Ever; a family of this name was ennobled in the sixteenth century. The great Norman family of Yvery might be the stem whence sprung the Kentish Hevers; Iver, in Buckinghamshire, is supposed to be named from the former.
Courthope and Cruttenden bore each three estoiles, the former with a fess, the latter with a chevron (35, 36). These names, it is not improbable, are corruptions of Covert's-thorp and Covert's-den (Crotynden in Ticehurst). The district of "Curthope" in Lamberhurst is mentioned as early as 1168, as paying tithes to Leeds Abbey (Hasted's Kent, 8vo ed. v, 308). Crotynden occurs in Budgen's Map of Sussex in the vicinity of Maplesden, Hammerden, Withernden, &c. The Courthopes and the Cruttendens possessed property in that and the neighbouring parishes in Kent and Sussex. There is no resemblance in the arms of the Coverts and these families, nor any known ownership of lands, &c., supposed to be named after them, to warrant the etymology hazarded; but knowing most localities ending in -hurst, -den, -combe, &c., received their distinctive prefix from their owner, as Lamberhurst from Lambert de Scotney, Hersham, i.e. Hever's-ham, in Walton-on-Thames (v. Manning and Bray's Surrey in loco), from the family of Hever, etymology points to the great landed south Saxon family of Covert as the probable origin of the compound names in question.
The ancient family of Stopham of Stopham and of Colbrand of Boreham, exhibit arms which clearly denote a family relationship. The two coheiresses of William Stopham of Stopham, married at the end of the fourteenth century, into the families of Palmer and Bartelott, the coat which they both quarter in respect of those matches, being quarterly perfesse indented arg. and gules four crescents counterchanged. Sir William Echingham, knight, m.p. for Sussex, 1290, married before 1265 Eva daughter and heiress of Ralph de Stopham: her arms, a crescent in the field and a canton, with his own and two others are on his seal ("Echyngham of Echyngham" by Spencer Hall, p. 22). This coat is probably the older, as it is the simpler of the two; the quarterly arrangement being formed by the elder line remaining at Stopham, on the occasion of some alliance with a family whose bearings were thus in part, if not wholly, incorporated with the Stopham arms. In the Visitation of 1570, the pedigree of Colbrand is entered, with a shield quar-
