Coats of Arms in Queenborough Castle

( 14 ) COATS OF ARMS IN QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE. BY B. H. D'ELBOEX, M.O., M.A., E.S.A. I. IN the hbrary of W. J. Hemp, Esq., F.S.A., of Criccieth, is an heraldic manuscript of c. 1610 or earher on Venetian1 paper produced at the end of the sixteenth century and bound in a Caroline binding stamped with the initials T. P. for Thomas Peniston. I t contains firstly the arms of the gentry of Kent as once displayed in Queenborough Castle ; secondly and without a break, an interesting armoury of Kent; thirdly the arms of various of the nobility of the period ; fourthly a hst of baronets in order of creation, 92 in aU, the last two, in a different hand, Sh Thomas Penningston and Sir Thomas Temple, both created September 24th, 1611, (this hst is an insertion in the volume); fifthly (also an insertion) a continuation of the hst to 1620, inclusive ; sixthly, beside this, a fine marshalling of 36 coats for Penyston of CornwaU House, co. Oxon ; and lastly on the foUowing page, an inferior trick of Penyston quarterly of four, with the Ulster hand in base, and an inescutcheon of Watson. This, with its accompanying subscription, is, save for the Ulster hand, exactly as in Guillim, 1632 edn., p. 388, where Guflhm states: " I have omitted to blazon his Baronets marke because it is not cut in the Escocheon." Beneath the subscription is " This booke was given mee by Sr. Thos. Penyston 15° Junii, 1641. E:W:" and on the fly leaf at the beginning of the MS., in the same hand, is written Ed : Woods. I have been unable to trace this man, though I suspect an unchronicled marriage with a female Penyston, probably without surviving off-spring, since this MS. was the property of Miss Frances Peniston of CornwaU House, the last member of the family, and given by her to her cousin, Mr. Richard 0. Assheton, from whom by marriage it has descended to its present owner. The connection of the Penystons with Kent starts in the sixteenth century. There is a stray cleric, Thomas, curate of Hope in 1502, and vicar of Selling at the time of his death in 1518 ; in his wfll of that date he is of New Romney, and in 1511 he leased and farmed the rectory there (A.C., XLVII, 24; XXXI, 90; XIII, 413). But one must turn to North Kent in Elizabethan times for any connection with this MS., when Thomas Penyston of Deane, co. Oxon, married Mary, daughter and coheir of John Somer of Newlands in St. Mary's, Hoo, Somer being Clerk of the Privy Signet, and Penyston Clerk of the CouncU. John PhUipot, Somerset Herald, edited and pubhshed Camden's Remains concerning Britain, and in this, " upon a PiUer of 1 Briquet, Les Hligranes, No. 755. He quotes examples from the 1590's. COATS OE ABMS XS QEEENBOBOEGH CASTLE 15 the Cathedral Church of Rochester," is the epitaph of Thomas Peniston, unfortunately without date. Thorpe, in the Custumale Roffense, places it in the Nave, and adds that it was destroyed in the Great Rebellion. His widow married Sir Alexander Temple, Knt., of Long House, ChandweU, Essex, who died in 1629, and he, too, was buried in the cathedral, where a tourist of 1635 noticed " Sh Alexander Temple's monument with his lady " (A.C., XI, 5-9). Pedigrees (here revised) give only one son to Thomas and Mary, another Thomas, the donor of this volume to Ed. Woods in 1641, who was created a baronet of Leigh in Sussex in 1611 and whose wiU was proved at Oxford in May, 1644. He married twice ; firstly in 1613 to Martha, daughter of Sir Thomas Temple, Bart., of Stowe, his stepfather's brother, and secondly to Ehzabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Watson of Halstead, widow of Wflham Pope (eldest son of Sir Wm. Pope, created Earl of Downe in 1628) whom she had married at St. Margaret's Westminster in 1615, and who died in 1624. Thomas, the eldest son of the Peniston- Watson alliance, was of CornwaU House, which thenceforth remained the seat of the family. It seems likely, however, that Mary Somer had other chUdren by Thomas