36. Sr Nicholas Clyfford.
Checky or &
azure a fess and a border gules, on the fess a
crescent or for
difference.
Apparently the son of
Henry and his wife, Ann Devereux..
Shown in Visitation of
1574 as a Knight, but this visitation
was badly edited and
contains later additions, unnoted as
such. He married d. of
Sir William Drury and had one child,
Ursula, married to
William Isley; Streatfeild says he was of
Bobbing; Knighted at
Rouen by the Earl of Essex, 1591.
37. Sr Edward Brooke.
Gules, on a
chevron argent, a lion rampant sable, in dexter
chief a crescent
or for difference.
Visitation of
Kent, 1619, says 2nd son of Thomas Brooke,
who married
Susan, d. of John Cranmer, (There was another
son, not in
Visitation, Thomas, of Chislet Park) and was 2nd
son of John Lord
Cobham. Waller (A.C., XI, 112) says his
father Thomas was
3rd son of Thomas, Lord Cobham. He is
down as
"slain in battle," probably in the French expedition,
since he is here
among the 1591 Knights. Shaw lists him 1599
(1591).
38. Sr Conyers Clyfford.
As for 36.
3rd son of George of Bobbing;
married Mary, d. of Francis
Southwell of Windham Hall,
Norfolk, as 3rd husband;
Governor of Connaught and
Privy Councillor of Ireland; he, |
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too, is down as Knight in Visitation of 1574; Knighted
Rouen,
1591; will 1600 (sentence
49, Wallop); his widow married Sir
Anthony St. Leger, Master of
the Rolls in Ireland, and was
buried 1603, aet. 37, St.
Patrick's, Dublin.
39. Sr Edwarde Wotton.
Argent, a saltire
engrailed sable.
After Lord Wotton
and Lord Lieut. Kent t. James I; married
(1) Hester, d. and
coheir of Sir Willm. Pickering; she died
1592; (2) Margaret, d.
of Philip Lord Wharton; Knighted,
1592.
40. Sr Anthony St Leger.
Azure, fretty
argent, a chief or, thereon a crescent gules for
difference.
Of Wierton House,
Boughton Monchelsea; Master of the
Rolls in Ireland;
married (1) Eleanor, d. of Richard Markham
of Sedgbrook, co.
Lincoln (she ob. 1598, s.p. bur. St.
Sepulchre's, London);
(2) Mary, d. of Francis Southwell, as
4th husband (see No.
38); Knighted, 1593.
41. Sr. Thomas Moore.
Azure, on a
chief indented or 3 mullets gu, in fess point a
crescent or for
difference.
3rd, but 2nd
surviving son of John Moore of Moore Court
in Benenden (see
no. 16); of King's County, Ireland;
Knighted by Sr
William Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy, 28 May,
1593. |