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There are two other coats of arms, one (fig. A) representing 

 the arms of Savage, with a martlet for difference and surrounded 

 with a profuse mantle, gules lined argent ; and another (fig. B) 

 the same coat impaling Bower. This latter marshalling is incon- 

 sistent with what has gone before. The coat can only mean that 

 of Sir George Savage; but here he treats his wife as though- not an 

 heiress, whereas in Armorials, figs. 3 and 4, both husband and son 

 treat her as an heiress. 



Such are the Armorials of the Savage family in Bloxwoith 

 Church. They appear to me to have been executed at one time, 

 the date of the latest coat in the series. I think they are the 

 result of one inspiration, and I have no doubt they were executed 

 under the direction of Sir George Savage or his son William, or 

 both, and about the year 1670, a little earlier, or a little later. 



In conclusion I would remark that Richard Savage, who heads the 

 accompanying pedigree, appears to have been of Piddle Hinton 

 before he was of Bloxworth, and he probably acquired property at 

 the former by his marriage with Agnes Willis, of that place. He 

 was doubtless of gentle birth, and was the representative in his 

 person of many good alliances in the county of Dorset. But he 

 was certainly not the sixth son of Sir John Savage, of Rock- 

 Savage, who must have been some 60 years of age at the time of 

 the birth of him of Dorset. The record, however, of the Armorials 

 of the Bloxworth family of Savage, as believed by them in later 

 generations, and as setting out their marriages from the time of 

 Henry VIII. to the Restoration, is worth preserving, and will save 

 from destruction part of the history of an old Dorset family. 



