To this Jerome de Bertie succeeded his son and heir by name, Robert de Bertie', "Lord of Bersted;"

who was succeeded by his son, Robert de Bertie, "Lord of Bersted;"

1 See Rawlinson's MSS., B. 73, in the Bodleian, who designates six suc

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who was succeeded by his son, William de Bertie (married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Pepper');

cessive generations from Robert, grandson of Philip, to Robert, grandfather of Thomas, as Lords of Bertiesteit.

"Elizabeth, fil. Thos. Pep." No. 96 in Sir Thomas Phillip's Catalogue, three volumes of pedigrees, from deeds, f. ch. 3, 17, blue morocco, p. 149, marked Y. on the back. Arms, "On a fess gules, 3 broad crosses pates or, between 3 bores heads erect, erased, gules."

2 "The visitations made under the early commissioners are in many instances, in narrative and in their commencement, meagre in detail; sometimes containing little more than notes of arms of the gentry, and the founders and priors of monasteries, and seldom exhibiting more than the lineal descending line of the family; subsequently they assume a more important form, affording full and accurate statements of pedigree, and supplying collateral as well as lineal descents."-Grimaldi, p. 254.

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"The arms and crest of Thomas Bertie, of Bersted, in the countye of Kent, gentillman," living temp. Henry the Seventh and Edward the Sixth, as they appear in a grant from Thomas Hawley, Clarencieux, who, designating him "of Berested, in

1 Extracted from a copy of the docquet of the grant from Thos. Hawley, Clarencieux in the College of Arms.-See Appendix, art. C. Cook (Clarencieux in 1675) remarks, in his grant of arms to the Archer family, alias de Boys, that to ancient arms there commonly belongeth no crest."

Kente, and at this presente tyme Captayne of Hurst Castle for ye King's Matie," certifies himself to be plainly advertised and informed, "not alonly by common renowne, but also by the report and witnesse of dyvers, (worthy to be taken of word and credence,) that the said Thomas Bertie is descended of an house undefamed, and hath of long tyme used himself in feates of arms and good works; so that he is well worthy to be in all places of honour admitted, nombred, and taken in the company of other nobles," &c. &c.'

1 The science of heraldry was formerly in much higher repute than it is at present; and was even hallowed by being made subservient to religious observances. The custom, for instance, of consigning the hatchment or achievement of a deceased person to the church, was originally meant as an acknowledgment to that Almighty power, who had so long permitted its use to the bearer. See Hook's Dictionary of the Bible.