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REPLY1850

Seal of Killigrew, and Genealogy of the Killigrew Family

By MARK ANTONY LOWER.

”BURIENSIS” (No. 13. p. 204.) is informed that the arms on the seal at Sudbury are certainly those of a member of the old Cornish house of Killigrew. These arms, impaled by those of Lower, occur on a monument at Llandulph, near Saltash, to the memory of Sir Nicholas Lower, and Elizabeth his wife, who died in 1638. She was a daughter of Sir Henry Killegrewe, of London, and a near relative, I believe, of the Master of the Revels. While on this subject, I beg to put a query to your genealogical readers. The double-headed eagle, the bordure bizantée, and the demilion charged with bezants, are all…

Topics: Genealogy, Heraldry, Historical Customs

Locations: Sudbury, Llandulph, Saltash, London, Cornwall