Notices of the Ellises of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the conquest to the present time

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origin, at least as borne by Elmes and Tanfield it is clearly de-
rived from Mordaunt, as is probably that of Dudley. But the
Maiden's head as variously borne by Darcy, Billingham, Rys-
ceby, Estfield, Wytham and Hedworth has been shown with
little less than certainty, to have had a common source : whilst
as borne by Griffith, Ellis of Overleigh, and ap Thomas, it has
obviously not only a common origin, but is connected with the
arms of Elys. This success in grouping so many instances
justifies the expectation that all might after sufficient research
be deduced from the crest of Elys of Kiddall, or from the mer-
maid as borne by different families. For observation shows
that Crests as well as arms were not arbitrarily chosen but fol-
lowed the same rules of formation. A remarkable case that
confirms this generalization is afforded in the crests and arms
of the families of Gurney and Shirley. Rob. de Gourney who
died 1270, sealed with paly of 6 and a label. His descendant
Sir Mathew de G. 18 Ric. II. sealed with these arms and the
crest of A man's head sideface crowned. (Gurney' s Records of
Gournay.) James fil. Sewall. de Shirley temp. Hen. III. sealed
lines, as Sir Win. Dugdale does in his pedigrees in his Hist, of Warwickshire,
when the descent is doubtful, and as modern compilers do, we should be able to
distinguish proved from conjectural descents.
We shall now state the facts as gleaned from those unerring records Final Con-
cords, first observing that Tho. de Buketon, who was born 1292, was M.P.
17 Edw. II. and Sheriff for North. 4 and 17 Edw. III., and that all his posses-
sions were afterwards held by Sir Henry Greene. By Fine of 14 Edw. III. Tho.
de Buketon, 'Chevalier, and Johanna his wife (the names of his alleged wives were
Lucy and Christiana) conveyed to Henry le Green of Isham [co. North.] junior,
the manors of Brampton and Boketon. In another Fine of the same year Thomas
de Grene of Isham occurs. We here learn that at this period a family of Green
lived at Isham ; and Henry Green jun. was evidently the nephew and heir of Sir
Tho. de Buketon, on whom he had settled part of his inheritance. Henry de Grene
jun. occurs as such four times afterwards viz. 14, 17 and 18 Edw. III. in one case
with Amabilia his wife (who was evidently his first wife, as he mar. Catharine
Drayton a heiress whose inheritance went to his second son Sir Henry). 25
Edw. III. he occurs without the affix "junior," so his father or uncle of the same
name was dead. The ped. requires now no further notice except the remark that
Sir Nicholas Green (alleged s. of Tho. de Buketon) whose coh. mar. Culpeper,
(who quarters the 3 bucks) is mentioned in a deed of Sir Henry Green the Ch.
Justice as his nephew and heir in remainder of some property after the death of
his own son Thomas then aged 9 years.
We must now treat of the Greens of Yorks. 1316 Tho. del Grene wa3 one of
the lords of the township of Newsholme [in Craven]. (Pari. Writs.) Temp.
Edw. I. Hen. Greene of Yorks. was an outlaw. (Inq. p. m.) 1319. Clement
del Greene occurs in Yorks. 47 Edw. III. to a ch. of Tho. del Grene of Adyng-
ham is appended the seal of Ric. de Frekelton, a chevron between 3 fieurs de lis.
(Harl. MSS. 245, p. 128.) John and Gabriel Greene of Newby boi-e arg. a chev.
betw. 3 fleurs de lis sa. (Harl. MSS. 1394 : Vis. of Yorks. 1585.) 8 Eliz. Gabriel
Green bought the manor of Horsforth, whose ancestor, Tho. Green of Newsome
in Craven is said to have mar. Jane d. and h. of Rob. Horsforth c. 3 Hen. YI.
(Whitaker's Hist, of Leeds, p. 214.)] The Greenes of Yorkshire were very nume-
rous, and several pedigrees are given in the visitations, with different arms. Tho.
Greene in 1585 (Harl. MSS. 1394) bore argent on a cross engrailed gules 5 cres-
cent* or, on a chief azure 3 bezants. This is evidently the coat borne by those