Peniston, for the wUl of William Peniston1 of MUton by Gravesend (Harvey 139) was proved, 1639, by his brother John. John Peniston also proved the wiU of John Causon of Frindesbury (Sadler 129) in 1635, and occurs in the rental of Hoden Fee of 1649, a manor of Cobham mainly situate in Frindesbury. The first hst of baronets, a different script from the Queenborough arms and the armoury, has had the two last names added to it of Sir Thomas Temple and Sir Thomas Peniston, by the same hand that continued the list to 1620, possibly that of Sir Thomas Peniston ; the binding, too, seems to have been made for him. The fact that the armoury, though general to Kent, contains much of North Kent, including Peniston, and is prefaced by the Queenborough Castle series, suggests an origin in the neighbourhood of the Hundred of Hoo, and permits the conjecture that it was a family MS., for that reason preserved, added to and bound by Sir Thomas at a later date, and save for the donation to Mr. Woods, retained by the famfly to the end. Queenborough Castle, commenced in 1361, is attributed by J. H. Harvey to Henry Yeveley, Mason of the King's Works to Edward III (Henry Yevele, pp. 25-26). It was demohshed in, or soon after, 16502 and only the weU remains. The Invicta Magazine in 1908 (Vol. I, 44-5) printed extracts relating to Queenborough from " A Tour thro' Great Britain," pubhshed anonymously in 1753. Among them is the foUowing passage also given by Hasted :— " This Castle was standing in the year 1629, for Mr. Johnston, 1 He married Eliz. d. T. Heyward of Bast Milton : she died 23 March, 1635r see her M. I. in Milton by Gravesend Church. 2 See Rambles in the Isle of Sheppey by Turmine, 1843. 16 COATS OE ABMS IN QXTEENBOBOEGH CASTLE in his httle book, intituled Iter Plantarumlnvestigationis ergo susceptum, tells us that he saw there a noble large Dining-room or HaU, round the top of which were placed the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Kent; and, in the middle, those of Queen Ehzabeth, with the foUowing Latin verses under, in great letters : 1LUia virgineum pectus regale leonis Significant; vivas virgo, regasque leo ; Umbra placet vultus, vultus quia mentis imago ; Mentis imago placet, mens quia plena Deo : Virgo Deum vita, regina imitata regendo, Viva mini vivi fiat imago Dei. Qui leo de Juda est, et Flos de Jesse, leones Protegat et flores, ELTZABETHA, tuos. A.D. 1593. These arms start the Peniston volume, and including the Queen's, number 45. On the opposite page is written by Ed. Woods, " Arms of the Nobility and Gentry (Mr. Johnston's phraseology is curiously akin) of Kent hveinge in the yeare of our Lord, 1593 : as they are depicted in the Castle of Quinborough." No one represented is less than a Knight. As the alphabetical armoury which foUows contains 308 shields, I cannot feel it was part of the mural decorations. The Knights are hsted in order of creation. At the time of their erection, Sir Edward Hoby was Constable of Queenborough, and had the same year been made Knight of the Shire and received the lease of Shurland in Kent. One wonders if they were placed merely patrioticaUy or rather in preparation for a visit by the Queen. In conclusion, I would record my appreciation of Mr. Hemp's courtesy in aUowing me the use of the manuscript, and Mr. Councer's for a transcript of Dr. Cock's PhUipot MS. 1. Vivat Regina Ehzabetha. New France & England quarterly, surmounted by a royal crown or, lined gules. 2. Whytgyfte Lorde Archbyshoppe. Argent on a cross formy flurty sable 5 bezants. 3. Puckering Lord Keeper. Sable a bend lozengy cotised argent. Sir John Puckering was appointed Lord Keeper and Knighted, 1692 ; died, 1596; married Jane, d. of Nicholas Ghowne of Pairlane (now ITairlawn) in Wrotham. As Queen's Serjeant, the Assizes were held before him at Sevenoaks in 1590. 