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 Hasted, ii. 200; Brydges's Collins, v. 151; and Surtees's
Durham, iv. 158, for pedigrees of the Nevilles, Earls of
Westmerland, and the Nevilles of Weardale and Thornton-Bridge. See
also Rowland's "Account of the Noble Family of Neville," privately
printed 1830, folio; Surtees's "Sketch of the Stock of Nevill," 8vo.
1843.
ARMS.--_Gules, a saltier argent, thereon a rose of the first, seeded
proper_.
This coat, without the rose, was borne by Robert de Neville in the
reign of Henry III. In the reign of Edward III. M. de Neville de
Hornby bore the coat reversed, _Argent, a saltier gules_. M.
Alexander de Neville, at the same period, differenced it by _a
martlet sable_. M. William Neville and N. Thomas Neville bore
for difference respectively, _a fleur-de-lis azure and a martlet
gules_, in the reign of Richard II. (Rolls.) The Rose is allusive to
the House of Lancaster, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmerland,
having married to his second wife Joan, daughter of John of Gaunt,
Duke of Lancaster. The older coat was, _Or, fretty gules, on a
canton sable an ancient ship_.
Present Representative, the Rev. William Neville, 4th Earl of
Abergavenny.
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HONYWOOD OF EVINGTON, IN ELMSTED, BARONET 1660.
[Illustration] The name is derived from Henewood, near Postling, in
this county, where the ancestors of this family resided as early as
the reign of Henry III. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
the Honywoods removed to Hythe, which they often represented in
Parliament, and afterwards to Sene, in Newington, near Hythe.
Caseborne, in Cheriton, came from an heiress of that name before the
time of Henry VI.; Evington, by purchase, in the reign of Henry VII.
Younger branches were of Marks Hall, in Essex, and of Petts, in
Charing, in this county. Of the former family was Robert Honywood,
whose wife Mary, daughter of Robert Atwaters, or Waters, lived to
see 367 descendants: she died in 1620, aged 93.
See Topographer and Genealogist, i. 397, 568; ii. 169, 189, 256,
312, 433; Hasted's Kent, ii. 442, 449; iii. 308; Wotton's
Baronetage, iii. 105.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three hawk's heads erased azure_.
These arms, of the time of Richard II. are carved on the cloisters
of Canterbury Cathedral. See Willement, p. 101.
Present Representative, Sir Courtenay John Honywood, 7th Baronet.
TWYSDEN OF ROYDON-HALL, IN EAST PECKHAM, BARONET 1611.
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