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Lowe, and Brian Lowe, sons of the said Lawrence, to Roger 
Hulme, rector of Astbury in Cheshire, and to Geoffrey Davy, 
rector of Swetenham in the same county, to Richard Newton and 
Humphrey Newton his son, Richard Eyton and Laurence 
Eyton his son, and to William Rode and John Lowe, * 
all their lands and tenements in Alderwaslegh and _ else- 
where in the County of Derby, upon trust to certain uses. 
Henry Vernon, Esq., Ralph Sacheverell, Esq., Henry Columbell, 
Esq., James Taylor of Alderwaslegh, Richard Newton and others 
were witnesses to the same. Appended to this charter are two 
imperfect seals of red wax. 
The first of these seems to have borne upon 
it the figure of a wolf, and the Lowes of 
Alderwasley are found to have borne a single 
wolf upon their armorial shield in place of 
the two which appeared upon the ancient 
family coat.t Thomas Fawne, the father of 
Joane Lowe, by his will “ writen at Allerwas- 
legh the tenth day of Januere the yer of the 
reigne of King Edwarde iiij after the Con- 
queste of Englande the xviij",” states that 
“lyinge in godd’s handes and felyng myself 
in perill of dethe and being whole in my 
_* This John Lowe seems to have been a priest, and there is some slight 
‘reason for supposing that he may have been another son of Geoffrey del Lowe, 
of Macclesfield. His name appears in more than one other charter in con- 
junction with other members of the family, but -in no instance is he described 
as a relative. : hal 
_ + Relative to the armorial bearings of the family some difficulty arises. 
The original coat seems to have been: Gules, two wolves passant argent. 
here is reason to believe that the above-named Thomas Lowe, of Alderwas- 
Tey, altered this coat, bearing one wolf only ; and the arms which were allowed 
to the Lowes of Aderwasley by the heralds were: Gu/es, a wolf passant argent. 
‘he descendants of Laurence Lowe, of Denby, bore a distinct coat, namely : 
Azure, a hart trippant argent, which was duly allowed by the heralds ; but 
what was the origin of this coat, or for what reason the Lowes of Denby 
should have assumed arms which bore no resemblance whatever to those borne 
by other branches of the family, are points which yet remain to be determined. 
Nor does the difficulty end here. It has just been seen that the Lowes of 
Alderwasley bore the wolf for their arms, but upon a tomb in Wirksworth 
Church, to Anthony Lowe, of Alderwasley, the son and successor of the 
above-named Thomas Lowe, there is a very peculiar coat of arms, of which 
