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poleaxe argent,’”’ is upon a shield in stone over Hall’s almhouse 
in the town of Bradford). 
2. Arrorp. Three cylindrical open-barred spindles or reels, apparently for 
winding yarn. (Or are they eel-traps, called in heraldry, weels ?) 
The device is very rare and uncertain: but it is evidently some 
kind of mill apparatus. -dt-ford was the name of an heiress who 
married one of the early Halls of Bradford: and in an old Herald’s 
note book in the Harleian collection of MSS. (4199. p. 91.) the 
word Atford is, just perceptibly, written against this quartering in 
a rough sketch of the arms of Gore of Alderton. 
Giles Gore, Esq., of that place (the purchaser, from the Crown, of 
the Glastonbury Abbey estate at Grittleton in 1561) married Edith, 
daughter and heiress of a Julian Hall of Bradford (a younger branch 
of this family). Edith was buried in Alderton church, where a 
gravestone, in the south aisle, still preserves her initials ‘‘E. G. 
1560” without further inscription. Thomas Gore, the writer on 
heraldry, used the quarterings 1 and 2 (Hall and Atford) in his 
book-plates: and the same arms were also to be seen in Aubrey’s 
time on stained glass in the windows of old Alderton house now 
destroyed. 
3.———? A bend between 3 leopards or lions heads erased. [The Wilts 
Visitation of 1565, gives in the drawing of Hall’s coat, 3 etoiles on 
the bend]. 
4,.—_——?_ Aneagle sable, preying on a fish azure. [This was also found on 
a seal attached to one of the old deeds lately discovered in Kingston 
House]. 
5. Berstrz. Argent, 3 torteauxes, two and one. 
G. "THAT, As No. 1, 
As this shield contains none of the later quarterings of Hall, it 
is not unlikely that it may have come from the older house formerly 
upon this site. 
Over the mantelpiece of the entrance hall (the second of the 
plates alluded to above) was a painted coat of arms, of sixteen quar- 
terings, upon a stone shield sunk within a carved oval frame, that 
again being contained withina carved square frame. Mr.Richardson’s 
