^{page 93 note 1} From Hill's MS. Collections these inscriptions are supplied :—

“Hic jacet Nicolas griffin, Fil. primogenitus Edw. Griffin de Bickmarish, in com. Warr. Arm. qui duxit ad uxorē Annam filiam Edwardi Lingen de Stooke Edith in com. Heref. Arm. obiit vicesimo sexto die Febr. A° D'ni 1644.

“Dicite Pierides Griffinū plangere, cujus

Spiritus in cœlo, nomen in orbe viget.”

“In cujus memoriam uxor fidelis hoc fieri fecit monumentum.”

Arms: 1 and 4, a griffin segreant, Griffin; 2 and 3, a cross voided between four martlets, Chambers ; impaling, Paly of six, on a bend three roses, Lingen.

“Hic jacet Anna griffin uxor Nicolai Griffin filii primogeniti Edwardi Griffin de Bickmarsh in com. Warr. Arm. vidua, filia Edwardi Lingen de Stoke Edith in com. Heref. arm. obiit Sept. 16 A° D'ni 1660.” Arms, in a lozenge, Griffin impaling Lingen.

^{page 94 note 1} Blount thought these effigies might be Verdons, and is followed by Taylor, Silas, the Herefordshire collector quoted in The Topographer, 1789, ii. 208Google Scholar, and by Gough in his Camden's Britannia. Sir Meyrick, Samuel R., who described their costume in the Gentleman's Magazine for Oct. 1827, p. 308Google Scholar, assigned the knight and lady to John Marbury and Alicia (Pembridge) his wife, early in the reign of Henry IV., and added that the costume of the other effigy is prior in date. Adverting to the circumstance that these effigies had been sometimes ascribed to the family of Brydges, because of the Saracen's head crest, yet, having ascertained that Marbury also bore that crest, Meyrick attributes both the male effigies to that family. Meyrick was evidently not aware how many other knights then bore the like (see Beltz, Memorials of the Garter, and various other authorities); the more distinctive devices for crests not being as yet generally adopted. It has been ascertained that John Marbury esquire, though knight of the shire for the co. Hereford, had not actually received knighthood before his death in 1435. He is styled armiger in the Inq. p. m. of Agnes Devereux, his second wife, 14 Hen. VI., as in the petition presented by himself in 5 Hen. VI. for payment of the pension of forty marks which had been granted to him by Henry the Fifth. His daughter and heir Elizabeth was married to Sir Walter Devereux, grandson of the Walter mentioned in the text, and ancestor of the Earls of Essex.

^{page 94 note 2} “St. Cosmiana's well famous for cures there is below the church eastward.” Silas Taylor, in Harl. MS. 6726.

^{page 97 note 1} The monumental bust of Thomas Thornton, D.D. (ob. 1629), though not mentioned by Dingley, remains in the church of Ledbury, representing him as if preaching. It is accompanied by a long Latin epitaph, in which he is stated to have been the tutor of Sir Philip Sidney, and to have been the first to introduce the study of Greek into the grammar school at Worcester. He was also the tutor of William camden, as is related by Anthony à Wood.

^{page 97 note 2} See church notes of Pembridge taken in 1645 in Symonds's Diary, p. 202. There is a sketch of the Belfry at Pembridge in the Portfolio of the Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society for 1863, and another of the similar structure at Yarpole in the same county: contributed by J. Severn Walker esq. and accompanied by the following remarks: “Towers standing quite detached from the churches to which they form campaniles or belfries are of frequent occurrence in Italy, Norway, and other countries, but are comparatively rare in England, particularly in the midland counties. Herefordshire, however, possesses six such structures, viz. at Ledbury, Bosbury, Holmer, Richard's Castle, Pembridge, and Yarpole. The two latter are of rude construction, but quaint and picturesque, more particularly the belfry at Pembridge, which consists of a low irregular octagonal base, the sides of which vary from 14 feet to 25 feet in width; above this are two square timber stages, connected together and with the lower story by steep tiled roofs, the whole terminating in a pyramidal boarded roof. The entrance is on the south-west side through a wide doorway, having moulded jambs, on which rests a wooden lintel. There is a peal of five bells supported on a massive framework of timber, quite unconnected with the walls. The date of this curious structure would appear to be about the middle of the 14th century, judging from the mouldings of the doorway.”

