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DESCENT OF MANOR OF MISERDEN. 
Sir William Kingston,* K.G.=Elizabeth (?). 
d. 1540. j d. of Richard Scrope. 
Sir George Baynham=Bridget. 
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F ancis=Sir PIexry Jerningham, 
d. 1572 (Master of the Horse to Queen Mary) 
and s. of Mary 2nd w. of Sir W. Kingston. 
Henry Jerningham=Frances, 
d. 1619 (June 15th) j d. and h. of Sir John Jerningham. 
Sir Henry Jerningham, B1:.=Eleanor Throckmorton. 
* Sir Anthony Kingston was son to Sir Wm. Kingston by the same 
Elizabeth (?). He did not marry, but had numerous descendants. 
In 1915 Captain Noel Wills, the present owner of Miserden, 
discovered masonry of Edward I. date in the mound where 
earlier stood the Castle. Among the remains occurred portions 
of a ridge-crest made of tiles which have been decorated with 
small holes intended for the wind to whistle through (faitage, 
faitiere, Norman-French), and with crockets (perforated also). 
The latter, no doubt, wore away to the weak point, that of the 
holes, and then dropped off. Along the tiles were once inserted 
and attached a set of little collared “ bears,” each animal eleven 
inches in length, the fur being represented by little stabs all 
over, and the feet being made to fit into holes by means of pegs. 
The figures were yellow-glazed and stood processionally. The 
crocketted tiles measure twenty inches in length, eleven inches 
in width, six inches in height. This mode of decoration was 
practised in mediaeval France, and it may be conjectured that 
it had something to do with the character of the building, no 
doubt a low one, perhaps a parker’s lodge. This may have 
been erected for Hugh le Dispenser the elder, or by the Earl of 
Kent, but there is nothing in the collared bears indicative (in 
the heraldic sense) of any such connection. 
Sir William Sandys, of Brimpsfield, 1 purchased Miserden 
when he was already fifty-five, and had married Margaret, 
daughter of Walter Culpepper, of Hanborough, co. Oxford. 
She was thirty-seven years of age when she came to Miserden. 
As I find their daughter “ Culpepper ” baptised at Brimpsfield 
1 The Bridges family, of Sudeley Castle, sold Brimpsfield (which Edward IV. had granted 
them) to the Sandys family. 
