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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 58  1945  page 22

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

 31. Sr John Scott.
       Argt., 3 catharine wheels sable, a border engrailed guile; in
         fess point a crescent gules for difference.

         2nd son of Sir Thomas Scott of Scott's Hall; married (1)
         Elizabeth Stafford, widow of William Drewry; (2) Catharine, 
         d. of Thomas Smyth, widow of Sir Rowland Hayward;
         Knighted by Lord Willoughby in the Low Countries, 1588.

 32. Sr John Lewson.
       Azure 3 oak leaves or.
         In the Visitation of 1574, a fess per fess nebuly argent and
         sable
is inserted between the oak leaves, and Streatfeild
         notes this coat impaled with Curzon on furniture preserved
         at  Knole, but in the Curzon pedigree at Knole the fess is
         altogether omitted. (Visitation of 1594. R. Griffin. Misc. Gen.
         et Her.,
1924) Of Whornes Place in Halling; married (1)
         Margaret, d. of Sir Roger Manwood; (2) Christian, d. of Sir
         Walter Mildmay, M.P. for Maidstone, 1597; Knight of the
         Shire, 1604; one of Lord Cobham's three executors for the
         rebuilding of Cobham College; Knighted, 1589. His son, also
         Sir John, died 1615, in the lifetime of his father.

 33. Sr George Delves.
       Argent a chevron gules fretty or between 3 delves (or
         spades) sable.

         Married Anne, d. and coheir of Thomas Isley of Manns in
         Bredgar, and Hengham in Woodchurch; Chester's Marriage
         licenses gives "George Delves of Westminster, esq., and
         Anne Esley of same, spinster, 8 March, 1582-3." Knighted by
         Sir William Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy in Ireland, 1591.

 34. Sr William Brooke.
       Gules on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable, in dexter
          chief a crescent or for difference.

          Second son of William Lord Cobham; "with £2000 or
          thereabouts his second son, Sir William Brook should be
          freed out of debt for to so much he knew him to be
         endangered by the mortgage of his lands & leases & by
         other bonds." See Lambarde's letter to Burghley, written as
         executor shortly after Lord Cobham's death, in 1597. (A.C.,
         XXVII, 80.) Of Cranbrook in Newington, 1565-1597; will
         P.C.C. 110 Cobham; Knighted by the Earl of Essex before
         Rouen, 1591.
         Robert Brook, alderman of London and free of the Grocers,
         who married Susan, d. of Robert Offley, and died 1601,
         differenced with a martlet on a crescent. His funeral is
         recorded at St. Mary, Woolchurch, in W. J. Hemp's 
         Camden's  Funerals
, fo. 10b, 2.

 35. Sr John Wotton.
       Argent a saltire engrailed sable, a crescent or in centre
         chief for difference.
        
Born 11 Apr., 1550; 2nd son of Thomas Wotton of Boughton
         Malherbe; married Luce, d. Henry Percy, Earl of
         Northumberland; ?Of Templecombe, Somerset; will 1597,
         P.C.C. 38, Cobham; Knighted before Rouen by Robert Earl 
         of Essex, 1591.

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