^{page 98 note 1} An exterior view of this church occurs afterwards in p. cclxvi. See church-notes of Dilwyn, taken in 1645, in Symonds's Diary, (Camden Society 1859,) pp. 264–266Google Scholar. See also the Topographer, 1789, vol. i. p. 355. It has recently undergone a very thorough restoration, under the architectural superintendence of Mr. George Cowley Haddon, of Hereford and Malvern, and was reopened on the 5th Dec. 1867.

^{page 99 note 1} Hevyn, sometime of Dilwyn, Azure, crusilly fitchy, three boar's heads couped or: misdescribed as “Cradock” in Symonds's Diary, p. 265.

^{page 100 note 1} An interesting article on longevity has recently appeared in the Quarterly Review for January 1868 ; and it contains (pp. 189, 196,) some notices of the Rev. William Davies, Rector of Staunton-on-Wye, who died at Hereford in 1790, at the age of 105, as stated in his own register; of him see also the Gentleman's Magazine for that year, i. 185.

^{page 104 note 1} This and Dingley's other sketches at Monkland were copied by Mr. J. Severn Walker to accompany a modern view of that church contributed by him to the volume of the Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society in 1863. Since that date the chancel has been rebuilt, the nave restored, and a shingled spire placed on the tower instead of the curious wooden stage. Mr. Street was the architect employed: and a full account of the restoration, with a photograph of the interior, was given in The Ecclesiologist in 1866. The original lancet windows of the nave and chancel, which were filled up when the Decorated windows were inserted, may be recognised in Dingley's view. The tower is Early English, with massive buttresses having numerous sets-off at the angles. Its old wooden story, which slightly overhung the walls, was supported by plain stone corbels.

^{page 105 note 1} Dingley (in the previous page) inadvertently says “erected in the sixt of Henry the VIth.”

^{page 107 note 1} See a fuller description in the Addenda.

^{page 107 note 2} Messrs. Smith, of the Journal Office, Evesham, have kindly afforded the use of the accompanying woodblocks.

^{page 107 note 3} The town seal (as shown overleaf) bears the inscription: LIBER AB HENRICO FACTUS SUM PRINCIPE BVRGVS 1604.

^{page 108 note 1} See church notes taken here in 1644, in Symonds's Diary, p. 9.

^{page 109 note 1} At the beginning of his Notitia Cambro-Britannica, Dingley has occupied several pages with Worcester, and there describes the monuments in the cathedral and copies the epitaphs of Bishop Blandford 1675, Bishop Skinner 1670, Sir Thomas Lyttleton 1650, Bishop Gauden 1662, the wife of Isaac Walton 1662, Dean Wilson 1586, the wife of Bishop Thomas 1677, Arthur Prince of Wales 1502, Robert Luddington, gent. 1625, Henry Bright the schoolmaster 1626, Dean Warmstry 1665, “the lawyer Littleton,” John Bromley, esq. 1674, and Sir Gryffyth Ryce, t. Hen. VII. (Beaufort Progress through Wales, edit. Baker, pp. 3–15.)

^{page 110 note 1} This monument, which Dingley justly admired as representing the old costume of the citizens of Worcester, represents a father and mother, the elder son and his wife, and the younger son and daughter. Dr. Thomas (p. 102) inadvertently terms them “three men and their wives.” Thomas Moore is represented in his alderman's gown ; he died 1633. (Green, p. 162.)

^{page 114 note 1} The restoration was made by Sir Charles Throckmorton, Bart, who died in 1840. The date of the Sub-Treasurer's death has been re-engraved Mill'mo cccc°xiv. (in error for xlv.) In the Addenda hereafter will be found Leland's notice of him.

^{page 115 note 1} See church notes of Fladbury, taken in 1644, in Symonds's Diary, p. 25. There remain here a greater number of sepulchral brasses than in any other Worcestershire church. See Haines's Manual of Monumental Brasses, p. 225.

^{page 114 note 2} This name may be either Plewine or Plewme. It is printed Plewme by Nash in his copy of the epitaph, and Plowin in his list of Rectors: instituted 1479.

^{page 116 note 1} William Moore was the last Prior of Worcester but one, and on his resignation in 1535 he was succeeded by Henry Holbeche, alias Randes, by whom the monastery was surrendered. The “Life of Prior Moore,” derived from his household book and other original documents, forms an interesting portion of Mr. Noake's very curious and instructive work on The Monastery and Cathedral of Worcester. 1866. 12mo.

