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English: Text from MacNamara, F.N., Memorials of the Danvers Family, London, 1895, p.xxv:

ARMS OF DANVERS OF CULWORTH, Oxfordshire. NOTES ON THE DANVERS SHIELD.

The coloured representation of the shield, with slight alterations as regards a few of the tinctures, is taken from that of Sir John Danvers of Culworth, as given in Harleian MS. 6066, p. 24. The Pigott quarterings have been omitted, as they were acquired by the family after the branch to which the present family belongs had diverged from the Culworth stem. Another representation of the shield, though differing in soine respects from the above, will be found on page 5 of Additional MS. 4354 (British Museum). Our representation is supported by the history of the alliances of the family as given in the following pages, as well as by seals which have been preserved, and by shields extant upon monuments of the family.

• 1&20: Danvers (ancient)
• 2: Brancestre ("Danvers modern")
• 3: Langley
• 4: Stradling
• 5: Hawey
• 6: Gilbert de Clare, Strongbow
• 7: Gernon
• 8: Berkerolles
• 9: Turberville
• 10: Justyn
• 11: St. Barbe
• 12: Dauntsey
• 13: Bavent
• 14: Arundell
• 15: Carminow
• 16: Lovestoft/Lestecot
• 17: Colshill
• 18: Blanchminster
• 19: Hiwis

Quartering No. 1. Danvers. — The mullets are sometimes represented with five, sometimes with six, points. The former is the more correct form, as witness a fine seal of William Danvers attached to Harleian Charter 49, c. 16, dated a.d. 1426.

No. 2. Brancestre. — See pp. 84 and 89.

No. 3. — Langley. Vincent, in his pedigree of the Danvers family, at the College of Arms, states that this is the shield of Verney. In support of his statement, see pp. 194-200 and 250, where we show that Verney took this shield on marriage with the heiress of de Langelee.

No. 4. Stradling. — These were the arms most commonly used by Stradling, but members of the family also used a chevron instead of the bend — see p. 248, and Burke's Armorial, ' Stradling.'

Then follow (Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) the quarterings of the heiresses whom the Stradlings married : (5) of Julia Hawey, see p. 246 ; then (6) of Eleanor, the daughter of Gilbert Strongbow, who married the heiress of Gernon or Garnon (7), see p. 247 ; next (8) of Wenllian Berkerolles, who brought to the family the quarterings of Turberville (9), and of Justyn (10), see pp. 248 and 247. Then follows the shield (11) which Isabel St. Barbe introduced by her marriage with Sir William Stradling (see p. 247).

No. 12. Dauntsey of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, regarding which a few words. We have represented the shield with three bars wavy, as it appears upon the monument of Joan Dauntsey in Dauntsey Church, upon the central shield of the Dauntsey or Stradling tomb on the south side of the chancel, and upon the impression of Dame Ann Danvers' shield, which is attached to Additional Charter 38881. But the family (Canon Jackson thinks the Winterbourne Dauntsey branch) also used three bars dancetty, while upon the monumental brasses of Dame Ann Danvers and her husband. Sir John, the bars are nebuly. Probably the oldest form of the bar was wavy, then the younger branch, by way of difference, took dancetty, and, possibly in later days. Dame Ann, merely as a matter of fashion, altered to nebuly the form of the bar. The West Lavington Damitseys used the bars dancetty* till Sir John Dauntsey (1559-1632) altered the arms, first, to a lion and a dragon rampant combatant, and afterwards to gules a lion rampant arg. chasing a wyvern vert, which arms are entered in the Heralds' Visitation of Wilts, a.d. 1623.

Following the Dauntsey shield are the quarterings (Nos. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) brought to that family by marriages with heiresses. No. 13 is that of Bavent, for which match see p. 231. To this follows the shield of Elizabeth Arundell (14), who married Edmund Stradling. Arundell brings in Carminow (15), Lovestoft, or Lestecot (16), and Colshill (17). Colshill finally adds to the shield the quarterings of Blanchminster and Huys, or Hiwis, see pp. 234-236. Add. MS. 4354 gives Lovestoft as the name of the bearer of No. 16, but Lovestoft appears to be one of the many variations of the spelling of Lestecot, and the quartering occupies in the shield a place appropriate to that of Lestecot (see p. 235). As regards the tinctures of the chief, with its charge, of Colshill (17), most authorities give argent guttee de sang ; but in the arms of Lord Danby in Brinkworth Church (Aubrey's ' Wilts '), the chief is tinctured as we have represented it, and these appear to have been the tinctures upon the Coleshill shield impaled by Dauntsey in Dauntsey Church (p. 254). That shield is evidently a very ancient one, and the colours have almost entirely disappeared, but we found traces which seem to warrant those we represent, gules and or. Blanchminster and Hiwis are in their proper places following Colshill. Papworth, in his ordinary of arms, gives their shields as we represent them.