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. |
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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. |