77S HERA 
bearing arms; that they are the moil certain proofs and 
evidences erf nobility and gentry. And again, A Wiles 
font, qui anna gentilitia anleceforum proferre’pojuvt. Every 
gentleman, therefore, rri'uft be diftinguiftied by his pro¬ 
per arms, as without arms he cannot be a gentleman ; 
neverthelefs it is but too common to apocryphate.'gen¬ 
tlemen with falfe or fictitious arms ; which, however, 
is not to be wondered at, when we daily obfervc.our 
bed laws evaded. Eyery perfon who thus ufurps arms 
invades the prerogative, and very frequently the pro¬ 
perty, of another ; it is not only difhonourable, but dif- 
Koneft, and an indelible mark of a bafe mind as well as_ 
of a mean extraftion; at the fame time, by this inftancp 
of low pride, he. publiflie,s his own difhonour and injures 
his poderity, making them thereby, at lead one dep 
lower in rank as gentlemen. But the.usurpation of arms 
is dill worfe by perfo'ns in high dations: to Tee men .of 
the fird rank in all profedions tiling falfe or Additions 
arms; to fee even thole that ought to enforce the laws 
of their country adding contrary to the laws of arms, 
(which are the lawsof the land as much as the common 
law;) to fee churches, colleges, halls, the court, the 
city, and the camp, difplaying falfe arms, is an oftence 
to the public, and a dilhonour to the nation. There is 
nothing more univerfally acknowledged than the ufe of 
arms ; they are the property of gentlemen, which ought 
to be preferved to them inviolable: even thofe who 
ufurp thefe enfigns of honour, as gentlemen mud defire, 
in that refpeft, to be what they feem ; therefore arms' 
, being duly regulated, and with the pedigrees and dc- 
feents of the bearers recorded in the Heralds’ Office, 
mud be delired by every gentleman; it would add a 
kidre even to nobility, preferve inheritances, be an ho¬ 
nour to the kingdom, and a lading benefit to poderity.” 
For the p'urpofe of elucidating dill further the rules 
of Heraldry, by applying to practice many of the charges 
and devices delineated in our elementary Engravings,' 
we dial] now proceed to deferibe the.blazon of the Ar¬ 
morial Bearings of a confiderable number of our Sub- 
- 1'cribers of the rank of Efquires and Gentlemen ;—from 
vvhofe liberal encouragement, added to that of great 
numbers of high and illudrious families among the No¬ 
bility, Baronets, and Knights, whofe coats of arms pre¬ 
cede,—the humble compiler of this great and arduous 
undertaking has, amidd numerous obdacles, been ena¬ 
bled thus far to advance his Work towards a date of 
maturity; and for the entire completion of which, no 
exertions of mental or bodily labour diall be withheld 
from it, in grateful return for the generous and un¬ 
bounded patronage he has the honour and happinefs 
dill daily to receive. And in order that new as well as 
former Subfcribers may have their family arms thus re¬ 
corded and engraved, we dial], at the end of this Trea- 
tife, allow room for feveral pages to be from time to 
time added, as fucli Armorial Bearings and Pedigrees 
may reach our hands. 
ARMS of ESQUIRES and GENTLEMEN, 
Patrons of the Work, as tranfmitted by themfelves. 
Thom as King ton, of Charlton Houfe, in the coun¬ 
ty of Somerfet, Efquire.—Arms : Argent, gutte de fang; 
: on a chief wavy, per pale gules and vert, three ducal 
coronets or.—Cred: on acrefcent azure, five guttes d’or, 
between two fprigs.of myrtle proper.—This family have 
it in tradition, that the fird of the name in England, 
which was originally pronounced Kyneton , came over 
with William the Conqueror, and held a commiffion in 
his army. For many centuries the family podefled con¬ 
fiderable landed property in the county of Wilts. Tag- 
gards, Notton, Showells, Pont-clofe, and other eftates 
near Corfham, were, in the fixteenth century,-amply 
enjoyed to the end of a long life by Richard Kington, 
elq. from whom the prefent reprefentative of the family, 
Thomas Kington, ei'q. is lineally delcended. 
LDR Y. 
Robert I'arquhar, Efquire, of Gillmyrs ■ 
and Berners-dreet, London.—Anns: Argent, a lion 
rampant fable, armed and langued or, between three 
finider hands, two and one, eeuped paleways, gules.— 
Cred : a dexter hand gules, couped as in the Arms.— 
Motto, Sto cado fidei et armis. 
