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70 The Heraldry of Ormskirk Church

pretence, in the honour point, "Gules, three cin foils Argent," for Hamilton. The dexter im, ment was: Quarterly, four grand-quarters, Ist 4th "Gules, three cinquefoils pierced Ern. for Hamilton. 2nd and 3rd "Argent, a ship her sails furled, Sable," for Arran. 2nd and Quarterly, 1st "Azure, a lion rampant A crowned, Or," for Galloway; 2nd "Or, a rampant Gules, debruised by a bendlet S for Abernethy; 3rd "Argent, three piles C for Wishart; 4th "Or, a fess chequy Azur Argent surmounted by a bend Gules charge. three buckles of the first," for Stewart; ov on an escutcheon, "Argent, a human heart imperially crowned proper; on a chief Azure mullets of the field," for Douglas; in the 1 point, on a small escutcheon brochant-su "Azure, three fleurs-de-lys Or," for Chatelh all these quarterings for Hamilton. impalement was: "Argent, a fess between horse-shoes Azure," for Farren. The shield · signed with an earl's coronet, and on a wreat colours the Stanley crest (as before). Sup “Dexter, a griffin, sinister, a buck, both ( ducally collared and chained Azure, the buck of the last." Motto, "Sans changer." 1 palement for Farren is very puzzling, as the coat of this Irish family is, "Gules, a salt and the exact blazon belongs to no known arms, but, except in the tinctures of the shoes, it is the same as that of Endesor, of h Co. Norfolk, "Argent, a fess Azure, betwe.. horse-shoes Sable."

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of "The Hon. William Spencer, Esqr.," and wife of "The Hon. and Rev. John Stanley, Esqr.” She died in 1737, aged thirty-nine.

Of the four corbels which carry the roof of the Scarisbrick Chapel, one on each wall bears "a cross," probably meant as the common sign of Christianity, as the simple charge belongs to none of the Scarisbrick family alliances. One on the south wall has the Scarisbrick crest, "A dove, Sable, beaked and legged Gules, holding in the beak an olive branch proper," whilst one on the north wall has seemingly "A demi-lion rampant, crowned, holding a a cross-crosslet in its dexter paw" (?). All these are high up and difficult to decipher, but probably the last is meant for "A demi-fox grasping a cross-crosslet fitchée Azure," the crest of Wrightington of Wrightington, from which estate the later Scarisbrick family came.

On the west wall of this chapel is a hatchment, Scarisbrick impaling ffarington, for Thomas Eccleston, who under his father's will assumed the name and arms of Scarisbrick, and his wife, Sybilla Georgiana ffarington. "Gules, three mullets in bend between two bendlets engrailed Argent," for Scarisbrick, and Quarterly, 1 and 4 "Argent, a chevron Gules between three leopards' faces Sable," for ffarington of Warden; 2 and 3 "Gules, three cinquefoils pierced, Argent," for ffarington of Farington. The black background of the husband's half shows that it was put up during the lifetime of his wife, about 1839, but its legend, "Resurgam," is a violation of an obsolete heraldic rule, thus humorously stated by that "satirical rogue," James Smith:

"Where'er a hatchment we discern

(A truth before ne'er started) The motto makes us surely learn The sex of the departed.

If 'tis the husband sleeps, he deems
Death's day a felix dies

Of unaccustomed quiet dreams,
And cries 'In cœlo quies l'

But if the wife, she from the tomb
Wounds Parthian-like post tergum,
Hints to her spouse his future doom,

And threatening cries, ‘Resurgam !'"

The carved memorial tablet, under this, bears an impalement of Scarisbrick (as before) and Messenger, "Argent, a chevron engrailed between three close helmets Sable," on a Chippendale escutcheon, and was erected by Anna Messenger to her husband, Robert Scarisbrick, who died, aged sixty-eight, 11th March 1737.

The two stained glass windows in the south wall of this chapel are commemorative of its "restoration" by Pugin in 1866, when they were dedicated to the memory of her father and mother by the Lady Anne Scarisbrick, widow of Sir T. W. Hunloke, Bart., of Wingerworth Hall, Co. Derby, who adopted the name of Scarisbrick on her accession to the estates. The heraldic charges in the upper lights of these windows show the successive changes in the nomenclature of her family and some of their alliances. The arms in both windows are alike, but in the east window the escutcheons are upright, and in the west window canted. (1) Scarisbrick (as before). (2) "Or, on a cross between four hinds' heads, Vert, two cross-crosslets fitchée, in pale, and two escallops in fess Or," for Dicconson. This coat is usually displayed, Quarterly 1 and 4 Dicconson, 2 and 3 Wrightington, and the crosscrosslets are evidently taken from the latter. (3) An impalement, Quarterly 1 and 4 Eccleston, "Argent, a cross Sable, in dexter chief a fleur-de-lys Gules,' 2 Scarisbrick (as before), 3 Dicconson (as before), impaling "Sable, on a bend Argent three mullets, Gules," for Clifton of Lytham. (4) Eccleston (as

before). It is singular that there are no ensigns for Sir T. W. Hunloke, the husband of Lady Scarisbrick, as it was through that marriage she attained the title of Lady.

The armorials of these windows are artistically treated, and the tinctures are mostly only suggestive of heraldic colour, whilst the "mullets" of the Clifton impalement are scarcely recognisable as such, and very different from the clear cut ones of the Scarisbrick coat.

On the crown of the arches of the King's Chancel, that is, the crossing between the transept chapels of Scarisbrick and Bickerstaffe, and so called because Henry VII. is said to have worshipped there during his month's visit to his stepfather, the 1st Earl of Derby, in 1495, are the Tudor badges. North wall, "The Portcullis, crowned,' and "The fleur-de-lys." South wall, "The Lancaster Rose, crowned," and "A lion rampant, crowned," though the latter may be intended for the more distinctively Tudor badge, "The Red Dragon of Wales." This is the more likely, as they would then be exactly the same as those on the great bell of 1497, now in the belfry, but the insignia are too high up to make identification certain.

THE DUGDALE DRAWING

The original of this unpublished drawing (plates 2, 3, and 4), is in the Heralds' College, but, through the kindness of Rouge Croix, I have a reproduction of it, from which these facsimiles have been made.

Sir William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms, held his court at Ormskirk from the 22nd to the 24th of September, 1664, and this drawing was made in the church on the 23rd of that month, under his instructions, by Gregory King, Rouge Dragon

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