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Arms at the top Quarterly of 18 (1) Sable a fret argent (Harington). (2), Argent three bars gules (Multon). (3), Azure semee of lis fretty or (Morvill). (4), Argent a chevron between three billets gules (Delaland). (5), Argent a bend engrailed gules (Colepeper). (6), Argent a chevron sable between nine martlets gules (Hardeshall). (7), Or a cross engrailed gules in the dexter chief a martlet vert for difference (Hawte). (8), Azure three bucks trippant or a crescent for difference (Green of Barnet, Herts). (9), Argent fretty sable and a mullet gules on a canton of the field (Iwardby). (10), Azure a saltire and a chief or (Bruse, Exton). (11), Argent an escutcheon within a double tressure flory counter flory gules (Anguish). (12), Argent a lion rampant azure a chief gules (Walthers). (13), Azure three garbs or (Chester). (14), Azure a wolfs head erased argent (Lupus). (15) Argent a cinquefoil azure. (Moton of Peckleton tinctures reversed). (16) Argent three piles meeting in point gules a canton vair (Basset). (17) Or a fess gules. (Abenhall). (18), Ermine a bend gules. (Elmsted p216). Mantling of argent and gules. An esquires helmet. Out of a tressure argent and sable a lions head erased or gorged with a belt gules buckled or.
Over his head under the arch Sable a fret (Harington). Under hers Or a pheon sable (Sydney)
Inscription Hic situs est Iacobus Harington de Exton miles et uxore Lucia Gulielmi Sidneaei militis filia ex qua liberos suscepit 18 quorum matrimonium contraxerunt tres filii, filiae octo, Maximus natu filius Iohannes miles haeredete duxit Robert Keylwey Curiae Wardorum, et liberationum ut supervisoris. Secundus henric miles uxoret duxit unam ex haeredibus Francisci Agar a consiliis Hibernicis. Tertius Iacobus armiger uxoret habuit unam ex Haeredibus Roberti Sapcotes Armigeri. Filia natu maxima Elizabetha nupsit Edovardo Montague militia. Secunda Fransisca Gulielmo Lee militi. Tertia Margareta Don Benito de Cisneros Hispano de familia ducum de fantasgo. Quarta Katharina Edovardo Dimmocke militia. Quinta Ma.ria Edovardo Wingfelde militia. Sexta Mabilia Andreae Noell militi. Sertima Sara Maritum habuit Dominum Hastings Comitis Huntingdoniae haeredem: Octava Theodosia Dominum Dudley de Castro Dudley. Ibidem Iacobus, et Lucia Quinquaginta annos in matrimonio vixerunt. Illa prior diem obiit annum agens septuagesimum secundum, Ille iam octogenarius fato functus est Anno Assertionis Humanae 1591. Reginae Elizabethae 34. Uterque filius Iacobum solum executorem constituerunt, Qui ut parentibus suis iusta perageret, pietatisque suae testimentum monium posteris reliqueret, hoc monumentum in perpetuam illorum memoriam posuit, conseccravitque
Here lie James Harington of Exton knight and his wife Lucy daughter of Sir William Sydney knight, who in eighteen years of marriage had three sons and eight daughters. The first born son Sir John married the heiress of Robert Keylway and took over his Wardor Estate; the second son, Sir Henry, took to wife one of the heiresses of Francis Agar of the Council of Ireland; the third son, James, esquire, had as wife one of the heiresses of Robert Sapcote, esquire. The First born daughter Elizabeth was married to Sir Edward Montague; the second, Frances, Sir William Lee; the third, Margaret, Don Benito de Cisneros of Spain, of the ruling family of Santiago; the fourth, Katharine, Sir Edward Dimmock; the fifth, Mary, Sir Edward Wingfield; the sixth, Mabel, Sir Andrew Noel. The seventh, Sarah, had a marriage with Lord Hastings, heir to the Earl of Huntingdon. The eighth, Theodosia, Lord Dudley of Dudley Castle. The aforesaid James and Lucy had fifty years of married life. Her day of death was first at seventy years of age. He reached eighty before fate took him in the Year of Promise of Humankind’s Salvation 1591, the 34th (Year of the reign) of Queen Elizabeth. And so their son James, who they made sole executor, who justly regrets (the loss of) his parents, with piety, leaves them a testament to posterity, this holy monument forever to their memory. (Photo Sept 2014).