Edward Chinn, of Hampton Park, in the county of 
Glo-ucefter, Efquire ; and formerly of the Moat, in the 
fame county. 
Arms: Quarterly, id, Barry of fix vair and gules,- 
for Chinn. 2d, Azure, a pale between two eagles 
difplayed argent, for Woodward. 3d, Argent, on a- 
bend azure, cottifed gules, three bucks heads ca- 
bofiied or, for Stanley. 4th, Argent, two bars between 
three,ogrefles within a border engrailed fable, for Ayi. 
berton. Impaling Jones and Harford quarterly; fee 
p. 766.—Cred: on a ducal coronet or, a greyhound 
fejant argent. — Motto, Aquila non captat mufeas , An 
eagle does not catch flies. 
Edward Chinn, of Hampton Park, in the county of 
Glouceder, Efquire, born in the parifh of Newen.t, in 
the county of Glouceder, in Dec. 1758, married, Feb. 
16, 1784, at Kington, in the county of Hereford., Mary, 
daughter of Harford Jones, of the Whittern, in the coun¬ 
ty of Hereford, efquire, fiber of the late Harford Jones, - 
of Predeign, efquire, and aunt of the prefent fir Harford 
Jones, of Boultibrooke, in the county of-Radnor, baro-- 
net ; by whom lie has ilfde Lucy-Broughton Chinn, bap¬ 
tized at Newent-, in the county of Glouceder. 
The family of Chinn appears to have been continual 
landholders and refidents of t’he Fored of Dean fide of 
the county ofGlouceder, for upwards of four centuries.- 
Sir John Cheyne-held the manors of Newent, Beckford, 
Sec. leaving, by Margaret., Anne, foie daughter and heir. 
-Cheyne, a younger branch of the fame family, who 
was living in 1480, had ifliie, 
William Cheyii, of Newnham, in the county of Glou-- 
celier, buried there Oft. 22, 1562, ait. circa 62 ; who, by' 
Joanna, buried there in 1558, had ilftie, 
Richard Chyn, of Newnham, buried there July 29, 
1593, aet. circa 68; who, by Margaret, buried there 
Nov. 10, 1561, had ilfue, 
Richard Chyn, of Newnham, buried there Jan. 2, 
1597, aet. circa 47; who, by Elizabeth, buried there 
Feb. S, 1587, had ilfue, 
jofeph Chynn, of Newmham, baptized there May 2, 
1572, living 1717 ; who, by Anne, buried there Oft. 25, 
1614, had ilfue, 
Francis Chinn, of Newnham, gentleman, baptized 
May. 10, 1S02, died April 23, 166S, and buried there; 
who, by Sarah, who diedQft. 20, 1663, and was buried 
there, had ilfue, 
Thomas Chinn, of Newnham, gentleman, only furviv- 
ing fon, baptized Nov. 22, 1634, died Aug. 26, 1700, 
and buried there, who married, fird, Jane, daughter of 
fir William Catchmay, of Hewelofield, in the county of 
Glouceder, by whom he had a fon, Benoni, who died 
without male ifTue; and fecondly, on the 12th Decem¬ 
ber, 1662, at the College, Glouceder, Hannah, daughter 
of-Smith, of Newnham, gentleman; by whom, who 
died March 5, 1704, xt. 60, and was buried at Newn¬ 
ham, he had ilfue, 
Richard, baptised at Newnham, June 8, 1674; Sarah, 
who married Miles Beale, of the Court Houfe, in New¬ 
ent, in the county of Glouceder, efquire; and Mary, 
who married John Trigg) of Newnham, efquire, grand-' 
father of the prefent fir Thomas Tri'gge, K. B. and 
admiral John Trigge. 
Richard Chinn, of Newnham, efquire, who died Nov. 
4, 1734, aet. 60, and was buried there ; married, April 
17, 1698, at St. Stephen’s, Bridol, Anne, daughter of 
Captain William Scott, of Stapleton, near Bridol, an 
officer in the navy, who was cad away on the Goodwin 
Sands; and by her, who died in Oftober 1717, aet. 40, 
and was buried at Newnham, he had idue Edward, bap- 
1 tized 
