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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 58  1945  page 18

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

   11.  Sr Alexander Colpeper.
          Argent a bend engrailed gules.
            
Of Bedgebury in Goudhurst; married Mary, d. of William
             Lord Dacre of the North; Knighted at Rye, 12 Aug., 1573,
             after the Queen's progress through Kent. Hasted says she
             visited Bedgebury.

   12.  Sr Walter Waller
          Or, on a bend sable 3 walnut leaves vert.
             Of Groombridge in Speldhurst; married Anne, d. of Philip
             Chute; Knighted 1572; buried Speldhurst; Captain of a
             Company of Foot in the Flushing Expedition, 1585.

   13.  Sr Richarde Baker.
          Azure on a fess between 3 swans heads erased or [gorged
              with coronets gules] 3 cinqfoils gules.

              Son of Sir John Sissinghurst; married Catherine, d. and
              heir of John Tirrell of Essex; Sheriff 4th Eliz:; Knighted at
              Dover, 1573; died, 1594; his funeral certificate is printed 2.
              Top et Gen., p. 383.

   14.  Sr Thomas Browne.
          Sable 3 lions passant in bend between 2 double cotises
             argent.

             Of Betchworth Castle, Surrey; held various manors in Kent,
             Alkham, Milton by Canterbury, Morris Court in Bapchild,
             Westbury in Wateringbury, etc.; Knighted, 1576.

   15.  Sr Drewe Drewrye.
          Argent on a chief vert a Tau cross between 2 mullets or.
             Sir Drew Drury married Katherine, d. and heir of William
             Finch, of Perry Court in Linsted, where she died 1601. He
             was Gentleman of Usher of the Privy Chamber; Lieutenant
             of Tower of London, 1585-86; Knighted at Wanstead in
             Essex, Sept., 1579. Her M.I. at Linsted shows the arms of
             Drury with 16 quarterings (A.C., XXIII, 126).

   16. Sr Edward Moore.
         Azure on a chief indented or 3 mullets gules.
           
2nd, but eldest surviving son with issue, of John Moore of
            Moore Court in Benenden, by Margaret, d. and heir of John
            Brent, widow of John Dering of Surrenden in Pluckley. He
            married (1) Mildred, d. and coheir of Nicholas Clifford of 
            Chart Sutton, widow of Sir George Harper; (2) Margery, d.
            of Wm. Brabazon, 4th son of John Brabazon of Eastwell, co.
            Leicester, by whom issue; ancestor of the Earls of
            Drogheda; Knighted by Sir William Drury, Lord Deputy, in
            camp, 1579.
            In the DeLisle and Dudley papers, II, 32, Waterhouse writes 
            to Sir Henry Sidney defending himself against Mr. Edward
            Moore's public imputation that he showed ingratitude to
            Sidney, and in 1580 Sir Henry writes to Lord Grey, Lord
            Deputy: "I had forgotten three kinsmen of my own, Sir
            Edward More, Owen More [the eldest] and Thomas More;
            let them know I forget them not.

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