Part 11
_Crest._--Two arms in armour, gauntleted ppr., holding an annulet or. _Musgrave._
[SAINT GERMAN. _Doctor and Student._ In the Savoy, 1751.]
William Musgrave (born 8th October 1735, died 16th January 1800) was the second son of Sir Richard Musgrave of Hayton Castle, and succeeded to the family Baronetcy in 1755, on the death of his elder brother.
Sir William was a Commissioner of Customs and of Accounts, a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society, a lawyer of much distinction, and a Bencher and Treasurer of the Middle Temple. He was author of a very useful compilation known as Musgrave's Obituary; it gives reference to places where the various persons deceased are mentioned, and also further particulars. The obituary was published by the Harleian Society in 1899-1901.
Sir William Musgrave made large collections of manuscripts on the subject of portrait-painting in England, and also concerning the history of England. He bequeathed these manuscripts, as well as a considerable number of printed books, to the British Museum, of which he was a Trustee. He had already given several books to the library during his lifetime, many of which contain an autograph note of the presentation.
NAUNTON, SIR ROBERT
_Arms._--Quartered.
1. Gu., 3 martlets or. _Naunton._
2. Quarterly, or and gu., in the first quarter a lion rampant of the second. _Inglish._
3. Arg., a chief indented sa. _Hillock._
4. Sa., an eagle displayed arg., between 6 bezants, 3, 2, and 1. _Busserard._
5. Arg., a lion rampant sa., a chief gu., a crescent for difference. _Ashby._
6. Gu., 10 bezants, 4, 3, 2, and 1. _Zouch._
7. Arg., 2 bars gu. _Martin._
8. Gu., a lion rampant between 14 tau crosses or. _Powell_ (?).
9. A chevron between 3 Hebrew letters "Cheth," probably standing for "Jehovah." _Unknown._
10. Erm., a cross engrailed sa. _Houghton_.
_Crest._--A basilisk ppr.
_Helmet._--That of an Esquire.
_Motto._--PRVDENS SIMPLICITAS.
[_Common Prayer._ London, 1612.]
Robert Naunton (born circ. 1563, died 27th March 1635) was the son of Henry Naunton of Alderton. He was educated at Cambridge, where in 1594 he was elected Public Orator, and travelled largely on the Continent for the purpose of studying politics. He was Member of Parliament for Helston in 1606, then for Camelford and for Suffolk, and sat in three Parliaments as Member for Cambridge. In 1614 he received the honour of Knighthood, and in 1617 became Secretary of State, and afterwards Master of the Court of Wards. Sir Robert was an earnest Protestant, and the Catholics considered that he was too strongly opposed to their interests. The latter part of his life was troubled, chiefly because he was too free in expressing his own views as to matters of public interest. Although he held several important official offices, he does not appear to have been a man of much talent, but his management of the matters entrusted to him was marked by strong common sense and trustworthiness. He wrote several valuable books on travel, biography, and history.
NEVILL, GEORGE, EARL OF ABERGAVENNY
_Badges._--1. A Lancastrian rose gu., seeded or, and leaved vert. 2. A portcullis of De Beaufort arg., chained and ringed or, nailed az. Both ensigned with an Earl's Coronet.
[C. SUETONIUS. _Tranquillus ex recensione F. Oudendorpii._ Lugduni Batavorum, 1751.]
George Nevill (born 24th June 1727, died 9th September 1785) was the son of William Nevill, Lord Abergavenny. He was a godson of George II., and succeeded his father in the Barony in 1744. Lord Abergavenny was Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, and in 1784 he was created Earl of Abergavenny.
The use of the badges shown is not confined to any particular earl, but had been generally used by the Nevill family for a long time. The Red Rose of Lancaster was adopted as a badge by Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick, whose daughter Anne married Edward, Prince of Wales, only son of Henry VI., the last of the Lancastrian Kings, in 1470. The Princess Anne afterwards married Richard III., the last of the Yorkist Kings. The portcullis was used as a badge of descent from the house of De Beaufort, and both badges are still used by the family of Nevill.
NOEL, BAPTIST, THIRD EARL OF GAINSBOROUGH
_Arms._--Impaled.
Dexter: Or, fretty gu., a canton erm. _Noel._
Sinister: Or, two bars az., a chief quarterly of the last and gu., in the first and fourth quarters 2 fleurs-de-lys or, and in the second and third quarters a lion passant guardant, of the last langued and unguled az. _Manners._
_Coronet._--That of an Earl.
