, of Sussex, a gendeman descended from an ancient family
in that county. (Nash i., 442.) Lettice, the daughter of a Sir
Martin Culpepper, married Thomas Ivie, of co. Oxford, whose
descendants quartered the arms of Culpepper. (See Visitations of
Oxfordshire, Harleian Society, p. 260.)
Cupper, of Powick. See Couper.
Curtler, of Beveri, near Worcester ; as borne by Thomas
Gale Curtler, J. P., D.L., Vice-chairman of the Court of
Quarter Sessions at Worcester, eldest son of the late
James Curtler, of Bromsgrove, by Elizabeth, daughter of
John Gale, of Dorchester, and grand-daughter of John
Hoskins, of Beaminster, co. Dorset. — Per pale indented
azure and sable, two chevronells between three lions
rampant or. Crest : A lion's head erased bendy sinister
or and azure, ducally crowned gold, flames issuant from
the mouth proper. Motto : " Labor omnia vincit"
(Burke's Landed Gentry.)
These bearings are those of Hoskins, slightly altered.
D'Abbetot, or D'Abitot, of Redmarley HAbitot. — Per pale
or and gules, three roundles counter-changed. (C 30,
Coll. Arm., fo. 30.)
In what way this family was related to Urso D'Abetot, the Sheriff,
does not appear. Geoffrey D'Abitot held seven hides in Red-
marley D'Abitot in the reign of Edward I., of William de Beau-
champ, Urso's heir ; his descendant, William D'Abitot, of Warwick-
shire, living temp. Henry VII., bore (according to Mr. Kittermaster)*
Azure, a chevron or between three bezants. " Some of the name
# Warwickshire Arms and Lineages. It was " confirmed? he says, " as the
arms of William Dabbetot (temp. Hen. VII.), sixth in descent from Sir
Galfrid de Abbetot, Lord of Radmerley. — Her. Vis" He probably means
iS2 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
(says Nash) continued at Redmarley till within this century, lived at
Down House, and were called LtAbitotes de la Downe de Ridmarley.
They married into considerable families — Osbert D'Abitot married
the daughter of Sir Geoffrey Moody, knt., William, their son, mar-
ried Draycote ; and John, the son of William, married Washborne.
This John had issue Walter and Edward, from whom are derived
two families, the one settled in Herefordshire, the other in Worces-
tershire; and Thomas D'Abitote, the heir of the Worcestershire
branch, was alive in Mr. Habingdon's time, but the family is now
extinct" (VoL ii., p. 305.) Berry attributes the three roundles to
Abtot, with the following crest : A bear couchant argent, collared
muzzled and langued or. The bear was the badge of Urso, and
afterwards of his heirs, the Beauchamps.
D'Abitot, as borne temp. Edward I. by Geoffrey D'Abitot.
— Or, two lions passant guardant that in chief gules, that
in base azure. {Roll.)
This coat was quartered by Clare, of Kidderminster, descended,
through Ryce, from John, son of Sir Geoffrey D'Abitot, of Croome
D'Abitot These D'Abitots were also of The Grove, in St. John's
Bedwardine.
D'Abitot, 0/ Hindlip; as borne in the 13th century by Geoffrey
D'Abitot, of that place. John D'Abitot, in the reign of
Edward L, held Hindlip of the Beauchamps. In the
28th of the same reign, Alexander, the son of John
D'Abitot, was Lord of Hindlip, and in the 20th Edward
III. Matilda D'Abitot held lands in Hindlip.— Per pale
gules and vert, two lions passant guardant argent {Roll
in Harl. MS., 6137.)
D'Abitot, of Worcestershire ; as borne temp. Edward II.
by Sir William D'Abitot. — Ermine, a chief bendy of
six or and sable. {Roll.)
that the coat is given as that of William Dabbetot in some copy of some
Visitation of Warwickshire. It is attributed by Burke to " Abbetot of War-
wickshire," with this crest : A dexter hand, holding a cutlass in pale proper
hilted or.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 153
This coat (but the chief bendy sinister) was quartered by Wash-
borne. Burke gives the following crest to the coat : A dove and
olive branch proper.
D'Abitot. — Ermine, a chief or, over all a bend sable. (Trick
in Harl. MS, 1566.)
Dammerle. — Per fesse azure and gules, three crescents argent
This coat, which occurs among the Willoughby quarterings, at
Welland, is that of D'Aumerle, or Daraarell, and was borne by Sir
William D'Aumerle, whose daughter and co-heiress, Elizabeth, mar-
ried Sir John Maltravers, of Hooke, knt Sir Humphrey Stafford
married the daughter, and eventually sole heiress of Sir John Mal-
travers, and was ancestor of the Staffords, of Grafton and South-
wicke, whose arms were also quartered by Willoughby.
Dandridge, of Balder 9 s Green, Great Malvern ; as borne by
Charles Dandridge, of that place, 1824. — Quarterly 1st
and 4th, Azure, a lion's head erased or between three
mascles argent, for Dandridge; 2nd, Gules, two lions
passant guardant argent, over all a bend ermine, for
Strange ; 3rd, Gules, an eagle displayed within abordure
engrailed or, for Strong. Crest : A lion's head erased,
charged with a mascle. Motto : "In adversis etiam
fide." {Berry.)
Dangerfield. — Gules, a cinquefoil ermine within a bordure
azure bezant£e. (M. I. at Mathon. — Dr. Prattinton.)
This coat, with the crest : A griffin's head erased proper, is
attributed by Burke to Dangerfield, of Bromyard. Thomas Dan-
gerfield occurs in Penn's list of those who were to find horse in
Worcestershire during the civil war.
Daniel. — Argent, on a bend engrailed sable three escallops
of the first {In Tredington church. — Dr. Prattinton.)
Dannet, of Elmbridge, and of Dannefs Hall, and Brunting*
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154 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
'J thorpe, co. Leicester. The pedigree of this family is
traced to Simon Dannet, living in the 13th century.
His descendant, Gerard Dannet, of Bruntingthorpe, who
was Councillor of State to King Henry VIII., was
buried at Altry, in Essex, in 1520; he was the son of
John Dannet, by Joan, daughter and heiress of Gerard
de la Hay, and married Mary, sister and co-heiress of
Sir Edward Belknap, of Knowle, co. Warwick, (descended
from an heir, general of the Lords Boteler, of Wem), by
whom he was father of Sir John Dannet, knt., who, by
his marriage with Anne, daughter and heiress of Thomas
Elmbridge, obtained the manor and estate of Elmbridge,
in this county. Sir John had issue three sons, Leonard,
who died s.p. ; Gerard, who succeeded at Elmbridge ; and
John, who had the Leicestershire estates. Gerard Dan-
net, of Elmbridge, married Sarah, daughter of Edward
Caldwell,* of Upton Warren, and, dying in 16 10, was
succeeded by his son Thomas, father of Gerard Dannet,
and grandfather of John Dannet, of Elmbridge, whose
daughter and co-heiress, Anne, married William Bookey,
and had issue an only daughter and heiress, married to
Edward Penrice. — Sable, guttle d'eau a canton ermine ;
# &? the pedigree of Caldwell in the Visitation of Leicestershire, a° 1619,
Harl. Society's Publications, ii., 192. Gerard Dannet, and Sarah his wife,
were buried at Doderhill, where is a monument (described by Nash) to their
memory, surmounted by an escutcheon of the arms and quarterings of Dan-
net, impaling Caldwell. Sarah was his second wife, " by whom (says the in-
scription) onely hee had issewe John, Gerard, Mary, and Anne." Thomas,
his successor at Elmbridge, must therefore have been his son by a previous
wife ; but Nash, in his pedigree, gives him two sons by Sarah, viz., Thomas
and John. The maiden name of Sarah is omitted in his pedigree ; and,
though he blazons the impalement on the tomb, he does not appropriate it
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 155
quartering De la Hay,* Belknap, Sudeley, Read, Boteler,
Elmbridge, &c. Crest : A greyhound's head couped
(sometimes erased) argent, collared gules. {Nash, i., 347 ;
Nichols's Leicestershire, iv., 571 ; and Add. MS., 14314.)
Dansey, of Brlnsop, co. Hereford, and of Strensham. Kathe-
rine Dansey, Lady of the Manor of Strensham, daughter
and sole heiress of William Dansey, of Brinsop, by
Elizabeth, third daughter and co-heiress of Sir Francis
Russell, the last baronet of Strensham, who died in 1 705,
married John Ravenhill, .who was High Sheriff of this
county in 1745, and had issue an only daughter and
heiress, Frances, married first to Richard Nash, D.D.,
and secondly to Sir Charles Trubshaw Withers, knt, but
had issue by neither husband. — Barry wavy of six argent
and gules. Crest : A lion's head erased argent collared
gules, {Strong.)
Danvers ; quartered by Huband. — Azure, on a bend or three
mullets of the field.
Danzie. — Ermine, on a bend sable three bezants. {Penn
MS.)
Darby, of Fladbury. — Azure, a garb or.
John Darby, of Fladbury, died in 1609, aged 52; and a Mr.
Darby resided there when Syraonds visited the church. This coat,
he says, " is painted in the old escutcheons," but it is not ascribed
to the name of Darby in any of the Heraldic Dictionaries,t and is,
in fact, identical with that of the noble family of Grosvenor.
* Viz. — Or, two bars gules each charged with three lions rampant argent
Nichols attributes this coat to Billesworth ; and Mr. Papworth ascribes it to
" Dannet of Leicestershire."
t Darby, of Suffolk, bears : Vert, a chevron between three garbs argent,
banded or ; and Darby of Benington, co. Lincoln : Argent, a chevron between
three garbs sable banded or. (See Burke's Armory.)
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156 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Darke, of Alston and Bredon; as borne by John Darke, of
Bredon, High Sheriff in 1781, whose ancestor, John
Darke, of Alston, purchased estates in this county in
1545,* of the Sutton family. Mr. Darke's only daughter
and heiress, Mary, was married, in 1797, to Edward
Sheppard. — Per chevron argent and or, three estoiles . . .
{Engraving, 1789.)
Darlston, of Worcestershire. — Azure, on a bend or cottised
argent three Cornish choughs proper. Crest : A hawk's
head between two wings expanded barry of four argent
and sable, beaked or. {Her. Die.)
Daston, of Broadway, and of Dumbleton, co. Gloucester.
This family was seated at Dumbletoh in the early part of
the 15th century. John Daston was seised of lands
there in the 6th Edward IV., (1466-7,) Anthony Daston
levied a fine of lands there in the 1st Edward VI., and
another Anthony Daston died seised of lands in Dum-
bleton in the 12th Charles I., and left Richard, his son,
then twelve years old.f Anthony Daston, of Broadway,
was High Sheriff of this county in the 7th Elizabeth. —
Gules, on a bend or three mullets sable ; quartering (for
Dumbleton), Or, a fesse wavy between six billets sable.
Crest : A reindeer's head argent couped gules, pierced
through the neck with an arrow in fesse or, the point
entering the back of the neck. {Harl. MS., 1566.)
Burke attributes to u Dastin, of Worcestershire," Gules, on a bend
or three estoiles sable, and the above crest Nash describes the
i * See Churton's Life of Sir Richard Sutton, p. 414.
+ See Rudder's Gloucestershire, sub Dumbleton.
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crest as erased. In the trick in the HarL MS., 1566, it is couped
gules, and raised above the wreath ; but in the HarL MS., 5814, the
crest of " Daston vel Dorlston," of Dumbleton, is : A stag's head
erased pierced by an arrow in bend, point downwards.
Davies, of Droitwich. — Or, a chevron sable between three
mullets gules. {Impaled by Wheeler. — Dr. Prattinton.)
The same arms are upon the monumental tablet of George Davies,
of Droitwich, who died in 1683. (See Nash, i., 335.)
Davies ; as quartered by the late Edward Dixon, of Dudley,
High Sheriff in 181 5. — Sable, a chevron gules {sic) be-
tween three swan's heads couped or, on a chief of the
third a fleur-de-lis of the first {Seal.)
Davies, of Eltnley Park; as borne by the late Colonel
Thomas Henry Hastings Davies, of Elmley Park, M.P.
for Worcester, the son of Thomas Davies, Advocate-
General to the East India Company; descended from the
Rev. Henry Davies, rector of Fownhope, co. Hereford,
a younger son of Davies of Marsh, co. Salop. — Quar-
terly 1 st and 4th, Argent, a goat sable guttle d'eau
standing upon a child proper in a cradle gules swaddled
or, and feeding upon an oak tree upon a mount vert, for
Davies ; 2nd, Azure, nine estoiles argent, for Baillie;
3rd, Argent, a fesse couped between three ravens rising
proper, for Pierce. Crest : On a mount vert, a goat
lodged argent against an oak tree proper. Motto :
" Deus tuetur." (Burke's Armory.)
Davies, of Mitton, and of London. — Gules, a chevron en-
grailed between three boar's heads erased argent. Crest :
On a chapeau, a boar passant .... wreathed round the
neck. {HarL MS., 1476.)
*58 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Dawbeney, of Upton-on-Severn, and of Cirencester, co. Glou-
cester ; descended from Nicholas Dawbeney, a natural
son of William Dawbeney, of the baronial family of that
name. The pedigree and arms were entered at the Visi-
tation of 1569. — Gules, four lozenges conjoined in fesse
argent, debruised by a bendlet sinister or. Crest ; A
mulberry tree proper fructed gules, a band round the
trunk or, the foliage debruised by a sinister bendlet. {D.
12, Coll. Arm, fo. 32 ; Harl. MSS., 1566 and 5814.)
Deacle, 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 10th, 1704. {Add, MS., 14830.)
De Aula. — Gules, five lions rampant in cross or. (JV.)
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. (JV.)
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 17th century. William
Dedicott also occurs as Mayor of Bewdley, in 1 680.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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, ajid Herst.
De la Mere, of Hardwick Court, Eldersfield, and of Tedstone
de la Mere, co. Hereford. — Barry nebulae 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
Delamere, Or, three bars dancette'e 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. (IV.)
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., 198 19.)
Dennis, of Worcester. Gules, three leopards 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, jessint 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
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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. 180.)
Dennis. — Quarterly gules and or, in the first quarter a mullet
argent (JV.)
This is a mistake ; the coat is that of Vere, as impaled in Tarde-
bigge church, by Henry, 5U1 Lord Windsor, in right of Catherine, his
wife, only daughter of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
Dent, of Worcester, and of Sudeley 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 nebulae
azure three lozenges of the field. Crest : An heraldic
tiger's head erased ermine, sem6e of lozenges azure,
flames issuing from the mouth, proper. Motto : " Con-
cordil et industril" (Burke's Landed Gentry!)
Dethick, of Sedgberrow 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
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ist 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. (/?. 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 fitch^e or, a fleur de lis. (N.)
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 Harl. MS., 2205.
Devereux, of Leigh Court and of Castle Bromwich, co. War~
wick, bart Sir Walter Devereux, of Leigh Court, the
son and successor of Sir Edward Devereux, of Castle
Bromwich, who was created a Baronet in 161 2, and died
in 1622, — served the office of High Sheriff of this county
in the 2nd of Charles L, 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.
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162 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or, a talbot's head argent
eared gules. (C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 88.)
P'Ewes, of Hagley, and of Wellesbourne, 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'Ewqs 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 wolfs head erased or, gorged with a collar
vaire, in the mouth a quatrefoil pierced gules, slipped
proper. (Burke.)
Deyfe. — Sable, a chevron between three crescents argent
each charged with another gules, a bordure gobonte of
the second and third. (Her. Die.)
A similar coat is attributed to Deton.
Dickens, of Lealon and Bobbington, near Enville, co. Stafford,
and of Churchill, near Kidderminster, and Great Malvern.
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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 163
Nash gives a pedigree of the family in his 1st volume,
page 191, 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 Families, p. 367.
Dickleston, of Dickies ton, 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 III. ; John Dickleston held the same in
the 1 2th 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
1st 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.
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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. 113.)
" 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 formde fitch6e 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, were 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 18 15. 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 Jiatchment, in St. Edmund's church,
Dudley.)
Dixon, 0/ 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, a g e d 6 5> 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 Btarpackcr. They occur on the monument in Marshfield
church, of John Bearpacker, of Bristol, merchant, who died in 17 15, »t. 6a
166 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 Wilmer y 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 formde 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.
t 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, n& Wilmore.
THE' HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 167
this county in the 17th of Charles I. — Azure, a chevron
between three annulets or. {Nash; and Penn MS.)
Dod, of Lea Hall> Yardley. — Quarterly 1st and 4th, Argent,
a chevron gules between three cyanus flowers slipped
proper, for Cloverley ; 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 etHeraldUa.
Dolman, of Harborough 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. 101.)
Domulton, or Dumbleton, as quartered by Daston. —Or, a
fesse wavy between six billets sable.* (N.)
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.
168 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
sons. — Azure, a Hon rampant argent collared gules.
Crest : A lion's head erased argent ducally crowned or.
Motto : " Qui stat caveat." {Baronetage.)
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,f 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.)
* See Harl. MS., 615. f Vol. i. p. 246.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 169
Dorleston. See Daston.
Dormer, of Ripple. John Dormer, of Lee, Bucks., eldest son
of Sir Fleetwood Dormer, lent, 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
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176 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
named Deeons, at the Visitation of that County, in 1619. ($& the
Warwickshire Magazine; and HarL MS., 1167.
Doughtie, or Doughton, 0/ Horsham, in Martley* — Argent,
two bars sable, between three mullets of the second, each
charged with a bezant (Penn MS.)
William "Dowty," of Horsham, and Thomas " Dowry," disclaimed
at the Visitation of 1 634.
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 fitch^e sable,
for difference. Crest : A human heart gules, ensigned
with an imperial crown between two wings or. Motto :
(over) " Spero." {Communicated 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 Worcester, 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. 171
belonging to the noble family of the Sheldons, who are descended
from the Sheldons of Beelie." Penn is mistaken ; the coat is that of
Poker. (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
Lenches and Braces. (Nash, L 292.)
Dowdeswell, o/Pull Court, BusAley. 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 1 7th 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 II., 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 father, by Anne Ham-
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172 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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.
(Penn 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. (Penn 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. 173
"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 thern, 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 Dawdeswell, 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. I. in All Saints church, Worcester, to
Cocker Draper \ of that city, clothier, who died in 1716,
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. (N.)
One of the Windsor quarterings.
Droit wich, Town of. — Argent, two lions passant in pale sur-
mounting a sword of state in pale point downwards ;
impaling, quarterly 1st 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. (N.)
* " At Nantwich and Droitwich, the conical baskets wherein they put the-
salt to let the water drain from it, are called barraivs? (Halli well's DU-
tiotiary.)
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 Dudley, 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 161 1, 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 Iqw stations of life, (the descendants of
his grandfather, Thomas Dudley,) his coheirs-at-law. — Or,
a lion rampant double queu6e vert ; quartering Somerie,
&c. Crest : In a ducal coronet or, a lion's head azure.
Dudley, of Elmley Lovett ; as confirmed to John Dudley, of
Hackney, Middlesex, Serjeant of the pastry to Queen
Elizabeth, son of Simon* 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 Dorothy. John, the
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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 Tipton, 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 ajohn Dudley, whose arms were Or, three (sedytuzre two?) lions passant azure
in a bordure of the same, married the Rev. George Bard, vicar of Staines, who
died in 161 6. (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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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." (Seal, &c.)
The Dudleys of Clopton, or Clapton, in Northamptonshire, bore
the same arms and motto, but their crest is thus described in the
THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 1 7 7
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 f 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 Tnomas 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 c^p-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 Northumberlatid
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 a descendant 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 (nie Charlton), the widow of another John Lord Dudley.
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178 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
daughter and co-heiress of John Wells, alias 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 Worcester, and of Netherton Hall, near Dudley ;
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 Groveley.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 EUinor Heaton were married
12 October."
" Mrs. Dudley, y* wife of Dodo Dudley, was buried y e 3d of Decem-
ber, 1675."
" Colonell Dodo Dudley was buried y* 25th of October," 1684.
THE HERALDRY OF 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, 1st and 4th, Or,
a lion rampant double queu6e vert, in the dexter chief a
crescent for difference, for Sutton alias Dudley ; 2nd and
3rd, Or, two lions passant in pale azure, for Somerie ; the
whole debruised with a bendlet sinister gules. ( Visita-
tion Pedigree, ut supra, in Mr. BagnalPs reprint of Metal-
lum Martis.)
Dud's monument in St Helen's church, is surmounted with an
escutcheon bearing a lion rampant double queue'e, impaling six
trefoils arranged two and one, two and one, for Heaton; and two
crests, the first A lion's head affronte'e 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 bprne by Sir Henry Bate-Dudley, Bart., $0
created in 18 13, "descended from a respectable family
settled in Worcestershire and Staffordshire as early as
the reign of Charles I."* He was the son of the Rev.
Henry Bate, Incumbent of St. Nicholas, Worcester,!
and was born in 1 745. In 1 784 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 Baronetage.
t His name does not appear in Nash's list of the Incumbents.
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180 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 Armory.)
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-
pression of the Town Seal.)
These arms (which were designed, it is believed, byjMr.|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 MS.)
Colepepper quartered the same arms on a field gules, for Duf-
field. (Dr. Prattinton.)
Dumbleton. See Domulton.
Dunclent, of Dunclent. — On a bend cottised three escallops.
(N.)
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 oY John Melford,
formerly Lord of Churchill juxta Kidderminster. (^Nash, i. 190.)
DuncOxMBe, of Wribbenhall, and Kidderminster ; as borne by
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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 Extinct
Baronetage^)
Dunne, of Gatley Park, co. Hereford, and of Earl's Croome.
— Azure, a wolf salient or. Crest : Six snakes erect,
contrary posed three and three, encircled with a ribbon.
{Dr. Prattinton.)
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 gives Azure, a wolf salient, and
a chief argent, which he says was granted to Sir Daniel on 10th
February, 1605. A Daniel Dunne, esq., was living at Kingsnorton
in 1673. See 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
182 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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 1 764, by the Rev. John Durant — Sable, a fesse dan-
cett£e argent, in chief three fleurs-de-lis of the lastt
Crest : A fleur-de-lis argent Motto : "Beati qui durant"
Durban. — Azure, on a chief argent a demi-lion rampant
issuant gules. (N.)
Durvessas. — Sable, a fesse counter-compon^e or and gules be-
tween six escallops argent (N.)
This is the coat of Durvassal, alias Spernore, whose pedigree is
given in Dugdale's Warwickshire, 1st ed., p. 531. It occurs in glass
in Worcester Cathedral, inscribed " Durvassal, Lord of Spernore."
See Dr. Thomas' Survey ', p. 14.
Dutton. — Quarterly argent and gules, in the second and third
quarters a fret or. (N.)
One of the quarterings of Savage, of Elmley Castle.
Dyer. (M.f. f 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 married 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. lxvii.
t 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 III. 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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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 Frances,
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 John, 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 1 741. The representation of the family then devolved
upon John Foote, 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.
184 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
Handsacre ; Gules, a sal tire 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 field, 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. 185
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 III. ;
his arms are engraved in the margin of the map of Staf-
fordshire in Plot's Natural History of that county r 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.)
Ear^e, Bishop of Worcester, 1662-3 ; granted by Walker.
— Ermine, on a chief engrailed sable three antique crowns
or. {Bedford)
Easte, or Este, of Hay Hall, Yardley. 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, Gules, 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, 1st edit., p. 62*.
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186 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
mas Este, and Marion, his wife, (ob. 1462), and to Henry Este, esq.,
and Margery, his wife (1504). Sec Nash, iL, 481.
Eaton. — Sable, three bars argent (JV.)
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, L, 80.
Echingham. — Azure, a fret or. (N.)
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 Mountjoy), and Margaret, his
wife} daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Echingham, knt
Edefyn. — Ermine, three barulets gules. (N.)
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
Worcester 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
also bore an inescutcheon, (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 Pallaway's Heraldry is an engraving of a seal, purporting to be that
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" Edmund, St., King and Martyr." — Azure, three crowns or.
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 Dr. 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, of Egioke andShurnock 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, nie.
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 Burley, K.G., (Sir Simon's nephew), is
stated to have married Beatrice, relict of Thomas Lord Ros, and daughter of
Ralph, first earl of Stajford, 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.
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1 88 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. {Harl. MS., 1566; and other
authorities.)
These arras occur at Inkberrow, on the tomb of John Egioke, of
Egioke, gent, who died in 1596, aet. 64. In the Harl. 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 "Eno&e, of Worcester-
shire." The same authorities also ascribe to " Edicoke or Egioke, of
Worcestershire," Sable, a griffin passant ermine, beaked, legged, and
dufcally gorged or. Crest : A demi griffin ermine, beaked and
legged or, holding a broken tilting spear.
Ellis, of Kempsey ; as granted on 14th February, 181 7, 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
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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 patriS. mori ;" and (over the
crest) " Bello dextrd." (Chambers' Biographical Illustra-
tions of Worcestershire ; and Ellis's Notes on Ellis Fami-
lies!)
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 Corny ne, 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.
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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 patt6e argent. Crest : A tent
argent, adorned or, lined azure, charged in the interior
with a cross patt£e of the first. Motto : " Corona mea
Christus." {Communicated by the family)
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 III., in marriage with an heiress of Stafford. Of this family
was Sampson Erdeswick, the well-known author of a Survey of
Staffordshire. 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 lions passant in pale or. (jV.)
The coat of the family of Erdington, of Erdington, co. Warwick,
, as in Belbroughton church. Sir Henry de Erdington, knt, married
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temp. Edward I., Maud, one of the daughters of Roger de Somcric,
Baron of Dudley, and co-heiress to her mother, Nichola IVAlhini,
" 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, BewdUy ; 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, 1 8 16. — 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 16 10, to the Kssingtons 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 (N.)
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 Nosh,
from Habingdon's MSS. — Quarterly 1st, Per fesse indented azure and argent,
in the dexter quarter a lion rampant or ; 2nd, Gules, three lions rampant or*
gent ; 3rd, Esteney (as atjovc described); 4th, "broken, except in chief guloi
three stag's heads or."
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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 Escott. — 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. John's. — 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 Erbistock, co. Flint ; as borne
by the late Sir John Evans,* lent, 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 1 86 1. — Vert, a chevron ermine between three wolfs
heads erased argent, langued gules. Crest : A wolfs
head as in the arms. (Burke.)
Evans, of Shipston-on-Stour ; as borne by the Rev. William
Evans, B.D., Rector. — Argent, three boars 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 1st, 181 7, being then High Sheriff of
Merionethshire; he died in 1825.
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Evans, of Wetland ; 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 Wetland.)
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, 1 81 5.— 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 Luckton ; 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. {Hart. MS., 1352.)
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194 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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., 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
bezant£e.
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 bordure 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 Woodhall ; 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
patt^e flory gules charged in the centre with a bezant.
Crest : A demi-dragon or, holding in the paws a cross
pat£e gules, (C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 76 ; and Penn MS.)
Eynford. — Gules, a fret engrailed ermine. {Penn MS.)
Eyre, of Hartlebury. " This family of the Eyers," says
Penn, " have been seated in the parish of Hartlebury,
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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. Arm.,
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 15 14, 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 Herefordshire.)
Farley (Turner), ofEastham, &c. 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 Hen wick, 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.
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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 1st and 4th, Paly of six sable gutt6 deau, and
or, for Farley ; 2nd and 3rd, Sable, within a cross argent
voided of the field, a cross patt£e fitch£e of the second
between four mill-rinds of the first, for Turner. Crests :
1 st, for Farley, A boar's head lying fesseways couped,
paly of six, as the arms ; 2nd for Turner, A lion passant
guardant sable, charged on the body with three crosses
patt6e fitcWe 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 voire) and the crest, A tiger
passant ermine, were granted by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, to Alex-
ander Fermor, of Welches, co. Sussex, Nov. 10th, 1575. (See Berry's
Sussex Pedigrees, p. 180.)
Farmer, 0/ London, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, and Wor-
cestershire. — 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 1 720, 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 Prifuipia, and many other MSS. by
him.* — Quarterly 1st and 4th, . . . three trees, on a chief
... a mullet 2nd and 3rd ... two fishes addorsed.
(From a broken seal in tlu possession of Uie Rev. Mr.
Rudd, of Kcmpsey, \- 4 th Oct.. 1815, ^ho lias several letters
from him to Sir Isaac Xewton. — Dr. Pratlinton.)
Faytixg, of Worcester; and of Woodcote, in the parish of
Bromsgrove, where the family was seated, according to
the Magna Britannia, for Ji 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 : u Fideli distillant sanguine corda."
{Magna Britannia; Add. MS., 14,834 ; and M.I. in All
Saint/ Church, Worcester.
Feckexham. — Sable, a chevron argent. {Rudder.)
In the year 1332 a controversy arose between Sir John Sitsylt
* Chambers's Biographical Illustrations of Worcestershire.
198 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
(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 BoswelTs Heraldry) by Duncumb, in his History of Hereford-
shire, vol. ii., p. 503.
Feild, of Worcester and Pagenhall, co. Gloucester. — Or, a fesse
between a double-headed eagle displayed in chief, and a
stag's head cabossed in base, all sable. (Harl. MS.,
1 04 1.) See Phelps.
Feild. — Vert, a chevron between three garbs or. (Penn MS.)
See Field.
Feild, or Field, of EvesJiam; 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.
Feild. See Field.
Feldridge, of Worcestershire. — Argent, on a fesse 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.)
Fell. — Argent, on two bars, sable, three crosses patt£e fitch^e
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 OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 199
in Worcester Cathedral. Warburton, in his London and Middlesex
Illustrated, states that Bishop Fell obtained a grant of Or, three
lozenges conjoined in fesse azure, on the middle one a Catherine
wheeC thereon a cross patt^e fitch t*e 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.
Ferebv. — 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. {Nash)
Ferrars, of Groby, co. Leicester. — Vaire or and gules. (A*.)
Fetiierston, of Kingsnorton. Thomas Fetherston. M.A..
M.D., (fourth son of John Fetherston, of Pack wood, co.
Warwick, who died in 1645.) married Kli/abeth, daughter
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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 Packwood 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.)
Fetherstonhaugh, of Hopton Court ; as granted to Alexan-
der Stephenson Fetherstonhaugh, of Hopton 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
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 201
Park, Sussex, repurchased the Castle estate from the Ear!
of Carlisle, and died February 24th, 1762, aged 100
years. Sir Albany Fetherstonhaugh, of Fetherston-
haugh Casde, 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 165 1 ; his representa-
tive, Charles Smallwood, assumed his name on 1st Sept.
1 797. Sir Alexander's line, of Fetherstonhaugh Casde,
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 Tything, Worcester, and great niece of Sir Wil-
liam Stephenson, knt, Lord Mayor of London, in 1 764*
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 aigent.
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.)
Fettiplace. — Gules, two chevrons axgent. See Bvsheix.
Feyce. — Barry of eight argent and azure. (A r
This coat occurs among the quarterings of WHkJUghbr ia V«
church, but Nash under Welland (voL iL, p. 45 5 > attrib
" SUyce or rather Grey." From its position is the shield
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202 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. •
Maltravers and D'Aumerle or Danmerle), however, it is clear that it
is intended for Sivrtfast, 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.
Field. See Feild.
Field, of Kingsnorton and Moseley. This family was of posi-
tion and importance at Kingsnorton during the 16th,
17th, and the early part of the 18th centuries, but it
appears to have subsequently fallen into poverty.* The
family estates at Kingsnorton were The Bells, The Moats \
Black-greaves, and Weatheroak 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 L ; 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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 203
liam 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 1 634 ; 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.)
Filylode. See Lutley.
Finch, of Rushock 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. {N. ; 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 K. 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. ". . . .
tt 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
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left three daughters, Margaret, Mary, and Anne, who erected the
monument
Fisher. — Or, a fesse cottised sable. (N.)
- Impaled at Longdon, by Christopher Helme, in right of his wife,
Mary, daughter of John Fisher, 1629.
Fisher, of Wigorn and Salop. — Argent, a chevron vaire be-
tween three lions rampant gules. {Win. MS.)
This coat (but with demi lions erased) was borne by the Fishers of
Packwood, co. Warwick, and Dothill, Salop.
Fisher, of Ludlow and Worcester. — Per bend or and gules,
a griffin segreant counterchanged within a bordure vaire.
Crest : On a branch trunked and ragul^e 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. {N.)
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 Hanbury. " 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, guttle de sang, on a cross gules
five mullets pierced of the field. {Penn 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."
FitzAlan, of Clun. — Argent, a chief azure. {N.)
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 Clun. 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.
(N.)
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.)
FlTZ-RANDOLPH. See MlDDLEHAM.
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. (N.)
Fitz- warren, of Upton Warren; as borne by Sir William
Fitzwarren, a judge of the Common Pleas, and Sheriff of
Worcestershire temp. Henry III. 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. (N.)
An impalement of Coningsby at Rock.
206 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 difference.
Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or, a plume of feathers
per pale azure and gules. (M. I. to yohn Fleet, Esq., in
St. Heletis church, 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
Marble, attributes to Fleet, 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. (N.)
Formerly in one of the windows of the cathedral cloisters. See
Thomas, p. 28.
Fleetwood, Bishop of Worcester, 1675-83. — Per pale nebu-
lae azure and or, six martlets, two, two, and two, counter-
changed. (Monument in the cathedral.)
Fletcher, 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 1st 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, for 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 : 1st, A horse's
head erased argent, ducally gorged azure, for Fletcher ;
2nd, On a chapeau, a scaling ladder or, for Keelinge.
Motto : " Sub cruce salu§." (Burkes Landed Gentry)
In Burke's Commoners, vol. iv., p. 52, the following bearings are
attributed to this family : — Argent, a ^cross 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 W olios Hall, Per shore. See Hanford.
Flower. — Ermine, on a canton gules an owl argent, ducally
gorged or. (JV.)
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, p. 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 patt^e sable.
Flowre. — Ermines, a cinquefoil ermine. (N.)
The arms of John Flower, of Rutland, who married Jane, daugh-
ter of Ralph Sheldon, of Beoley.
Fokerham, of Stockton. William de Fokerham held, temp.
.Edward I., the manor of Warley-Wigorn under Roger de
2oS 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 Witley 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,! 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., 2 119, 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 1 7th 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.
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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 ioth 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." (K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 1 14.)
Lord Foley and Mr. Hodgetts-Foley of Prestwood, co. Stafford,
now bear the lion in the crest rampant; and the former has the fol-
lowing supporters : — On either side a lion rampant argent, semde of
cinquefoils sable.
Foley, of Stourbridge ; as granted by Walker, Garter King of
Arms, on the 12th of December, 167 1, 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 HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 2 1 r
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., 11 72 ; 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."
(N.)
Dr. Prattinton thinks this is " a mistake of Dr. Thomas's." Burke
attributes the bearings to Foliot of " Bromyard, co. Worcester" (but
see 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 queue'e gules. (H. 20, Coil. Arm.,
ff - 57> <>7-) Sir Richard Foliot bears the bend in the Rolls of
Glover, Charles, and Nicolas.
Folliott, of Morton-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 III., 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, knt, to Sir William Courteen, knt
The family pedigree and arms were recorded at the Visi-
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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 16 19,
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 1 762, 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 queu6e purpure, ducally
crowned or. (D. 12, Coll. Arm., fo. 16b.)
" These," (says Nash), " are the arms of Stury, 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 ancient 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 Folliotfs 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 of 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 queued, murally crowned or ; and the motto : " Quo
virtus et Fata vocant" In the Harl. MS., 1566, Folliot quarters
five coats, 1st, 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 Dundent. 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 field. (N.)
This coat was borne by John Fordham, Prior of Worcester, and
was formerly represented in glass in Worcester Cathedral. (See Ha-
bingdon's Church Notes in the HarL MS., 2205 ; and Thomas's
Survey.)
Foreign. — Gules, ten bezants. (N.)
This coat occurs in glass in the Cathedral. (See Thomas, p. 22.)
Forest. — Two forked arrows in saltire. (N.)
This is rather a badge or device, than a coat armorial ; it occurs on
the monument, in Chaddesley church, of Thomas Forest, " parca-
rius de Dundent" (See Nash, L, p. 188.)
Forester, of Elmley Lavett; 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 r 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, t> ut not allowed.
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Weld Forester, eldest son of the above Cecil, inherited
the estates of the Welds of Willey, co. Salop, and was
created in 182 1 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 Wich, Newnham, and Knighton ; and
of Trotton, 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 (/?. 12, Coll. Ann., fo. 34 ; Harl. MSS., 615 and
1566 ; and Berry's Sussex Pedigrees, 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. 0. 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. {Penn MS.)
Fortescue, of Cookhill, and of Wethell, co. Warwick ; a
natural branch of the Devonshire house of Fortescue,
founded by Nicholas Fortescue,* groom porter to Henry
VI 1 1., 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 VIII., 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 legitimate 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 " John Fortescue, of Cookhill, esq." appears as paying ^234 15s. 5d.,
but he was probably the John, son of William, by Joan Wylde.
2 1 6 THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE
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 Gen-
tlemaris 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 gobon^e of the second and first, (/far/. 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. (Papworth.)
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.
Arm., 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, Coll. 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 John 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 find horse in Worcestershire during
the civil wars.
Fox, of Greet, Yardley, and Kingsnorton. 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. (Glovers 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, 1 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 nlius 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 Bromfield, 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 Naunton 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. {Communicated.)
* Notes and Queries, 1st S., vii., 204.
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218 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Frankley, of Frankley. — . . a cross between four mullets . . .
(Seal of Thomas de Frankley \ alias Tatlynton, 1 2 Edward
Frawsham. — Per pale indented or and azure, six martlets
counterchanged. (A^)
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. (Prattinton 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 1 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 Sollers, 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. ut supra; Penn 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. (N.)
Quartered by Leigh ton in Kingsnorton Church. (Dr. Prattinton.)
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. 5 1 ; and Prattinton MSS.)
Penn gives the arms as, Per bend sinister argent and sable, a lion
rampant counterchanged.
Frene, of Neen Sollers, 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.
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220 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Frere, Fryer, or Freere, of The Blankets, Claincs. 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 1 569, 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. See an account of the family of Frere in the Herald
and Genealogist, v., 427.
t Charles Thomas Freer, of " The Coplow," co. Leicester, High Sheriff of
that county in 1858, and a family of Freer, resident at Stourbridge (now repre-
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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.
(D. 12, Coll. Arm., fo. 30; Harl. MSS., 1396 and 1566,
&c.)
Pena gives the field of the arms azure.
Freville, as borne, temp. Edward II., by Sir Alexander de
Freville, of (?) Wicheriford, Worcestershire. — Or, a cross
mascaly vaire and gules. (Roll, of temp. Edward II.)
In the same Roll Sir Baldwin Freville, of Worcestershire, bears
Or, 011 a cross gules another mascaly vaire. The seal of Baldwin
Freville, dated 1334, is engraved in Dallawa/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 segfeant between three crosses crosslet
fitch6e 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.)
sen ted by Richard Leacroft Freer, J. P.), claim descent from the Blankets
family, and bear the above arms and crest, with the motto, " Aime ton Frfere."
22* THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Froxmore, of Froxmore Court, Crowle, and of Wich. John
Froxmore, living in the reigns of Henry IV. and Henry
V v married Alice, daughter and heiress of ... . Fitz-
langley, and had issue, William, who married Margaret,
daughter and heiress of John Fillingley, 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 fitch6e argent. (N. ;
and Harl. MS., 1566.)
The same coat was entered for "Frokesame" at the Visitation of
1533. (H. 20, ColL Arm., fo. 73.) See also Butler.
Furneaux. — Gules, a bend between six crosses crosslet or.
(N.) See Stury.
Furnival. — Argent, a bend between six martlets gules. (N.)
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
Lovetot, 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
142 1 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. The 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. (N.)
An impalement of Saxilby in Stockton Church. See Nash, iL, 377.
Galton, of Hadsor ; as borne by John Howard Galton, 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 Himbleton; granted to Richard Gardener, of
Himbleton, by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux King-of-arms,
on the 1 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. 9 1422 and 1459 ; but Edmondson
gives the pennon charged with a pomegranate or.)
Gardiner, of Evesham, and Shipston-on-Stour ; 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. I. at Evesham.)
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 Staunton Court, and of Corse. — ... a fesse
ermine between a crescent in chief and a lion passant in
base. . . . (M. I. in Eldersfield Church; — Nash, i., 375.)
Garway, of Worcester. — 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. *ie 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
(N.)
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 225
This coat, quartering Baldington, Capdois, and Gildisburgh y 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. {Bedford.)
Geffreys, of Earl's Croome. See Jefferies.
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. (N.)
Gerrard. See Garrett.
Gervis, of Weoley. See Jervoise.
Ghest, Geast, or Guest, of Row Heath. This family, whose
pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of 1634, is
descended from John Gheste of Hands worth, 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
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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 Dugdale!)
Ghinucci, as borne by Jerome 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 Genealogist, 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 Comberton 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. {Allowed at the Visitation of London,
1633-4. See Harl. MS., 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 Church to Edward
Gibbs, who died 1703 ; Nash, i., p. 75.)
Gibson, of Coome Abbey, co. Warwick, and of Worcester ; as
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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. I. in St. Nicholas's Church, 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 argent, 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, ten torteaux, which are those of the bishopric of Worcester. n
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, semee 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
1499-152 1. — ... a fesse between two lilies . . . {Bed-
ford)
Gildisburgh. — Argent, three piles in point gules. (N.)
Quartered by Gates in Broadwas 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 found
to be his heir. (Esc. 30, E. i., No. 41.)
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228 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
John Gyles of Prickley, then aged thirty- three, the son
of Samuel Gyles of Solhampton, in Astley (cetat. 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. {K. 4,
Coll. Arm., fo. 155.) See Harris.
These bearings appear to have been allowed in i682-3,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
London 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 Worcestershire. — Barry of six sable and argent,
nine estoiles three, three, and three or. (Burke's Armory,
but evidently in error for Clodshale, which see)
Goarge. — Mascaly or and azure. {Penn MS.)
Godard. — Gules, a fesse counter-compon^e or and azure. {N.)
On Mrs. Walwyn's monument at Great Malvern. (Dr. Prattinton.)
Golafer, ofGo/afers, in Nafford, and of Berrow ; 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 Harl. MS., 1043.)
Goldesburgh. — " Per pale or and azure, on a chevron three
fleurs-de-lis between three bullocks (forsan puttoclis)
heads erased all counterchanged." {N.)
" 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
*3° THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
chevron between three griffin'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 cTAbitot; 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 Buck of t/ie 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. (A^.)
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 of Raby (grandson of Earl Gospatrkk, 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.
Gouch, 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 HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 23 1
wolf's heads erased or. Crest : A wolfs head erased or.
(//. 20, D. 12, C. 30, and K. 4, Coll. Arm)
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 Grindall
(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 Commoners, ii., 44.)
Gower, of EarVs 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 fitch^e argent {Her.
Die. from Glovers 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 17 18, 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, of Grafton Flyford. — " This family," says Penn,
" did formerly enjoy a long revenue of lands both in Wor-
cester and Worcestershire, as at Grafton-att- Flyford, 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 supra.)
Nash says that Ralph de Grafton, of Grafton Flyford, Sheriff in
the 10th 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 WORCESTERSHIRE. 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 familii," 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 quartered by Greswolde. — Per saltire or and sable,
four griffin's heads erased counterchanged.
Grantham. — Ermine, a griffin segreant gules. (N.)
In glass in Kingsnorton Church. (Dr. Prattinton.)
* A John Grymes, M.A., was appointed vicar of Longdon 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.
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234 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Gkantmesxil, of Hinckley, co. Leicester. — Gules, a pale or.
(N.)
One of the Lyttelton quaiterings at Frankky.]
Graves, of Poden in Church Honey bourne, and of Mickleion^
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 fitch^e of the last Mottoes used at
various times by the family : " Superna quaerite ;" " Esse
quam videri ;' "Gravis dum suavis;" and "Graves disce
mores." {Nash, i., p. 198.)
Grazkbrook, of Stourbridge; 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 HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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 1st 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 Graze-
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 "Nee sinit esse feros."
{Edmondson; HarL MS., 1563; and family seals.)
Greaves, of Kingsnorton. — Or, a mullet gules, on a chief sable
.three escallops of the first (N.)
Greaves, Greves, or Grevis, of Moseley Hall, Kingsnorton.
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-
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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
hunters horn between five chough's heads erased sable.
{Win. MS.)
