164 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF LOWE. 
mynde, saye and take upon my charge as I will answer afore 
god that that gifte and graunte that I made to Thomas Lowe 
and Johanne my eldest daughter of all the lyvelode that I had 
or myght have in Allerwaslegh or Asheleyhay or elleswher 
winne the counte of Derby is gode lawfull and trewe. And 
that I the said Thomas Fawne never knewe that the said lyvelode 
was entayled nauther on the heires male nor generall that I might 
[not] lawfully at the said marriage of my said doght’ Johanne and 
Thomas Lowe giff it and sell it to whomsoev’ me liste, except 
men of relegion and jewes. And also I never made no taylage of 
hit nor no thereof saff only the taylage that was made be me 
the said Thomas Fawne at the mariage of my doght’ Johanne and 
Thomas Lowe.” He further proceeds to ‘‘ charge my doghters 
both Margery and Ellyn on my blessyng that they nev’ make | 
title nor clayme nor cause theire husbandes to clayme the said 
lyvelode nor any part thereof but that they kepe and p’forme the 
bargen the which I made between them and theire eldest suster 
and her husbande and that they luffe and cause theire husbandes 
to luffe and be as breder and susters.” It would seem, however, 
that the apprehensions which it is quite evident Thomas Fawne 
must have entertained were not without cause, for three years 
later Walter Wynter, of Heage, Margery his wife, and Ellen her 
the wolf forms no part. The marshalling of this coat is most remarkable. 
The dexter half of the shield is divided per pale, having on the dexter side two 
coats, that in chief—three roses—being apparently the arms attributed to the 
Rossells of Denby, and that in base—a fesse engrailed charged with three 
mullets between as many crescents—is similar to an unnamed quartering (pro- 
bably Ashborne) allowed to the Lowes of Denby by St. George at the 
Visitation of 1612; whilst on the sinister side, occupying the entire length of — 
the shield, is—a hart trippant—and over all is a label of three points ; the 
sinister half of the shield bears the arms and quarterings of Fogge—a family 
into which Anthony Lowe intermarried. A smaller shield at the end of the 
tomb exhibits three roses, with a label of three points, impaling a blank coat, 
From this (and at least one other example mentioned by Mr. Cox in the 
account which he gives of the old chapel at Alderwasley, in his “‘ Derbyshire 
Churches,” vol. ii., p. 569), it would appear as though Anthony Lowe bore 
what we may venture to conclude are the arms of Rossell, in place of his 
paternal coat. Had he been descended from the heiress of Rossell this would 
only have been another example of what, in somewhat earlier times, was a not 
uncommon practice; but, according to the accepted version of the pedigree, 
Anthony Lowe was not so descended, the heiress of Rossell being stated to 
have married his father’s brother. We have no explanation to offer, nor can 
we hazard a conjecture as to why the stag appears in this solitary instance in 
the armorial shield of the Lowes of Alderwasley. 
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