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Corsham Church (St. Bartholomew), Wiltshire.

Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1900, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Bristol, England, after pp.99-100[1].

Arms as seen on monuments in w:Great Chalfield Manor House and in All Saints' Church, Great Chalfield, Wiltshire, both built c.1465-80 by w:Thomas Tropenell, a member of the landed gentry who made a fortune as a clothier.

Text, pp.99-100: CHALFIELD HOUSE. Two: "(Gu.) a fess. engr. erm. between three griffins* heads erased (arg.)," Tropnell. Crest : Griffin's head affirontee couped (az.) beaked (or). Supporters : Two griffins' sejant. Crest : on helmet out of naval coronet (or) a dexter cubit arm erect (proper) charged with cross patty (gu.) holding in hand a trident in bend sinister, points downwards (of the first) f Burrard. (Az.) a lion pass, (arg.) between in chief two estoiles and in base a cross croslet fitchy (of the second)." This was all I read, the rest being hidden by ivy, but it reads : " On a chief (or) two lions ramp, combatant (gu.) supporting a dex. hand apaumecouped (of the last)," Bz/^rar^^. Motto: Persevere. Crest : A portcullis ; query, Somerset. Church: On stone screen: (i) Tropnell as before impaling "(Az.) five fusils in fess (or)," Percy. Sir Walter Tropnell married Catherine, d. of Sir William Percy of Great Chalfield. (2) Tropnell impaling " (Per pale az. & gu.) three lions ramp. 2 & I erm,." Rous. Roger Tropnell married Christian, d. of Sir John Rous. (3) Tropnell impaling " Arg. a chev. between three martens' heads (may be foxes') erased sa.," Ludlow. Thomas Tropnell, oh. 1490, married Margaret, d. of William Ludlow. (4) Tropnell impaling " Azure three roaches in pale within bordure arg.," Roche. The bordure goes round the impaling, which is bad, as Mr. Gill pointed out. Henry Tropnell married Edith, d. of Walter Roche

• I: Percy (ancient) (now Duke of Northumberland)
• II: Gules, a fess engrailed ermine between three griffin's heads erased argent (Tropnell). See these arms in Great Chalfield Manor House and sculpted on the chancel screen and on w:Thomas Tropenell's elaborate chest tomb in St. Bartholomew's Church, Corsham, Wiltshire[2].
• III: Per pale azure and gules, three lions rampant ermine (Rous/Rouse (of Imber, Wilts ?)); Roger Tropnell (an ancestor?) married Christiana Rous, a daughter of Sir John Rous. Text from HoP biog [3] of ROUS, John III (d.c.1454), of Baynton in Edington, Wilts, MP for Wiltshire in 1420, yr. s. of John Rous of Imber, Wilts. by Iseult Fitzwaryn, da. and coh. of Sir Philip Fitzwaryn, MP, of Great Chalfield, Wilts. "John Rous himself had been party to lawless behaviour in the county. He had helped his (elder brother William Rous) to retain possession of the manor of Great Charfield in 1431, when the Beverleys came armed to support their title, only to lose control of it to another claimant, Thomas Tropenell, later. William was accused in Tropenell’s cartulary of lechery and adultery".
• IV: Roche, later Viscount Fermoy: Gules, three roaches naiant in pale argent (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.863). Thomas Tropenell was the son of Henry Tropenell and his wife, Edith Roche, the daughter of Walter Roche.
• V Argent, a chevron between three fox's heads erased sable (Ludlow (of Hill Deverill, Wiltshire), later w:Earl Ludlow) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.628 "Earl Ludlow"). Thomas Tropenell married secondly in 1453 (no issue by first wife) Margaret Ludlow, widow of .... Erley, MP for Ludgershall, and a daughter of William Ludlow, MP, of Hill Deverill, Wiltshire. (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.628 "Ludlow of Hill Deverill, Wiltshire", but erroneously with "bear's heads") Tropenell married Margaret Ludlow in 1456 when he was 50 and she was the first chatelaine of his new Great Chalfield Manor when it was built.[4]
• VI: Pershay, not given in Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.564 for this shield