Greete, of Naunton. — 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
Thomas 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-
tnmers, 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
181 7 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
Sheriff in 1790. Mr. Gresley, who was born in 1751,
and died s.p. in 1825, was the only son of Philip Gresley
(born 1 713, 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 161 1.* 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. (N.)
Douglas-Gresley, 0/ 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.) — 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
fortunl"
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.
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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 I., 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 fc their escutcheons is surmounted with, A
hand couped at the wrist, thereon a hawk close proper. In Yardley
church they quarter Groome, Grange, Howes , Stockky, Hewet, James,
and others.
Greville. —Sable, a cross engrailed within a bordure also en*
grailed or, the former charged with five pellets. (N.)
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 Madresneld with Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of
William Greville by the heiress of Arle.
Greville; as borne by John 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' Peerage.)
His son, John Greville, expunged the annulets. See Cooksey.
Grevis. See Greaves.
Grey, Bishop of Worcester, 12 14- 16. — Barry of six argent
and azure, over all a bend gules. (Bedford.)
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Grey. — Barry of six argent and azure, on a bend gules three
mullets or. (N.)
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 Pembridge, and was brought in by Burley,
in right of the marriage of Sir John Burley of Bromscroft (father ot
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 x>f the above Alice), in Hereford Cathedral the bend is
uncharged.
Greystock. — Barry of six argent and azure, three chaplets
two and one gules. (N.)
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 Govver.
Grisewood, of Daylesford House ; 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 WORCESTERSHIRE. 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 componde of the first
and gules ; quartering . . . three cinquefoils or. {M.I. to
Ricfiard Grismund, and Elizabeth his wife, in St. Martin! s
church, Worcester. — Nash, Appendix, 143.)
Groome, of Kimenhall ; 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. (JV.)
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. (Harl. 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, co. Gloucester, and of Churchill, 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
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242 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
canton or, a mullet pierced sable ; quartering Wysham.
(Rudders Glotuestershire.)
Habingdon, of Hindlip y 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
Brockhampton (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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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 1st, 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 Domulton; 3rd, Gules, a fesse be-
tween six mascles or, for Brockhampton ; 4th, Ermine, on
a chief gules three buck's heads cabossed or, for Hanley.
* According to Mr. Chambers's Biographical Illustrations of Worcestershire,
William Habingdon (who was the author of several poems) died, before his
fattier, on 13th November, 1645 ; but Nash gives the date of his death as
November 30th, 1654.
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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 e labored pettigree," containing
eleven quarterings, as follows: — 1st, Habingdon; 2nd, Gules, a lion
rampant double queue'e argent, for Attwood of Wichenford; 3rd,
Ermine, a chief bendy sinister or and sable, for HAbitot; 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 or ;* 7th, Or, a fesse wavy
between six billets sable, for Domulton ; 8th, Gules, a fesse between
six lozenges or; 9th, Gules, a fesse between six mascles or;t 10th,
Gules, a bend argent, for Foliot of Bromyard. Crests : 1st, 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. Johris. — 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."
% 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 Armory.) 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 Grimley, gent., compounded for his estate with
THE HERALDRY OF 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.)
H aden, of Dudley, and of Rowley Regis and Wolverhampton,
co. Stafford. — Argent, a human leg embowed couped at
the thigh azure. Crest : A cubit arm erect in armour . . .
holding an arrow . . ..{Seal of. . . Haden of Wolverhamp-
ton, gent., 1750.)
Hadlow. — Argent, a lion rampant azure guttle d'or. (Al.)
This coat was formerly in one of the windows of Upton-Snodsbury
church, with the inscription, "Orate pro anima Johannis Hadlo."
(Set 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 (Al.)
Henry de Haggeley, who was Eschaetor of Worcestershire in
1395, anc * 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 Mortimer; 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 Hart. MSS., 1392 and 1459, and the Cott.
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 seene 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 ^300. 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 OF 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." (Communicated.)
Haines, of Worcester ; as borne by Francis Haines, Mayor of
that city in 1683, who died in 1707, aged seventy-one. —
Argent, three crescents gules. (M.I. in St. Nicholas's
church, Worcester.)
Haines; as borne by Thomas Haines, 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. Martin's
church.)
Halesowen, Abbey of. — Azure, a chevron between three
fleurs-de-lis or. (Edmondson.)
Hall, of Henwick and 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
16 19. Anthony's elder son Anthony, described as of
THE HERALDRY OF 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. 106b. ; 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 161 6,
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 talbofs heads
erased sable langued gules. It appears from Nash (i., 475) that in
161 7 Thomas Hall was of Estbury, Edward Hall of Henwick, and
another Edward Hall of Hallow.
Hall ; as borne by John Hall, BisJiop of Bristol, who died
in 1 709-10, 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, n£e 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 Bromsgrove) See Spilsburie.
Hall. — Argent, a chevron sable between three columbines
proper. — Argent, a chevron engrailed between three
248 THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
talbot's heads erased sable. — Azure, a chevron counter-
battled 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 Ordinary,)
Halliday, of " Tlie 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 sal tire of the field. Crests: 1st, A dexter arm
embowed in armour lying fesseways and holding a sword
embrued proper ; 2nd, A boars head couped argent
armed or; 3rd, A boar's head erased sable. (Burke's
Armory?)
Hallugiiton, of Crowneast, St. Joints. "In the reign of
Edward III. (says Nash) Crowneast became the inhe-
ritance of Robert Hallughton ; and, in the 14th 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 III. 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 Hanbury, and of Bean kail in Feckenham ; an
ancient family, whose descent and arms were recorded at
the Visitation of 1569. From Roger de Hanbury, who
was of Hanbury in the twelfth century, sprang Geoffrey
de Hanbury, father of Henry de Hanbury, who, in the
26th of Edward III., 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 (£>. 1 2, Coll.
Arm., 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
carry s 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. 1 '
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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 HarL 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 1 71 7. 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 Perschutz, 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
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, and 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 Landed 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 III.,
left a daughter Eleanor, his heiress, who marrying
Richard Dyneley, carried Charlton to that family. —
Ermine, three chess rooks gules.
Hanford, of Wollas-hall } Wollashull, or W oilers Hill. This
is one of Mr. Shirley's knightly 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 15 13. 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
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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 187 1, 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) 1 st, Vert, on a chevron between three stags
heads cabossed or, as many mullets gules, for Hugford ;
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 flory and coun-
ter-flory or, for Vampage; 5th, Argent, a wolf passant
sable, for Wollashull ; 6th, Argent, a chevron azure be-
tween three garbs vert banded or, for Sarrell ; 7th,
Sable, on a cross engrailed within a bordure or, five
pellets, for Greville; 8th, Or, a bird rising vert within a
bordure argent charged with fleurs-de-lis sable, for Arle;*
9th, Argent, a chevron engrailed between three griffin's
heads erased sable, for Rake. Crest : On a chapeau, a
wyvern gules, wings expanded argent Motto : " Me-
morare novissima." (C 30, Coll. Arm. y fo. 113 ; Harl.
MS., 1566; &c, &c.)
* Nash in blazoning the quarterings of Harewell, states that this coat
also occurs in St Peter's church, at Wich, " but whose it is," says he, " I
cannot guess." In blazoning Hanford's atchievement, however, he ascribes it
to AnelL 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. (See Harl. MS., 1566.)
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 253
Hanley, of Hanley-William, in Eastham. 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 III. ; from this marriage
sprang the family of the Washbornes. The second
branch was by a marriage of Richard de Hopton with
Joan de Hanley, 43 Edward III.; 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 15 15, 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 stags heads cabossed or. (AT. ;
and Penn MS.)
Hanley. — Or, on a saltire sable five mullets of the field.
(Penn MS.)
Harcourt. — Or, two bars gules.* (N.)
The coat of the ancient and illustrious family of Harcourt, of
Stanton Harcourt, Oxon., Staffordshire, Warwickshire, &c, as im-
* 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. t 1566, fo. 171).
Hardwicke, of Droitwich. — Argent, a saltire engrailed azure,
cm a chief of the last three cinquefoils of the first.
(Penn 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 Court; 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
Francis Harewell, of Birlingham, who married Mary
Sheldon, daughter of Richard Sheldon,* of Spetchley.
Sir Edmund Harewell married Susan, daughter of Ed-
mund Colles, 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 nebulae sable three hare's heads erased (sometimes
couped) of the field ; quartering Dickleston, Besford,
Corbet t y \ Cow ley y Vampage, Wollashull, Greville, Arle,
Sarrell y Berry, and Pincepole. Crest : A hare's head
erased or. {Harl. MSS. f 615, 1566; Nash; and Penn.
MS.)
Harford, or Hawford. — Argent, on a chief sable three
buck's heads cabossed or. {Penn. MS.)
Hargrave. — Or, a chief indented gules. (A^.)
This is probably a mistake for Hengrave, whose coat (Argent, a
chief dancettee gules) occurs among the Lyttelton quarterings at
Frankley.
Harley. — Or, a bend cottised sable. {N.)
* 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., ut
supra. Dr. Thomas and Nash ascribe this coat to Ruyhall. 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 bezante'e,
which (says he) Mr. Habingdon takes to be Corbett, of Cowleigh. See Ruy-
hall.
256 THE HERALDRY OF 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 stags head.* (JV.)
An impalement of Harewell (which see),
Harmanville. — Or, two bars gules. (JV.)
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 the 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. Papworth.
Harnehull, of Harnehull, co. Gloucester; as quartered by
Walsh. William de Harnehull died seised of Harne-
hull, in the 17th of Edward II.; Edward Stonor died
seised thereof, in the 5th of Richard II., and John, his
. son and heir, in the 13th of the same kings reign. — Or,
three roses gules seeded of the field. (N.)
Harpur, of Chesterton, co. Warwick, and " Brocton" co. Wor-
cester. — Gules, a cross or. (Dugdale's Warwickshire.)
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, alias Voysey or Vesey, consecrated Bishop of Exeter in
1 5 19, 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 paionce between two roses or, barbed
and seeded proper. The Harmans were of |More Hall, co. Warwick.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 257
church, to Mary, daughter of John Arden, and wife of Charles Har-
rington, esquire, of Hytonhey, in Lancashire, who died in 17 13,
aged twenty-four.
Harris, of Worcester. — Vert (should probably be azure), a
chevron ermine between three hedgehogs or. Crest : An
arm grasping a dart (N.)
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 in Martley, and of Walton, co. Gloucester,
and London ; descended from John Prickley, of Prickley,
" who called himself Harris, after the name of his father-
in-law, who lived at Prickley" {Harl. 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 was of Prickley at the Visitation of
1682-3, an d ^en aged thirty-three. Elizabeth, the other
daughter, espoused J. Green, of Martley, 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 Harl. 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 Aubrey. Crest : On a chapeau,
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258 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
a mural crown argent, therein an arm embowed in armour
proper vambraced or, holding a battle-axe of the last
armed sable, (Harl. MSS. f 1476 and 1566 ; Penn. MS.)
See Pricklev.
Harris. — Or, three greyhounds courant in pale sable. Motto :
" Cum luce labor." (Penn. MS.)
These arms are on the monument in Worcester cathedral, of
Thomas Harryes, M.A., who died in 162 1, 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. Prattinton.) See Yeomans.
Harward, or Hereward, of Hartlebury ; an old family
originally seated in Warwickshire. Their pedigree in
the Harl. MSS., 1043 an ^ 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 Here ward,
of Cambridgeshire. (Roll of the date,) Perm attributes the coat
(but with the eagles single-headed 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 fitch£e 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, Sand well, &c, co. Stafford.
Haselrigge. — Argent, a chevron sable between three hazel
leaves slipped vert. (N.)
Impaled by Edwjird Rouse, of Roiise-Lench, who died in 1611,
in right of Mary, his wife, the daughter of Miles Haselrigge, of
Noseley, co. Leicester.
Haselwood, of Wick-Warren and Offenfiam. This was a
junior branch of the ancient family of Haselwood of Maid-
well, in Northamptonshire, founded by Edward Hasel-
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 15th, 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, nee 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 1 6 1 9, mar-
ried the daughter and heiress of Thomas Harward, of that place. ( Ex. inf.
Rev. T. P. Wadley.)
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260 THE HERALDRY OF 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, f 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 £\2 \os. for not taking knight-
hood at the coronation of Charles I., and who died on the
1 6th of August, 1655.5 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., 141 7, fo. 23), married Christiana Hewet, and whose son Edmund
married Jane Billington. 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. (See Harl. MS., 141 7.)
} 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, J* 11 - I0 - Bur., Mr. William Haselewood.
1606, May 19. Bur., Mrs. Dorothy Haselewoode.
1626, Nov. 1. Bur., Edward, son of Francis Haslewoode, esq.
162S, Dec. 21. Bapt, Elizab., da. of Francis Haslewood, esq., and Ann his
wife. Henry Dinglie, Eliz. Dinglie, and Eliz. Cradocke, Suretyes.
1639-40, March 11. 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
10th 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,^. m 1681, <#&/. 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. { Crest : A squirrel
sejant azure, collared or and charged with three bezants
in pale, holding an oak branch proper fructed gold. (Z?.
12, Coll. Arm., fo. 51 ; Penn MS.; Harl. MSS., 1566,
141 7, 1043, &c -> &c > &c )
• MJ. at Pershore.
t MJ. at Offenham.
% The chief was sometimes omitted. By some strange blunder, these arms
are attributed by the Heraldic Dictionaries to " Foulke of Worcestershire."
Fotdke was the baptismal name of the Haselwood who recorded the pedigree
in 1569.
262 THE HERALDRY OF 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 anciendy 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
Lazencroft " (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 Hewet, 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 fleursAje-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 Hungcrford 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.
t 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. {Le Neve, from the parchment roll.)
% This monument is engraved in Nash, i., p. 272. Dorothy is not named
in ai y of the pedigrees, but a " Mrs. Dorothy Haselewoode " was buried at
Offenham in 1606. She may have been Fulke's second wife. The impalement
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 263
shore. The first quarter is Haselwood ancient, and the second is
Lazencroft or Haselwood modern, but, as will be noticed, it differs
slightly from the Haselwood coat entered in the Visitation Book of
1569. No. 3 Nash ascribes to Holt* (who bore a similar coat), but
it is here evidently intended for Lovell. It is clear also that the
fourth quarter is meant for Billington, although it is not exactly similar
to the coat blazoned by Le Neve. It appears from Dr. Prattinton's
MSS. that the same coat was used by the Palmers of Bricklehampton.
(See that name.) The fifth quarter we are unable to appropriate; the
only coat at all resembling it, given in Papworth's Ordinary, is that
of Plenderleith of Scotland, in which the field is vert and the charges
argent.
HaSsall, of Powick ; as borne by the Rev. Thomas H assail,
rector a° 1663. — Per chevron argent and or, three pheons
sable. (Dr. Prattinton, from W hitting/mm.)
The crest to this coat (which is that of the Hassalls of Cheshire)
is, An arm embowed vested or, turned down at the wrist argent,
holding a dart point downwards gold, feathered argent, barbed sable.
(Her. Die.) '
shows that she was a Hungerford ; and Baker, in his Northamptonshire (i., 537),
mentions that in 1575 Thomas Hungerford, esq., levied a fine of West Fam-
don Manor in that county to Fulk Haselwood, esq. There is another Hasel-
wood monument at Pershore, which Nash has not identified. " It is without
inscription (he says), but by the arms it appears to have been erected to the
memory of Hazlewood, some say Richard, and it is so engraved ; but I rather
take it to be the monument of Timothy Hazlewood, who, according to the re-
gister, was buried 10th March, 4 Ed. VI., 1550." The impaled arms upon it
prove it to be the monument of . . . Haselwood of Wick- Warren, who married
Elizabeth, third daughter of Francis Dyneley of Charlton, Sheriff of Worcester-
shire in the 39th of Elizabeth. (See Nash's pedigree of Dyneley, vol. i., p.
272.)
* Nash may possibly be correct, for, according to the pedigree in the Harl.
MS., 141 7, the Hewets, whose heiress married Thomas Haselwood, were
descended from a Holt family. Hewet, too, bore a chevron between three
owls ; and, as Le Neve considers the parchment roll to be a forgery, it is not
improbable that the Lazencroft match is a fiction, and that the Haselwood
arms were really founded upon those of Hewet. It is distinctly stated in the
Hewet pedigree (/// supra) that Thomas Haselwood and Christiana Hewet
were the parents of Edmund, who married Jane Billington.
264 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Hastang, of Leamington- Has tang, &c, co. Warwick, atid of
Upton-Warren and Grafton, in this county ; as quartered
by Stafford of Grafton in right of the marriage of Sir
Ralph Stafford with Maud, eldest daughter and co-heiress
of Sir John de Hastang. Nash conjectures that the
Hastangs acquired Grafton in marriage with an heiress of
Grafton of Grafton. — Azure, a chief gules, over all a lion
rampant or. (N.)
The same coat was quartered by Ingram.
Hastings. — Argent, a maunch sable. (N.)
This coat was formerly in glass at Salwarpe and Severn-Stoke. It
is that of the illustrious family of Hastings, Earls of Huntingdon, &c.
John de Hastings held the Manor of Birlingham in the 41st of
Edward III.
Hastings, of Daylesford. This family was seated at Dayles-
ford as early as the reign of Henry II., when Milo de
Hastings held tfiree hides there of the Bishop of Wor-
cester. This Milo was probably a cadet of Hugh de
Hastings, Lord of Fillongley, co. Warwick, by Erne-
burga, daughter and heiress of Hugh de Flamville.* The
family also possessed Yelford- Hastings, in Oxfordshire,
and recorded their descent at the two Visitations of that
county taken in 1574 and 1634, and also at the Visitation
of this county in 1682-3.! Their pedigree J commences
with Edward Hastings, "descended of S r . Miles Hastings
of Delsford com. Wigorn, which manor is now in y e hands
of John Hastings of Elford com. Oxon, esq., as heire to
* See an able paper on The Rise and Race of Hastings, by G. T. Clarke,
F.S.A., in the Journal of the ArcJueological Institute, vol. xxvi.
t See K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 100. '
% See the Harl. MSS., 1412, 1556, and 1095 ; also The Visitations of Oxford-
shire, published by the Harleian Society.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 265
S r Miles." His son and heir, John Hastings of Elford
and Daylesford,* married Jane, daughter of Thomas
Penyston of Hawruge, co. Bucks, and had issue, John
Hastings, who, by Edith his wife, daughter of Sir Richard
York of York, was father of a son and heir, Simon
Hastings, living in 1574, and of three other sons. Simon,
who died in 1627, was twice married, and had a numerous
family ; from him was lineally descended the Rev. Peny-
ston Hastings, who was presented by his father, also
named Penyston, to the living of Daylesford in 1701.
He was the father of Warren Hastings, the celebrated
Governor-General of India. — Or, a maunch gules. Crest:
A bull's head couped gules, armed or. (E. y Coll. Arm.,
pr. T. W. King, esq., York Herald.)
At the Visitation of 1682-3 the family exhibited no arms. In the
augmented copy of the Visitation of Oxfordshire, a° 1574, in the
* Daylesford is a small parish, forming one of the isolated fragments of the
county oi Worcester which lie scattered about on its remote south-east borders,
and which, being entirely surrounded by other counties, have but little ac-
quaintance with the parent area, from which they are separated. The
whole parish contains about 700 acres only, and was owned by the family of
Hastings for centuries until about the year 17 15, when it was sold by Samuel
Hastings to Mr. Jacob Knight of Southmead, ce. Gloucester. For upwards of
seventy years it remained in alien hands, till Warren Hastings, at the conclu-
sion of his extraordinary career in India, proceeded to put in execution the
dream of his childhood, and in 1789 repurchased the estate which his impo-
verished ancestors had lost. He then built the present mansion, laid out and
planted the grounds, and otherwise improved the estate at an expense of up-
wards of ,£40,000 ; and here he found retirement from the persecutions of his
enemies, and passed his last twenty-four years in tranquil enjoyment, dying in
181 8 at the age of eighty-five. Previous to his beirig brought to trial for his
alleged malpractices in India he was recommended for a peerage, and had se-
lected Daylesford as his title. Leaving no surviving issue, the estate came into
the hands of Sir Charles ImhofT (Mrs. Hastings' son by her first husband,
Baron ImhofT of Franconia), and after his death it was sold, in 1853, by public
auction, when it was purchased by Mr. Grisewood, a stockbroker of London.
(Nash; Noake's Rambler in Worcestershire; &c, &c)
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266 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Harl. MS., 1556, the above arms are given with a crescent sable for
difference, and with the following crest : A demi-mermaid proper,
hair or, in her dexter hand a mirror and in her sinister a comb of the
last. The motto used by Warren Hastings was "Mens aequa in
arduis."
Hastings, 0/" Martley ; as borne by the Rev. H. J. Hastings,
rector; and also by the late Sir Charles Hastings, lent,
M.D., and his brother,Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hastings,
K.C.B., sons of the Rev. James Hastings, rector of Mart-
ley, claiming descent from the Daylesford family. — Arms
and crest, as Hastings of Daylesford.
Hatche. See Palmer.
Haute. — Or, a cross engrailed gules. (N)
Dr. Prattinton says this coat was quartered by Russell, but the
coat quartered by that family is that of Pcverell, viz., Or, a cross en-
grailed azure, and was brought in by Somerie and Albini (but see
Cromeley). The coat was really quartered by Colepepper, but by
some authorities it is called Missenden, and has a martlet in the dexter
quarter. It was brought in by Greene of Exton, and is by some
families quartered as the paternal coat of Greene.
Hauteville. — Argent, a lion rampant between six crosses
crosslet fitch£e sable. (N.)
Quartered by Hor^on at Staunton. (See Whittington.)
Hawes, as quartered by Greswolde. — Sable, a chevron argent
between three leopard's faces or.
Hawford. — Argent, a bull's head cabossed between three
mullets gules. (Penn MS.)
" This name (says Penn) has been written, as I have seen in many
ancient recordes, Hawford, Hauford, Haford, Hoford, and Hoiuford."
The coat was probably borne by " Captaine Hawford," whose name
occurs in his list of those ' who were to find horse in Worcester-
shire/
Hawford. See Harford and West.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 267
Hawkes, of Dudley ; as borne by Thomas Hawkes, M.P. for
Dudley, and High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 181 1. He
married, in 18 14, Alice Hannah, daughter and heiress of
John Blackburne of Hawford House, near Worcester,
Mayor of Liverpool in 1 788, by Mary his first wife, the
daughter of Jonathan Blundell of Liverpool, and had
issue three sons and four daughters. — Azure, three bend-
lets or, a chief ermine. Crest: A hawk rising proper
beaked or, standing upon a lure. (Seal; and Prattinton
MSS.)