1 To those who in these degenerate days have no Latin, I commend the translation in the Invicta Magazine. COATS OE ABMS IN QTTEENBOBOtTGH CASTLE 17 Yonge Byshoppe of Rochester. Per saltire gules & azure a lion passant guardant between 2 fleurs de lys in pale or. John Yonge, 1534-1605; Bishop of Rochester, 1578 ; buried at Bromley, where, until the church was bombed, his inscription remained. The shield once above it, of the See impaling Yonge was "drawn by T. Fisher, and is illustrated in Griffin's Drawings of 5. Lord Cobham. Gules on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable. William Brooke, E.G., Lord Cobham, 1558-1597 ; Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Lord Lieutenant of Kent. •6. Lord Buckhurst. Per cross or & gules, a bend voir. Thomas Sackville, K.G., 1589 ; created Lord Buckhurst, 9th Eliz : and by James I in 1604, Earl of Dorset; Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, 1598. 7. Lord Burrous. • Azure 3 flews de lys ermine. Thomas Burgh, Baron Burgh, 1584-1597 ; of Sterborough and Chiddingstone Cobham Manor. 8. Rogers Byshopp of Dover. Argent a chevron between 3 bucks sable, collared or. Richard Rogers, of Sutton Valence, died 19 May, 1597, aged 64 ; 28 years Suffragen and 13 years Dean of Christ Church, Canterbury. M.I. Canterbury Cathedral. See Appendix to Supplement, Batteley's Somner, p. 6 ; Cowper's Memorials, p. 96 ; and Lives of the Deans of Canterbury, pp. 44-54. 9. Sr Warren S* Leger. Azure, fretty argent, a chief or, thereon a crescent gules for difference. Sir Warham St. Leger, of Ulcombe ; 2nd son and heir of Sir Anthony by his wife Anne, d. of Hugh Warham ; married Ursula, 6th d. of George Nevill, Lord Abergavenny; Sheriff 2nd Eliz : knighted, 1565 ; died, 1598 ; will P.C.C. 5 Lewyn, as of Leeds Castle. 10. Sr Thomas Scott. Argent 3 Catharine wheels sable, a border engrailed gules. Of Scott's Hall in Smeeth; married Elizabeth, d. of Sir John Baker, of Sissinghurst; Sheriff 18th Eliz: Knight of the Shire 13th and 28th Eliz : Will P.C.C. 1 Scott, 1695 ; Knighted at Somerset Place in London, 1670.1 1 The Be Lisle and Dudley papers contain this letter from Sir Robert Sidney to his wife ; 29 Dee., 1693, Dover. " I was once at sea and put back again : since I have bin at Sr. Th. Scots and meant to have gone to Rye to have shipped there, and was raysed at midnight to come back hither and now about 10 o'clock at night ame going abord." 18 COATS OE ARMS EST QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE 11. Sr Alexander Colpeper. Argent a bend engrailed gules. Of Bedgebury in Goudhurst; married Mary, d. of William Lord Dacre of the North ; Knighted at Rye, 12 Aug., 1573, after the Queen's progress through Kent. Hasted says she visited Bedgebury. 12. Sr Walter WaUer. Or, on a bend sable 3 walnut leaves vert. Of Groombridge in Speldhurst; married Anne, d. of Philip Chute ; Knighted 1572 ; buried Speldhurst; Captain of a Company of Foot in the Flushing Expedition, 1585. 13. Sr Richarde Baker. Azure on a fess between 3 swans heads erased or [gorged with coronets gules] 3 cinqfoils gules. Son of Sir John of Sissinghurst; married Catherine, d. and heir of John Tirrell of Essex ; Sheriff 4th Eliz: ; Knighted at Dover, 1573 ; died, 1694 ; his funeral certificate is printed 2. Top et Gen., p. 383. 14.. Sr Thomas Browne. Sable 3 lions passant in bend between 2 double cotises argent. Of Betchworth Castle, Surrey; held various manors in Kent, Alkham, Milton by Canterbury, Morris Court in Bapchild, Westbury in Water'ingbury, etc.; Knighted, 1676. 15. Sr Drewe Drewrye. Argent on a chief vert a Tau cross between 2 mullets or. Sir Drew Drury married Katherine, d. and heir of William Finch, of Perry Court in Linsted, where she died 1601. He was Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber; Lieutenant of Tower of London, 1585-86 ; Knighted at Wanstead in Essex, Sept., 1579. Her M.I. at Linsted shows the arms of Drury with 16 quarterihgs (A.C., XXIII, 126. 16. Sr Edwarde Moore. Azure on a chief indented or 3 mullets gules. 