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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 14  1882  page 6

The Family of Guildford by the Rev. Canon R. C. Jenkins

1685, is believed to have become entirely extinct in the early part of the last century.
   I must now ask you to concentrate your attention upon the elder branch, which was seated at Halden; that of Sir Edward Guldeford whose monument (we trust an imperishable one) is the south chapel of the present Church of Rolvenden, which he founded on April 14th, 1444. He married Eleanor, the daughter of Thomas Lord Delawarr, and had issue an only son, Sir Richard, who died in Spain childless; and here, as a passing observation, we may note the early connection of the family with Spain, which was begun by the half-brother of Sir Edward Guldeford, Sir Henry, who was created a Knight of the Garter, and distinguished himself in the wars of King Ferdinand of Spain against the Moors, being present at the taking of Grenada. For this service, he received from that monarch a picturesque addition

 to the arms of the family, in the form of a canton charged with the pomegranate (the apple of Grenada), which, as it was borne by his collateral descendants, was apparently given to his family as well as to himself. He died without issue in the 23rd year of Henry VIII. This intimate connection with the Spanish Court was, as we shall see hereafter, not unfruitful in its results to the family in the day of trial and misfortune. We revert, from this passing digression, to the family of Sir Edward, the elder half-brother of the Spanish crusader (if we may so term him), and our eye falls first upon that member of the family which forms the central point of interest and attraction, in its long and chequered history. The Lady Jane Guldeford, who became the heiress of her brother Sir Richard, was early married to one whose political intrigues and

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