The visitation of Suffolke . The chevron in the Ist and 4th quarterings of the Cordell Arms is represented asengrailed in several copies of the Visitation (Ilarl. MSS. 1560, 1103 and 1177). In Harl. MS. No. 155, and on the Melford Hospital Seal {see woodcut) the chevron isplain, and it is so sculptured on the Cordell monument in Melford church, as well as onthe AUington monument in the Rolls chapel. In Harl. MSS. 155 and 1560, the field of the 2nd and 3rd quartering is Azure, andin the impalement on the AUington tomh it is paly of six Or and SEAL OP MELFORD HOSPITAL. 2 R VISITATION OF
The visitation of Suffolke . The chevron in the Ist and 4th quarterings of the Cordell Arms is represented asengrailed in several copies of the Visitation (Ilarl. MSS. 1560, 1103 and 1177). In Harl. MS. No. 155, and on the Melford Hospital Seal {see woodcut) the chevron isplain, and it is so sculptured on the Cordell monument in Melford church, as well as onthe AUington monument in the Rolls chapel. In Harl. MSS. 155 and 1560, the field of the 2nd and 3rd quartering is Azure, andin the impalement on the AUington tomh it is paly of six Or and SEAL OP MELFORD HOSPITAL. 2 R VISITATION OF THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLKE. GBANT OP AEMS TO JOHN COHDELL OF lONG MELFOED. For as mucli as John Cordell, of Long Melford, in the county of Siiff., Gentleman, isderived of an Hous undefamed, bearing Arms, Nevertheless, he beinge uncertaine imderwhat sort and manner his Predecessors bore their sayd Arms, not willing to doe any-thing that should be prjejudiciall to any Gentleman of Name and of Arms, hath desiredme, the sayd Clarencieux King of Arms, to ordaine, assigne, and set forth his Arms andCrest due and lawful to be borne, and therefore, the sayd Clarencieux, seeing his re-quest soe Just and reasonable, by the authority and power annexed, attributed, givenand granted by the King to me and to my office of Clarencieux King of Arms by ex-press words, under his most noble Great Seal, have ordained, granted, and set forth MsArms and Crest due and lawful to be borne, that is to say, Geules on a Cheveron betweenthree Griffons head rasy Silver, Three
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