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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III BENDISH OF BENDISH Argent, a Bend engrailed, sable, was the Bendish coat, and the badge, now used as crest, a Peacock in Pride, with the motto Numen inest?which wags put thus into old English, into the mouth of the bird? Nu, men, I nest. They averred that the cuckoo had been the properer ensign for his present lordship, George, tenth Baron, and many an honest gentleman agreed with them before his career was closed. There seems to be no doubt about the Norman pedigree. Giles de Bendes is in the Battle Abbey Roll, and there is or was a bastide in Normandy called La Ferte Bendes, which is quite near enough for modern genealogy. You don't get them again with any certainty till the fourteenth century, when you find them in the Midlands?the Grafton country, it is called?in a stronghold called after them Castle Bendish. Peter de Bendish or Bendysshe, if you will have it, was Escheator of the shire in 1375. It was his grandson, another Giles, who was summoned to Parliament by Henry IV., anno primo, as Giles Bendysshe de Bendysshe, chivaler, and sat and voted accordingly. That was the beginning of a comfortable and competent dignity which after events never seriously disturbed until near our own day. Nevertheless the Bendishes took the losing side in most complications of public affairs. They were Lancastrians, and lost heads in the Wars of the Roses; then, what must they do but turn their coats before the time and rank with Richard at Bosworth? Yet Henry VIII. saw them rise again; and fat abbey lands were added to the Bendish fee. Bloody Mary kept them Catholics, and Elizabeth fleeced them for it. Charles found them Episcopalians and stoutly on his side. Under Cromwell they lost everything; but the George Bendish of Charles II. was the wild lord of their lege...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217183185 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217183182 |
| Weight | 0.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 168 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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