THE ANCESTOR numbered i and 3 above. These minute variations do not necessarily prove any great difference in date between the two series. Perhaps they only indicate that two artists were employed upon the work. The panels may be described as follows : — 6. Gules a chevron between three swans argent^ impaling argent a cross engrailed sable^ with an eagle gules in the quarter. Inscribed : * Lyte and Drecote.* The shield is that of Robert le Lyt, who married Isabel daughter and heiress of Peter of Draycot, in or about 1273. It is definitely stated to have been ' in the great bay windoe in the parler ' at Lytes Cary. 7. Gules a chevron between three swans argent^ impaling sable 2l goat in his kind standing on a mount vert. Inscribed :
- Lyte and Gotebursts ' {sic). The shield is that of a second
Robert le Lyt, who married Margaret daughter of Roger of Goathurst, towards the end of the reign of Edward I. 8. Gules a chevron between three swans argent^ impaling argent three roundels azure^ each charged with as many chevrons gules. Inscribed : 'Lyte and Carent.' The shield is that of Edmund Lyte who married Thomasia sister of William Carent of Toomer in or about the year 1378. This is also known to have been * in the parler windoe at Lytescarye ' in the time of Charles I. The Carent arms show colour upon colour. 9. Gules a chevron between three swans argent^ impaling argent an ash tree on a mound. Inscribed : 'Lyte and Ash.' The shield is that of John Lyte who married Agnes daughter and heiress of John Ash of co. Devon, in or before the year 1428. 10. Gules a chevron between three swans argent^ impaling azure a dolphin argent between three mullets gules. Inscribed :
- Lyte and Fitzjamys.' This shield is historically a duplicate
of that numbered 4, but different in execution. 1 1 . Gules a chevron between three swans argent^ impaling argent two glazier's irons in sal tire between four pears gules. Inscribed : ' Lyte and Kelloway.' The second of these names has been supplied in modern glass. Thomas Lyte, the gene- alogist, seems to have thought that this shield must necessarily have been that one of his direct ancestors, and tried to locate the match between Lyte and Kelloway in the fifteenth century. There were, however, two such matches in the first half of the sixteenth century, as he was aware. The shield may possibly be that of his own father Henry Lyte, who married Agnes
