ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 227 



On dexter shield, Tregonwell, impaling quarterly : 



(1) Kelway, Kelwaye, ah. Kellaway : Argent ^ glazier' s 



snippers saltirewise sable, between 4 pears pendant 

 or, 1 within a bordure engrailed of the second? 



(2) Biset, ah. Byset : Azure, ten bezants 4, 3, 2, and i. 3 



(3) Bingham, 4 of Sutton : Ermine, on a chief sable, three 



lions rampant. 



(4) Rumsey, ah. Ramsey : Argent afess gules, in chief a 



label of five points azure. 



On sinister shield appears: Tregonwell, impaling, /*r saltire. 

 gules and or 4 chaplets count erchanged. New, 5 of Newbarnes, 

 Herts. Hutchins, in error, states that Sir John married 

 Elizabeth Bruce as his second wife. 



The brass generally is in very good condition, and shows 

 more than a trace of both wax and colouring, some of the 

 letters being still nearly full : 



44 ffoere l^etb buriefc Spr 3obn ZTresonwell Fm$obt 

 fcoctor of tbe Cpvill SLawes, anfc one of tbe /IDaisters 

 of tbe Gbauncer^e wbo H^efc tbe jttitb &a of 

 January in tbe $ere of our Xorfce, 1565* <w wbose 

 Soule <$ofc bav>e 



1 Kelway pears " in the garden of Ed ward I. at Westminster were " cailleway 

 pears ; " they were so called from the French caillou. Rogers' Memorials of the 

 West, p. 158. 



2 Visitation of Devon, 1620, and Cornwall, 1620, and G.M.S. 



3 Sir John Bingham is stated to have held the manor of Sutton temp. Henry I., 

 and it is further stated in Vist. Dorset, 1623, that he resided there temp. Henry 

 I., bringing us back near Domesday Book, when Sutone was held of Roger 

 Arundel by Roger Buissell als. Busli, who also owned the manor of Bingham, co. 

 Notts. Bisset, Azure ten bezants 3, 3, 3 and \.-Axmouth Church p. 108, 

 "Carew Scroll of Arms." 



4 1352, 26 Edw. III., William de Bingham, "Dominus de Sutton Bingham," 

 grants certain lands in Yevele (Yeovilj to William de Welde. Seal circular : 

 Arms : Ermine, in chief three lions rampant ; Legend : Sigillu " Willelmi " de 

 Bingham. 



5 Newce als. Newes, co. Oxford, easily mistaken for Bruce, per saltire, or and 

 gules, 4 chaplets counter changed, G.M.S. Papworth p. 1125. New, News, co. 

 Oxford, 



