The Noble and Gentle Men of England: or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.Shirley, Evelyn Philip
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The Noble and Gentle Men of England: or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.
Shirley, Evelyn Philip
Great Britain -- Genealogy; Heraldry -- Great Britain; Nobility -- Great Britain
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three eagle's legs sable erased a
la cuisse, their talons gules_. Another coat usually quartered with
the above is, _Vair, three bends gules_.
Present Representative, Edward Bray, Esq.
PERCEVAL OF NORK HOUSE, EARL OF EGMONT IN IRELAND 1733; BARON LOVELL
AND HOLLAND 1762; BARON ARDEN 1802.
[Illustration] "The House of Yvery," a work privately printed by the
second Earl of Egmont in 1742, professes to give the history of this
family, but the earlier descents cannot with certainty be relied on,
and even the extraction of Richard Perceval, the modern founder of
the present family in the time of James I., from the Somersetshire
Percevals, is according to Brydges, in his Biographical Peerage, not
without some doubts. It appears, however, certain that he was the
son of George Perceval, of Tykenham, in the county of Somerset, by
Elizabeth Bampfylde, and fifth in descent from Richard Perceval, of
Weston-Gordein, in the same county, who died between 1433 and 1439,
the representative of a family who had been seated there from the
reign of Richard I., and who claim to be descended from the House of
Yvery in Normandy. The elder branch of the Percevals continued at
their manor of Weston until the extinction of the male line in the
person of Thomas Perceval, Esq. in 1691. The younger branch, the
ancestors of the present family, were seated in the county of
Cork in Ireland, and in the eighteenth century at Enmore in
Somersetshire, sold after the death of the fifth Earl of Egmont.
Nork House was the seat of Lord Arden, father of the present Earl,
and brother of the third Earl of Egmont.
See "A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, &c." 8vo. 1742;
and Collinson's History of Somersetshire, vol. iii. p. 171.
ARMS.--_Argent, on a chief indented gules three crosses patée of the
first_. This coat appears to have been borne by Sir Roger Perceval
in the reign of Edward I. See his seal engraved in "The House of
Yvery," vol. i. p. 41.
Present Representative, George James Perceval, sixth Earl of Egmont.
+Gentle.+
WESTON OF WEST-HORSLEY.
[Illustration] Adam de Weston, living in 1205, was the ancestor of
this family, which has been from a very early period connected with
Surrey. In the reign of Edward II., the Westons were of
West-Clandon, and also of Weston in Albury, and of Send and Ockham,
in this county. The last was sold in the latter part of the
seventeenth century, and West-Horsley inherited by the will of
William Nicholas, Esq. in 1749.
See Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. iii. p. 41; and Gent. Mag. for
1789, p. 223; for a notice of this family, as well as of the
extinct family of the same name, of Sutton, in this county, see
also Gent. Mag. for 1800, p. 606.
ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron or between three leopard's heads erased
argent, crowned or_.
Present Representative, Henry Weston, Esq.
ONSLOW OF WEST-CLANDON, EARL OF ONSLOW 1801; BARON 1716; BARONET
1660.
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