A heraldic and physiological curiosity : thirty-nine children of one father and one mother (seven sons and thirty-two daughters), amply proved / by Geo. Grazebrook.

  • George Grazebrook
Date:
[1904]
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Credit: A heraldic and physiological curiosity : thirty-nine children of one father and one mother (seven sons and thirty-two daughters), amply proved / by Geo. Grazebrook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    <a HeraJfotc ant) pt)|»stoIogttal Curtostt|>. N July 1698 Thomas Greenhill, chirurgeou of London, petitioned the Earl Marshall, that, being the thirty-ninth child and seventh son of one father by one mother, he might be allowed a difference in his Arms to be borne by him in commemoration thereof. This was transmitted by the hands of Blanche Lyon, who was at this time the Duke’s private pursuivant. At the College of Heralds [Original Grants, vol. iv., fols. 276-9] is the grant which resulted and in these words:— “ To all and singular to whom these presentes shall come Sir Thomas S‘ George Knight, Principall King of Armes, and Sir Henry Sl George Knight, Clarenceux King of Armes, send Greeting. Whereas Thomas Greenhill of the City of London, Chirurgion [thirty-ninth child and seventh son of William Greenhill of Greenhill in ye County of Middlesex by his only wife Elizabeth Daughter of John Jones of Loudon], has made application to his Grace Henry Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshall of England, yl the Arms born and used, under the hand of William Ryley, by his said Father—scilicet, Vert 2 Barrs Argent, in chief a Leopard passant or— may be allowed and confirmed to be born by him wlh ye Alterations of ye Barrs from Argent to Ermine, and whereas they have borne for their Crests in seals and otherwise a Demi-Griphon, he may be allowed to bear ye same Gules, powdered with thirty-nine Mullets or. And forasmuch as ye said Earl Marshall, being well satisfyed of the Qualifications of ye said Thomas Greenhill, and in consideration of