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EDITED BY

H. SYDNEY GRAZEBROOK, Esq.

LONDON : MITCHELL AND HUGHES, 140 WARDOUR STREET, W.

1883.

Contents;.

PAGE

Introduction .......... vii

List of Pedigrees xix

What is to be performed by the Heralds at their going in

Visitation 1

Somerset's Warrant, directed to the Bailiff of the Hundred of

Cudleston, to summon the Esquires and Gentlemen

inhabiting within the said Hundred to appear before him in

order to the enregistering of their several arms and descents 2

Nomina Nobilium de Com' Stafford', 1583 3

Warrant of Summons against such as contemptuously refuse to

appear upon the former warrant, to make their further

appearance before the Earl Marshal 11

The manner of the Heralds' Proclamation for the disclaiming of

ignoble persons . . . . . . . . .12

Names of those who were disclaimed 14

Lay Subsidy Roll of the 18th of Elizabeth, a.d. 1576 ... 17 Names and Arms of Staffordshire Knights, temp. Edward I. . 20 Anna Nobilium de Com' Stafford' ex libro antiquo in Officio

Armorum 21

Arms of Staffordshire Families as represented in the gallery at

Theobald's 26

Seal of the Town of Stafford, and List of the " Companie and

Brotherhood," etc., of the said town 27

Seal of Lichfield, with similar List

Seal of Newcastle under Lyme, with similar List

The doubtful Arms of Staffordshire .

Pedigrees (in alphabetical order)

Notes on the Pedigree of De Wastineys

. 28 . . 28 . 29 33 to 155 . 156

Index 163

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The Visitation contained in the following pages was made by- Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, as deputy to his father-in- law, William Flower, Norroy King of Arms.

Glover, who was made Somerset Herald in 1571, was born at Ashford in Kent in 1543. Erdeswick styles him " the only sufficient man in his time for armorye and descents in this land," and Sir William Dugdale considered him " the best Herald that did ever belong to the office." So high was his reputation for professional skill and unwearied attention, that the contemporary provincial Kings of Arms sent him on several occasions to visit the counties in their marches ; and, besides Staffordshire, he either visited or assisted in the Visitatioi] s of the several counties of Chester, Derby, Durham, Lancaster, Northumberland, and York. But his " Somer too soone set," for he died at the early age of forty-five in 1588.

The manuscript from which the Visitation here printed is transcribed is a small folio in the William Salt Library, which I have ventured to designate " The Stukeley MS."

It has a somewhat curious history. Inside the cover is written in a large bold hand :

" Wm Stukeley.

This book I redeem'd

from a shop where

it was to be used

as waste paper,

1756,

and giveu to Eabdley Wilmot."

This is the handwriting of the learned antiquary Dr. Wil- liam Stukeley, who was born in 1687, and died in 1765. On the flyleaf is the autograph of " John Eardley Wilmot, July 1811 ;" and inside the cover are pasted two armorial bookplates of the Wilmot family, viz., " Sir John Eardley

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Vlll INTRODUCTION.

Wilmot, Knt., London," and "JohnEardley Wilmot, Berkswell Hall."

From the Wilmots the manuscript passed into the posses- sion of William Hamper, F.S.A., from whose representatives it was acquired by Mr. Salt.

By whom or when this MS. was written I am unable to say; but a pencil note by Mr. Hamper, dated 1817, states that it " evidently belonged to Win. Booth, of Witton, Esq. (the friend of Dug-dale), from his notes in various parts of it." This William Booth was an eminent barrister and a noted antiquary. Dugdale, in his " Warwickshire," speaks of him as " a gentleman so well affected to antiquities that by his judicious observation of sundry notable things concerning this part of the countie (which with much freenesse he hath im- parted toward this present work) he deserves a better acknow- ledgment from me than by a few words can be expressed." Hamper (" Life of Dugdale," p. 1 25) states that he had retrieved a few of Mr. Booth's collections (this very MS. being no doubt one of the few), but that he had sought in vain for one of his volumes, entitled " Descents of some gentlemen, and others our neighbours, in and about Birmingham, set down by me William Booth, of the Middle Temple, London, according to the best intelligence I could have from old men, and from notes and papers which concern others in our study, 1641." Shaw, the historian of Staffordshire, found this MS. in the possession of Erasmus Darwin of Derby in 1791, and from it copied the (not quite accurate) pedigree of Stamford of Perry Hall given in his second volume, p. 109.*

The original, or office copy, of Glover's Visitation of Staf- fordshire had in Dugdale's time " long been purloined from the office." But Noblef asserts that the true original, " written by Somerset at the time of the Visitation, and signed by those gentlemen who gave him information relative to their families," is in the library of Queen's College, Oxford.

Noble's work has been described by a competent judge as " careless and inaccurate," and he himself as a " perpetual

* In the College of Arms is a quarto volume of pedigrees in the handwriting of Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald, with additions by Mr. Booth. At the beginning is written, " William Booth of Witton his book, 1660."

t " History of the College of Arms," Appendix, p. xxxi.

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blunderer." But in this case he is generally allowed to be correct.

The MS. to which he refers has every appearance of being the original, and if the signatures* are not genuine they are very clever imitations. With this volume the Stukeley MS. agrees in almost every particular. But in order to perfect his MS. Mr. Salt caused it to be carefully collated with the reputed original; several missing pedigrees were supplied,f and all variations noted. The gentleman employed in this work was Mr. Thorpe, who speaks of the Queen's College MS. as " Glover's original Visitation, in an old vellum binding." Mr. Thorpe's notes upon this and several other manuscript copies of the Visitation are in the William Salt Library, and will be more particularly referred to in the sequel.

The first entire Visitation ever published was that of Durham taken by Flower (assisted by Glover) in 1575. This was issued in 1820, and is noticed in the " Gentleman's Magazine " for that year (July, p. 45). The reviewer describes it as "a perfect novelty in the annals of genealogical literature." For, says he, " notwithstanding that several copies of these records are extant both in our public and private libraries, they have never yet been made accessible through the medium of the press." This was followed in the same year by the Durham Visitation of 1615 (of which only 50 copies were printed), and by the Visitation of Middlesex in 1663. Since then a goodly number of these records have been printed, the Harleian Society alone having issued sixteen volumes, which, with two exceptions, are, or purport to be, County Visitations. The Surtees Society has issued Tonge's " Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530," and Dugdale's valuable "Visitation of Yorkshire in 1665-6;" and the Chetham Society has placed in the hands of its subscribers four Visitations of Lancashire. In addition to these, we have the Visitations of Yorkshire in 1584

* I may here note that in the Stukeley MS. the signatures attached to the several pedigrees do not in all cases agree with the original. For example, in the former MS. the Endesore pedigree is signed " Richard Endesore," and that of Wyrley "John Wyrley." Mr. Thorpe has noted all these variations, and the several signatures here printed are as in the original.

f The pedigrees thus supplied are Ashenhurst, p. 35 ; Aston, p. 37 ; Biddulph, p. 50 ; Giffard, p. 81 ; Hawkes, p. 97 ; Himiett, p. 99 ; Noel (" ex chartis "), p. 119 ; K-udyerd, p. 126; and Somerford, p. 131.

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and 1612, edited by Mr. Joseph Foster; those of Suffolk in 1561, 1577, and 1612, edited by Mr. Metcalfe; and several others.

It must, however, be admitted that some of these publica- tions, though of considerable value as collections of county pedigrees, are not precisely what they claim to be. They are copied as a rule from some MS. in the Harleian Library, which, though purporting to be a Visitation of a certain county on such a date, often contains the result of two Visita- tions combined and amalgamated ; and in some cases is so full of additions and continuations by " other hands " that (to use Wanley's words) " it is no easy matter to shew what belongs to the Visitation and what not." On the other hand some of these MSS. contain but a selection of the descents given in the original, and these but mere abstracts or outlines. For example, the Harl. MS. 6104 is stated to contain Dugdale's Visitations of Staffordshire in 1663-4, and of Derbyshire in 16G2-3 ; but a comparison of the MS., with the original Visita- tions remaining in the College of Arms, will reveal innumerable errors both of omission and commission. And yet the latter portion of this MS. has been recently published under the title of "The Visitation of Derbyshire, taken in 1662, and reviewed in 1663, by William Dugdale," which, with every respect for its learned editor, I humbly conceive to be an unfortunate mistake. Again, the "Visitation of Lancashire in 1664-5," published by the Chetham Society, contains towards the end much matter quite foreign to the Visitation. The pedigree of Trafford, for instance, ascends to Saxon times, whereas in Dugdale's original it goes back only to the grandfather of the then head of the family. This, as the editor of a recent pub- lication of the Chetham Society points out, " cannot fail to be very misleading," since it gives the sanction of the great name of Dugdale to a composition in which he had no hand.

I ought perhaps to apologise for these critical remarks as being somewhat out of place ; but I have made them, not for the purpose of unkindly criticising these valuable publications, but to draw attention to what I have already ventured to call an unfortunate mistake, and more especially to explain why, though there are numerous manuscripts in existence by the

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aid of which many of the pedigrees contained in the following pages might be amplified and extended, I have, in professing to print Glover's Visitation, given nothing but that Visitation, and have carefully avoided all " continuations " and " enlarge- ments," except in a few instances (and they are all noted) in which I have utilized the information supplied by the "HathertonMS." •

By this name I refer to a transcript in the William Salt Library (made by Mr. James Broughton) of a manuscript belonging to Lord Hathertoh. This MS. purports to be a copy of Glover's Visitation, but, like most of the so-called copies, it contains much additional matter. It is identical — even in its errors — with John Withie's " Copie of the Visitation book of Staffordshire made in 1583 " (Harl. MS. 1077), which is dated 1621. Mr. Broughton wrote an account of this volume in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for September 1829 (p. 212); and in the Preface to his transcript he suggests that his original " is in the handwriting of Sampson Erdeswick and his amanuensis Wyrley." But he gives no reasons for this opinion, and it is manifest from internal evidence that the MS. is of a more recent date than he supposes.

In addition to the pedigrees, the Queen's College and Stukeley MSS. contain numerous extracts from old deeds and charters, and tricks of seals illustrating the descents and arms of the families whose genealogies are recorded. These I have omitted, and personally I regret the omission. But it has been considered that these documents would be more fittingly in- troduced into the Staffordshire Chartulary commenced in the second volume of these Collections. I have also omitted some preliminary matter, such as extracts from " Domesday," the " Liber Rubeus," and sundry other documents which have been already printed either by the Record Commissioners or by Shaw, or have been made public in other ways. I should also add that I am alone responsible for the alphabetical arrange- ment of the pedigrees. They are not so arranged in my original, but, besides the obvious utility of such an arrano-e- ment for purposes of reference, there are several cogent reasons (with which I need not trouble the reader) which have influ- enced me. On pages xix and xx, however, will be found a

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list of the pedigrees in the order in which they are given in the original.

An examination of the list of those summoned by Glover to appear before him and record their descents (pp. 3-11) will shew that 204 persons, or about 183 heads of families, were ordered to put in an appearance. Of these forty-seven were " Ignobiles,"* and were "disclaimed," together with some who in the list are styled "gentlemen." Some were " extra com." or "hors du pays," that is out of the jurisdiction of the visiting Herald, or absent and unable to appear. Making due allowance for all these, it follows that at least forty heads of families made default, or, as Glover would term it, " disobedi- ently and contemptuously " refused to appear before him ; and these defaulters bore such well-known names as Congreve, Wolseley, Sneyd, Fowke, Lane, Kynnersley, Draycott, Chet- wynd, Stanley, Skeffington, Swynfen, etc., etc.f

With regard to this last-named family Edmund Lodge, Lancaster Herald (writing in 1797), remarks how strange it is that the Swynfens of Swynfen should have neglected to enter their pedigree in any of the Staffordshire Visitations; and tenfold more strange (he adds) that Dugdale, the son of Elizabeth Swynfen, should have nowhere given any further account of this his mother's family than the mere names of her father and grandfather.

The late Mr. J. G. Nichols, in noticing the Lancashire Visitations published by the Chetham Society, observes that though it is a decided testimony to the antiquity of a family that it should appear in a Visitation, yet its absence is not a positive proof to the contrary. There is (he continues) an amount of accident as to the admission or omission of families

* " Nohiles" says Coke, "sunt qui arma gentilicia anticessorum suorum proferre possunt." By the word ignobilis the Heralds simply meant " not entitled to bear arms," or, as it is sometimes expressed in English, " no gentleman."

t When Sir W. Dugdale visited Yorkshire in 1665-6 nearly one-third of the whole number of gentry whom he called upon to appear before him with proofs of their arms and pedigrees treated his summonses with neglect. In the Preface to the printed Visitation a list of the persons who were contumacious is given, and in this list may lie recognised a few of the well-known ancient gentry of the county, besides many headjs of families whose descendants at this day would have rejoiced had 1 bey then placed their pedigrees on record. There will also be found a long list of defaulters at the same Herald's Visitation of Lancashire, 1664-5, in the Introduction to the Chetham Society's printed copy.

INTRODUCTION. Xlll

in the Visitation books. Ormerod has remarked that the very ancient family of Hulton of Hulton is entered only in the first and last Visitations of Lancashire, and that of Gerard of Bryn in none.

Some men, no doubt, were too proud to have their ancient standing brought at all into question, or to allow that it required recognition. Others were altogether careless and in- different, and their tastes were for very different objects. Others would be absent from home at the time of the Heralds' circuit ; or, if summoned to attend them at a neighbouring town, were possibly prevented by illness, or indisposed by domestic sorrow and trouble.*

With regard to the degree of credit to be attached to Visitation pedigrees, the same writer remarks that the Visita- tions stand in the position of a witness at a trial, supposed to be the person best informed upon the subject of inquiry, but who may be mistaken from defect of memory or other accidental circumstances. Still, he adds, such evidence, collected by officers whose business it was to gather the truth, must at least be important, if not always authoritative, and of course all the more worthy of credit, so far as it is contemporaneous, or nearly so, with the facts related. f

The principal authority possessed by the Visitation books is undoubtedly the signature of the head of the family therein recorded. But it is notorious that subscribers frequently attached their names to most defective and imperfect genea- logies— genealogies from which the maiden and even christian names of their own wives and mothers are frequently absent ; and though it must be admitted that the visiting Herald was in a great measure dependent on the individual who furnished the information, yet surely he should be held responsible for these frequent omissions of names and facts which, it is obvious, the person who entered the pedigree could easily supply. One of many examples of this strange and unaccount- able carelessness will be found in the descent of Arblaster in this Visitation. Thomas Arblaster, who signed this pedigree, must at least have known his mother's name ; and his father,

* " Herald and Genealogist, vii., p. 47. f Ibid., ii., p. 185.

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who was then living, could assuredly, if asked, have supplied further information. Of course this is by no means a solitary instance of such a state of things, but I am not aware that any satisfactory explanation of the astonishing ignorance apparently displayed by the subscribers of Visitation pedigrees — or the extreme carelessness of the Herald who recorded them — has yet been offered. The Heralds were enjoined by the Eoyal Commission under which all their Visitations were made, not only to " peruse and take knowledge " of " all manner of Arms," etc., but also to take " notes of the descents, pedigrees, and marriages " of the " nobiles " in their provinces. Yet it seems to me that as a rule they paid far more attention to the former than the latter ; and provided that a right to arms was satisfactorily established, they did not trouble themselves to ascertain, even by oral testimony, the names or parentage of females who, being neither heiresses nor co- heiresses, were not in a position to transmit their armorial insignia to posterity.

In the College of Arms there are three copies (so called) of Glover's Visitation, which collectively contain a vast deal of additional and indeed extraneous matter. These are Dugdale's own copy, Vincent's, and a volume called E.D.N. 13.

The first-named manuscript is in Dugdale's own hand- writing. I here copy its instructive titlepage: "A Copye of the Visitation of Staffordshire made by William Flower, Norroy King of Armes, in A0 mdlxxxiii (the Originall having been long since purloyned* out of this Office) : which Copye was taken from a Transcript thereof sometimes belonging to Edward Gwynn, late of FurnivalPs Inne, in Com' MiddP (but now in the Library of William Pierpoint, of Thoresby, in Com' ISTott' Esq1"), by William Dugdale, Esq1', Norroy King of Armes, and given unto this Society vj° Maij, mdclxviii. In which transcript, though there be divers errors and mistakes ; yet considering that the Originall is thus lost, it was thought better thus to preserve a Copye, wdl possibly may in time be rectified, than to have nothing at all thereof." In addition to the Visitation with its " errors and mistakes," the volume

* It is ratlier singular that the original of Glover's Visitation of Yorkshire in 1584 is also stated to have been " purloined " from the College.

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contains a series of other pedigrees which Dugdale says did not, in his opinion, form a part of the Visitation.

From the disappearance of the original until the year 1668, therefore, the Heralds did not even possess a copy of this Visitation. But on the death of Ralph Sheldon, of Beoley, co. Worcester, in 1684, the College acquired under his will the two other manuscripts above named, one of which (Vincent 133) was, in the absence of the original, allowed to be put in evidence in 1785 in a trial respecting the manor of Mere, as appears by a note inserted in the volume by Francis Townsend, Windsor Herald.

Other manuscripts in public and private, collections pur- porting to be copies of this Visitation (most of which were carefully examined and abstracts of their contents taken by Mr. Thorpe) are : —

1. A copy in the library at Loxley Park, transcribed by

Captain Fernyhough.

2. A copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : Gough's

Staffordshire MSS., No. 1. This contains many additional pedigrees, one dated 1750 and another 1752, and the Arms of Sir T. Broughton dated 1768.

3. A second copy in Queen's College library, Oxford.

4. Harl. MS. 818. A book in folio, containing, inter alia,

pedigrees from Glover's Visitation and from Erdes- wick's Collections, written partly by Ralph Brooke and partly by others.

5. Harl. MS. 1077. A folio MS., " the far greater part of

which was written and tricked a.d. 1621 by the hand of John Withie, the arms painter." It is a copy of Glover's Visitation, but has " many addi- tions." This, as has been already stated, corresponds nearly page by page with Lord Hatherton's MS., excepting the additions of which Wanley (Harl. Catalogue) speaks, which are in another hand. There are also inserted pedigrees of a later date : inter alia, a pedigree of Mynors drawn up by John Tilston in 1678, a pedigree of Foljambe " seeming to be in the handwriting of Sir Henry St. George,"

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a pedigree of Nott of Cannock, and two pedigrees of Leveson. It is noted in the Catalogue that " Mr. Withie has transcribed the subscriptions of the gentlemen at the bottom of their descents into this book." It should be mentioned that the rota- tion of the pedigrees in this MS. is quite different to the Queen's College and Stukeley MSS.

6. Harl. MS. 1173. A transcript of Withie's book ; " but

it is to be noted that notwithstanding many gross faults in this copy through the ignorance and care- lessness of the copyiste, it is of value because of many considerable additions made to it which are wanting in Mr. Withie's book ; as Mr. Withie's also has many recent additions inserted in it since this transcript was made." (Wanley.)

7. Harl. MS. 1415. A folio volume, containing, besides the

Staffordshire Visitation, that of Yorkshire taken by Glover in 1584-5. Wanley says he cannot be positive as to who wrote this MS., "because it is known that many officers of Arms wrote very like to one another." In this MS. the last name in the list of Staffordshire disclaimers is industriously blotted out ; " the posterity or relations of him," writes Wanley, "being perhaps grown ashamed of that disclaiming." The name thus erased was " John Coleman of Canke."

8. Harl. MS. 1429. Contains a few arms and memoranda

from Glover's Visitation ; also a few descents from Dugdale's Visitation of 1663-4, inserted by John Saunders. It also contains a so-called Visitation of Hertfordshire, but this, says Wanley, is " a painter's title," for arms painters (he adds) " when they see a book of pedigrees relating to one county alone usually call them Visitations without further exami- nation."

9. Harl. MS. 1570. "Written and tricked by divers

hands ; more espescially by Mr. Nicholas Charles and Mr. Eichard Mundy." It contains "a very good copy " of Glover's Visitation, but with " very

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many enlargements and continuations by Richard Mundy and others," and " some descents entered by Mr. Mundy which were either not at all registered at the Visitation of the County in 1583, or at least not in so ample a manner."

10. Harl. MS. 6128. A very valuable collection of pedigrees

of Staffordshire families, which has been largely used by genealogists and almost invariably quoted as "The Visitation of 1583" — which it certainly is not. Its date is circa 1620.

11. A copy referred to by Shaw (vol. 2, Introd., p. xxx) as

being then in the' possession of Mr. Sharpe "the

ingenious antiquary of Coventry." He describes

it as " a most curious copy of Glover's Visitation of

1583, transcribed by William Smith, Rouge Dragon,

1597, and illustrated with various additions by

Erdeswick, Rowland Frith [of Thornes, Shenstone]

the Herald, and others ; also a coloured map of the

county, and a later Visitation at the end."

In conclusion 1 desire to call special attention to Mr.

Parker's able article on the Wastineys family, and to express

a hope that it may be regarded as a precedent for similar

papers in illustration and correction of this Visitation.

H. Sydney Grazebrook.

December, 1882.

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IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE GIVEN IN THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE AND STUKELEY MSS.

	PAGE			PAGE
Stafford (seal)	27	Broughton of Longdon	. 60
Stafford .	. 132	Streethay .	. 137
Lichfield (seal) .	. 28	Everard		. 69
Paget	. 122	Bagshaw		. 41
Gresley and Gastneys .	. 86	Arblaster .		. 34
Gresley	85	Welles		145
Gresley (Stemma antiquis-		Hill .		98
simum) .	. 87	Endesore .		. 68
Harcourt .	91	Leigh		101
Coyney	65	Leigh, Rushall, etc.		103
Bagot	39	Grosvenor .		. 90
Trentham . . . .	139	Moseley		115
Fitzherbert	72	Whorwood .		148
Bassett, Meynell, etc. .	44	Leveson		106
Bassett	45	Whorwood .		150
Bassett and Egerton .	46	Giffard		80
Newcastle (seal) .	28	Whorwood of Bobington	151
Bowyer .	53	Wrottesley .	152
Thicknes .	138	Stamford of Pury Hall	133
Main waring	113	Stamford of Pakington, etc	135
Brett	55	Wyrley .	153
Colyar .	64	Skrimshire .	129
Foljambe .	77	Broughton of Broughton	58
Brooke .	56	Moreton .	114
Rugeley .	127	Whitgreave	147
Adderley .	. 33	Cholmley .		62

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LIST OF THE PEDIGREES RECORDED BY GLOVER.

			PAGE				PAGE
Giffard . .81	Ashenhurst . . .35
Somirford .			131	Smith			130
Rudyerd			126	Unwyn			142
Biddulph .			50	Yardley			154
Aston .			37	Robinson .			125
Littleton .			108	Harcourt and Astley		94
Astley			36	Harcourt of Ranton		94
Dickens			67	Fitzherbert		74
Feme .			. 70	Humett			99
Nevill			. 116	Hawlces			97
Brooke, etc.			. 57	Petit .			124
Hunt			. 100	Verdon			144
Okeover			. 120	Bowes, etc.			51
Fitzwilliam			. 76	Plantney			125
Fowler			. 78	Corbett			64
Vise .			. 144	Lyseux			110
Crompton .			. 66	Bassett			47
Macclesfield			. Ill	Noel .			117
Bartram, etc.			. 42	Noel {ex Chartis, etc.)		119
Tyrrell			. 141	Finderne .			71

THE

Visitation of f^tafforosfjire,

A.D. 1583.

What is to be performed by the heralds at their going in visitation.

The names of the Hundreds in such a sheere as they will visitt being collected out of the Sheryve's bookes, or the Under- sheryve's, with all the surnames and cristen names of all such as are called or wrytten Knights, Esquyers, and Gentlemen in the sheer, that beying taken and gathered then wrytten in a booke, all those names so receaved every C by itselfe, which doth serve them to marke the apearance of all such as doe apeare (being warned by the Baylye of the sayde C by vertue of a precept delyvered by the Herauld to him) in this maner :

J. M. Knight,

W. T. Esquier,

T. B. Gentln, apparuit,

A. S. Gentln, Ignobilis,

F. J. Gentln, apparuit, entred,

J. H. Gentln, Nothus, they doe ryde to every Knight's house and take notice there, as also to such esquyers as will have them come. The resi- dewe are warned by the Bayley to appeare at the cheifest towne in the Hundred at a daye certaine, where the sayde Herauld doth resorte to take notyce.

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2 the visitation op staffordshire, a.d. 1583.

Somerset's warrant, directed to the bailiff of the

Hundred of Cudleston, to summon the Esquires and

Gentlemen inhabiting within the said Hundred

to appear before him in order to the

enregistering of their several

arms and descents.

To John Berwike, baylif of the Hundred of Cudleston

in the countye of Stafforde, his Deputie or

Deputies.

These are to require you, and in the Queene's Majestie's

name to charge and commande you, that forthwth upon the

sight hereof you warne these Esq13 and Gent11 whose names

are hereunder written p'sonally to apeare before mee

Somersett, Marshall and Deputy to Norrey Kinge of Amies,

at Stafford on beinge the daye of ... .

at nyne of the clocke before Noone the same day, whereat I doe intende to sytte for the better registeringe of all the Gent, w'thin the sayde Hundred; and that they bringe wth them such Armes and Creasts as they nowe use and beare, wth their Pedigrees or Descentes, and such of theire evidence or matter of record e and credite as may (if neede so require) justifie the same : to the intent that I, knowinge howe they use and chalenge the names of Esqr and Gentle- man, and beare their Armes, may accordingly make entrance therof and recorde the same ; or else to proceede as the Vertue of my comissyon bindeth me in that behaulf .

