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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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Replies, 
DE STRODE. 
(1 S. xii. 508.) 
Tn Burke’s Landed Gentry, vol. ii. p. 117., Mr. 
Hacxwoop will find a full account of the family, 
drawn, I know, from authentic sources. 
Availing myself of his kind offer to supply 
further particulars about any of the ladies he bas 
enumerated, I would request to know what he 
can communicate about Beatrix de Bitton? From 
hér descended the longest, and in a direct line, of 
that ancient family, ending in Col. J. Strode, who 
died at his seat, Southill, Somerset, 1805, s. p. 
Of her family, in the reign of the. early Edwards, 
there were three bishops, and all of them from the 
family who resided at a Manor Place, now called 
Barres Court, Gloucestershire, then known by the 
name of Hannam, whither the family had mi- 
grated from the land of their father, D’Ameneville, 
and thence took the name. 
On the death of Lady Barre, 1485, s. p., her 
large possessions were divided between Strode- 
Bassett, and Hamptons, then represented by Cra- 
doch Newtons. H. T. Exracomsasg. 
Clyst St. George. 
The most direct descendant of this ancient 
family I presume to be Sir Menry Oelander, 
Bart., who now possesses and inhabits their fine 
old mansion of Parnham, near Bedminster, in the 
county of Dorset, and whose ancestor, Sir Wil- 
liam Oglander, married Elizabeth, daughter and 
sole heir of Sir John Strode, Knt. 
Your correspondent Mr. Hacxwoop will find 
a pedigree of “this ancient and knightly family, 
drawn and collated by Sir Jokn Strode from an- 
cient pedigrees, evidences, and records in his pos- 
session, 1636, et. 75, and continued by his suc- 
cessors,” in Hutchins’s Hist. of Dorset (edit. 
1774), vol. i. p. 270. 
From the list of names which Mr. Hackwoop 
has given, his pedigree would appear to be more 
full, if not more complete, than this; and it would 
be desirable that they should be closely compared. 
An old connexion led to the introduction of the 
arms of Strode into one of the oriel windows of 
my brother’s house at Bingham’s Melcombe; and 
I subjoin Hutchins’s description of them, as they 
‘are there figured. 
As Mr. Hackwoop professes himself to be “no 
scollard ” at heraldry, it is possible that his sketch 
may be incomplete; and it is quite possible that 
there should be errors in our glass in this as in 
other cases : 
“1, (Erm. on a quarter sa., a crescent surmounted with 
a mullet, A.) Strode. 2. Quarterly; 1. &4. erm. on a fess 
sa., three amulets conjoined A., Bitton. 2. & 3. G. a bend 
between six crossletts, Furneaux. 3. G, a lion rampant 
~ 
Or, over (all) a bend erm., Fitchet. 4. A chevron G. be- 
tween three ermines sable, Gerard. 5. G. a wivern, his 
wings elevated, and tail rowed A., Drake. 6. A. on a 
chevron sa., between three ermine spots, as many cinque- 
foils of the first. 7. Quarterly; 1. & 4. A., a fess party 
indented vert, and sa., between two cotizes countercharged, 
Hody. 2. & 3. A. a bull passant sa. within a bordure be- 
zantee, Cole, 8. Strode.” 
The arms of Bitton, as given by Coker, are 
“Erm. a fess G.,” precisely coinciding with the 
MS. pedigree in quartering 2. 1. & 4. 
Quartering 5. I take to be the arms of Brent, 
and not of Drake, to which family Hutchins at- 
tributes them. t 
Quartering 6. is correctly blazoned by Hutchins 
as it stands on our window. But to whom does 
it belong ? 
Quartering 7, 3. is wanting on our window, but 
seems to me to be probably the arms of Jew, of 
Whitfield, Devon, viz. “ Ar. a chevron between 
three Jews’ heads couped, sa.;"’ whose coheiress 
married Lord Chief Justice Hody, temp. Hen. VI. 
These Jews’ heads might be easily mistaken for 
‘three mens’ heads helmeted.” Kidd 
Any illustration of these coats would be inte- 
resting to Dorsetshire antiquaries. 
C, W. Bryenam. 
A copy of the pedigree Mr. Hackwoop men- 
tions is in my possession. In the coat of arms at 
the seventh division, the emblem is a “bull” 
statant sable. In answer to his question, ‘‘ Who 
are the most direct descendants of the Strodes ?” 
I beg to inform him that the direct male line is 
extinct. The present Sir H. Oglander, of Run- 
vele, in the Isle of Wight, is the representative of 
the elder branch of the Strodes, and in right of 
his ancestor, Sir W. Oglander, who married Eliza- 
beth, sole heiress of Sir John Strode, circa 1696, 
holds Parnham iit Dorsetshire. This John Strode, 
Knt., was styled “ of Chantmale,” and was the last 
male of the elder branch of the Strodes. John 
de Strode, founder of the Strodes of Shepton 
Mallet, was the head of the junior branch ; and a 
granddaughter of Edward Strode, last male re- 
presentative of the elder line of this branch, mar- 
ried into the Bayley family; and the late Col. 
Zachary Bailey, R.R.A., recently deceased, held 
the Strode estates at Downside, &c, and had the 
control of the valuable Strode charities founded 
at Shepton Mallet by one Edward Strode. I be- 
lieve Col. Bailey has left a son. The present Sir 
Henry Bailey is his surviving brother. From the 
before-mentioned John de Strode was descended 
Col. John Strode, of Sonth Hill, in the parish of 
West Cranmore, near Shepton Mallet ; although 
married, he died sine prole, and was the last of the 
name, holding, by right of descent, any portion of 
the vast estates once in possession of the de- 
scendants of Warinus de la Strode. On the de- 
