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Kt., and there is a monument to his memory near which the armet hangs on a perch with long horizontal bar, on which apparently once hung a coat of arms.

Arms. Arg. three lions ramp. gu. (Gifford.) Crest. An arm couped at the elbow vested or, charged with two bays way, cuffed arg., holding in the hand ppr. a staff. This crest appears on the tablet of 1540 and on the helmet. Cf. "R. C. on Hist. Mon." (Bucks), ii, p. 198.

Fig. 1594a. Middle Claydon

Fig. 1595. Quainton

Fig. 1594b. Middle Claydon QUAINTON. (Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Cross.)

 [Communicated by Mr. J. G. Mann.]

Helmet, period of Charles I, crested, an eagle on a coronet (Fig. 1595). A large banner, coat of arms, and gauntlets now missing. Tradition. Associated with the monument (Fig. 1596) to Richard Winwood, son of Sir Ralph Winwood, Kt., ob. 1688, principal Secretary of State to Charles I, and Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Read. Crest. Out of a ducal coronet or, an eagle's head betw. two wings expanded sa., in the beak a chaplet of laurel vert. (Winwood.) Cf. "R. C. on Hist. Mon." (Bucks), ii, p. 242; "Gents. Mag. Lib. Eng. Top.," II, i, 322. [The illustration is taken from a photograph by Mr. Wickham.]

Fig. 1596. Quainton SAINT LEONARDS. 1. Helmet, XVIIIth century, funerary, crested, an oak tree. 2. Two gauntlets, funerary. 3. A coat of arms (missing since circa 1896). 4. A sword (missing since circa 1896). The above hang on a perch, which has the cross bar, upon which the coat of arms was formerly suspended; the perch is placed on the south wall of the church to the east of the monument to Colonel Cornelius Wood. Tradition. The monument to Colonel Cornelius Wood, ob. 1712, eldest son of the Rev. Seth Wood and Elizabeth, his wife (tablet on the north wall). The monument to Colonel Wood portrays a medallion portrait under a trophy of arms, and below the family crest and arms. The crest is in wood, the arms are in marble. Arms. Gu. semée of cross-crosslets fitchée arg., three demi savages with clubs elevated ppr. (Wood.) Crest. On a mount vert, an oak tree ppr. fructed or.

Cf. "R. C. on Hist. Mon." (Bucks), i, p. 20; "Vic. C. H." (Bucks), ii, p. 318.