Younger branch, the Earl of Abingdon 1682, Baron Norreys of Rycote 1572, descended from the second marriage of the second Earl of Lindsey and the heiress of Wray, whose mother was the sole heir of Francis Norreys, Earl of Berkshire, and Lord Norreys of Rycote. See Lady G. Bertie's "Five Generations of a Loyal House," 4to. 1845, and Brydges's Collins, vol. ii. p. 1, vol. iii. 628. ARMS.--_Argent, three battering rams barways in pale azure, armed and garnished or_. The "docquet or grant" in the fourth of Edward VI. gives the arms, _Quarterly,_ 1 _and_ 4, _Argent, a battering ram azure, garnished or;_ 2 _and_ 3, _Sable a tower argent_. Present Representative, George Augustus Frederick Albemarle Bertie, 10th Earl of Lindsey. NORFOLK. +Knightly.+ WODEHOUSE OF KIMBERLEY, BARON WODEHOUSE 1797, BARONET 1611. [Illustration] "This family is very ancient, for they were gentlemen of good ranke in the time of King John, as it appeareth by many ancient grants and evidences of theirs which I have seen," wrote Peacham in his "Compleate Gentleman," in 1634. (p. 191.) The name is local, being derived from Wodehouse in Silfield, in this county; but as early as the reign of Henry III. the family had property in Kimberley, and in that of Henry IV. the manor was also inherited from the heiress of Fastolff. See Blomefield's Norfolk, ed. 1739, vol. i. p. 751, for long extracts from the curious old pedigree in verse; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 164; and Brydges's Collins's Peerage, viii. 562. ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron or, guttée de sang, between three cinquefoils ermine_. This coat is said to have been augmented as now borne, by Henry V. in honour of John Wodehouse's valour at the Battle of Agincourt, the _guttée de sang_, not at present considered very good heraldry, being then added. The supporters, two wode or wild men, were also, it has been said, then first used. Present Representative, John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. WALPOLE OF WOLTERTON, EARL OF ORFORD 1806, BARON 1723. [Illustration] Walpole, in Mershland, in this county, gave name to this historical family, and here Joceline de Walpole was living in the reign of Stephen. Reginald de Walpole, in the time of Henry I. seems to have been lineal ancestor of the house. He was father of Richard, who married Emma, daughter of Walter de Hawton, or Houghton, which at a very early period became the family seat, and which, after the death of the third Earl of the first creation, passed to the issue of his aunt Mary, Viscountess Malpas, daughter of Sir Robert Walpole; whose descendant, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, is the present possessor. See Blomefield, iii. 796, and iv. 708; also Brydges's Collins, v. 631. ARMS.--_Or, on a fess between two chevrons sable three cross-crosslets of the first_. Present Representative, Horatio William Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford. BERNEY OF KIRBY BEEDON, BARONET 1620.