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
This coat, except that the crosses were argent, was borne by Sir
Walter de Molesworth of co. Huntingdon, as appears by the Roll of
Arms of the reign of Edward II. Sir Gilbert Lyndesey (?) of the same
county bore the present coat.
Present Representative, the Rev. Sir Paul William Molesworth, 10th
Baronet.
+Gentle.+
POLWHELE OF POLWHELE, IN THE PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT.
[Illustration] This venerable family, supposed to be of Saxon
origin, traces its descent to one Drogo or Drew, Chamberlain to the
Empress Maude, and Grantee of the Manor of Polwhele in the year
1140. The family are said to have been seated there even before the
Conquest; there appears however no proof that Drogo was the
descendant of Winus de Polhill, the owner of this place in the time
of Edward the Confessor. The Rev. Richard Polwhele, the historian of
this county, was the representative of the family.
See Polwhele's Cornwall, i. 42; Gilbert's Survey, ii. 239; and
Lysons, pp. cxi. 60.
ARMS.--_Sable, a saltier engrailed ermine_.
Present Representative, T. R. Polwhele, Esq.
TREFUSIS OF TREFUSIS, IN THE PARISH OF MILOR, BARON CLINTON 1299.
[Illustration] From time immemorial this ancient family have been
seated at Trefusis, from whence the name is derived. The pedigree is
traced four generations before the year 1292. The ancient Barony of
Clinton devolved upon this family, (through the Bolles,) on the
death of George third Earl of Orford, in 1791.
See Carew, 150 b; Leland's Itin. iii. 26; Polwhele's Cornwall, i.
42; Gilbert's Cornwall, i. 468.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three wharrow spindles sable_,
which Randle Holmes, in his Academy, p. 288, explains, as a "sort of
Spindle used by women at a distaff put under their girdle, so as
they oftentimes spin therewith going."
Present Representative, Charles Rodolph Trefusis, 18th Baron
Clinton.
BOSCAWEN OF BOSCAWEN-ROSE, IN THE PARISH OF ST. BURIAN, VISCOUNT
FALMOUTH 1720.
[Illustration] Descended from Henry who lived in the reign of King
John, and who took the name of Boscawen from the lordship of
Boscawen-Rose, still the property of the family. In the reign of
Edward III. the Boscawens removed to Tregothnan, their present seat,
in consequence of the marriage of John de Boscawen with Joan,
daughter and heir of John de Tregothnan of that place, in the parish
of St. Michael-Penkevil.
See Gilbert's Survey, i. 452; Lysons, pp. lxxiv. 50; Brydges's
Collins, vi. 62.
ARMS.--_Ermine, a rose gules barbed and seeded proper_. The ancient
arms of the family were, according to Lysons, Vert, a bull-dog
argent, with a chief containing the arms now used.
Present Representative, Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth.
TREMAYNE OF HELLIGAN, IN THE PARISH OF ST. EWE.
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