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Genealogical Motes, ete, relating to families 
of Pavker. 
Continued from Vol. iv., page 36. 
ARMS. 
aIMONGST the Standards recorded to have been borne 
by gentry in the time of Henry the 8th, in a MS. 
the College of Arms marked I. 2, compiled be- 
tween 1510 and 1525, is one of “William Parker de Norton 
Leys, Darby,” on the which is represented a crest, Ox a wreath 
or and azure, a stag’s head erased, quarterly sable and argent, 
charged with four mullets countercharged. In the margin are 
arms, Argent, a chevron gules between three mullets sable pierced ; on a 
chief azure as many stag’s heads caboshed or. Who the owner 
of this standard was does not now appear.* There was a 
William Parker, of the Norton Lees family, who was Sewer to 
Henry the 8th, and who in some of the pedigrees is described 
of Luton, in Bedfordshire. The armorial ensigns here given, 
however, were not identical with those we find to have been 
allowed at the herald’s visitations to the principal family of 
Parker of Norton, which were, Gules, a chevron between three 
leopards’ faces or,—Crest, a leopard’s head erased at the neck and 
* Amongst the “‘Captaynes and Pety Captaynes,” with the badges on 
their standards, of the army and vanguard of the king’s lieutenants entering 
into France, 16th June, 5 H. VIII. 1513, was Robert Darley of the county of 
Derby, who bore on a red ground a demi buck per pale ov and argent, with 
horns countercharged, charged on the neck with three bars wavy sad/e, issuing 
from a wreath gules and argent. His ‘‘Pety Captayne” was John Parker. 
(Cottonian MS, Cleopatra, C.V., fol. 59—64). 
