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
[Illustration] Hilton in Cleveland appears to have been the original
seat of this ancient family; here it was resident in the twelfth
century, and here it remained till the middle of the sixteenth, when
Anthony Meynell, the immediate ancestor of the present family,
removed by purchase to North Kilvington, which has since continued
the residence of his descendants.
See Graves's History of Cleveland; and Burke's Landed Gentry.
ARMS.--_Azure, three bars gemelles and a chief or_. This is the
ancient coat of Meysnill or Meynell of Dalby-on-the-Woulds in
Leicestershire, and was borne by Trevor de Menyll in the reign of
Henry III., and also by Sir Nicholas de Meynell in that of Edward
II., with the exception of two instead of three bars gemelles.
(Rolls of the dates.)
Present Representative, Thomas Meynell, Esq.
ANNE OF BURGH-WALLIS.
[Illustration] Of this family Mr. Hunter has remarked, that "it is a
single instance of the male line being maintained in its ancient
port and rank out of all the gentry of the Deanery of Doncaster,
summoned to appear before the Heralds in 1584." The pedigree begins
with Sir William de Anne, Constable of the Castle of Tickhill in the
time of Edward II. He married the coheiress of Haringel, from whom
came the manor of Frickley, sold in the latter part of the
eighteenth century. Burgh-Wallis came from the heiress of Fenton in
the reign of Elizabeth. Mr. Hunter observes, "The Annes, like too
many other families, have not been careful of preserving their
ancient evidences, and theirs was not one of the muniment rooms to
which our diligent antiquary Dodsworth had access."
See Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. ii. pp. 148, 485.
ARMS.--_Gules, three stag's heads cabossed argent attired or_.
Present Representative, George Anne, Esq.
LISTER OF GISBURN, BARON RIBBLESDALE 1797.
[Illustration] The pedigree is traced to the sixth of Edward II.,
when John de Lister was resident at Derby. He married the daughter
and heiress of John de Bolton, Bowbearer of Bollond, and thus became
connected with this county. The elder line was of Mydhope, or
Middop, and afterwards, in the reign of Philip and Mary, of Thornton
in Craven, and became extinct in 1667. The present family is sprung
from Thomas, second son of Christopher Lister, who lived in the time
of Edward IV. The Listers were of Gisburn early in the sixteenth
century, the ancient seat of Arnoldsbiggin in that manor being their
seat for many generations. Lyster, of Rowton, in Shropshire, is
supposed to be a branch of this family, though there is no evidence
of the fact; Rowton has been in possession of the Lysters since
1482.
See Whitaker's Craven, ed. 1812, pp. 38, 103; and Brydges's Collins,
vol. viii. p. 584; and for Rowton, Blakeway's Sheriffs of Salop, p.
144.
ARMS.--_Ermine, on a fess sable three mullets or_. Lyster of Rowton
bears the mullets _argent_.
Present Representative, Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale.
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