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Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 58 - 1945 page 17
            COATS OF ARMS IN QUEENBOROUGH CASTLE. By B. H. D’Elboux, M.C., M.A., F.S.A. Continued

   4.   Yonge Byshoppe of Rochester.
           Per saltire gules & azure a lion passant guardant
              between 2 fleurs de lys in pale or.
             
John Yonge, 1534-1605; Bishop of Rochester, 1578; buried
              at Bromley, where, until the church was bombed, his
              inscription remained. The shield once above it, of the See
              impaling Yonge was drawn by T. Fisher, and is illustrated
              in Griffin's
Drawings of Brasses.
  
5.   Lord Cobham.
          Gules on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable.
             William Brooke, K.G., Lord Cobham, 1558-1597; Lord
             Warden of the Cinque Ports and Lord Lieutenant of Kent.

   6.   Lord Buckhurst.
           Per cross or & gules, a bend vair.
              Thomas Sackville, K.G., 1589; created Lord Buckhurst, 9th
              Eliz: and by James I in 1604, Earl of Dorset; Lord
              Lieutenant of Sussex, 1598.

   7.   Lord Burrous.
           Azure 3 fleurs de lys ermine.
              Thomas Burgh, Baron Burgh, 1584-1597; of Sterborough
              and Chiddingstone Cobham Manor.

   8.   Rogers Byshopp of Dover.
          Argent a chevron between 3 bucks sable, collared or.
            Richard Rogers, of Sutton Valence, died 19 May, 1597,
             aged 64; 28 years Suffragen and 13 years Dean of Christ

            Church, Canterbury. M.I. Canterbury Cathedral. See
             Appendix to Supplement, Batteley's Somner, p. 5;
            Cowper's Memorials, p. 96; and Lives of the Deans of
            Canterbury
, pp. 44-54.

   9.  Sr Warren St Leger.
        Azure, fretty argent, a chief or, thereon a crescent gules for
           difference.

           Sir Warham St. Leger, of Ulcombe; 2nd son and heir of Sir
           Anthony by his wife Anne, d. of Hugh Warham; married
           Ursula, 5th d. of George Nevill, Lord Abergavenny; Sheriff
           2nd Eliz: knighted, 1565; died, 1598; will P.C.C. 5 Lewyn, as
           of Leeds Castle.

  10. Sr Thomas Scott.
         Argent 3 catharine wheels sable, a border engrailed
            gules.

           Of Scott's Hall in Smeeth; married Elizabeth, d. of Sir John
           Baker, of Sissinghurst; Sheriff 18th Eliz: Knight of the Shire
          13th and 28th Eliz: Will P.C.C. 1 Scott, 1595; Knighted at
           Somerset Place in London, 1570.1

   1 The De Lisle and Dudley papers contain this letter from Sir Robert Sidney to his wife; 29 Dec., 1593, Dover. "I was once at sea and put back again: since I have bin at Sr. Th. Scots and meant to have gone to Rye to have shipped there, and was raysed at midnight to come back hither and now about 10 o'clock at night ame going abord."

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