. Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society. ickshire family, and there is alsogiven the arms on the old sculptured stone as follows:— Per Jchev. ar. and sa. guttee counterchanged on the first a chev. of thesecond charged with three estoiles or. No county is mentioned Jto which the person or family bearing these arms belonged, and jthere seems to be some omission in the description, but it clearly \shows guttee counterchanged. Burke gives also for Wigston,Leicestershire, Per chev. sa. and argent three estoiles in chief last coat appears to have been th
. Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society. ickshire family, and there is alsogiven the arms on the old sculptured stone as follows:— Per Jchev. ar. and sa. guttee counterchanged on the first a chev. of thesecond charged with three estoiles or. No county is mentioned Jto which the person or family bearing these arms belonged, and jthere seems to be some omission in the description, but it clearly \shows guttee counterchanged. Burke gives also for Wigston,Leicestershire, Per chev. sa. and argent three estoiles in chief last coat appears to have been the arms of William Wigstonsancestors, and he may have adopted the additions to the arms onthe old hospital for difference, or probably as the arms of the |hospital. Guttee is the heraldic representation of tears, and imight be added to his family arms as appropriate for a does not give his authority for the arms; and the matter jis scarcely of sufficient importance to induce me to search further,but there are a great many other lists of arms besides those in. ARMS of WILL/AM WICSTOW Founded tyhuii . )5I^ CAMPDEN HOUSE. 199 the College of Arms, and the fire of London seriously injuredeven their records. I think the earliest extant Heralds Visitationfor Leicestershire and Warwickshire is dated 1563. There werenone of the Wigston family in Leicestershire at that date, andI helieve the family are not mentioned in that Visitation. May 26th, Eev. J. H. Hill in the chair. The following gentlemen were elected members:—The M. Hutton of Hungarton Vicarage, Mr. Wm. Kelly, ,Leicester, and the Rev. C. H. Wood, Leicester. The following curiosities, &c, were exhibited:— By Mr. John Hunt : A horn powder flask and a large hornspoon, both of the time of the Commonwealth ; a copper key foundin Cardington ballast-hole, near Bedford; a large old key dug upin Bishopgate Churchyard, London; a button spur from BattleFlat, Leicestershire, temp. James I.; a curi
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