Alsoe will such of them as have receaved either Armes, Creasts, or Pedigrees of one WilPm Dakins,* the late lewde

* It would appear that this "lewde usurper" of Norroy's functions was a member of the family formerly seated at Stubbing Edge, in Derbyshire. For Mr. Glover, in his " History of Derbyshire," mentions a tablet in Ashover Church in memory of sundry Dakeynes of Stubbing, and among those commemorated is " Gulielmus Dakeyne, Norroy." Dallaway (" Heraldic Inquiries," p. 318) has printed a copy of a "Warrant issued in 1597 by the then Earl Marshal directing the appre- hension of this man. He is described as "a notable dealer in Armes, and maker of false pedigrees," for which fault (it is added) " about xx years past he lost one of his ears, and about a year past he was apprehended for the like and imprisoned." It appears that Dakyns had compiled spurious pedigrees for nearly one hundred families, and that his son Christopher Dakyns, and one Edward Waterhouse — the latter " falsely calling himself servant to Clurenceux " — had carried on a like nefarious trade.

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 3

usurper of the office of Norrey Kinge of Armes, to bringe them in to be cancelled, if they be untrue, and, beinge founde justifiable, to receave the same at my handes wth war- ran dize, as I am espetyally comanded by her Matie and the Lordes of her Hignes' most honorable Privie Councell.

And these that may not comodiously bringe wth them such theire evidences, auncient writinges, and monuments (sic) as would serve to prove the antiquitie of theire race and familye, but shalbe desirous to have me home to theire houses ; upon the significatyon of such theire desires, for the furtherance of Her Matie9 service, I will make my repaire unto them soe soone as conveniently I maye. Herof charge them not to fayle as they will avoyde the perill that may ensue of any theire contemptes herin.

Geven at Stafford under the Scale of the office of Norrey, the day of July, aho 1583, in the xxvth yeare of

the raigne of our most gratious Soveraigne Ladye Queen Elizabeth.

Nomina* Nobilitjm de Com' Stafford, 1583.

[Being a list of those summoned by warrant to appear before

Glover, Somerset, and record their descents and arms.]

HUNDREDUM DE CuDLESTON.

Ap. Joh'es Asteley, vel Aspley, de Woodeaton. Ignobilis. fRicardus Brooke, de Lapley, ar. Entcl. Ap. JEdwardus Cholmeley, de Copenhall, gen.

Ap. Edwardus Clarke, aVs Grenway, de Shredicott. Ignobilis.

* To a large proportion of the names in this list a trick of the family arms is attached. I only note those which are not elsewhere recorded in this Visitation. What authority attaches to these coats I am unable to say, but probably they are mere memoranda made by the transcriber. I should mention that I am responsible for the alphabetical arrangement here adopted.

f Cheeky, argent and sable, on a chief or, a brock (or badger) proper.

% The arms here given are .... three garbs, 2 and 1, between the two upper garbs a crescent ; but see the Pedigree.

B 2

4 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Johannes Coleman, de Canke, gen.

*Franciscus Congreve, de Stretton, gen.

Matheus Cradock, de Villa de Stafford, gen.

Thomas Cress well, de Liddall, gen.

Kic'us Dickenson, de Bradley. Ignobilis.

Philippns Draycott, de Littlewood, gen.

Joh'es Egginton, de Roberson, gen.

Joh'es Fowke, de Guns'on, gen.

fPogerus Fowke, de Brewood, gen.

Will'nius Fynney, de Canke. Ignobilis.

Joh'es Giffard, de Chillington, ar.

Hnmfridns Giffard, de , tertins filius, gen.

JThomas Lane, de Hyde et de Bentley, ar., Jnstic'.

§Edwardus Littleton, de Pilletonhall, ar., Justic'.

Ricardus Milles, de Bedam, gen.

Joh'es Mitton aVs HarjDesfeild, de Weston under Lizard, ar.

Adamus Moreton, de Wilbrighton, ar. Ap. Edwardus Moreton, de Ingleton, gen. Ap. Franciscus Picto, de Churcheaton. Ignobilis. Ap. Thomas Skrimshire, de Forton, ar., fra' " senior.

Jacobus Skrimshire, de Norbury, ar., fra' junior.

Galfridus Somerford, de Somerford, gen. Entd. Edwardus, D'ns Stafford.

Ric'us Weston, de Rudgeley, gen. Ap. Humfridus Whitgreve, de Burton, ar.

Erasmus Wolseley, de Wolseley, ar.

HlTNDREDUM DE OfFELOWE.

Georgius Abell, de Neuburgh, Senescallus com' Salop.

* Sable, a chevron between three battle axes argent.

t Vert, a fleur-de-lis argent.

X .... a chevron between three mullets .... Added by Mr. Booth, " This coat is mistaken, it should be parted p' fesse or and B., a ^-s G. bet. 3 mullets counterchanged of the feild."

§ Argent, a bend cottised sable within a border engrailed gules bezautee, — the coat of Westcote.

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 5

Eiitd. Radulplrus Adderley, de Cotonhall, ar., Justic'.

Georgius Agard, de Barton. Huinfridus Agard, de Newburgh. Will'us Agai'd, de Tmistall, gen. Entd. Ap. Thomas Arblaster, de Longdon, gen.

*Syinon Arden, de Yoxall, gen. Entd. Ap. Nicholaus Bagshawe, de Farwell, gen. Edward us Bassett, de Hintes, gen. fJoli'es Bowes, de Elford, ar., Justic'. Recusavit. JJoh'es Brittayne, de Sirescott et Tamworth, ar. Ap. Rob'tus Brookes, de Haselore, gen. Ap. Edwardus Broughton, de Longdon, gen. Thomas Carden, del Hermitage. § Will'us Comberford, de Comberford, gen. Ricardus Endesore, de Pagetts Bromley, gen. Entd. Thomas Ensore, de Cumberford, gen.

Entd. Humfridus Everard, de Whittington, gen.

Rowlandus Eyre, de Hermitage, gen. Entd. Thomas Fitzherbert, de Hampstall Rydware, Miles.

Thomas Fowke, de Aston, gen. Thomas Frythe, de Thornes. Ignobilis. Henricus Grove, de Handesworth. Ignobilis. Ap. Joh'es Harmon, de Morehall, — a patent granted by

Garter and Clarencieulx. Ap. Ric'us Hawkes, de Rushall, gen. Entd. Hugo Hill, de Pipe, gen.

||Edmundus James, de com. Wigorn., ar., Justic'. Hors du pays. Entd. ^[Edwardus Leghe, de Rushall, ar.

** Will'us Madder, de Tonge, et de Harleston, ar., Justic'.

* Ermine, a fesse counter-componee or and azure.

t Ermine, three bows strung in fesse gules, a crescent for difference. See " D mbtful Arms," post.

t See " Doubtful Arms."

§ Gules, on a cross engrailed or four roses of the field.

|| See " Doubtful Arms."

% Gules, on a cross engrailed between four unicorn's heads erased .... as many roundles.

** Azure, on a fesse wavy ermine three lions rampant gules.

O THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Humfridus Minors, de Barton, gen.

Frauncis Monntford, de Walsall, ar.

Jacobus JSToell, de Pelsall, gen.

Joh'es Parsliouse, de Walsall. Ignobilis.

Will'us Rolston, de Rolston, gen.

Thomas Pudgley, de Hawkesyard, ar. Entd. Ap. Will'us Ruggeley, de Smalwood, gen.

"^Thomas Salt, de Yoxall, gen.

fJoh'es Skevington, de Fiskerwick, ar. Ap. Edwardus Sprott, de Askmerebroke. Ignobilis. Entd. Eobertus Stamford, de Pyrybarre, ar., Justic'.

Entd. Ap. Will'us Staunford, de Pakinton et de Eowley, gen.

Walterus Stanley, de Westbromwicke, ar. Entd. Ap. PkiLvppus Strettey, de Streetey, gen.

JRic'us Swynfeild, de Swinfeild, gen. Ap. Humfridus Thickbrome, de Tkickbrome. Ignobilis. Entd. Ap. Eob'tus Welles, de Horecrosse, ar.

§Thomas Whittington, de Newborowe, gen. Entd. Thomas Wirley, de Handesworth, ar., Justic'.

|| Humfridus Wolverston, de Stotfeld, gen.

HuNDREDUM DE ToTMONSLOW.

Ap. Joh'es Ashenhurst, de Ashenhurst. Ignobilis. Ap. Johannes Basford, de Hillsdale, Ignobilis. Entd. Will'us Bassett, de Blore, ar., Justic'.

* Argent, a chevron conped between three mullets sable. With these arms Thomas Salt quartered — (1) Stockley, of Yoxall, Argent, a chevron between three boars statant gules, and (2) He wet, of Walsall, Sable, a chevron engrailed between three owls or. Thomas Salt married Anne, daughter and coheir of Thomas Strong- man, of Ealey (Rayleigh ?), Essex, and had issue — Eichard, Thomas, Eobert, and Elizabeth (Harl. MS. 886, Vis. Essex, 1558, etc.). He was son of Eichard Salt, and grandson of Eobert Salt, of Yoxall, by . . . ., daughter of . . . . Sprott, of Ash- morebrook. His mother, Elizabeth, was daughter and coheir of Thomas Stockley, of Yoxall, son of Ealph, and grandson of William Stockley, by Margaret, his wife, daughter and coheir of John Hewet, of Walsall. See Leigh Pedigree.

f Argent, three bull's heads, erased sable, a mullet for difference. See " Doubtful Arms." X This is no doubt intended for Swynfen.

§ Argent, a bugle horn strung between three escallops sable. This is the coat of Tamhonie which Whittington was entitled to quarter. The coat borne by the family was Argent, three mullets azure. See Shaw, i., 75 and 93.

II See "Doubtful Arms."

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 7

Bartk'us Colclougke, de Delpkurst. Ignobilis. Rickard Crompton, de Ckeckley, ar., Justic'. Entd. Joh'es Cuny, de Weston Cuny, ar.

* Jok'es Draycott, de Paynsley, ar. Antkonius Eyton, de Matkfeld. Ignobilis. Jok'es Feme, de Crakeinarcke. Ignobilis. Ap. Henricus Flacket, de Cambridge. Ignobilis. fJok'es Fleetwood, de Calewicke, ar. Ric'us Flyar, de Utoxetur. Ignobilis. Entd. Godfridus Foljambe, de Croxsden, ar. Nothus.

Ap. Jokannes Henskaw, de Lockwood. Ignobilis. Jok'es Higginbotkain, de Ruskton. Ignobilis. Ap. Hugk Hollyns, de Moseley. Ignobilis. Ap. Tkomas Homersley, de Skaw. Ignobilis. JAntkonius Kinnersley, de Locksley, gen. Tkomas Madeley, de Denston. Ignobilis. § Sampson Meverell, de Tkrowley, ar. Franciscus Mynoures, de Woodland, gen. Entd. ||Rad's Minours, de Utoxetur, gen.

Ap. Will'us Mountford, de Banke, yeoman. Ignobilis.

Pkilippus Okeover, de Okeover, ar., Justic'. Ap. Tkomas Parker, de Careswall. Ignobilis.

Jok'es Port, dellam. Ignobilis. Ap. Tkomas Pyott, de Ckedull. Ignobilis.

Tkomas Rudyard, de Rudyard, ar., Justic', aVs Teteswortk. Ap. Edwardus Tkornebury, de Tkornebury. Ignobilis. Ap. Tkomas Tirrell, de Ruskton, gen. Nothus. Entd. Tkomas Trentkam, de Rocester, ar., Justic',

Custos Rotulor'. Georgius Warner, de Dyllon, Coronator. Ignobilis. 1 Jok'es Wedgwood, de Harekells, gen., per R. C, Clar', dat. 1576, 19 Eliz. reg.

* . . . . three piles, over all a bend ermine.

f Per pale nebulee or and azure, six martlets, 2, 2, and 2, counterchanged. X Argent, a fesse vaire or and gules between three eagles displayed of the last. § .... a griffin segreant .... || See " Doubtful Arms."

^ Gules, three mullets, 1, 2, and 1, or, a cauton argent. Crest : On a ducal coronet, a lion statant argent.

8 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Joli'es Wliitehurst, de Whithurst. Ignobilis. Joh'es Woodward, de Madersfeild. Ignobilis.

HuNDREDTJM DE PlREHILL.

Walterus Aston, de Ticksall, Miles, Justic'. Recusavit. Edwardus Aston, ar., fil. et hseres Walteri Aston,

Militis, Justic'. Robertus Badger, de Whatington. Ignobilis, Entd. Ricardus Bagott, de Blythfeild, ar., Justic'.

Edwardus Barbour de Flashbrooke. Ignobilis. Ap. Georgius Bartram, de Barlaston, gen. Respited to London. ^"Sampson Beresford, de Enston, gen. Ad Com.

Mariscall. Joli'es Bedulplie, de Oldparke. Ignobilis. Franciscus Bidolplie, de Bydolphe, ar. Will'us Bowier, de Hetlihouse Grange, et de Brod- lieath, gen. Entd. Ap. Will'us Bowyer, de Knypersley, ar.

Ap. Thomas Bowyer, de Madeley, gen., fr. illius de Knipersley. fEd'us Braddock, de Adbaston, ar. Ad Com. Senes-

callus, JEdwardus Brett, de Kele, ar. Ap. Ranulphus Brette, de Stoke, gen., filius Edwardi. Ap. Thomas Bratte, de Oswinton, gen., s'd's filius. Henricus Brocke, de Hanley. Ignobilis. Entd. Ap. Thomas Broughton, de Broughton, gen.

Ap. Johannes Broughton, de Whatington. Ignobilis. Thomas Bucknall, de Ubbeley. Ignobilis. §Joh'es Chetwynd, de Ingestre, ar., Justic'. Robertus Collier, de Darlaston, ar. || Thomas Corbett, de Hanford, gen. Sum'us Con- stabidarius.

* Argent, three bears rampant sable, muzzled or. + See " Doubtful Arms." J lb.

§ Two shields : 1. On a cross engrailed .... four mullets. 2. Azure, a chevron between three mullets or. || Argent, three ravens, 2 and 1, proper.

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 9

Humfridus Cotton, de Bothehall, ar. Will'us Crompton, de Stone. Ignobilis. Ap. Samson Dorrington, de Cotton. Ignobilis. Entd. *Rad'us Egerton, de Wrynehill, Miles, Justic'.

Entd. fRad'us Eggerton, de Betley, ar.

Entd. JHugo Erdeswicke, de Sandon, ar.

Entd. Ap. J Sampson Erdeswick, de Sandon, gen. §Robertus Comes Essex. Ap. Hugo Fowden, de Fulford, summus Constabularius. Ignobilis. Brianus Fowler, de Sl Thomas, juxta Stafford, ar. Ap. Rob'tus Gamble, de Hardwyke. Ignobilis.

||Franciscus Gattacre, de Swynnerton, ar. Hors du

pays. Johannes Gaywood, de [Padmore?]. Ignobilis. Nicholas Gaywood, de Bishops Offeley, gen. Joh'es Gervys, de Chatkill, gen., Coronator. Igno- bilis. Entd. Thomas Greseley, de Colton, ar., Justic'.

Entd. Walterus Harecourt, de Ellenhall, ar.

Joh'es Harecourt, de Ranton, gen. Nothus. Ap. % Walterus Heveningham, de Aston, ar. Respited to London. Entd. Ap. Will'us Macksfeild, de Meare, gen. Entd. Edwardus Mainwayringe, of Whitmore, ar.

** Joh'es Nedham, de Wallinge, gen. Entd. Ap. t1"Philippus Noell, de Hilcott, gen.

* Gules, a fesse ermine between three pheons argent.

t The same, a crescent for difference.

X Or, on a bend azure three eagles displayed argent. This is a strange mistake. Both Hugh and Sampson Erdeswick really bore Argent, on a chevron gules five bezants.

§ Argent, a fesse gules, in chief three torteaux.

|| Quarterly argent and ermine, on the second and third quarters two piles gules, over all a fesse azure charged with three bezants. (Sic, but the trick does not appear to be quite accurate.)

% Quarterly or and gules, within a border engrailed sable charged with roundles (sic, but should be escallops argent), a crescent for difference. ** Argent, a bend engrailed azure between two buck's heads cabossed sable, ft Or, fretty gules, a canton argent.

10 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Ap. Joli'es Orchard, de Garsall, yeoman. Ignobilis. Will'us Overton, Coventrise et Leclifeild Ep'us. Thomas Pettit, de Hexstall et de Broadheath, gen. Henricus Pettit, de Bromley Pagetts, gen. ^Thomas Pey shall, de Horseley, ar. Hors du pays. Rob'tus Peyshall, de Horseley, gen., frater junior. Entd. fPetrus Roos, de Swineshed, ar. Extra Com.

Ap. Thomas Rowley, de Heyckley. Ignobilis. Ap. Thomas Skrimshere, de Johnson, gen.

Rad'us Smyth, de Newcastle under Lyme, gen., aVs

Torbocke. JRad's Sneyde, de Brad wall, ar., Justic'. Georgius Sneyde, de Madeley, gen., frater. §Edwardus Swynnerton, de Ecclesall, gen. "1 Hors du Hugo Swinnerton, de Ecclesall, filius. I pays.

Entd. Ap. Rad's Thicknes, de Balterley, gen.

Ap. Will'us Unwyn, de Chahterley, gen. Respited to London. Thomas Unwyn, de Clough, gen. Ap. Will'us Vyse, de Staundon, gen. Respited to London. Sampson Walkden, de Walton, gen. J£§ Ap. Sampson Walker, de Weston. Ignobilis.

Thomas Whitgreve, de Bridgford, gen. Ad Com.

Mariscallum. Thomas Whitmore, de Madeley. Ignobilis. || Erasmus Wolsey, de Wolsey, in Hundredo de Cud-

dleston, ar. Joh'es Woolriche, de Oncott. Ignobilis. Will'us Yardley, de Audley, gen. Respited to Sr

Ralph Edgerton's. Joh'es Yonge, de Charnes. Ignobilis.

* Argent, a cross forinee flory sable, on a canton gules a wolf's head erased of the first.

t See " Doubtful Arms."

% A scythe in bend sinister .... between the blade and the handle, (or " snead,") a fleur-de-lis.

§ See " Doubtful Arms."

|| Argent, a talbot passant gules.

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HuNDREDUM DE SeYSDON.

"^Gilbertus Astley, de Patteshill, ar.

Rad's Broke, de Bobington, gen.

Joh'es Ores wall, de Wolv'hampton, gen. Entd. Ap. Will'us Dickens, de Bobington, gen.

Jacobus Fowler, de Penford, gen. Ap. Will'us Foxall, de Bilson, yeoman.

fJoh'es Grey, de Envill, ar., Vicecomes, Justic'.

Walterus Grosvenor, de Bushbury, ar.

Philippus Hall, de .... gen., su'mus Constabu- larius. Ignobilis.

Will'us How, de Bradley. Ignobilis. Ap. Thomas Leveson, de Wolv'hampton, ar.

Rob'tus Moseley, de Bilston, gen. Entd. Ap. Henricus Plantney, de Wolverhampton, gen.

Thomas Rickthorne, de Bobington, gen.

JThomas Waring, de la Lea, juxta Wolv'hampton, Justic'.

Thomas Whorwood, de Compton, ar. Entd. Ap. Will'us Whorwood, de Bobington, gen.

Walterus Wrottesley, de Wrottesley.

The form of the warrant of summons against such as

contemptuously refuse to appear upon

the former warrant, to make their

further appearance before the

Earl Marshall.

To Mr. A. B., of . . . . , Esquier. Forasmuch as you have refused to make your apearance before mee, Somersett, Marshall to Norroy Kinge of Armes, at Chedle, whereat I lately sate in comission for the registringe of the Gentlemen w'thin the Hundred of Totmonslowe accordinge to such warninge as was given you by the Baylife

* See " Doubtful Arms."

t John Grey was Sheriff 24 Eliz. (Shaio.)

X Sable, three bird's heads erased argent.

12 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

of the same Hundred in that behaulf, I am of dutye to proceed wth you as my Comissyon byndeth mee in such cases of con- tempte. These are, therefore, to require you, and in the Queene's Maties name to charge and comaunde you to apeare personally before the Eight Honorable George Earle of Shrewsbury, Earle Marshall of Ingland, on the 12th day of October nexte ensuinge the date hereof, there to answere unto and yelde the reason of this youre disobedyence and contempte ; before whome (as by an espetyall clause and braunche of my sayde Comissyon it is ordered) the same is to be hearde and determined. And herof fayle you not, as you will avoyde the further perill that may enseue.

Gyven at under the seale of the office of

Norrey, the day of August, An0 D'ni 1583,

in the 25th ye are of the raigne of our most gratious Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth.

The manner of the Heralds' Proclamation

for the disclaiming of

IGNOBLE persons.

The Queene's most excellent matie beinge very desirous that the Nobillitye and Gentry of this her realme should be pre- served in every degree as apertayneth as well in honor as in worshippe ; and that every person and persons, bodyes pollitique, corporate, and others, should be knowne in their estates and misteryes without confusyon and disorder. And having therfore authorised me, Somersette Heralde, as Marshall and Deputy to JSTorroy Kinge of Arms of the North parties of this Realme of Englande, not onely to visite all the sayde province to peruse and take knowledge, survey, and vewe of all manner of Armes, Cognisances, Creasts, and other like devises, wlh the notes of the descentes, pedegres, and marriadges of all the Nobillitie and Gentry therin throughout conteyned, but alsoe to reprove, controll, and make infamous by Proclamatyon all such as unlawfully, and wthout just authoritye, vocatyon, or due callinge, doe or have done, or

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 13

shall usurpe, or take upon him or them any name or tytle of honor or dignitye, as Esqr, or Gentleman, or other, as by her Highnes' gratious l'res patentes and comission under the greate seale of England, more plainly doth apeare : Know ye that I, the sayd Somersett, for the accomplishment of her Maties desire, and furtherance of her Highnesse service that waye, at this present makinge my survey wthin the Hundred of Pirehill, in the county of Stafforde, have founde these persons, whose names are hereunder written, preasumptuously, wthout any ground or authoritie, to have usurped the name and tytle of Gent, contrary to all righte and to the most auncient custome of this lande, and to the usage of the lawe of Amies : wch name and tytle they are by me admonished noe more from henceforth to use or take upon them, upon such further paine and perill as by the Earle Marshall of Englande is to be inflicted or layde upon them. And for that purpose the Sherife, and Clarkes of the Assises, and of the Peace, of this Countie are by me to be admonished to forbeare herafter to write or call them by that name and tytle ; wherof alsoe, as my comission byndeth mee, I thought good hereby to advertise all other her Maties good and lovinge subjects of this Hundred, that as they tender her Highnes' pleasure and desire in this behalf, they from henceforth shunne and avoyde the like, and forbeare to use in any writinge or otherwise, the addityon of an Esq'' or Gentleman unlesse they be able to stand unto and Justine the same by the lawe of Armes, and the lawe of the Realme.

Geven at Newcastle under Lyme under the seale of the office of Norroy, the day of Auguste, An0 1583.

14 the visitation of staffordshire, a.d. 1583.

The Names of those that in the time of this

vlsitacon of staffordsheire have made noe

proofe of theire gentry, bearinge noe armes,

and yet, before tyme, had called and

written themselves gentlemen, and

were therfore disclaymed in the

cheife places of the hundreds

wherin they dwell,

VIZT, PlREHILL,

Disclaimed at Newcastle under Lyme, and at Stone, the 5th and 6th dayes of August, for the Hundred of Pirehill in Com. Staff, these followinge, viz. : —

John Orcharde, of Garsall.

Thomas Rowley, of Heykley.

Robte. Gamble, of Hardewyke.

John Yonge, of Charnes.

Robte. Badger, of Whatington.

Thomas Pettit, of Hexstall. .Jgf

Thomas Bucknall, of Ubbelley.

Henry Pettyt, of Bromley Pagetts. .Jgfl

Edw. Barbour, of Flotesbrooke.

John Gaywoode, of Padmore.

Hugh Fowden, of Fulford.

Sampson Walker, of Weston.

John Broughton, of Whatington.

John Bedle, of Olde Parke.

John Gervis, of Chatkill.

John Woolriche, of Oncott.

Thomas Whitemore, of Madeley.

Henry Brocke, of Hanley.

Nicholas Gaywood, of Bishoppes Offley.

TOTMONSLOWE,

Disclaymed at Utoxetur the viij1'1 day of August for the Hundred of Totmonslowe, in the countie of Stafforde, these followinge, viz* : —

Richard Flyar, of Utoxetur.

Thomas Madeley, of Denston.

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John Porte, of Ham. Henry Flackette, of Cambridge. John Woodward, of Maderfeilde. Thomas Parker, of Creswall. John Hig'ginbotham, of Rushton. Bartholomew Colclugh, of Delphurst. Thomas Pyot, of Chedle. Edward Thornbury, of Thornebury. John Henshawe, of Lockwood. John Basford, of Hilsdale. Anthony Eyton, of Mathfeild. Tho. Homersley, of Shawe. Will'm Momford, of Banke. John Ashenhnrst, of Ashenhurst. John Wliitehurste, of Whithurst. Hugh Holly ns, of Moseley. John Feme, of Crakemarshe. Willyam Crompton, of Stone.

