willestorp *

Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Gloucester
Quartered France ancient and England within a bordure argent [Gen. And Misc.]
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Waddisley

Edmund
Argent, a cross sable, and a martlet gules in the quarter
South Otterington, a parish in Birdforth, North Riding. A moiety of the manor passed with Thornton-le-Street to the Waddeslev's before 1439. Edmund was living 1433. (VCH, North Riding, I, 455; II, 50.) Wadesley of Yorkshire bore silver on a bend between three martlets gules three escallops argent. FVY 405 gives this as an alternative shield.

Wadsley of Wadsley and Worral, near Sheffield.

Argent on a bend Gules three escallops of the first between six martlets of the second
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Wake

Or, 2 bars gules, in chief, 3 torteaux.
Tricking, copied from a funeral banner, and pasted into the MS
With all due deference to Norroy, the quarterings of Holland, Plantagenet, Wake, and Estuteville did not belong to Sir John Constable ; his ancestor Sir Ralph Neville, who married
the heiress of Deyvill of Cundall, being great-uncle to Sir John Neville who married the co-heiress of Holland ; but his wife, Lady Katherine Neville, was entitled to them.
Harleian Soc., Vol 15; The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, made by William Flower Esq., Norroy King of Arms.

Wandesford of Kirklington
Or a lion rampant with its tail fourché azure [Hampton]

Ward
Azure, a cross moline or. *

Warren
Checky or and gules a chief ermine [Gilling]

Warton of Beverley
Or, on a chevron azure, a martlet between two pheons of the first [Gen. And Misc.]
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Wassand of Kirby Sigston
Argent a cross and in chief two crescents sable [Lawrence]
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Waterton of Methley
Barry of six ermine and gules, three crescents sable [Thorseby mss]

Welles Lord of
Or a lion rampant with its tail fourché sable [Hampton]
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Welles of Methley
Sable a cross engrailed or [Thorseby mss]
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Wentworth of Wentworth
Sable, a chevron between three leopard’s faces or, a crescent for difference [Gen. And Misc.]
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Wessington

Gules, 2 bars and 3 mullets in chief argent, pierced of the field.
Blazoned as here in Jen., and with the colours reversed in Will. There are pedigrees of different branches in PHY 140-45 and SD II, 40.

Weston

of the hospital of Rybston
Azure, 3 eagles displayed bendwise argent, armed and beaked or, between 2 cotises argent.
Ribstone was a hospital of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (Hospitallers) after the suppression of the Knight s Templar . It was in the deanery of Aynstey, West Riding. Thomas Weston was appointed master in 1422. (VCH, Yorks ., III, 262.)

Westropp - Or on a chevron sable, three escallops. *

Wharton of Cowton and Skelton
Sable a maunch argent
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Whytinge

Sir. T.
Argent, fretty and a canton gules.
Blazoned for "sir Thomas Quitrige" in Glover Ord., and for " Whytryg " FVY 405.

Widdrington or Woderington Sirs Henry, John
Quarterly argent and gules, over all a bend sable, a mullet for difference
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Wilstroppe

Quarterly 1 and 4 azure a chevron between 3 lions passant silver; 2 and 3, gules strewn with cinquefoils and a maunch argent. [Shown here only the 1 & 4 quarter].
Quarters 1 and 4 are so blazoned for John Wilstroppe in Jen. Pedigree SS 144, p. 85. Quarters 2 and 3 are the arms of Acclom of Moreby, Yorkshire. The editor has not been able to trace the marriage. See 'SS 144, p. 85.

Witham
Or a bend between three peewits (or eaglets) [Hampton]
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Wormeley
Gules on a chief indented argent three lions rampant azure [There is no record of any Fairfax Wormeley marriage] [Gilling]
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Wortley of Wortley [West of Tankersley].
Argent on a bend Gules three bezants between six martlets of the second
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Wycliffe
Argent a chevron sable and three crosslets gules [Lawrence]
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Wyvill

of Burton Constable
Sable, 3 interlaced chevrons vair and a chief or.
William Wyvill: gules fretty gold a chief gold and a canton gules. So blazoned for this man in Jen . It is the differenced shield of the family of Burton Constable, Yorkshire, who bore sable three interlaced chevrons vair and the chief without the canton . See FVY 380. The fret and interlaced chevrons are often confused with each other in blazon.

Wyvill of Slingsby
Gules fretty vair with a chief or
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