2nd, but eldest surviving son with issue, of John Moore of Moore Court in Benenden, by Margaret, d. and heir of John Brent, widow of John Dering of Surrenden in Pluckley. He married (1) Mildred, d. and coheir of Nicholas Clifford of Chart Sutton, widow of Sir George Harper; (2) Margery, d. of Wm. Brabazon, 4th son of John Brabazon of Eastwell, co. Leicester, by whom issue ; ancestor of the Earls of Drogheda ; Knighted by Sir William Drury, Lord Deputy, in camp, 1679. In the DeLisle and Dudley papers, I I , 32, Waterhouse writes to Sir Henry Sidney defending himself against Mr. Edward Moore's public imputation that he showed ingratitude to Sidney, and in 1680 Sir Henry writes to Lord Grey, Lord Deputy : " I had forgotten three kinsmen of my own, Sir Edward More, Owen More [the eldest] and Thomas More ; let them know I forget them not." COATS OE ARMS IN QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE 19 . 17. Sr Edwarde Hobye. Argent 3 spindles gules. For these arms see Misc. Gen. et Her. I , 141 ; the exemplification of 1661 gives this coat of " clewes or bottomes," as adopted by Hoby, on marrying the heiress of Badland, co. Radnor, but the explanation seems open to question. Sir Edward'sarms are given as such, impaling Cooke of Essex, differenced with a crescent. He was of Bisham, Berks., and of Sheppey ; Constable of Queenborough Castle, 1582 ; granted Shurland in Eastchurch 1593 on lease for life by Elizabeth ; Knight of the Shire, 1593 ; Custos Rotulorum of Kent, 1596 ; died at Queenborough, 1616 (Hasted, folio, II, p. 649) ; an intimate of the Sidneys, as the following extracts from the DeLisle and Dudley papers show: " I have given Terry charge to Serve Sir Edward Hobbye with a very good buck this season," 1607 ; " Sir Edward Hoby prayseth your apricots but I fear I shall see none of them," Viscount Lisle to his wife 1608 ; Viscount Lisle wrote from Shurland in 1610. He was " dubbed at Somerset Place in London on Tuesday the 22 of May, anno 1582, the day after his mariage with the Baron of Hunston's daught'r." (Metcalfe's Knights, p. 134.) To him Camden dedicated his Hibernia. He also indulged in religious controversy, as is evidenced by the following title page of a quarto, published by Nathaniel Butter at the Signe of the Pied Bull, 1615. A OUTCRY -COMBE Eon A COXE-COMBE, or Purgtories Knell; in Answer of a lewd Libell foricated by Iabal Rachil against Sir Edw. Hobies COTJNTEB-SNABLE, entituled Purgatories triumph over Hell, digested in forme of a Dialogue by NICK, groom of the HOBiE-stable Reginoburgi. [i.e. Queenborough.] Sr Ralphe Bouser. Argent a cross engrailed gules between 4 bougets sable, a border or and gules, and on each gules a bezant. Sir Rauf Bourchier of Beningborough, co. Yorks, son of John (or James) Bourchier, the base son of Lord Berners of Froissart fame. He married (1) Eliz. d. of Francis Hall of Grantham, co. Linos., by whom only he had issue ; (2) Christian, d. of Bernard Shakerly of London; (3) Ann, d. of George Harvey of Norfolk, relict of Francis Cooke (MS.. History of Berners family, 1616, penes the writer) ; his marriage license, 29 Nov., 1577, Ralph Bourchier esq. and Christian Harding, widow of St. Bennett Gracechurch, to marry there (Chester, p. 160). Lambarde lists him as J . P . in Leigh by Blackheath, 1596, and Lee parish register of t h a t year records the marriage of his d., Katherine to Sir Richard Mauleverer (Drake, p. 224); Knighted at Whitehall, 6 March, 1583. Sr Moyle Finch. Argent a chevron between 3 griffins passant sable. Of Eastwell, married 4 Nov., 1572, Eliz., d. and heir of Sir Thomas Heneage; Knight of the Shire, 1593; baronet, 1611; died, 1614; Knighted at Greenwich, 7 May, 1684. Sr Robert Sydney. Or a pheon azure. Afterwards Earl of Leicester ; Knighted by his uncle Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in Holland, 1586. 