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LIGHT I. 2.

Quarterly. I and 4, STAPLETON. 2, BELLEW.

3, BRUS.

Impaling Checky or and azure within a bordure of the first, a canton ermine. BRITTANY.

LIGHT I. 3.
Quarterly.

Nicolas Stapletone knight
maired Flab.

Stapletone & Gilberte
Stapletone®

2

I. and IV. Quarterly. 1 and 4, STAPLETON. 2, BELLEW. 3, BRus. II. and III. BRITTANY.

Encircled with the Garter charged with the motto of the order, and surmounted by a helm (no crest).

LIGHT I. 4.

Quarterly.

Miles Stapletone knighet one of

the founders of the order of the garter
in the 9 feate at the kinges lyde

& had yllbe Nicholas Staple

tone and Gilberte St
apletone5

I. and IV. Quarterly. I and 4, STAPLETON. 2, BELLEW. 3, BRUS. II. and III. BRITTANY.

Impaling-Quarterly.

I and 4, Ermine, a crescent or.

RICHMOND.

2 and 3, Barry of eight or and gules. FITZALAN OF BEDALE.

Gilbert Stapletone® Knight

maryed Agnes one of the doughters

& heires of Brian Fitzallein
and hed yllve Miles
Stapletone Knight and
Brian Stapletone

1 The bordure is generally blazoned gules, instead of or as here.

2 Isabella, daughter of John of Brittany, earl of Richmond.

3 No son Gilbert appears in either Mr. Chetwynd-Stapylton's or Mr. Clay's pedigrees.

4 Sir Miles's stall plate at Windsor is illustrated in Plate 39 in 7he Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485, by W. H. St. John Hope, 1901.

5 Light I. 3 should properly come after Light I. 4, unless the central position in the window has intentionally been given to the primus fundator. The sons' names seem to be incorrect.

6 This Sir Gilbert was the second son of Sir Miles Stapleton and Sibill Bellew, and the father of Sir Miles, the primus fundator (Light I. 3), and of Sir Brian, K.G. (Light I. 5). The fine effigy of Brian Fitzalan is still in Bedale church.

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Encircled with the Garter charged with the motto of the order, and surmounted by a helm, and crest-On a wreath, a Saracen's head in profile.

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Brian Stapleton knight of the garter

in the 3 place at the kinges lyde & maryed
Allice doughter & one of the heires of I
hon Silberte beinge his seconde wyfe
& had yllbe Brian & Miles Stapleton
knightes wch Miles was the firfte of the
houle of Wighile & lyethe at Healowgh

I and 4. Argent, a lion rampant sable, charged with a mullet of five points of the field.

STAPLETON.

2 and 3. ST. Philibert.

Impaling Gules, a lion rampant argent charged with a fleur-de-lis azure. ALDBROUGH.

LIGHT II.

2.

Brian Stapletone knight, maried

one of the doughters and heires of Willm
Aldbrughe knight, and had illue Brian

Stapletone efquire;

Quarterly. I and 4, STAPLETON. 2, ALDBROUGH. 3, ST. PHILIBert. Impaling-Quarterly.

1 and 4. Ermine, a cross moline sable.

GODDARD.

2 and 3. Or, a lion rampant azure debruised by a bend compony argent and gules.

LIGHT II. 3.

SUTTON.

Brian Stapletone knight, maried

Agnes the elldelt doughter and one of

the heires of Jhon Goddcarde knight,
and had illue Brian Stapletone knight,

Quarterly. 1, Argent, a lion rampant sable charged with a mullet of five points of the field. STAPLETON. 2, GODDARD. 3, ST. PHILIBERT. 4, ALDBROUGH.

Impaling-Quarterly.

1 and 4. Argent, a chevron sable, in the dexter chief a cinquefoil pierced of the last. REMPSTON.

2. Checky argent and gules, a bend sable. BECKERING.'

3. Argent, on a bend azure five crosses crosslet or. LOUDHAM.1 Brian Stapletone knight, maried

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1. Barry nebuly of six, or and gules. LOVEL.2

2. Quarterly. (DEINCOURT.)

1. Azure, a fess dancetty between ten billets or.

DEINCOURT.
GREY OF

2. Barry of six argent and azure, a bend gules.

ROTHERFIELD.

3. Barry of eight or and gules. FITZALAN of Bedale.

4. Argent, a fess dancetty between ten billets sable. DEINCOURT. 3. Quarterly. (HOLLAND.)

1 and 4. Azure, semy of fleurs-de-lis, a lion rampant gardant argent. HOLLAND.

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3. Gules, seven mascles joined, three, three, and one, or.

DE QUINCY, EARL OF WINCHester.

4. Quarterly. (BURNELL.)

I and 4. Or, a saltire engrailed sable. BOTETOURT.

2 and 3. Argent, a lion rampant sable crowned or,
bordure azure. BURNELL.