^{page 116 note 2} Crowle was one of the ancient manor-houses of the Bishops of Worcester. It was assigned to Prior Moore for his residence on his resignation, and he was still living there after the lapse of almost a quarter of a century, in the year 1558, “at the good old age of nearly four score years and ten.” (Noake, p. 205.) The manor-house has now disappeared, except one wing, converted into a cider-house. The moat, though partly filled up, is still distinctly visible ; and outside the moat is a large quadrangle, now an orchard, inclosed with raised terraced walks formed of the earth taken from the moat. (Ibid. pp. 206, 624.)

^{page 116 note 3} The monuments of the Cornewalls at Burford have been elaborately restored by subscription of several descendants of the family, under the superintendence of the rector, the Rev. J. W. Joyce. In this restoration the present book of Dingley was used in aid. They are now highly coloured ; in which respect they correspond with one of their number, which is formed of pictures on the plan of a large triptich, and placed on the north side of the communiontable. This is signed Melchior salabossh fecit an° D'ni 1588. All the Cornwall epitaphs at Burford are printed in Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii. pp. 78–87.

^{page 118 note 1} “An eminent attorney here is lately returned from a view of my superb gates before my capital house, built in the form of the Queen's house.” So boasts the lunatic Sir John Dineley, in one of his Advertisements For a Wife.

^{page 119 note 1} Dingley, upon fanciful grounds, regards the families of de Burgh and Brydges as one.

^{page 119 note 2} Dingley adds, “In Stanford church, near Clifton, in Worcestershire, is seen another fair neglected monument of this family.” This refers to the family of Salwey, of that place : but Dingley is wrong in combining that name with Salvin. It is a similar misapprehension to that noticed in the last note. The modern form of Salveyne is Salvin. The Salwey monument at Stanford is represented in the volume of the Ilam Anastatic Society for 1862.

^{page 119 note 3} Sir Richard Bulstrode, sometime resident at Brussels, and who died in 1711, æt. 105, married Joyce daughter of Edward Dingley, or Dyneley, esq. of Charlton, co. Wore. His son Whitloek Bulstrode also married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Samuel Dingley, esq. of Charlton. See the pedigree of Bulstrode in Aungier's History of Isleworth, 1840, 8vo. p. 494.

^{page 120 note 1} A paper entitled “Observations on some of the Tombs in the Abbey Church of Tewkesbury “was communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, in 1801, by Samuel Lysons, esq. F.R.S. Director, and is printed in the Archæologia, vol. xiv. p. 143.

^{page 121 note 1} In Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. i. p. 46, this monument is noticed under the early date of 1253, from having been attributed by Browne Willis to abbot Eobert Fortington, who died in that year (or rather 1254,—Bennett, p. 117), and the cypher is there very incorrectly represented as if it were M. R. instead of R. C. i. e. Richard Cheltenham, the letters interwoven with a crozier between them. It is correctly given in the Archæologia, vol. xiv. PI. xxxvii.

^{page 121 note 2} There were many more on both sides the monument: see them enumerated in the descriptions accompanying the views of Tewkesbury in Neale's Churches.

^{page 121 note 3} The canopy over him was restored in 1827 : see Bennett, p. 165.

^{page 125 note 1} There is another memorial to his son of the same name, and also minister of the church, who died 1687 : see Bennett, p. 188.

^{page 126 note 1} Leland, in a list of the slain in the battle of Tewkesbury, expressly mentions that the body of Lord Wenlock was carried elsewhere for interment : “Dominus de Wenlok, cujus corpus alio ad sepulturam translatum est.” (Itin. vol. vi. fol. 93.) A magnificent chantry-chapel had been erected by Lord Wenlock during his lifetime at Luton in Bedfordshire, where it remains, with an effigy of his brother or other relative William Wenlock, a prebendary of St. Paul's. See it engraved in the same plate of Gough, and in Lysons's Magna Britannia, vol. i. p. 111.

^{page 127 note 1} The more important monuments which existed in Lichfield cathedral before its devastation by the soldiers of the Parliament are drawn in Dugdale's Visitation of Staffordshire 1663 preserved at the Heralds’ College, and are thence engraved in Shaw's History of the County.

