298 SOTES A>~D QUERIES. 



4 a hand. - and 3 an inverted heart." ^The hand in the first quarter 

 appears open and erect, that in the fourth quarter open and 

 inverted.) 



This shield seems to belong to the last of "the Bodrugan's 



proper.'" viz: Joanna the daughter and heiress of Sir Otho. and to 

 her husband., the Judge Hill. She was the great-grandmother of 

 die leap-taker. 



The dexter coat is doubtless that of Hill, or Hulle (argent a 

 chevron between 3 water bougets sable), the impaled coat be : .::c 

 that of Bodrugan (Argent 3 bendlets gules'. 



We find diat Sir John Hill, or Hulle, of Hunston. had as on 

 and heir, Sir Robert, of Spraxton, a judge of die Common Fleas. 

 C. S. Gilbert (Vol. a, p. 149), writes of him: — 

 ■' A better man, or man more just. 

 There never -was in any trust." 



Joanna, heiress of die Bodrugans, born about 1359, took him 

 for her fourth husband. She was married to ^ i"> Sir John Trevavgon. 

 (2) Ralph Treno^-th, (3) Sir John Trevardiian. (4) Sir Robert Hill, 

 or Hulle : he died in 1424, she a few years later. 



On her becoming married die name of Bodrugan. or Bodrigan, 

 would have died out, had not her son. Odio Trenowdi, assumed die 

 name as well as the succession to estates of Bodrugan. It was his 

 grandson, Sir Richard [Trenowth] de Bodrigan, who took the 

 celebrated sea- ward leap, when pursued, after die defeat of Bosworth 

 Field. The sculptured Shield of Arms sketched by die Rev. C. R. 

 Sowell is noteworthy, because it gives, widi the arms of Judge Hill 

 and his lady, a chief not hitherto noticed. Various arms of Hill, 

 or Hull, are given in the works of C. S. Gilbert, Lysons, Burke, 

 Col. Vivian, &c, but diey do not mention die chief and its charges. 

 Pedigrees of Hill and Bodrigan appear in Vivian and Maclean (Vol. 

 1, pp. 548-553), but there are discrepancies as to the arms assigned 

 to Sir Robert Hilbs family. See C. S. Gilbert (Vol. 2, p. 149, 

 Vol. 3, Plate xv\, arms of Hill, of Carwythenack (argent a chevron 

 between 3 water bougets sable) quarterly widi Hill, of Trenediick, 

 (sable a fesse between 2 chevrons argent), and Vivian (Visitations, 

 p. 227), Sec. 



W. IAGO. 



