The Herald and genealogist . l counties,—as was done by Captain Archer in his volumeon the Archers which we recently described; and occasionally there occur ina single county two or more families of the name between whom no relation-ship can be traced. There appear in Burkes General Armory some tendifferent coats of arms for the name; but that which belonged to the most resided at Mount Travers, Nateby, &c. in the county of Lancaster. For these two ancient houses Mr. Travers has collected further materials,which he reserves at present for a more extended work: his principal objectbeing to soli
The Herald and genealogist . l counties,—as was done by Captain Archer in his volumeon the Archers which we recently described; and occasionally there occur ina single county two or more families of the name between whom no relation-ship can be traced. There appear in Burkes General Armory some tendifferent coats of arms for the name; but that which belonged to the most resided at Mount Travers, Nateby, &c. in the county of Lancaster. For these two ancient houses Mr. Travers has collected further materials,which he reserves at present for a more extended work: his principal objectbeing to solicit assistance from any genealogist who can render it, particu-larly to verify the descent of the Cheshire family from that of Lancashire,or to attach any others of the outlying branches to the parent stem. The pedigrees that are now printed are illustrated by many importantand curious records, especially wills. In Lancashire, particularly, thereare several ancient families of Travers besides the chief house at ancient and distinguished house was Sable, a chevronbetween three boars heads couped argent, borne byTravers of Horton in the county of Chester: fromwhich Mr. Smith Travers derives his own lineardescent, the name at the head of the first tabularpedigree being that of Hamon or Hamlet Travers, ofHorton-hall, who is enrolled on the list of Cheshiregentry in 1522-3, and of whom various other me-morials are extant. He is supposed to have de-scended from the still more antient race that PEDIGREES OF TRAVERS. 27 One of them at Blackley is traced to the first half of the sixteenth Bradford the martyr wrote during his imprisonment many longletters to his friend good Father Travers, minister of Blackley, whichare given at length in Foxes Actes and Monuments. From that time tothe present Blackley Chapel has been constantly under the care of mem-bers of this family, either as trustees or ministers. There was a Peter Travers (p. 13) who, after having received
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