^{page 127 note 2} “King James his Apothegmes; or Table Talk. By B. A. gent.” were published n London 1643. 4to. eight leaves. They are dated as uttered at several places' from the year 1617 to 1624, concluding with these words, “Apothegmata fideliter collecta ex ore Regis Jacobi per me Ben. Agar, Servitorem ejus in Jnventute sua, jam astatis suæ 52.” But there was also a previous collection of a similar character entitled “Flores Regii, or Proverbs and Aphorismes of K.James I. collected by J. L. S.” printed in London 1627. 16mo. with a portrait. (See Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual, edit. Bohn, 1860, p. 1182.) In the last century the wise saws of the British Solomon were still frequently quoted, particularly by political writers: see an essay in The Craftsman, No. 601, Jan. 14, 1738; and the Gentleman's Magazine, i. 194, ii. 852; v. 539; vii. 293; viii. 32, xi. 648.

^{page 129 note 1} Probably for the author's Notitia Cambro-Britannica, in which he has largely treated of Ludlow in pp. 16–24, 89–95 (edit. Baker, 4to. 1864.)

^{page 129 note 2} Notes of the arms in the parish church of Whitchurch are in Nich. Charles's collections, Lansdowne MS. 874, fol. 23 and fol. 30.

^{page 129 note 3} Occasion may here be taken to remark that the fine monuments of the fourth and sixth Earls of Shrewsbury, which are in St. Peter's Church, Sheffield, have been twice well represented. There is a beautiful view of the sepulchral chapel, showing both monuments, drawn by E. Blore, engraved by C. Askey, published in Hunter's History of Hallamshire, 1819, folio. The earlier monument is engraved as Plate 10 of Lodge's Illustrations of British History, 1791, 4to : and the three effigies of the Earl and his two wives as Plate 11. The latter are also exquisitely drawn and etched by E. Blore in another plate of the Hallamshire. The monument of George the sixth Earl (ob. 1590) is engraved as Plate 13 of Lodge, and his effigy as Plate 14. The (four) plates in Lodge's work are engraved by Basire, 4to. from drawings by Hirst.

^{page 133 note 1} “From an erroneous inscription, on a tablet formerly affixed to the north wall of the choir of St. Paul's cathedral, it has hitherto been presumed that his body was there deposited; but the tomb beneath the tablet was undoubtedly intended to commemorate his nephew, Sir Richard Burley. (“Beltz, Memorials of the Order of the Garter, 1841, p. 289.) Sir Simon Burley was buried in the church of the Blackfriars at Canterbury. (Weever, p. 218.)

^{page 134 note 1} See a memoir of him in Beltz, p. 291.

^{page 135 note 1} Archbishop Deane bore Argent, on a chevron gules between three Cornish choughs as many pastoral staves or. The pastoral staves were substituted for three ravens to denote his threefold preferment in the sees of Bangor, Salisbury, and Canterbury. Bedford's Blazon of Episcopacy, p. 4.

^{page 135 note 2} See in the Archræologia, vol. xxx. p. 499, a memoir by the present writer “On an Amity formed between the Companies of Fishmongers and Goldsmiths of London, and a consequent participation of their Coat-Armour;” reprinted, with some additions, as an Appendix to The Fishmongers’ Pageant, 1859, folio.

^{page 135 note 3} These arms do not occur for any Bishop of London. Perhaps they belonged to a Dean of St. Paul's.

^{page 137 note 1} A memoir of John Lord Mohun, one of the founders of the Order, will be found in Beltz's Memorials of the Garter, p. 48. See also the additions by Townsend, Windsor, to Dugdale's Baronage, in the Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. vol. iv. p. 355.

^{page 139 note 1} This monument, erected by Nicholas Brigham in the reign of Queen Mary, may be regarded as the latest type of a pre-Reformation monument in this country. The recess at the side of the tomb was evidently intended for the accommodation of a priest appointed to perform services for the defunct.

The monument of Sir William Fitz William in St. George's Chapel at Windsor, (engraved in Lysons's Magna Britannia, vol. i. p. 704) is nearly of the same pattern. Another of this form is in Bristol cathedral to one of the Newton family: see The Herald and Genealogist, vol. iv. p. 443. At Ringwood in Hampshire a fourth, which has been inaccurately attributed to Richard Line who founded a school at that place so late as 1577, is in many of its features similar; but, instead of the recess, it has a step in front for the chantry priest to kneel on: see it engraved in the Gentleman's Magazine 1807, p. 1001.

^{page 139 note 1} There is a copy of this inscription in Thynne's collections, MS. Cotton. Cleop. C. III. p. 12. It confirms the reality of the extraordinary expression: divis Philippo et Maria regibus. Thynne has drawn the charges on the cross flory as escallops.

