In the windows of the great Hall, as well as in those of the long Gallery, and the Library at Tappington, are, and have been many of them from a very early period, various "storied panes" of stained glass, which, as Blue Dick's[31] exploits did not extend beyond the neighbouring city, have remained unfractured down to the present time. Among the numerous escutcheons there displayed, charged with armorial bearings of the family and its connexions, is one in which a _chevron between three eagles' cuisses, sable_, is blazoned quarterly with the _engrailed saltire_ of the Ingoldsbys. Mr. Simpkinson from Bath,--whose merits as an antiquary as so well known and appreciated as to make eulogy superfluous, not to say impertinent,--has been for some time bringing his heraldic lore to bear on those _monumenta vetusta_. He pronounces the coat in question to be that of a certain Sir Ingoldsby Bray who flourished _temp. Ric. I._, and founded the Abbey of Ingoldsby, in the county of Kent and diocese of Rochester, early in the reign of that monarch's successor. The history of the origin of that pious establishment has been rescued from the dirt and mildew in which its chartularies have been slumbering for centuries, and is here given. The link of connexion between the two families is shown by the accompanying extract from our genealogical tree. Peter de Ingoldsby, Lord of Tappington temp: Stephen, killed at the battle of Lincoln _ex parte regis_. = | | +------+----+ | | | | Vitalis de = Alice de Geoffrey = Joan Richard Ingoldsby, of Engaine. | Lizures, de Brai. | only Tappington aforesaid. _A_ | 2d wife. | dau. _quo_ HODIERNUS INGOLDSBY. | | | +-------+ +------------------+----------+ /|\ | | | Alicia = Ingoldsby de Bray, Chiv'ler, Reginald de Bray, 2d son, dau. & afterwards assumed his mother's heir to his brother, from whom heir, name, founder of Ingoldsby descended Edmund Lord Bray, sus: Abbey, A.D. 1202, summoned to parliament 21 per ob. S. P. _circiter_ 1214. 28 Hen. 8. coll | /|\