*Ellis, Wm. Stone, esq., 14 Chatham Place, West Hackney. A., esq., Upper Tulse Hill, Brixton. * C., esq., Richmond, and 21 College Street, E.C. H., Esq., 3 Upper Park Place, Richmond. T., esq., Victoria Road, Clapham Common. Sir Henry, K.H., 24 Bedford Square. Mrs., 25 Southwick Street, Hyde Park (2 and 3). Robert, esq., 2 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill. Geo. Stevenson, Esq., Bullion Office, Bank of England. Geo., esq., Lancaster Lodge, Richmond. Hon. James Agar, Dover House, Whitehall. A. J., esq., 2 Western Villas, Colney Hatch. W. R., Esq., 24 Chancery Lane. Edw., M.D., 117 Warwick Street, Pimlico. Alfred Shelley, esq., 3 Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey. * J. S., esq., Buckhurst Villa, Chigwell. * *← Lady, 17 Essex Terrace, High Road, Lee (2 and 3). ENGLAND AND WALES. Ellis, R. W., esq., 8 Redcliffe Parade, Bristol. Edward Bourke, esq., 3 Cambridge Place, Clifton. Rev. J., Grammar School, Weymouth. C., esq., Mill Lane, Wimbourne. Mrs. E., Wimbourne. H., esq., St. Leonard's, Exeter. Capt. Ĉ., 3 Guilford Terrace, Dover (2 and 3). Mrs Joyner, Berkeley. Wm., esq., Castlefield, Bingley, Yorkshire. Hon. and Rev. W. C., Bothell, Northumberland. Richard, esq., 36 Hind Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. George, esq., Morley, Leeds. John Tho. Bridges, Silkstone, Barnsley. C., esq., 12 Carlton Street, Halifax. * G., esq., West Ardesley, Wakefield. J. D., esq., Crabtree House, Sheffield. Alex. Adcock, esq., Wychall House, King's Norton (2 and 3). W. M., esq., The Willows, Brickfield, Birmingham. E. S., esq., Belgrave, Leicester. Col. R. R. W., Star Cross, Exeter. Rev. A. E., Hertford House School, Sale, near Manchester (2 & 3). Arthur Ayres, Vicar of Stotfold, Beds. S. A., Vicar of Long Itchington, Co. Warwick. H. C., Vicar of St. Saviour's, Nottingham. Ellis, Rev. C. B., Fulneck, Leeds. t W., Curate of St. Mathew's, Rugby. John, Vicar of Ebberston, Yorkshire. John Rathbone, Vicar of Westerdale, Yorkshire. J. S., Incumbent of Wilton le Weer, Durham. J., esq., Exceat, Newhaven, Sussex. Major C. J., 84 Gloucester Street, Warwick Square, Pimlico. Mr. C. H., Lewes. Mr. Wm., Wisborough Green. F. J., esq., 6 Bouverie Place, Mount Radford, Exeter. Carteret Geo., esq., Attleborough, Norfolk. T. S., esq., Brunswick Road, Gloucester. E. W., esq., London Road, Northfleet. H., esq., East Ham, Barking. Wm., esq., Bellevue House, Heslington Road, York. Thomas, esq., Sherborne, Dorsetshire. W. Viner, esq., Gloucester. Charles, esq., Ulcombe, Kent. Joseph, esq., Balcombe, Sussex. Mrs., Ipswich Road, Norwich. Charles M., esq., Selmeston, Lewes. Jervoise, esq., Herriard Park, Hants. Thomas, Mr., Keston, Kent. John, esq., Artington, Guildford. J., esq., Metheringham, Sleeford, Lincolnshire. Charles, esq., Meldreth, Royston. Job, esq., Oswestry (3 and 4). Miss, Hessle, Hull, Yorkshire. Robert Keate, esq., Sunderland. Rev. J., Little Hays, Shenstone, Lichfield (3 and 4). Rev. J. Williams, Glasfryn, Caernarvon. H. R., esq., Erdington, Birmingham (3 and 4). IRELAND. Ellis, Robert Elwood, esq., Drogheda. Hercules, esq., 83 Stephen's Green, Dublin. George, esq., 91 Leeson Street, Dublin. Andrew, M.D., 91 Stephen's Green, Dublin. Rev. Robert, 2 Hill, Monkstown, Dublin. SCOTLAND. Ellis, Adam Gib, esq., 4 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh. Ellis, Clement, Esq., Buchanan Street, Glasgow. Austen, Mr., Stoneacre, near Maidstone. Baigent, F. J., esq., Winchester. Barton, T. W., esq., Watton, Norfolk. Borrer, Rev. C. H., Hurstpierpoint. Burke, Sir Bernard, Ulster King-at-Arms. Courthope, Wm., esq., Somerset Herald. Everett, Ellis, esq., Gibraltar Cottage, Monmouth. Emeris, R. W., esq., Louth. Howard, J. J., LL.D., 3, Dartmouth Row, Blackheath. Larking, Rev. Lambert, Ryarsh, Maidstone. Lower, M. A., esq., Seaford. Nichols, John Gough, esq., 25 Parliament Street. Pearson, R. W., esq., 31 Stockwell Park Road, S. Whitmore, W. H., esq., Boston, United States. Kent Archæological Society. Library of British Museum. New England Genealogical Society. Library, Kensington Museum. Cheetham Library, Manchester. Athenæum Library, Liverpool. City Library, Bristol. Birmingham and Midland Institute. Literary and Philosophical Society, Sheffield. Literary and Philosophical Society, Leeds. *Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh. Stirling's Library, Glasgow. Yorkshire Philosophical Institution, York. Notice. Probably one fourth of the impression of No. II. has been lost, destroyed, or is in indifferent or unknown hands. The recipients of these have been repeatedly addressed by the Author, but in vain, to return the copies, if unwilling to accept Nos. III. and IV. The copies of these latter numbers now in his hands which would, with these corresponding copies, have completed so many volumes, accordingly make imperfect sets. In order, therefore, to utilize them, the Author has determined to reprint No. II. To indemnify him for this expense, which is caused by the vexatious indifference and incivility of many of the recipients, he will place the remainder of the thus completed copies of the work in the hands of the Publisher, Mr. Smith, 36, Soho Square, London, for sale to the public, price £1, and £1 and 6d. if sent by book-post. To the 4 numbers of the Notices will be added the Supplement; the Plea for the Antiquity of Heraldry; and Hurstpicrpoint, its Lords and Families, thus making an 8vo vol. of nearly 400 pages, embellished with 9 plates and 3 woodcuts. No. II. contains a full account of the Ellises of Stoneacre, and of Kent and Sussex. Copies will be sent of the reprint, on application to the Author, for their acceptance, to those Ellises whose ancestry is thus recorded. A PLEA FOR THE ANTIQUITY OF HERALDRY, WITH AN ATTEMPT TO EXPOUND ITS THEORY AND ELUCIDATE ITS HISTORY. BY WILLIAM SMITH ELLIS, ESQ., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE. LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. MDCCCLIII. PREFACE. THE text of the following pages formed part of a paper written for publication in the forthcoming sixth volume of the Sussex Archæological Collections; but being of too general a nature for a work of purely local interest, the article, “On the Origin of the Arms of some Sussex Families," to which they were introductory and explanatory, appears without them; and they are published in this manner, as an independent Essay, for the perusal, more appropriately, of heraldic students. The copious notes which are subjoined, have been subsequently added, as illustrations and elucidations of the text. Before, however, they were written, the text was already in type, or it would have been re-constructed, embodying the new and argumentative part of the notes, and thus making the entire Essay more continuous and compact, and less tautologous. June, 1853. |