The several interments of Spaniards dying about the English court at this period which occur in the register of St. Margaret's Westminster have been printed in the notes to Machyn's Diary, p. 401.

^{page 139 note 2} He was previously head master of Westminster school, from 1564 to 1570. Alumni Westmonasterienses, edit. 1852, p. 9: but the date of his death is there given first 1584 and then May 2, 1585.

^{page 139 note 3} A greater portion of this epitaph is preserved by Thynne, whose copy is as follows:—

… … … … … filie et heredis d'ni Eoberti Grene militis ac etiam heredis d'ni Johannis Cley militis. Qui quidem Willielmus fuit thesaurarius hospicii excellentissimi principis Margarete nuper comitisse Richmondie et Darbye, matris regis Henrici septimi, necnon et thesaurarius hospicii reverendissimi patris d'ni … … …. et hujus regni cancellarii et titulo s'ce Cecilie trans Tyberim et sacrosante Romane eccl'ie presbyteri cardinalis ….

There was also this English inscription under the feet of the figures of the deceased, who were represented in brass plate:

Here lieth buried William Bedell esquier late tresurer to my lord cardinall archb. of Yorke lord chancellor of Englande and Cecylye his wyfe, whiche Williame decesed the third daye of Julye a° d'ni 1518.

“vij sonnes, v daughters. He lieth in his cote armour and so dothe his wyffe. Arms three buckes between a chevron [i.e. for Green.] “(MS. Cotton. Cleopatra, C. in. f. 12 b.)

^{page 140 note 1} They are those of abbot Islip ; but Dingley has drawn the animals as boars instead of rats : see the frieze of the chapel engraved in Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii. pi. xxi. The same arms occur in the margin of the official account of the abbot's funeral recorded in the College of Arms, and on his mortuary roll engraved in the Vetusta Monumenta, vol. iv. but there the fess is engrailed.

^{page 142 note 1} An inscription in memory of Sir Richard Bingham was erected in Christchurch, Dublin, of which Dingley gives a copy in his Irish Journal, p. 35.

^{page 142 note 2} This was accompanied by these arms in a lozenge, Argent, a fleur-de-lis in an orle of martlets sable. (Thynne's Notes in MS. Cotton. Cleop. C. III. f. 12.)

^{page 142 note 3} Gules, a chevron between three combs argent. “Botell Prior S'ci Joh'is Hierosl. in Anglia.” (Glover's Ordinary.) Robert Botyll was Prior in 1439, and until 1469.

^{page 142 note 4} The monument of Frances (Cecill) Countess of Elgin in Clerkenwell church, bearing these arms, is engraved in The History of Clerkenwell, by Pinks and Wood, p. 43, and in The Herald and Genealogist, vol. iii. p. 437.

^{page 142 note 5} There were five panels containing shields on the south or exterior front of the gate, and three on the north front. The former were the King's arms (France and England quarterly) between two shields of the cross of St. John; and on either side Docwra alone, and Docwra impaling Greene, as described in the text. The group of three on the north front consisted of the cross of the priory in the centre between Docwra alone and Docwra again probably impaling Greene. But in the Gentleman's Magazine for Dec. 1749 the former impalement is drawn as three lions rampant, and the latter as a cross moline; and the plain cross of the priory is converted into a cross moline. In 1788 all these sculptures were more carefully drawn (though then in an advanced state of decay) by Schnebbelie, and an engraving of them inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine for Oct. that year, which is copied in Cromwell's History of Clerkenwell, p.128. But in none of these representations does the actual impalement of Greene appear, with which we are now furnished by Dingley.

^{page 143 note 1} Thomas Docwra was Lord Prior of St. John's from 1502 to 1523. His parents were Richard Docwra, esq. and Alice, daughter of Thomas Greene, of Gresingham, co. Lancaster, which family bore Argent, a bugle horn between three griffin's heads erased sable. (See pedigree of Docwra in Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, vol. iii. p. 83.). It was certainly in error that the sculptor ensigned this impaled shield with the cross of St. John.

^{page 143 note 2} The motto SANE BABO is supposed to allude to the rank of the Lord Prior of St. John's as the Premier Baron of England ; but its meaning and identity seem to have been lost sight of. See various instances of its corruption noticed in The Herald and Genealogist, vol. iii. p. 441.

