142 Wulfhall and the Seymours. 
The Name appears to have been anciently spelled St. Maur. They 
had, among other residences, a Castle called by their name, near 
Penhow, in the county Monmouth; and also Hatch Beauchamp, in 
the vounty of Somerset.!. There being no occasion to go into all 
their early history, I begin with them when they came into the 
county of Wilts. This was in the reign of Henry V. (A.D. 1413), 
when'a Roger St. Maur of Hatch Beauchamp, by marrying the 
daughter and heiress of the old Wiltshire family of Esturmy, became 
owner of Wulfhall. 
In order to know exactly where Wulfhall is, you are to suppose 
yourselves on the railway going from Devizes towards London. 
Stop at Savernake Station, get out and walk along the towing path 
of the canal by the side of the railway for about a mile beyond the 
station, take the first turn to the right, and you are at Wulfhall. 
All that is left of the old mansion is a picturesque little red-brick 
house with tall chimneys, called the Laundry. It stands at the foot 
of a rising ground, on the top of which, about 250 yards off, is the 
old farm house and large barton of Wulfhall. 
As to the meaning of the name, I would merely say that it has 

1Mr. J. R. Planché (Brit. Archeol. Journ., 1856, p. 325) says: ‘‘ There are 
two families of St. Maur. The St. Maurs or Seymours of Kingston Seymour, 
in Somersetshire, who trace their pedigree to Milo de Sancto Mauro, who, with 
his wife Agnes, is named in a fine roll of King John; and the St. Maurs or 
Seymours of Penhow, Monmouthshire, from which the present ducal house of 
Somerset descends. All our genealogists, from Dugdale downwards, are 
scrupulous in observing that there is no connexion whatever between the two 
families, who bore different arms and settled in different counties, and I freely 
admit there is no connection to be traced between them from the earliest date to 
which they have proved their pedigree ; but that tact by no means satisfies me 
that they did not branch from the same Norman stock. We have no proof that 
there were two St. Maurs who came over with the Conqueror (probably from St. 
Maure sur Loire in la Haute Touraine), nor can we assert thatif there were two 
or more, they were not, as in many similar instances, near kinsmen, . . « » 
That their arms should be different is no proof at all, for although a similarity 
in their bearings would be strong evidence in favour of some connection, it is 
one of the most common things in the world to find, in those early days of 
heraldry, the son bearing a coat quite distinct from that of his father, as he did 
frequently a perfectly different name.” The St. Maursof Kingston bore Argent, - 
two chevrons gules, a label of five points. The St. Maurs of Penhow, Gules, a 
pair of wings conjoined in lure or. 
