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ANTHONY ELLIS, of S., who mar. d. of Thomas or George Sherard, of Stapleford, co. Leic., Sheriff of Rutland 1495-1506* The issue of this match was Anthony Ellis and Thomas Ellis, who mar. Marg. 2nd d. of William Durrant, Esq., of Cottesmore, co. Rutland, most probably the

THOMAS ELLIS, of Wyham,† who had issue

WILLIAM ELLYS, Esq., of Gray's Inn, 3 Car. I.; George Ellys, who mar. 1627, at Arksay, near Doncaster, Alice, d. of Bryan Cooke, Esq., and

Sir THOMAS ELLIS, S. & h., who, by Jane, d. of John Hutchinson, of Owthorp, co. Notts, had issue Dorothy, ux. William Ashurst, of Ashurst, co. Lanc.; Frances, ux. William Savill, of Oxton, co. Notts; Jane, ux. John Lockey, gent., and ob. 1637; Margaret, who mar., 1624, William Adams, Esq.; Benjamin Ellis, bap. 1624; Wm. Ellys, bap. 1607 or 1617 (the judge who was knighted 1671, and died cœlebs 1680, great-uncle of Sir Wm. Ellys, Bart.); GEORGE ELLIS, 2nd s., of Wyham, 1634 by Frances, d. of William Rodley, of Yarborough, Esq., he had issue WILLIAM ELLIS, s. & h. æt. 23, 1634; Jane; Ann, ux. Nicolas Clipsby, of Otby, co. Linc.; Mary; Frances; and Dorothy, ux. Isaac Knight, of Linc.; and

THOMAS ELLIS, eldest son, of Grantham, who died 6 April, 1640, seized of Wyham, Norhill, co. Beds, etc. He mar. Elizabeth Hardinge, and had issue, Ann, ux. Thomas Yarborough, Serjeant-at-law, and died 1697, æt. 73; Elizabeth; and

Sir THOMAS ELLYS, S. & h., æt. 10 ad mortem patris, created a Baronet by Charles II., 30th June, 1660. By Anne, d. of

*The above mentioned are evidently the "Thomas Ellys, Mercator Stapulæ et Agnes uxor ejus," whose names are thus commemorated with a shield of arms, viz., the above, impaling Nebuly arg. and sa., on a chief gules three mullets or, in stained glass, in the north window of Swineshead Church (Harl. MSS. 6829, p. 224; and the arms of Ellis alone are in Whaplode Church, p. 234): though the impaled arms are not those of Marshall, but almost certainly of Blunt. The same coats occur impaled on the tower of the church of Great Ponton, in Linc., which, according to Leland, "was built A.D. 1519, by Anthony Ellys, Esq. (Merchant of the Staple), who mar. a lady of the family of Ascough." But all the arms of Ascough are quite different from the above. There is also a coat on the tower not impaled--Nebuly arg. and sable, on a chief gules a lion passant or-which is probably that of Blunt also: this however, without the colours, is on the monument in Lowth Church, of Simon Lincoln, Merchant of the Staple, qui ob. 1585. (Harl. MSS. 6829, p. 104.) Francis, s. of Sir Francis Ascough, of South Kelsey, co. Linc., Knt., mar. Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Ellis, of Wyham. And Anthony Ellis, of Great Paunton, had a daughter Elizabeth, ux. Thomas Chibnall, of Filmersham, co. Herts, living 1566, the date of the Visitation of Beds. (Harl. MSS. 1531, p. 53.) Anthony, and Thomas who mar. Agnes, were doubtless brothers, and married two sisters, and the impalement indicates the arms of their father, and an important alliance, a not uncommon practice at this period. The manor of Wyham was certainly in the family of Blunt, as appears by Inquisition (iv. 345), 8 Edw. IV., on the death of Thomas Blunt, Esq., who mar. Isabella, widow of Thomas Brian, Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

The Pedigree of Ellis of Wyham is from the Vis. of Linc., 1634, the Baronetages, and Inq. p. m.

Sir Stanhope, of Elverstan, brother of the first Earl of Chesterfield, he had issue John Ellys, ob. æt. 24, bur. in the Temple Church; Jane, ux. Strode, of Barrington, co. Somerset, Esq., and

Sir WILLIAM ELLYS, 2nd Bart. By Isabella, grand-daughter of John Hampden the patriot, and d. of the Rt. Hon. Richard Hampden, he had issue five sons and five daughters. He died 6th Oct., 1727, æt. 74. Anne, his d., mar. Edward Cheke, of Essex, Esq.; Isabella, Richard Hampden, Esq.

Sir RICHARD ELLYS, his son, 3rd Bart., M.P. for Boston, ob. s. p., 14th Jan., 1742; he mar. 1st, d. & co-h. of Sir Thomas Hussey, of Doddington, co. Linc., Bart.; 2nd, Sarah, d. & co-h. of Thomas Gould, of Iver, co. Bucks, Esq. "He left an estate of £4000 per ann. to a son of Lord Hobart, his cousin."-Gent. Mag.

