Sheldon Pedigree. 1808. Roll, section 1

Description:Sheldon Pedigree 1464 to 1807.


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Transcription of dedicatory description:

I do hereby Certify the above Pedigree to be compiled from the Records of the College of Arms London, Abstracts from Wills,... Extracts from Parish Registers, Monumental Inscriptions and other authorities examined this eigth day of July 1808 by me. signed Ralph Bigland, Norroy King of Arms.

Coat of Arms. underneath. To the memory of Ralph Sheldon of Beoley in the County of Worcester Esquire a great benefactor to this office.

Who died at his Manor House of Weston in the parish of Long Compton in the County of Warwick on Midsummer day 1684. Aged 61 years wanting 6 weeks; the day afterwards his Heart and Bowels were buried in Long Compton Chancel in a vault by those of his Father, Mother, Grandfather tc, and on the 10th of July following his Body in a vault by his ancestors under Our Lady's Chapel joining on the Northside to Saint Leonard's Church of Beoley: He married Henrietta-Maria Daughter of Thomas Savage Vicount of Rock - Savage by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas Lord Darcy of Chich in Essex, Vicount Colchester and Earl Rivers but by her had no issue.

The above Inscription and Armorial Ensigns are on a Tablet placed in the Library of the College of Arms by the late Ralph Bigland Esquire... Somerset Herald afterwards Garter Principle King of Arms.