vol. i. fol. 23, and in Godwin De Præs &c. 183; but whether they were any way related to this family I cannot say.
The Hall
was an ancient building, being the seat of the Hastyngses, after of the Kemps, till Sir Robert, (father of the present Sir Robert,) upon his removal to Ubbeston, pulled it down. The windows were adorned with the following coats:
Kemp quartered with Butteveyleyn, or Buttvelyn, impaled with
Loveday, per pale ar. and sab. an eagle displayed with two heads, counter-changed, gorged with a ducal coronet, and armed or.
Kemp and Buttvelyn quartered, impaling Bleverhasset.
The same impaling Jarnegan, ar. three mascle buckles gul.
The same impaling Throkmorton, quartering Baniard of Speckshall, sab. on a fess between two chevrons or, as many annulets united of the field.
Gul. a lion rampant ar. within a garter, a marquis's coronet.
In the parlour windows:
Kemp impaling Hastyngs. Kemp impales the following coats, viz.
Buttevelyn. Duke az. a chevron between three martlets ar.
Gurlen, erm. a bend counter-compony, ar. and sab.
Appleyard of Braken-Ash, az. a chevron between three owls ar.
St. Leger, az. fretté ar. a chief or.
Calthorp.
Alleyn, parted per bend sinister dancetté ar. and sab. six martlets counter-changed.
Cockerham, ar. on a bend sab. three leopards faces or.
Herris, or, on a bend az. three cinquefoils pierced, of the field.
De-Grey of Merton quartered with Bainard.
Smithin or Smythwyne, sab. three chevrons ar. two mullets in chief and one in base or.
Kemp and Buttvelyn quartered, impaling
White of Shottisham, gul. in a bordure ingrailed, a chevron between three boars heads couped ar.
In a MSS. of Mr. Anstis's (E. 26, fol. 29) these arms are said to be in Gissing Hall, at that time the seat of Richard Kemp, Esq.; when the chapel was new glazed; in the chamber by the hall door were the arms of Gissing, Felton, and Framingham, and the pictures of two labourers thrashing wheat-sheaves, or garbs, in allusion to Kemp's arms, and this coat, viz. Kemp quartering
Duke, and on an escutcheon of pretence Hastyng's arms.
Kemp's crest is a pelican lighting upon a garb or.
In 1603, here were 150 communicants, and now there are 51