20 COATS OE ARMS IN QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE 21. Sr Robert SothweU. Argent 3 cinqfoils gules, on each 6 annulets or. Of Woodrising, co. Norfolk, grandson to Sir Robert Southwell, Master of th© Rolls, who had married Margaret, d. and heir of Sir Thomas Nevill of Yokes Place in Mereworth. Hasted says her lands were alienated by the Master of the Rolls. This Sir Robert married Eliz., d. of Lord Howard of Effingham, and died 1598; Will P.C.C. 78 Lewyn. I can trace no connection with land in Kent; his grandfather sold his Kent lands, mainly forfeitures, as soon as he received them. Knighted at Theobalds, Herts., 18 June, 1585. 22. Sr George Caroe. [Carew, Earl of Totnes, 1624.] Or 3 lions passant in pale sable. 1555-1629 : son of George Carew, D.D., Dean of Windsor, by Ann, d. of Sir Nicholas Harvey and Bridget, d. and heir of Sir John Wiltshire of Stone by Dartford. His cousin had Stone Castle by marriage with the Chapman heiress. 1586 Master of Ordinance in Ireland ; 1691 Lieut, of Ordinance in England; 1599 Lord President of Munster ; Master General of Ordinance, 1608 ; scholar and antiquary, " first inspired Camden, at Oxford, with antiquarian tastes," and assisted in compilation of " Britannia " (Drake's Blackheath, p. 169, note 18). Knighted by Sir John Perrott, Lord Deputy, in Ireland, 24 Feb., 1585-6. 23. Sr John Peyton. Sable a cross engrailed or. . Brother of Sr Thomas Peyton of Knowlton ; Lieut, of the Tower of London ; married Alice (or Dorothy), d. and heir of Edward Beaupre of Well, co. Norfolk ; Knighted, 1586. 24. Sr Edwarde WingfeUde. Argent on a bend gules cotised sable 3 wings conjoined argent. Eldest son of Thomas Wingfeild of Kimbolton, co. Norfolk, and great grandson of Sir Richard who married Bridget, d. and heir Sir John Wiltshire of Stone by Dartford. Probably held Stone Place : the administration of his great uncle, Jacques, master of the Ordnance in Ireland under Sir Henry Sidney, of Stone also, was granted 6 Sept., 1587 (A.G., XVIII, p. 27); Edward married Mary, d. of Sir James Harrington; Knighted, 1586. 25. Sr John Roper. Of six pieces azure & or, 3 stage heads erased or. Of Lodge in Lynsted, afterwards Lord Teynham. See in A.C., XLTV, the late Aymer VaUance's article on Lynsted; Knighted, 23 Feb., 1687-88. Sir Edward Dering's " Booke of Monuments • in Churches" notes at Goudhurst in 1633, on folio 71 a brass to Walter Colepeper, f 1462 and Agnes, his wife, t 1468, d. of Edmond Robar " juxta Cantuaria ". A shield is drawn of Colepeper and another of Colepeper impaling or 3 bucks heads couped for Roper. COATS OE ARMS IS QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE 21 26, Sr Henrye Palmer. Argent, on a chevron between 3 palmers purses sable garnished or, an inescutcheon of Isaak ;—sable a bend & in sinister chief a leopards face or. Of Howletts in Bekesbourne, married Joan, d. and coheir of Edward Isaak ; died, 1611; M. I. Bekesbourne ; Knighted by Robert Earl of Leicester in Holland, 1686 (so Metcalfe ; the date, however, is out of the easeful order maintained in the series). He commanded the Antelope of 400 tons against the Armada, and was made comptroller of the Navy for life, 24 Dec, 1588. Li 1697, White wrote to Sir Robert Sidney " To-morrow I shall have my Lord Admiral's letter to Sir Henry Palmer for one of the Queen's ships to transport you."' 27. Sr Thomas Wilforde. Gules a chevron engrailed between 3 leopards faces or. Wil(s)ford of Ileden in Kingston,marriedMary, d. and heir of Edward Poynings ; died, 1610 ; Knighted by Lord Willoughby in the Low Countries, 1588. . 28. Sr John Hawkins. Sable, on a base wavy of six argent and azure, a lion passant or, in chief 3 bezants : on a canton or an escallop between 2 staves sable. Admiral Sir John Hawkins of Deptford, grandson of John Hawkins of Tavistock and his wife Joan, sister of John Amadas of Eltham and Tavistock (See Drake's Blackheath, XXn, etc.); married (1) Katharine Gonson of Deptford, (2) Margaret Vaughan ; ob., 1695 ; aet. 63 ; Knighted by the Lord Admiral at sea, 1688. 