I lO THE ANCESTOR azure three horses* heads or, with bridles. This shield is historically identical with numbers i and 13 described above, but the treatment is different. {J?) Part of the sinister half of a shield, azure^ cut to receive horses' heads as above. {c) The dexter half of a shield. Gules a chevron between three swans argent. The treatment is similar to that of number 4 described above. (d) The dexter half of a shield. Sable a bend or between six fountains. Supporters, two antelopes azure. Inscribed :
- Lorde Sturton and My Ladys.'^ This shield is presumably
that of Edward, Lord Stourton, who married Agnes daughter of John Fauntleroy of Marsh. The sinister half would show gules three infants* heads. The badges of Stourton and Fauntleroy are to be seen on the great bay window of the south front of Lytes Gary. {e) Two fragments of the dexter half of a shield. Sable a bend or between six fountains. These are the arms of Stour- ton, as above. (/) Part of a shield. Gules a chevron between three swans argent^ their bills or^ impaling argent a cross engrailed sable^ with an eagle gules in the quarter, and a mullet sable for difference. This shield is historically identical with number 6 described above, but the treatment is different. The addition of the mullet is also remarkable. The following fragments date from the early part of the seventeenth century : — {g) The dexter half of a shield about inches by 4^. Quarterly i. Gules a bend between six crosslets fitchy argent^ a crescent sable for difference ; 2, Gules three lions passant or^ a label argent ; 3, Chequy or and azure ; 4, Gules a lion argent, A sinister supporter, a lion argent charged with a crescent. This shield is that of Thomas, Viscount Howard of Bindon, who married Gertrude daughter of William Lyte of Lillesdon. The arms given quarterly are i Howard, 2 Brotherton, 3 Warenne, and 4 FitzAlan. The sinister half of the shield would show gules a chevron between three swans argent, {h) The dexter half of a similar shield : Azure three gaunt- lets or, Grest, a bull's head argent charged with a rose gules. This shield is that of Mildmay, Earl of Westmorland, who
- A copy of this glass is given in The Noble House of Stourton^ opposite to page
546. See also page 1064 of that work.
