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XVII.—The Identification of the Eighteen Worthies commemorated in the Heraldic Glass in the Hall Windows of Ockwells Manor House, in the Parish of Bray, in Berkshire; in a Letter from Everard Green, Esq., Rouge Dragon, Vice-President, to Viscount Dillon, Hon. M.A. Oxon, President

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

Everard Green
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The identification of the eighteen worthies commemorated in the Perpendicular heraldic glass in the hall windows at Ockwells Manor House (now the seat of our Fellow, Mr. Edward Barry) is the subject of this letter, which I have the honour of submitting for the consideration and attention of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1899

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page 324 note a Page 247.

page 324 note b Plate IX. page 35.

page 324 note c Plate XXI. pp. 10 and 120.

page 324 note d Pp. 113–120.

page 324 note e See also Beautiful Britain (1894), 97.

page 325 note a Worsley, History of the Isle of Wight, 68; Leland, Itinerary, vi. 91; Selden, Titles of Honour, 21.

page 326 note b These wreaths in the Ockwells glass are of five and not of six, as later was and is now the rule.

page 327 note a Coll. Arm. MS. K. 7. 1.

page 327 note b James York, Union of Honour, 38.

page 328 note a Sir Henry Stafford, K.G., Earl of Wiltshire, also used this motto. See his Garter Plate in the collegiate church of St. George, within the castle of Windsor.

page 328 note b His Garter stall plate may yet be seen in St. George's Chapel, Windsor.

page 328 note c Stothard, , Monumental Effigies of Great Britain (London, 1817), 103Google Scholar; Complete Peerage, by G. E. C., vii. 306; Doyle, The Official Baronage of England, iii. 439.

page 328 note d The mother of John de la Pole was Alice, daughter and heir of Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme, Oxon, by Matilda, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Burghersh of Ewelme, and granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer, poet laureate, a brother-in-law of our John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster.

page 329 note a Coll. Arm. MSS., A. 17, 2; Garter Plates, i. 80; Garter Stalls, p. 3; Vincent 118, 18b, 146b, and 165b.

page 329 note b See Proceedings, 2nd S. xiii. 227–329.

page 330 note a Coll. Arm. Garter Plates, vol. i. p. 128; Vincent 158, 351.

page 330 note b As a rule the blazon of this shield is: Or, a chief dancetty azure, and the crest a panache of feathers, and not a garb.

page 331 note a Coll. Arm. MS. M. 3, 83.

page 331 note b Hasted, History of Kent, iii. 677; Willement, Heraldry of Canterbury Cathedral, 105, no. 327.

page 331 note c I call this quartering Norreys; it is really Ravenscroft. Sir John Norreys' ancestor, also a John Norreys of Ockwells, married Milicent, daughter and heir of ….. Ravenscroft of Cotton and Hardingstone in Northamptonshire, and bore the arms of his wife's family, and his descendants did likewise.

page 332 note a Coll. Arm. MS. Vincent, 18, 137b.

page 333 note a Coll. Arm. MSS. 0. 12. 298, and H. 10. 75.

page 334 note a Coll. Arm. MSS.: C. 17, 107b; C. 30, 34; K. 4; H. 20, f. 54; 2 G. 9, 185; M. 3, 79; Philpot, Quarterly Coats, 12.

page 334 note b Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, iii. 69; Grazebrook's Heraldry of Worcestershire, ii. 293.

page 334 note c Coll. Arm. MSS.: M. 3, 65; C. 12, 173, 175, 297; G. 2, 108, 109.

page 334 note d The roofs of Yattendon church and of the hall at Ockwells are evidently by one and the same architect.

page 334 note e Beltz, G. F., Memorials of the Order of the Garter (London, 1841), ccxxiv.Google Scholar

page 334 note f Coll. Arm. MSS.: 2 C. I. 413; I. C. B. 2 pt. 15, 252; B. P. VI. 182.

page 336 note a Coll. Arm. MSS.: C. 15, Cal. 3, 4b; 1 C. 26–8; 2 C. 26–7; A. 17, 58b; Vincent, 138, 65b.