Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . nd Brydges and Dorothy his wife, obtained thereversion of Prinknash from the King, and sold the can I give any information as to the possession and occu-pation of Prinknash from 1613 to 1628. The heraldic bearings above the fire-place in the drawing roomat Prinknash mark a third era in the history of the mansion andpark. The coats of arms have lost their tinctures, but I amable to describe them as they originally appeared by reference toa monument of Sir John and Lady Bridgeman at Ludlow, and toother monument
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . nd Brydges and Dorothy his wife, obtained thereversion of Prinknash from the King, and sold the can I give any information as to the possession and occu-pation of Prinknash from 1613 to 1628. The heraldic bearings above the fire-place in the drawing roomat Prinknash mark a third era in the history of the mansion andpark. The coats of arms have lost their tinctures, but I amable to describe them as they originally appeared by reference toa monument of Sir John and Lady Bridgeman at Ludlow, and toother monuments of the family at Nympsfield and Upton (See Plate XXIX).L Within an oval shield quarterly :— 1 ife 4, Sable, 10 plates J/., 3, 2 & 1, on a chief argent, a lion2jassant guardant of the first ; a crescent for a cadet ofthe 2nd house.—Bridgeman. 1 Frances Lady Chandos lived during her widowhood at Woburn, andshe died there in 1623. (Mrs, Dents Annals of Sudeley, p. 241). - Additions to Hist, of Gloucestershire, Vol, I., p. 266. 3 Ibid., Vol. L, p. 267,. Prinknash Park. 285 2 & 3, Barry of S gules and argent, 3 stags1 heads cabossed or ;on a chief of the 3rd, a wolf passant of the first, between% pheons sa.—Woodward. For Sir John Bridgeman. II. On a sh eld of five quarterings :— f .,1 & 5, Bridgeman, as above. 2, Woodward, as above. 3, Arg., a chevron sable, betiv. three Cornish choughs1 headserased proper.—Daunt. 4, sable, a chev. betw. 3 owls1 heads erased argent.—Owlpen. For John On a widows lozenge, quarterly :—? 1 & 4, Daunt, as .above. 2 & 3, Owlpen, as above. For Frances Lady Bridgeman, who was born in 1667-8, was the son of JohnBridgeman, of Dene Magna, Gloucestershire, by Ann, daughter ofWilliam Gernon, of Hereford. His grandfather, William Bridge-man, of the Wilderness, married Ann, daughter and heiress ofJohn Woodward, of Dean Magna. He was educated for the legalprofession and entered the Inner Temple. About the comme
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