. The Herald and genealogist. of this gentleman was the chief pro-moter of the settlement at Taunton in Massachu-setts : and on a monument which was erected tohis memory in 1771 she was described as ofgood family, friends, and prospects. The coat,semee de lis and a lion rampant, has been borne,differently tinctured, by several families of Pooleor Pole; and, as the carving gives no tinctures,this coat can afford no information unassisted byother evidence. But should such evidence be found, the mullet, as thedistinction of the third house, may prove a valuable confirmation. On the tomb of Willia
. The Herald and genealogist. of this gentleman was the chief pro-moter of the settlement at Taunton in Massachu-setts : and on a monument which was erected tohis memory in 1771 she was described as ofgood family, friends, and prospects. The coat,semee de lis and a lion rampant, has been borne,differently tinctured, by several families of Pooleor Pole; and, as the carving gives no tinctures,this coat can afford no information unassisted byother evidence. But should such evidence be found, the mullet, as thedistinction of the third house, may prove a valuable confirmation. On the tomb of William Stoughton,Esq. sometime Governor of Massachusetts,and Chief Justice of the Higher Court, andstill more celebrated as the Founder of theStoughton College—his highly eulogisticLatin epitaph is placed before us, showingthat he died in 1701,—is carved the at-chievement here represented. We find itsblason thus given, as for Stoughton of Kent:Argent, on a saltire gules between fourtenter-hooks—aliter door staples—sable an.
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