The Herald and genealogist . ne hundredand seventy examples. Mr. Boutell pays a well-merited tribute of praise to the extraordi-nary spirit with which the shield of a knight who lies in efSgy at Cle-hongre in Herefordshire is sculptured. The bars are carved in boldrelief: the bend is brought to a still higher surface, and the leopardsheads have extraordinary animation. To this finely-sculptured effigythree plates (dated 1841) are devoted in The Monumental Effigies ofGreat Britain, by T. and G. Hollis. The person represented is therestyled A Knight of the Pembridge Family, and we think with gre
The Herald and genealogist . ne hundredand seventy examples. Mr. Boutell pays a well-merited tribute of praise to the extraordi-nary spirit with which the shield of a knight who lies in efSgy at Cle-hongre in Herefordshire is sculptured. The bars are carved in boldrelief: the bend is brought to a still higher surface, and the leopardsheads have extraordinary animation. To this finely-sculptured effigythree plates (dated 1841) are devoted in The Monumental Effigies ofGreat Britain, by T. and G. Hollis. The person represented is therestyled A Knight of the Pembridge Family, and we think with greatprobability. The original and simple coat of Pembruge was Barry ofsix or and azure. To this coat Sir Henri de Penbruge, of Herefordshire,in the reign of Edward the Second, added a bend gules; and Sir Johande Pembruge (whose name follows in the Roll of that date) added onthe bend three mullets argent. Therefore we think it highly probablethat another of the family diflFerenced again by leopards heads in placeof the 189 Thompson of Yorkshire ; and of Lancashire?To the Editor of the Herald and Genealogist. Sir,—In the Harleian MS. 1394, folio 337, occurs this entry : These armes, viz., Party per fece silver and sable, a fece batelle, three faulconscounterchanged of j* feild, the belles and beakes gould. The crest or badge an armequarterly gold and azure, w* a gauntlett of the color of barneys, holding of tronchonof speare gould : set upon a wreath silver and sable ; were granted by LawrenceDalton, als Norroy King of Armes, to Henry Tompson, of Esliold, in the county ofYork, gentleman, and one of the Kings Mat gentlemeli-at-armes at Boloigne, byletters patent dated the 15. of Aprill in the first yeare of y^ reigne of QueeneElizabethe. It is to be inferred this Henry Thompson would not be admitted intothe corps of gentlemen-at-arms of Henry VIII. unless he had some pre-tensions to what Sir Bernard Burke designates gentilitial origin ; but,be this as it may, he is said
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