[SETTLE. _Thalia Lacrymans._ London, 1714.]
Baptist Noel (born 1684, died 17th April 1714) was the son of Baptist Noel of Luffenham, Rutland, who was the eldest son, by his fourth marriage, of Baptist Noel, second Baron Noel and third Viscount Campden. The eldest son of Lord Campden succeeded to his father's title in 1682, and in 1681 he was created Earl of Gainsborough with special remainder to his younger brothers. In consequence of this remainder, on the death of Wriothesley Noel, second Earl of Gainsborough, in 1691, without male heir, the Earldom reverted to Baptist Noel, his cousin, who succeeded as third Earl.
Lord Gainsborough married, about 1706, his first cousin, Dorothy Manners, daughter of John, first Duke of Rutland.
PARKER, MATTHEW, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
_Arms._--Gu., on a chevron between 3 keys erect arg., as many estoiles of the field. The estoiles were an augmentation added in 1559. _Parker._
[_New Testament._ London, 1574.]
Matthew Parker (born 6th August 1504, died 17th May 1575) was educated at Cambridge, and in 1527 he took orders and became a Fellow of his College, and quickly made a name as a powerful preacher. In 1537 he was made Chaplain to the King and a Prebendary of Ely. He became Master of his old College, St. Benet's (Corpus Christi), in 1544. In 1552 he was Dean of Lincoln, but on Mary's accession he lost that and his other preferments on the ground of his being married.
During all Queen Mary's reign Dr. Parker kept himself well out of the way, but when Elizabeth came to the throne he was sought out and in 1559 consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury, being the second Protestant Archbishop of that See.
Archbishop Parker concerned himself much with literature, and wrote several valuable books. He had much to do with the Book of Common Prayer, and also with the revisal of the then existing translation of the Bible, the edition finally issued by him being known as the "Bishop's Bible." He founded the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1572, and bequeathed a large number of books and manuscripts to the University of Cambridge and to his old College.
Archbishop Parker had a staff of workmen in his own house, part of which was fully equipped for their use. His work _De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae_, of which it is said no two copies are alike, as the Archbishop made some alterations in the proofs every time they were submitted to him, is said to have been printed at the Archbishop's press by John Day. Some of his books are beautifully bound in embroidered velvet, also supposed to have been done in his own house. In one of his letters to Lord Burghley, he says that he has in his house "Paynters, Lymners, Wryters, and Book-Bynders." It is possible that several of the fine bindings made for Queen Elizabeth and for Lord Burghley were really made in the Archbishop's workshop.
PEPYS, SAMUEL, SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
_Arms._--Quarterly.
1st and 4th; sa., on a bend or, between 2 nags' heads erased arg., 3 fleurs-de-lys of the field. _Pepys._
2nd and 3rd; gu., a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed arg. _Gray._
_Crest._--A camel's head erased or, bridled, lined, ringed, and gorged with a ducal coronet or.
_Helmet._--That of an Esquire.
_Motto._--MENS CUIUSQUE IS EST QUISQUE.
[_Several books in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge._]
[The Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge.]
_Variety._--A shield lettered "SAM. PEPYS CAR. ET IAC. ANGL. REGIB. A SECRETIS ADMIRALIÆ."
Behind the shield are two fouled anchors.
_Crest_ and _helmet_ as in the preceding example.
[_Books at Magdalene College, Cambridge._]
[The Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge.]
Samuel Pepys (born 23rd February 1632, died 26th May 1703) was the son of John Pepys of Cottenham, in Cambridgeshire. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and became clerk of the Acts of the Navy in 1660.
In 1673 Mr. Pepys was Secretary to the Admiralty, and he introduced several admirable reforms in the management of that office, which he retained until 1689. He accompanied Lord Dartmouth to Tangier, and made several expeditions to the Continent and about the coasts of England.
In 1690 he published his _Memoirs_ concerning the navy of England, a very important work. In 1684 Mr. Pepys was President of the Royal Society. He left a considerable library to his old College at Cambridge, manuscripts as well as printed books, and also several prints. Pepys kept a curious _Diary_ in cypher from 1659 to 1669. It has been deciphered and published several times, but the best edition is that issued by Mr. H. B. Wheatley in 1893.
PERCY, HENRY, NINTH EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND
_Badge._--Within the Garter.
A crescent arg., ensigned with an Earl's coronet.
[JAMES I. _Triumphs_, etc. London, 1610.]