Hawkins. — Argent, on a saltire sable five fleurs-de-lis or,
{Win. MS.)
Haydon, of" The Grove," Watford, Herts, and of this county;
recorded at the Visitation of 1569. — Quarterly argent and
azure, a cross engrailed counterchanged. Crest : A talbot
statant per pale argent and sable. (£>. 12, Coll. Arm.,
fo. 29; Harl. MS., 615, 1043, &c.)
The arms were sometimes borne with a Cornish chough proper in
the dexter quarter. There is a pedigree of the family in Clutter-
buck's History of Hertfordshire.
Hayley, of Bewdley ; as granted in ,1701 to William Hayley
of Cleobury Mortimer (Salop), near Bewdley, father of
William and Thomas Hayley, both Deans of Chichester,
John Hayley (brother of the above William of Cleobury)
was the ancestor of the Hay leys of Bewdley, of whom
was John Hayley,* bailiff of that town in 1743. One
branch of the family is represented by the Bakers, baro-
nets, of Upper Dunstable House, co. Surrey. — Or, on a
* He died during his year of office. The name of John Hayley also occurs
in the List of Bailiffs for the years 1722, 1733, and 1757,
34~ *
268 7HE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
cross azure, a cinquefoil between four mascles of the field.
Crest : A crescent argent, charged with a cross pattee
gules. {Gent. Mag. for 1827, i., p. 204; and Lower's
Worthies of Sussex.)
Hayward. — Per bend ... a lion rampant. (In All Saints
Church, Evesham. — Dr. Prattinton.)
Hayward. — Argent, three torteaux in bend between two cot-
tises gules. {Penn MS.)
Hayward. See Cooper.
Haywood, of Sillins, near Bromsgrove ; as borne by Edward
Waldron Haywood, J. P., D.L., of that place, son of the
late Francis Haywood of Liverpool, by Lucy, youngest
daughter of the late Thomas Shrawley Vernon of Han-
bury, and widow of Edward Waldron. — Argent, three
torteaux in bend between two cottises gules, all within a
bordure of the second. Crest : On the stump of a tree a
falcon rising proper. (Burke's Armory.)
Heath ; as borne by Nicholas Heath, Bishop of Worcester,
1544-55, and Lord President of the Welsh Marches from
1553 to 1556, afterwards Archbishop of York. — Several
coats are attributed to this prelate ; according to Mr.
Clive he bore, Vert, a chevron engrailed argent between
three plates each charged with a Cornish chough with a
bird's claw sable in the beak. Mr. Bedford gives three
coats that have been ascribed to him : — (1) Per chevron
sable and argent, in chief two mullets and in base a
[? heath] cock all counterchanged ; (2) Argent, three
pellets two and one, on the first a crosslet of the field ;
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 269
(3) Azure, a chevron engrailed or between three plates on
each a martlet sable.
Heath.— Vert, on a chief argent three cinquefoils azure. (N.)
The coat of Heath of Ford Hall, co. Warwick, as quartered by
Sheldon.
H eaton, or Heton, of Groveley Hall, Kingsnorton, and of
Winkell, co. Lincoln, and London. The pedigree and
arms of this family were recorded at the Visitation of
London in 1568 by Francis Heton, citizen and goldsmith
of that city, the son of George Heton of Winkell by his
second wife, Jane Byfield.* He married Maud, daughter
of . . . . Burbyn of Herefordshire, and had two sons,
George and Francis, and a daughter, Sarah, married to
Robert Rowland, alias Stayner, of Worcester. Francis
H eaton of Groveley (grandson of George of Winkell)
married Mary, daughter of Francis Dyneley of Charlton,
and was father of Eleonora (born 1601, ob. 1675), wife of
Dud Dudley the ironmaster. — Argent, six trefoils slipped
vert, two and one, two and one. Crest : A pelican or,
vulning proper, legs sable. (Harl. MS., 1463, fo. 21;
and impalement on Dudleys monument in St. Helens
church, Worcester!)
Heaven, or Hevyn. — Azure, three boar's heads couped close
or, between nine crosses crosslet fitch£e argent (JV.)
One of the Blount quarterings.
Hedley. — Gules, a chevron between three falcons argent
beaked and legged or. (N.)
In glass at Martley and Kyre.
* She is stated on Dud Dudley's monument to have been a daughter and
co-heiress of Sir Robert Byfield. te
270 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Hellier, of Rus/tock, and of the Woodhouse, co. Stafford; as
confirmed by the College of Arms to Sir Samuel Hellier,
knt, High Sheriff of this county in 1762. Sir Samuel,
who received the honour of knighthood on the 1 7th of
September, 1762, whilst serving as Sheriff, died without
issue on the 12th of October, 1784, and devised his
estates to the Rev. Thomas Shaw, who assumed by royal
sign-manual, dated July 13th, 1786, the additional sur-
name and arms of Hellier. — Azure, a chevron argent
guttle de sang between three mullets or. Crest : A cock
argent guttle de sang, combed and wattled gules. Motto :
" Pro republica semper." {Edmondson.)
Helme, of Elder sfield and Chaseley. — Argent, on a bend sable
three pheons of the field. Crest : A pheon argent (N. ;
and Add. MS, 19,816.)
The pedigree of this family was recorded at the Visitation of 1634
(C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 52), but no arms were exhibited.
Hemenhale, or Henniball, Bis/top of Worcester, 1337-8. —
Or, on a fesse between two chevrons gules three escallops
argent. {Bedford.)
Heming, of H anbury, and tlie Vale of Evesham; as impaled
by Lilly in the Harl. MS., 5814. — Barry wavy of six
argent and azure, on a chief gules three bezants.
The same coat (but with the chief sable) is attributed in an old
pedigree of Tristram of Moor Hall (compiled by Lawrence Cromp,
York Herald) to John Heming of Hanbury, whose daughter and
heiress, Anne, was married to the Rev. Richard Tristram, of Bel-
broughton. She died in 1668.
Heming, of Worcester. Richard Heming, clothier, was Mayor
of Worcester in 1627; he had issue a son Walter, who
died in 1636, and a daughter, Alice, married to Thomas
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 271
Skinner. Another Richard Heming was Mayor in 1657,
and John Heming served the same office in 1677; the
latter died on 22nd March, 1684, aged forty-nine, and has
a monument (with arms) in St. Nicholas' church, Wor-
cester. The pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of
1682-3. — Or, on a chevron between three lion's heads
erased sable as many pheons of the field. Crest : A lion
sejant sable.
These bearings were "respited for proof " at the Visitation. (See
K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 162.) In the Heraldic Dictionaries they are
ascribed to Hening; but the crest is given as, A lion sejant ermine
upon a chapeau azure turned up of the first.
Hemming, of Bentley, and Spring Grove ; as granted to the
late William Hemming of Foxlydiate House, near Broms-
grove, High Sheriff of the county in 1846 (ob. 24th
January, 1848), and now borne by his two sons — Richard
Hemming of Bentley Manor, High Sheriff in 1863, an d
Walter Chamberlain Hemming of Spring Grove, Bewd-
ley, who served the same office in 1859. — Argent, on a
chevron engrailed azure between three lion's heads erased
gules, an ostrich with wings endorsed of the first, in the
beak a key, between two pheons or. Crest : An eagle
with wings expanded argent, charged on the breast with
a pheon sable, and supporting with the dexter claw an
escutcheon ermine thereon a pale azure charged with
three leopards faces or. {Burke.)
These bearings are founded upon those of Heming of Worcester,
combined with the arms and crest attributed by Edmondson to
Chamber Un of London, viz., Ermine, on a pale sable three leopard's
faces or. Crest : Out of a Saxon coronet an ostrich with wings en-
dorsed, in the beak a key.
Henzey, or Henzell, of Stourbridge; a noble Protestant
272 THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE.
refugee family from Lorraine, founded in England by
Ananias de Henzell " de la maison de Henzell tout pres
le village de Darnell en la pie de Lorraine," and repre-
sented in the female line by the families of Brettell,*
* This family, which is said to be descended from the Breteuils of France,
has been settled in the vicinity of Stourbridge and Halesowen (and also at
Wolverley) for at least three centuries. They appear to have frequently inter-
married with the Henzeys : thus John Brettell married at Oldswinford, in 1617,
Mary Henzey ; and Joshua Henzey, or Henzell (mentioned above), married
Joan Brettell, who was born in 1589 and died in 167 1. Richard Brettell of
Romsley Hill, Halesowen, the second son of William Brettell of the same
place, married Anne, daughter of Philip Clarke of Romsley, and had issue
(with others) two sons, John and Thomas. The former married Anne, only
daughter and heiress of Paul Henzey, from which marriage the Bates are de-
scended (see Bate) ; and the latter, who was baptized at St. Kenelm's on 6th
April, 1723, married at Broseley, Salop, on 6th May, 1748, Sarah, only child
of John and Margaret Henzey (she was baptized at Oldswinford on 21st De-
cember, 1 7 18). Mr. Thomas Brettell, who was a solicitor at Stourbridge, pur-
chased Finstall House and estate, near Bromsgrove, and died in 1792, having
had issue (with daughters) four sons : — Thomas, born in 1749, who had issue
an only daughter and heiress, married to the Rev. H. T. Hill ; Richard of
Finstall, born in 1754 (of whom presently); the Rev. Ananias Brettell, born
in 1755, who died without issue; and Joseph Brettell of Bromsgrove, born in
1758, who married and had issue. Richard Brettell married, in 1786, Mary,
daughter of Michael Grazebrook of Audnam, near Stourbridge, by whom he
had (with daughters) an only son, the late Richard Brettell of Finstall House,
J.P., D.L., &c, who married his cousin Matilda, daughter of Michael Graze-
brook of Audnam, and died in 1848, leaving issue a son, Richard, born in
1846, and two daughters. The arms of Breteuil of Normandy differ only in
tincture from those of Henzey, viz., Azure, three acorns or ; but this family
has generally used the Henzey arms, with a martlet for difference. (Sea/ of
Thomas Brettell, jun.; and Bookplate of Ananias Brettell.) There is a family
of this name formerly seated at a place called Brettell, in the parish of King-
swinford, who bear for arms. Gules, a chevron vaire between three eagles dis-
played or ; but this coat (which was also used by the Dixon family — see Dixon)
is that of Wilmer. A coat founded upon it was granted by the College of
Arms in 1850 (for Brettell) to Mr. Edwards of Ludlow, on his assuming by
royal licence the surnames and arms of Brettell- Vaughan, in lieu of his patro-
nymic, in compliance with the will of his uncle, Janns Brettell-Vaughan of
Burway, co. Salop, viz., Azure, two chevrons between as many eagles displayed
in chief and a crescent in base or. Crest : On a mill-rind or, a demi-eagle dis-
played azure in the beak an ear of corn gold.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 273
Dixon, and Pidcock. The genealogy of this family is
given by De la Chesnay Desbois in his Dictionnaire de la
Noblesse, where it is stated that the Hennezells (as he
spells the name) were of noble Bohemian origin, and that
the principal branch settled in Lorraine about four cen-
turies previous to the publication of that work. In Lor-
raine they were largely engaged in the manufacture of
glass, an occupation which was not considered in any way
derogatory* to their rank as noblesse. With their near
relatives, MM. De Thtetry and Du Thisac, and their
families, they took refuge in this country from one of the
religious persecutions towards the end of the sixteenth
century. They first came to Woolwich and London, and
thence removed, some to the banks of the Tyne (where
the name still lingers), and others to the neighbourhood
of Stourbridge, where they established the manufacture
of glass, and are said to have been the first introducers
into this country of the broad, or window-glass manufac-
ture. The name speedily became corrupted to Henzey,
and (probably) Ensell, a name well known in the glass
trade. There is an account of the Henzeys and their
descendants in the first volume of the Herald atid Genea-
logist, p. 421. — Gules, three acorns slipped, two, and one,
or. Crest : A fire-bolt and fire-ball or. Motto : " Seig-
neur, je te prie garde ma vie."
Desbois gives the acorns argent and omits the crest, but adds the
following supporters : Two lions proper. The above blazon is taken
from an inscription prefixed to the arms of Joshua Henzell of Amble-
* The exercise of the art of glass-making, says F&ice, in his History of the
Protestants of France, was held to be in no way derogatory to the dignity of
nobility, and those who practised it were called gentiishommes terriers.
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274 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
cote, gent., eldest son of Ananias Henzell. The crest would be
more intelligibly described as a bar shot ensigned with a cannon-
ball. See Tyzack and Pidcock.
Henry. See Rogers.
Herbert, of Ribbesford Court y Bewdley. Sir Henry Herbert,
knt., the son of Richard Herbert of Montgomery by Mag-
dalene, daughter of Sir Richard Newport of High-Ercall,
co. Salop, and the younger brother of Edward, the cele-
brated Lord Herbert of Chirbury, possessed the manor of
Ribbesford, and resided at Ribbesford Court at the period
of the Visitation of 1634, on which occasion he entered
his pedigree, describing himself as "Master of the Revels,
and one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber." His
father was the son of Edward Herbert by Elizabeth Price
his wife, and grandson of Sir Richard Herbert, knt., the
legitimate son of Sir Richard Herbert of Colebrooke, knt,
who was slain at Banbury ; but in the Visitation Book of
1634,* by a singular error, Sir Henry's arms are sur-
rounded with a bordure gobonee, the difference assigned
to the illegitimate descendants of the Herberts of Cole-
brooke. Sir Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir
Robert Offley, knt., of Dalby, co. Leicester, by whom he
had (with two daughters) an only son, Henry Herbert of
Ribbesford, who was elevated to the peerage in 1694 as
Lord Herbert of Chirbury ; the former title of that name
having expired three years previously on the death of
Henry fourth Lord Herbert. His lordship died on the
22nd of January, 1708-9, and was succeeded by his only
son Henry, then representative in Parliament for the
r- ————————————— ______ __ __ _____ ___________ _____ _____ __ — ___
* Vide C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 37.
THE HERALDR V OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 275
borough of Bewdley; but he dying without issue in
April, 1 738, the title became extinct, and the Ribbesford
estate passed under his will to his kinsman, Charles
Morley of Droxford, Hants, whose mother was one of
the two daughters of Sir Henry Herbert of Ribbesford.
Mr. Morley* married Anne, only child of Henry Bel-
lamy, and had issue (with a daughter, Mary Magdalene,
who died unmarried,) an only son, Henry Morley of Rib-
besford and Droxford, who assumed the additional sur-
name and arms of Herbert, and died unmarried about the
year 1781. The representation of this branch of the
Herbert family then devolved upon the descendants of
Mary, the other daughter of Sir Henry Herbert, who
had married Richard Walker of Wootton, co. Salop. She
died in 1693, having had issue a son, Job Walker of
Wootton, and of Rock in this county, who married Re-
becca, the second sister and co-heiress of Henry Lord
Folliott, by whom he had issue Francis Walker, High
Sheriff of Shropshire in 1725, father of Francis Walker
the younger, one of the executors of the will of Henry,
last Lord Herbert, and of a daughter, Anne, married to
Thomas Folliott Baugh of Stonehouse, co. Salop, whose
only daughter, Anne Baugh, was married to John Salwey,
ancestor of the Salweys of Moor Park, Salop. Job
Walker had also a daughter Rebecca, a legatee of Henry
Lord Herbert, who married Humphrey Sandford of
* Nash says (ii., 271) that Mr. Morley was descended from Dr. George
Morley, Bishop of Worcester from 1660 to 1662, and of Winchester from 1662
to 1684. A few descents of Morley will be found in Berry's Hampshire Pedi-
grees, p. 157.
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276 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
" The Isle," near Shrewsbury.* — Per pale azure and
gules, three lions rampant argent Crest : A bundle of
arrows or, feathered and headed argent, six in saltire and
one in pale, girt round the middle with a belt gules
buckled and garnished or. Supporters : On either side
a lion ; the dexter or, sem£e of roses gules ; the sinister
azure, sem£e of fleurs-de-lis gold. {E Coll. Arm.)
Hereford, of the Lowe, and Moore ; a branch of the ancient
family of Hereford of Sufton, co. Hereford, founded by
Thomas, second son of John Hereford of Sufton Court,
whose son William (called "of Moore, co. Worcester ")
was father of John Hereford, who had issue Thomas
Hereford, whose son, Edward Hereford of Moore, had
two children, Thomas and Mary, with whom the pedigree
in the Harl. MS., 1566, concludes. — Gules, three eagles
displayed ermine. {Harl. MS., 1566; and Penn. MS.)
There is a M.I. at Lindridge to Anne, wife of Edward Hereford of
Moore, and daughter and heiress of Edward Beaupeece of Ludlow,
who died in 1606, leaving issue, Thomas, William, Edward, and
Mary. She was, it is stated, " the last in thys kingdome of the an-
tient name and family of Beaupeace."- #
Hereward. See Harward.
Herst, or De la Hay. — Argent, the sun proper. (N.)
This coat occurs at Malvern in glass, quartering Poplcsham and
impaling Devenish. (Dr Prattinton.)
Hertford, or Herford. — Azure, five fusils in bend or. {Her.
Die.)
Herthill. See Colles.
* This memoir has been drawn up from information supplied by Morris C.
Jones, esq., F.S.A, the Rev. George Sandford, and the late T. W. King, esq.,
York Herald.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 277
Hervyll. : — Sable, two lions passant in pale argent ducally
crowned or. (Entered in the Visitation Book 3/" 1533, but
Quare if of Worcestershire? — See H. 20, Coll. Arm., fo.
54.)
Heth, of Alvechurch. — Ermine, on a fesse double cottised . . .
three wolfs heads sable. (Nash, i., 26.)
Nash says that this coat, and also that of a family of Highley, both
residing at Alvechurch, were entered at Dethick's Visitation of this
county made in 1583 ; but Dethick visited in 1682-3, ^d neither of
these names occur in the Visitation Book.
Hethersall. — Azure, a lion rampant argent pellett£e. (Penn
MS.)
Heywood. — Argent, three torteaux in bend between two
bendlets gules. (N.)
An impalement of Berkeley at Spetchley.
Hibbins, of Worcester, Redmarley, and of co. Hereford; con-
firmed by Segar. — Or, a chevron between three towers
triple towered gules. Crest : On a chapeau, a stag sejant
argent attired or. (Harl. MSS., 1545, and 5841.)
Hickes, of Shipston-ori-Stour. — Azure, a fesse wavy between
three fleurs-de-lis or. Crest: A hart's head couped
argent attired or.
These bearings were ratified and confirmed to Henry Hickes of
St. Paul's, Covent Garden, third son of Henry Hickes of Stretton-
super-Foss, co. Warwick, third son of William Hickes of Shipston-
on-Stour, and to the descendants of Henry Hickes, father of the
said Henry, by John- Anstis, Garter, and John Vanbrugh, Clarcn-
deux, on 31st December, 1722. (Add. MS., 14,830.) The pedi-
gree of Hickes of Shipston was recorded at the Visitations of 1634
and 1682-3. On the former occasion no arms were exhibited; on
the latter the above were claimed (without colours), but not allowed.
"They pretend," says A'Wood (cited by Dr. Prattinton), "to beare
the same arms that Viscount Cambden did beare. They have no
right to them as I can yet learn." Nash, sub Tredington (vol il,
378 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
p. 431), describes a mural monument in Shipston church, bearing
this coat : — Sable, a fesse argent between three fleurs-de-lis or; and a
Latin inscription, setting forth that it was erected to the memory of
William Hyches, son of Francis, bora at Barston, co. Warwick, by
his loving wife and eight surviving children. After fifty-four years
(it proceeds), " Deo, Patriae, et Uteris, diligenter impensos," he died
July 2nd, 1652. Francis Hickes, who was born at Tredington in
1566 (the son of Richard Hickes, an arras weaver at Barston, co.
Warwick), was the author of a translation of Lucian ; and his son
Thomas, Chaplain of Christchurch, was " a good poet and an excel-
lent limner." (See Wood's Athena, and Chambers's Biographical
Illustrations of Worcestershire.) Viscount Camden bore the above
coat with the field gules; and the same was borne by Dr. George
Hickes, Dean of Worcester, the well-known author of the T/iesaurus,
who died in 1715, aged seventy-four.
Hickford. — Azure, on a fesse between three leopard's faces
argent as many pellets. {Petm MS.)
Hickman, of Oldswinford, Stourbridge. This family has been
resident for several generations in the neighbourhood of
Stourbridge, and claims to be a branch of the Hickmans
of Gainsborough, &c, from which family the Earls of
Plymouth were descended ; but, at the Visitation of
1682-3, Edward Hickman of Stourbridge disclaimed
arms. Richard Hickman of Oldswinford, living in 1650,
was father, by Mary his wife, of Gregory* Hickman of
* Edmondson, in his Baronagium, attributes to Walter Hickman of Kew,
who died in 161 7, four sons, viz., Dixie, ancestor of the Lords Windsor and
Earls of Plymouth ; William and Walter, who died unmarried ; and Gregory
Hickman, " from whom," he says, " the Hickmans of Ireland derive their
descent." A copy of the inscription upon the tomb (in Richmond church) of
this Walter Hickman is given by Lodge in his Peerage of Ireland (vol. iii., p.
121), from which it appears that he had three sons only, viz., Dixie, William,
and Walter. In the last edition of Burke's Landed Gentry, the Hickmans of
Ireland are derived from " Gregory Hickman, a merchant at Hamburgh, third
son of Walter of Kew." . The baptismal name Gregory was borne by several
of the Stourbridge Hickmans. Of the Stourbridge family was Henry Hick-
man, with whom Pepys dined on 21st August, 1660. He was first of Catherine
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 279
the same place, whose widow, Jane, was in 1 703 the wife
of Joseph Ford of Oldswinford, M.D. There is a tablet
(with the arms of Hickman impaling Moseley) in Enville
church, Staffordshire, to Richard Hickman of Stour-
bridge, gent, who died in 1710, aged twenty-nine, and to
Dorothy his wife, the daughter of Walter Moseley of
that parish, esq. ; " she married to her second husband,
Gregory Hickman, of the city of Chester, merchant," and
died in 1722, aged thirty-three years. The immediate
ancestor of the family now under notice, Gregory Hick-
man of Oldswinford, married Elizabeth Law, and died
about the year 1 757 ; he was father of Edward Hickman
of Oldswinford, who married, in 1759, Anna Maria,
daughter of Richard Greene of Rolleston Hall, co. Lei-
cester, and had issue four sons and four daughters. The
eldest son, Richard Hickman, married, in 1788, Martha,
daughter and co-heiress of John Devereux of Newtown,
co. Montgomery, and had, with other issue, the late
Richard Hickman of Oldswinford, J. P., sometime an
officer in the Royal Marines, who died September 5th,
1855, and whose eldest son, the Rev. Richard Hickman,
M.A., rector of Birdingbury, near Rugby, is the present
Hall, Cambridge, but left that University after taking his bachelor's degree ;
and, migrating to Oxford in 1647, he obtained a fellowship at Magdalen Col-
lege. In 1658 he proceeded B.D. At the Restoration he was ejected from
his fellowship, and then retired to Holland, but afterwards returned and taught
logic and philosophy at Stourbridge. He again went to Holland, and preached
for some years at the English church at Leyden, where he died about 1692.
