The history of the parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell / [Thomas Pennant].

  • Thomas Pennant
Date:
1796
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Credit: The history of the parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell / [Thomas Pennant]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A R M S. 3* p, 14. b.) who fervcd in parfement for the borough of Leominjier in die fixth of Edward III. andfeveral other parlements as late as that of the thirty-eiglitk of the fame prince. The family afllutiedi afterwards their proper arms, thofe of ^udor E’revor, tn the year 1580, a patent for a creft, the an- telope’s head moft ftrangely dis-figured with heraldic liberty,' was granted to Pyers Pennant^ one of the four gentlemen-ufoers to Qnfttn EMaietht and- to the pofterity of his father Hugh Pemant. In this patertt, \^kh P have in high prefervatioh, the firft coat is that of the ^reversy * the fyelde party par bend, finifter ermen, ‘^and ermyhe, a lion-rampant goulde, langued and armed gules.* Th$ two next are -as defcribed above, and the fourth by the name of Gm^dd Ebyd^ - ‘ the fyelde azure three^fibwer-de-luces- * of the fyelde :’ and fuch is xht diBum oi Robert Cooke^ alias ClarencieuXy Roy D-’AitMESj 1580. The Mojlyns of Mojlyn bear as their creft, a lion rampant. The “Prevorsy yfdkQ were-the Pen~cenedly or head of the whole line, had for their- creft the wivern or dragon on a cap of dignity. The prefent Lord Hampden is its true Pen-cenedl but by heraldic rules, on the defcent of the Hampden eftate to his lordfhip, from the alliance of his anceftor Sir John Prevor with the Hampdensy the talbot, the-* creft of that family,, fuperfedes the antient dragon.! - . The dragon was worn as a cognizance by all our princes, particularly by Cadwaladhy who died in 688. It was adopted by fkwrj.VIL who clamed'defcent from him, and wore it inhe- battlc of Rojworth.- • -It-took- its origin from the legend of Utbh' Pen-dr agony father of Jr thury wJio is faidto have received . , ' the
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