Henry Percy (born April 1564, died 5th November 1632) was the son of the eighth Earl of Northumberland and succeeded his father, who was murdered in the Tower, in 1585. Lord Northumberland was fined and imprisoned in the Tower in consequence of an alleged complicity in the Gunpowder Plot. In 1593 he was made a Knight of the Garter, and in 1603 he was Captain of the Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners.
Northumberland was in distant remainder to the Crown of England, and at one time it was probable that his claims might be strengthened by a marriage with Lady Arabella Stuart, niece of Lord Darnley, and great-granddaughter of Margaret, elder daughter of Henry VII., but the negotiation came to nothing. The Earl was fond of scientific pursuits and was known as "The Wizard Earl," and was a great smoker. The badge of the silver crescent was used by the Percy family generally and not exclusively by any particular member of it.
PETTY, WILLIAM FITZMAURICE, MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE
_Arms._--Within the Garter. Quarterly.
1st and 4th; erm., on a bend az., a magnetic needle pointing at a Pole Star or. _Petty._
2nd and 3rd; arg., a saltire gu., a chief erm. _Fitzmaurice._
_Coronet._--That of a Marquis.
_Supporters._--Two pegasi erm., bridled, crined, winged, and unguled or., each charged on the shoulder with a fleur-de-lys az.
_Motto._--VIRTUTE NON VERBIS.
[PONTIFICALE. Lansdowne MS. 451.]
William Fitzmaurice Petty (born 1737, died 7th May 1805) was the son of John, Earl of Shelburne. He was educated at Oxford, and then entered the army, and fought at Campen and at Minden, eventually becoming a general officer. He represented High Wycombe in Parliament. In 1761, on the death of his father, William Petty became Earl of Shelburne, and quickly made his mark in the House of Lords, and became head of the Board of Trade. In 1766 he became a Secretary of State for the Southern Department. On the death of Lord Rockingham in 1782, Lord Shelburne succeeded as Premier, and held this position until 1783. In 1784 Lord Shelburne was created Marquis of Lansdowne, and he spent the remainder of his life at his beautiful Wiltshire seat of Bowood.
About 1765 he began collecting books, particularly those concerning history and politics. Among the books collected by Lord Shelburne were several which had belonged to Sir Julius Cæsar, and also many of Lord Burghley's. Lord Lansdowne's manuscripts were acquired for the British Museum by purchase after his death.
PHILPOT, JOHN, SOMERSET HERALD
_Arms._--Quarterly.
1st and 4th; gu., a cross arg., between four swords erect of the second, pommelled and hilted or. _Philpot._
2nd and 3rd; sa., a bend ermine. _Philipot._
On an escutcheon of pretence. Az., a chevron erm., between 3 crescents arg. _Glover._
_Crest._--Out of a ducal coronet, a dexter arm embowed in armour holding in the hand a sword guttée de sang, all ppr.
(College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.)
[_Books at the College of Arms._]
John Philpot (born c. 1587, died 20th November 1645) was the son of Henry Philpot, at one time Mayor of Folkestone. He married Susan Glover, niece of the Somerset Herald, Robert Glover. In 1618 Philpot was appointed Blanch Lion Pursuivant, and a little later Rouge Dragon. He was deputy for William Camden in the visitations of Kent, Hampshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Sussex, Buckingham, Oxfordshire, and Rutlandshire.
In 1624 he became Somerset Herald, and held also the office of Steward of the Manors of Gillingham and Grain. Philpot supported the cause of Charles I., and fought for him, and in 1644 he was made prisoner by the Parliamentarians. Besides his several Visitations, Philpot published several other valuable historical and genealogical works, and left many more in manuscript. Several of his books are at the College of Arms.
POULETT, THE LADY BRIDGET
_Arms._--On a lozenge. Sa., 3 swords in pile arg., hilts or.
[DRYDEN. _Fables._ London, 1745.]
Bridget Poulett (born c. 1720, died c. 1780) was the eldest daughter of John Poulett, Earl Poulett. Lady Bridget married Pollexpen Bastard of Kitly in Devon. She had three sisters, one of whom married John Parker, and these two would have used the same coat-of-arms within a lozenge before their marriage. The other two sisters died unmarried, so they would always have used it.
It is not now safe to say, without further information, to which of these sisters any particular book bearing this coat belonged.
PYE, SIR ROBERT, KNIGHT
_Arms._--Quartered.
1 and 6. Erm., a bend fusilly, gu. _Pye_.