1 Sir Thomas Rempston married Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Beckering by Isabel, sister and coheir of Sir John Loudham. See Longstaffe's note 2, page 2, Tonge's Visitation.

The

2 Bassett, adopted for Lovel. stall plate of Sir Francis Lovel, viscount Lovel of Tichmarsh and lord Holland has-Quarterly. 1, Lovel. 2, Deincourt. 3, Holland. 4, Grey of Rotherfield, with

within a

Burnell on an escutcheon of pretence (Hope's Stall Plates, pl. 85).

3 The number of billets varies in the different shields.

4 "Monsire de Botetort, port d'or, une salter engrele sable." Roll of Edward III., N. H. Nicolas's ed., p. 29. Quartered with Burnell in the stall plate of Sir Hugh Burnell, lord Burnell (Hope's Stall Plates, pl. 23).

III. Quarterly. (BEAUMONT.)

1. Azure, semy of fleurs-de-lis, a lion rampant or. BEAUMONT. 2. Quarterly. (PHELIP.)

I and 4. Quarterly gules and argent, in the first quarter an eagle displayed or. PHELIP.1

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3. Or, an inescucheon in an orle of eight martlets argent. ERPINGHAM.2

3. Quarterly. (BARDOLF.)

1 and 4. Azure, three cinquefoils or.

2. Argent, a bend azure, a chief gules.

3. Checky or and gules, a chief ermine.

BARDOLF.
CROMWELL.
WARREN.

4. Quarterly. (COMYN, EARL OF BUCHAN.)

I and 4. Azure, three garbs or. COMYN, EARL OF BUCHAN. 2. Gules, seven mascles joined, three, three, and one, or. DE QUINCY, EARL OF WINCHESTER.

3. Gules, a cinquefoil argent (or ermine). BEAUMONT, EARL OF LEICESTER.

IV. Quarterly. (REMPSTON.)

1 and 4. REMPSTON.

2. BECKERING.

3. LOUDHAM.

LIGHT II. 5.

Brian Stapletone knight, maried
Elizabethe, doughter of the Lorde Scroo:
pe & had illue, Richarde Stapletone knight, &
of his lecon mar, maried Jaine doughtere of
Baffett, of Louename, bi whome he had Brian,
Stapletone efquire ;*

Quarterly. (STAPLETON.)

I. STAPLETON.

II. Quarterly. (REMPSTON.)

I and 4. REMPSTON.

2. BECKERING.

3. LOUDHAM.

1 So on the stall plate of Sir William Phelip, lord Bardolf (Hope's Stall Plates, pl. 48).

2 In Tonge's Visitation, p. 1, the field is blazoned vert. In the Roll of Edw. III. (p. 48), "Monsire de Empingham, sable, a une urle de merletts argent, a une escuchion argent." The field is vert in the stall plate of Sir Thomas Erpyngham (Hope's Stall Plates, pl. 42).

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3 The cinquefoils in this coat have an ermine spot on each petal. Cf. Longstaffe's note 1, p. 3, Tonge's Visitation. Chronologically this light, II. 4, should come after II. 5. The Sir Brian Stapleton (d. 1496) who married Joan Lovel (II. 5) was the son of the Sir Brian (d. 1467) who married Isabel Rempston (II. 3), and the father of the Sir Brian (d. 1550) who married Elizabeth Scrope and Joan Bissett (II. 4).

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The shield is exactly the same as that in Light II. 4, blazoned above, but here with--over all, a label of three points argent.

LIGHT III. 2.

RICHARD STAPLETONE KNIGHT

MARIED TOMAZIN, ONE OF THE DOV

GHTERS & HEIRES OF THOMAS AMADAS
& HAD ISSVE, BRIAN STAPLE-
tone esqvire.1

Quarterly, four grand quarters, of which I. (LOVEL) is the same as II. in Light II. 4; II. (STAPLETON) is the same as I. in that light; III. (BEAUMONT) is the same as III. in that light; and IV. has disappeared (now clear glass). Doubtless this shield was exactly the same as that in Light II. 4, and the first and second grand quarters have been transposed.

Brian Stapletone efquire, maried the
Ladye Elenore, who died wthoute vff
ue; & in his fecoñ, maried Elizabethe the
6. doughter to the lorde Darcye, of the nor
the, by whome he had vffue, Richarde
Stapletone efquire, & many other fon
& doughters.1

LIGHT III. 3.

The shield is exactly the same as that in Light II. 4. The inscription has disappeared.

1 The Richard Stapleton (d. 1585) of Light III. 1, and his son Brian (d. 1606) of Light III. 2, were the heads of the Carlton family in Sir William Fairfax's time.

Brian's first wife, Eleanor (Light

III. 2), was daughter of Ralph Nevill, earl of Westmorland; his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of George, lord Darcy, was sister of Sir William Fairfax's first wife.

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