A slab has been recently found at Leyden in the building which was formerly
the Scottish church, bearing this inscription : — " This grave belongs to Mr.
Henry Hickman and his family, 1685." (See Notes and Queries, 4th S., iv.,
333 > Chambers's Biographical Ulustratiom of Worcestershire; Lord Bray-
brooke's Notes to Pepys's Diary, &c, &c.)
a8o THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
senior representative of the family. — Quarterly ist and
4th, Per pale indented argent and azure, for Hickman ;
2nd and 3rd, Argent, a fesse gules in chief three torteaux,
for Devereux. Crest : A talbot couchant argent, Collared
and lined azure, at the end of the line a knot. Motto :
" Toujours fid&le."
In the Harl. MS., 3526, are some strictures by Ralph Brooke on
Dethick's grants. Among those censured are the arms of Hickman,
which, it is stated, are the " antient arms of Birmyngham." They
had been recently given, with a crest, to " one Hickman, for wich
y* saide Garter had ,£10." Edmondson attributes the same coat to
Hickman of Oken, co. Stafford (in the parish of Codsal); but on
February ist, 1708, Sir Richard St George, Garter, and Peter Le
Neve, Norroy, assigned " unto Nathan Hickman of Oken, and his
heirs and descendants, and to the descendants of his grandfather,
Richard Hickman of Oken aforesaid," the following bearings : — Per
pale indented or and azure, two fleurs-de-lis in fesse counterchanged.
Crest : A spaniel dog couchant argent, spotted sable, collared gules.
(See Add. MS., 14,831.)
Hicks. — Gules, a fesse wavy between three fleurs-de-lis or.
(Penn MS.) See Hickes.
Hiet, of Wick Episcopi. — Argent, a lion rampant sable, a
chief indented of the last. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 107.)
Higgins, of Worcester ; as borne by John Higgins, Mayor of
Worcester in 1654, who died in 1676, aged seventy-six;
and by James Higgins, Mayor in 1680, who died in
1 69 1, aged fifty-four. The family appeared at the Visi-
tation of 1682-3. — Argent, a chevron vaire of the first
and gules between three hurts each charged with a lion's
gamb erased of the field. (" Not justified? K. 4, Coll.
Arm., fo. 58.)
A very similar coat was granted to John Huggins, Warden of the
Fleet Prison, on 15th June, 1725 (see Add. MS., 14,830); and Burke
attributes a like coat to a family named Hoggart.
THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 281
Highley. See Kighley and Heth.
Highway, of Drayton, in Cliaddesley-Corbett ; as borne by
Francis Highway, High Sheriff in 1 755. — Fretty of eight.
{Nash).
Heway of Devonshire bears : Argent, fretty, and a canton gules.
(See Papworth.)
Hill, of Little Washborne and Overbury. — Gules, two bars
ermine, in chief a lion passant per pale or and argent.
Crest : A wolfs head couped proper, langued gules,
pierced with an arrow point upwards. {Dr. Prattinton.)
The Heraldic Dictionaries thus describe the crest: — A boar's
head and neck sable, in the mouth a broken spear proper headed
argent. They are the bearings of Hill of Hales, co. Norfolk.
Hill, of Dennis Park, near Stourbridge; as borne by Thomas
Hill (then of Broom), High Sheriff in 1796. He was the
son of Waldron Hill of the " Tiled House," co. Stafford,
and the descendant of a respectable family resident at
Oldnall, near Stourbridge, for several generations. He
died on 17th September, 1824, aged eighty-seven, having
had issue an eldest son, Thomas, who died in 1827,
leaving issue an only son, Thomas Hill of Blaenavon,
near Ross, Herefordshire. — Gules, two bars ermine, in
chief a lion passant per pale or and argent Crest : A
fleur-de-lis argent. Motto: " Esse quam videri " (Burke;
and Seal oj t/te family.)
Burke (General Armory) also attributes to "Waldron Hill, esq.,"
the following bearings: — Gules, three barrulets ermine, in chief a
lion passant guardant or. Crest : A fleur-de-lis azure.
Hill. — Gules, a chevron engrailed between three garbs or.
{Win. MS.)
Hill, of Bewdley, and of Silvington } co. Salop. — Or, on a chief
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vert three bull's heads couped of the field. Crest : A
crescent vaire, between the horns a bull's head erased or.
Add. MS., 14,314.)
Penn ascribes to " Hill of Droitwich " the following coat : — Or, on
a chief azure three bull's heads erased of the field. " There are
some (he says) that are of opinion that the chief should be vert, but
I have produced it here as it was given to me by one who, I am
sure, can blazon any coate of armes."
Hill, of Middlesex, and of Bromsgrove. — Ermine, a chevron
cheeky or and sable. Crest : A talbot passant or, col-
lared gules. {Her. Die)
Hill, of Worcester ; granted August nth, 1864, to William
Hill of Worcester, who married Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas Rowley of Stourport. His son, Thomas Row-
ley Hill of Worcester, was High Sheriff of this county in
1870. This family traces its descent from Humphrey
Hill of Little Witley, living in 171 2. — Ermine, a chevron
cheeky or and azure, in base on a mount vert a Cornish
chough proper. Crest : On a mount in front of a fern-
brake proper, a talbot or, collared azure, resting the dexter
foot on three annulets interlaced gold. {Communicated.)
Hill, of Pensax ; as borne by Thomas Hill of Pensax, father
of Thomas Hill of co. Kent, whose son was aged seven
in 16 19. — Vert, three talbots passant argent. Crest: A
stags head erased proper, in the mouth an oak-branch
vert fructed or. (Berry's Pedigrees and Arms of Kentish
Families)
Hill, of Castle-Morton. John de Monte held lands in Castle-
Morton in the 20th of Edward III., which Odo de Monte
lately held; and the heir of John de Monte, in 7th Henry
VI., held the same lands that his father had possessed.
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The Hills were previously of Hill Croome, where, in the
27th of Edward I., Nicholas de Hull held three hides.
Nash thinks the Hills succeeded the Folliotts in Castle-
Morton. John Hill of Castle-Morton, a presumed de-
scendant of this family, settled at Oke-hill in Hereford-
shire; he died in 1688, and was succeeded by his son,
William Hill, who settled at Pepper-hill, in the parish of
Longford, co. Salop, and built the mansion-house there in
1699. His grandson, Richard Hill (youngest son of his
son, Anthony Hill of Pepper-hill), purchased the estate
and mansion of Stallington Hall, near Stone, Stafford-
shire, and, dying in 1794, was succeeded by his son,
Richard Clarke Hill of Stallington, whose daughter and
heiress, Mary, married, in 1835, Sir Smith Child, bart.,
who became {jure uxoris) of Stallington. Walter William
Hill, the son of Edward Hill, who was the fourth but
eldest surviving son of the above-named Anthony, mar-
ried, in 1788, Mary Catherine, only daughter and heiress
of Edward Coyney of Weston Coyney, co. Stafford, and
thereupon assumed the surname and arms of Coyney.
His son is the present Charles Coyney of Weston Coy-
ney. — Sable, a chevron or between three wild cats passant
guardant .... Crest : A hawk belled proper. (Nash ;
Burkes Commoners, &c.)
William Hill and John Hill, both of Castle-Morton, gentlemen,
were each fined ^10 for not taking knighthood at the coronation of
Charles I.
Hill, of Cradley, co. Hereford, and of " Brockin? — Ermine,
on a fesse sable a castle argent. (N.) See Slaughter.
Hill, of Woreester } and Upton-on-Severn. — Argent, a water-
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bouget sable between eight annulets gules. Crest : A
bird. {K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. 122 ; and Penn MS.)
The above coat and crest were exhibited (without colours) at the
Visitation of 1682-3, but " not allowed." " Richard Hill of Upton-
on-Severn, Dr. in Physic," occurs in Blome's list of the Worcester-
shire gentry, a° 1673. It appears from an inscription in Upton
church that he died in 1685, and that Richard Hill, his son, died in
1707, aged fifty-three. James Hill of Upton on-Severn paid a fine
to be exonerated from knighthood at the coronation of Charles I.
Hill, of Aston. — Gules, a saltire vaire between four mullets
argent (N.)
This coat was borne, according to Nash, by Roger Hill of Aston
(but see Hytte), who married Sibil, daughter of Edward Walsh,
rector of Holt ; but the same coat was impaled by Walter Walsh
(nephew of the said Edward) in right of Dorothy his wife, daughter
and co-heiress of Richard Hill, Serjeant of the Cellar to King Henry
VIII. (See Walsh ;^and Berry's Hampshire Pedigrees, p. 319.) The
same coat occurs on the M.I. at St. Swithen's, Worcester, of Henry
Hill, " one of the chamber of this city," who died in 1675.
Hill. See Hytte.
Hilton. — Argent, two bars azure. (N.)
One of the Savage quarterings at Elmley Castle. The same coat
was borne by John Scott Hylton of Lappall House, Halesowen (the
friend of the poet Shenstone), presumed to have been a member of
the Durham family of that name. See Jolliffe.
Hinckley. See Pytts.
Hitch, as quartered by Colles of Leigh. — Per fesse or and
sable, three estoiles counterchanged. (Harl. AfS, 1566.)
A family of Hitch of "Worcestershire, Berks, and Gloucester-
shire," bears, according to Papworth, Quarterly 1st and 4th, Or, a
bend vaire between two cottises indented sable ; 2nd and 3rd, The
above coat. Burke (General Armory) ascribes these quartered coats
to Samuel Hitch, M.D., of co. Gloucester, with the crest, An ante-
lope's head erased sable, tufted, armed, and maned or, vulned
through the neck with a bird-bolt gold feathered argent, holding the
end in his mouth. Motto : " Avi numerantur avorum."
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 285
Hoby, of Aldington and Badsey, and of Bisham, co. Berks.
Sir Philip Hoby, knt, son of William Hoby of Leo-
minster, obtained a grant of the manor of Badsey on the
dissolution of Evesham Abbey. This estate subsequently
passed to his fourth and youngest brother Richard. Al-
dington, says Nash, was probably the chief seat of the
Hobys in Worcestershire ; they were extinct in Badsey
in the time of Habingdon. Their last male heir, Sir
Philip Hoby of Bisham, co. Berks, bart. (a title which
had been conferred on Edward Hoby of Bisham in 1666),
dying unmarried in 1 766, devised his estates to his kins-
man, Sir John Mill, bart., who thereupon assumed the
surname of Hoby, but died without issue in 1 790. The
Hoby pedigree was recorded at the Visitation of 1569. —
Quarterly 1st, Argent, a fesse sable between three hobies
(i.e., hawks) proper, for Hoby ; 2nd, Gules, three halberts
in fesse argent, for Bylmore; 3rd, Argent, three "bot-
toms or clewes " (elsewhere called " spindles " or " fusils
upon slippers ") in fesse gules threaded or, for Badlond;
4th, Sable, an eagle displayed argent, for Llewellyn-ap-
Gregeur; 5th, Argent, a lion rampant sable crowned or,
for jRhys-ap- Tudor ; 6th, Sable, a pomegranate or, for
Meredith Geth; 7th, Gules, a lion rampant argent, for ... . ;,
8th, Argent, a chevron between three boar's heads erased
sable, for Philip Doillie. Crests: 1st, A hoby rising,
beaked, legged, and belled or; 2nd, On a chapeau,
' an heraldic tiger rampant argent. (Harl. MSS. } 1043,
and 1566; Penn MS. \ and Mis. Gen. et Her., i. r
141.)
These arms and quarterings were exemplified to the family by
286 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Dethick, Garter, and Camden, Clarencieux, on the ioth of July,
I 59 8.*
Hobday, or Hobildey, alias Lacy, of the Lane House, Fecken-
ham y aftd of Broadway. — Argent, on a bend gules three
martlets or, within a bordure engrailed sable. Crest :
Out of a ducal coronet or, a demi-leopard proper spotted
of the first. {Harl. AfS. } 1144; and Shaw's Stafford-
shire) See Wylde.
A Thomas Hobday "disclaimed" at the Visitation of 1634.
Hoddesdon. — Argent, a bend wavy between three horse-shoes
sable. (Penn MS.)
Hodges, of Broadway. — Or, three crescents sable, on a canton
of the last a ducal coronet of the first Crest : In a ducal
coronet or, a crescent sable.
These arms were confirmed and the crest granted to John Hodges
of Broadway, gent, by Camden, Clarencieux, on 15th October, 1610.
(Ifar/. MS.y 1380.) The coat is also given in the Win. MS. In
the year 1686 Thomas Hodges founded a school at Broadway for
educating twenty poor boys. He died October 4th in that year, and
Mary, his widow (who married secondly Richard Mansell), on June
20th, 1727.
Hodges, of Harvington> &c. ; as borne by the Rev. Moses
Hodges, D.D., rector of Harvington, co. Worcester, and
lord of the manor of Sulgrave, co. Northampton, who
died in 1724, leaving issue, by Martha his wife, daughter
of the Rev. John Jephcott, D.D., several daughters, his
co-heiresses. — Arms, as Hodges of Broadway. Crest :
* The quarterings have been named from the Herald and Genealogist, vol.
iv., p. 398. The third quartering (Badlond) appears to have been frequently
used as the paternal coat of Hoby ; but, in the Visitation Book of 1569, the
fesse between three hobies was entered as the family arms. — Vide D. 1 2, ColL
Arm., fo. 30.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 2B7
An antelope's head erased or, ducally gorged gules,
(Baker's Northamptonshire, i., 515.) See Jephcott.
Hodges, of Hampton Lovett, and Devonshire ; as entered at
the Visitation of 1682-3 by the R ev - Prideaux Hodges,
rector of Hampton Lovett, son of the Rev. William
Hodges, rector of Ripple, and archdeacon of Worcester,
by Sarah his wife, daughter of Dr. Prideaux, Bishop of
Worcester. — Arms as Hodges of Broadway; no crest ex-
hibited. (K. 4, Coll. Arm., fo. no.)
Hodgetts, of Dudley, latterly of Elm Lodge, Hagley ; as borne
by the late Thomas Webb Hodgetts, son of Booth Hod-
getts, and grandson of Thomas Hodgetts of Dudley.
Mr. T. W. Hodgetts died in 1855, leaving an. only
daughter and heiress, Eliza Anne, married in 1842 to
William Wylley Chambers, Capt. R.N., whose only son,
William Thomas Hodgetts Chambers of Inston, co.
Devon, was authorized by royal license, dated March
4th, 1867, to assume, in compliance with the will of his
maternal grandfather, the said T. W. Hodgetts, the sur-
name of Hodgetts instead of Chambers, and the arms of
Hodgetts quarterly with his family arms. — Per fesse
azure and gules, on a chevron engrailed between three
doves in chief and a fleur-de-lis in base or, three annulets.
Crest : An eagle, wings expanded proper, in the beak an
annulet. Motto: " Confido conquiesco." {Burke; and
M.I: to Booth Hodgetts in Allesley cfmrch, Warwick
shire.)
Hodington, of Hodington. In the 27th of Edward I., Richard
de Hodington held one hide of land in Hodington ; and
283 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
in the 3rd of Henry IV., Thomas de Hodington was
Deputy Sheriff of this county. The family continued
lords of Hodington (says Nash) till the latter end of the
reign of Henry V. or the beginning of that of Henry VI.,
during which they intermarried with many good families,
as appears in the windows of Hodington church. Ha-
bingdon supposes the above Richard de Hodington to
have been identical with Richard de Cromeley, lord of
Hodington, who, he says, married Margaret, daughter of
Roger de Somerie, and widow of Ralph Bassett (but see
Cromeley). It appears, however, from a pedigree in the
Harl. MS., 1043, ^ at Sir Richard de Hodington of Ho-
dington married Lucy, the daughter and heiress of Sir
Richard Cromeley, and had issue by her a son, Sir Bald-
win Hodington, who, by Joan his wife, daughter and
heiress of Sir John Knovill, knt, was father of John Ho-
dington of Hodington, whose son Walter (by his wife
Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Golafer) married
Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Cassey (by
Cecilia his wife, sister and heiress of Hugh Cooksey), and
had issue Thomas Hodington of Hodington. This
Thomas appears to have been the last of the family ; he
married Joan, only child of Richard Thurgrim, and by
her was father of two daughters, his co-heiresses : Agnes,
married to William Russell of Strensham ; and Joan,
married to Roger Winter, from whom came the Winters
of Hodington. — Argent, a saltire gules within a bordure
azure bezantde, as allowed at the Visitation of 1569 to
Russell for a quartering ; but, in the Visitation Book of
1533 (H. 20, Coll. Arnt. } fo. 60), the Hodington* coat is
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 289
given as, Argent, a saltire gules within a bordure sable
charged with mullets pierced or.
Dr. Thomas gives, for Hodington, in the list of arms printed in
Nash, Gules, a saltire argent within a bordure sable replenished with
mullets or; but in his second volume, p. 393, Nash blazons the
bordure azure and charges it with crosslets. Symonds found the coat
impaling Thurgrim in Inkberrow church,* the bordure being sable
and charged with thirteen estoiles or; and, finally, Penn gives the
following variation, Gules, a saltire ermine within a bordure azure
charged with eight cinque/oils or.
Hogglinton. — [Argent] three crescents sable. (N.)
Dr. Prattinton says that this coat occurs in glass at Great Malvern,
impaled by Foliot and quartered by Clifford. Habingdon, under
Malvern, ascribes it to Woodhail.
Holbeche, of Hill Court, Droitwich. — Vert, six escallops
argent, three, two, and one. Crest : A maunch vert,
charged with escallops argent (Dr. Prattinton.)
H olden, of Erdington and Aston, co. Warwick. The H oldens
had, says Dugdale, " fair possessions in Worcestershire."
Thomas Holden of Erdington, 1761, was seised of real
estates in the counties of Warwick, Leicester, and Wor-
cester, which he left to a John Holden of Oldswinford,
Stourbridge. No relationship has ever been traced be-
tween Thomas of Erdington and this John, but it is
generally believed, says Nichols (Leicestershire, iv., 926),"
that " he fixed upon him in regard to the name only." — .
Gules, a chevron between three crosses crosslet or.
(Nichols, ut supra ; and M.I. at Sutton Coldfield to Ka-
therine, relict of Simon Holden of Erdington, wfto died in
1688.)
Holden, of Worcester, &c. ; descended from a family of
* Nash notices this shield, but says the colours are wrong.
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Holden formerly resident at Wednesbury, co. Stafford. —
Vert, a fesse erminois between two pheons erect in chief
and a bugle-horn strung in base or. Crest : A dexter
cubit arm vested sable, hand proper, holding a cross
crosslet fitchde gold, from the wrist a pile ermine, the arm
charged with a bugle-horn strung also gold. Motto :
" Et teneo et teneor." {Communicated)
These arms were granted to William Holden, gent., by Sir Isaac
Heard, Garter , and Thomas Lock, Clarencieux, on the ioth of February,
1 79 1. They were subsequently confirmed, and the crest granted on
July 19th, 1827, to his grandson, the Rev. William Rose Holden, by
Sir George Nayler, Garter, and Ralph Bigland, Clarcncieux. The
Rev. William Lucas Holden (son of the above William Holden,
gent) assumed in 1785 the surname of Rose, and bore these arms
quarterly in the second and third quarters with those of Rose. {See
Baker's Northamptonshire, L, 317.)
Holland, of Cropthorne ; as borne by Francis Holland, J. P.,
D.L., second* son of the late Francis Holland of Crop-
thorne by Anne, eldest daughter of Michael Corbett of
Admington Hall, co. Gloucester. — Azure, sem6e de lis, a
lion rampant guardant argent Crest : A wolf passant
sable, charged on the breast with a mullet. Motto :
" Malo mori quam fcedari." {Communicated by t/ie
family.)
These are the bearings of the Hollands of Quiddenham, co. Nor-
folk, from whom this family claims to be descended.
Holland, of Kyrewood, Tenbury. A family of this name re-
sided at Tenbury at least as early as the seventeenth
century : for, at the Visitation of 1634, the name of John
Holland of Tenbury appears in the list of disclaimers.
George Holland of Tenbury (descended probably from
* The eldest son, Corbett Holland, assumed in 1839 the surname and arms
of Corbett on succeeding his maternal uncle in the Adminton estate.
THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 291
John) was High Sheriff of the county in 1751 ; he mar-
ried Hannah, daughter of Thomas Downes of Ashford,
near Ludlow, but appears to have died without issue.
His widow married, in 1753, Thomas Holland, one of the
sons of John Holland of Ludlow, solicitor, and proprietor
of Brimfield Court, co. Hereford, by his wife, a daughter
of Dr. Rogers, Canon of Hereford. How this gentleman
was related (if at all) to George Holland the Sheriff is
not known. He had issue (with others whose male issue
is extinct) an eldest son, the Rev. George Holland, born
in 1753, rector of Hanwood, near Shrewsbury, who, by
Frances his wife, second daughter of Humphrey Sand-
ford of the Isle, Shrewsbury, High Sheriff of Shropshire
in 1787, had issue an only child, Frances, born in 1791,
married in 181 1 to her cousin, the Rev. Humphrey Sand-
ford of the Isle, grandson of the Humphrey before-named,
and was mother of the present Humphrey Sandford of
the Isle, who, on the death of Miss Frances Holland of
Tenbury (the only surviving sister of the late Rev.