^{page 144 note 1} Humphrey Walcot, esq. of Walcot, in Salop, married Anne, daughter of Thomas Docwra, esq. of Putteridge, Herts, who died 1620. (Pedigree of Docwra ut supra.)

^{page 144 note 2} Very copious church-notes of St. Dunstan's, by Nicholas Charles, temp. James I. and others taken in 1656–7, are printed in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. iii. pp. 96–111. On the rebuilding of the church in 1832, the ancient monuments were transferred to the present edifice, and lithographic drawings of them were published accompanying an “Historical Account,” by the Rev. J. F. Denham, large quarto.

^{page 145 note 1} The armorial glass had very materially perished during the fifty years before Dingley's visit. There had been a series of the shields of the serjeants-at-law erected in the reign of Henry VII. William Calow became serjeant-at-law 1478, justice of tlie Common Pleas 1487. His arms were repeated with impalements.

^{page 146 note 1} Drawings of these and of the other armorial coats in St. Stephen's, Walbrook, will be found in the valuable MS. of Nicholas Charles, Lansdowne MS. 874, fols. 104, 105.

^{page 147 note 1} Elizabeth Blount, the wife of Lord Windsor, was grand-daughter of Walter the first Lord Mountjoy (created 1465), who was the grandson of Sir Walter Blount, who married an attendant of Constantia of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster, the wife of John of Ghent. This lady was Donna Sancia de Ayola, daughter of Don Diego de Toledo by his wife Inez Alfon de Ayola. The family appear to hare thought so highly of this descent that we find the Spanish coats marshalled before the paternal coat of Blount.

^{page 148 note 1} Sir Philip Howard was the seventh son of Thomas first Earl of Berkshire ; his great-grandson John succeeded in 1783 as 15th Earl of Suifolk and eighth Earl of Berkshire, and was grandfather of the present Earl.

^{page 148 note 2} Though frequently occurring in documents of the middle age as S. Clementis Dacorum, the distinctive name of this parish certainly was due to its site on the dunes or downs rising from the strand of the river Thames ; corresponding therefore with the etymology of London itself, and several neighbouring places, as Isledon (now Islington), Hoggesdon (now Hoxton), Hendon, & c.

^{page 149 note 1} Thomas Lucas, solicitor-general to Henry VII. (ob. 1531) had been secretary to the Duke of Bedford. (See the memoir of him in Gage's Hundred of Thingoe, p. 131.) He built Little Saxham Hall, and Mr. Gage (pp. 139–151) has printed long extracts from the expenses incurred in its erection. “The painted glass was very rich, all the windows of the mansion being powdered throughout with the broom-cod, or Plantagenet cognizance, in compliment to Jasper Duke of Bedford, and those in the principal apartments being filled with imagery and heraldic devices.” An account of the heraldry, taken by Chitting Chester herald, shortly before 1612, is printed ibid. p. 151–153. The Duke's achievement, having been removed to Rushbrooke church, is engraved in Gage's History of Hengrave, as mentioned in the text. One of the quarries, bearing a slip of broom, is engraved in the History of the Hundred of Thingoe, p. 163. The seal of Jasper Duke of Bedford, engraved in Archæologia, vol. xviii. represents him on horseback, with a background semée of broom-cods.

^{page 160 note 1} James Montagu, esq. of Lackham, died 1676. He married Diana, daughter of Anthony Hungerford, of Farley Castle ; she died 1735.

^{page 151 note 1} He was M.P. for Devizes 1681. (See note in Wiltshire Collections, p. 94.) The arms are Johnson impaling Baynard, and Johnson impaling Oyles. The sinister boy holds a shield of Hyde. The arms of Johnson of Bowden were “disclaimed” at Salisbury, in September, 1623, but their evident resemblance to the Scotch coat of that name seems to give them some kind of authenticity. The same coat, Argent, a bend sable, on a chief of the second three cushions of the first, was borne by James Johnson, Bishop of Gloucester, 1752, and of Worcester 1759–1774 ; and, impaled with those of the latter see, still appear on his hatchment in Lacock church. The Bishop was grandson of George Johnson, the Welsh Judge, who owned Bowden, and whose monumental inscription Dingley has given.

^{page 151 note 1} This third quartering is the original coat of Talbot, Bendy argent and gules, discontinued as the principal bearing of the family after the marriage of Gilbert Talbot with the heiress of Rhys ap Griffith.