Historical and descriptive sketches of the town and soke of Horncastle [1822]: in the county of Lincoln and several places adjacentWeir, George
History
Historical and descriptive sketches of the town and soke of Horncastle [1822]: in the county of Lincoln and several places adjacent
Weir, George
Horncastle (England)
{26b} See the note in page 28.
{27a} This shield is merely painted in a cavity where a brass has been
fixed.
{27b} In the Harleian collection of manuscripts, in the British Museum,
is a volume of Lincolnshire Church Notes, taken about the year 1640, by
Mr. Gervase Holles, a native of Great Grimsby, and a representative of
that place in several parliaments. Beside noticing the above monument
and epitaph, it contains the following account of arms and inscriptions
at that time in this church, not a vestige of which is now remaining.
_In Fenestra Insulæ borealis_.
Orate pro a’ia Thomæ Coppuldike Armig. & D’næ Margaretæ Consortis suæ
fundatoris Gildæ Cantar . . . Fenestram fieri fecit Ano Dni. 1526.
_In superiori Fenestra boreali Cancelli_.
G. a Lyon passant guardant Arg.
Sa. 3 Flowres de lize betw: 6 Crosses botony fitchy
Arg.
G. a Crosse sarcely Arg. Beke.
_In Fenestra Orientali Insulæ Australis_.
Orate pro benefactoribus artis sutorum, qui istam Fenestram fieri
fecerunt sc’æ Nenianæ cum sera et catena. Item sc’i Crispinus &
Crispinianus cum instruments Calcearis.
_Fenestræ borealis superius_.
Empaled. Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned or Dymoke.
Empaled. Or a lyon ramp. double queue sa. Welles.
Empaled. Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw. 3 bulles Tourney.
passant sa.
Empaled. Quarterly. B. a fesse betw. 3 goates heads
erased arg.
Empaled. Quarterly. Argent a chevron gobony sa.
Empaled. Quarterly. Arg. on a bend G. 3 roses arg.
Quarterly. Arg. a chevron betw 3 griphons heades Tilney.
erased G.
Quarterly. Arg 3 bars G. over all a bend engrayled Ros.
sa
Quarterly. Quarterly or and G. a border sa. bezanty Rochford.
Quarterly. Arg. 2 crosses botony fitchy B. semy of
flowres de lize
Quarterly Ermine and chequy or and G. Gipthorpe.
Arg. a chevron betw. 3. roses G.
Taylboys, &c.
_Fenestra Australis superior_.
G. a fesse betw. 3 waterbougets ermine Meres.
Empaled. Marchant’s Marke
Empaled. Arg on a bend G 3 ferniers of the first
Hic jacet Francisca filia primogenita Petri Frescheville de Staveley
in Com. Derb. Arm. [ex priore uxore sua Elizabetha filia Gervasii
Clifton de Clifton in Com. Nott. Militis] et quondam Uxor Gervasii
Holles de Burgh in Com. Linc. Militis, cui peperit Freschevillum
Holles, & Margaretum gemellos, & Franciscum Holles filium juniorem.
Obijt Horncastell.
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 241.
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