the Founder of Huln Abbey, ec. 53 
the most probable: namely, that it is the arms of 
Tyson, proprietor of Alnwick castle in the Saxon. 
times.* For a shield charged with a bend is placed, 
first, among the armorial bearings sculptured on the 
towers of Alnwick; and, immediately after, is placed 
the shield of Vescy. 
That the original arms of the Vescy family were 
quarterly, or and gules, admits not of a doubt; for, 
in Pine’s plate of King John’s Great Charter, are 
the arms of the twenty-five barons (who were to de- 
cide any dispute between the king and his subjects), 
as preserved in Coll. Armor. and among them, 
quarterly, or and gules, Eustace de Vescy. But 
these arms were changed by William, son of Eustace, 
into gules, a cross argent, as Camden hath observed. 
—Evstachit ex Beatrice filius Gulielmus, e materno 
utero caesus, Vescy nomen sibi assumpsit, et insignia, 
videlicet crucem argenteam in rubeo scuto.+ And 
the William de Vescy, who was famous for his ex- 
ploits in Ireland, again changed the arms of the fa- 
mily, in auream parmam, cum nigra cruce.t 
II. With respect to another device upon the 
monument, something like a catharine wheel, Dr. 
Ferriar supposes it may allude to Vescy’s travels; 
and quotes Gerard Leigh to shew that the wheel 
* Antiq. vol. 113. 
+ Britannia, p. 588. edit, 1607. 
t Britannia, doc, cit, 
