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Stained-glass, St Mary's Church, Ayston, Rutland. Quarterly of 4:

• 1: Ermine, on a chevron (engrailed) gules three escallops argent (Grove of Grove Place, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.432)) William Brudenell (son and heir of Richard Brudenell of Dodington, Oxfordshire)) married Agnes Grove, daughter and heiress of Richard Grove of Amersham in Buckinghamshire. (source: Rylands, W. H., ed. (1909). The Visitation of the County of Buckingham made in 1634 by John Philipott, esq., Somerset Herald, and William Ryley, Bluemantle Pursuivant, marshals and deputies to Sir Richard St George, knight, Clarenceux, and Sir John Borough, knight, Garter, who visited as Norroy by mutual agreement; including the church notes then taken; together with pedigrees from the Visitation made in 1566 by William Harvey, esq, Clarenceux, and some pedigrees from other sources. Being a transcript of MS Eng. Misc. C.17 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with additions. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 58. London, p.17[1] The order of the quarterings is unusual, Brudenell would be expected to be in the first quarter with Grove in the second.
• 2: Argent, a chevron gules between three steel caps / morions azure the points of the caps to the dexter side (Brudenell) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.137)
• 3: Gyronny of eight or and sable (Blazon given in the Brudenell pedigree in Visit of Bucks, 1634, but without family name. These are the arms of the Scottish Clan Campbell)
• 4: Azure, a bend cotised between six crosses-crosslet fitchy or (Blakett of Castleton and Saltford, Oxfordshire, an heiress of Grove. Text per Collins's Peerage of England: William Brudelell of Aynho married Agnes de la Grove, daughter and heiress of Thomas de la Grove, by his wife Alice de Raan/Ranes, daughter and heiress of Walter de Raan, of RANES or RAANS MANOR, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire ('The hundred of Burnham: Amersham', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1925), pp. 141-155 [2]) by his wife Margery Blackett, daughter and eventual heiress of John Blackett of Castleton and Saltford (Salford?), in Oxfordshire. (Egerton Brydges, Collins's Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical, Vol. 3 (London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1812), pp.487-8, "Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan" [3]) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.89, "Blaket"))

Grove manor or some times called Grove Place Manor, in the parish of Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, came into being around 1320. It was held by a number of families starting with the Grove family, passed to the Gardyner family in the 16th century and was then held by a succession of people until 1939 when the house was taken over by the Government and became the centre for film production and communication for the armed services. It is now a commercial centre for Data and network communication services. (http://www.chalfonthistory.co.uk/grove%20manor.html) See also: 'Parishes: Chalfont St. Giles', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1925), pp. 184-193[4]

Text from 'Parishes: Ayston', in A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1935), pp. 59-61[5]: