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 Brydges's Collins, i. 50, for the Duke of Norfolk; iii. 147,
for the Earl of Suffolk; iii. 501, for the Earl of Carlisle; and iv.
264, for the Earl of Effingham. See also Cartwright's Rape of
Bramber, p. 185; and Dallaway's Rape of Arundel; Hunter's South
Yorkshire, ii. 10. For the Howard Monuments at East-Winch, see
Weever's Funeral Monuments, p. 842-9; for their state in the 18th
century Parkins's Blomefield's Norfolk, iv. 746; and Topographer and
Genealogist, ii. 90. For the Earl of Carlisle, see Hodgson's History
of Northumberland, ii. pt. 2, p. 381; for Howard of Corby, the same
vol. p. 477. See also "Historical Anecdotes of some of the Howard
Family," 12mo. 1769; Tierney's Castle and Town of Arundel, 8vo.
1834; and Mr. Howard's "Indication of Memorials, &c. of the Howard
Family," fol. 1834.
ARMS.--_Gules, a bend between six cross-crosslets fitcheé argent, on
an escucheon a demi-lion pierced through the mouth with an arrow,
within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules_, granted by
patent 5 Henry VIII. to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, in
remembrance of the victory gained over the Scots at Flodden. The
present coat was borne by Sir John Howard in the reign of Edward
II., and by Mr. Howard in those of Edward II. and Richard III.: it
has been conjectured, from the similarity of this coat with that of
the Botilers, Barons of Wem, (Gules, a fess cheeky argent and sable
between six crosses pateé fitchée argent,) that Sir William Howard
the Judge was descended from the Hords, stewards to these Barons: it
is observable that none of the Howards ever prefixed the _de_ to
their name, a fact which opposes their derivation from Hawarden in
Flintshire. (Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, pp. 53 note.)
Present Representative, Henry Fitzalan Howard, 15th Duke of
Norfolk.
GURNEY OF KESWICK.
[Illustration] This is a younger branch of the Gurneys of West
Barsham in this county, whose principal male line became extinct in
1661, West Barsham came from the heiress of Waunci about the reign
of Edward III. Previous to that time the Gurneys appear to have been
seated at Harpley, also in Norfolk, as early as 1206, and are traced
for two descents beyond that period, being (as there appears no
reason to doubt) descended from the great Norman baronial house of
the name. The present family may be said to have been refounded by
John Gurney, an eminent silk-merchant at Norwich, about 1670.
Keswick was purchased in 1747. The Gournays of Somersetshire,
represented by the Earls of Egmont, may have been a distinct family;
their arms were, Paly of six or and azure. Dugdale, however, gives
them a common ancestor with the former house. (Baronage, i. 429.)
See the "Records of the House of Gournay," privately printed, 4to.,
1848, and particularly, for the Norman origin of the family page 293
of that work. For the Gournays of Somersetshire, see the History of
the House of Ivery. London, 1742, vol. ii. p. 473,
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