2. A lion passant.
3. Per pale, gu. and az., a lion rampant supporting a tree eradicated vert. _Wynstone._
4. Gu., 3 stirrups leathered and buckled or. _Scudamore._
5. Arg., on a chevron engrailed sa., between 3 ravens ppr., as many escallops or. _Croker._
_Crest._--A cross crosslet fitchée gu., between two wings expanded arg., over all a crescent for difference.
_Helmet._--That of an Esquire.
[ALLEN. _An antidote against Heresy, etc._ London, 1648.]
Robert Pye (born 1585, died 1662) was Remembrancer of the Exchequer in 1618, and received the honour of Knighthood in 1621. He was a strong Parliamentarian, and his son Robert married a daughter of John Hampden. Sir Robert Pye acquired the property of Faringdon in Berkshire, where his descendants lived for a long time. He represented Woodstock in Parliament.
RADCLIFFE, ROBERT, FIFTH EARL OF SUSSEX
_Arms._--Within the Garter. Quartered.
1. Arg., a bend engrailed sa. _Radcliffe._
2. Or, a fess between 2 chevrons gu. _Fitz-Walter._
3. Arg., a lion rampant sa., crowned or, a bordure az. _Burnell._
4. Arg., a saltire engrailed az. _Harding._
5. Gu., 3 lucies hauriant arg. _Lucy._
6. Barry of six, arg. and az. _Grey._
7. Arg., semée of fleurs-de-lys sa. _Bereford._
8. Arg., an eagle carrying off a child swathed gu., banded or. _Culcheth._
_Coronet._--That of an Earl.
[LONICER. _Chronicorum Turcicorum Liber, etc._ Francoforti ad Moenum, 1578.]
Robert Radclyffe (born c. 1560, died 22nd September 1629) was the only son of Henry Radclyffe, fourth Earl of Sussex. In 1593 Robert, styled Viscount Fitzwalter, succeeded to his father's earldom. In 1594 he went to Scotland as Ambassador for the christening of Prince Henry, and he commanded a regiment of infantry at Cadiz in 1596, when he was knighted by the Earl of Essex. Lord Sussex twice acted as Earl Marshal, and in 1599 he was made a Knight of the Garter. In 1599 he was Colonel General of Foot, and in 1626 he carried the orb at the coronation of Charles I. Lord Sussex served as Lord Lieutenant of Essex and Governor of Harwich.
RAWDON, JOHN, BARON RAWDON
_Crest._--On a mural coronet arg., a pheon sa., with a laurel branch issuant thereout ppr. _Rawdon._
[_Recueil general des Caquets de l'Acouchée._ 1623.]
John Rawdon (born c. 1710, died 20th June 1793) was the son of Sir John Rawdon, Baronet, of Moira, Member of Parliament for County Down. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1723, and in 1750 was raised to the peerage as Baron Rawdon. In 1761 he was created Earl of Moira in the peerage of Ireland.
The same crest would have been borne for a time by the son of Lord Moira, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, who was an eminent soldier. He was in 1783 created an English Peer by the same title as was enjoyed by his father, Baron Rawdon, by which he was known until 1793, when he succeeded to the Earldom of Moira. The additional surname of Hastings was assumed by Lord Rawdon in 1790, in accordance with the will of his maternal uncle Francis Hastings, tenth Earl of Huntingdon.
RAWDON, MARMADUKE
_Arms._--Arg., a fess between 3 pheons sa. _Rawdon._
[_Life of Marmaduke Rawdon of York._ MS.]
Marmaduke Rawdon (born March 1609, died 7th February 1668) belonged to an old Yorkshire family, and was the son of Laurence Rawdon of York. Mr. Rawdon entered the employ of an uncle who was a merchant, and travelled about the world in his service. He was for a long time in the Canary Islands, and he made an ascent of the Peak of Teneriffe. Rawdon was a noted antiquary, and he made valuable notes of his travels. His "Life" has been edited for the Camden Society by Mr. Robert Davies.
RAWLINSON, RICHARD
_Crest._--A sheldrake ppr., in his beak an escallop arg. _Rawlinson._
_Badge._--An escallop arg., being an excerpt from the Rawlinson coat-of-arms which is gu., 2 bars gemelles between 3 escallops arg.
[_Bible_, Greek. Antwerp, 1566.]