Thomas Edwardes Mytton Holland, and daughter of the
late Samuel Holland of Tenbury, who was a son of the
above Thomas Holland), will be the sole representative
of this family.* — Azure, a lion rampant guardant argent
within an orle of fleurs-de-lis of the last Crest : Out of
a ducal coronet .... a demi-lion rampant guardant
{Seal of Thomas Holland of Tenbury.)
The arms of George Holland, the Sheriff, have not been ascer-
tained.
* Ex inf. Humphrey Sandford, esq., the Rev. George Sandford, and Miss
Holland of Tenbury.
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292 THE HERALDRY OE WORCESTERSHIRE.
Holland, of Dumbleton, co. Gloucester; now represented by-
Edward Holland, late M.P. for Evesham, and High
Sheriff of this county in 1842. This family y^s seated
for several generations at Mobberley, co. Chester, and is
presumed, on good authority, to be a junior branch of the
baronial family of Holland. Samuel Holland of Sandle
Bridge, co. Chester (third son of John Holland of Mob-
berley, by Mary, daughter of Peter Colthurst, grandson
of John Holland of Mobberley by Mary Dean, and great-
grandson of another John Holland, whose father, William
Holland, purchased Mobberley, and was third in descent
* from William Holland, Lord of Clifton, who died in
1522), married Anne Swinton of Knutsford, and was
father of three sons : Peter Holland of Sandle Bridge ;
Swinton Colthurst Holland of Dumbleton ; and Samuel
Holland of Liverpool. Peter Holland was father, by
Mary daughter of the Rev. William Willetts of New-
castle-under-Lyme, of Sir Henry Holland, bart, M.D. ;
Swinton Colthurst Holland married Anne, another
daughter of the said Rev. William Willetts, and was
father of the present Edward Holland of Dumbleton,
who is married to Sophia, daughter of Elias Isaac of
Worcester, and has issue. — Azure, crusuly, a lion rampant
argent.* {From a pedigree privately printed by Sir
Thomas Phillipps, bart., in 1854.)
* These are the arms ascribed to the family by Sir Thomas Phillipps, but
Sir Henry Holland, bait., bears, according to Burke, Per pale argent and azure,
semde de lis, a lion rampant guardant counterchanged, debruised by a bendlet
engrailed gules. Crest : Out of a crown vallery or, a demi-lion guardant per
bend argent and azure, charged with a bendlet engrailed counterchanged,
holding in the dexter paw a fleur-de-lis argent. These bearings were probably
assigned to Sir Henry on the creation of the baronetcy. According to the
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 293
Hollington, of Alvechurch. A family of this name, claiming
to be descended from the Hollingtons of U lien-hall, co.
Warwick, appeared at the Visitation of 1682-3, and ex-
hibited for arms, Sable, a fret argent, which, being the
coat of Harrington, was disallowed. (See K. 4, Coll.
Arm., fo. 87.)
There is an inscription at Alvechurch to Dixey, son of the Rev.
William Hollington, LL.D., rector of that place and of Long Mars-
ton, co. Gloucester, chaplain to Kings Charles I. and II., who died
in 1690.
Holmden. — Sable, a fesse between two chevrons ermine.
(N.)
John Holmden of Crowle, whose daughter and heiress, Lydia, was
married to Richard Amphlett of Hadsor. bore, according to Dr.
Prattinton, Sable, two chevrons each charged "with three mullets (or
cross crosslets) of the field. See Penrice.
Holt. — Argent, a chevron between three squirrels gules each
holding a nut or. (N.)
This coat was quartered by the Haselwoods of Wick- Warren, but
it appears to be intended for Lowell. {See Haselwood.) Nash attri-
butes the same coat to William Holt, Deputy Sheriff of Worcester-
shire, temp. Henry VI. ; and also, Azure, two bars or, in chief a
cross pattee fitche'e of the last, which is the coat of the Holts of Aston,
co. Warwick.
Homan, alias Feckenham ; as borne by . . . Homan or How-
man, alias Feckenham, the last Abbot of Westminster,
who died in 1585. — Gules, a cross fusily argent. {Dr.
Prattinton, from Wood's MSS.)
Homfray, of Wollaston Hall, and The Hill, near Stourbridge;
Broadwaters, Kidderminster; and TJie Hyde, Kinver,
General Armory, he had previously borne, Azure semee de lis, a lion rampant
[guardant?] argent, over all a bend gules; and, for Crest: Out of a ducal
coronet or, a demi-lion guardant queue'e fourche'e argent, collared gules.
294 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Staffordshire. This family was formerly resident at a
place called Wales, near Rotherham, in Yorkshire. The
first that settled in Worcestershire was Francis Homfray,
son of Francis Homfray of Wales, and elder brother of
Thomas Homfray of Wales, from whom the Homfrays
of Suffolk are descended.* This Francis established
himself as an iron manufacturer in the neighbourhood of
Stourbridge early in the last century. He was twice
married — first to Sarah Baker, and secondly to Mary
Jeston f — and died in 1736, leaving issue by the latter
four sons and five daughters. Francis, his son, married
«first Hannah Popkin, by whom he had a son, Jeston
Homfray, born in 1752, of Broadwaters, near Kidder-
minster (of whom presently) ; and, secondly, Catherine,
daughter and co-heiress of Jeremiah Caswell of The
Hyde, Kinver, Staffordshire, by whom he had : Francis
of the Hyde ; Jeremiah, who was knighted when High
Sheriff of Glamorganshire in 1809 (from whom the Hom-
frays of Penllyne Castle are descended) ; Thomas of
" The Hill," near Stourbridge (who married Elizabeth
Stephens, and had issue : Frederick of Bridgnorth; John,
who assumed the surname of Stephens ; Edward, in holy
orders ; Vincent ; Nelson ; and one daughter) ; and Samuel,
M.P. for Stafford, of Pennydarren, co. Monmouth, High
Sheriff of that county in 18 13, who married Jane, daugh-
* Set Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iv., pp. 602 and 725.
t In Burke's Commoners she is called " daughter of Jeston, esq., of
the Heath f but in the Landed Gentry her father's name is given as Thomas.
It is not improbable that she was a daughter of John Jeston by Sarah, daugh-
ter of Paul Henzey. A Mr. Jeston lived at Studley Gate, the Heath, near
Stourbridge, about this period.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 295
ter of Sir Charles Gould Morgan, bart, and died in 1822,
leaving issue. John Homfray, the youngest son of Fran-
cis and Mary (Jeston), married in 1758 Mary, daughter
and co-heiress of the Rev. Jeremiah Addenbrooke, and
died in 1760, leaving a son, who assumed the surname
and arms of Addenbrooke. {See that name.) Jeston
Homfray of Broadwaters, the only son of Francis by his
first wife Hannah, nie Popkin, married in 1776 Sarah,
daughter of John Pidcock of " The Platts," near Stour-
bridge, and died in 18 16, leaving issue (with others),
David Homfray of Witley Lodge, Halesowen, and Henry
of Broadwaters. The former married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Richard Brettell of Finstall House, near Broms-
grove, and died leaving issue : Jeston of Halesowen,
solicitor, born in 1821 \ David of Portmadoc, solicitor,
born in 1822, both married; Robert; George; Al-
fred; Popkin; and others. Henry Homfray, J. P. (the
youngest son of Jeston), is now of Broadwaters ; he mar-
ried, in 1826, Elizabeth, only daughter of William Smith,
and has issue (with daughters) an only son, George
Smith- Homfray, born in 1833, of Wadham College, Ox-
ford, B.A., who married, in 1859, Elizabeth, daughter of
John Unett of Filey, Yorkshire. — Gules, across botton^e
ermine. Crest : An otter passant, wounded in the
shoulder with a spear all proper. Mottoes : (over the
crest) " Vulneratur non vincitur ;" (under the arms)
" L'homme vrai aime son pays." *
* Burke commences his lineage of this family (in the Commoners and Landed
Gentry) with the statement that the name is derived " from the French words
homme vrai? and that the family were " distinguished among the soldiers of
the cross," and were " eminent in the early wars of the Plantagenet kings." It
296 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Hooke, of Norton Hall ; as borne by Thomas J. B. Hooke of
Norton, eldest son of the late Benjamin Hooke of the
same place, and the descendant of a family seated since
the early part of the sixteenth century at Crooke's Park,
co. Gloucester. — Gules, a fesse between three fleurs-de-
lis argent. Crest : A demi-eagle displayed gules, charged
on the breast with a ducal coronet or. {Co?nmunicated.)
Hooper, as borne by John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and
Worcester, who suffered martyrdom at Gloucester on the
9th of February, 1555. He was a man "of eminent
learning, exemplary piety, unblemished morals, and of
most extensive charity." — Or, on a fesse dancett^e be-
tween three flames of fire gules proceeding from clouds
argent, a lamb couchant between two estoiles of the last.
{Grant by De thick, HarL MS., 1539 — Bedford.)
Hooper, of Grimley ; as borne by George Hooper, the son of
George Hooper of Grimley, gent, (where he was born in
1640), Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1703 to 1727.* —
Gyronny of eight or and ermine, a castle triple-towered
sable. {Monument. — See Gent. Mag., lxii., p. 596. — Bed-
ford)
Hope, of Worcester ; as represented on the monument, in St.
is scarcely necessary to state that Homfray is simply an old form of the bap-
tismal name Humphrey, and that the alleged eminent services of the family in
the Holy Land do not appear to be authenticated by any substantial evidence.
In his General Artnory Burke says that the family is " derived immediately
from Francis Homfray of Aston, co. York, supposed to have been killed at
the siege of Clonmel under Cromwell ;" and he gives two quarterings, viz.,
Quarterly argent and sable ; and, Sable, four pallets ermine, both of which are
attributed by the Heraldic Dictionaries to families named Humfrey.
* A memoir of this learned prelate will be found in Chambers's Biographi-
cal Illustrations of Worcestershire, p. 240.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 297
Swithin's church, Worcester, of Henry Hope, grocer,
who died in 1753, in his sixty-fifth year, Thomas Hope,
his only surviving child, who died in 1792, aged eighty-
two, and others of the family. — Ermine, two chevrons
engrailed azure between three escallops gules.
The Heraldic Dictionaries ascribe this coat to Hope of Northall
Court, co. Middlesex.
Hopkins, of Bewdley, &c. ; as borne by the Rev. Dr. William
Hopkins, Prebendary of Worcester, born at Evesham,
1647, died May 18th, 1700. His father, the Rev. George
Hopkins, was the son of William Hopkins, a gentleman
of fortune at Bewdley, who was chosen M.P. for that
borough, but died before he could take his seat. Dr.
Hopkins's first wife was Averill Martin (by whom he was
father of three children, who all died young) ; and his
second was Mrs. Elizabeth Whitehorne, of Tewkesbury,
the daughter of Henry Bromley, of Upton-on-Severn.
He was an excellent antiquary, and was " looked upon
as one who would publish a History of Worcestershire."*
— Sable, on a chevron between three pistols or, as many
roses gules. {Monument in the cathedral.)
Hopton, of Worcester ; as borne by Edward Cope Hopton
(of the ancient family of Hopton, of Canon Frome, co.
Hereford), High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1752, the
son of Richard Hopton, of Canon Frome, by Elizabeth
Geers, whose mother was the daughter, and eventually
heiress, of William Cope, of Icomb. Mr. Hopton mar-
ried, in 1732, Mary, only daughter and heiress of Timo-
* See Nash, Introduction y p. ii. ; and Chambers's Biographical Illustrations
of Worcestershire, pp. 205, 249.
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298 THE HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
thy Brigginshaw, of St Johns, and dying in 1754 (v. p.),
left issue a son, Richard Cope Hopton, and a daughter
Anne, married to Michael Clements, Capt. R.N. The son
succeeded to the Canon Frome estate, and dying without
issue, devised the same to his cousin, the Rev. William
Parsons (son of John Parsons, of Kemerton Court, by
Deborah, sister of the above-named Edward Cope Hop-
ton), who assumed in consequence the surname and arms
of Hopton, on 21st March, 181 7. — Gules, sem6e of
crosses patt£e fitch£e, a lion rampant or. Crest : Out of
a ducal coronet or, a griffin's head argent, in the mouth
a bleeding hand proper. (Burke's Commoners, &c.)
Hopwood, of Droitwich, and of Milton, co. Hereford ; as
borne by Thomas Hopwood, whose daughter and co-
heiress, Mary, was married to John Amphlett, of Clent.
— Or, a pile azure. (M.I. in St. Andrews church,
Droitwich.)
Hore, of Chartley, co. Stafford. — Sable, an eagle displayed
with two heads within a bordure engrailed argent. (N.)
Hornyold, of Blackmore Park, in Hartley Castle. " John de
Hornyold, living in the reign of Edward III.,"* says Mr.
Shirley, who places this as one of the " gentle " families
of Worcestershire, " appears to be the first recorded
ancestor of this family, who have been since that period
seated in this county, in the parish of Hanley. The
Hornyolds were on the loyal side during the Civil Wars
of the seventeenth century" They acquired the manor
* John de Hornyngwold was Deputy Sheriff of Worcestershire in the 8th,
9th, and 10th of Edward II.
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of Hanley Castle in the 2nd of Elizabeth, and recorded
their descent at the Visitations of 1533, 1634, and 1682-3.
Thomas Charles Hornyold, of Blackmore, the last male
heir of this long descended line, died without issue in
J 859, when the family became extinct. His sister and
heiress, Teresa, married John Vincent Gandolfi, of East
Sheen, Surrey, a gentleman of Italian extraction,* by
whom she was mother of a son, John Vincent Gandolfi,
who, on succeeding to the Blackmore Park estate, on the
demise of his maternal uncle, assumed the surname and
arms of Hornyold only. He was High Sheriff in 1869.
— Azure, on a bend embattled counter-embattled argent,
a greyhound courant between two escallops sable. Crest :
A demi-unicorn gules armed and crined or. (C 30, Coll.
Arm., fo. 84 ; and K. 4, fo. 140.)
Penn states that the ancient coat of this family was Argent, a
bend crenellee azure ; but, says he, " they have altered it as 1 under-
stand from the discourse I have had with some gentlemen that have
good judgment and greate delighte in this noble arte," and now
bear " according to their own fancy " Azure, on a bend crenelle'e
argent a tiger passant between two escallops sable. " It had been
far better bearing," he adds, " if it had beene honoured with an
augmentation of his majestie's bestowing." Mr. Shirley says the
older coat was an embattled bend argent upon an azure field, but
"a greyhound courant sable was afterwards added on the bend,
between two escallops argent on the field" In the Visitation Book
of 1634, the escallops are sable and placed on the bend.
Hornyold, of Bredon ; as borne by George Hornyold, who,
together with Thomas Copley, obtained, in the 18th of
Elizabeth, the manor of Bredon. He married Alice,
* The arms of Gandolfi are, Argent, on a mount in base vert a poplar tree
supported by two lions rampant crowned with count s coronets all proper.
Crest : A demi-lion rampant sable, in the dexter paw a sword. (Burke's
Landed Gentry.)
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300 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE,
third daughter of Thomas Wylde, of the Commandery,
by Eleanor his wife, daughter and co-heiress of George
Wall. — Azure, on a bend embattled counter-embattled
between two fishes in bend argent, a greyhound courant
between two escallops sable, all within a bordure or,
charged with ten torteaux. (C 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 92 ;
and AM. MS., 19,819.)
Horton, of Staunton. This family succeeded the Whitting-
tons, whose heiress they married, as lords of Staunton,
where they continued till William Horton sold the manor
to Sir Thomas Cooke, about the middle of the seven-
teenth century. — Sable, three bendlets engrailed argent ;
borne quarterly with St. Lowe, Whittington, and Haute-
ville, by William Horton, of Staunton, who died in 161 2.
(See Nash, ii., 374.)
On the tomb of this William Horton, at Staunton (says Nash),
there is also the engrailed bendlets with a canton. The family
appears also to have- borne a stag's head cabossed,* which coat
appears on the tomb (at Staunton) of Phillis Baynham, daughter of
William Horton, of Staunton ; but the coat impaled on the tomb
(in Meysey-Hampton church, Gloucestershire,) of James Vaulx, who
was this lady's first husband, is the engrailed bendlets on a field
sable. (See Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 544.)
Hough, of Hartley and Comberton; as borne by Adam
Hough, High Sheriff in 1748. — Argent, a bend sable.
(Nash)
An Adam Hough purchased Comberton of Waller, the poet ; it
was sold by his descendant towards the end of the last century, to
Mr. Steward, of Stone.
Hough, as borne by John Hough (b. 1651, ob. 1743), Bishop
* The Derbyshire Hortons bear Sable, a buck's head cabossed argent
attired or.
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of Worcester from 171 7 to 1743. He was the son of
John Hough, citizen of London, by Margaret, daughter
of John Byrch, of Leacroft, co. Stafford, and the grand-
son of John Hough, of Birmingham. — Argent, a bend
sable. (Dr. Prattinton)
Houghton, or Haughton. — Sable, three bars argent (Penn
MS.)
" This (says Penn), as I find by a monument in the College of
Worcester, placed upon the side of a great pillar, had beene a familie
of good account in the citty, but by their greate losses by the
dizmall warres were brought very low." The monument to which
he refers is noticed by Dr. Thomas, in his Survey, p. 90. It records
the death of Mr. John Howton, " who was born and bred in this citie
of Worcester, and dyed the 12 deye of August, 1608, being High
Chambelaine of this cittie and a great benefactor to the same."
The monument was erected by his son Thomas, and the executors
of the said Thomas, in 1610. Dr. Prattinton gives the arms of
Howton of Worcester, as a chevron between three garbs, which is
the coat of Hatton.
Houghton, as attributed by Nash to Sir William Houghton,
knt., Sheriff of Worcestershire temp. Richard III. ; but
it appears to-be the coat of Knight. — Argent, three
pallets gules within a bordure engrailed azure, on a can-
ton of the second a spur leathered and rowelled or.
It appears from the Nanfan pedigree that a Sir William Houghton,
knt, married Jane, daughter and heiress of Sir John Coleshill, knt,
widow, first of Sir John Nanfan, and secondly of Sir Renfred Arun-
dell. The arms of this Sir William Houghton were Per bend or
and azure, a lion rampant counterchanged ; they occur in Birtsmorton
church, impaling Coleshill.
Houghton, ... a bend between a crescent and an annulet.
(Dr. Prattinton.)
This coat occurs in All Saints' church, Worcester, on the tomb of
Anne, wife of John Houghton, of that city, who died in 1631, aged
twenty-two. It is perhaps the paternal coat of Anne Houghton.
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Hoveden. — Cheeky ... on a bend . . . three lion's heads
erased. (M.I. in Worcester cathedral to Margaret, wife
of William Hoveden, gent., who died in 162 1, aged
ninety-two. — Habingdoris Church Notes in tlie Harl.
MS., 2205.)
Howe, of Bishop's Lydiard, Somerset, lord of Bromsgrove
temp. James I. — Or, a fesse between three wolfs heads
couped sable.
Howton. See Houghton.
Huband, of Ipsley, co. Warwick, and of Egioke, co. Worcester.
The Worcestershire branch of this family (which is of
great antiquity in Warwickshire) was founded by Anthony
Huband, fourth son of Nicholas Huband, of Ipsley (who
died in 1544), by Dorothy his wife, daughter and co-
heiress of Sir John Danvers, knt. A baronetcy, now
extinct, was conferred in 1 660-1, on John Huband, of
Ipsley. An account of the family is given in Dugdale's
Warwickshire, and in the several editions of Burke's
Landed Gentry. — Sable, three leopard's faces jessant de
lis argent ; quartering Danvers, Bruly, and Pury. Crest :
A wolf passant or,
Henry Huband bore temp. Edward I., Sable, three fleurs-de-lis
argent. Dugdale says that the leopard's faces jessant de lis were
assumed for " the relation of this family to Cantilupe in their tenure
of Ipsley."
Hubeford. See Hugford.
Huddleston. — Gules, a fret argent. (N.)
An impalement of Wylde in St. Peter's church, Droitwich.
Hudson, of Wick; as borne by A. R. Hudson of the Manor
House, Wick, lord of the manors of Wick-Burnel and
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Wick- Warren ; and by Henry Hudson of Pershore, J. P.
— Gules, on a fesse or between three boar s heads couped
argent as many lions rampant sable. Crest : A lion
rampant or, holding between the fore-paws a boar's head
couped sable. (Communicated!)
Hugford. — Or, an eagle displayed sable collared argent.
In Dr. Thomas's list of arras this coat is attributed to Hubeford,
and blazoned "an eagle displayed with a bee about her neck argent "
It is a quartering of Lucy of Charlecote, co. Warwick, as represented
in glass in a window of the chapel at Sutton in Tenbury. See Lucy.
Hugford, of Dickies ton, co. Gloucester, and of Wollashill ;
an ancient family, whose arms were quartered by Han-
ford at the Visitation of 1634. Thomas Hugford of
Dickleston was Deputy Sheriff of this county in the 14th
and 28th of Henry VI. — Vert, on a chevron between
three stag's heads cabossed or, as many mullets gules.
(C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 113; and Nash, ii., 183.) See
Dickleston.
Hughes, of Worcester ; as borne by John Hughes, mayor of
that city in 17 16; he died in 1726, aged sixty-seven. —
Azure, a lion rampant or. (M.I. in St. Martin's churchy
Worcester!)
Hughes, of Henwick. — Gules, a lion rampant regardant argent
crowned or. (Penn MS.)
Hulgrave. — Argent, on a fesse azure three fleurs-de-lis or.
(AT.)
This is really the coat of Ufflete, and was borne by Sir Gerard de
Ufflete, knt, son (it is presumed) of Sir John Ufflete by Loretta his
wife, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Gerard de Furnival. It is one of
the Lygon quarterings.
Hull, as borne, according to Nash, by John de Hull, Deputy
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Sheriff of Worcestershire temp. Henry III. — Ermine,
three hound's heads erased. See Hall.
Hungerford, of Suckley. Edmund, son of Sir Walter Hun-
gerford, lent., acquired the manor of Suckley temp. Henry
V., in marriage with Margaret, daughter and co-heiress
of Edward, son of Sir Hugh Burnel, knt. The family
continued in possession of Suckley until the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, when they sold the estate to Edmund
Colles of Leigh. — Sable, two bars argent, in chief three
plates. (See Nash, ii., 397.)
Hunkes, of s Northwick, and of Radbrooke, co. Gloucester.
