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South Side — Two Shields. One bearing a Coat of Arms ; the other 

 charged with :^ — A Spear, and Staff tipped with a Sponge in saltire, between 

 on the dexter side, a Hammer, and on the sinister, a Pair of Pincera. 



The Emblems of the Passion thus dejjicted, though uncommon in this 

 country, are frequently met with in partihv^ transma/rinis. As to the 

 two incised shields with armorial bearings, which Garter affirmed were 

 obliterated, it is plain they consist respectively of a Coat of Arms, and 

 the same coat and another empaled. It will be remembered that the first 

 Lords of the Manor were the Actons, and at the decease of Sir Johnde Acton 

 17 Edw. III. (A.D. 1344), the line of the Actons became extinct. This 

 date would not only be too early for the Cross, but there is no marriage 

 in the Acton family to answer for the empaled coat. 



The following manorial Pedigree of the Actons, extracted fi"om the 

 Register of the College of Arms, will elucidate this more clearly. 



William de Acton = 

 temp. Hen. II. I 



John de Acton 

 of Iron Acton, Co. Glou. 

 7 John 



John de Acton 

 of Iron Acton 



Margaret dau. and co-heiress 

 of John Auver, als Alve 



Helen = Sir John de Acton 

 of Iron Acton, 

 died, without issue, 

 6(17?) Ed. III. 



= Sibil, reUct of Walter Baskerrille 



John Acton Sir Nicholas Poyntz 

 of Iron Acton died 5 Ed. III. 

 died S.P. 



Elizabeth r= 



dau. of 

 Sir Philip 

 Clanvowe. 



I 

 Sir John Poyntz 



of Iron Acton 



died 50 Ed. III. 



Anne == Robert Poyntz 

 first wife. died 15 June, 

 17 Henry VI. 



: Maud, heiress Joan, 



died 35 Ed. III. married Randolph 



= Margery, second Wife 



Catharine, dau. and co-heiress 

 of Sir Thomas Fitz-Nichol 



