ARMS.--_Argent, a cross engrailed gules, in the first quarter a cinquefoil azure_. Present Representative, Hudson Gurney, Esq. DE GREY OF MERTON, BARON WALSINGHAM 1780. [Illustration] This ancient family is supposed to have the same origin as the noble Norman house of Grey, now represented by the Earl of Stamford; it is traced to William de Grey, of Cavendish, in Suffolk; whose grandson Sir Thomas was seated about 1306 at Cornerth in that county, by his marriage with the heiress of the same name; their son and heir married the coheiress of Baynard, and thus became possessed of Merton, the long-continued seat of this family. See Blomefield, i. 576; and Brydges's Collins, vii. 510. ARMS.--_Barry of six argent and azure, in chief three annulets gules_. The ancient coat of Cornerth, _Azure, a fess between two chevronels or_, (which was doubtless derived from their superior lords the Baynards,) was borne for many generations by the ancestors of this family. Present Representative, Thomas de Grey, 5th Baron Walsingham. BACON OF RAVENINGHAM, PREMIER BARONET OF ENGLAND, OF REDGRAVE, SUFFOLK, 1611. [Illustration] This family is said to have been established at a period shortly subsequent to the Conquest at Letheringsett, in Norfolk, but is better known as a Suffolk family, having been seated at Monks' Bradfield, in that county, in the reign of Richard I. Redgrave was granted by Henry VIII. in the 36th year of his reign, to the great Sir Nicholas Bacon, who with Francis his son, Viscount St. Alban's, were the principal ornaments of this family. Raveningham descended to the Bacons from the heiress of the ancient family of Castell, or de Castello, about the middle of the 18th century. See Parkins's Continuation of Blomefield's Norfolk, iv. 262 Wotton's Baronetage, i. 1, and ii. 72. ARMS.--_Gules, on a chief argent two mullets pierced sable_. This coat was borne by Sir Edmund Bacon, in the reign of Edward II., and by M. Bacon in that of Edward III. (Rolls.) A brass circa A.D. 1320, at Gorleston church, Suffolk, supposed to represent one of this family, bears five lozenges in bend on the field, besides the mullets in chief: see Boutell's Brasses, p. 36. Present Representative, Sir Henry Hickman Bacon, 11th Baronet. JERNINGHAM OF COSSEY, BARON STAFFORD, RESTORED 1824, BARONET 1621. [Illustration] The ancestors of this ancient house were seated at Horham in Suffolk in the 13th century, "knights of high esteem in those parts," saith Camden, and traced to Sir Hubert Jernegan of that place. Somerleyton, in the same county, derived from the heiress of Fitzosbert, afterwards became the family seat, and so continued until the extinction of the elder line. Cossey was granted to Sir Henry Jerningham, (son of Sir Edward Jerningham, by his second wife,) in 1547, by Queen Mary, "being the first that appeared openly for her after the death of Edward VI." He was the ancestor of Lord Stafford.