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a very young child when his fatlier died, or very probably he was not 

 born until after his father's death. The father, we find, died in 1350, 

 and, as Richard died in 1423, he would have been 73 years old at the 

 time he himself departed this life, which falls in with the concurrent 



glass, on which are emblazoned the arms of ^^^littington,* with those of the Linets, 

 Stauntons, and Peresfords families with whom the Whittingtons intermarried, as 

 will be seen in the pedigree, (see end of volume), while in the west window, under 

 the tower, are found the arms of Whittington, impaling Milbourne, on the right 

 hand side, and on the left those of "VThittington impaling Fitzwarren, thus clearly 

 identifying our hero, whose wife was Alice Fitzwarren, with the Pauntley family 

 beyond dispute. From the fact of the appearance of the arms of Milbourne in 

 the position in which they are found, we may, in connection with its style of 

 architecture, ti-ace the building of the tower to John Whittington, who married 

 the heiress of Milbourne, and was High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1517, and 

 it is not a little singular that there are evidences which mark the date of every 

 part of that interesting structure ; for instance, the Xorman arches point to the 

 probable foimder of the church,Walter de Pauntley, Lord of the Manor, A.D. 1148. 

 The Chantry of St. George, or side aisle, is pointed out as the place for his inter- 

 ment by Guy Whittington, ("Will proved 1440,) as the New Chapel of St. George, 

 at Pauntleij, and the position of the arms of Milbourne seems to assign the 

 building of the belfry to John "^T:ittington, about A.D. 1517, which John was 

 great great nephew of the celebrated Lord Mayor of London. 



* Arms of Whittingtonjf Gules, a Fesse compone Or and Azure. Crest, a 

 Lion's head, erased Sable, languedGulcs. Arms of Staunton, Argent, seme of Cross 

 Crosslets, fitchee, a Lion Rampant Sable. Arms of Peresford, Gules, a Fesse Or, be- 

 tween six pears, stalked of the same three and three. Arms of Fitzwarren || party per 

 pale dancettee. Azure and Ermine (or in some Azure and Argent. A blazon in the 

 Harleian MSS., Visitation of London, gives it Gules and Ermine.) Arms of 

 Milbourne, Gules, a Chevron Argent (othersErmine) between three Escalops Argent, 



t Slight differences occur in the drawing of the arms of the Whittington 

 family of Gloucestershire. Upon most buildings and monuments in which they 

 occur in the County, the Fesse is rendered with two lines only, cheeky, while on 

 other documents and pedigrees it is given with three lines, or compone. Atkyns 

 gives four. There is also a slight difference in the rotation of the checks, in 

 some the Or appears first, in others the Azure. 



II The arms of Fitzwarren are given variously in different places. The party 

 per pale with the Fesse dancettee occurs in all those shewn in connection with this 

 County, but in the an-angement of the color and their distribution there is a 

 difference. In the London Visitation, Harleian MSS., British Museum, they are 

 given first and fourth, Ermine ; second and third, Gules. On Elstrack's portrait, 



