Examples of Armorial Book-Plates. Samuel Billingsley of Cliff House, Dovercourt, near Harwich.* Powell Snell, Guiting Grange, Gloucestershire. ‡ * John Billingsley, of Chesterfield, born there 14 February, 1657, subsequently of Charterhouse Square, London, buried at Bunhill Fields, London. He married, 22 August, 1682, Dorcas, daughter of Thomas Jordan, of London, merchant, and by her had issue two daughters,-Dorcas, born 11 April, 1689, and Mary, born 14 December, 1684,-and three sons, viz. : John Billingsley, born 8 July, 1684; Rector of Newington, Oxfordshire, and of Purley, Berks ; a Prebendary of Bristol; died in 1751, and was buried at Newington. By Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Yorke, of Dover, Kent (father of first Earl of Hardwicke), he had issue a son and daughter, viz. Philip Billingsley, Rector of Newington and of Swincombe, co. Oxford, died 1774, s. p., buried at Newington. He married Lucy Mary, daughter of Abel Dottin, of English, co. Oxford. Mary Billingsley married Thomas Fothergill, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, and ViceChancellor from 1772 to 1776. Thomas Billingsley, born 7 September, 1693, died 22 September same year. Samuel Billingsley, in the liberty of the Rolls, in the parish of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, born 4 June, 1696, baptized 17 same month, at Hull; married, at St. Mary's, Dover, Esther, daughter of Michael Russell, of Dover, gent., and had issue two sons, John and Samuel, and a daughter, Esther, born at Dover. John Billingsley, the eldest son, of the liberty of the Rolls, married, at St. Dunstan's-in-theWest, Sarah, daughter of John Hughes, of Cheltenham, and had issue a daughter, Sarahı, married to Robert Taynton, of Bromley, and two sons, John Billingsley, of H.E.I.C.S., married Fanny, daughter of Richard Cox, by whom he had two daughters, Fanny, married to Rev. James Walker, Rector of Raddington, co. Somerset, and has issue; and Sarah, married to John Looker, of Oxford, and has issue: and a son, John Richard Frederick Billingsley, Rector of Wormington, co. Gloucester, who-by Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Polson, Rector of St. Mary Major, Exeter, and a Prebendary of the Cathedral-has issue. SAMUEL BILLINGSLEY, of Cliff House, Dovercourt, during the French wars Inspector of Aliens; born 1 April, 1772, in Chancery Lane, London. He married, in 1793, Elizabeth, daughter of John Viney. He died 12 July, 1863, at Cain's Cross, Gloucestershire, and was buried there. He had issue two sons, Samuel Billingsley-married to Margaret, daughter of J. Logan of Harwich, has issue one daughter, Agnes, wife of Oliver John Williams-and John Billingsley, Captain R.N., married to Charlotte, daughter of R. Hicks; also two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary. + John Egerton, of Egerton and of Oulton, Esq., son of Sir Philip Egerton, of Egerton and Oulton, Knight, by Catherine, daughter and sole heir of Piers Conway, of Hendre, co. Flint, Esq., was born 8 May, 1656. He married first, Mary, daughter of Thomas Cholmondeley, of Vale Royal, Esq.; secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert, Lord Viscount Cholmondeley; thirdly, in June, 1731, Catherine, daughter of William Upton, of Upton, co. Chester, gent. He died s. p., and was buried at Little Budworth, January 2, 1732. Names of quarterings:-1 Egerton, 2 Egerton (antient), 3 Ap Eynion, 4 Randle, Earl of Chester, 5 Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, 6 Algar, Earl of Mercia, 7 Done of Utkington, 8 Kingsley, 9 Silvester, 10 Smith of Cuerdley, 11 Grey de Wilton, 12 Glanville, 13 Fitzhugh, 14 Longchamp, 15 Rokele, 16 Delavache, 17 Grey, 18 Hastings (antient), 19 Abergavenny, 20 David, Earl of Huntingdon, 21 Brecknock, 22 Bruere, 23 Valence, Earl of Pembroke, 24 Warren, 25 Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, 26 Strongbow, 27 Hastings, 28 Conway of Hendre.-Communicated by Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, Bart., M.P., to whom the original copperplate belongs. This gentleman was son of another Powell Snell, who died in 1767. The owner of the plate was alive in 1779, when Rudder published his 'New History of Gloucestershire.' What follows is an extract from that History : Guiting Power.