Offelowe.

These followinge of the Hundred of Offelowe, in the countye of Stafford, were disclaymed at Leichfeilde on Wensday the xiiijth day of August 1583, viz. : —

Henry Grove, of Handesworth. Thomas Frithe, of Thornes. John Parshouse, of Walsall. Edward Sjsrott, of Ashmerebroke. Humfrey Thickbrome, of Thickbrome.

Setsdon.

These followinge of the hundred of Seisdon were dis- claimed at Wolv'hampton on fryday the xvith day of Auguste, 1583 :—

Phillippe Hall, of

Will'm Foxall, of Bilston. Will'm Howe, of Bradley.

16 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 15S3.

James Barnesley, of Trisley. *Humfry Whitwike, of Wliitwike.

CUDDLESTON.

These followinge of the hundred of Cudleston in the county of Stafford were disclaymed at Stafford on the 21st day of August 1583, viz. : —

John Astley, of Woodeaton.

Edward Clerke, of Shredicotte.

Richard Dickenson, of Bradley.

Frauncis Picto, of Churcheaton.

Will'm Fynny, of Canke.

John Egginton, of Roberson.

* Opposite this name in Harl. MS. 1429, is written, "This Gent, aproved himselfe to he of good antiquity and of a good and auneient family." As the name of Humphrey Wigbtwiok does not appear in the list of those summoned, Glover would seem to have gone out of his way to brand him as " Ignobilis." The Heralds sometimes made mistakes of this kind. At the Visitation of Derbyshire in 1611, Stephen Langsdon of Langsdon in that shire was disclaimed, but he was sub- sequently admitted to be a gentleman and to have a right to arms. The following certificate by St. George, Norroy (extracted from Harl. MS. 1470), so curiously illustrates this subject that I make no apology for introducing it here: — "The king's most excellent Matie being desirous that ye Gentry of his kingdom might be preserved in every degree, estate, etc., and to that end hath given full power and authority under the Greate Seale of England unto mee, Richard S' George, Norroy King of Armes, not only to summon all the Gentlemen w'th in my Province, but also to distinguish and make infamous by Proclamation all such as shall usurpe or take upon thorn the name of Esquire or Gentleman without just authority. And whereas Stephen Longsdon, of Longsdon, in co. Derby, appeared before me in my Visitacon and disclaimed the title of a gentleman under his hand, as not knowing how he might justifio the same, I proceeded against him according to my Com'ission. Since wch tymo, he, making further inquiry, and finding that his Auncestors have been of long time reputed Gentlemen and borne Amies, wch (as I am informed by some of good sort in the Contrey) he is able to prove by evidence and other good record, he hath desired me to aflirme his right and publish the same. "Wherefore these are to make knowne unto all manner of p'sons whatsoever that the said Stephen Langsdon may lawfully use and bear such Armes and Creasts as his Auncestors have done before him, and as he may lawfully justifie ; And also that it shal be lawful] for him to beare the name, title, and dignity of a Gentleman in such manner and forme as any of his predecessors have done, or as he may lawfully justifie. In witness whereof I the said Norroy King of Armes have sett to my hand and seale of my office. Dated the xxth clay of November in the ixth yeare of o'r Sovereigne Lord James by the grace of God King of Great Prittaign, Prance, and Ireland. Rich : Sl George, Norroy King of Armes."

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Richard Milles, of Betham. John Coleman; of Canke.

The names being wrytten on a sheet of papere with fayer great letters, was caryed by the Baylyfe of the hundred and one of the Herauld's men to the cheife towne of that hundred, where in the cheife place therof, the Herauld's man redd the names (after crye made by the Bay lye and the people gathered) and then pronounced openly by the sayd Baylye every man's name severally conteyned in the sayd bill. That done the Baylie set the sayd byll of names on a poste, faste with waxe, whear it may stand drye, so it bee, as aforesayd, in the chieffest place of the sayd towne.

Staffordshire.

Secunda Solucio Subsidij anno regni D'nce Elizabethan nunc xviij0 a laicis concess'.

Beginc

	Hundredu' de Pteehill.	li.	s.	d.	a a	13 u M o W
Aston et Burston.	Dorothea Heveningham, in terr'	XX			J	j
Bedull, Bucknall,	Frauciscus Byddolph, ar.,	XX			J	j
et Fenton.	in terr'
Blithefeld.	Bic'us Bagot, ar., in terris	XX			i	3
Chebsey.	Erasmus Wolseley, in terris	xiij	VJ	viij		ij
Colton.	D'na Catherina G-reys- ley, in terr'	X				ij
Eccleshall Home.	Franciscus Bosse, ar., in terris	XXX			j	3
	Thomas Persall, in terris	XX			i	3
	Edward Barbour, in terris	X				ij
	Thomas Skrimsher, in	X				ij
	terris
Hopton et C otton.	Brian Fowler, ar., in terris	xxvj	xiij	viij	j
Kebuston.	Thomas Busby, in bonis	XX				ij
Keele.	Edward Brette, in terris	X				ij
Meare, Aston.	Bad's Maxfeild, in terris	X				ij

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li. s. d.

Pencle cu' Mem- Bad's Bagnall, miles, in xl bris. terris

Anthonius Colclugh, in x

terris

Sondon. Hugo Erdeswike, in terris xx

Tonstall Courte. Bad's Sneyde,ar., in terris xv

D'na Sneyde, in terris xv

Tyxall. "Walterus Aston, miles c

Trentham. D'na Leveson, in terris x

Thomas Fytton, ar., in x

terris

"Whitmore et Han- Edward Maynwaring, in x

.1 y

3 3

ij

y

ij "ij

ij

ij

cliurche.

terris

HlTNDREDU' DE SETSDON.

Wolv'hampton. Thomas Leveson, ar., in xiij vj viij

terris Henricus Panckeney, in xiij vj viij

bonis Patsell. Gilbert Astley, ar., in xx

terris "Wrottesley. Johannes "Wrottesley, ar., xx

in terris Enveild. Johannes Grey, ar., in xxviij

terris Bobington. Bad's Broke, in terris x

Kynvare. Thomas Whorwood, ar., xx

in terris

Brewood.

Hilton.

HTJNDREDUM DE CUDDLESTON.

D'na Ursula Giffard, in xv

terris Johannes Giffard, ar., in xx

terris Thomas Lane, ar., in xv

terris Galfridus Somerford, in x

terris Vidua Vernon, in terris x

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19

li. s. d. Meere et Eorton. Thomas Skrymslier, ar., x

in terris Norbury. Jacobus Skrymslier, ar., x

in terris Stretton. Eranciscus Congreve, ar., x

in terris "Weston subtus Johannes Mytton, ar., in siiij Liziat. terris

ii

HuNDREDUM DE ToTMANTSLOWE.

Loxley. Thomas Kynnersley, ar., x

in terris Ham'. Philippus Okover, ar., in xiij vj viij

terris Mathfeld. Sampson Meverell, ar., in xx

terris Rocett'. Thomas Trentham, ar., in xx

terris Ellaston. Johannes Fletwood, ar., xx

in terris Grryndon. "Will'm's Bassett, ar., in xxx

terris Draycott. Johannes Draycott, ar., xxx

in terris

Burgus de Stafford, nihil. Civitas Lichefeld, nihil.

HUNDREDUM DE OFFELOWE.

Dunstable, Taten- Roulandus Bougley, in xx

hill, et Coling- terris

wood. Stotfeld. Humfridus "Wolverston, x

in terris Hinteys. Edwardus Basset, in terris xv

Hampstall Rid- Thomas Eitz Herbert, xl

ware. miles, in terris

Toxall. Simon Arden, ar., in x

terris

C 2

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

II. s. X

d.

"Wygginton. Thomas Cumberford, in

terris Eysherwicke. Johannes Skevington, in xv

terris Hondesworthe. Thomas Wyrley, ar., in xx

terris Henry Groves, in terris x

"Walsall Foreyne. Franciscus Montford, in x

terris "Weforde et Thick- Humfridus Thickbrome, xiij vj viij

brome. in bonis

Elford. Johannes Bowes, ar., in xxvj xiij iiij

terris Pyry Barre. Robertus Stamford, ar., xx

in terris Drayton Basset. Thomas Robinson, in x

terris Pype cum Mem- Edward Sprott, in terris x

bris.

Launces ..

Lighthorses iiijxxxix

cxxmj

Nomina et Arma nobiliu' et equitu' auratoru' de com'

Stafford qui cum Ed. I., rege, stipendia merebant

in Scotia et alibi.*

Sr Robert de Hastange. Sr John de Hastange.

Azure, a chief gules, over all a

lion rampant or. The same arms, with a label

argent.

* These shields of the Knights of " Estaffordeschire " were taken from an ancient Roll, the original of which is still preserved among the Cotton Mann- scripts in the British Museum. It is headed " Ces sunt les Noms c les Armes a Banerez de Engleterre," and contains the arms of the said knights blazoned in French and arranged under counties. Sir Harris Nicolas, under whose able editor- ship the entire Roll was published in 1829, dates it between the second and seventh years of Edward II. This, he says, is " manifest from internal evidence, and the handwriting is undoubtedly of that age." The same Roll had been previously printed by Sir Francis Pal grave in the volume of Parliamentary "Writs edited by

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Sr Bobert de Hastange. S1' Richard de Hastange.

21

Sr Pliillippe de Hastange.

Sr Eob't de Stepletone.

S1' William Wastneis.

Sr Ednionde Wasteneys.

Sr Rafe de Stanlawe.

Sr Henry de Applebey. Sr William de Weyer.

Sire Rob'te de Farnham.

Sr Thomas de la Pipe.

Azure, a chief gules, over all a

lion rampant double tailed or. Azure, a chief gules, over all a

lion rampant or, a bendlet

argent.* Azure, a chief gules and a lion

rampant argent. Azure, a lion rampant double

tailed or. Sable, a lion rampant argent,

collared gules. Sable, a lion rampant double

tailed argent. Argent, a lion rampant sable,

the tail forked and nowed. Azure, six martlets, 3, 2, and 1, or. Argent, a fessef between three

crescents gules. Quarterly argent and azure, four

crescents counterchanged. Azure, seme de cross-crosslets, a

fesse or. J

Arma Nobilium de Com. Stafford, ex libro antiquo in officio armorum.§

Le Conte de Stafford. Or, a chevron gules.

Sr Richard de Stafford. Or, a chevron gules between three

martlets sable.

him under the authority of the Record Commission. The spelling of the names in the Stukeley MS. does not in every instance exactly correspond with that of the original Roll, and the arms are in " trick," but I have here reduced them to modern blazon, and preserved the orthography of the Visitation.

* In the original Roll " un bastoun."

t The word fesse has been subsequently added (in the original Roll) in place of one which was erased. (Nicolas.)

X This entry in the original Roll is " in another but apparently an early hand." (Nicolas.)

§ Whether this " liber antiquus " still remains in the College of Arms I have not ascertained, but this list is given in all, or nearly all, the existing copies of the Visitation. Erdeswick possessed a copy and so did Wyrley. The latter dates it "aut finem regis Ed. tertii, aut incipient, regis Ri. secundi, ut opinor." The

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

S>- Nicholas de Stafford.

Sr Humphrey de Stafford.

Le Sieur de Audley. Le Baron de Dudley.

Le Sieur Bassett.

Sr Foulco de Penbrugge. Sr Thomas de Arderne.

Penbrugge.

Sr Eoger Illary.

Sr Walter de Audley.

*Sr Thomas Cawne.

Sr John Bagott. Sr Gyles Erdinton.f

Or, a chevron gules, a chief azure.

Or, a chevron gules within a border engrailed sable.

Gules, fretty or.

Quarterly : 1 and 4, Or, two lions passant in pale azure ; 2 and 3, Argent, a cross patonce azure.

Or, three piles gules, a canton ermine.

Barry of six or and azure.

Gules, six crosses crosslet fitche, 3, 2, and 1, and a chief or.

Barry or and azure.

Sable, a fleur-de-lis or.

Gules, fretty or, a border argent charged with fleurs-de-lis and crosses crosslet fitche alter- nately, sable.

Per pale argent (" forsan fuit azure ") and gules, a lion ram- pant double tailed of the first.

Argent, a chevron gules between three martlets sable.

.... three (sic) lions passant

former refers to it in these words : " I have myself the copy of a Roll of Armory, intituled, ' Arma Nobilium de Com. Staff.,' where it is said that le Counte de Stafford post de or, a une cheveron de gules ; and not far after it saith ' Antiquiora insignia de Audele, Azure, trois choisers, or butterflies, de argent ; and Monsieur John de Chandose port de argent a une pile de gules ;' whereby it appeareth that the said Roll was made in the time of Edward III." (Edit. 1844, p. 102.) From this it appears that Erdeswick's copy was in blazon.

* This shield is blank in Harl. MS. 6128, and also in Lord Hatherton's MS. Vide post.

f After the marriage of Henry de Erdiugton with Maud, daughter of Roger de Somerie, the Erdingtons bore Azure, two lions passant or — the Somerie coat with the colours reversed. In the Roll of temp. Edw. II., Sir Henry de Erdiugton bears the coat within a border gules. And, according to Dugdale, Sir Giles de Erdiugton, who died 49 Edw. III., bore for his arms a bend over his two lions.

PLATE 2

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S1' Thomas Cawne.

23

S1' Jolin Perton.

Sr Walter de Bentley. Sr Robert de Swinnerton.

Sr William Newport.

Per pale azure and gules, a lion rampant double tailed argent.

Azure, on a chevron gules be- tween three pears pendent or, as many bezants.

Argent, a chevron gules.

Argent, a cross forme flore sable.

Gules, on a canton sable a fleur- de-lis argent. Audley jadis. — In margin Azure, three butterflies argent. " Antiquiora Arma de Audley."

Argent, on a fesse cottised sable three escallops of the field.

Argent, a pile gules.

Sable, a fesse between six mart- lets argent.

Azure, a chevron between three ewers or.

Argent, two bars each cottised sable.

Vaire argent gutte de poix and gules.

Argent, two bars gules within a border engrailed sable.

Argent, a fesse and in chief three lozenges sable.

Argent, on a chevron gules be- tween three cinquefoils azure, as many bezants.

Bendy or and sable.

Sable, a chevron engrailed between three owls ardent.

Sr Henry Bushbury.

Sr John Chaundois. Sr John de Hyde.

Sr Edward Butler.

SL' Peirs de Cariswall.

Gresley.

*Sr Benet de Sutton.

Sr Eoger de Aston.

Sr John de Hampton. f

William Bentley. John Hewet.

* Tn Harl. MS. 1570, "Sir ... . Bennet, de Sutton," which is probably correct, the coat being that of Bennet, not Sutton.

t Lord Hatherton's MS. and Harl. MS. 1570 add the crest, A wolf's head couped sable.

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

*Harry Harville. William de Strettay. John de Swinerton.

Nicholas de Ruggeley,

Sr Thomas de Aston. Sr Richard de Verdon.

tSr John de Touchet.

JS1' Thomas Mawreward.

Sr Jacob de Pype.§

Sr Thomas de Tamhorne.

Sr Robert Mawissin.

S' Thomas Beeke.

Sr John Gyffard.f

Sr Hugh Wrottesbury **

Sr John Grendon.

Sr Geffrey Congreve.ft

Argent, two lions passant in pale

sable, crowned or. Argent, three buck's heads ca-

bossed or attired gules. Argent, a cross forme flory sable

within a border engrailed

gules. Argent, on a chevron sable

three pierced mullets of the

field. Crest : A stag's head

erased or. A blank shield. Argent, fretty sable, on a canton

gules a martlet of the first. A blank shield. A blank shield. A blank shield. A blank shield. Bendy gules and argent. Gules, a cross ermine. Or, a cross engrailed sable. Or, three piles sable, a canton

ermine. A blank shield. A blank shield.

* Harl. MS. 6128 and other MSS. give the field sable and the lions argent, and it was so quartered by Comberford. See Harl. MS. 1439, etc.

t Ermine, a chevron gules. (Harl. MS. 6128.)

X " Shaweward " in Harl. MS. 1570.

§ James in Harl. MS. 6128, where the following arms are given — Azure, crusuly or, two pipes conjoined in chevron of the last. Erdeswick says that " Sir James de Pipe, who lived 28 Edw. III., sealed with a chevron in a bordure plain," though bis father, Robert, bore the arms above described.

|| Argent, a bugle horn strung between three escallops sable. (Harl. MS. 6128.)

f This is an undoubted mistake. The coat is that of Ufford. In the Harl. MS. 6128 the shield is blank ; in MS. 1570 c:al's Ufford " is added. It is curious that in a Roll stated to be of the reign of Edward I., the same coat is ascribed to Robert do Giffard, though in the margin is written "credo Ufford." ** " Wrottesley alias Wrotsley " in Harl. MS." 6128. ft Sable, a chevron between three battle axes argent. (lb.)

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25

Chetelton.*

John Boffrey.

Cornelius Wirley. Nicholas Waringe.f

Ednionde at Lowe.

Ric'us Lewson.

Sr Thomas Sutton. Sr William Warter.} Sheldon. §Bromfeild. ||Spilman.

Argent, on a chevron within a

border engrailed gules five

bezants. Argent, a chevron between three

annulets sable. Azure, three bugle horns argent. Sable, three falcon's heads erased

argent. Argent, a chevron between three

carpenter's squares sable. Quarterly azure and gules, three

dexter hands couped at the

wrist argent. Or, two lions passant in pale

azure. Argent, a chevron engrailed be- tween three chess-rooks sable. Argent, on a bend gules, three

sheldrakes or. Sable, on a chevron argent three

broom sprigs vert. Quarterly : 1 and 4, Sable, platee

two nanches argent ; 2 and 3,

Gules, a chief ermine.

* " William de Chettelton." (Harl. MS. 6128.)

f " De la Lee." (lb.)

t After this name in Harl. MS. 1570 is written " Finis E-otuli." And there is really no doubt that the ancient Roll ends with Thomas Sutton, the succeeding coats being of a much later date. Who Sir William Warter was I have not ascer- tained, but Burke (" General Armory ") states that a similar coat was borne by a Sir Wm. Warter temp. Henry VIII. The same writer ascribes this coat to Warter or Walter of Cimdall, co. York, and it was allowed at the Visitation of Middlesex in 1663 to William Walters of Edmonton, second son of Christopher Walters of Cundall, co. York. The Walcots of Shropshire bear a somewhat similar coat.

§ The same coat was borne by Brome of Warwickshire. See the Visitation of that county taken in 1619.

|| This is the coat of Spelman quartering Narborough as borne by the famous Sir Henry Spelman of Narborough, co. Norfolk (5. 1562, ob. 1641). Gwillim (first ed. 1611, p. 253) gives a cut of these arms, and says, " These coat-armors thus marshalled are borne by Sir Henry Spelman, Knight, a man very studious, a favourer of learning, and a careful preserver of antiquities." I have not been able to discover any connection between this family and the county of Stafford.

26

THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

*Spilman.

Quarterly : 1 and 4, as the last ; 2 and 3, Gules, a cross patonce between four trefoils slipped or.

In Deambulatorio Baronis de Burleygh apud

THlBAULDE's.f

Or, a chevron gules.

Argent, a fesse gules, in chief

three torteaux. Gules, fretty or. Or, a lion rampant double tailed

vert.

Dominus Stafford Comes Essex.

Dominus Audley. Dominus Dudley.

Dominus Pagett.

Walter us Aston, miles.

Gresley.

Litleton aVs Westcote.

Egerton. Bagenholte.

Fleetwoode.

Sable, on a cross engrailed be- tween four eagles displayed argent five lions passant of the field.

Argent, a fesse sable, in chief three lozenges of the last.

Vaire ermine and gules.

Argent, a bend cottised sable within a border engrailed gules be z ante.

Gules, a fesse ermine between three pheons argent.

Sable, an inescutcheon argent charged with a leopard's face gules within an orle of eight martlets of the second.

Per pale nebule or and azure, six martlets, 2, 2, and 2, counter- changed.

* The quartering is " Manning of Downe, Kent, confirmed 1577 " (Papworth). A similar coat is ascribed to Manning of Norfolk.

f Theobald's, Herts, then the seat of the famous Lord Burleigh, but afterwards the royal palace of King James I., who acquired it from Sir Eobert Cecil in ex- change for Hatfield. We learn from a survey of crown lands, made in 1650 by the Parliamentary Commissioners, that on the east side of the house was a cloister and over it a long gallery, called the " Green Gallery," in which were " excellently well painted" the arms of the noblemen and gentlemen in the "severall shires in England."

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27

Wrottesley. Fowler.

Stafford, Bagott. Griffith.

Okeover. Wirley.

Sneyde.

Salte.

Erdeswike.

Agard.

Minours. Draycott. Kinardesley.

Or, three piles sable, a canton

ermine. Azure, on a chevron between

three lions rampant or, as

many crosses crosslet sable. Or, a chevron between three

martlets gules. Gules, on a fesse dancette argent

between six lions rampant or,

three martlets sable. Ermine, a chief gules charged

with three bezants. Argent, a chevron engrailed be- tween three bugle horns sable,

stringed or. Argent, a scythe and snead, blade

in chief sable, in the dexter

chief a fleur-de-lis. Argent, a chevron couped be- tween three mullets sable. Argent, a chevron gules charged

with five bezants. Argent, a chevron gules between

three boar's heads couped close

sable. Gules, a fesse argent between

three plates. Paly of six or and gules, a bend

ermine. Argent, a fesse vaire or and gules

between three eagles displayed

of the last.

The Seale of the Towne of Stafforde.

[Here is a trick of the Seal.']

The Towne of Stafforde, hed borrough of the County, is ancyently corporated and privileged by Kinge .... Whereof at the tyme of this presente Visitac'on Nicholas Woodhouse

28 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

and Frauncis Lee were Baylifes and Justices of Peace within the libertyes therof, Frauncys Cradocke recorder of the sayde Towne, likewise Justice of Peace w'thin the liberties therof; and these whose names hereafter ensue were of the companie and brotherhood of the same Towne that is to say : Mathew Cra- docke, Thomas Whitby, Martyn Nowell, James Shirewood, William Blackborne, John Homersley, Roberte Lee, Edmond Blore, Richard Sterton, George Cradocke, Thomas Dorrington, Edward Lee, Richard Cotton, William Morres, William Dun- calf, Richard Dorington, and Willyam Phillippes.

The Seale of the Towne of Leichfeilde.

[Here is a trick of the Seal.~\

The Cittie of Lichfeilde, in the Countye of Stafforde, is in- corporated by the name of Baylifes, Burgesses, Cittizens, and the Commonaltye of the same Cyttie, by the noble prince of famous memorye Kinge Edwarde the Sixth, in the firste yeare of his Raigne. And at the tyrne of this present Visitac'on of Staffordshire were Baylifes therof, John Chatterton and Humfrey Ilsley ; and John Blounte was sherife. And these, whose names doe herafter followe, were then Citizens and of the Corporation of the same Cittye, that is to saye : Humfrey Lowe, Nicholas Birde, James Weston, John Feckenam, George Bagshawe, Walter Whitwicke, Thomas Tewe, John Walkelate, George Holmes, Humfrey Madocke, John Burnes, Will'm Baylie, John Byrde, Henry Hanson, Roger Perkins, John Lovate, Rob'te Dale, Symon Byddulle, John Anrpe, Kenelmus Hawkes, Richard Burwaye, Richard Otteley, and James Cruchley. Moreover Thomas Edgerton esqr Solliciter to the Queene's Matlc was then Recorder, and Richarde Broughton was Stewerde of the libertyes of the same Cittye.

The Com'on Seale of the Burgh of Newcastle under Lyne.

[Here is a trick of the 8eal.~\

The Towne and Burgh of Newcastle under Lyne is antyently encorporated by Kinge H. 3, Kinge of Ingland an0 reg' sui 19 by the name of Mayor and Burgeses ; wherof was mayor at the

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 29

tyme of this present Survey and visitac'on Raulph Edgerton, esqr. And these followinge were at that tyme the Aldermen there, viz., Sr Eaulph Edgerton, Knight, Raulph Sneyd, esqr, .Richard Pateson, Thomas Cleyton, Randoll Baginhould, Thomas Dale, and Edward Brette, esquiers.

The doubtful arms of Staffordshire.

[The ensuing list does not appear in the Stukeley MS. nor in the (presumed) Original, but it is given in Lord Hatherton's MS. and several other copies of the Visitation. It no doubt contains those coats which were disallowed or " respited" by Glover. I here print it from the Harl. MS. 1570, where, as the Harleian Catalogue has it, the arms are " hastily tricked within printed escocheons." It is there headed, "Here be- ginneth the doubtfull Armes of Staffordshire."]

John Brettayne, of Seres- Azure, a bend between six mul-

cott and Tamworth. lets or.

Raufe Aderley, of Coton. Argent, on a bend azure three

lozenges or, each charged with a pheon gules. John Skevington, of Fysh- Argent, three bull's heads erased

erwyke. sable.

Sir John Bowes, of Elford. Ermine, three bows strung in

pale gules, in the dexter chief a fleur-de-lis .... *Sir Symond Weston, of Ermine, on a chief azure five Lichfield. bezants, a martlet gules for

difference.