Robert Hunkes of North wick and Radbrooke recorded
his descent at the Visitation of 1569. The pedigree
commences with Robert Hunkes, living in the 10th of
Richard II. The first, called "of Radbrooke/' was
Robert Hunkes, who married Elizabeth, the daughter
and heiress of Gayteway, and had issue Robert,
whose son, Robert Hunkes, was of Northwick. The
family also possessed the manor of Preston-on-Stour in
Gloucestershire. Thomas Hunkes of Radbrooke was
Sheriff of this county in the 25th of Henry VIII. — Quar-
terly 1 st and 4th, Gules, an inescutcheon argent charged
with three mullets sable, within an orle of eight bezants,
for Hunkes ;* 2nd and 3rd, Or, on a chevron sable three
goats trippant of the field, for Gayteway. Crest : A grey-
hound courant ermine, collared and ringed sable. (D. 1 2,
Coll. Arm., fo. 23 ; and Hart. MSS., 615 and 6139.)
Hunt, of Blockley, and of Lindsey in Inkberrow ; also of Hoi-
* Robert Hunkes sealed with this coat in 10th Richard II.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 305
low Fields, of Park Hall, Hanbury, and of Stoke and
Bradley; an ancient family, whose pedigree was recorded
at the Visitations of 1634 and 1682-3, and of whom were
Raphael Hunt* of Hanbury and Thomas Hunt of Ink-
berrow, who were fined for refusing knighthood at the
coronation of Charles I. Of the same family also was
Thomas Hunt of Stourbridge, High Sheriff in 1725, the
son of Robert Hunt of Lindsey, and nephew of Samuel
Hunt — Azure, on a bend between six leopard's faces or,
three water-bougets sable. Crest : On a chapeau, a
talbot statant argent. (K. 4. Coll. Arm., ff. 42, 85, and
90 ; Penn MS.; and N.)
Penn states that the coat which was anciently borne by the Hunts
of Lindsey was, Azure, six leopard's faces three, two, and one or ;
" but since (he says) it hath been honoured with an augmentation."
Hunt, of Milsom, Salop; as quartered by Staunton in right of
the marriage of Henry Staunton of Whittington with
Isabel, daughter and co-heiress of William Hunt of Mil-
som. — Argent, a chevron counter-compon6e or and gules
between three bugle-horns stringed sable. {Harl. MSS.^
1043 a™* 1566.)
Hunt, of Stockgrave, co. Devon, and Worcester. — Gules, on a
fesse between three cinquefoils or, a lion passant of the
field. Crest : A boar's head erect between two ostrich
feathers sable. {Her. Die.)
These arms were used by the family of Hunt of Stourbridge,
whose last male heir, John Hunt of Pedmore Hall, died unmarried
on September 1st, 1870. He was the only surviving son of the late
William Hunt of Stourbridge (afterwards of Pedmore Hall), born in
1770, by Lucy, nke Cox, his wife; grandson of William Hunt (b. %
* Raphael Hunt of Stoke and Bradley "disclaimed 1 ' at the Visitation of
1634.
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306 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
x 737» ob. 1780), by Lucy, nie Danser, his wife; and great-grandson
of Thomas Hunt of Hunksfield, co. Worcester, by Deborah, ?&e
Bate ; which Thomas Hunt was the eldest surviving son of William
Hunt and Anne his wife. Elizabeth Hunt, the only daughter of the
above William Hunt and Lucy (Danser) his wife, married William
Brown, and was mother (with others) of William Brown of Bel-
broughton, whose only child, William Henry Brown, married in 187 1
Emily Martha, eldest daughter of William Barrows of "The Birches,"
Hagley. The late John Hunt left one sister, Elizabeth, unmarried,
now residing at Brookfield House, Belbroughton. In the Harl.
MS., 1422, is a trick of a coat and crest granted by Cooke in 1592
to " James Hunt of Danskes, son of Robert Hunt of Stockgreve in
Devon, viz., Sable, on a fesse between three cinquefoils or, a lion
passant gules. Crest : A boar's head couped and erect sable, be-
tween two ostrich feathers argent In the Harl. MS., 11 44, the
coat, Sable, a fesse between three cinquefoils or, is attributed to
" Hunt of Worcestershire," and the same coat is ascribed in the
Harl. MS., 1069, to "Alice Hunt, daughter of Hunt of Se-
nocke in Kent" Precisely the same coat as that last described is
borne by the old family of Hurt of Alderwasley, co. Derby.
Huntbach. — Azure, a fesse lozengy or and sable between
three leopard's faces of the second. (Penn MS.)
A Thomas Huntbach of Worcester, gent, was fined ^12 for not
taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. ; and Thomas
Huntbach (probably the same person) was mayor of Worcester in
1638. The Staffordshire family of this name bore, Gules, on a fesse
• or, a fret of the first between three talbot's heads erased argent.
Crest : A talbot's head erased argent, collared gules fretty or. (See
Shaw's Staffordshire.)
Hurd, as borne by Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester,
1 781-1808. — Argent, on a chief or a raven proper. {Bed-
ford)
These are the arms of the ancient Shropshire family of Hord of
Hord's Park.
Hurdman, of Worcester ; as borne by Edward Hurdman, the
first mayor of the city of Worcester, a.d. 162 1.* —
* Edward Hurlman of Worcester, esquire, paid a fine to avoid knighthood
at the coronation of Charles I.
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Argent, on a fesse between three crescents gules as many
fleurs-de-lis or. {M.I. at Turley, Gloucestershire, to his
grandson, William, son of George Hurdman, who died in
1684.)
Hurtle, of Sion Hill, Wolverley ; as borne by John Hurtle
of Sion Hill, High Sheriff in 1774. Mr. Hurtle (who
was the last male heir of a family which had been resi-
dent at Wolverley for many generations*) was born in
1738, the son of William Hurtle of Sion Hill and Mary
his wife, and grandson of John Hurtle. He died without
issue, August 23rd, 1792, when his estates passed to his
only surviving sister Mary, wife of John Smith of Wol-
verley. — Azur£, a fesse embattled between three lions
rampant or. (M.I. at Wolverley.)
Dr. Prattinton gives the field argent and the charges gules from
" Mr. Zachary's MS." Nash, in the additional list of sheriffs and
their arms, given in his supplement, attributes to Mr. Hurtle, Argent,
a fesse dancett& sable, which has found its way into Papworth's
Ordinary; but this is an error, it being the coat of Mr. West, who
stands next to Mr. Hurtle in the list of sheriffs.
Hussey, of Little Shelsley, and of Norgrovis End, Bay ton:
since of Scotney Castle, Sussex. — Or, a cross vert. Crest :
A hind, ducally gorged and chained, at lodge under a
tree proper. (Berry's Sussex Pedigrees.)
Hutton. — Argent, on a fesse sable three buck's heads ca-
bossed or. (Penn MS.)
* Rowland, son of Richard and Margaret Hurtell, was baptized at Wolver-
ley in 1539; and Richard Hurtell was buried there in 1557. The name
occurs very frequently in the parish registers, the last entry being the burial of
the above-named John Hurtle of Sion Hill on 30th August, 1792. Of this '
family was Samuel Hurtle of Claverley, Salop, who had two daughters and co-
heiresses — Elizabeth, married to William Smith of Dallicott ; and Mary, wife
of John Steward of Stone.
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308 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Hyde. See Pytts.
Hyde (as represented in one of the windows of All Saints'
church, Worcester.) — Azure, a chevron between three
lozenges or. {Nash.)
Hytte. — Vert, six talbots passant three, two, and one argent,
membered, &c, sable, a crescent for difference. (N.)
Dr. Prattinton says this coat occurs at Aston Episcopi ; but it
appears to be the coat of Hill, and is attributed in the Harl. MS.,
6060, to " Hill of Honily, co. Warwick." Thomas Hill was patron
of Aston church in 1545, and Francis Hill in 1573. Nash says that
the latter settled all his estate in Aston on his daughter and her hus-
band, Richard Andrews, who sold it to Rowland Berkeley. This
Richard Andrews presented an incumbent to Aston church in 161 1.
See Hill.
Ingleby. — Sable, an estoile of six points argent. {N. ; and
Penn MS.)
Inglethorpe, of Worcester. — Gules, a cross engrailed argent.
{Penn MS.)
" This man's free liberality (says Penn) may well be eternised
on records for his bountie to the poore in his life ; but especially for
his Almes houses he gave at his death for decayed tradesmen to
live in, and a weekly payment unto them for theire maintenance
continueing to the world's end." The person here referred to is
Richard Inglethorpe, on whose monument in the cathedral the above
arms appear. He was mayor of the city of Worcester in 1610, and
by his will, dated 161 8, he gave to the corporation of that city
certain lands to found and endow the almshouses which bear his
name.
Ingram, of Earl's Court, St. Johns. This was a branch of
the ancient family of Ingram, of Little Wolford, co.
Warwick, said to be derived from one Engeram de
Wlwarth, living in the reign of King John. Their de-
scent was entered at the Visitations of 1569 and 1634.
Earl's Court, which was acquired by one of the family in
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marriage with an heiress of Gower, " went," says Nash,
" by a female, in marriage, to the family of Brigginshaw.
— Ermine, on a fesse gules three escallops or ; quartering
(for Hastang), Azure, a chief gules, over all a lion ram-
pant or. m Crests : A griffin's head quarterly gules and
argent ; and A cock proper. (Z?. 1 2, and C. 30, Coll.
Arm. ; Harl. MS., 1566 ; and Penn MS.)
" This ancient family (says Penn) in the time of the blessed King
Charles I., being full of the world's good, designed to make a parke,
providing all things for the worke. But these dismall warrs ! All
things ceased, the family extinct, and estate become another's."
Ingram, of Upper Home, in Clifton-otirTeme, and of Tick-
nell } Bewdley. Of this family (which appears to be de-
rived from a common ancestor with the Ingrams of
Earl's Court) Nash gives a pedigree, commencing with
John Ingram, of Upper Home, 1614. The family, he
says, is mentioned in deeds of so early a date as the
reign of Henry III., but the pedigree cannot be deduced
in regular order from an earlier time than the year 16.14,
as the family writings are lost from the reign of Edward
III. to the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Sir Edward
Winnington, of Stanford Court, the first baronet, mar-
ried Mary, daughter of John Ingram, of Ticknell, by
whom he was father of Sir Edward Winnington, bart,
whose second son the Rev. Edward Winnington, canon
of Worcester and rector of Ribbesford, assumed the
additional surname of Ingram on succeeding to the
Ticknell estates under the will of Francis Ingram, of
that place, half-brother to Lady Winnington, and son of
* Henry Ingram, of St. John's, paid ^21 as a composition for his estate
to the Parliamentary Commissioners.
310 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
the above John Ingram by his first wife Anne, daughter
of Francis Winnington, of Broadway. Canon Winning-
ton Ingram died in 1851, having had (with other issue)
a son, the present Rev. Edward Winnington-Ingram,
rector of Stanford. — Arms, &c, as Ingram of Earl's
Court.
Isaac, of Boughton and Worcester ; as borne by Elias Isaac
of Boughton, High Sheriff in 182 1. — Sable, a bend or,
on a sinister canton of the last a leopard's face of the
first Crest : A dexter arm embowed in armour, the
hand holding a sword enfiled with a leopard's face, the
point downwards resting on the wreath all proper.
(Burke's Armory.)
Jackson, of Claines ; as borne by Phineas Jackson, High
Sheriff in the 3rd of Anne. — Argent, on a fesse gules
between three cock's heads erased sable, a greyhound
courant between two pheons of the field, all within a
bordure engrailed azure bezant^e. {Nash.)
The Rev. Eleazar Jackson,* who was appointed vicar of Powick
in 1622, had two sons, Phineas and Henry. The will of the former
is dated 1680 ; he was probably father of the above-named Phineas.
Jacobb. — Or, on a canton gules (corrected to sable) an eagle
displayed argent. {Penn MS.)
* Of this reverend gentleman Nash relates the following amusing anecdote :
Being one day much pressed to take the solemn league and covenant, he
desired till the next morning to consider of it When the morning came, on
being applied to, he said, he had the preceding night a great loss ; that
having read the solemn league and covenant before he went to bed, he left it
upon his table ; that some rogues broke in, and stole all his plate, and most
of his goods ; but that rogues as they were, they had not taken the solemn
league and covenant, and therefore he begged to be excused (ii., p. 268).
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James. — " Som beare, Azur, on a cheveron 'twixt 3 liorices
passant guard 1 or, as many escalops sable. Som beare,
Azur, a dolphin naiant embowed argent ; others, Argent,
a cheveron 'twixt 3 mill-rings sable." {Win. MS)
James, of Worcestershire. — Sable, on a bend between two
bezants three martlets of the field. {Her. Die)
A similar coat is attributed to Adams.
James, of Astley. The pedigree of this family as entered in
the Visitation Book of 1634, commences with Hugh
James, of Astley, one of the grooms of the Privy
Chamber to King Henry VIII. His grandson, Hugh
James, gave his estate at Astley to his second son, John
James ; the elder son Walter, settling in the county of
Radnor. This John married Mary, daughter of Walter
Winford, of Astley, and had issue John James, who by
Jane his wife, daughter and heiress of William Higgins,
had two sons, Higgins James of Astley, and John James*
The pedigree was again entered in 1682-3. HigginS
James of Astley, was High Sheriff in the 13th of Wil-
liam III. ; he died in 1709, having been twice married,
first to Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Wallop Braba-
zon, of Eaton, co. Hereford, and secondly to Mercy,
sister of Samuel Pytts, of Kyre. — Azure, on a chevron
between three lions passant regardant or, as many escal-
lops sable. Crest : Out of a mural coronet azure, a
demi-lion rampant regardant or, collared of the first,
holding between the paws an escallop sable. (C. 30,
Coll. Arm., fo. 63, and K. 4, fo. 65 ; Harl. MS., 1450.)
These are the arms recorded to the family at the two Visita-
tions ; but on the tablet of Higgins James at Astley, is this coat,
3ia THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Per chevron gules and azure, three unicorn's heads couped counter-
changed, impaling Pytts.
James, of Forfield Court, Belbroughton. Henry James, of
Forfield, son of Edmund James, of Astley, by Anne,
daughter of Thomas Ramsay, of Hitcham, Bucks, (and
widow of Richard Corbyn, of Hall-end, co. Warwick),
married Bridget, daughter of Roger Lyttelton, of
Groveley (brother of Sir John Lyttelton, of Frankley),
by whom he had issue four daughters, his co-heiresses,
viz., Elizabeth, married to Humphrey Perrott, of Bell
Hall ; Dorothy, married to Henry Greswolde, of Yard-
ley; Anne, married to Thomas Rudyard,* of Rudyard,
co. Stafford ; and Martha, wife of John Perrott, of
Worcestershire. The family of James, of Rowley, in
Staffordshire, was descended from Walter James, brother
of the above Henry. — Arms and crest as James of
Astley. (See Harl. MSS., 1566, and 6128.)
James, of Pool Court — Azure, on a chevron or between three
lions passant argent, as many escallops sable. (N.)
James, of Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. — Argent, a lion
rampant azure between three escallops gules. (Her.
Die.)
Jarrett, of Aldington. ... a lion rampant ... (M.I. at
Aldington, to William Jarrett, who died in 168 1.)
" Mr. Jarret, of Aldington," occurs in Penn's list of those Wor-
cestershire gentlemen who were to find horse during the civil wars.
Jeffcott, or Jephcott, of Ireland, Worcestershire, and
Northamptonshire. — rErmine, three crescents azure, on a
* She was his third wife, and by her he had six sons and two daughters.
He died in 16*6. {See Sleigh's History of Leek in Staffordshire.)
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canton gules four crosses crosslet fitch^e. Crest : A boar
passant (Burke's Armory?) See Jephcott.
Jefferies, or Geffreys, of Earl's Crootne. William Jefferies,*
or Geffreys, the son of Thomas Jefferies, of London,
had a grant of the manor of Earl's Croome from King
Edward VI. This gentleman, who had been cofferer of
the household to King Henry VIII., recorded his de-
scent at the Visitation of 1569. His son Leonard, who
was aged eight in 1569, succeeded to the estate, and was
father of Thomas Jefferies, who entered the pedigree at
the Visitation of 1634. William Jefferies, the son of
Thomas, had issue an only daughter and heiress, Hester,
who married Sir Robert Barkham, bait., and was mother
of Sir Edward Barkham, the last baronet, who died
without issue in 1711. — Per fesse embattled gules and
or, in chief three leopard's faces of the last, in base as
many hawk's lures two and one of the first Crest : On
a mount vert, a sea-pie ash colour with wings expanded,
armed gules. (D. 12, Coll. Arm., fo. 35, and C. 30, fo.
43 ; Penn. MS. ; and Harl. MS. } 1566.)
Jeffries, of Horn, or Home Castle, in Clifton-on-Teme.
This family, whose descent was recorded at the Visita-
tions of 1569 and 1634, appears to have settled in the
parish of Clifton, in consequence of some match with a
Wysham; for their arms impaling those of Wysham
were anciently in one of the windows of Horn Castle. f
* Thomas Coventry, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, mar-
ried Margaret, one of the daughters of this William Jefferies. The Peerages
erroneously call her his heiress.
t Nash, i., 244.
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314 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Henry Jeffries was of Horn Castle in 1569, and William,
his grandson, in 1634. The latter had issue a son Henry-
Jeffries, and a daughter, Jane, married to William Bloome,
of Normanton, whose daughter Jane Bloome, became
sole heiress of the family. Henry Jeffries, who was the
last male heir of this family, was the writer of some
valuable and interesting manuscripts now in the Stan-
ford Court Library. He supposed his family to be of
Welsh origin, in token of which, he says, " I wear my
leek on St. David's day," adding, " we have a tradition
among us that two brothers came from about Tenby
(others say from Montgomery), for having killed, as 'tis
said, some eminent person in their Welsh bickerings ; as
was usual, the relatives of the slain did so persecute
them that they were forced to sell their lands, and took
a new seat ; that the one settled at Home Castle, where
his posterity remain yet, and the other in the forest of
Feckenham. But that the memory of the other brother
might be lost is no uneasy conjecture, if my notion be
true that Geoffrey was but the Christian name of my
ancestor, according to the Welsh custom, the other brother
had another name ; so that in future ages none could tell
if his family, if it remained, were anything related to
us."* This Mr. Jeffries died in 1709, aged seventy-
three, and left all his estates to his niece and heiress, the
above Jane Bloome, on the condition that she should
marry Edward Winnington, third son of Sir Francis
Winnington, bart. ; which Edward assumed the surname
of Jeffries, and had issue by his said wife, three sons,
* Quoted in Noake's Rambler in Worcestershire.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 315
who died in their infancy ; whereupon he left these lands
to his eldest brother, Salwey Winnington, in whose
family they have ever since continued.* — Sable, a lion
rampant between three scaling ladders erect or. Crest :
On a rock argent, a castle or, the two end towers domed ;
otherwise described as On a mount vert a castle argent
(D. 12, and C. 30, Coll. Arm., ff. 51b, 40 ; Harl. MSS.,
615, and 1566 ; and Penn. MS.)
In Blockley church Childe impales for Jeffries, Argent, a chevron
between three scaling ladders sable; but Nash (i., 103) says it is a
mistake.
Jennens, or Jenyns. — Azure, a chevron between three grif-
fin's heads erased argent, on a chief or, a lion passant
gules between two torteaux. Crest : A cat's head erased
gules bezant^e, in the mouth a cross patt6e fitch^e argent
These bearings were granted in 15 16 to William Jenyns, Lancas-
ter Herald, and are attributed in the Heraldic Dictionaries to
"Jenyns of Middlesex, and Speachley, co. Worcester." The pedi-
gree is given in the Harl. MS., 1566, and there also the family is
called of Spetchley, co. Worcester. But this is a mistake : it should
be Ipsley, co. Warwick, at which place Galfridus Jenyns, grandson
of the Lancaster Herald, was seated at the Warwickshire Visitation
taken in 1619.
Jennetts, of Norgrove. Humphrey Jennetts, of Norgrove,
living about the middle of the sixteenth century, had
issue by Margery {nie Grant) t his wife, two daughters and
co-heiresses, Anne and Elizabeth, the one married to
William Cookes, and the other to John Bearcroft, of
Mere Green. — Argent, two chevrons gules between six
martlets sable ; quartering (probably for Wybbi) Sable, a
buck's head cabossed, between the attires a cross crosslet
or. Crest : Out of a ducal (sometimes a mural) coro-
* Nash } i., 244. t See Ruding.
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3 i6 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
net or, a dexter arm embowed in armour proper, holding
in the hand a sword argent, hilt of the first (Harl. MS.,
1566.) See Cookes, and Wybbe.
Jephcott, of Evesliam ; as borne by the Rev. John Jephcott,
D.D., rector of All Saints', Evesham, who married at
Bengeworth, on the 21st of December, 1681,* Mary,
eldest daughter of Thomas Watson, of that place. She
died on the 9th of December, and was buried* at Benge-
worth on the 1 2th of December, 1728, aged ninety-five.
— Azure, on a fesse argent between three stars of eight
points ... as many cock's heads erased gules. {M.I. at
Bengeworth.)
The same coat occurs at Sulgrave, in Northamptonshire, impaled
by the Rev. Moses Hodges, D.D., of Sulgrave, and rector of Har-
vington in this county, who married,t on the 28th of August, 1689
(at All Saints', Evesham), Martha, daughter of the above Rev. Dr.
Jephcott. {Sec Baker's Northamptonshire, i., 515; and Prattinton
MSS.)
Jervise. — Argent (or or), six ostrich feathers, three, two, and
one gules. (Penn MS.)
Jervoise, of Northfield and Weoley. Thomas Jervoise was
lord of Northfield and Weoley in the reign of Queen
Mary. The family was also of Herriard, in the county
of Hants. Samuel Clarke, of Westbromwich, co. Staf-
ford, married, in 1729, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Jervoise, of Herriard, and died in 1767, leaving issue a
son, Jervoise Clarke, who assumed the surname of Jer-
voise, pursuant to the will of his maternal grandfather.
His son, the Rev. Samuel Jervoise Clarke-Jervoise, was
created a baronet in 18 13. — Sable, a chevron between
* Bengeworth Registers. t All Saints', Evesham, Registers.
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 317
three eagles close argent. Crest : A tiger's head couped
sable.
These are the arms and crest as borne (quarterly with Clarke*) by
the present baronet; but according to the Harl. MS., 1422, the
bearings granted or confirmed to Thomas Jerveys, of Northfield,
were a chevron between three eagles displayed, and the crest was
erased sable. In some manuscripts the birds in the arms are called
pheasants.