-This manor and estate were the property of William Gardiner, Esq., at the beginning of this century, and were purchased of Mr. Gardiner about fifty years since [i. e. about 1729] by John Snell, of the city of Gloucester, Esq., who marrying Anna Maria, daughter and sole heiress of Robert Huntingdon, D.D., sometime Bishop of Raphoe, by Mary, his wife, sister to the late Sir Jolin Powell, Knight, . had by that marriage several sons, of whom the late Powell Snell, was the eldest. . . . In the year 1737 he married Dorothy, one of the coheiresses of Charles Yate, of Colthrop, in this county, by whom he had issue Powell, John, Charles, and Dorothy.... He died in the year 1767, and is succeeded in this and other estates by his eldest and only surviving son, Powell Snell, Esq., who resides here." The plate corresponds with these details; but it also indicates some not given by Rudder. Magbull of Magbull." Sciant &c. ego Willi'mo filiot * Sciant &c. Simone de Halsale Derby cl'ro et multis aliis. Out of ye Lo. Molineux Pedegree. Rob'tus de Molineus dedit in toto fratri suo vnam carucat' terre in Thornton tenend' de se per seruic' milit' quantum pertinet ad vnam carucat' &c. This Rob't fil' Gilb'ti is testes to Simon Halsale deede aboue. Robert de Maghull Lo. of ye 4th Arms, Maghull, impaling azure a A | Sciant &c. Ricardus fil' Rob'ti Maghale dedi &c. Margerie sorori mei et heredibus pro homagio et seruicio suo partem terre me' in territoria de Maghale &c. Testibus Gilberto de Hassale. Ric'o de Molineus Rob'to Burom Rob'to Molyneus Roberto de Halsale Willi'mo de Auntre et alijs. &c. half sable, the lower gules, on the sable three mullets unpierced or; Huntingdon. 4, Yate. 5, Berkeley. 6, I believe to be Blanch of Barton. 7, Nourse. The escocheon of pretence-carried, according to English custom, for a wife, as heiress-is for Strong. This Powell Snell married. . . daughter of Thomas Phillipps, Esq., of Eaton Bishop, by... Strong, his first wife. Miss Strong was an heiress; but after her death, at which she left this daughter, her only child, wife of Snell, Mr. Phillipps married again and had a son. Thus Miss Phillipps, Snell's wife, was heir to her mother, but not to her father. They solved the difficulty by putting the coat of Phillipps in a canton, as we see it. Powell Snell died without issue. Sir John Powell, one of the Judges of the King's Bench, died in 1713, and was buried in the Lady Chapel in Gloucester Cathedral, where is a monument to him, presenting his likeness in a statue, extremely well executed. The Judge's sister, Maria Huntingdon, wife of the Bishop of Raphoe, lies buried close by. Her arms, impaled with her husband's, both as seen in this plate, are in a lozenge on the slab which covers her grave. Dorothy Yate, wife of the first Powell Snell, has a monument in the church of St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucester; on it is a shield shewing Snell, Powell, and Huntingdon, and over all an escocheon of Yate, with quarterings. I have a wax seal torn off one of her letters written in 1740. It shows the same Powell quarterings, and an escocheon of Yate alone.-D. P., STUART'S LODGE, MALVERN WELLS. *The Maghull genealogy has been copied from an illuminated roll on vellum in the possession of Sir Henry M. Vavasour, Bart., of Spaldington, one of the representatives of the Maghulls of Maghull. The Latinity of the original has been strictly adhered to. Robert Maghull of Maghull sonne to Tho. & bro. & heyre to Will'm 22 H. 8 was Foster of ye Ile of man by Gifte of Ed. Earle of Derby 33 H. 8; he marr. Alice dau. to Roger Fazakerley of Fazakerley in ye county of Lanc. he dyed 1 E. 6 & had yssue.' Maghull, impaling ermine three bars vert. Richard Maghull of Maghull s'ued out his liuery 4 & 5 Ph. & Mary, he bought land in Leuerpole 6 Eliz. he married Margaret daughter to Henry Carleton of Fazakerley Gent. 15 Q. Eliz. he was aliue 43 Q. Eliz. and dyed when he was 60 yeare ould & had yssue. Maghull, impaling argent on a bend sable three mascles argent, in sinister chief a crescent gules. Andrew Maghull of Maghull brother and heyre to Richard Maghull al's Maile 43 Q. Eliz. he married Elizabeth daughter to Thomas Halsall of Melinge, he dyed at 42 years of Age, and shee dyed at 54 yeares of Age and had yssue. Maghull, impaling argent three heraldic tigers' heads erased azure, a mullet sable for difference. Richard Maghull of Maghull now called Maile ætat. 41 Ano 1639: he married Alice daughter to Will'm Clayton of Leyland gent. married 16 K. James; both now be liuinge & haue yssue. Maghull, impaling argent on a cross engrailed sable between four torteaux a crescent argent for difference. William Maghull now called Maile sonne & heyre of Richard Maghull of Maghull ætatis 20, 1639. Maghull, in chief a label of three points gules. |
