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Godalming, and was granted by Henry IT. to Ralph de Broc, whose
family bore fleurs de lis, and were connected with the Ellises.
Elias de Shilling-held held half a knight's fee in Kent, 1166:
it is highly probable that Chippingdale is a corruption of this
word ; this family bore for their arms, semee of fleurs de lis and
two lions' paws, their crest being a lion's paw holding a fleur de
lis. 1 Again, the family of Austin of Kent, bore a chevron
between three lions' gambs : in a Subsidy Roll for Kent, temp.
Edward III., occurs Elias Austyn of Dartford. It is difficult,
from analogous cases, not to believe in a close connection between
these arms and families. And a combination of the lion's paw
and fleur de lis is met with in the crest of Thomas lies, interred
in St. Faith's Church, London, whose arms and crest are de-
picted on his monument, viz., Argent, a fess engrailed, and
in chief three fleurs de lis sable, 2 the crest being a lion's
gamb fessways argent, holding a fleur de lis sable. 3 It is not
improbable that the family of this Thomas lies was early settled
in Kent, as the same arms are borne by Eyles, which family, in
one of its branches, bore a chevron engrailed instead of a fess.
Similar arms, viz., Gules a chevron engrailed ermine, on a chief
argent three fleurs de lis sable, quartered with azure, three snakes
or fishes wavy fessways in pale argent, are the arms of Keyser
of Hollingbourne in Kent, and are quartered by Challenor of
Sussex. 4 And they were formerly on a brass monument in that
church. (Hasted's Kent, 8vo. ed. v. 475.) Eales, or Ellis, of
Wilts, 5 bear three eels or snakes. Richard Duket held, temp.
Henry III., a knight's fee at Eltham, of the honour of Glou-
cester. 6 This family (whose name is a corruption of De Haket)
bore eels or snakes, and also fleurs de lis, for their arms. The
manor of Bradsole, in Polton, co. Kent, Avas owned by Walter
Haket, temp. Richard I. (Hasted's Kent, ix. 447) ; and Kirkby
Court, in Horton- Kirkby, was sold by Sir Cuthbert Hacket,
Lord Mayor of London, 1626, who bore three fleurs de lis be-
tween two bendlets, and was grandson of Thomas Hacket, of
Dartford. {Ibid. ii. 499.) The arms of Keyser were probably
those of Duket, or Haket, and acquired with property by Keyser ;
and if the Hakets were not a braneh of the Alises, they were
1 Pedigree in Nichols' Leicestershire, iii. p. 278.
3 The family of See, or Att-Sea, of Heme, in Kent, bore these arms,
with the same colours.
3 Had. MSS. 1597, p. 9.
4 Berry's Sussex Genealogies, p. 73.
5 Sir John Eyles, Lord Mayor of London, of an ancient Wiltshire family,
was knighted by King James II. ; his brother, Francis, was created a
baronet. Their arms were, Argent, a fess engrailed sable, in chief three
jieurs de lis of the last. — Burke's Extinct Baronetage.
6 Testa de Nevill, p. 206.