* An evident interpolation, for Sir Simon was not a knight in 1583, and his father, James Weston, was then living. The latter made his will in 1589, and therein names his son James, then under twenty-four years of age, and his son and heir Simon. It may he here mentioned that the elaborate pedigree of Weston printed in Harwood's " Erdeswiek " was fabricated in 1632 for Eichard, Lord Weston, then Lord Treasurer of England. (Vide Mr. Chester- Waters's " Memoirs of the Chesters of Chicheley.") It should be added that Sir Simon does not appear in the lists of doubtful coats given in Lord Hatherton's MS. and in the Harl. MSS. 1077, 1173.

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"^Edmund James, of Wor- cestershire.

Humfrey Wolverston, of Stotfeild.

Huinf rey Everard, of Whit- tin gton.

Kaufe Mynors, of Utoxeter.

Peter Eoos, of Swynes- head (extra Comitat.).

Ednmnd Bradock, of Ad- baston.

Edward Manwaring, of Whitmore.

Edward Brett, of Kele.

Azure, on a chevron between three lions passant guard ant or, as many escallops sable. Crest: A cubit arm vested bendy sinister or and azure, holding in the hand proper a hawk's lure gules, garnished, etc., gold.

Sable, a fesse wavy between three wolf's heads erased or. Crest : Under a tree a wolf statant, all proper.

Gules, on a fesse between three estoiles argent, as many pierced mullets sable.

Gules, a fesse argent between three plates.

Azure, three water bougets or.

Argent, a greyhound courant within a border engrailed sable.

Argent, two bars gules, in chief a mullet for difference.

Argent, on a chevron azure three bezants, in chief an annulet

Gilbert Astley, of Patis-

hall. Edmund Blount, of Burton.

Edward Swinerton of Ec- cleshall.

Azure, a cinquefoil pierced

ermine. Nebule or and sable, within a

border compone argent and

gules. Argent, a cross formee flor}r sable,

debruised with a bendlet gules.

* Edmund James was doubtless a member of tbe family seated at Astley and Eorfield Court in the county of "Worcester, of which a pedigree will be found in Harl. MS. 6128. Edmund James " of Swinford Regis " was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1548. One Edmund James was steward of the manor of Himley temp. Elizabeth ; his son, Walter James of Enville, gent., was one of the witnesses examined in an Exchequer suit relating to lands in Himley a0 1587, and was then " aged 43 or thereabouts."

<PeUtigm0.

( 33 )

gttoerleg of Cotoiu

Thomas Adderley of the^Joane, the da. of John

Blackhaghe in the Coun- tye of Stafford.

Thirkell of Smallwood in Com. Stafforde.

Joane, eldest, mar. to Rob'te Smithe of Brandston.

Elizabeth, mar. to Will'm Peverell.

Alice, mar. to John Cogniers de Com. Ebor.

I

Thomas

Adderley, eldest sonne, mar. Joane, da. of Rob't Warner.

John Adderley, second sonne, mar. Elene, the widdowe of one Gilbert.

Humfrey Adderley, Groome of the Robes to the Queene's Mat!e ; mar. first da. of North de Com. Notts, after da. of Capell.

George

Adderley,

5 sonne,

died in

Fraunce,

sans

yssue.

Margare, the da.- of Thomas Bagot of Blithefelde, Esqr ; first wife.

-Raulf Adderley of Cotton inr the County of Stafford, Esqr, Justice of Peace ; nowe liv- inge in anno 1583.

:Phelice, da. of Henry Milwarde in Com. Derby ; second wife.

Richard Adder- Will'm, eldeste Thomas, 2 sonne. Elene, eldest da. ley, eldeste sonne by the — —

sonne, tetatis seconde wife, Raulf, 3 sonne. Dorothe, 2 da.

26 annor' anno setat. 23 an'or' — —

1583. 1583. John, 4 sonne. Grace, 3 da.

Walter, 5 sonne. Mary, 4 da.

George, 6 sonne.

R. Adderley.

34 TIIE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

artlatfter of itongtrou.

Arms. — Ermine, a cross-low bent gules.

A trick of a seal containing the same arms on a circular shield, and an ostrich feather encircled by a ducal coronet for crest. Legend : " Seel Edmond Arbalastier." Over it : " Taken after an old seale in brasse."

Thomas Arblaster.=F

Richarde Arblaster.=f Maulde, syster of Sr Lewis Bagotte, Knighte.

Humfrey Arblaster.=j=Catherin, da. of Thomas Laynham of Staff ord- j sheire.

Thomas Arblaster of Longdon in=p. ... da. of ... .

Com. Stafford.

Martyn.

George Arblaster=p. . . . John Arblaster, Jane Arblaster, mar.

of Longdon, nowe livinge, 1583.

2 sonne. to Will'm Hollande

— of Caudwall in Com.

Michaell Arblaster, Derb.

3 sonne.

Thomas Arblaster, onely sonne and heire.

Franncis, mar. to Eic. Callangwoode of Alice, unmarried. Caudwall in Com. Derb.

Thomas Arblaster.

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Qtibtribmzt of aa&enlmratt.*

John Ashenhurst of Ashenhurst^ Jane, d. of . . in the County of Staff. Twyford.

John Ashenhurst, eldest sonne, mar. Margery,=p Will'm, 2 sonne,

d. of . . . . Collyer of ... . sans yssue.

Thomas, 2 sonne. Laurence, 3 sonne. Rauf, 4 sonne.

Anne, mar. to Thomas Sher- ard of Bag- enall in Com. Staff.

Johane, mar. to George Hill of Mes- ham in Com. Derby.

Joyce Miller,=j=John Ashenhurst=p Alice, d. of John:

da. of John Miller al's Ferae ; first wyf.

of Ashenhurst in Com. Staff., now lyving 1583.

Belott de Morton in Com. Cestr. ; 2 wyf.

Grace, first maryed to John Manyfold, after to Arthur Many- fold.

: Catherine, sister to Philip Okover of Okover.

Thomas, sans yssue. John, sans yssue.

Rauf Ashenhurst of Ashen- John, Dorothe, mar.

hurst, mar. Elizabeth, d. sans toJohnRothe-

& heire of Will'm Beard yssue. wall of Leeke

of Beard in Com. Derby. in Com. Staff.

Margaret, mar. to Nicholas Rayner of Duf- feld in Com. Derby.

Elizabeth, mar. to Thomas Lownes of Redearth in Com. Staff.

|4 |5

Anne, un- Joyce, mar. to Arthur maryed. Bulkelegh of Stanlo in

Com. Staff.

John Asshenhuest.

* In the presumed original (Queen's College MS.) this pedigree is crossed out; and, as will have been seen (ante, p. 15), John Ashenhurst of Ashenhurst was publicly disclaimed at Uttoxeter. This John died Oct. 20, 1597, and has a brass in Leek Church, whereon are represented the following arms : Or, a cockatrice, the tail terminating in a serpent's head and nowed sable, the comb, wattles, and head gules, in the beak a sprig vert. Crest : A cockatrice as in the arms. According to the Harl. MS. 1570, these bearings were granted by Dethick, Garter, in 1603, perhaps for the special purpose of being placed on this monument. There is a drawing of the brass in Mr. Sleigh's "History of Leek," facing p. 73.

d2

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asstltu of patrtfitifl.

Thomas de Astley,=f Elizabetha, filia Thomas de Bello- D'n's de Astley. campo, Comitis Warwici.

Will'm's de Astley ,=j=Catherina, soror D'n's de Astley, Baronis de Wil- miles. loughby.

Thomas Astley,=j=Elizabetha, filia miles, filius et hasres Ric'di

Thomas, Ar. sed quaere ?*

Harecourt, militis.

Johanna, unica filia et Thomas1

hasres, ux. s'c'da Regi- Astley,

naldi D'ni Grey de Ar. Ruthin. =p

: Johanna,

filia

Thomas Greseley, militis.

Johannes de Aste-- ley, inclitissimi ordinis Equestris Garterij, militis.

Thomas Astley de Pates-- hill in Com. Stafi". ; se- pultus apud Wolver- hampton an0 1 R. 8.

Margareta, filia	Will'm's de	Joh'es de
Thomas Butler,	Astley.	Astley, de
militis, et Eliza-	—	collatus.
beths uxoris	Hugo de
ejus.	Astley.

Will'm's Astley, sine prole.

Ricardus Astley~Johanna, filia Joh'is Oteley de

de Patteshill.

Piehford in Com. Salop, et suas cuiijugis, filias Blount.

Thomas de- Astley de Pateshill.

:Maria, filia et una hasredum Gilberti Talbot de Grafton, militis.

Jana, uxor Thomas Bagot de Blithfeild. =f=

I Ricardus Bajrott.

Gilbertus Astley de" Pateshill in Com. Staff., Ar., modo sup'stes in an0 1583.

-Dorothea, filia Thomas Joh'es Giflard de Chillinton Astley. in Com. Stat'., Ar.

Elizabetha, nnpta Joh'i Wrotesley de Wrotesley in Com. Staf.

Thomas Astley ,=j=Margeria, filia Waited Aston de p'mogenitus. * Ticksall in Com. Stafford, militis.

Walterus Astley.

* The doubt here thrown upon the parentage of Sir Thomas Astley is curious, for Bugdale and all the genealogists agree in making him second son of Thomas by Elizabeth Beauchamp, daughter of Guy (not Thomas as above), Earl of Warwick.

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3teton of Cfyan*

Arms. — Quarterly — 1. Argent, a f esse, and in chief three lozenges sable. [Aston.] 2. Or, a cross patonce gules. [Freville.] 3. Bendy or and azure. [Montfort.] 4. Gules, two bars gemelles argent, over all a bendlet of the last. [Welsh.] 5. Sable, on a chevron argent between three lion's heads erased or, as many cinquefoils of the field. [Staunton.] 6. Or, three bends gules. [Byron.]

Crest. — A bull's head couped or, the horns argent, tipped sable. (A second Crest is given in Lord Hatherton's MS., viz., A chapeau, issuant therefrom on either side a bulVs horn proper.)

Eogerus de Aston, 35 E. 3.=

Thomas de Aston, filius et hseres.

Johanna; uxor=Rogerus* Aston,=pJocosa, filia et cohaeres

s'c'da.

miles, obijt 1447

Baldwini Frevill, militis ; uxor p'ma.

Jane, ux. Roger

Draycott. Haywood et de Parkhall

(HathertonMS.) in Com. Stafford.

Robertus Aston, miles, de=j=Johanna, soror Will'mi

Brereton, militis.

Isabella, uxor Ricardi: Bagot de Blithefeld.

Johannes Bas;ot.=F

Ludovicus Bagot, miles.=p

Thomas Bas;ot.=T=

Ricardus Bagot,

Johannes- Aston, obijt 1483.

:Elizabetha, filia Johan- nis Delves, militis.

Parnell, ux. Rich. Bydulfe. (Hatherton

MS.)

Ricardus Aston, 2.

Robertus Aston, 3 filius.

* According to Lord Hatherton's MS., this Roger was the son of Thomas de Aston, Kt., by Elizabeth, sister and coheir of Eeginald Lee, which Thomas was son of Roger, and grandson of another Roger de Aston, living 19 E. 1, and 35 E. 3.

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIKE, A.D. 1583.

A|

Johannes Byron de Clayton=j=Margeria, filia Johannis in Com. Lane, miles. Boothe de Barton.

Nicholaus Byron, Ricardus Byron, s'e'd's filius, Elena, nupta miles. pater Margerise Staunton. Waltero Blount.

Thomas Welshe de Onlep=pMargeria Staunton, Johanna, uxor Will'ini in Com. Leycestria. haeres. Basset de Blore.

Elena, uxor: prima, filia et una haeredu'.

Thomas, miles.^

Will'm's Lit-=j=Maria, filia Whit- Elizabetha,uxorp'ma

tleton, miles

ington; uxors'e'da. Rad'i Shirley, militis.

Johannes Anna, nupta Thoinaa Pulteney, militi.

Littleton. =p

Franciscus Pulteney.

Eliz.y ux. Bassett Isabella, nupta Johannes Aston=pJohanna, filia

of Blore. Humfrido de Tycksall,

(Hatherton MS.) Okeover de miles, obijt

Okeover. 1523.

et hseres, alibi Elena.

Will'm's Aston, s'e'd's filius.

Elena, Isabella. Una istarum nupta fuit Thomse Curzon de Crox- hallinCom.Derb.

Jana, filia Thoma3=j=Edwardus= Maria,

Bowles de Castro de Penhow in Southwallia, militis, in Com. Carmarden.

Maria, nupta Simoni Hare- court de Staunton.

Katherina, nupta Will'mo Gresley de Colton, militi.

Aston de filia

Tycksall, Henrici

miles, Vernon,

obijt militis. 1568.

Anna. Francisca, nupta Roberto Nedeham de Schenton in Com. Salop.

B

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|B

| I I _

Walterus Aston=f=Elizabetha, filia Leonardus Anthonms Aston de

de Tycksall, miles, modo superstes, anno 1583.

Jacobi, ac soror Aston, Ricardi Leve- duxit re- son, militis. lictam

Creswall.

Parkhall in Com. Staff., duxit relictam Borows* de Com. Lincoln.

Maria, filia=pEdwardus=pAnna, filia Robertus Aston, Ricardus

Joh'is Spenser, militis ; uxor p'ma

Aston, Ar.

Thomse s'c'd's filius, Lucy de duxit filiam Com.Warr., Dab/son. militis.

Aston, 3 filius, duxit relictam Clerke.

Filius, sine p'le.

Filiae duas.

Ill I M |3

Will'm's, 4 filius. Jana, nupta Margeria, nupta Eleonora, nupta

— Will'mo Thornse filio Peytoe de Devereux, 5 filius. Crumpton primogenito Chesterton in

— de Stone in Gilberti Astley Com. Warw. Hastingus, 6 filius. Com. Staff, de Patishill in

Com. Staff.

|4 |5 6 |

Maria. Elizabetha, promissa Basilio Feldinge Catherina. de Neuenham in Com. Warw.

iSagot of JSlttfjfim

Anns.— Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, a chevron gules letween three martlets sable. [Bagot.] 2. Or, a lion rampant, doubled tailed gales. [Blithfield.j] 3. Per pale dancettee argent and sable. [Malory.]

Crest. — In a ducal coronet or, a goafs head argent, horned gold.

Rad'phus Bagott, miles, de Bagotts Bromeley.

Joh'es Bagot, miles.=f=Beatrix, filia Joh'is Villiers, militis. A|

* Relict of Henry Borough of Stowe in Lincolnshire, by whom he had issue, Edward, Walter, and John, of whom Edward had " a dau.," and Walter had a son of his own name. (Hatherton MS.)

t Sic in Stukeley MS., but 2 is Malory, and 3 Blithjield,

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Kniveton port g. un cheveron varri ar. et sa.

Port p'ti p' pale sa. et g. un lyon rampt. argent.

Elizabetha, nupta Kni- veton.

R'c'dus=plsabella, filia

Bagot, Ar.

Rob'ti As- ton, militis.

Jana, uxor Joh'is Curson, filii et haeredis Joh'is Curson.

Margareta, uxor Hen. Bradborne, postea ux. Davenport.

Joh'es Bagot, Ar.,=f=Isabella, filia obijt 24 Junii, Johannis Curson 1480. de Essex.

Curson de Essex port ar. sur un fesse g. 3 testes dazur (sic) arg. couple.

Matildis, ux. Ric'di Arblaster, filii et haer. Tho. Arblaster.

Aleonora, ux. Rob'ti Cawardin, fil. et haer. Thomas.

I

Isabell, ux.

WiU' Dun- holme, filii et hasredis Wili'mi.

Anna, uxor

Rob'ti

Kniveton,

filii et

haeredis

Joh'is.

Anna, uxor ter-=pLodovicus Bagot, miles pro=Margareta, ux.=Uxor 5,

tia, filia Nicholai

Montgomery,

militis.

Corpore Regis H. 7. Obiit 4, filia Ric. relicta.

31 Maii 1534. Vernon

Emma, uxor ejus p'ma, filia Kniveton.=i=

Johannes Bagot, duxit Jana, ux. Elena, Elizabetha,

filiam Thomas Boteler Jacobi uxor ux. Georgii

de Beausey, mil., et Thirkeld. Tho. Est de

obiit sine exitu. Meverell. Yardley.

.... filia

nupta

Bydolph

deEccles-

haU.

Edwardus Stephanus Bagot, 3 filius, duxit Thomas^Jana, filia Bagot, Anna', filiam Thomae Josceline

2 filius. de Com. Essex, militis.

Bagot, Ar.

Jana, nupta Brereton, filio Uriani Brereton, militis.

Ric'di Astley de Pateshill.

Joh'es Ricardus Bagot de: Bagot, Blithfield in Com. 2 filius. Staff., Ar., modo

superstes an0 1583. u

-Maria, filia Wili'mi Saunders de Welford in Com. North'pt'.

Margareta, ux. Radulphi Adderley, Ar.

w^

&M

$agcit

Harry Soane. Sembiit Engrave? J'r London

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B|

Walterus Bagot, p'mogenitus filius, natus 24 Octob. 1557.

Anthonius Bagot, natus 20 No. 1558.

Margareta.

Anna, nupta Ric'do Broughton, 30 Julii 1577. Ipsa nata fait xj Maij 1555.

Dorothea. Letecia.

Richard Bagot.

JSagStmto of Jfartoell

Arms. — Or, a bugle horn sable, stringed vert, between three roses gules. Nicholas Bagshawe of Abney in Com. Derbye.=f=

Nicholas Bagshawe=i=. ... da. of Browne of

of Abneye.

Chapell in Frithe.

Nicholas Bagshawe=pElizabeth, da. of Humfrey Ruggeley of Abney. of Longdon in Com. Staff.

Nicholas Bagshawe=pJoane, da. of Abney in Com. of Rob'te Derby, nowe livinge, Linaker. and of Farwell in Com. Staff., 1583.

Edwarde, 2 sonne, mar.

Will'm, 3 sonne.

Osmonde, 4 sonne.

Rob'te 5.

Thomas, 6 sonne.

Elizabeth, eldeste da., getat. 7 an'or' 1583.

Nazarethe, 2 da.

Nicholas Bagshaw.

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Co&ntajje anti JSaitram ot BarlaStoit

EX VETERE QUODAM SCRIPTO IN PARGAMEN' 14 SEPTEMBRIS 32 H. 8.

[Three small escutcheons: 1, on a chevron five roundles; 2, two bars and a canton ; 3, two barulets, between in chief a lion passant to the sinister, and in base a chevron. A circular seal, thereon a shield charged with a saltire engrailed, on the saltire in the dexter chief a pheon, in the centre of the saltire an inescutcheon charged with a chevron. Over : " S. Bertram de Lewin." " This seale in brasse shewed by George Bartram of Barleston at Stone the 7 of August 1583." See Plate.]

Hughe Cokenage, called Lorde of Cokenage, and Alice his wife.

David of Cokenage and Hawise his wife.

Peter of Cokenage and Alice his wife.

This Davy gave to Raulf his brother a mess' place & oxe- gon of landes in fee for ever in Cokenage. Alsoe this Davy gave to Will'm Bertram a mess' and an oxegon of Landes in the same Cokenage in fee for ever.

Raulf of Coken- age and Isabell his wife.

John of Coken- age and Alice his wife.

Geffry of Cokenage and Isabell his wife.

Joane of Cokenage was mar. to John the sonne of Will'm Bartram.

Will'm of Cokenage and Alice his wife.

Henry Bertram and Phillippa his wife.

John.

Will'm of Cokenage and Joane his wife. This Will'm entayl- ed all his landes to John his sonne and his wife, pro defec' rem' Eve filia.

Rob te, 2 sonne, entred into all the land that should be Eve's, the da. & heire of Will'm.

Richarde.

Will'm Bertram and Eve his wife.

Nicholas.

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John of Eve, sister and heire of John, was wedded to John of

Cokenage the Hall of Bucknall, to the wch mariage Will'm her

and his father gave all his mess', landes, and ten' in Bloreton

wife Mar- in fee tayle ; the wch John and Eve had noe yssue.

gery, dyed The sayde Eve toke to her husband Roger Wolriche ;

sans yssue. the sayde Roger and Eve made estat by fine at Westmr

of all the mess', landes, and rentes in Bloreton and

Cokenage (the wch was Eve's by guifte and by descente

of her father) to twoe prests called John Globard and

Richard Ford ; the w* John Globarde was sonne to

Thomas Globard ; the wch Thomas had yssue Eve his

da.; the wch Eve was wedded to Will'm Bertram,

father of John Bartram, the father of Hughe that was

righte heire by descente of bloud and by fine.

John Bertram and Joane his wife.:

Hughe Bertram, that was right heire to all the Landes that were Will'm Bartram's, and alsoe of Ralf of Cokenage, and alsoe for defaulte of yssue of Davy Cokenage, the elder brother, and all the progeny that came of him, the sayde Hughe is heire to all the Landes, rentes, and services. The sayde Hughe Bertram, Agnes & Joane his wives, had yssue

John Bertram and=j= Hellene his wife.

Will'm. Richarde. Hughe. Thomas. James. Rob'te.

Anne, 1 wife, da. of . . . .=pJohn Bertram,1

Weste Ar.

de Com. Warw.,

Agnes and Anne his 2 wives.

Agnes, 2 wife, da of James Lawton of Churchlawton.

John Bertram, mar. War-=j= burghe, da. of James Lawton.

Thomas 2. Hughe 3.

James. Edwarde. Randall.

George Bartram of Barleston and=f=Margaret, sister to Sr Ralf & Sr Cokenage, livinge 1583. Nich. Baginholde.

Will'm Bartram,=j=Elizabeth, da. of John Legh George. Warburghe. eldest sonne. of the Ridge. —

Grace. Margarette, only da,

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3Sa$3ett, JHegnell, etc,

Rob'tus Warde.

Johanna, nupta Hugoni Meignill, seniori.

Giles Meynill.=

Hugo Meynill. Cecilia.

Ricardus Meynill.1

I Hugo Meynill.=p

1 Joane,	Reignalde=j	=Thomasin.:	= Hughe
mar. to	Dedike		Erdiswike,
....	veil		2 husband.
Clinton.	Dethicke, first husbande.

Joane, mar. to . . Tikill al's Tikhill.

I I

Margaret, Alice, mar. mar. to to ... . John Aston ;

Dedike died s.p. veil Roger Dethike.

Margaret, mar. to (Sic.) Raulin Basset.

John Dethike al's Thomas.

Walter Tikill.

Will'm Basset.

Will'm Dethike.

Will'm Basset.

Thomas Dethike.

Thomas Tykhill.

Memorandum that the aforesayde Hugh Meynill was heire unto Warde and to Maynell, and was seased of the mannors of Langley, Kingley, Newhall, and Hartishorne Staunton.

Wherof Joane had to her p'te Staunton-Harolde, Tyssington, & Upton, wth other landes. Thomasin had to her p'te Langley, Kingley, wth the advouson of the Church. And Margaret had to her parte Newhall, Hartshorne, wth the advouson Staunton Warde.

Memorand., that I, Phillip Dedike, a man of fourscore yeares of age & more, Witnesseth and saith that Sr Hugh Maynell, Knight, had iiij daughters, of wch 4 daughters Sr Will'm Dedike, at that tyme thresorer of England, had the custodye, and maryed one of them to Aston, and another to Clinton, and the other twoe were wedded to his 2 sonnes Reignolde and Roger. Item, the da. wch Aston maryed died wthout yssue of her hody, and the lande of the sayde Sr Hugh Maynell was parted hetwixte the sayde sisters. And the sayd Reignold Dedike wedded Thomasin, and had by her twoe daughters, Margaret & Joane, and alter the death of the sayde Reignolde, one Hughe Erdeswike wedded the same Thomasyne, and had noe yssuo by her. Margaret Raulin Basset wedded, and had by her yssue Will'm, father to Will'm that nowe is, and Joane one Tykill wedded.

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45

asasteett of Move antr ffimte.

Arms. — Quarterly — 1. Argent, three piles gules, on a canton of the first a griffin segreant sable. [Bassett.J 2. Gules, a cross ermine. [Beke.] 3. Vaire argent and sable. [Meynell.] 4. Sable, a lion rampant argent. [Everdon.] 5. Argent, three bench gules. [Byron.] 6. Argent, a bend azure charged with three annulets or, in the sinister chief a cross-crosslet fitchee of the second. [Clayton.]

Crest. — In a ducal coronet or, a boar's head gules.

A second shield as above, except that between Beke and Meynell is inserted another quartering, viz., (Argent), a fesse vaire (or and gules) between three water bougets (sable). [Dethicke.]

Motto. — En esperance d 'avoir.

Will'm Bassett of=pElizabeth, da. of Thomas-

Blore and Grendon in Com. Staff., Esqr, and of Langley in Com. Derb.

Meverell of Throwley, Esqr

:Henry Cokayne, 2 husbande.

Margaret, mar. to John Woodson of Litlehales in Com. Salop.

Thomas Bassett, 2 sonne, mar. da. of

Frauncis Bassett.

Anne, daughter~Sr Will'm Bassett=Elenor,

of Sr Thomas Cokayne of Ashburne in Com. Derby, Kuio-hte.

