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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 58  1945  page 20

Coats of Arms in Queenborough Castle by B. H. D’Elboux, M.C., M.A., F.S.A.

 21. Sr Robert Sothwell.
      Argent 3 cinqfoils gules, on each 6 annulets or.
       Of Woolrising, co. Norfolk, grandson to Sir Robert Southwell,
       Master of the Rolls, who had married Margaret, d. and heir of
       Sir Thomas Nevill of Yokes Place in Mereworth. Hasted says
       her lands were alienated by the Master of the Rolls. This Sir
       Robert married Eliz., d of Lord Howard of Effingham, and died
       1598; Will P.C.C. 78 Lewyn. I can trace no connection with
       land in Kent; his grandfather sold his Kent lands, mainly
       forfeitures, as soon as he received them. Knighted at
       Theobalds, Herts., 18 June, 1585.
 22. Sr George Caroe. [Carew, Earl of Totnes, 1624.]
      Or 3 lions passant in pale sable.
        1555-1629; Son of George Carew, D.D., Dean of Windsor, by
        Ann, d. of Sir Nicholas Harvey and Bridget, d. and heir of Sir
        John Wiltshire of Stone by Dartford. His cousin had Stone
        Castle by marriage with the Chapman heiress. 1586 Master of
        Ordinance in Ireland; 1591 Lieut. of Ordinance in England;
        1599 Lord President of Munster; Master General of
        Ordinance, 1608; scholar and antiquary, "first inspired
        Camden, at Oxford, with antiquarian tastes," and assisted in
        compilation of "Britannia" (Drake's Blackheath, p. 159, note
        18). Knighted by Sir John Perrott, Lord Deputy, in Ireland, 24
        Feb., 1585-6.

 23. Sr John Peyton.
       Sable a cross engrailed or.
         Brother of Sr Thomas Peyton of Knowlton; Lieut. of the
         Tower of London; married Alice (or Dorothy), d. and heir of
         Edward Beaupre of Well, co. Norfolk; Knighted, 1586.
 
24. Sr Edwarde Wingfeilde.
         Argent on a bend gules cotised sable 3 wings conjoined
         argent.

         Eldest son of Thomas Wingfeild of Kimbolton, co. Norfolk,
         and great grandson of Sir Richard who married Bridget, d.
         and heir Sir John Wiltshire of Stone by Dartford. Probably
         held Stone Place: the administration of his great uncle,
         Jacques, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland under Sir Henry
        Sidney, of Stone also, was granted 6 Sept., 1587 (A.C., 
        XVIII,  p. 27); Edward married Mary, d. of Sir James
         Harrington; Knighted, 1586.

 25. Sr John Roper.
       Of six pieces azure & or, 3 stage heads erased or.
         Of Lodge in Lynsted, afterwards Lord Teynham. See in 
         A.C.,
         XLIV, the late Aymer Vallance's article on Lynsted;
         Knighted, 23 Feb., 1587-88. Sir Edward Dering's "Booke of
         Monuments in Churches" notes at Goudhurst in 1633, on
         folio 71 a brass to Walter Colepeper, † 1462 and Agnes, his
         wife, † 1458, d. of Edmond Robar "juxta Cantuaria". A 
         shield  is drawn of Colepeper and another of Colepeper
          impaling or 3 bucks heads couped for Roper.

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