A476 . Armorial Bearing of \ 
Wixi1AM de GrREstrey, of- DRAKELOW, 
brother of the second Robert, had issue Sir 
Geoffrey de Gresley, ancestor of the line of 
Baronets now living there. 
Mr. Blore, in contradiction to this account, 
in his History of the County of Rutland, has 
expressed an opinion that the Lords of Man- 
chester may be a branch of the ancient house 
of Grulli, in the south of France, on the 
borders of the Lake of Geneva, of which 
was Sir John de Greilly, Knight, on whom 
‘Prince Edward, eldest son of King Henry 
III. in the forty fourth year of his father’s 
reign, conferred considerable possessions. in 
Provence, and whose descendant, Sir John 
-de Grailly, Captain de Buch, was one of the 
most eminent. warriors who served. under 
Edward IIL. in his wars with France, and 
one of the first Knights of the Garter. 
On Jooking to Ashmole, however, I find 
the arms of this Sir John de Grailly to be 
Or, ona Cross Sable, tive Escallops Argent. 
If there be any probability in this idea, 
-which to.me seems totally inadmissible, the 
connection must be at least as remote as the 
‘Conquest, and will offer no reasonable ground 
of objection against what I have to say 6n 
the subject. 
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