Edw. Bassett of Hintes, Divers mar. da. of ... . Chet- daughters, winde of ... .

of Blore, Kl, mar. 3 wife, to his 2 w. Isabell, da. of

the widowe of Jo

Bradborne, da. & Littleton, coheire of Richard wid. of of Ridware. Cotes.

Maulde, mar. to Ba. Okover of Okover in Com. Staff., Esqr.

Will'm=j=Elizabeth, da. Thomas Bassett, Frauncis, Margarett,

Bassett of Blore and of Langley, Esqr.

of Sr Anthony Fitzherbert of Norbury, Knight.

2 sonne, mar. Elene, da. of ... . Cotes of Wood- cott in Com. Salop. =f

3 sonne, died sans yssue.

mar. to Rich. Copwood of Tatridge in Com. Her- ford.

Will'm Bassett of Blore in Com. Staff., and of Langley in Com. Derby, Esqr; nowe livinge, 1583.

Will'm Bassett of Fole in Dorothe.

Com. Staff. ; nowe livinge,

1583.

Will'm Bassett.

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THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583,

iSas&ctt anU (Jfjjerton.

John Bassett de Chedley, 6 Ed. 2.=f

Johes Bassett de Chedley, miles, =pJohanna, filia et 44 Ed. 3, 6 H. 4. hares

Edmundus Rad'ph's Basset=j=Matildis, filia Reginaldus=rThomasina,

Basset, de Nuplace, et

obijt sine postea de Ched-

p'le 1429, ley, 9 H. 4. 8 H. 6.

et heeres Dethike, 3

Thomas Beke f. Dethike. et Alicias, p'mas uxoris, suas quas obijt 9H. 5.

filia et una hteredum Hugonis de Meynill.

Rad'ph's Bassett de=pMargareta, filia et sola=Nicholaus Montgomery,

Chedley, et de Blore, et Grendon, 30 H. 6

hasres Regi. Dethike, filius Nich. Montgomery, quse obijt 1466. militis; 2 mar.

Will'm's Bassett de=p. Chedley, Blore, et Grendon, 34 H. 6, et de Langley.

Cecilia, uxor Hugonis Johannes Biron, Erdeswike, filii Hen. miles.

Ricardus Biron.=pLucia. I

Will'm's Basset, Viscomes=p Johanna, filia et co- Margeria, uxor Thomas

Stafford in an'o 6 E. 4, sup'stes 5 H. 7, senior.

hseres Ric. Biron, "Welshe de Onlep in

filii Joh'is Biron, Com. Leic.

militis.

Will'm's Basset, junior,=j=Elizabetha, filia Thomae=HenricusCokayn,

21 H. 7, de Blore et de Langley in Com. Derb.

Meverell de Throwley, 2 maritus. junioris, Ar.

Will'm's Bassett de Blore,=f=Anna, filia Thomas Cokayn Grendon, et Langley, miles, de Ashburne, militis.

Will'm's Basset de=j=Elizabetha, filia Anthonij Fitzherbert Blore. de Norbery, militis.

Will'm's Basset, modo superstes, 1583.

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

47

u

I 22 E. 4. Johannes Basset, primo- Rad's=pElena, filia Nicholaus Basset, 3

genitus filius, duxit Elizab., Basset, filiam Joh'is Aston, militis, 2 filius. et obiit sine exitu.

Hugonis filius, duxitElenam,

Eggerton filia' Nic. Mont-

de Wrin- gomery, militis, et

hill, Ar. obiit s.p.

Margareta, filia et hasres, nupta Rad'o Egerton de Ridley in Com. Cestria3. =f

Richardus Egerton de Ridley, miles.

Rad .'us Egerton de Ridley, nunc 1583.

iSa^^ctt tit <#>apccott, C&eatrfe, JSlore, Gmtiion, et dnetrhonmgin

(Barry nebulee of six argent and sable ; in trick.)

Will'm's Bassett, cui Osbertus Basewinus dedit manerium de Chedle in Com. Staff., t'pe Regis H. 2 ; quo tempore ipse Os- bertus tenuit in eodem Com. tria feoda militaria de D'no Rob' to de Stafford, ut apparet in libro rubeo Scaccarij.

Rad's Basset, junior, filius.:

(Arms as above, with a label gules.)

Symon Basset, D'n's de: Chedley.

(Nebule argent & sable.)

Rad's, filius Rad. Basset, cui Rad's Basset de Sap- cote dedit 62 acras terras in Cheddle, tenend' de prasd'c'o Rad'o de Sapcote, p' finem levat' an'o 56 H. 3. ==

Rob'tus Basset,: tenuit 20 libra- tas terras de rege in capite in Com. Nott. et Derb., an0 38 H. 3, 1253.

Rad's Basset de Sape- cote, D'n's de Chedley, per finem levat' an0 56 H. 3, dedit terras in Chedle, Rad'o filio Radi' Basset ; fait sumonitus inter Barones ad Parlia- mentu', a0 49 H. 3.

48 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

A B I

Will'm's Basset de Joh'es Basset, sup'stes t'pe E. . .=y=Uxorejus Com. .N Ott., t pe (Qr> 3 piies gules, a canton barry

Phi' Markham, nebule arg. & sable.)

vie' Not., miles.

filia Liseux.

Rob'tus Basset, sup'stes 1359. Will'm's Basset, sup'stes 1359. Ricardus Basset, nepos Will'mi, 1359, 33 E. 3.

I I

Rad's Bassett, d'n's de Parkhall de Chedley, dat terras Joh'es Rad'o filio suo in an'o xi E. 2. Bassett.

Rad's Basset de Parkhall de Chedley, sup'stes an0 6 E. 3.

Joh'es, fllius Joh'is Bassett,- sup'stes an0 6 E. 2.

(Barry nebule argent & sable bezante.)

. . . .=j= Joh'es Bassett de Chedley, miles, sup'stes=j=Johanna, filia et

an'o 44 E. 3, et an'o 6 H. 4.

(Or, 3 piles gules, on a canton argent a griffin segreant sable.)

has res Henrici de

Braylesford,

militis.

Edmundus Basset, Radulphus Basset de=pMatildis

obiit sine p'le 8 Newplace, et postea H. 6. de Chedley.

de Beke.

Thomas: Bassett.

Rad's Basset de Chedley et de= Blore, 30 H. 6.

I

Will'm's.=F

Will'm's.;

Will'm's.=F

Johanna, uxor Rad'i=j= Shirley. |

I Rad's.=p

Joh'es. Rad's.

Will'm's.=

Wffl'm's.=F

Fran(iiscus.=j=

!

Joh'es.=p

Will'm's Basset de Blore, 1583, Georgius Shirley, nunc 1583. d

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49

D'n's Rad's Basset de Sapecote, sup'stes an'o 2-4 E. 1 et 21 E. 1, tenuit Languet et Chedley 21 E. 1. Elizab. Colvill uxor ejus.

Rob t's Bassett, cui pater dedit 2 acras terras in Depdale anno 54 H. 4 (sic).

(Nebule arg. & sa., a label gu.)

D'n's Egidius=pAlicia, Symon Basset, d'n's^Isabelk^quassup'vivit

de Estlegh.

uxor. de Sapecote et de Chedley, sup'stes an'o 20 E. 2, et mortuus ante ami' 2 E. 3.

maritum an'o 2 E. 3, filia d'ni WiU'mi le Botteller de Wemme.

Sibilla,n=Rad's Basset=j=Alicia, uxor 2, filia et haeres Edmimdus

filia Egidij Astley, militis, ux. 1.

de Sapecote, D'n's de Chedley. Inq. post mortem 2 R. 2.

Joh'is de Dry by, relicta Basset de

Rob'ti Tochet, militis. Sapecote,

(A chevron between 9 billets, ^UP'StoeS "??.

5 above & 4 below. " S. o Jli. d, obijt

Alicise ux. Rad. Basset, S.p. militis, 1377.")

Alicia, uxor Rob'ti Moton de Elizabetha, uxor Ricardi Grey de

Pekulton, militis, astat. 30 Codnore, aetat. 17 annor' an0 2 R. 2.

an'or' 2 R. 2. =F =F

Thomas.=p Henricns, D'n's Grey. Elizabetha, ux. Joh'is Zouche.

Rob tus.

Henricus, ultimus D'n's Grey de Codnore.

Thomas Basset de Fledbnrgh=pMargeria, filia WiU'mi in Com. Notts. Meringe.

Ricardus=pElizabetha, Will'm's Basset=p. .

Basset, miles.

filia Joh'is de Muskham. Denham.

Catherina, ux. Thomas Sutton de Aram, militis.

Joh'es=p. . . . filia D'ni

Basset.

Burgh.

.... uxor Catherina, ux. Henrietta1 Thomae Guidonis Fair- Sutton. Powtrell. fax.

Edwardus Basset de Fledburgh, 1569.

Will'm's Sutton. E

50 THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

fiittlUljpi) Of IStOtlUlpfi.

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and±. Vert, an eagle displayed argent. [Biddulph.] 2. Argent, a chevron romjm between three crosses bottonee fitchee sable. [Greentvay.] 3. Sable, a saltire engrailed or. [Salway.]

Crest. — A wolf sejant regardant argent, vulned in the shoulder gules.

Henry Bydulf of Over Bydulf=pEirmie, daughter

in the County of Staff.

of

Thomas, sonne and heire of Henry Bydulf.

Roger Bydulf,* sonne of Thoinas.=p Randoll Bydulf, 2 sonne.

Roger Bydulf, sonne of Roger .=p Will'm Bydulf, yonger sonne.

John Bydulf, sonne=p Agnes, wyf to Richard the sonne of Will'm

of Roger. Brounssone.

Thomas of Overton.=F

Thomas of Overton.=pMargaret.

Robert Bydulf, sonne=pCicely, one of the d. Elene. Alice.

of John.

and heires.

Margaret. Werburga.

Will'm Bydulf, sonne=pElene, cousin and heire of Richard the sonne of Robert. I of Will'm Grenway.

Sr Robert Aston de=plsabell. Richard Bydulf, sonne of=

Com. Staff., K. Will'm.

Petronill, d. of Sr Robert Aston.n=Richard Bydulf, sonne of Richard.

A I

* " This Eoger Bydulf, Henry Verdun, and Eobert of Knyperslegh, held the manner of Bydulf of Theobald Lord Verdun of Alveston, in chief, anno 24 E. 1."

Harry ?oane S&raZcUcEnpraver'dc London

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51

A|

Elizabeth, John Bydulf, Joyce, mar. Catherine, wyf to Will'm

mar. to eldest sonne, to Rauf Calverley, to whome she

Humfrey sans yssue. Porter. bare a sonne Richard. Leffh.

Humfrey Salway of Stanford.=p. . . . daughter of ... . Strelley.

John Salway of Stamford in=pMargery, d. of Hugh Erdeswyke Com. "Wigorn. of Sandon, Ar.

Richard=f=Margaret Cicely, wyf to Hum- Joyce, first mar. to Will'm

Bydulf of Bydulf.

Salway. frey Coningesby of Ashby, after to Rauf Neene Solers, Ar. Wolfesley of Wolfesley, Knight.

John Bydulf, eldest Francis Bydulf of Bydulf=plsabell, d. of Sr Thomas sonne, dyed sans in the County of Staff., Giffard of Chillinton in yssue. Esquire, now lyving the County of Staff.,

1583. Knight.

Richard Bydulf , 1. Ursula, 2. Mary, wyf 3. Dorothe. 4. Catherine.

sonne & heire, sans setatis 24 annor' yssue. 1583.

to Thomas Rudyard of Rudyard in Com. Staff.

5. Brigide.

Fratjncis Byddulphe.

3$ototS ot dPIfortr, tic.

Elford, m. Scotteshay, haya. Haseley, 7 Virg. Ocle. Alrewas. Kinge's Bromley.

V Staff.

Sr Richarde=pMauld, da. & heire of StafForde. the L. Caumville.

Maulde, da.=pSr Thomas Arderne. and heire. Inq. 15 R. 2. A I

e 2

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A I

Sr John Arderne, aetat. 21 an'or' 15 R. 2.=f=Maulde, da. of . . . . Inq. 10 H. 4. j

Maulde, da. and heire, 83 tat. 12 an'or'^Thomas Stanley, Knight, an0 10 H. 4. | obijt 4 H. 6, 1425.

Maulde.=pSr John Stanley, founder of the C hauntry= Anne. = Elizabeth, at Elforde anno 1474.

John=p Sr Hmnfrey Margery, mar. A da. mar. A da. mar.

Stanley. [ Stanley. to Willm to Henry to ... .

^ Staunton.* Ferrers. Savage of

Wocestr.

* This is a mistake. Margery Staunton was daughter of John Stanley, son and heir of Sir John and Maude. (See Shaw under Elford, and also the pedigree of Brooke of Haselor in this Visitation, post, page 57.) The pedigree given in Lord Hatherton's MS. is more complete than the above, and includes the issue and descendants of Sir Humphrey Stanley of Pipe. According to that pedigree, Sir John Stanley (son of Sir Thomas by the heiress of Arderne) had two sons, John of Elford, and Humphrey of Pipe. The former had issue (by Elizabeth his wife) three daughters, his coheiresses, viz. : Maud, married to William Ferrers of Tarn- worth ; Anne, married to Christopher Savage of Worcestershire ; and Margery, wife of William Staunton. William Perrers is no doubt an error, for, according to Dugdale's " Warwickshire," and the Visitation of that county taken in 1619, it was Sir John Perrers of Tamworth who married Maud Stanley. Sir Humphrey Stanley " of the Pype " (continues the pedigree) married Ellen, daughter of Sir James Lee of Stone, and by her had issue three sons and two daughters, viz. : (1) Sir John of the Pype, who was father, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Gerard, of two daughters and coheirs, viz., Isabel, married to Walter Moyle of Kent (and had a daughter and heiress Mary, married to [Erasmus] Heveningham), and Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Hercy of Grove, Notts; (2) William Stanley, who married [Margaret], daughter of [Thomas] Comberford, and had issue an only child Dorothy, married to Christopher Heveningham ; (3) Humphrey Stanley, " parson of Clyfton." The daughters were, Maud, wife of Thomas Wolverston, and Alice, wife of Thomas Swinnerton. According to Poster's " Lancashire Pedigrees," Sir John Stanley's first wife was Matilda (Maud), by whom he was father of John of Elford, and Humphrey of Pipe ; his second was Isabella, daughter of Sir Richard Vernon, by whom he had three daughters, Alice, Isabel, and Catherine ; and his third wife was Dulcia, daughter of ... . Legh, by whom he had a son lloger.

With regard to the two Heveningham matches named above, it is observable that, according to the Visitation of Staffordshire taken in 1614 (Harl. MS. 1439), Erasmus Heveningham had issue by the " da. & heire of .... Moyle " a son Christopher, who married Dorothy, " da. of .... Stanley," that is to say that Christopher Heveningham married (if this pedigree be correct) the daughter of his great-grandfather's brother. This is stated (Erdeswick, p. 41) to be " not impossible as to dates," and it appears that Isabella Moyle was but thirty-five years older than her grandson.

There is an able article on the Stanleys, Pipes, etc., of Elford and Clifton- Campville (signed with the well-known initials " S. P. W."), in the second volume of the " Topographer." Vide also Shaw, i., 354, where this article is extensively cpuoted.

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 53

Anne, da. and one of the=pSr "VYiU'ni Sniithe,=Isabell,* da. and one of

heires of "Will'm Staunton & Margery his wife, da. of John Stanley.

Knight, obi j fc the heires of Sr John

1526. Nevill, Marquis Monta-

ceut, quas obijt 1516.

Margery.=pRicharde Hudleston.=pSybell, da. of ... . Croftes, 2 wife.

Luce, mar. Anne, mar. to John Richard Hudleston, now John and

to John Bowes of Elforde, livinge, mar. the Lady Anthony,

Brooke. nowe livinge, Kl, Waynman of Oxford- sans

=F 1583. =p sheire. yssue.

i T

„ J. i i i

Rob'te. John, s.p. Richard Bowes of=. ... da. and one of the

— Elforde (a foole]). heires of Kebell of Leices- Jerosme. tersheire.

BotuKer of &mperSleg,

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, a lion rampant between three crosses crosslet fitche'e gules. [Bowyer.] 2. Azure, three spades or, handles argent. [Knipersley.] 3. Azure, two bars argent, in chief as many plates. [Venables.]

Crest. — Out of a tower gules, a demi-dragon or, langued of the first.

The Hatherton MS. adds, after Venables, Argent, a fire-pan sable, enjlamed proper, in the dexter chief a crescent, for Haywood, "but not in the Vysitatyo'."

* The Genealogists are silent as to this second marriage of Isabel Nevill with Sir William Smith. Her first husband was Sir William Huddleston, Knt., and he acquired with her the manor and estate of Sawston in Cambridgeshire, still enjoyed by the family. By her Sir William was father of the Richard Huddleston, named above, who married the daughter of his stepfather by his first wife, Anne Staunton, The marriage of Sir William Smith with Isabel, " unius hseredum Johannis Nevyle, militis, Marchionis de Monteacuto," is asserted on his monument at Elford, and she is stated to have died October 12, 1516.

t A pencil note adds " not in Glover " !

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Will'ni Venables Thomas Bowyer of=i=Catherin, da. a,nd sole heire

de Bradwall.

Knipersley in the Com. of Staff.

of Tho. Knipersley of Knipersley.

Johanna, uxor Elena, uxor Will'm Bowier^p. . . . da. of .

Thomas Bering- Rob'ti de of Knipersley.

ton. Kniperslegh.

Trubshaw. (Hatherton MS.)

Will'm Bowyer=p. . . . da. of ... . ErdesivyTie

of Knipersley.

of Sandon. (lb.)

Thomas Bowier of Knipersley.=p. . . . da. of Cotton of ... . (lb.)

John Bowier of=f=Elizabeth, da. of ... . Lewson of

Knipersley.

Wolv'hampton in Com. Staff.

1 Will	m Bowier=pKatherin, daughter of S1- Andrewe
of Knipersley.	Br	sareton of Breareton.
Anne, eldest	1 Maulde, mar.	Alice, mar. Elene, mar.	1 Elizab.
da., mar.	to Richarde	to Richard to Randulph	mar. to
to John	Edge of	Sergeant of Rayne of	Will'm
Wedgwoode.	Horton in	Bagenhould Elworth in	Berinton
	Com. Staff.	in Com. Com. Cestr.	of Brad-
		Staff.	wall.

John Bow-=FElizab. da. of

ier of Kni- persley.

Jo. Buckenall of Sidway in Com. Staff.

Andrewe Bowier.

Thomas Bowier of=F.

Elene, mar. to Thomas Dorington of Salop.

Broadheath or Heathouse Grange in Com. Staff., thirde sonne.

daugh- ter of Foxe.

Thomas. Elizabeth. Will'm. Elene. Alice.

r~

A daughter.

Will'm Bowyer of=p.

Heath house Grange, nowe livinere 1583.

da. of Stone of

Lon- don.

;®flfej>s^

Harry Soan&. Heraldic Engraveric London

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55

U

Will'm Bowier=pAnne da. & George, Thomas Bow-

of Knipersley, nowe livinge an0 1583, Esq

coheire of 2 sonne, yer of Stony- Will 'm of Lon- lowe, 3 son', Haywood of don. infra dVm Stonylowe in Madeley. Com. Staff.

Margaret, mar. to W. Forde of the Mosse in Com. Staff.

John Bowier, Francis, 2 sonne. Richard, Anne, 1 da. Ursula, 4.

eldest sonne, — 5 sonne. — —

setatis 26 Thomas, 3 sonne. — Alice, 2. Elizabeth,

an0 1583. — Will'm, — 5.

George, 4 sonne. 6 sonne. Elene, 3.

Will'm Bowyer.

3Srett ot mclc*

Nicholas Brett of Kele in the Countye of Staff.1

Thomas Brette of Dimmesdale in Com. Staff.^. ... da. of Baginholde.

Randolphe Brette of Dimmesdale.=f=Anne, da. of Rob'te Woode of Keele.

		1
1 Edward Brette=pCicely, da.	Thomas=j=Margaret,	Nicholas Brette,
of Kele in the	of John	Brette	da. of	third sonne, a
Countie of	Fitton, a	of Wol-	John	minister, mar. &
Staff., Esquier,	younger	stanton,	Badley	hath yssue.
nowe livinge	brother of	seconde	of
1583.	the house of Gaws- worthe.	sonne.

Randolphe, Elene, mar. Margarett, Jane, mar. to Thomas

eldest sonne. to Anthony 2 da. Bowthe.

— Brocke of — — Thomas, 2 sonne. Handley in Mary, 3. Isabell, 2.

— ' Com. Staff. — Will'm, 3 sonne. Elenore, mar. to John

a Bourne.

* Lord Hatherton's MS. has this note — "No Armes sett downe for Brett. See " Doubtful Arms," ante, p. 30.

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THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Randolph Brett,=j=Margarette, da. of Tho. Chetwinde sonne & heire. of Ingestrie, Ar.

Edwardu Raulfe, 2 sonne. Thomas, 4 sonne. Margaret, 1. Mary, 3. Brette, — — —

eldeste John, 8 sonne. Will'm, 5 sonne. Elene, 2. sonne.

Edward Brett.

aSroofee of HaSelot\

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, a cross engrailed per pale sable and gules, in the first quarter an annulet of the last. [Brooke.] 2 and 3. Quarterly — i. and iv., Argent, on a bend azure three buck's heads cabossed or [Stanley] ; n. and in., Or, on a chief indented azure three plates [Latham], over all a crescent for difference.

Margery, da. of John Stanley of Yetell, mar. to Will'm Staunton.

Richarde Brooke of Snelstoir in Com. Derbye.

Margery,* da. & heire to WiU'in: Staunton, mar. to Will'm Smith.

Thomas Brooke of ... .:

Richard Hudleston.1

=Margery, da. & heire.

John Brooket of Haseler in the=pLucy, da. of Rich. Hudleston of Countye of Staff. Elforde in Com. Staff.

A

* Should be Anne.

t Shaw (i., 388) asserts that this John Brooke was the son of Sir Robert Brooke of Lapley, Knt., who died 1 Ed. VI. (1547). Harwood, in his notes to Erdeswiek (edit. 1844, p. 458), repeats Shaw's mistake, and further complicates the pedigree by ignoring altogether the existence of Robert, who entered and signed this pedigree. "John Brooke" (he says) "died 1 June, 13 Eliz. (1571), and was succeeded by William Brooke his son, who died in 1641." The AVilliam Brooke to whom he here refers was really the " 2 sonne " of Robert and Catherine nee Agarde (James, the eldest son, having died s.p.), and he succeeded his father (Robert) in 1597. Dates do not seem to have hud any importance in the eyes of Dr. Harwood. As a matter of fact, the William Brooke who died in 1641 was, according to his M.I. at Elford, aged 62 at his death. This would give 1579 as the date of his birth, that is to say eight years after the death of his assumed father.

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57

Robert Brooke of=f=Catherin, da. of Clement Agarde Jerome Brooke,

Haseler, nowe liv- inge 1583

of Foston in the Countie of Derb., 2 sonne. Ar.

James, eldest sonne, Will'm, 2 Susan, Eleanor, 2. Lucye, 3 ietatis 7 annor' 1583. sonne. eldest. daughter.

Robert Brooke.

ISronfte of ffiasWor, etc

Arms. — Quarterly — 1. Argent, a cross engrailed per pale sable and gules, in the first quarter an annulet of the last. [Brooke.] 2. Argent, on a/ess vert between three demi-griffins segreant sable as many bezants. [Smith.] 3. Quarterly— i. and iv., Argent, on a betid azure three buck's heads cabossed or ; n. and in., Or, on a chief indented azure three plates. [Stanley and Latham.] 4. Gules, three crosses crosslet fitchee and a chief or. [Arderne.]

5. Or, a chevron gules between three martlets sable. [Stafford.]

6. Azure, three lions passant in pale argent. [Camville.]

Ricardus de Stafford,=j=Matildis, filia et una hasredu'

miles, D'n's de Pipe.

Will'mi Camville, militis, D'n'i de Clifton.

Matildis, filia et haeres Ricardi de Stafford =pThornas Arderne, militis. miles.

Joh'es Arderne, miles, filius et hseres=i=Matildis, filia ....

Thorn Ee

Pilkina'ton.

Matildis, filia et hasres Joh'is=f=Thomas Stanley, s'd's filius Joh'is Stan-

Arderne de Elford in Com Stafford, militis

ley, militis, Locitenentis Reg. H. 4 in Hibernia.

Joh'es Stanley de Elford in Com. Staff., miles,— Matildis, uxor ter nuptus. p'ma.

58 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORD SHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Aj

I

Joh'es Stanley de Elford, Ar., filius et hasres Joh'is.=F I

Margeria, filia et coheres Joh'is=j=WiH'm's Staunton, Ar., maritus

Stanley de Elford.

Margeriae de Stanley.

Anna, filia et haeres Will'mi Staunton,=pWiH'm's Smith, miles, D'n's de

et su83 conjugis Margeriae.

Elford, ex jure ux. Annae, 2 ux.

sine.

Margeria, filia et ha3res=j=Kicardus Huddleston, Ai1., p'mam accepit ux. Will'mi Smith, militis, et sua? conjugis Annas.

Margeria' Smith.

(Gules, fretty argent, a crescent or for difference.)

