Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle [1820]: in the county of Lincoln, and of several places adjacentWeir, George
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Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle [1820]: in the county of Lincoln, and of several places adjacent
Weir, George
Horncastle (England)
{47} In the windows were the following arms when this church was visited
by Mr. Holles:
_In Fenestris Cancelli_.
Verry a fesse G. fretty d’or Marmion.
G. a crosse sarcely arg. Beke.
Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned or Dymoke.
Or a lyon rampant double queue sa. Welles.
Sa. 3 flowres de lize betw. 6 crosse crosselets
fitchy arg.
G. 3 bars ermyne Kirketon.
Barry of 6 or and sa.
_Fenestræ boreales_.
B. a lyons head erased betw. 6 crosses botony arg. Touthby.
Arg. 2 bars G. a border sa.
Dymoke each lyon charg’d sur l’espale with an Dymoke.
annulet
Ermyne on a bend G. a cinquefoil or
G. crosse crucilly fitchy a lyon rampant arg. La Warre.
Or a lyon rampant double queue sa. Welles.
_Fenestræ australes_.
G. 3 waterbougets arg. Ros.
Or on fesse G. 3 plates Huntingfield.
Quarterly or & G. a border sa. bezanty Rochfort.
Rochfort with a garbe in the 2d quarter arg. Rochfort.
Rochfort with an annulet in the 2d quarter arg. Rochfort.
Or a manche G. Hastings.
G. a bend ermyne Ry.
Rochfort with an eagle displayed in the 2d quarter Rochford.
arg
Arg. fretty of 6 pieces G. a canton ermyne
_In Fenestra borealis Navis_.
G. crosse crucilly fitchy a lyon rampant arg La Warre.
Arg. on a bend G. 3 gryphons heads erased or
_In Campanili_.
Joh’es Staines W. Jo.
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 245.
{49} The following arms and inscriptions, now gone, are noticed by Mr.
Holles, as being in this church when visited by him:
_In Fenestra Australi_.
Empaled. Arg. a crosse sa.
Empaled. Arg. on a crosse G. a bezant
Empaled. Arg. a crosse sa.
Empaled. Quarterly arg. and G. on the 1st & 4th
quarters a popinjay vert. membred and beked G,
_In Fenestra Occidental_, _ex sinistra Campanilis_.
Orate pro a’ia Joh’is Tott, Agnet, & Helene uxorum ejus, &
specialiter pro Andrea Tott Artium Baccalaureo, qui istam Fenestram
lapidari, nec non vitreari fecit.
_Sup Fulchrum ex p’te Australi_.
Quarterly Ufford & Beke Willughby.
3 Crosses portate
2 Chevrons betw. 3 roses
A crosse
A lyon passant
Domus mea domus Orationis vocabitur. 1591.
Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 218.
{50} By the following extract it appears that in the time of Mr. Holles,
the windows of this church abounded with stained glass, of which not a
single vestige is now remaining.
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