The arms of this family seem composed of the Kiddal coat and of another containing escallops.* A crest of the family, according to Harl. MSS. 1550, p. 35, viz., a crescent gules surmounted by an escallop or, confirms this opinion. The Ellis arms, with a variation of colours, viz., arg. on a fess between three crescents or three escallops gules, are on a shield on the doorway of the church of Kingston-on-Soar, co. Notts., built by Sir Anthony Babington, who died 1544, æt. 69 (Coll. Top. and Gen., vol. viii. p. 268); and round the arch leading into the chancel is the coat of Babington, with a label and a mullet in chief impaling on a fess between three crescents three escallops. This match of B. with Ellis might account for the Christian name of Sir Anthony B., who was s. & h. of Thomas B., of Dethick, who died 1518, by Edith, d. of Ralph Fitzherbert, of Norbury, by Elizabeth, d. & co-h. of John Marshall, of Upton, co. Leic., whose arms were the same as those of Marshall of Carleton, who, we have seen, intermarried with the Ellises.†

ELLISES OF SCOTLAND.

Nisbet, in his Heraldry (i. 27), says, "Sir George Mackenzie, in his Science of Heraldry, gives as the arms of Elles, Party per bend sinister arg. and gules, a hand couped and grasping a lance bendways, bearing on the top thereof an helmet proper; in the sinister chief angle, a spur revel of the first, and in the dexter base a horse's head couped sable; but the Elles' of Elliston and Southside, carry other arms, viz., eels." Yet at p. 408, he gives

* Possibly this coat may have had partially the same origin as that of Ellis of Sandwich. In the Supplement to Robson's Dict. of Heraldry this variation of the latter coat is attributed to Ellis of Sandwich, e.g., Gules on a fess arg. between 3 crescents of the same, as many torteaux, which may, however, be apocryphal. But the escallops on the font of St. Clement's church might well account for them in the Wyham coat; if so, the family might have been of Kentish origin.

See further particulars of this family, pp. 156-8 and 276.

as the arms of JAMES ELLIES, of Southside, or, three helmets with beavers open: Crest, a hand gauntled, grasping an adder proper: Motto, Sperno; and in vol. ii. p. 296, ed. 1742, it is stated that Sir David Scott, qui ob. 1718, æt. suæ 73, mar. 2ndly, a near relation, viz.; Elizabeth, eld. d. of Mr. JOHN ELLIES, of Elistown, advocate, "a great lawyer and fine gentleman;" whilst Rebecca, sister of Sir David, mar. Mr. John Elies, of Ellistown, advocate, by whom she had issue.

ELLIS OF OTHAM AND KENNINGTON, CO. KENT.

[The prefatory remarks under this head, constituting pp. 76 and 77 are superseded by two notes (pp. 183-4 and 285-7), giving the earliest notices of the name in Kent, and the latter discussing the question whether this family is of common origin with that of Kiddall or of local origin, taking the Christian name of Elias de Coningbrook,* which occurs in the middle of the thirteenth century, as a patronymic; the conclusion arrived at being, on heraldic grounds, that "however much the Elyses of Stoneacre and their ancestors may be entangled and intermixed with other contemporary Elyses of different origin, there can be no doubt of their descent from the same stock as the Elyses of Kiddall."]

The manor of Conyngbrook appears to have been held by the Ellises of the monastery of St. Augustine, as was also the manor of Willesborough, of whom Thomas Elys held it 44 Edward III., who no doubt is the person commemorated, along with his wife, in stained glass in the east window of the church there; the inscription underneath two figures kneeling being, "Ora pro animabus Thomæ Elys et Thomasina uxoris ejus." When or how Conyngbrooke passed out of the family

*In a Subsidy Roll for Sussex, dated 21 Edw. I., Robert de Stonakre and Elias de Stonakre are amongst the taxpayers for Hurst [Monceux]. Walter Stoneacre occurs temp. Richard II., and in the fifteenth century, William Stoneacre and Thomas Stanaker occur in Sussex.

In a Subsidy Roll, 1 Edward III., Thomas de Conyngbroke occurs; and in a Fine, 2 Richard II., John C. sen. and John C. jun., and Matilda his wife, are mentioned; in another, of the date 10 Richard II., Nicholas C.; and 1342, Geoffry de C. was Vicar of Kennington. In Subsidy Rolls, temp. Edward III., John and Richard de Kennington are mentioned; in the same reign, William de K. was Abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury. Both these families were doubtless of the Ellis lineage.

The following were

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.

40 Edward III., Walter Ellis, for Dover.

50 Edward III., John Ellis, for Dover.

12 & 15 Richard II., John Ellis, for New Romney.

31 Henry VI., Guy Ellis, for New Romney.

43 Edward III., & 1 Richard II., Thomas Ellis, for Sandwich.

13, 15, 20, 21, 22, & 34 Edward III., John Ellis, for Canterbury.

1, 6, & 7 Richard II., Walter Ellis, for Canterbury.

8, 11, 18 Richard II., William Ellis, for Canterbury.

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Thomas Elps elquire, high sheriff of Kent. 1428.

son and heir of William Elys esquire, m' p' for Canter-
bury and attorney-general to Richard !

COWFLNE ANASTATIC PRESS, IPSWICH

A.6.El 18. Feb. 66

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