Jesson. See Case.
Jew, of Evesham. — Argent, a chevron between three Jew's
heads, couped at the shoulders, proper. (Dr. Prattinton,
from Whittingliam.)
This coat, (a singular example of what the French call armespar-
lantes) is ascribed by the Heraldic Dictionaries to " Jew of Whit-
field, Devon, "t
Jewkes, of Wolverley. Samuel Jewkes, of Wolverley, mar-
ried Frances Talbot, daughter of William Talbot, of
Stourton Castle, and sister of the Bishop of Salisbury
(ancestor of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot) ; their
* son, Talbot Jewkes, was Serjeant-at-arms in the reigns of
Queen Anne and George I. The family is believed to
be extinct. Some of their property came to the Wambey
family, the representative of which, Samuel Jewkes
Wamby, D.C.L., an Advocate in Doctor's Commons,
produced some family documents in evidence at the
* Viz., Azure, three escallops in pale or between two flaunches erminois,
each charged with a cross patt^e fitch^e gules. Crest : Within a gold ring set
with a diamond proper, a roundle per pale gules and azure, charged with a
pheon argent (See Berry's Pedigrees and Arms of Hampshire Families, p. 341.)
t A family of Jewe, of " Colly," in Devonshire, bore, Vert, a lion rampant
ermine, over all a fesse gules. (See The Visitation of Devonshire, in 1620,
published by the Harleian Society, p. 322.)
318 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Shrewsbury Peerage claim.- — Azure, three eagle's heads
erased or. (In Wolverley Church.)
In St Peter's Church, Oxford, there was formerly an inscription,
with the above arms, to Peter Jewkes, son of Tohn Jewkes, of West-
minster, gent, who died in 1698. (See Peshals Oxford.) The coat
is not given in the Heraldic Dictionaries.
Joanes, of London and Worcestershire ; granted 1634. — Quar-
terly 1 st and 4th, Argent, a lion rampant vert, the mouth
bloody ; 2nd and 3rd, Gules a bend or ; over all a label
of three points sable, and a martlet for difference. Crest :
A sun in splendour or. (Her. Die.)
Johnson, of Worcester ; as borne by Benjamin Johnson, a
bencher of the Inner Temple, and for nearly thirty years
town clerk of the city of Worcester, who died in 1829,
aged 83. He was the son of Benjamin Johnson, of Wor-
cester, mayor of that city in 1742, and High Sheriff of
the county in 1763. Mr. Johnson died s. p., leaving three
sisters, Martha, Ursula, and Susannah, his co-heiresses.
The first married Mr. Baker, the second Thomas Jones,
of Sherridge, and the last Thomas Bund of Wick. — Ar-
gent, a fesse lozengy between three lion's heads erased
gules. Crest : In a ducal coronet or, a nag's head sable.
These arms are set up for Benjamin Johnson in the Inner Temple
Hall, but Nash ascribes to the family a fesse wavy between three
nag's heads.
Johnson, of Hanley Castle ; as represented on the monument
(in St. Martins Church, Worcester), of William Johnson
of Hanley Castle, gent, who died in 171 1, aet 63. — Ar-
gent, a cross sable, on a chief gules three cushions or.
(Nash, Appendix, cxliii.)
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 319
Johnson, as borne by James Johnson, Bishop of Worcester,
1759 — 1774, the son of the Rev. James Johnson, rector
of Milford, Suffolk. — Argent, a bend sable, on a chief of
the second three woolpacks or cushions of the first
Crest : A goat's head argent, erased gules, horned sable.
These amis, impaled with those of the See of Worcester, are on
the Bishop's hatchment, still preserved at Lacock, Wilts. Bishop
Johnson was the grandson of George Johnson, a Welsh Judge,
owner of Bowden, near Lacock, whose epitaph, at Devizes, is given
by Dingley (History from Marble, p. 562). Mr. Nichols informs us
that the arms of Johnson of Bowden were " disclaimed n at Salis-
bury in 1623; but (he adds,) "their evident resemblance to the
Scotch coat of that name seems to give them some kind of authen-
ticity."* Bigland gives the same arms to Johnson of Bamwood, co.
Gloucester.
Johnson, of Upper Wick. — Gules, a chevron ... guttle ... be-
tween three billets or, and a rose argent.
This coat occurs (impaling ChetU,) in All Saints' church, Worces-
ter, on the tomb of Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson of Upper Wick, daugh-
ter of Thomas Chetle of the Wall-house, who died in 1728, aet 75.
(See Nash, Appendix cxxxi.) It is not recorded to the name of
Johnson in any of the Heraldic Dictionaries, nor does it occur in
Papworth's Ordinary ; but a very similar coat was borne by Mun-
trick or Muntridge.
Johnson, of Bricklehampton Hall ; as borne by R. W. John-
son, High Sheriff in 1867. — Quarterly per fesse indented
or and azure, in the first quarter an eagle wings expanded
sable. Crest : On a ducal coronet or, an eagle as in the
arms. Motto : " Vigilans."
Johnson, of Worcester. — Azure, on a chevron argent, three
pheons gules, in the dexter chief a sun in splendour
proper. {Penn MS.)
* Burke says these arms were granted to Johnson of Long Melford, Suf-
folk, in 1663, together with the following crest: A spur or, strap gules, be-
tween two wings of the first. (General Armory, Supplement.)
320 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
This coat is impaled in Powick church, by Sir Daniel Tyas, knt,
in right of his wife Elizabeth.
Jolley, alias Jolles. — Or, a cinquefoil gules between three
pheons sable. {Penn MS.)
Jolliffe, of Co/ton Hacket, originally of Leek, co. Stafford.
This family acquired the Cofton estate in marriage with
an heiress of Skinner. The pedigree was recorded at
the Visitation of 1682-3, by 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 27th of August, 1614. (See Sleigh's History of Leek.)
Lord Hylton bears the pile azure, and charges it with three dexter
gauntlets or/t 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 OF 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. (1st 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. — O r > a
lion rampant within a bordure sable. (K. 4, ColL Arm.,
fo. 10 1.)
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 Lulsley. — Gules, a lion rampant between six trefoils
slipped argent, all within a bordure of the last. {Dr.
Prattinton.)
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, born at
Whitteney, in Com. Ox£, 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." i^Harl. MS. 9 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.
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322 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
the Add. MS. t 19,819.* Arthur Jones of Chastleton, 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 Eichard Whitmore. The present
family of Whitmore-Jones bears Quarterly, 1st and 4th, /ones, 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.
{Penn MS.)
Jordane. — Gules, a fesse between three lion's heads erased
argent, collared or. (Penn MS.)
Jordan, alias Jerdon. — 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 difference."
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 Worthie 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 nettU
leaves. Cockett quarters in the Harl. MS. 1566, Argent, a chevron
between three leaves gules, for Joyce.
* "The genealogy of the antient 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, 166 1-2, appointed Lord Chief
Justice of the King's Bench in 1665, died 167 1. — 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 A us trey, co. Warwick ;
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 amis (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 17 12, 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.
Prattinton.)
Kenrick, of Stock-and-Bradley, and of Sutton, co. NortJiarnp-
ton. — Ermine, a Hon rampant sable. Crest : On a bundle
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334 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
of arrows lying fesseways or, feathered arid 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 1st and 4th, Argent,
two chevrons engrailed sable ; 2nd and 3rd Sable, a saltire ragul^e
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
High Sheriff of Worcestershire, in the 10th of Charles
I., and of Gloucestershire in 165 1. His son John was
created a baronet in 1660, which title became extinct on
the death of the fifth baronet in 1 784. The pedigree
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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 Ash win.
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 dancett^e gules. (N.)
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." 1st, 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 jthe eldest daughter
and coheiress of Thomas Sheldon of Broadway. (Sheldon " Keightley" was
baptised at Middle Littleton in 1669.)
326 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Nash mentions tinder Alvechurch (vol. L, 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 formde fitch^e sable, (A^.)
An impalement of Vere in Tardebigge church, John de Vere,
father of the 15th Earl of Oxford, having married Alice, daughter
of Walter Kilrington, alias 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. Devon; 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 on
(Visitation of co. Warwick, a°. 1682.)
Knight. — Sable, a cross gules between four maiden's heads
proper. (N.)
" I wryte heerc," says Habingdon, in describing this coat, "ail fynd
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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.
(Win. 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.
Knight, of Daylesford, and of Southmead, co. Gloucester; as
borne by Jacob Knight, who purchased the Daylesford
estate from Samuel Hastings in 1 715. 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 Westbury
Churchy Gloucestershire.)
Knight, of Wolverley, and 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
3 a8 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
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, and John Knight, of Lea
Castle, in 18 14. — 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 Shrewsbury.)
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.
{Win. 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 161 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. (Sa Harl. MS., 1476, fo.
27a.)
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champ's Court, 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. (N.)
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 1st of Elizabeth. —
Sable, on a cross engrailed argent an annulet of the field.
(N.)
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 die Rev. John Pearsall
(otherwise " Sir John Peshall, bart."), of Guildford, Surrey.
t According to an old pedigree in Howard's Miscellanea Genealogiea et
Heraldica, vol. ii., p. 278, John Knotsford impaled for Knightley the quarterly
coat within a bordure azure described in the preceding memoir. .
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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., 1043.)
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. (N.)
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. (N.)
One of the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley. Roger de Lad
(son of Walter de Laci, one of the companions of the Conqueror)
held four manors in this county, temp. 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 oitemp. Edward II. 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
THB HERALDR Y OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 33 *
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 71 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 y 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. {Communis
cated by the family.)
Lane, of Tenbury. — Sable, a chevron between three arrows.
Crest : An arm holding a battle axe.
These amis, 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 17th century by Edmund
Lane, of Tenbury, who died in 17 17, ageg 81. (&?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*
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332 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Langley. — Argent, a cockatrice sable beaked, &c, gules. {N.)
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, Francis, 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 fo. 59/ and HarL MS. y 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 ^87 10s. 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. (Penn MS.)
Langton. — Argent, three chevrons gules. {N.)
U Archdeacon.— Argent, three chevrons sable. (N)
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 with Sir Warine L'Archdeckne, of Lau*
THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 33^
heme, 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, L, 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.)
Latham. — Or, on a chief indented azure three plates. (N.)
Nash gives this under Luthatn. 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 Hanley.* — Or, on a chief dancett^e azure three
plates or bezants. {Penn MS.)
Latimer. — Gules, a cross fleurett^e or. (N.)
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 Worcester, 1535- 1539. — Gules, a cross
patonce or, over all a bend azure, sem£e de lis of the
second. {Bedford.)
Lawrence. — Ermine, a cross ragul^e 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, temp. 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 161 2, 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 III.
He died unmarried on the 24th of June, 1 702, 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 1 710 (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 1 7 14, married in 1737, to William Smith, of Stoke
Prior; Frances, born in 171 7, 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 ragule'e 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, 1 740, 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 guttle de poix gorged
with a double tressure flory and counter-flory gules. Sup-
porters, (granted to Ferdinando, Lord Dudley, on the
19th of November, 1740) : On either side a lion double
queu£e 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.
3^6 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
legs and reflexed over the back or. Mottoes : " Con-
tentus paucis " 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, Clarencimx,
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 Tlie Hill y near Stourbridge ; as borne by Joseph Lea,
High Sheriff in 18 16, 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
1st 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, t?/" Astley Hall ; as borne by Thomas Simcox Lea, of
Astley, High Sheriff of the county in 1845, ^ e 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-flory or, between in chief
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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, sem£e-de-lis or, holding in the
mouth a branch of willow also proper. Motto : " Spe
vitae melioris." (Burke's Landed Gentry, and Heraldic
Illustrations.)
Le Boys ; as borne by William le Bays, de Bois, or Attwood,
abbot of Evesham, who died June 13, 1367. — Gules, a
lion rampant double queu£e argent, on the head an
abbot's mitre or.j
This coat occurs in glass at Church Honeyborne. — See Nash, i. t
199.
Leche. — Ermine, on a chief indented gules three ducal coro-
nets or. {N.)
This coat is given in Nash's List under Lrnch. It is one of the
Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley.
Le Dispenser, Lords of Hanley Castle, &c. — 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-on-
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
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33* 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, 1 72 1 ; but
dying without issue in 1727, the title became extinct
His elder brother, Anthony, M.P., was father of Edmund
Lechmere, M.P., High Sheriff in 1 733, who by his firstwife,
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 18 18. 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, 1st
Gules, a fesse or, in chief two pelicans of the last vulning
themselves proper, for Lechmere; 2nd, Vert, fretty or,
for Whitmore, 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
Nash, 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 Hey tin.")
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, of Feckenham. " 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 e 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.
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340 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
(who was knighted in x 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 Peerage.) 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. (Nash y i., 440, 548 ;
and Betharn, 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 Lench, 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. "f 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,} 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.
t 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.
J 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 Freeholder's Book for 1703-4, under Doverdale.
Randulph de Lench was Sheriff of Worcestershire from
the 17th to the .2 1 st of Henry II. ; and in the 13th of
Edward I., 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 VII., 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 1st 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 patt£e
or, for Beaufo. (C. 30, Coll. Arm., fo. 64 ; Penn MS. ;
Harl. MS. y 1566; and Nash.)
Nash attributes to Randulph de Lench, Sheriff temp. Henry II.,
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. (N.)
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 nebulae or and sable, be-
tween three laurel leaves of the second. (JV.)
This coat occurs on one of the Sheldon monuments at Beoley,
for Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, of LiUeshall, 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.)
Leweston, of Iccomb. — Gules, three halberts, two and one,
argent. (N.) 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 : " j m
Philip, Nov r . 22. Lie. Thorn'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 hyni
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 bezantie, 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
"Ley borne 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 (IV.)
This coat occurs among the Blount quarterings at Mamble (see
Nash, ii., 160), but Bigland says it is the coat of 5/. Helena, which
the Blounts of Sodington are not entitled to quarter. (See Blount.)
Leycester, of Co/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 WORCESTERSHIRE.
" alias Roger Swynftn," is noticed in Nichols's Leicestersfurc, iv.,
311 ; and in 141 1, William Lichfield, cousin and heir of Adomar
Taverner, occurs. (lb., p. 429.) Shaw (History of Staffordshire) 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 I. 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 Fisherton, co. Wilts, and by
her, who died September 10th, 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,
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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 Penn
MS.)
Nicholas Lilly, of Bromsgrove, gent, was fined £9. 6s. 8d. for not
taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I.
Lingen, of Tlie 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.
(Win. MS.; and Harl. MSS. f 615 and 6157.)
Lisle. — Gules, a lion passant guardant argent crowned or. (2V.)
One of the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley.
Lloyd, as borne by William Lloyd, D.D., Bishop of Worces-
ter, 1 700-1 71 7, 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
Henblds, 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 171 7, 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
Lloyd 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 . . .
{Thomas's Dugdale.)
Lochard (quartered by Coningsby). — Sable, three loaches
naiant in pale argent {Harl. MS., 1507.)
Longchamp, of Wilton, co. Hereford ; as borne by Sir Henry
the Gentleman'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.
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348 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
Longchamp, of Wilton, who was appointed Sheriff of
Worcestershire, for three years, in the 7th of Richard I. —
Vaire, two pallets or. {Nash.)
According to Dr. Strong, Henry de Longchamp, who was Sheriff
of Herefordshire, in the 2nd and 5th 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 III. and Edward I.
Longcroft, of Worcestershire. — Gules, two bars argent each
charged with three martlets sable. Crest : A bull's head
couped. (Burke's Armory)
Longmore, of Worcester. — Sable, a chevron or, and a canton
ermine. Crest : Two spears or. {N.)
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 16th of March, 1692-3, in right of Joice,
his wife, the daughter of George Longmore, of Upper Arley.
Lord, of Hallow Park ; 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. {Penn 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 nebule'e) or
and gules, a chevron between three squirrels of the last The Lords
Lovel of Tichmersh, co. Northampton, bore Barry nebulee of six or
and gules. (See the Roll of temp. Edward II.) In Welland church, is
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the following inscription : — " Near this place lyeth interred 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.
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-
manii temp. Conq. His grandson, Henry Lovett, of
Elmley, married Isabellk, 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. {Betham, 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, alias 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 Klizabeth,
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 Pennel, was a single wolf passant on a field gules.
Lowe, of Bromsgrove, " once (says Penn) High Sheriffe of this
countie." Humphrey Lowe, of Chad wick, near Broms-
grove, served that office in the 27th of Charles II. The
Lowes, of Bromsgrove, are a 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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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
Commoners and Landed Gentry.
Lowle, of Yardley, afterwards of Somersetshire. — Sable, a
dexter hand couped at the wrist grasping three pointless
darts or bird-bolts, one in pale and two in saltire, argent
Richard Lowle, great grandson of William Lowle, of Yardley, by
the daughter of Lyttelton, " dyed at Yardley, in com. Worster,
and is there buried with this coate." (Harl. MS. f 1559, fo. 215,
quoted in the Herald and Genealogist ', iv. 75.)
Loxton. — Argent, a chevron cheeky ermine and sable, be-
tween three griffin's heads erased gules guttle dor. (Penn
MS.)
Loyd, of " Wigorn and Salop." — Argent, a quiver gules
banded and replenished with arrows or, between three
pheons sable. {Win. MS.)
Lucy ; as borne by Robert de Lucy, Sheriff of Worcestershire
in the 21st of Henry II. — Gules three lucies haurient
proper, two and one. (Nash.)
Lucy, of Charlecote, co. Warwick, and of Sutton 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, sem6e
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, semde of
billets or. (N. ; and Catalogue of standards, badges, and
crests, temp. 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,
Hugford, Golafer, Grey, De la Planche, Olney, and Tray ley ; im-
paling Acton of Sutton." He does not blazon 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 Fourchcs ;* Grey that of Paben-
ham^ and Olney that of Havcrsham.% 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 Amicia, 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.
% Azure, a fesse between six crosses-crosslet argent This coat also occurs
at Charlecote, inscribed " Nicholas Haversam."
§ Walter Hugford, nth Edward L, 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 141 5. 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 1st and 4th, Paly of six argent
and azure, on a chief gules a lion passant guardant or,
for Ludington ; 2nd and 3rd, Sable, a fesse nebulae argent
guttle 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 Cathedral?)
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 bezant^e. {N.)
One of the Windsor quarterings. (See Samborne.)
Lutham. See Latham.
Lutley, of Bromscroft 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,
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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 wife, the daughter and co-heiress of Giles Filylode, of Alveley,
Salop.
Lutwyche, of Lutwyche, Salop, and of Brctforton, — Or, a
tiger passant gules. Crest : A tigers head erased gules,
crined and tufted or. (Visitation of Salop \ a° 1623.)
Lyde, of London, and of Nctkerton, co, Worcester, — Ermine, a
fesse . . . between three eagles displayed . . . Crest :
A tiger's (?) head couped . . . (Harl. 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 Madresfield 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 Beauchamps 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 s.p. in 161 2.
William Lygon married Eleanor, daughter of Sir William
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356 THE 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 16 19, 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 Samuel* Knightley) was father of William
Lygon, High Sheriff in 1647, a colonel in the Parlia-
mentary Army, who married Mary, daughter of Sir
Francis 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 1 713, Reginald Pyndar, of Kempley,
co. Gloucester, by whom she left issue, at her death, in
1736, a son and successor, Reginald Pyndar, born in 17 14,
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 1806, Baron Beauchamp of
Powick, and, in 18 15, 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
queu^e gules, armed and langued azure.t Crest : A
Saracen's head affront^e couped at the shoulders proper,
wreathed about the temples argent and gules. (D. 1 2,
Coll. Arm., fo. 14 ; C. 30, fo. 48^ ; and K. ^,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 fortis." See Pyndar.
Among the quarterings to which the Lygons are entitled, are the
coats of Bracey,% Blanchminster, Giffard, Beauchamp, HAbitot,
Ufflete, Fumival, Lovetoft, Verdon, GreviHe, Arle, Sarrell, Pleydell,
Egioke, Corbyn,and Sturmey.
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 1 6th of Edward III., and
Richard Lygon in the 10th of Henry IV.
X See Maddersfield and Brace.
§ One John Lineall published, in 1658, a work in 4to, called "Iter 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 a Wood says that great en-
35« THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
three crosses botton^e sable, on a chief or, a trefoil be-
tween two garbs of the third. (N.)
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. 1° tne Harl. MS., 2163, at fo. 92, are the arms of " Thomas
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-
tone'e 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 165 1. 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 nebulae, 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 II.,
Thomas de Luttelton was chosen M.P. for the county.
His son was esquire of the body to Kings Richard II.,
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, altas Lineall, in the parish
of Penkridge, co. Stafford.
THE HERALDRY OF 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 Frere, 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 0+ WORCESTERSHIRE.
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 Custos Rotulorum of Worcestershire.t
# The present Lord Lyttelton is heir presumptive to the Viscounty and
Barony of Cobham, which dignities were respectively conferred, in 17 14 and
1 7 18, 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, 1st, Argent, a chevron between three escallops
sable, for Lyttelton ; 2nd, Argent, a bend cottised sable
within a bordure engrailed gules bezant^e, for Westcote ;*
3rd, Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or,
for Talbot ; 4th, France and England quarterly, within
a bordure compon^e 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 Westcote). Supporters : On either
side a merman proper, in his exterior hand a trident or.
Motto : " Ung Dieu ungRoy."t
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., 1 566, under a trick of the escutcheon
thus supported, is the following note : — " Sir Will'm Lyttelton, of
Frankley, lent, 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
Somerie, Beauchamp^ Talbot, Boston, Beaufort, Neville, Grey, &c ;
and in Edmundson's Baronagium, a plate of the Lyttelton achieve-
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, 1., 466.)
$ 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.
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362 THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE.
corresponding for the most part with the atchievement in Frankley
church blazoned by Nash (L, 465), but containing several additional
quarterings brought in by Crompton and Temple.
Lyttelton, of Naunton-Beaucharnp, Groveley, and Halesowen ;
and of ' Studley, co. Warwick. This was a junior branch
of the Lytteltons of Frankley, descended from Roger
Lyttelton of Groveley, 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 hfe 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 1 600, 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 HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE. 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 1 789, and was buried at Naunton ; and Sandys, who
was afterwards of Naunton Court, was father, by Eliza-
beth, nie 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. ; Pmn 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.
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