Lucia, filia astate maxima et coka3resMargeria3,=pJoh'es Brooke de Hasler

uxoris Ricardi Hudleston, Ai'migeri

in Com. Staff., filius Thomas.

Rob'tus Brooke de Haseler in Com. Stafford,=pCatherina, filia Clementis

filius et haares Joh'is, sup'stes 1583.

Agard de Foston in Com. Derb., Ar.

I I III

Jacobus Brooke, Will'm's Brooke, Susanna, Aleonor, Lucia,

primogenitus. 2 genitus. filia 1. filia 2. filia 3.

asrotujljton of St'oufl&toin*

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Gules, a chevron between three " brockes " argent. [Broughton.] 2. Napton (blank). 3. Argent, a chevron rompu between three crosses bottonee fitchee sable. [Greenway.]

Opposite the shield is written : " This Thomas Broughton claymeth to beare for Napton these armes, Ar., lyon ramp. g. crowned or.''''

Lord Hatherton's MS. gives the arms of Napton as — Or, on a f esse azure, three escallops argent.

* This pedigree requires a thorough investigation. According to Erdeswick (edit. 1844, p. Ill), the Broughtons were descended paternally from Napton. Roger de Napton, son of Henry de Napton, living 12 and 13 Edw. I., " had issue Elias de Broughton, who had issue John, who had issue "William, who had issue

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Roger Brocton al's=r. . . . daughter and heire

Broughton of Broughton.

of Roger Napton, Lord of Charlton in Com. Staff.

John Broughton.=j=Eve, one of the da. and heires of Thomas Grenewaye of Bedulf.

Thomas Brockton al's=p Elizabeth, da. of John Younge of Broughton. Charnes.

Richard Broughton of Broughton in=pMargaret, daughter of Hughe

Com. Stafforde, ancyently called Brocton.

Sandforde of Sandforde.

Richarde Broughton=i=Catherin, da. of John John, 2. Humfrey, 4.

of Broughton.

Aston of Aston in Com. Cestr.

Roger, 3. Frauncis, 5.

Richard, who had issue John, who had issue Thomas, who had issue Richard, who had issue Thomas, father of Francis Broughton, both living." A pedigree (said to be in the handwriting of Sir Henry St. George the elder) in the Harl. MS. 1439, brought down to 1623, commences with Simon de Chorleton, living 1256, whose daughter and heir married Henry Napton, and had issue a " da. & sole heir " Julian, married to Roger Broughton. Their son and successor was "Ely Broughton," living 1331, who married " da. & coheire of Reynold of Charnes," and was father by her of John Broughton, living 1368. This John had issue by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir John Bromley, Knt., a son Thomas, living in 1405, who married " Elena filia et coheres Bic'i Greneway de Bidulfe," and had Thomas, living 1463, who married Margaret, da. of John Younge of Charnes.

Another version of the Broughton pedigree will be found in Betham's "Baronetage" (ii., 242), and also in Kimber and Johnson (ii., 182). This version is said to be taken from " a MS. genealogy in the possession of the present baronet," and it appears to have been compared with Vincent's Staffordshire in the College of Arms. Here the family is deduced lineally from the Vernons of Shipbrook. Adam de Napton, we are informed, was son of Richard de Vernon, a younger son of Hugh, Baron of Shipbrook. This Adam de Napton was " so called from the place of his abode [Napton, Co. Warwick] and possessions," and he " gave for arms Or, on a fesse Azure three escallops of the field." He was father of Henry de Napton, who, by " the sister of Roger Meuland, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry," had issue a second son Roger, Lord of Broughton, etc., which Roger married Julian de Charnes (or, "as some pedigrees say, Julian, daughter and heiress of Roger Napton"), and had issue " Ely, and Reginald a priest." This Ely, we are told, married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Bromley, and was great-great-grandfather of the John Broughton who married the coheiress of Greneway.

It is singular that the Broughtons abandoned the three brocks, and subsequently adopted a totally different coat, viz., Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the last a cross of the first. Crest : A sea-dog's head gules, finned and eared argent. These are the bearings allowed to Sir Bryan Broughton of Broughton, Bart., by Dugdale at his Visitation in 1663-4, and they are still borne by the family.

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Thomas Broughton=pMary, da. of

of Broughton, liv- ino-e 1583.

Frau ncys Bos of Lax- ston in Com. Notts.

Anne, mar. to

Thomas Vise of Byshopes Offley in Com. Staford.

Jane, mar. to Thomas Winston of . . . .* in Com. Surrey.

Elizabeth, mar. to George Dodde of Petshay in Com. Salop.

Ursula, 2, mar. to Rob't Fair- fax, brother to Sr Will'm Fair- fax of Gillinge in Com. Ebor.

Jane, 3, mar. to Richard Beverley, 2 sonne of Beverley of Selby in Com. Ebor.

Margaret,

4 daugh- ter.

Dorothe,

5 da.

Mary, 6 da.

Catherin, 7 da.

Frauncis, eldest sonne, astat. 27 annor' 1583.

Bryan, 2 sonne. John, 4. Thomas, 6.

Edwarde, 3 sonne. Peter, 5. Richarde, 7.

Thomas Broughton.

JSrougfttou of ilons&on.

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Gules, a chevron between three " broclces " argent, within a border of the last. [Broughton.] 2 and 3. Gules, a chevron engrailed between three cinque/oils argent. [Acton.]

Thomas Brockton al's Broughton^Isabell, da. & heire of Longdon in Com. Staff., of Walter Actone

descended of the house of Brough- in Com. Wigorn. ton of Broughton.f

* Of Flexworth (Hatherton MS.) ; of Wanborough (Harl. MS. 1439).

f According to Betham and others, he was son of William, and grandson of Roger Broughton, which Roger is stated to have been third son of Richard Broughton of Broughton by Catherine Aston.

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Eleanor, da.^pRicharde^Elizabeth,

of Humfrey Ruggeley of Longdon. 1 wife.

Brough- ton of Longdon, livinge in anno 1583.

da. of John Har- court of Kanton in Com. Staff.

John Brongh- ton, 2 sonne, mar. Elizabeth, da. of ... . Thorpe of Essex.

Lewis Brongh- ton, mar. da. of Foulke Barrett of Shropshire.

John Broughton, 2 sonne, mar. Elene, da. of .... Barton; nowe livinge at Longdon.

Anne, mar.=

John

Broughton.

:John Brough- ton of Wolver- hampton in Com. Staff.

Edmonde, eldest sonne, mar. Aud- ley, da. of Will'm Holstocke, Comptroller of the Shipps.

John, eldest sonne, set. 9 anor 1583.

Edwarde,

2 sonne.

Thomas,

3 sonne.

Eliza- beth.

X'pr, 2 sonne.

Edmonde Broughton, eldeste Will'm,

sonne. 3 sonne.

Edwarde Broughton, eldest sonne, jetat. 40 anor. et amplius, 1583, at Longdon.

Frauncis, eldest da. Foulke Broughton, eldest sonne, of

— Worcester towne, nowe livinge. Catherin, 2 da. —

— Andrewe, seconde sonne, dwellinge Maulde, 3 da. in Lond'.

Elizabeth. Thomas, 3 sonne, Apprentize in Worcester.

Jhon Beoughton.

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Cftolmclrg ot Copntfjall

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Gules, two close helmets in chief argent, and a garb in ~base or. [Cholmeley.] 2. Lozengy argent and azure, a bend or, fretty gules. [Cheyny.] 3. Argent, three cocks, 2 and 1, sable [Capenhurst] ; in the centre acrescent for difference.

Henry ke, t'pe E. 1.

Hughe Cholmeley.

WiH'm.=F

Gilberte,=pKatherin, da. Eicharde.

Lo.

Talbot.

of the Kinge of Portugal!.

Will'm, =pMaulde, da. and

2 sonne.

one of the heires of Chorley.

Elizabeth.=FPiicharde. Sr John^. ... da. & heire of John

Cheynie.

Capenhurst.

Will'm.^pMaulde, da. and heire.

Richarde.=j=Ellene, da. of John Damporte.

John, Eeceaver to the=p. ... da. of

L. Brooke, dwelt at Copenhall.

Pisstocke.

Richarde.^p. . . . d. and one of A da., to Elizabeth, Ellin, to the heires of Hinton. to John Hainan

Sr Tho. Dutton. Hanmer. Hassall.

Richard.=j=Elizabeth, da. of Sr Eaulfe Brearton.

Eicharde, s.p. Eandall, (2) Anne, to (1) Catherin, to Ursula,to

S'jante at Eandall Eichard Thomas

Main- Prestland. Standley.

wairinge.

George, s.p.

the Lawe, Eecorder of London.

A

b

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B

Sr Hughe Chohneley.=pAnne, da. of George Doleman.

Hughe. Kicharde. Randall. Frauncis, a daughter.

John, mar. da.=j= of ... . Allynn

John (sic), 2 sonne.=p Joane, da. of Turner.

I

Thomas Cholmeley=pMargery d. of Will'm.

of Copenhall. Morrys Aynion.

Edward Cholmeley of Copenhall in Com.=7=Eleanor, d. of Henry

Stafford, livinge 1583; mar. to his 2 wife, da. of Rich. Powell of Ednoppe in Com. Salop, Esq. =f=

Thomas Langton.

Richarde, Henry Cholmeley, eldest sonne, 2 sonne. setat. 26 an'o 1583.

Elizabeth, da. of . . . .=pRichard.=j=Dennis, da. to Henry.: Michell of Stamerham. .... Phillips.

Rob't, mar. Anne, Ben- John, 5=plsabell, dau. of John Will'm. =p

d. of . . . . Hastinges. net. sonne.

Hare of London.

Henry, 1. Nicholas, 2. John, 3. Will'm.

Humfrey, mar. Eliz., d. and John, 2 sonne.=p coheire of Slaide.

John. Thomas. Richarde. John.

Will'm. Rob'te. Nicholas.

Edwaed Cholmeley.

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Colpr of Sarlagton*

Arms. — Argent, on a chevron azure behveen three demi-unicorns courant

gules as many acorn slips or. Crest. — A demi-Moor affronte proper, with rings in his ears or, holding

in his dexter hand an oak branch, frncted or.

Arma concessa Rob'to Colyare de Darlaston per l'ras patentes dat' an'o p'imo reg' Eliz', per W. Hervy, turn Clarencieulx Regem Armor'.

(By the side of the crest.) Moras demidiatus asurij colorijs, dextra tenens ramu'clu' querci'um aureu', anulettis, per utrumq' aurem penden- tibus, aureis.

Jacobus Colyar de Darleston in Corn. Staff., Armiger.^

Rob tus Colyar de Darlaston in=pAgnes, filia Thomas Venables

Com. Staff., Ar., modo superstes in an'o D'ni 1583.

de Kinderton in Palantinu' Cestrise, militis.

Jacobus Colyar, Christopherus Ric'dus Thurstanus Rob'tus

primogenitus Colyar, Colyar, Colyar, Colyar,

films et hseres, 2 filius. tertius 4 filius. 5 filius.

astat.23,an°1583. filius.

Elizabetha, filia Margareta, 2 filia. Cecilia, 4 filia. Maria, 6 filia. astate maxima, — — —

nupta Jacobo Isabella, 3 filia. Letecia, 5 filia. Agnes, 7 filia.

Skrimshere de Norbery in Com. Staff.

Cortrtt of HonfinU*

Rob'te Corbette of Hatherton in Com. Cestr.

Richarde Corbette=pJoane, daughter of

of Hatherton.

. . Crouche.

Aems. — Argent, three ravens proper, 2 and 1. (Hatherton MS.)

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65

Thomas Corbet=pElizabeth, Roger, 2, mar Anne, mar. to .

of Hatherton, nowe of Hon- forde in Com. Staf. 1583.

da. of Rob'te Spicer of

New- porte.

Walter, 3. Joane, mar. to

— John Andrewes of

Will'm, mar , Codsell in Com.

4. Staford.

Thomas, astat. 18 an'or' 1583. Anne.

Thomas Corbett.

CogncK of OTJnrtou Cokucj),

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Or, on a bend sable three trefoils slipped

argent. [Coyney.] 2 and 3. Argent, a lion rampant guardant

ermines. [Burnell.] Crest. — A cubit arm erect, vested sable, slashed or, holding in the

hand proper a faulchion argent, embrued gules, hilt and pomel

gold.

Robert Coyne of=j=Alice, daughter of Hugh Erdeswike Weston Coyne. of Sandon, Esqr.

Robert Coyne of Weston Coynen=Dorothe, daughter of Tho. in Com. Staff. Meverell of Throwley.

John=f=Margery, da. Walter, twise Rob't, Jane, mar. Pernell,

Coyne of

Weston Coyne.

of Jo. Spur- mard and had s.p.

stowe of yssue by the

Spurstowe in second wife. Com. Cestr.

to Tho. mar. to

Bucknall ....

of Ubbel- Dolman

ley in Com. de Com.

Staff. Derby.

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Edward Coyne, 3 sonne, s.p.

.(1) I

Winifred, da.=p George = Margery,

of Jo. Skrim- shire of Nor- bnry in Com. Staff.

Coyne of Chip- pen all in Co. Salop.

John, 1 sonne.

da. of

Nedeham of Shen- ton, sister to Rob't Ne deli am.

Dorothe, mar. to James Barlowe of Ip- stones in Com. Staff.

Jane, died sans issue.

Eloner, mar. to Wai'm Allen of Brookehouse in Com. Staff., gen.

John Coyney of Weston Coyne in=pAnne, cla. of Anthony Wolfesley Com. Staff., Esq1' : nowe livinge 1583. of Wolfesley in Com. Staff.

Thomas Coyne,=pJane, daughter of John, 2 Susan, Cassandra, 2 da

eldest sonne, setat. 23 an. 1583.

Ralfe Downe of sonne. Utkington in —

Com. Cestr. Adam, 3

sonne.

1 da.

John Coyne.

Margerie, 3 da. Mary, 4 da,

John Coyne.

Crompton of CfircMcg antr <#tom,

.... Crompton.=j=

Richarde- Cromp- ton of London, mercer.

^Elizabeth, da. of Will'm Crompton=fCatherin, da. of

Girlinge of of London, Norfolke vel mercer.

Suffolke.

Rawson, widdowe of .... Richardson of London.

Will'm Crompton,* eldeste sonne, nowe livinge ; Thomas, dwellinge in the Abbey at Stone. 2 sonne.

* This William Crompton was disclaimed by Glover at Uttoxeter August 8, 1583. According to MS. E. D. N. 13, in Coll. Arm., and Lord Hatberton's MS., the following " Arms and Creaste " were " gevyn to Will1" Crompton, of Stone, in Staffordsh., by Will™ Flower, al's Norrey Kinge of Amies, A0 1588" — Argent, on a chief vert three pheons or. Crest : In a mural crown or, a sea-horse's head argent.

C&pwg

Harry Soane Heraldic En^rdverdcZondon

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67

1 Margaret, the first wife	1 Grace, mar. to	1 Rose, mar.	1 Anne, dyed
of Sr Thomas Cotton	John Cotton, the	to	yonge.
of Kent.	second brother of	Latus
	Sr Thomas.	of the Northe.

Richard Crompton of Checkley in=j=Catherin, da. of Oliver Richardson

the Countie of Staf ., Esqr, Justice of Peace and quorum ; living 1583.

of London, grocer, by his wife Catherin, da. of ... . Rawson.

Hughe Crompton, eldest sonne, Will'm Margarette, Elizabeth,

astat. 12 annor' 1583. Crompton, eldest da. 2 daughter.

2 sonne.

BtcftntS of 35flImtston,

Arms. — Ermine, a cross patonce sable.

Will'm Dickens of Bobington in=j= the Countye of Staff orde.

Thomas Dickens of Bobington.

John Dickens=j=Eleanor, da. of Bobington, ! of ... . eldest sonne. \ Blounte.

Thomas Dickens, 2 sonne.

Richarde Dickens. =p

Hughe Dickens1 of Bobino-ton.

Humfrey: Dickens of Bob- ington.

:Joane, da. of Hum- frey Lee of Envill.

Thomas Dickens=j=Edith, da. of Tho's

of Morehall in Com. Stafford.

;Elizab. da. of

Thomas.

Will'm.

Richarde.

Corbin & his wife, the d. of Moore of Moorehall.

Alice, da. and=j=Mathewe

heire to her mother.

Moreton of Ingle- ton.

F 2

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A|

Will'm Dickens=rAlice, the Edwarde Isabell, roar. Mary.

of Bobington in the Conntye of Staff or de ; nowe livinge 1583.

da. of Mathewe More ton of Ingle- ton.

Moreton to John

of Ingle- Egginton of Constance.

ton. Roberston in —

Corn. Staff. Margaret.

John Dickens, setat. 4 Mary. Alice. Elizabeth, annor' anno 1583.

Subscrybed by me Rychard Whorwood for Wyll'm Dyckyns.

GFntitttore of ComfccrfoiU

Arms. — Argent, a /esse gules between three horseshoes sable. Alanus Comberford.=p

Ricardus.

Margeria, senior.=f= Agnes, media soror.=p Anna, junior.5

Margeria, uxor Rad'fi Sibilla, uxor Ricardi Johannes Bolinghull. Hopwas. Shepy.

Ricardus Bolinghull.^

Will'm's Hopwas.=

AlanuB Quilet.

Johannes Bolinghull.^ Johannes Hopwas.

Alicia, uxor . . . Kinge, obiit s.p.

Will'm's Hopwas,: nunc quserens.

Hucusq. ex pargameno antiquo.

Anne, da. and sole heire of Wiirm=j=Thomas Endsore of Cumberforde Hopwas of Cumberforde. in Com. Staf.

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69

A|

John End-=pHelene,

sore of

Cuniber-

forde.

da. of Savage.

Edwarde End- sore of Pagetts Bromley, second sonne.

:. . . . da. of

John Cooper of Bromley.

Humfrey Endesore, 3 sonne, mar. da. of

Thomas End-=pDorothe, da. Richard Ende-=Elene, da. Thomas

sore* of Cumberforde; nowe livinge 1583.

of Hmnfrey sore of Pagettes of Raulf Endsore,

Cumberforde Bromely in Okeover of mar.

of Cumber- Com. Stafforde ; Okeover da.

ford in Com. nowe livinge of ... .

Staf. 1583.

Christopherus Endesore, eldest sonne, astat. 21 an'or' 1583.

Walter, 2 sonne. Elizabeth, eldest. John, 3 sonne. Susan, 2.

Will'm, 4 sonne. Isabell.

Thomas Endesore.

tiPbenntt ot asajnttrngtcm,

Aems. — Gules, on a /esse between three estoiles argent, as many mullets sable.

Richarde Everarde of Shenton=pJoyce, da. of ... . in Com. Leicester. Langham of Gopshill.

Rob te Everarde of= Shenton in Com. Leicest. ; nowe Hvinge 1583.

A

:Margarette, da. of Thomas Wolver- ston of Wiforde in Com. Staff.

Will'm, mar. & hath yssue.

George, sans yssue.

Thomas

* The Harl. MS. 6128 gives another son to Thomas and Dorothy, viz. George

Ensor, who, by " dau. of Coleman," was father of John Ensor of Wilnecote,

Co. Warwick. Shaw (i., 434) has followed this; but it is undoubtedly wrong. George Ensor was a son of John Ensor of "Wilnecote, and brother of Barnaby Ensor of the same place. See the " Herald and Genealogist," ii., p. 301, where the identity of George is clearly established.

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

.11 Richarde=j=Jane, da. and	o 1 1 Sampson,	1 1 Maulde, mar.	1 1 Joyce, mar
Everarde	heire of Rich.	3 sonne.	to Richard	to Tho.
of Shen-	Waterton de		Woodhall.	Barforde.
ton.	Com.Lincolne.	John, 4	—
		sonne.	Mary, mar. to	Margaret,
I		JohnBrudnall,	mar. to
Richarde Everarde, eldest		brother to Sr	Sampson
sonne, setat. 16 an'or'		Edmond	"Wolfreston
1583.		Brudnall.

Humfrey Everarde of Whitington in=j=Anne, da. of Richard Clerkson

Com. Staff. ; nowe livinge 1583

Edwarde Everarde, eldest sonne, as tat. 8 an'or' 1583.

of Whitington, & his onelyheire.

John, 2 sonne. Frauncis, Alice, 3 da.

— eldest da. —

Michaell, 3 sonne. — Joane, 4 da.

Catherin, 2 da.

Humfrey Everard.

Arms. — Per bend dancettee or and gules, a crescent for difference. Crest. — A garb or between two wings gules, feathered gold (or per pale dancettee gules and or).

Thomas Ferne.=F

Will'm Ferne=p Joane, da. of Aden [Adam] Beresforde of

of Perwiche

Fenny Bentley, Esqr, in Com. Derby.

Thomas Feme of Grene in the Com. of Derby, and of Hognoston, eldest

sonne.

I John Feme of=j=Phillis, da. of Rob'te Perwiche in Milward of Eton in

Com. Derby. Com. Derbye.

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Edwarde Feme, incouipos mentis, 3 Alius.

Anne, mar. to John Fitzherbert of Soiner- sail in Com. Derb.

Elizabeth, 2 da., mar. to Anthony Rothewood* of Sandall in Com. Ebor.

Will'ni Feme of=FAnne, da. of

Temple Bel- wood in Com. Lincolne, sup'stes 1583.

Rob'te Shef- felde, Esq1-, a yonger brother.

John Feme of Crake-1 marsh e in Com. Staff., second sonne ; livinge 1583.

:Anne, da. of Roger Jacksonne of Ashburne in le Peke.

John Ferne,=pElizabeth, Douglasse, Will'm Ferae, Mary, eldest, sonne and da. of a virgin. eldest sonne.

heire ; livinge 1583.

John Nedeham de Com. Hertf., Ar.

John Feme, 2 sonne.

Will'm Feme, natus mense Octob. 1583.

Dorothe, seconde.

Anne, thirde.

Phellis, fourthe.

Per me Joh'em Ferne,

filium et h'dem Wilielmi Ferne.

dfmtJctmt

Robertus Finderne, 19 E. 3.

Johannes Finderne.=

De Com. Staff. Vpe R. 2, veil R. 4.

Joh'es de Draycotte, chTr. Joh'es de Verdun, chTr. Joh'es Bassett, ch'l'r. Phillippus de Okeov', ch'l'r. Thomas de Aston, ch'l'r. Thomas de Tommehorne, ch'l'r. Joh'es de Perton, ch'l'r. Joh'es Bagott, ch'l'r. Will'm's de Schershull. Will'm's Wastneys. Joh'es Herun'ille. Rob'tus Coyne.

* This Anthony is called " Whorwood of Sandall " in a pedigree of Ferne, taken from a Visitation of Lincolnshire, printed in the " Genealogist," iv., 22.

t According to the Harl. MS. 1570, Finderne hore Argent, a chevron wavy between three crosses formee fitchee sable.

Johannes Finderne.

Rob'tus Finderne.=

A

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Nicholaus Finderne, 13 E. 4.=f=

Rob tus Finderne.=p

Nicholaus Finderne.

Thomas Finderne.=F

Georgius Finderne.=

Thomas Finderne, modo defend'

Will'm's de Kinardesley. Joh'es de Couly. Joh'es de Marnham. Joh'es de Whitemore. Will'm's de Bentley. Rad's Honton. Rogerus de Bould. Joh'es de Pilletenhalle. Joh'es de Frodeshall. Thomas de Hexstall. Thomas Mynners. Ric'us de Ruggeley. Ric'us de Jordan. Rad's Okeov'. Henricus de Somerford. Joh'es Childe de Buckerdon. Will'm's de Stonilowe. Thomas de Eyton.

Mfhribzvt ot Hotfrorg, etc.

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 8. Argent, a chief vaire or and gules, over all a bendlet sable. [Fitzherbert.] 2. Barry of six argent and sable, a canton ermine. [Marshall.] 3. Argent, a bend sable between three pellets. [Cotton.] 4. Azure, an eagle displayed argent, armed gules. [Ridware.] 5. Gules, three swords erect, 2 and 1, argent, pomels and hilts or. [Waldesheff.] 6. Argent, three falcons close gules. [Fawcon.] 7. Azure, two bars argent. [Venables.]

Crest. — A cubit arm in armour, the hand appearing clenched within the gauntlet, all proper.

A second shield of the same arms and quarterings, with an escutcheon of pretence : Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, on a chevron sable three qualrefoils or. [Eyre.] 2 and 3. Or, three horse-barnacles sable. [Padley.]

Alice, daughter of: Henry Booth of Arleston.

:Nicholas Fitzherberte of= Norberye in the Countic of Derby.

=Isabell, da. of .... Lndlowe, second wife.

John Fitzherbert of=pMargery, the Etwall, second I daughter of

Sonne, the Kinges | Rob t Bab- remembrancer in ington. the Exchequer.

Rob't Fitzherbert: of Uphall in the Com. of Herford.

:Elizabeth, da. of Raulfe Joselyne of Sabrigworth in Essex.

Jil^nlrtsi

/////i Soane. IIeTttIdzcEni>ra.ver<£cZmcifon.

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73

Henry Fitz-

herbert,

Knight.

A|

Joane, mard to Hmnfrey=j=Dyonise, da. & heire

John Porte of Chester.

Fitz- herbert.

Eustace Sr John Fitz- Porte,

herberte. Knio-hte.

of Hen. Elveden.

