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. — John Shaqi
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
See Carew, 117 a; Gilbert's Survey, i. 555; Lysons, lxxxix. 146;
Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 84; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, 567.
ARMS.--_Sable, a fess between three pole-axes argent, helved gules_.
Present Representative, Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, 8th Baronet.
RASHLEIGH OF MENABILLY.
[Illustration] Rashleigh in the parish of Wemworthy, in Devonshire,
gave name this ancient family, the elder line of which became
extinct in the reign of Henry VII.
John Rashleigh, a merchant of Fowey, was the first who settled in
Cornwall, and was in fact the founder of the present family. He is
thus mentioned by Carew, writing in 1602, "I may not passe in
silence the commendable deserts of Master Rashleigh the elder,
descended from a younger brother of an ancient house in Devon,
for his industrious judgement and adventuring in trade of
merchandize first opened a light and way to the townsmen newe
thriveing, and left his sonne large wealth and possessions, who,
with a dayly bettering his estate, converteth the same to
hospitality, and other actions fitting a gentleman well affected to
his God, Prince, and Country."
See Carew, p. 136 a; Gilbert's Survey, ii. 244; Lysons, pp. cxiii.
316.
ARMS.--_Sable, a cross or between, in the first quarter, a Cornish
chough argent, beaked and legged gules, in the second a text T, in
the third and fourth a crescent, all argent_. The Cornish chough and
crescents were added on removing into Cornwall; the elder branch
bore only two text T's in chief with the cross S.
Present Representative, William Rashleigh, Esq.
GLANVILLE OF CATCHFRENCH, IN THE PARISH OF ST. GERMAN.
[Illustration] Descended from the Glanvilles of Halwell, in the
parish of Whitchurch, in Devonshire, where they were settled about
the year 1400. This branch is derived from a younger son of Serjeant
Glanville, the son of Sir John Glanville, one of the Justices of the
Common Pleas in the reign of Elizabeth. Catchfrench became the seat
of the family in 1728.
See Prince's Worthies of Devon, pp. 326 and 339; Gilbert's Survey,
ii. 121; Lysons, pp. civ. 116.
ARMS.--_Azure, three saltiers or_. Present Representative, Francis
Glanville, Esq.
CUMBERLAND.
+Knightly.+
MUSGRAVE OF EDENHALL, BARONET 1611.
[Illustration] Originally seated at Musgrave in Westmerland, and
traced to the time of King John, about the year 1204. After the
marriage of Sir Thomas Musgrave, who died in 1469-70, with the
coheiress of Stapleton of Edenhall, he removed to that manor, where
is preserved the celebrated glass vessel called the Luck of
Edenhall, well known from the Duke of Wharton's ballad:
"God prosper long from being broke
THE LUCK OF EDENHALL."
See Lysons, ccix. where it is engraved.
Younger branches. The Musgraves of Hayton Castle, in this county,
Baronet of Nova Scotia 1638; and the Musgraves of Tourin, in the
county of Waterford, Baronet 1782.
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