1240-5, bore gules 3 bars gemels or, a lion passant in chief of the same. The following remarks on the changes made in their arms, will be appropriate, as illustrating the subject in general. They are from Nichols's Topographer and Genealogist, from the pen of Mr. D'Oyley Bayley, whose numerous contributions have enriched that publication, and are characterised by a spirit of critical sagacity and acumen, that must be applied in connection with a more learned and sceptical investigation of existing records, both accessible, and such as shall be from time to time disclosed, to the dissection of old pedigrees, before authentic and truthful genealogies can be compiled.
"Sir Henry de Tregoze, or his progenitors, had differenced the family armorial ensigns of gemel bars and the passant lion, by placing them on a blue, instead of a red shield, and the Roll of Arms compiled between 2 and 7 Edward II, proves the coat borne by Sir Henry de Tregoze to have been "de azure a 2 barres gimyles de or, en le chef, un lupard passant de or;" but it is a curious fact, that soon after the final extinction of the above senior branch of the family. Sir Henry handed over this coat to the younger branches of his own family, and he or his son and heir resumed the old colours of red and gold, but bore them reversed, viz. on a golden shield, with the charge gules. This was possibly intended to mark, that though chief of his house, he was not lineally descended from its originally elder line, which bore the field gules, and the bearings or, and which the La Warrs and Grandisons would be entitled to claim." (p. 130).
The arms of Gilderidge, of Gilderidge, in Withyham, seem to be compounded of Warren and Goring, being chequy on a chevron 3 annulets (11). The 3 annulets on an engrailed chief (12) in the arms of Cowper of Strood in Slynfold, point to a connection with the Goring family.
The Westons or Wistonestons of Wiston bore, according to Cartwright, ermine on a bend gules three leopards' heads erased or, langued azure (37). But according to an elaborate pedigree of this family and its numerous offsets, in Brayley's 'History of Surrey' (ii,81), their arms at the time of the Conquest were sable, three leopards' heads erased arg. crovmed or, langued gules (38), the bend being a variation taken by Thomas