Sr John Fitz-

herbert,

Kniffht.

:Anne Anthony. Wayne- — man. Michaell.

Henry Fitzherbert.

Raulf Fitzherbert of=j=Elizabeth, daughter and sole heire

Norberye, Esqr eldest sonne.

of John Marschall of Upton in the Com. of Leicester.

Thomas Fitz- herbert, Doctor of the Civill Lawe.

John Fitzherberte=pBenet, da. of

of Norburye, Esqr, eldest sonne.

Jo. Brad- borne of Hoffhe.

Henry Fitz- herbert of London, marchant, married.

Nicholas Fitzherbert=Dorathe, da. of Norbury, Esq1-, s.p. of Sr Rafe

Lonoford, K*.

Anne, mar. Elizab., mar. to to Jo. Wells. Sr Phillip Draycotte.

Dorothe, da. of Sr=Sr Anthony Fitzherbert,=j=Maude, eldest da. and

Hen. Willughby, Kl, Justice of ye Com'on Knight. 1 wife. Benche.

coheire of Rich. Cotton of Rideware in Com. Stafford.

Sr Thomas Fitz-=. ... da. of herbert, K* ; Arthur

nowe livinge Eyre of

1583. Padley.

John Fitzherbert, 2 sonne, mar. Catherin, da. of .... Restwood of the Yach in Com. Buck.

Maulde, 1= Thomas daughter. Barlowe

of

in Com. d Derby.

Jane,=Thomas Eyre 2 da. of Dunstonin the Countye of Derby.

Anne, 3 da. Elizab., 4 da. Mary, 5 da. e

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Thomas Fitzherbert, eldest Nicholas, 2 sonne. George, 4 sonne.

sonne, married Elizabeth, — —

da. of Jo. Whestby de Com. Frauncis, 3 sonne. Anthony, 5 sonne.

Lane., de "West by in Com.

Ebor., et de Molbroke in

Com. Lane.

Richard Fitzherbert, 3 son', mar. Mary, da. of ... . "Westcott.

Will'm Fitzherbert, 4 son', mar. Elizab.,da. of Humfrey Swinnerton of Swinnerton in Com. Staf., & one of the heires.

Will'm Fitz- herbert, 1 sonne.

Nicholas, 2 sonne.

Thomas. Anne, mar. to Walter Heven- — ingham of Aston and Pipe in

Anthony. the Com. of Staf.

Thomas Fitzherbert.

fflt&ttbztt of jfiMtmrg.

(no

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, a chief vaire or and gules, over all a bendlet sable. [Fitzherbert.] 2. Or, on a bend sable three butterflies argent. [Somersall.] 3. Barry of six argent and sable, a canton ermine. [Marshall.]

Nicholaus Fitzherb't de Norbury,=pAlicia, filia Henrici Boothe

sup'stes an'o 30 H. 6.

de Aries ton.

Joh'es Fitzherb't de= Etwall, s'd's Alius, Eememorator Regis H. 8 in scaccario.

:Margeria, filia Rob'ti Babins'ton.

Rob'tus Fitzherb't^. de Uphall in Com Hertford.

filia

Joscelyn.

Henrieus=f= Fitzherb't

.... filia, nupta. . . . Copwoode.

Johanna, nupta Port.

Barbara, nupta Thomas Cokayn,

militi.

Eustachius Fitzherb't.=F Johannes Porte.

filia, nupta Smith.

filia, nupta Smithe. b

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75

Humfridus=pDionisia, filia et coheres Henrici Elveden. Fitzherb't. (A fesse daucettee between three bugle-liorus.)

Johannes=Anna Antonius.

Fitzherb't, Weyman. —

miles. Michaell.

Dorothea, nupta Joh'i Wingfeild de Lether- inffha'.

Wilgefort, nupta Helena, nupta Will'mo Gracea, nupta . . Eob'to Tansfeild. Gevelite. Robinson.

Maria Gevelott.

Rad'us Fitzherb't=pElizabetha, filia et coheres . de Norbury. de Upton in Com. Leicestr.

Marshall

Margeria, ux. Nicolai Pur- ferey.

.... filia, nupta .... Editha, p'mo nupta Thomas

Cumberford, cui Babington de Dethick,

peperit Humfridum deinde renupta ....

Cumberford. Litster.

Johannes Fitzherb't=pBenedicta, filia et hasres Johannis de Norbury. Bradborne del Hoghe.

Nicolaus Fitzherb't de Norbury, Elizabetha, nupta Phil- Anne,

duxit Dorothea', filia' Rad'i Long- lippo Draycott, militi. nupta

ford, militis ; obi j t sine exitu. =j= Johanni

|— Welles.

Elizabetha, nupta Foljambe.

Anthonius Fitzherb't, miles,^=Matildis, filia et una

serviens ad legem.

4 ha3redu' Ricardi Cotton de Rideware.

Henricus= Fitzherb't, 2 filius.

Elizabetha, p'mo nupta .... White, deinde renupta .... Fery.

Antonius White, 1. Joh'es White, 3. Georgius White,

— — 5 filius.

c Ricardus White, 2. Ric's White, 4.

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Thomas Fitzherb't, Johannes.

miles, duxifc filia' —

et hasred' Artlmri Ric'us. Eyre de Padley. —

Will'm's.

Dorothea, Catherina, Elizabetha,

p'mo nupta nupta nupta

Rad'oLong- Joh'i Will'mo

ford, militi, Sach- Bassett.

pos tea Joh'i verell. =p

Port, militi. =F

Nicholaus Longford. Henricus Sachverell. Will'm's Bassett.

Arms. — Lozengy argent and Gules.

John Fitz Williams of Sprotsbrughe, Knighte ;: ancyent from the Conqueste.

Joim.=f Elizabeth, da. of Will'm Clinton, Earle of Huntington.

Sr Will'm Fitzwilliams, Edmonde=pMaulde, da. of Henry Scroope=

mar. Maulde, da. of Raulf, Lo. Cromwell.

Fitz-

will'ms, 2 sonne.

Sr John Hotham of Storbrouffhe.

of Massam.

Edmonde=pCatherin, da. of Fitzwill'ms. Sr John Clifton.

Elizabeth, da. & heire, mar. to Thomas Clarell of Aldwarke.

S1' Richard FitzwiH'ms.=pElizabeth, da. and heire.

.... da., mar da., mar da., mar.

to John to Ralph to Will'm

Skipwith. Reresby. Wentworth.

Thomas Reresby. Thomas Wentworth.

.... da., Elizabeth,

mar. to mar. to

.... Thomas

Mir- Wortley. feilde.

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77

Sr Thomas— Lucy, da. to John Nevill, M'quess of Montacute ; Fitzwilliams. after to Anthony Browne.

Thomas*= Agnes Paken-=SrWiH'ni Will'm Fitz- Elizabeth,! mar.

Fitz- ham. Sydney. will'm, Earle to Sir Will'm

will'ms. of South- Gascoigne.

ampton.

dfoljam&e of Crojrtrnt

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Sable, a bend behueen six escallops or.

2. Argent, a bend azure charged with five crosses-crosslet or.

3. Argent, a chevron between three escallops gules ; in the centre a crescent gules for difference. The whole within a border engrailed gules.

Crest. — A leg couped at the thigh, quarterly or and sable, spurred gold, charged in chief ivith a fesse indented gules, a crescent of the last for difference.

Sr Godfreye Fouljambe of Walton=f=Catherin, the da. of John in the Comt' of Derby, K*. Leeke of Sutton, Esq1-.

Sr James Foul- jambe of Wal- ton, Knighte.

Sr Godfrey Fouljambe of Walton, Knight; nowe livinsre 1583.

Alice,$ the da. of Thomas Fitz- will'm of Aid- war ke.

Godfrey= Foul- jambe of Crox- den, and of Ald- warke by his wife.

X A \

:Margaret,| an other da. and coheire of Tho. Fitz- will'm of Aldwarke.

George=i=Dorothe,

Foul- jambe of Bal- borough in Com. Derby, 3 sonne.

u

da. of .... Bar- lowe of Barlowe in Com. Derby.

* This Thomas Fitzwilliam was slain at Flodden in 1513. He died seised {inter alia) of the manor of Thorpe-Constantine in Staffordshire, and "William his son, then aged four, was found by inquisition to be his heir. William died an infant in 7 Henry VIII. (1515), whereupon his two sisters, Alice, the wife of James Foljambe, and Margaret, the wife of Godfrey Foljambe (brother of James), were found to be his next heirs, and of the respective ages of fourteen and twelve. See Shaw, i., 405, and " Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica," i., 355 ; ii., 68, etc.

f Should be Margaret.

\ See footnote (*) above.

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I r

Godfrey Foul-=Joane,

jambe,* sonne da. of

naturall of George

Godfrey and Foul-

his beire ; jambe

nowe Lord of of Bal-

Croxden and borogb. of Aldwarke. Livinge in Com. Staff. 1583.

Henry Foul-	Godfrey Foul-	Trothe,
jambe, eldest	jambe, mar.	second
son, mar. Mary,	Em me, daugh-	da.
widowe of	ter of ... .	—
Henry Babing-	Tunsted of	Catherin,
ton of Detliike,	Tunsted in the	3 daugh-
sister to Jobn,	Countye of	ter.
Lo. Darcy, that	Derbye.
nowe liveth
1583.

Godfrey Foljambe.

tfoMcv of ML CljomaS, |3rnMor&, etc

Arms.j — Azure, on a chevron engrailed between three lions passant

guar dan t or as many crosses moline sable. [In Dugdale's MS. in Coll. Arm., and also in Harl. MS. 6128, a Crest

is given, viz. A cubit arm, holding cm open book of music.']

Will'm Fowler4=j=

Richarde Fowler, Chauncellor of the Dutchie.

1 | 2 3

Alice. = Thomas Fowler § of=Edyth.= Margery, .... Esq1- for the bodye to Kinge Edward the fourth.

* His mother was named Brownlow, and at one period he was known as " Fol- jambe alias Brownlow." See an elaborate pedigree of Foljambe in " Coll. Top. et Gen.," vols. i. and ii.

f These arms were probably granted since 1528, for in that year died Sir Richard Fowler of Rycote, son and heir of Richard Fowler, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the arms on his monument in Trinity Church, London, were Argent, three wolf's heads erased gules, within a bordure azure charged with castles, or chess-rooks, or (being the coat of Rycote, alias Vis-de-lou, of Rycote), quartering Barton, ~Englejield, and Gernon. The same coat, with a crescent for difference, is on the monumental brass of Sir Richard's uncle, Thomas Fowler, in the chapel of Christ's College, Cambridge.

J William Fowler married Cecilia, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Englefield by Johanna Rycote, his wife, heiress of the family and estate of Rycote.

§ Thomas Fowler's first wife is called Mary or Margery, daughter of Edward Lee or Lester, or of ... . Coleville. His second wife was Alice, widow of John Hulcote of Hulcote, Northamptonshire, and daughter and heiress of John Houghton of Ellesborou^h, Bucks. His third wife, who survived him, was Edith Dynham, sister (it is presumed) of John, Lord Dynham, and her arms (Dynham quartering Arches) are on the brass above named. He appears to have had three sons, Thomas, Edward, and William.

Jtoteles,

ffarry Soane. Eentldit Engraver ^a London .

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79

Edward Fowler,* a yonger sonne of Thomas, and1 dwelte at Twickenham neare Eichmond.

Roger Fowler of Bromhill^Sibjll Leghe, the sister to in Norfolke. Rowlande, Bishop of

Coventry and Leichfeilde.

A daughter, sans yssue.

Rollande Fowler of Brom-=p. . . .f da. of ... . Bradsha of Presten hill in Norf. in Wales, in Com. Radnore.

George Fowler^=. . . .J da. of ... . J\Iontforde Bryan of Bromhill. of Norf. Fowler.

Rowlande, eldeste sonne.

William Fowler of Herneage Grange in Com. Salop, cler. assisor™ ibi.

:Mary, da. of ... . Blithe, Doctor in Phisicke, sister to Mrs Osborne.

James Fowler of Pen for de in Com. Staff., 4 sonne.

OJargaret,§ da. of ... . Moreton of Wilhighton in Com. Staf- forde.

Richarde, eldeste.

2. Peter. 1. Margaret.

3. Thomas, 2. Alice. 3 sonne. —

3. Mary.

Walter, 2 3 eldeste.

Bryan Fowler || of Sfc Thomas1 nere Staff. ; livinge 1583.

A

:Jane, da. of John Hanmer of Bettesfeld in Com. Flinte, and his soale heire.

* This Edward is probably not joined on to the former pedigree because it was doubtful whether he was son of Thomas Fowler the younger ; for in many of the pedigrees he is so placed, and then an erasure has been made, leaving him son of Thomas the elder. The latter is doubtless correct, for Thomas the younger appears to have had female issue only, one of whom, Margery, is stated to have married William Symons of " Bodill " in Cornwall. In one pedigree the wife of Edward Eowler is called Margaret Colwich, and a family of that name lived at Richmond and Isleworth. See their pedigree in "The Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563," edited by Mr. Norcliffe for the Harleian Society, p. 63. ■

f Margaret, daughter of John Bradshaw of Presteigne.

t Bridget, daughter of Osbert Mundeford of Feltwell.

§ Should be Catherine, daughter of Robert Moreton of Haughton, co. Salop.

|| Buried with his wife in the chancel of Baswich Church, where their (mutilated) tomb still remains.

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Bryan, 2 sonne. John, 3 sonne.

Margaret, eldest, mar. to Edward Lane de Com. Staff.

Anne, mar. to Will'm Mont- ford of Kinges- lmrst in Com. Warw.

Dorothe, mar, to Sampson Walker of Weston in Com. Staff.

Frauncis, mar. Cassandra, mar. Jane mar. to Isabell.

to Thomas to John Stone Eicharde —

Cauncefeilde of of Walsall in Daye. Martha.*

Lancasheire. Com. Staff.

Walter Fowler, eldest sonne, mar. Mary, da. of=p Half Sheldon of Beeley in Com. Wigorn.

Bryan, eldeste, setat. 3, an0 1583. Edmond, 2 sonne. Anne.

Walter Fowler.

\* I am indebted to W. R Carter, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, for the notes to this pedigree.

<§tffar& of CMltngton,

Arms. — Azure, three stirrups with leathers or.

Crest. — A panther's head couped affrontee or, spotted gules and azure, flames issuant from the mouth proper.

Thomas Gyffard of Chillintom in Com. Staff., Esqr.

rJoyce, da. of ... . Robert] Frauncis.

[Sir

Rob'te Giffarde of: Chillinton, Esq1'. a

-Cassandra, f da. of . Humfreston.

* The second wife of Thomas Skrimshire of Aquilate.

t The Hathertou and other MSS. call this lady " Cassandra, da. of John Knightley of Fawsley;" but the following copy of an inscription formerly in Brewood Church (printed in the late Mr. Hicks-Smith's " Brewood ") is decisive — " Hie jacet Domina Cassandra, filia Thomae Humferston, Armigeri, et uxor Roberti

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81

Jane da. of . . Horde ; firste wife.

=j=Sr John Giffarde= Elizabeth, da. of . of Chillinton, Gresley; seconde

Knight. wife.

Cassandra, mar. to Humfrey Swiuer- ton.

Dorothe, first mar. to Jolm Congreve, after to Frauncis Sherley.

Frauncis,* mar, to Sr John Talbott.

Dorothe, da. and coheire=f=S'' Thomas Giffard=j=Ursula, da. of

of S1' John Montgomery, Knis'ht ; first wife.

of Chillinton, Kniffhte.

Throckmorton seconde wife.

.... mar. to Sr John=j= Porte, Knighte.

John Gifforde of= Chillinton, Esqr.

.... wife to Thomas Gerarde.

.... wife to George Hastinges.

6fffart» of €Irinutgtcm,+

(no

Crest. — " Une teste de Panthaire d'or, heurtee, tortee, la langue de gueules, assise sur une torse d'argent et de asure. Donne et assigne au John Gyfford de Chelyngton en la Counte de Stafford Escuyer, par Thomas Wryothesley Jarretihe et John Yonge Norrey, Roys d'Armes, le 28 jour de May, l'an de Grace 1513, et du reigne le Roy Henry Chrytiesme, cinquiesme."

Giffard, Armigeri, ac domiui de Chillington, ac postea uxor Johannis Brodoke, Armigeri, quae Cassandra obiit .... die mensis Januarii Anno Dom. 1537, cujns aninia propitietur Deus." Notwithstanding this, the great pedigree of Knightley printed in Dr. Howard's " Miscellanea," i., 97, gives to John Knightley of Fawsley a daughter "Cassandra uxor Johauni Langtree, Arinigero; renupta Johanni Giffard de Chillington in Com. Staff."

* " Shee was b}r the dau. of Greseley." (Hatherton MS.)

f This second pedigree of Giffard has been inserted in the Stukeley MS. by Mr. Thorpe from the presumed original in the library of Queen's College, Oxford. It should be mentioned, however, that the last-named MS. contains both pedigrees. It is not improbable that John Gill'ard failed to appear in person at the place and day named by Glover lor holding his court for the hundred of Cudleston, and that, in his absence, Glover, unwilling to omit all notice of so influential a family, entered so much of the pedigree as he could discover from — it may be — the Squire's steward or

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Hoord port ar., sur le chef d'or, ling corbeau sable.

Johanna,* uxor=f= Johannes Giffard,=f=Elizabetha,

p'ma, filia Hoorde, qure obijt 8 die De- cembris, 1491.

miles, filius Roberti, t'peE.4, \l. 3, H. 7,et anno 3 H. 8. Obijt 1556.

uxor s'c'da,

filia

Greseley.

Cassandra, nnpta Dorothea, p'mo nupta Francisca, nupta Joh'i

Humfi'ido Swyn- Johanni Congreve, Talbot de Grafton in

nerton de Swyn- postea renupta Fran- Com. Wigorn, militi.

nerton. cisco Shirley. =p

Johannes Talbot, duxit filiam Will'mi Petre, militis.

Jana, nupta Georgio Bowes de Stretham in Ep'atu Dunelm, militi.

Dorothea, uxor prima,: filia et cohasres Johan- nis Montgomery, militis.

-Thomas Giffard de: Chillinton, miles, obijt anno 1560, 2 reginse Eliza- beths.

^Ursula, filia Roberti Throk- morton de Caughton in Com. War., militis ; quae obijt 15 . .

1 Elizabetha, hasres	1 Edwardus Giffard,	1 Humfridus,	1 Robertus,
maternaB	hasredi-	2	filius, duxit	3 filius, duxit	4 filius.
tatis ; nupta Jo-	Franciscam, filiam	Alionoram,
hanni Port, militi.	. . .	. Skerne de	filiam ....
		London.	Warde.
1		, uxor	T	^T
1 Eliza-	1 1 Dorothea	1 1 Johannes.	1 1 1 Fran- Rober-	T 1 Ursula, 3.
betha,	Georgij	Has-	—	cisca. tus, 1.
uxor	tinges, militis.	Thomas, 2.	—
Thomae	—			Edwar-
Gerard,	Margareta, uxor		dus, 2.
militis.	Thorns	Stan-
	hop, militis.			A

attorney, and from previous entries in the College books. John Giffard and his brother Humphrey were both duly summoned, as will be seen on reference to the " Nomina Nobilium " (ante, p. 4), and the absence from that list of the word appeared or entred seems to support my view. However it may be, we have in the pedigree before us ample evidence of the fact that John Giffard did sometime appear and " do right to posterity " by recording his armorial honours and — a portion of — his ancient pedigree.

* It appears from a pedigree of Uoord in the "Topographer and Genealogist" (i., 34) that she was one of the daughters of Thomas Hoord of Bridgnorth (who died 11 June, 1488) by Joyce, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Stapleton of Staple- ton, Knt.

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Dorothea, rmpta Gilberto Astley de Patesbull in Com. Staff., Ar.

2. Isabella, nupta Fran- cisco Bydulf de Bydulf in Com. Staff., Ar.

3. Cassandra, nupta Erasmo Wolfesley de Wolfesley bridge in Com. Staff.

4. Elizabetba, 4 filia.

Anna, nupta Georgio Smith de Wotton in Com. Warr., et de Ashby in Com. Leyc.

Johannes Giffard de Chillinton in=j=Jocosa, filia Jacobi

Com. Staff., Armiger, modo superstes in anno 1583.

Leveson de Lilleshall in Com. Salop, Ar.

Walterus Giffard, p'mo- Ricardus, 2 filins. Georgius, 6 filius. genitus, duxit Philip- — —

parmfiliametcohoeredem Thomas, 3 filius. Geraldus, 7 filius. Henrici White de South- — —

warnburgh in Com. Gilbertus, 4 filius. Edwardus, 8 filius. Hampt., Ar. —

=j= Egidius, 5 filius.

Petrus Giffard, p'mogenitus, aetatis 2 annor', 1583.

Johannes, s'c'd's filius.

Maria, p'ma filia, nupta Ricardo Brooke de Lap- ley in Com. Staff.

Cassandra, 2 filia, Jana et Ursula, Francisca,

nupta Thomas, filio 3 et 4 filia?, 5 filia.

et haeredi Henrici gemellre, uno —

Cassy de Wightfeld partu enixaa. Dorothea,

in Com. Glouc. 6 filia.

Franciscus Cassy. Cassy port b., ung chev'ron entre 3 (griffin's heads erased) or.

John Giffard.

©rant of a StantrarU to Sir Sofjn etffartJ, itttt

[This accompanies the second Pedigree of Giffard in " the original Glover " (so styled by Thorpe), and has been copied into the Stukeley MS. Through the courtesy of Somerset Herald I am enabled here to

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84 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

annex a drawing of the Standard* from a contemporary MS. in the College of Arms. This MS. contains beautifully executed drawings of the Standards borne in the field by Peers and Knights in the reign of Henry VIII., and has been fully described in Bentley's " Excerpta Hisfcorica." Though I lay myself open to the charge of ' using vain repetitions,' I venture to append the following description of the Standard from that Work (p. 331) : — " Four stripes or and azure, A on a wreath argent and sable, a demi-archer, looking towards the sinister, couped at the knees, in armour proper ; from his middle a short coat paly argent and gules, at his left side a sword, and at his right a quiver of arrows or, in his hands a bow and arrow drawn to the head of the last ; between in the dexter chief and sinister base, two representations of the following Crest, viz., On a wreath argent and azure, a leopard's head guardant erasedf or, spotted azure and gules, vomiting flames of the last. In B two, and in C three leopard's heads as in A. Motto. — ' Preigns alaine tires fort.' "]

& tOUS JJVCSntS Ct a aUbrmr, &C. Thomas Wryothesley, Jarretiere, et Thomas Benold, Clarencieulx, Roys des Amies, Saint. Equite veult, &c. comme ainsy soit que Messire John Gyfford de Chel- yngton en la counte de Stafforde par deca la Riviere de Trent, Chevalier, soyt descendu de noble fignee, et aussi longuement ait contynue en noblesse portant armes ; neantmoins icel luy incertain en quelle maniere ses predecesseurs portoient leurs devises et cognoyssanccs en leurs estandartz et guydhomes, non voulant prejudicier a nulluy, a nous lesditz Roys d'Armes a requiz de luy ordonner, deviser, et assignor ung estandart convenable. Et pour ce nous, consyderans sa requeste estre juste et raisonable, &c, nous avons devise, ordonne, et assigne audit Messire John Gyfford, pour luy ensemble et pour la posterite dudit Messire John, avecques leurs differences, l'estandart en la maniere qui s'ensuit ; c'est a savoir, a ung demy Archier d'home d'armes, arnie d'asur, tirant son arc, la flesche, la corde de Tare, la trouse des flesches, le pomeau et la croix de son espee, d'or ; son sayon de gueules et d'argent pale de six pieces, assis sur une torse d'argent et de sable ; si come la picture en la marge cydevant le demonstre. A avoir et tenir, &c. Donne a, Londres le 12 jour de Juillet l'an de n're Sr Jesu Christ 1523, et l'an du regne le Roy Henry Chrystiesme 15.

* From tho same source I have obtained a tracing of another Giffard Standard, also here represented.

t In the Visitation the panther's head is represented couped, and it is so given in Dugdale's Visitation, 1663. At this last-named Visitation two crests are recorded, first the archer, second the panther's head, — the former apparently taking aim at the latter. Of course there is a "legend "attached to these crests, which the curious may read in Burke's " Anecdotes of the Aristocracy."

t-Qjyi -wn. C£fyjVu$> Sc s£ejwo^ *u <\>m) ,^ffo-^

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85

(Bridles of BraMoto ant» Cotton,

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Vaire ermine and gules. [Gresley.] 2 and 3. Sable, a lion rampant argent, collared gules. [Was-

TENEYS.]

Crest. — A lion statant ermine, collared gules. (A second crest is given in some MSS., viz., A lion's head coujped argent, collared gules.)

Sr John Greisley, sonne=pMargery, da. of of Sr Thorn. Sr Tho. Clarell.

8r John Gresley,=pAnne, daughter of Sr Thomas

Knight.

Stanley of Elford.

Sr Thomas Gresley,=pAnne, daughter of Sr Thomas

Knight.

Ferrers of Tamworth.

Sr Wyll'm=Benet, da. of Sr Hen. Vernon Gresley, of Hadon, K., in the Peke ;

Knight. sans yssue.

I I !

