See Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. ii. p. 112, vol. iii. pp. 74 and 93; Pedigree privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, from an original MS. _penes_ Sir Thomas Winnington, Bart.; and Nash's Worcestershire, vol. ii. p. 368. ARMS.--_Argent, an inescucheon voided, within an orle of martlets sable_. Present Representative, Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, M.P. for Bewdley, 4th Baronet. NOEL OF BELL-HALL. [Illustration] This is the only remaining branch in the male line of the very ancient family of Noel; of which the Earls of Gainsborough, created 1681, extinct 1798, represented a junior line. William, the ancestor of all the Noels, was living in the reign of Henry I., and was at that period Lord of Ellenhall, in the county of Stafford. In the time of Henry II., either he or his son founded the Priory of Raunton, in the same county. From the Noels of Ellenhall descended a branch of the family seated at Hilcote, in Staffordshire; an estate which remained with them until recent times; the father of the present representative, who was son of Walter Noel, of Hilcote, Esq., having removed to Bell-Hall, in the parish of Bell-Broughton, in this county. The Noels of Rutlandshire and Leicestershire were also descended from the house of Ellenhall. See Harwood's edition of Erdeswick's Staffordshire, 1844, p. 132 and Blore's Rutlandshire. ARMS.--_Or, fretty gules, a canton ermine_. Present Representative, Charles Noel, Esq. +Gentle.+ LECHMERE OF HANLEY; BARONET 1818. [Illustration] A family of great antiquity, said to have migrated from the Low Countries, and to have received a grant of land called "Lechmere's Field," in Hanley, from William the Conqueror. The first in the pedigree is Reginald de Lechm'e de Hanlee, mentioned in a deed without date. He was father of Adam de Lechmere, who married Isabella, and was the ancestor of this venerable house, whose ancient seat at Severn-End, in Hanley, with the exception of a period of thirty years, has ever since remained in the family. During the civil wars the Lechmeres were on the side of the Parliament. A second son, who died without issue in 1727, was raised to the Peerage in 1721. Younger Branches. Lechmere of Steeple-Aston, in the county of Oxford, and Lechmere of Fanhope, in the county of Hereford; also the Lechmeres (called Patteshalls) of Allensmore, in the same county; the two last being descended from Sandys, second son of Sir Nicholas Lechmere, the Judge, who died in 1701. See Nash's Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 563. ARMS.--_Gules, a fess and in chief two pelicans or, vulning themselves proper_. Present Representative, Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lechmere, 3rd Baronet. SEBRIGHT OF BESFORD; BARONET 1626.