60 NOTES, ETC., RELATING TO FAMILIES OF PARKER. 
unto the Right Honorable Richard Earl of Scarbrough deputy 
with the royal approbation to the Most Noble Edward Duke of 
Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, that 
his family have borne for armorial ensigns, Argent, a cheveron 
gules between three mullets, on a chief azure three buck’s heads* 
caboshed, and for crest a talbot’s head collared ; but not finding 
them duly recorded in the Herald’s Office, he requested the favor 
of his lordship’s warrant for our granting and confirming the said 
arms, with such variations as may be necessary, to be borne by 
him and his descendants according to the laws of arms, and that 
the same, with his family pedigree, may be registered in the College 
of Arms. AND FORASMUCH as his Lordship did by warrant under 
his hand and seal bearing date the second day of November instant 
authorize and direct us to grant and confirm to the said John 
Parker such arms and crest accordingly. KNOw YE THEREFORE 
that we the said Garter and Norroy, in pursuance of the consent 
of the said Earl of Scarbrough, and by virtue of the letters patent 
of our several offices to each of us respectively granted under the 
great seal of Great Britain, do by these presents grant and confirm 
to the said John Parker the Arms following, that is to say, Argent, 
a cheveron pean between three mullets sable, on a chief azure as 
many buck’s heads caboshed or: And for the Crest, on a wreath 
of the colours, a talbot’s head couped argent, eared gules, collared 
pean, as the same are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted ; 
* « Families using this name of office as their surname are found in every 
part of the kingdom ; indeed wherever there was a fark there might bea 
parker; and the person holding that office would be likely to transmit the word 
to his posterity as their surname, when the convenience of such an invariable 
adjunct to the name began to be felt.” (Hunter.) In the hundred of Becking- 
tree, Essex, John le Parker held half a hide of land by the serjeanty of keeping 
the park of the king and the Outwood, worth yearly halfa mark. Richard the 
3rd granted to Thomas Savile the office of parkex of Belgrave, within the Isle 
of Axholme, and fadicer of the same. 
‘© What shall he have that kill’d the deer ? 
His leather skin and horns to wear. 
Take thou no scorn to wear the horn ; 
It was a crest ’ere thou wast born. 
Thy father’s father wore it ; 
And thy father bore it ; 
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn 
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.” 
As You Like It. Act iv. 
