The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . on the shield in the fireplace are describedin The Antiquities of Gainford, by J. R. Walbran, p. 107 (I omittedto copy them myself), as a fess compony between three lionsheads erased, a crescent for difference, the crest being broken off theshield ; and the four shields in the stained glass removed from the windowat the same place are all of them, a fess compony between three lionsheads erased gules. A silver cup given in 1609 by Thomas Birkbeckof Hornby to his daughter-in-law Anna, the wife of Henry Birkbeck ofHeadlam (described on p. 23),
The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . on the shield in the fireplace are describedin The Antiquities of Gainford, by J. R. Walbran, p. 107 (I omittedto copy them myself), as a fess compony between three lionsheads erased, a crescent for difference, the crest being broken off theshield ; and the four shields in the stained glass removed from the windowat the same place are all of them, a fess compony between three lionsheads erased gules. A silver cup given in 1609 by Thomas Birkbeckof Hornby to his daughter-in-law Anna, the wife of Henry Birkbeck ofHeadlam (described on p. 23), has the arms engraved, a fess compony betweenthree lions heads. The arms of his cousin Thomas Birkbeck of MortonTynmouth on a brass in Gainford Church (^ride p. 20) in memory of his wife, 1668, were : Argent, a fess compony or and sable, between two lions College of Arms, C. 40, 221 B. THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. 5 heads erased in chief, and a boars head in base. Crest : A hazel branchfructed proper debruised by a bow bent in pale (vide cut).. In C. 14, fo. 62, Visitation of Counties Northampton and Rutland, 1619, at the College of Arms, occurs the following match anterior to20 Edward IV. :— Richardus Andrewe de Sawbridge=pKatherina tilia et heres Johis Berbcck , in com. Warw. de com. Ebor. Tho. Andrewe, emit manerium de Charwelton a° 30 Edw. IV. The arms allowed for this lady in the scheme of quarterings at thebase of the pedigree are :— Sable, a fess chequey argent and of the ist,between 3 Lions heads erased or (vide cut, p. 6). In Augustine Vincents MS., College of Arms, vol. xliv., fo. 68, thearms given to the above Katherina Berbeck are, Sable, on a chief or threeniascles of the first, but this would appear to have been a therefore there had been an earlier grant of arms before 1515,the son having bought the Manor of Charwelton in 1480-1 (but this is theonly trace I found of it), though the arms are similar to those granted 1515 ;the blazo
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