The Noble and Gentle Men of England: Or, Notes Touching the Arms and Descents of the Ancient Knightly and Gentle Houses of England, Arranged in Their Respective Counties |
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ancient family ancient seat argent arms ARMS.-Argent ARMS.-Azure ARMS.-Gules ARMS.-Or ARMS.-Quarterly ARMS.-Sable azure BARON Baronet Berkeley Blakeway bore borne by Sir Brydges's Collins CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Castle Charles Cheshire chevron chevron between three chief coat was borne coheiress Conquest Cornwall daughter and heir Derbyshire descended from Sir Devon died Dugdale's Warwickshire Duke Earl Edward III elder branch elder line engrailed Erdeswick ermine fess George gules Henry III Henry VI Henry VIII inherited Ireland Knight Knightly Leicestershire Leland's Itinerary lion rampant Lord Lysons male line manor marriage married the heiress Morris MSS mullets Northamptonshire Ormerod parish pedigree Peerage of Ireland present coat present family Present Representative recorded ancestor reign of Edward reign of Henry reign of Richard residence Richard II Roger Roll sable Shrewsbury Shropshire Sir John Sir Thomas Sir William Stafford Staffordshire Suffolk traced UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Viscount Warwickshire Worcestershire Wotton's Baronetage younger branch
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Page 50 - This is an ancient Cambridgeshire family, and can be traced to the time of Henry I. The Colviles, Barons of Culross, in Scotland, are descended from a younger brother of the second progenitor of the family. The manor of Newton-Colvile, held under the Bishop of Ely, continued in the Colviles from a period extending nearly from the Conquest to the year 1792, when it was sold, and the representative of this family, Sir Charles Colvile, settled in Derbyshire, in consequence of his marriage with Miss...
Page 77 - might hold a man a good tug for a month" — without sparing him a single ancestor, direct or collateral, from Liulph to Lord Lumley ; till the king, wearied with the eternal blazon, interrupted him, " O mon, gang na further ; let me digest the knowledge I ha gained, for I did na ken Adam's name was Lumley I" that monarch, and bring in the Orange family.
Page 1 - Hungry Time hath made a glutton's meal on this Catalogue of Gentry, and hath left but a very little morsel for manners remaining ; so few of these are found extant in this shire, and fewer continuing in a genteel equipage.
Page 300 - Stoure risith ther of six fountaines, or springes, whereof three lie on the northe side of the Parke, harde withyn the pale ; the other three lie northe also, but withoute the Parke. The Lord Stourton givith these six fountaynes upon his arms.
Page 265 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.
Page 310 - There is no subject more difficult to be dwelt on than that of honourable descent ; none on which the world are greater sceptics, none more offensive to them, and yet there is no quality to which every one in his heart pays so great a respect.
Page 29 - The most Cornish gentlemen can better vaunt of their pedigree than their livelyhood ; for that they derive from great antiquitie (and I make question whether any shire in England, of but equal quantitie, can muster a like number of faire coate-armours), whereas this declineth to the meane.