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Purefoy (modern) quartering Purefoy (ancient)
Church of St Michael & All Angels, Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire - mural monument. Purefoy (modern) (Azure, three stirrups or) quartering Purefoy (ancient) (Canting arms of Purefoy: Sable, six armed hands in pairs embracing two and one argent (French: pure foi, good faith)) impaling Purefoy (modern) quartering Purefoy (ancient). Denoting the marriage of two Purefoy cousins or other relatives. Edward Purefey (1555-1595) of Shalston, Buckinghamshire, who married his "distant connection" Joyce Purefoy (1560-1596), only child and sole heiress of George Purefoy (1535-1593) of Fenny Drayton, by his wife Elizabeth Whethill, a daughter of Thomas Whethill of w:Sheepy, Leicestershire. Both were descended from Philip Purefoy and his wife Margaret de Shirford, daughter and heiress of John de Shirford of Shirford, Warwickshire. Possibly the arms Azure, three stirrups or were the arms of de Shirford. (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.II, London, 1874, p.1099 "Shereford"). Joyce's great-great grandson was Sir Henry Purefoy, 1st Baronet (1656–1686). The inscriptions on these monuments are transcribed in Nichols' History of Leicestershire, Vol.IV, p.594. Further reading: "FENNY DRAYTON AND THE PUREFEY MONUMENTS", BY GEORGE F(RANCIS) FARNHAM, AND ALBERT HERBERT, published in Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol.14, 1925, pp.84-112[1][2]
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