2. John, a 4. Robert, preist. —

5. James.

Marga., da. of John Mnlsho of=j=Sr George=pCatherine, d. of Fenton in Northamp'sh., &x°. Gresley, K. Edw. Lo. Dudley.

Catherin, mara to Edw. Win- ter de Com. Leicest.

Sr Wyll'm Greisley ,= Knight, Lo. of Castle Gresley, & of Colton.

:Catherin, da. of Sr Edw. Aston, Knight.

Edw., Elizabeth,

2 sonne. mard to — Charles

Thomas, Somersett.

3 sonne.

Tho. Gresley=j=Catherin, da. of Steven,

of Draklowe in Com. Derby.

Jane, Elizabeth, 3 da., 1 da. sans yssue.

Sr Tho. Walsing- 2 sonne

ham of Skadbury —

in Com. Kent, K., Hastinges, Mar., Grace, 4 da

superstes 1583. 3 sonne. 2 da.

Henry Gresley, eldest sonne, aitat. 4 annor' 1583.

George Gresley,

2 sonne.

John Gresley,

3 sonne.

Will'm Katherin, 1 da. Gresley, —

fourth Katherin (sic),

sonne. 2 da.

Tho. Gresley.

86 THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

EX VALDE VETERI SCRIPTO IN PARGAMENO.

<Rc& sont partes tfauncrstrcs ifttonsr Stomas tit ©resclc}?.

Mons1' Will'm fitz de Nigell de Greseley.

Mons1' Rob't de Greseley et sa femme Basille.

Monsr Will'm de Greseley et Basille sa femme.

Mons1' Geffrey de Greseley et Marjory sa femme, fille a Matild. Somer-

ville dame de Cosington, et Julian sa autre femme de Leic. Monsr Will'm de Greseley et Elizabeth sa femme, fille a John Bakepuz

S1' de Barton Bakepuz. Monsr Geffrey de Greseley et Agnes sa femme. Monsr Peris (sic) de Greseley et Johane sa femme, fille a Monsr Rob't

de Stafford Sr de Eginton et Moginton, Com. Derby. Monsr Geffrey de Greseley et Margarite sa fem'e, fille a John Gernon

S1' de Laminton pres Oxenford. 11) E. 3. Mons1' John de Greseley et Alice sa fem'e, fille a Mons1' Roger

de Swiimerton. Mons1' Nichole de Greseley et Thomasine sa fem'e, fille et heire a, Monsr

Thomas Gastneys Sr de Colton. Monsr Thomas de Greisley et Margerite sa fem'e, fille a Mons1' Thomas

Walse Sr d'Onlep en co. Leic.

Ccs font parties tratmccstcrs flame &Jjomasme tit Sastntgs.

Mons1' Hardolph Gastneys et Ravenild et Betreh ses deux fem'es.

Monsr Rob't Gastneys et sa fem'e.

Monsr Phillip Gastneys et sa fem'e Amphelisia.

Mons1' Will'm Gastneys et Margaret sa femme.

Monsr Will'm Gastneys et sa femme.

Monsr Will'm Gastneys et Coustaunce sa fem'e.

Monsr John Gastneys et Isabelle sa fem'e, fille a Mons1' German Hay de

Com. de Werw. (?) Monsr Will'm Gastneys ct Johanne sa femme, fille a Mons1' John Brett

de Norff. Mons1' Thomas Gastneys et Johanne sa femme, fille a John Toly de

Wymondham. Dame Thomasine, fille et lucres a diet' Mons1' Thomas Gastneys, et Dame

de Colton mariee a Mons1' Nioh' do Gi'eseley.

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87

(greMeforum <#temma attttqut&tmtmu

Nigillus pater istius Will', t'pe Will' Conquestoris, tenuit maneria de Thorp, Kingesley, et Morton, in Com. Stafford, ut aparuit in libro vocato Domesday, composito an0 20 regni regis Will, prsedic. et in Scacario D'me Reginae adhuc sum'a cura reposito.

Will'm's filius Nigelli de Greiseley qui fundavit monasteriu' de Greseley in Com. Derby, in honorem S'c'i Georgii ; uxor ejus Elena.

Henricus de Greseley, t'pe Will'm's Com. de Ferrariis.

Rob'tus de Greseley,=pBasilia. miles, t'pe W. Com. de Ferr'.

Will'm's de Greseley, miles.=f=Basilia.

Margeria, filia Matildis de Somerville,=j=Galfridus de= Juliana, uxor D'na de Cosington. J Greseley, s'c'da, de Com.

Port b., three (eagles displayed), seme miles D'n's Leycestr. (of cross-crosslets) or. de Mortona.

Will'm's de Greseley,=pElizabetha, filia Joh'is Bakepuze, D'ni de Barton.

miles.

Bakepuze port g., 2 barres arg., 3 (horse-shoes) or en le chef.

Galfridus de Greseley, miles.=p Agnes.

Petrus de Greseley ,=pJohanna, filia D'ni Rob'ti Stafford, D'ni de Egin-

miles.

ton et Meginton in Com. Derby.

Port or, cheveron g. entre 3 (martlets) sa,

Galfridus de Greseley ,=pMargareta, uxor ejus, filia Joh'is Gernon, militis,

Ar«

D'ni de Lanington juxta Oxoniam. Port g., 3 pales und6 argeut.

Johanna, uxor s'c' da, = Johannes de=f= Alicia, filia Rogeri S winner ton,

sup. simul cum Greseley,

marito an'o 50 Ed. 3. miles.

militis, D'ni de Swinnerton.

sable.

Port ar., un croix pate forme flore

88 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Hardolfus Gastneys, miles, duas accepit uxores Ravenhildani et Bertriciain.

Robertus Gastneys, miles vocatus Eob'ti filius Hardulfi.

Phili]3pus de Gastueis,* miles.^pMargareta.

Will'm's Gastneys, miles.=

Will'm's Gastneys, iniles.=pConstancia.

Joh'es Gastneys,=plsabella, filia German'i Hay de Acton in Com. Ebor,

miles.

Port or, en le chef g. 2 (estoiles) arg.

Will'm's Gastneys, miles, et Johanna uxor Joh'es, rector Eccl'ae

ejus filia d'ni Joh'is Brett de Com. Norff. de Cranwis, superstes

Port ar., bend g. billete ar. 10 Ed. 3.

Thomas Gastneys, miles, et Johanna uxor ejus, filia=f= Johannis Toly de Wimondham, superstes 10 Ed. 3.

* This does not agree with the parchment roll, and is probably an error of the copyist, for Lord llatherton's MS. gives the descent thus : —

Robertus.^ I

Philippus de Gastneys, miles.-r-Amphelisia, fil. et coh. Eob'ti Morley, niilitis.

I Will'mus G., niiles.-pMargareta.

I Will'mus G., miles =p. . . .

I

I Will'mus G., miles.-r-Constancia.

4>

<&n$Uy.

THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

89

Nicholaus=f=Thomasina, filia efc hasres Will'm's, Joh'es, Thomas,

de Grese- ley, miles.

Thomas Gastneys, militis, siue p'le. sine sine p'le.

D'ni de Colton in Com. p'le.

de Staff.

Thomas de Greseley,=pMargareta, filia Thomse Walsch, militis, D'ni

miles, superstes an0 6 H. 4.

Donlep in Com. Leic.

Port g., 2 gemelles un baston en bend argent.

Joh'es de Gresley,=pMargeria, filia Thomas Clarell, militis, miles. (Port g., 6 martlets ar.) genita ex Matilda,

filia Nicholai Montgomery, militis.

Joh'es de Greseley,=pAnna, filia Thomas Stanley de Elford, miles. militis, in Com. Staff.

.... filia, nupta Simoni Montfort de Colsell.

Thomas de=f=Anna, filia Thomas

Greseley, miles.

Ferrers de Tam- worth, militis, in Com. Warr.

.... filia, nupta Joh. Eger- ton de Wrinehill.

.... filia, nupta Thomas Darrell de Scoteney.

Will'm's Greseley, miles, duxit Bene- dictam filiam Hen. Vernon de Had- don in Com.Derb., militis, et obijt sineexitulegithna.

Georgius de Grese- ley, miles, duxit primam uxorem Margaretam filiam Joh'is Mulschoe de Fendon in Com. Northamp.

-Catherina, Joh'es, cleri-

uxor secunda, cus, s.p. filia Edwardi —

D'ni Dudley, Rob'tus, militis Gar- 4 filius. terii. —

Jacobus, 5 filius.

Will'm's de=pCatherin, filia

Greseley, miles, D'n's de Castro Greseley et de Colton.

Eclw. Aston, militis, de Ticksall in Com. Staff.

Catherina, nupta Edwardo Winter de Com. Leic.

Edwardus,

2 filius.

Thomas,

3 filius.

Elizabetha, nupta Carolo de Somersett.

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Thomas de Greseley,=pCatherina, filia	1 1 Simon,	1 1 Jan a,	1 1 Elizab., 3
Ar., D'n's de Castle	Tho. Walsing-	2 filius.	1 filia.	—
Greseley, Colton, et	ham de Skad-	—	—	Gracea, 4
Drakelowe, modo	bury in Com.	Hastin-	Maria, 2.
sup'stes an0 D'ni	Kantia3,militis.	gs,
1583.		3 filius.

Henricus de Greseley, Georgius, 2 filius. Catherina, 1 filia.

priinogenitus, astatis — —

4 annorum an0 1583. Joh'es, 3 filius. Catherina, 2 filia.

Will'm's, 4 filius.

Aems. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Azure, a garb or between three bezants, two in /esse and one in base. [Grosvenor.] 2. Argent, a bend sable between three mullets gules. [Clayton.] 3. Argent, on a /esse cottised sable three escallops of the field. [Bushbury.]

Humfrey Grosevenour, a yonger brother*^ of the familie of Grosevenour of Eton in Com. Cestr.

:. . . .f da. and heire of ... . Clerke of Typton in Com.

Stafforde.

John Grosevenour of Bushbury^ in the Countye of Stafford, Esq1', Justice of the peace & quorum.

:Rose, da. of John Clayton, by his wife the da. and heire of Richarde Bush- bury, and heire to them bo the.

* It is clear from the researches of the late well-known genealogist, Mr. Joseph Morris of Shrewsbury, that the Grosvenors of Bushbury were not, as here and else- where stated, a junior branch of the Grosvenors of Eaton. Ilumphrey Grosvenor, who heads this pedigree, was of Farncote, Co. Salop, the son of William Grosvenor, or Gravenor, of Broughton, in the parish of Claverley, and the descendant of a family which derived its name from a place called Gravenor in the same parish. A complete pedigree from Mr. Morris's MSS. will be found in the " Herald and Genealogist," iv., 481, and v., 33.

t According to the Visitation of Warwickshire in 1619 this lady was " Jocosa filia et cob. Joh'is Welles, al's Clarke, de Tibbington in Com. Staff." See also Harl. MS. 6128, fo. 25b. Her sister Joan married Thomas Dudley of Tipton.

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. A|

91

James, 2 sonne, sans yssue.

Kicharde, 3 sonne.

Henry,* 4 sonne, sans yssue.

Elizabeth, maried to Thomas Newman of Honsworth in Com. Stafforde.

Waiter Grosevenor of Buskbury=p Joyce, da. of John ( ? Roger)

in Com. Stafforde ; nowe livinge 1583.

Foulke of Gunston in Com. Staford.

Walter, Thomas,

2 sonne. 4 sonne, — sans yssue.

Josephe,

3 sonne.

Solomon,

5 sonne.

Gawin,f

6 sonne.

Sarah, eldeste. Gertrude, 2.

Hester, 3.

Venice, 4 da.

Jonas,| eldeste sonne.

da. of ... . Kinnersley of Locksley.

Walter, eldest 2 sonne. Joyce.

pr me Walterum Grosvenor.

ffiarcoutt oi ©Intjan.

Arms. — Gules, two bars or.

Crest. — In a ducal coronet or a peacock proper.

Motto. — Le bon temps viendra.

Agnes, filia . . . .- Darrell de Scote- ney, uxor prima.

A

:Symon Harecourt de Staunton=. . . . uxor s'c'da Harecourt in Com. Ox., miles, relicta .... York,

militis.

* Married Alice, dau. of Robert Whitgreave of Burton, Esq., and tlied sp (Hatlierton MS., and Vis. Warw., 1619.)

t He was of Siltton Coldfield, and recorded a long pedigree at the Visitation of Warwickshire taken in 1619, being then aged 53.

X The wife and issue of Jonas Grosvenor have evidently been inserted since 1583 for at the next Visitation of this County (taken in 1614) Jonas appeared and recorded his descent, stating his wife to be Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Cotton of Bold Rail, and his son by her (Walter) to be then aged 30. According to the

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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Joh'es Hare- court de Staunton, miles.

=Margareta, filia, et tandem coheres, WiU'm Barantine de Com. Oxon, militis,soro- rem Francisci Barentine.

Edmundus.

* filia,

nupta .... Cottesmore.

Gracea, filia Humfridi: Fitzherberti de Upsall in Com. Hertf ., relicta Will. Robinson de Drayton Basset, 2 uxor.

:Simon Harecourt de Staun-= ton, Ar. ; uxor ejus tertia fuit Jana, soror Joh'is Spenser, mil., relicta Ric. Bruges de Ludgarsall in Com. Hamp., militis.

Wilgef orta, filia, nupta.

:Maria, filia Edw. Aston de Ticksall in Comitate Stafford, uxor 1.

Jana, filia getate maxima, nupta Joh'i Grey de Envild in Com. Staff., Ar.

Elizabetha, nupta Ric'o Chambeiieyn de Astley in Com. War.

3 I

Maria, inupta.

1. Walterus Harecourt- de Staunton in Com. Oxon, et de Elenhall in Com. Staff., Armi- ger, modo superstes 1583.

-Dorothea, filia Will'mi Robin- son de Drayton Bassett in Com. Staff.

2. Joh'es Harecourte. Rob'tus, 3, s.p. 4. Edwardus Harecourt. Will'm's, 5.

Rob'tus Harecourt, primogenitus, astat. 9 annorum 1583.

Michaell Jana, prima filia. Gracea, 3 filia, Harecourt, — mortua in

2 filius. Elizabetha, 2 filia. teneris an'is.

Rob'tus Harecourt, duxit Elizabetham,

relictam Robins,

civis et mercatoris, London.

Michaell, duxit .... filiam .... Till ney, relictam .... Grcneway de Com. Buck.

4I Edw., duxit

.... filia'

Windsore de

Com. Buck.,

relict' ....

Purfrey.

5|6|

Walterus et Henricus, sine p.

Kinnersley pedigree in the Warwickshire Visitation of 1619, Anne, daughter of Thomas Kinnersley of Loxley, was the wife of Humphrey Cotton of Bold, and therefore, it would appear, mother of the wife of Jonas Grosvenor. * Florence, ux. Sir William Cotesmore. (Lord Hatherton's MS.)

T>a*amt&

Ear/ v ',",';■ Heraldic ErLoraverdcZondcn.

THE VISITATION OF STAFFOEDSHIEE, A.D. 1583. 93

Margaret, quae Anna, nupta .... Kuivet* Catherina, nupta

obiit virgo. cle Ashwellthorpe, postea Joli'i Herle de

— .... Bowier, custodi Ee- Sta'nton in Com.

Ursula, nupta cordor. Cxon. .... Guisnes

de .... in Johanna, nupta .... Clark. Winefreda, nupta

Cora. Sussex. Antonio Greneway.

W. Haeecouet.

Compfotwntum grmoriale WLalttvi $arecourt Be ©Uenljalc in Com. Stafford, Ermtgeru

1. Haeecouet. — Gules, two bars or.

2. Camville. — Azure, three lions passant in pale argent.

3. Nobll. — Or, fretty gules, a cant< n argent.

•4. Schaeeshull. — Barry nebulee of six argent and gules, within a border sable bezantee.

5. Saintcleee. — Azure, the sun in its glory or.

6. Stapleton. — Argent, a lion rampant sable, charged on the shoulder

with an annulet or.

7. Bellewe. — Sable, fretty or.

8. Beits. — Argent, a lion rampant azure.

9. Fitzaxane. — Barry of eight or and gules.

10. Ingham. — Per pale or and vert, a cross moline counterchanged.

11. La Zouche. — Gules, a chevron argent between ten bezants, six

above and four below.

12. De la Pole. — Azure, on a fesse argent between three leopard's

faces or, an annulet sable.

13. Hastange. — Azure, a chief gules, over all a lion rampant double-

tailed argent.

14. Baeantine. — Sable, three eagles displayed argent.

15. Deayton. — Azure, a bend between six crosses crosslet fi tehee or.

1 6. Popham. — Argent, on a chief gules two buck's heads cabossed or.

17. Malines. — Ermine, on a fesse gules three billets or.

18. Reade. — Gules, on a bend wavy argent three ducks sable, beaked

and legged or.

19. Alphegh. — Argent, a fesse between three boar's heads couped close

sable.

20. Pettit. — Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three bugle-

horns stringed sable.

Post insignia Noeli ponerentur arma Beeke de Eresby ; sed quaare attentius.

* John Knivet. (Lord Hatherton's MS.)

94 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

Iii Lord Hatherton's MS. is this note : —

" D'n's Roraicius (or as some books hath Gervasius) Earle of Har- court in Normandy, & his too brothers Geoffrey and Fulke, came in wth the Conqueror & assisted him in the warres against Herauld. After that the Duke of Normandy had won the Victory, the sayde Earle and his 2d brother Geoffrey returned back agayne in to Normandy, but Foulke remayned."

Will'm's Harecourt, miles, cui quidain Thomas=pJohanna,

Harecourt, miles, dedit M. de Ellenhalle sibi et hajredibus masculis an'o 4 E. 3.

uxor ejus.

Thomas Harecourt, miles. =

Thomas Harecourt, miles, obiit seisitus de- M. de Elenhalle 6 die Julij anno 8 H. 5.

Rob'tus Harecourt, setat. 10 annor' an'o 8 H. 5.

Thomas de Astley, junior,=i=Elizabetha, filia et hreres

t'pe R. 2, an'o 1 R. 2.

Harecourt, an'o 1 R. 2.

Thomas Astley, Armiger, sup'stes an'o 8 H. 6.

ffiarcourt of ftanton, tic.

Arms. — Gules, two bars or, on the upper bar a mullet sable. Thomas Harecourt, miles.=j=

Rob'tus Harecourt.=j=

THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

95

Rob tus, sans . . . masculo.

Aleonora Leuknell=j=Ricardus Hare-=pEditha, nx. p'ma,

(sic, but should be Lewknor).

court, miles.

filia et kasres Thomas St. Clere.

.... filia, nupta .... filia, nupta Elizabetha, nupta Christo-

.... Swinerton .... Lane de HugoniErdeswike pherus

de Swin'ton. Com. Staff. de Sandon. Hare-

— — — court.

.... filia, nupta .... filia, nupta .... filia, nupta

.... Wrotesley Ludford Bobe.

Simon Harecourt, miles, maritus filise .... Darrell de Scotney.

Joh'es.=F

Svrnon.=p

!

I

Walterus, nunc, 1583. Thomas Harecourt de Ranton.=p. . . .filia Hugonis Eggerton deWrinehill.

.... filia, Johannes Hare-=f\ . . . filia Rad. Ricardus:

nupta Johanni court de Ranton Breareton de Harecourt

Peishall. Hall in Com. Malpas, de Church

Staf. Eaton.

= filia

Brodoke.

Thomas, s.p.

"Walterus Harecourt, sup'stes 1583, de Tarn worth, uxor ejus filia .... Cumberford.

Edwardus.

2. Symon, duxit=p 3. Ricardus, 4. Antonius, 5. Will'm's, duxit

.... filiam duxit duxit filia' et

Cave. filiam .... hosrede' .... Clyve de Leftwiche de Elizabetha, nupta Huxlegh. Wimoneham in Ludford. Com. Cestr.

96

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

1 filia, nupta

Ruggeley

de Lons;don.

2 filia, nupta

.... Bronghton de Longdou.

3 filia, nupta

.... Grey de Doniuffton Parke.

Rob tus Harecourt de Kan ton hall,: genuit hos spurios sequentes.

. . . filia .... Scryvin, s.p.

Joh'es Hare-=j=Margaretam,

court de Kan- ton hall, sup's tes 1583.

filia' Anthonii Gibston de Ridgley in Com. Staf.

Humfridus Hare- Catherina. court, p'genitus, —

eetat. 16 an'or' Elizabetha. 1583. —

Margareta.

Rob'te Harecourt=pMargareta',

de Bornighall in Com. Staff., sup'stes 1583.

filiani Collyns de Lees in Com. Staf.

Thomas Rob'te. Elizabetha. Hare- —

court. Dorothea.

Margareta.

Anthonius Anna, nupta Maria,

Harecourt. Beneclicto nupta

— Wilson de Thomas

Edwardus Wolkscroft Collins. Harecourt. in Com. —

Leic. Margareta.

Isabella, nupta Elizabetha, Barnabe nupta Antonio

Clarke de Wollaston in Com. Staff.

Seystons de Walton in Com. Leicestr.

Dorothea.

This pedigree should be carefully compared with that printed in vol. ii. of " Collections " (part ii., p. 70), and with Mr. Bridgeman's remarks in vol. i., p. 382. According to Lord Hatherton's and other MSS., Thomas Hareourt of Ranton, who married Hugh Egerton's daughter, was the son of John Hareourt by Margaret, daughter of William Bracy of Pembridge, co. Hereford, which John was son of Sir Richard by his second wife, Eleanor Lewknor. In Lord Hatherton's MS., and in the Harl. MSS. 1077, 1167, etc., a more full and complete account of the Hareourt family is given ; but as all these pedigrees require revision in their earlier descents, I have thought it best to simply reproduce the genealogy as it is given in the Stukeley MS., which I take to be the descent noted by Glover when he visited the county.

THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

97

The pedigree, as given in the MSS. above referred to, commences with Sir William Harcourt, who married Alice, "ladie of Ellenhall," living 11th John, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Noel of Ellenhall and Ronton by Margaret his wife, sister of Guy L'Estrange. By the lady of Ellenhall Sir William had issue Sir Richard, his son and heir, lord of Stanton and Ellenhall, who married " Orabell, sister of Robert Quincy, E. of Winchester." The editor of the fifth edition of Collius's "Peerage " (1779, vol. v., p. 264), sub "Harcourt," refers to " The Visitation of Staffordshire, anno 1583," as asserting that the above Sir Richard married Orabella, daughter of Robert de Quincy. This is an example of the loose way in which genealogical writers refer to Visitations. No doubt what this writer quotes is one of the numerous so-called copies of this Visitation existing in some public or private library, which may or may not be reliable ; but to cite it as " the " Visitation is misleading.

Igatofecsi of &iu$aU.

Will'm Hawkes of= Kyder minster in Com. Salop (sic).

\Elizabeth. daughter and heire of Richard Reignoldes of New- ton in Com. Staff.

Thomas Hawkes of=pJohane, daughter of Richard Walker

Kydemrinster, and after of Rushall in Com. Staff.

by Catherine his wyf, daughter and one of the heires of Thomas Harpur of Dorlaston.

Richard: Hawkes of Rus- hall in Com. Staff. ; lyving 1583.

=Mary, daughter of Roger Ban- ester of Clare- brough in Com. Nott., and his heire.

John Hawkes,

2 sonne.

Anne, mar. to Thomas Carter, stu- dent in the Temple.

Catherine, first mar. to — Har- ward, after to Nicholas Snow of Richmond.

Hillary, eldest sonne, setatis 28, anno 1583.

Ryc. Hawks.

In Dugdale's copy of this Visitation, and also in the Harl. MS. 6128, this family is called Hawkens, and the arms ascribed to them are those of " Edge alias Hawkins " of Shropshire, viz., xlrgent, a hawk proper, standing on a staff ragulee couped vert.

H

98

THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.

©01 of Utttle $uie.

Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Azure, a chevron between three fleurs-de- lis or, a canton of the last. [Hill.] 2 and 3. Argent, ttvo bars c/ules, each charged with three bezants, in chief a crescent azure. [? Martyn.]

Crest. — A lion rampant argent, pierced through the breast ivith a spear, in bend proper, headed gules.

[According to Lord Hatherton's MS., " This Armes was confyrmed, and the Creaste gevyn by patent under the hande and seale of Garter (Dethick) to John Hill, al's Hull, of Lyttell Pype, in Stafforre, an0 1560."]

Nicholas Hull, otherwise called Hill,=j= of Litle Pipe in the Countie of Staf.

John Hyll* of Litle Pipe, to whome=pIsabell, da. of John Ellis of

Garter graunted these amies.

Kydall in Com. Ebor.

Hughe Hull, al's Hill,=pConstance, da. of

of Litle Pipe in Com. Staff.: livinge 1583.

Ogle-

thorpe of Oglethorpe in Com. Ebor.

John Hill, eldest=i=Dorothe, da. of Eob'te

sonne, setat. 32 anno 1583.

Fitzherberte of Tis- sinffton.

Edwarde, eldest sonne.

•2	Thomas.	Elizabeth
3	Richarde.	Isabell.
4.	Frauncis. 2 sonne.	Joane.
	Heugh Hill.

* It appears from a monumental inscription formerly in Lichfield Cathedral, a copy of which is given hy Shaw (i., 355), that this John Hill died 4 March 1573, aged 78, and