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Bigland Pedigree
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Notes - “To the memory of Ralph Sheldon of Beoley in the county of Worcester Esq a great benefactor to this office -
Who died at his manor house at Weston in the parish of Long Compton in the county of Warwick on Midsummer day 1684 aged 61 years wanting 6 weeks, the day afterwards his heart and bowels were buried in Long Compton chancel in a vault by those of his father, mother, grandfather, and on the 10th July following his body in a vault by his ancestors under our Lady’s chapel joining on the north-side to St Leonards church of Beoley. He married Henrietta Maria daughter of Thomas Savage Viscount of Rock Savage by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas Lord Darcey of Chich in Essex, Viscount Colchester and Earl Rivers but by her had no issue.
The above inscription and armorial ensigns are on a tablet placed in the library in the College of Arms by the late Ralph Bigland Esq Somerset Herald afterwards Garter principal King of Arms”. “I do hereby certify the above pedigree to be compiled from the Records of the College of Arms London, abstracts from wills, extracts from Parish Registers, monumental Inscriptions and other authorities examined this eighth day of July 1808 by me, signed Ralph Bigland, Norroy King of Arms”
- “To the memory of Ralph Sheldon of Beoley in the county of Worcester Esq a great benefactor to this office -