29". Sr George Beston. Argent a bend between 6 bees sable. Sir George Beeston commanded the Dreadnought of 400 tons against the Armada, and was knighted by Lord Aobmral at sea, 1588. He is given as one of the Justices of the peace, or resident in Kent in 1593 (Drake's Blackheath, XX), but is not in Lambarde's list of 1696. The arms of Beeston are in the armoury of this MS. and are also instanced in Filmer Southowe's armoury of Kent, compiled in the late 17th century (Add. MS. 14307, f. 7, no. 8). A Richard Beston was parson of Yalding, 1597-1628 (Feilding's Records of Rochester Diocese). 30. Sr Thomas Eludd. Vert, a chevron between 3 wolves heads erased argent. (Lloyd, from RhiridFlaidd). Of Milgate in Bearsted; married (1) Elizabeth, d. of Phillip Andrews of Taunton, co. Somerset; ob. 1607 ; Treasurer of Forces in the Low Countries, Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer of the Cinque Ports; Knighted by Lord Willoughby in the Low Country, 1689 (Hasted, H, 487, z.). 22 COATS OE ARMS IN QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE 31. Sr John Scott. Argt., 3 Catharine wheels sable, a border engrailed gules ; in fess point a crescent .gules for difference. 2nd son of Sir Thomas Scott of Scott's Hall; married (1) Elizabeth Stafford, widow of William Drewry ; (2) Catharine, d. of Thomas Smyth, widow of Sir Rowland Hayward ; Knighted by Lord Willoughby in the Low Countries, 1588. 32. Sr John Lewson. Azure 3 oak leaves or. Li the Visitation of 1574 a fess per fess nebuly argent and sable is inserted between the oak leaves, and Streatfeild notes this coat impaled with Curzon on furniture preserved at Knole, but in the Curzon pedigree at Knole the fess is altogether omitted. (Visitation of 1594. R. Griffin. Misc. Gen. et Her., 1924). Of Whornes Place in Hailing ; married (1) Margaret, d. of Sir Roger Manwood; (2) Christian, d. of Sir Walter Mildmay.M.P. for Maidstone, 1597; Knight of the Shire, 1604; one of Lord Cobham's three executors for the rebuilding of Cobham College; Knighted, 1589. His son, also Sir John, died 1615, in the lifetime of his father. 33. Sr George Delves. Argent a chevron gules fretty or between 3 delves (or spades) sable. Married Anne, d. and coheir of Thomas Isley of Manns in Bredgar, and Hengham in Woodchurch; Chester's Marriage licenses gives " George Delves of Westminster, esq., and Anne Esley of same, spinster, 8 March, 1582-3." Knighted by Sir William Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy in Ireland, 1691. 34. Sr William Brooke. Gules on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable, in dexter chief a crescent or for difference. Second son of William Lord Cobham ; " with £2000 or thereabouts his second son, Sir William Brook should be freed out of debt for to so much he knew him. to be endangered by the mortgage of his lands & leases & by other bonds." See Lambarde's letter to Burghley, written as executor shortly after Lord Cobham's death, in 1597. (A.C., XXVII, 80.) Of Cranbrook in Newington, 1565- 1597 ; wiU P.C.C. 110 Cobham; Knighted by the Earl of Essex before Rouen, 1591. Robert Brook, alderman of London and free of the Grocers, who married Susan, d. of Robert Offley, and died 1601, differenced with a martlet on a crescent. His funeral is recorded at St. Mary, Woolchurch, in W. J. Hemp's Camden's Funerals, fo. 10b, 2. 35. Sr John Wotton. Argent a saltire engrailed sable, a crescent or in centre chief for difference. Born 11 Apr., 1660; 2nd son of Thomas Wotton of Boughton Malherbe; married Luce, d. of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland; 1 Of Templecombe, Somerset; wiU 1697, P.C.C. 38, Cobham; Knighted before Rouen by Robert Earl of Essex, 1591. COATS OE ARMS XS QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE 23 36. Sr Nicholas Clyfford. Cheeky or & azure a fess and a border gules, on the fess a crescent or for difference. Apparently the son of Henry and his wife, Ann Devereux. Shown in Visitation of 1574 as a Knight, but this visitation was badly edited and contains later additions, unnoted as such. He married d. of Sir William Drury and had one child, Ursula, married to William Isley ; Streatfeild says he was of Bobbing ; Knighted at Rouen by the Earl of Essex, 1591. 