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Earl hearing of it, marched there suddenly with a large 

 force, and demolished the works which Henry (de Tracy) 

 Lad commenced, coinpelling kirn to make a retreat." 



But to return to our notice of tke Lovell family, so long 

 the distinguisked possessors of this manor and Castle. It 

 is a curious fact that the immediate desoendants of Lupus, 

 the wolf, assumed no less than five dlfferent coats of arms, 

 four grandsons wearing each a different shield. Generally 

 speaking, when a house branches off, they all keep the 

 same coat of arms in the main, making some slight Varia- 

 tion " for difference." But the noble family of which we 

 are speaking, as if their object had been to puzzle genealo- 

 gists, adopted coats perfectly different from one another. 



Thus, the original arms of Robert Perceval de Bre- 

 herval, and of the lords of Yvery, were : or, three 

 chevrons gules. 



John Perceval, Lord of Farringdon-Gournay and Harp- 

 tree, ancestor of the barons of Harptree-Gournay, assumed 

 a coat totally different from that of bis father, Robert, 

 Loi'd Yvery, viz., argent, a cross couped and flory at the 

 ends, in saltire gules. 



In the next generation, Walleran, the eklest son of 

 William Gouell de Perceval, surnamed Lupellus, took the 

 Norman estates with the arms of the Percevals of Yvery, 

 &c. Henry Lovell, the next son, Baron of Kary, took for 

 bis device, or, semee of crosses crosslet ; a Hon rampant, 

 ozure. In the collection of the late Col. Woodforde there 

 is still to be seen a pane of ancient stained glass, which 

 was taken from the parish church of Castle Cary, with the 

 coat of the ancient lords of Cary emblazoned. 



The fourth son of William Lord Lovell was the ances- 

 tor of the Lords Lovell of Titchmarsh, in Northampton- 

 shirc. They took for their coat : Larry nehulei of st'x, or 

 and gules. 