Richard Rawlinson (born 3rd January 1690, died 6th April 1755) was the fourth son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Lord Mayor of London. He was educated at Oxford and took Orders in 1716. In 1728 he was consecrated nonjuring Bishop, but never accepted the duties of the position. Dr. Rawlinson was a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries. He was a great collector of books and manuscripts, the greater part of which he bequeathed to Oxford, where they are now kept in the Bodleian Library. Others were sold by auction. Dr. Rawlinson wrote a number of books on antiquarian and topographical subjects, and he left his heart to his old college, St. John's, at Oxford, where it is still kept in the chapel in a marble urn.
RIVERS, SIR JOHN, BART.
_Crest._--A bull statant arg., ducally crowned, collared, ringed and armed or. _Rivers._
[_In Aristotelis de Coelo libros quatuor._ Venetiis, 1598.]
John Rivers (born circ. 1579, died circ. 1651) was the son of Sir George Rivers, and grandson of Sir John Rivers, Lord Mayor of London. Mr. Rivers was educated at Oxford, and admitted to the Inner Temple in 1600. In 1621 he was created a Baronet.
RUSSELL, FRANCIS, SECOND EARL OF BEDFORD
_Arms._--Within the Garter. Quartered.
1. Quarterly; 1 and 4, arg., a lion rampant gu. _Russell._
2nd and 3rd, az., a tower with cupola arg., door gu. _De La Tour._
2. Barry of eight, or and az., a crescent for difference. _Fitzalan._
3. Gu., 3 herrings hauriant in fess arg. _Herringham._
4. Sa., a griffin segreant between 3 crosses crosslet fitchée arg. _Froxmere._
5. Sa., 3 chevrons arg. _Wyse._
6. Sa., 3 dovecotes arg., 2 and 1, a mullet for difference. _Sapcote._
7. Arg. on a cross gu., 5 mullets arg., 1, 3, and 1. _Bodenham._
_Coronet._--That of an Earl.
[_Prayers._ Edinburgh, 1565.]
Francis Russell (born 1527, died 28th July 1585) was the son of John Russell, K.G., created Earl of Bedford in 1549. In 1554 Francis Russell succeeded to his father's earldom, and in 1546 he was made a Knight of the Bath. He was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, Member of Parliament for Northumberland, and Lord Lieutenant for Bucks.
Lord Bedford served as Ambassador to France on two occasions, and in 1564 he was made a Knight of the Garter. He also served as Chief Justice in Eyre south of Trent, and Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall. He was known as the "Good Earl of Bedford," and entertained Queen Elizabeth both at Chenies and at Woburn.
RUSSELL, WRIOTHESLEY, SECOND DUKE OF BEDFORD
_Arms._--Arg., a lion rampant gu., on a chief sa., 3 escallops of the first.
_Coronet._--That of a Duke.
[KNOLLES. _Turkish History._ London, 1701.]
Wriothesley Russell (born 1st November 1680, died 26th May 1711) was the son of William Russell, second son of William Russell, first Duke of Bedford. His mother was Rachel, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. In 1700 Wriothesley Russell succeeded to the Dukedom on the death of his grandfather the first Duke. He was educated at Oxford, and in 1701 was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and acted as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, of Cambridgeshire, and of Middlesex. He was Lord High Constable at the coronation of Queen Anne, on which occasion he was made a Knight of the Garter.
Through Rachel Wriothesley the Manors of Bloomsbury and St. Giles-in-the-Fields came into possession of the Russell family, and for a long time they lived at Bedford House, which occupied the site now forming the northern side of Bloomsbury Square.
SACKVILLE, EDWARD, FOURTH EARL OF DORSET
_Crest._--Out of an heraldic coronet ppr., an estoile of 8 points arg.
_Coronet._--That of an earl.
[DE PHILOTHEIA. _Canticum canticorum_, libri x. Friburgi Helvetiorum, 1609.]
Edward Sackville (born circ. 1590, died 17th July 1652) was the son of Richard Sackville, third Earl of Dorset. He was educated at Oxford, and succeeded his father in the Earldom in 1624. Mr. Sackville was Member of Parliament for Sussex, and in 1616 was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and after his succession to the peerage he acted as Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, and later of Sussex. In 1625 he was made a Knight of the Garter.
Lord Dorset carried one of the swords at the coronation of Charles I., and served as Chamberlain of the Household in 1644. He married Mary Curzon, governess to the king's children.
SAINT-GEORGE, SIR RICHARD, KNIGHT
_Arms._--Quartered.
1. Arg., a chief az., over all a lion rampant gu., crowned or. _St. George._
2. Arg., a cross flory gu. _Trussell._
3. Gu., 3 covered cups or. _Butler._
4. Arg., 3 fleurs-de-lys between 8 crosslets sa. _Mortimer._