ob. 1601, auditor to Elizabeth, and Sir T. Neale, ob. 1621, auditor to James I, whose son, Thomas, was the author of "A Treatise of Direction how to travell safely, etc., 1643." The Neale family acquired the manor of Warnford 1577. Arms. Arg. a fesse betw. in chief, three mullets, and in base a hunting horn all gu. (Neale.) Crest. Out of a ducal coronet or a chaplet of laurel vert.
Cf. "Vic. C. H." (Hants), iii, p. 272. SOUTH WARNBOROUGH. (St. Andrew.) Helmet, crested, a popinjay. Tradition. Associated with the funeral of Robert White. There are monuments to Robert White, ob. 4 Hen. VIII; Sir Thomas White, ob. 1566; Richard White, ob. 1597; and to another member of the family in the late XVIth century. Arms. Arg. a chevron gu. betw. three popinjays vert collared of the second, on a bordure az. eight besants. (White.) Crest. A popinjay's head vert collared and beaked gu. betw. two wings, the dexter or the sinister arg., holding in the beak a rose branch ppr.
Cf. "Vic. C. H." (Hants), iii, p. 378.
WICKHAM. (St. Nicholas.)
1. Helmet, XVIth century.
2. Spurs.
Tradition. The helmet and spurs in 1865 were hanging on the rails enclosing the monument to Sir William Uvedale, ob. 1615.
Cf. "Surrey Arch. Coll.," iii, p. 121, where the helmet is illustrated.
WOOTTON ST. LAWRENCE. (St. Lawrence.)
1. Helmet.
2. Spurs.
3. A pair of gauntlets.
4. A dagger.
Tradition. The above hang over a bracket on which are the initials T. H., those of Sir Thomas Hooke, ob. 1677, to whose memory is a monument. He acquired Tangier Park in 1660, and built the house in 1662. He left a son who sold the property in 1710.
Crest. An escallop sa. betw. two wings arg. (Hooke.)
Cf. "Vic. C. H." (Hants), iv, p. 242.
HEREFORDSHIRE
HEREFORD. (The Cathedral.)
Tilting helm (vide ante, Vol. i, Fig. 324).
Tradition. This helm was formerly suspended over the monument to Sir Richard Pembridge, K.G. It is now in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Bloxam, in "Fragmenta Sepulchralia" (p. 134), mentions that there was also a shield below the helm. The shield is shown in Dingley's MS.
Cf. "Noël Paton Catalogue," No. 315; Gough, "Sepulchral Monuments," i, pl. LIV; Dingley, "Hist. from Marble," cxliv; De Cosson and Burges, "Helmets and Mail," p. 67, Figs. 72 and 73.
WALFORD-ON-WYE. (St. Michael and All Angels.)
Helmet, XVIIth century, the rivets to secure the lining are preserved. This piece is ribbed, and resembles
those worn by Louis XIII and Pluvinel in the engravings in the "Manège Royale" (1623).
It hangs over the arch of the chancel.
Tradition. Associated with the funeral of Colonel Kyrle, a soldier of fortune, who served both as Cavalier and Roundhead.
Cf. De Cosson and Burges, "Helmets and Mail," p. 88.
