Ffurneault, knight, the armes of Walter Cawdecot, the
armes of Sir Aunsell Corney, knight, and the armes of Sir Henry
Harterie, knight. All which armes doth plainlie appere depicted in the
Margent; and for that the said Sir John Newton is yncertaine of any
creaste which he ought to beare by his owne proper name, he therefore
hath also required vs, the said kings and hereauldes of armes, to
assigne and confirme vnto him and his posteritie for ever, the creaste
of Sir Auncell Corney, knight, which Sir Auncell Corney, as it doth
appere by divers ancient evidence and other monuments of the said Sir
John Newton, was at the winnynge of Acom with Kinge Richard the First,
where he toke prisoner a kinge of the Mores: and farther, the said Sir
John Newton, knight, hath made goode proofe for the bearinge of the
same creaste, that the heires male of the said Sir Auncell Corney is
extingueshed, and the heires generall do only remaine in him. In
consideracion whereof wee, the said kinges and herehauldes of arms, do
give, confirme, and grant vnto the said Sir John Newton and his
posteritie for ever, the said creaste of Sir Auncell Corney, knight,
that is to say, vppon his helme on a torce silver and asure, a kinge of
the Mores armed in male, crowned gold, knelinge vpon his left knee
rendring vppe his sworde, as more plainly aperith depicted in this
Margent, to have and to horold the said creast to him and his
posteretie, with there due difference to vse, beare, and show in
shelde, cote armour, or otherwise, for ever, at his or their libertie
and pleasure, without impediment, let, or interruption of any parson or
parsons. In witnesse whereof we, the said hinges and hereauldes of
arms, have caused these letters to be made patentes, and set herevnto
our common seale of corporation, given at the office of arms in London,
the twelvethe of December, and in the tenthe yeare of the reigne of our
sovereign {429} ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England,
France and Ireland, defender of the faithe," &c.

H.T. ELLACOMBE.

Clyst St George, Nov. 4. 1850.

_Cradock_--I should like to know whether the MSS. of Randle Holme, of
Chester, 1670, which afterwards were penes Dr. Latham, are still
accessible? Nichols refers to them as his authority for Cradock's pedigree,
as laid down in his _Leicestershire_ (vol. iv. part ii. p.