Barry of ten Arg. and Az.; on six escutcheons three, two, 22 Fran. Blount, arm. 26 Hu. Baskervile, arm. 6 Joh. Kirle, arm. . Place. V. a chevron betwixt three flower-de-luces O. 7 Rich. Hopton, mil. . . Hopton. G. semé de cross crosslets à lion rampant O. 8 Hu. Baskervil, mil. . . 9 Hum. Cornwall, arm. 10 Rob. Kirle, arm. . 11 Joh. Colles, arm. 12 Fran. Smalman, arm. 13 Rich. Cox, arm. 14 Row. Skadmor, arm. 15 Ambro. Elton, arm. ut prius. ut prius. ut prius. Kinnesley. ut prius. Paly of six O. and G. on a bend S. three mullets of the first. 16 Herb. Westfaling. Arg. a cross betwixt four cheval-traps O. 17 Will. Unet, arm. . . Cast. Frome. S. a chevron between three lions' heads couped Arg. 18 Edw..Leingein, arm. ut prius. 19 Joh. Bridges, arm. 20 Sam. Aubrie, mil. G. a fess engrailed Arg. 21 Jac. Rodd, arm. 22 Fran. Pember, arm. Arg. three moor-cocks proper, combed and jealoped G.; 26. WALTER Devereux.-I have vehement and (to use the Lord Coke's epithet) necessary presumptions, to persuade me that he was the same person who married Anne, daughter and sole heir unto William Lord Ferrers of Chartley, and in her right was afterwards by this king created Lord Ferrers. He was father to, 1. John Lord Ferrers of Chartley, who married Cecily sister to Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex; and was father to, 2. Walter Devereux Earl Ferrers, created Viscount Hereford by king Edward the Sixth; and was father to, 3. Sir Richard Devereux, knight, dying before his father; and father to, 4. Walter Devereux, first Earl of Essex of that family; of whom largely hereafter, God willing, in Carmarthenshire, the place of his nativity. EDWARD IV. 14. JAMES BASKERVILE, Miles. 18. JOHN MORTIMER, Miles. 19. RICHARD de la BERE, Miles. This leash of knights were persons of approved valour and loyalty to king Henry the Seventh, by whom (being knights bachelors before) they were made knights bannerets in the beginning of his reign: I confess some difference in the date and place; one assigning the Tower of London, when Jasper was created duke of Bedford ;* another with far more probability naming Newark, just after the fighting of the battle of Stoke hard by. Nor doth it sound a little to the honour of Herefordshire, that, amongst the thirteen then bannereted in the king's army, three fall out to be her natives. HENRY VIII. 11. RICHARDUS CORNWALL.-He was a knight, howsoever it cometh to pass he is here unadditioned. I read how, anno Domini 1523, in the 15th of king Henry the Eighth, he was a prime person among those many knights which attended the duke of Suffolk into France, at what time they summoned and took the town of Roy; and Sir Richard was sent, with four hundred men, to take possession thereof, the only service of remark performed in that expedition.‡ • Stow's Chronicles, p. 471. † Selden, in his Titles of Honour, p. 700, ex manuscripto. Lord Herbert, in the Life of king Henry VIII., p. 151. QUEEN ELIZABETH. Reader, let me confess myself to thee. I expected to have found in this catalogue of sheriffs Sir JAMES CROFTS (knowing he was this countryman, whose family* flourished at Crofts Castle); but am defeated, seeing his constant attendance on court and camp privileged him from serving in this office. This worthy knight was accused for complying with Wiat; and notwithstanding his most solemn oath in his own defence, he was imprisoned by queen Mary, convicted of high treason; restored by queen Elizabeth, and made governor of the town and castle of Berwick.t At the siege of Leith, he behaved him most valiantly in repelling the foe; and yet when, in a second assault, the English were worsted, the blame fell on him (as if he favoured the French, and maligned the lord Gray then general); so that he was ousted of his government in Berwick. Yet he fell not so into the queen's final disfavour, but that she continued him privy councillor, and made him comptroller of her househould. He was an able man to manage war, and yet an earnest desirer and advancer of peace, being one of the commissioners in 1588 to treat with the Spaniards in Flanders: I conceive he survived not long after. His ancient inheritance in this county is lately devolved to Herbert Croft, D.D. and dean of Hereford. 40. THOMAS CONISBY, Mil.-I have heard from some of this county a precious report of his memory; how he lived in a right worshipful equipage, and founded a place in Hereford for poor people; but to what proportion of revenue, they could not inform me. 43. JAMES SKUDAMORE, Knight.-He was father unto Sir John Skudamore, created by king Charles Viscount Sligo in Ireland. This lord was for some years employed Leiger ambassador in France; and, during the tyranny of the Protectorian times, kept his secret loyalty to his sovereign, hospitality to his family, and charity to the distressed clergy, whom he bountifully relieved. THE FAREWELL. I am credibly informed, that the office of the under-sheriff of this county is more beneficial than in any other county of the same proportion; his fees, it seems, increasing from the decrease of the states of the gentry therein. May the obventions of his office hereafter be reduced to a lesser sum! And seeing God hath blessed (as we have formerly observed) this county with so many W's, we wish the inhabitants the continuance and Idem, anno 1560. Camden's Elizabeth, in apparatu. increase of one more, WISDOM, expressing itself both in the improving of their spiritual concernment, and warily managing their secular estates. WORTHIES OF HEREFORDSHIRE WHO HAVE FLOURISHED SINCE THE TIME OF FULLER, Thomas BLOUNT, author on Manorial Tenures: born at Orleton about 1618; died 1679. George Lord CARPENTER, general, victor at Preston; born at Pitcher's Ocule 1667. Catherine CLIVE, comic actress ; born at Hereford 1711; died 1785. David GARRICK, the "English Roscius;" born at Hereford 1716; died 1779. Hon. Edward HARLEY, Auditor of the Imprest, benefactor; born at Brampton Brian, 1664. William HAVARD, song writer, author of " Banks of the Lugg;" born at Hereford 1734. Stringer LAWRENCE, East India Major-general; born at Hereford 1697; died 1775. Edward LONGMORE, "Hereford Colossus," 7 feet 6 inches high; died 1777. William POWELL, actor, pupil and protegé of Garrick; born at Hereford; died 1769. John PRICE, historian of his native town; born at Leominster: died 1802. John Ross, Bishop of Exeter, classical scholar and author; born at Ross 1719; died 1792. The county of Hereford is comparatively destitute of a general historian. In 1804, however, Collections towards the History of the County were published, in an imperfect state, by John Duncomb; some Introductory Sketches having been previously given to the world, in 1791, by the Rev. John Lodge. Histories of the city have also appeared, from the pens of Dr. Rawlinson (1717), and of John Price (1796); the latter of whom published an Account of Leominister in 1795. |