37. Sr Edwarde Brooke. Gules, on a chevron argent, a lion rampant sable, in dexter chief a crescent or for difference. Visitation of Kent, 1619, says 2nd son of Thomas Brooke, who married Susan, d. of John Cranmer, (There was another son, not in Visitation, Thomas, of Chislet Park) and was 2nd son of John Lord Cobham. Waller (A.C., XI, 112) says his father Thomas was 3rd son of Thomas, Lord Cobham. He is down as " slain in battle," probably in the French expedition, since he is here among the 1691 Knights. Shaw lists him 1599 (1591). 38. Sr Conyers Clyfford. As for 36. 3rd son of George of Bobbing; married Mary, d. of Francis Southwell of Windham Hall, Norfolk, as 3rd husband; Governor of Connaught and Privy Councillor of Ireland; he, too, is down as Knight in Visitation of 1574 ; Knighted Rouen, 1591; will 1600 (sentence 49, Wallop); his widow married Sir Anthony St. Leger, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and was buried 1603, aet. 37, St. Patrick's, Dublin. 39. Sr Edwarde Wotton. Argent, a saltire engrailed sable. After Lord Wotton and Lord Lieut. Kent t. James I ; married (1) Hester, d. and coheir of Sir Willm. Pickering; she died 1592; (2) Margaret, d. of Philip Lord Wharton; Knighted, 1692. 40. Sr Anthony S' Leger. Azure, fretty argent, a chief or, thereon a crescent gules for difference. Of Wierton House, Boughton Monchelsea; Master of the Rolls in • Ireland ; married (1) Eleanor, d. of Richard Markham of Sedgbrook, co. Lincoln (she ob. 1698, s.p. bur. St. Sepulchre's, London); (2) Mary, d. of Francis Southwell, as 4th husband (seeNo. 38); Knighted, 1593. 41. Sr Thomas Moore. Azure, on a chief indented or 3 mullets gu, in fess point a crescent or for difference. 3rd, but 2nd surviving son of John Moore of Moore Court in Benenden (see no. 16); of King's County, Ireland ; Knighted by Sr William Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy, 28 May, 1593. 5 24 COATS OE ARMS IN QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE 42. Sr William Rooe. Argent a chevron azure between 3 trefoils slipt, per pale gules & vert. Stowe says son to Thomas Rowe of Penshurst; Furley (IH, 288) says native of Hawkhurst; free of the Ironmongers Company; Lord Mayor and Knighted, 1692 ; died in his mayoralty, according to 1634 Visitation of London; married Jane Lewkenor; will (P.C.C. 36, Dixy) proved 1694, of S* Laurence, Old Jury, Isle of Sheppy, Muswell, Middlesex and Epping, Essex: Hasted, who quotes from a MS. pedigree of " E.H." says the family originates from Rowes Place in Aylesford. Sir Thomas Rowe, merchant taylor, Lord Mayor, 1569 is given in Stowe as son to Robert, merchant taylor and grandson to Reynald Rowe of Leigh. To Sir Thomas arms were granted by Garter and Norroy, 1566, as here, with 3 bezants on the chevron (Visitation, London, 1568). Stowe shows Sir William with the bezants also, and both coats with a crescent in centre chief. Sir Henry Rowe, mercer, son to Sir Thomas and Lord Mayor, 1607, is given the same coat without difference, so it seems likely both Elizabethans were 2nd sons. 43. Sr Anthony Manye. Per pale argent and sable, 3 chevrons between 3 cinqfoils all counterchanged. Son of Anthony Mayney of Biddenden Place ; sold Biddenden and moved to Linton Place; married Bridget, d. of William Tanfield of Gayton, Northants; M.I. Linton, dated 1615; Knighted by Sir William Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy, 1693. 44. Sr Thomas Posthumus Hoby. Argent 3 bottoms gules, in dexter chief a crescent gules for difference. Brother of Sir Edward, Constable of Queenborough (see no. 17); in 1696 suitor to Sir Robert Sidney's " sister " (DeLisle and Dudley Papers, vol. II, 173, 181, 186), d. and coheir Arthur Dakens of Lynton, co. York, widow of (1) Walter Devereux; (2) Thomas Sydney, brother of Sir Robert. " Oct. 15, 1695. They say your sister Sydney takes your brothers death heavily . . . Sir Posthumus Hoby is gon to see her . . . but 'tis thought she will give no eare unto yt." " Nov. 3, 1596. Sir Posthumus Hoby hath had