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The fifth son, Sir Richard de Perceval, of Stawell and 

 Batcombe, retained the name of Perceval, but took for 

 arms a coat wholly difFerent from the house of Yvery, 

 represented by his brother Walleran, viz. : argent, on a 

 chief indented gules ; three crosses pattee of the field. 



This nobleman • was ancestor of the present Earl of 

 Egmont, who is Lord Lovel and Holland in England, 

 as well as Earl of Egmont in Ireland, and bears for his 

 arms the coat of his ancestor, Eichard Perceval, quarterly 

 with that of the Lords Lovel of Titchmarsh. 



Among the descendants of this noble family Richard 

 Lovel, Lord of Kari, founded the priory of Stavordale, in 

 the 47 th Henry III, 1263, and obtained free warren for 

 all his lands. Another Richard, (born 1550) descendant 

 of the fifth son of William, Lord Lovel, of Gary, which 

 house retained the name of Perceval, is well known for 

 having performed a task of great Service to his country. 

 Having incurred the displeasure of his father, George 

 Perceval, Lord of Tykenham, by his marriage with a 

 younger daughter of the Youngs of Buckhorn-weston, he 

 quitted England, and resided four years in Spain. In the 

 year 1586, after his return to his native country, an 

 English ship took from a Spanish vessel, certain letters 

 which no one could decypher, but which were supposed to 

 contain the secret of the Armada. Lord Burleigh, havino- 

 had some introduction to Richard Perceval, and being 

 well aware of his acquaintance with Spain and Spanish 

 affairs, laid these letters before him. Perceval had the 

 good fortune to decypher them, (see Barlow, p. 399) and 

 thus made known to his country the designs of their 

 enemies, and enabled them to make timely preparations 

 against that formidable armament. 



But some of the most remarkable individuals of this 

 family were of the house of William, Lord Lovell, of Titch- 



