THE HERALDRY OF WORCESTERSHIRE; BEING A ROLL OF THE ARMS BORNE BY THE SEVERAL NOBLE, KNIGHTLY, AND GENTLE FAMILIES, WHICH HAVE HAD PROPERTY OR RESIDENCE IN THAT COUNTY, FROM With Genealogical Notes. COLLECTED FROM THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS, ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS, BY H. SYDNEY GRAZEBROOK, Esq., The Heraldry of Worcestershire. MABBE. See DORE. MADDERSFIELD; "ye first family.-Azure, on a bend or three bars dancettée gules. Second.-Azure, on a bend cottised or three bars dancettée gules; this is the first difference of descent from the familie. Another beareth Azure, on a bend double cottised or three bars dancettée gules; and this the second difference among them before differences of descents of houses were devised for the knowing one family from another. Thus you may see what alteration in bearing of coat-armes for differences of descents were antiently made, yet held the same name: yet a small thing now makes it another's." (Penn MS.) The coat Azure, a bend barry indented or and gules occurs in one of the windows of Hanley-Castle church, and is attributed by Nash to Braci of Warndon, ancestor of the Lygons of Madresfield. See BRACE. MADDOX, Bishop of Worcester, 1743-59.-Per pale azure and gules, three lions passant guardant argent. (Bedford.) MAINWARING.-Argent, two bars, gules. (N.) One of the Lyttelton quarterings at Frankley. MAKEPEACE, of Pensham Court; as borne by William Makepeace of Pensham, who married Mary, eldest daughter of Henry Palmer of Solihull, and had issue by her two daughters, Anne and Sarah, his co-heiresses, the one married to Edward Wigley, M.D., and the other to the Rev. Marshall Greswold, who died in 1728.Azure, on a fesse between two leopards passant or, three crosses crosslet fitchée gules. Crest: A leopard passant regardant or, resting his foot upon a shield gules charged with a cross-crosslet fitchée of the first. (Dr. Prattinton.) These arms and crest were granted to William Makepeace of the Middle Temple, and to the descendants of his father, William Makepeace of Warwick, deceased, by John Anstis, Garter, and Sir John Vanbrugh, Clarenceux, on the 4th of May, 1724. (Add. MS. 14,830.) MALINS, of Warwickshire and Worcestershire; as borne by Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Malins, knt.-Sable, a fesse paly of five or and argent. Crest: An arm erect in armour proper, grasping a crescent or. Motto: "Post prælia præmia." (Debrett.) MALOURE.—Or, three lions passant guardant sable. (N.) This coat (which is probably a quartering of some Worcestershire family) was borne temp. Edward II. by Sir Piers Maloure of Leicestershire. (Roll of the date.) MALPAS, of Cheshire; as quartered by Sutton Lord Dudley.— Argent, a cross patonce azure. (N.) MALTRAVERS.-Sable, a fret or. (N.) The coat of the baronial house of Maltravers, as quartered by Willoughby in Welland church. MANN, of The Moat, Redmarley.—. three goats trippant John Mann, of Redmarley, gent., paid a fine for exoneration from knighthood at the coronation of Charles I. The coat should probably be-Per fesse embattled argent and gules, (or azure,) three goats trippant counterchanged. (See the Heraldic Dictionaries.) MANNY.-Or, three chevrons sable, on the highest a lion rampant regardant of the field. (N.) The arms of Sir Anthony Manny, or Mennys, of Linton, knt., who married Frances, daughter of Ralph Sheldon of Beoley. (See Nash, i., 71.) MARCKBY, OF MARKBY, of Worcestershire.-Sable, two lion's gambs argent. (Her. Dic.) MARESCALL. See HABINGDON. MARKHAM, of Astwood, in the parish of Feckenham; as borne by Geoffrey Markham of Astwood, High Sheriff in the 4th of Elizabeth. This Geoffrey purchased the advowson of Feckenham, temp. Henry VIII. Abraham Markham was patron of the same church in 1588.—Azure, on a chief or a demi lion issuant gules. (N.) The same arms (with a crescent for difference) were impaled by Edward Sheldon of Beoley (who died in 1643), in right of his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Markham of Alberton, or Ollerton, Notts. (See Nash, i., 71.) MARLETON, of Worcestershire; as borne by Robert Marleton. |