access to your sister Sydney and likes her so weU that he meanes to return out of hand." "Nov. 16, 1695. Sir Posthumus Hoby is rid towards your sister Sydney with good store of fair jewels and pearls." He was Knighted by Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy in 1693. " By ye occasion of wch said marriage, the said Sir Thomas Posthumus Hoby hath altered & is dep'ted from ye place of his habitao'on and byrth out of ye South into y° North p'tes of this Realme." Exemplification of arms by Dethick and Camden, 10 July, 1598 (Misc. Gen. et Her., I, 141); it shows the Hoby arms of argent a fess between 3 hobbies sable, a crescent in centre chief for difference, impaling argent an anchor sable. COATS OE ARMS IN QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE 25 45. Sr Stephen Thornix. Ermine, on a chief gules, 2 leopards faces argent, langued azure. Son of Stephen Thornhurst of St. George's, Canterbury and Agnes (? sister of William Pettowse, Petty Canon of Christ Church); married (1) after 1596, Mary, d. of John Gifford, widow of Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, by whom Sir William Thornhurst of Ford; (2) after 1611, Dorothy, d. of Dr. Roger Drew of Densworth, Sussex, widow of Hippocrate de Otten,1 by whom Sir Thomas, Knighted 1626, slain at Isle of Rhee, 1627. A letter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, anent exportation of horses without license is endorsed to Sir Thomas Scott, Henry Guildford, Captain of the fort of Artcliffe and Stephen Thorneux, Esquires in 1585 ; Keeper of the Park of Forde in Hoath; Knighted, 1593 by Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy. (Shaw says 1594, but this list is against that date); freeman of Canterbury, 1598 ; died, 1616 and was buried Canterbury Cathedral. (See Cowper's Memorial Inscriptions, Canterbury Cathedral.) H. CONSTABLES OE QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE. Turmine, in his Rambles in the Isle of Sheppy of 1843, gives the foUowing hst. I have coUated with it that of PhUipot, from the Church Notes once the property of Dr. Cock, and now in the British Museum. The arms are from PhUipot, and Turmine's regnal years have been converted. Turmine's list came from Hasted. II. 657. 1. 1362-1363. John Foxley. Gules 2 bars argent. 2. 1376-1377. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. England and France with a label of 3; an escutcheon of pretence of Castile & Leon. i 3. 1384-1392. Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford ; " Marchio Dublin " in PhUipot, who places him fifth. He held the office for life. Quarterly, 1 & 4, three crowns & a border ; 2 &, 3, per cross in dexter quarter a mullet. 4. 1392-1393. Sir Arnold Savage ; Philipot's no. 3, with same date.. Argent 6 lions sable. 5. 1396-1397. WiUiam le Sorope; " filius Domi Scrope" saya PhUipot, who puts him eighth. Azure a bend or, a label of 3. 1 He died 13 Nov., 1611 and was buried at St. Clement Danes, London, where a monument to him was erected by his late wife " the now Lady & Wife unto Sir Stephen Thornhurst of Kent, the most worthy & valorous Knight ". 26 COATS OE ARMS IN QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE 6. 1399-1400. William de Watterton. " Hugo de WaUerton habuit manor et hund. de Midelton ex con. Regis H:4." Barry ermine and , 3 crescents. The ninth on Philipot's list, as Hugh. 7. 1402-1403. John CornwaU, Baron of Fanhope ; no. 6 in PhUipot. Ermine a lion rampant crowned, a border engrailed roundelly. 8. 1408-1409. Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury. No. 4 in PhUipot. The See impaling Arundel. 9. 1413-1414. GUbert de UmfrevUle. No. 7 in PhUipot. Gules a cinqfoil & 8 cross-crosslets or. 10. 1449-1450. Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. Quarterly, 1. England & a border; 2. a chevron; 3. a bend cotised between 6 lions rampant; 4. as 3., with a mullet on the bend. 11. 1461-1462. John Northwood, esquire. Ermine, a cross engrailed. 12. t. Edward IV. George, Duke of Clarence. England