Henry Wentworth POWYS

NOTE: Changed name, and arms, to Powys by RL in 1832 on succeeding tothe Berwick estates.The text of the exemplification, in my possession inJan 2003,following the RL is:On the outside of the roll:Recorded in theCollege of Arms Londonthis twenty eighth day of ASugust 1832Chas. Geo.YoungYork Herald RegisterThe roll itself:To All and Singularto whom these Presents shall come Sir Ralph Bigland KnightGARTER Principal King of Arms and Sir WIlliam Woods KnightCLARENCEUX King of Arms of the SouthEast and West Parts ofEngland from the River Trent Southwards send Greeting: WhereasHis Majesty by Warrant under his Royal Signet and Sign Manualbearing date the twenty-sixth day of July last signified untothe Most Noble Bernard Edward Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal andHereditary Marshal of England One of His Majesty's MostHonourable Privy Council that He had been graciously pleased togive and grant unto Henry Wentwortt Feilding of Berwick House inthe County of Salop Esquire second son of William RobertFeilding Esquire (commonly called the Right Honorable WilliamRobert Viscount Feilding) deceased by Anna Catherina his wifeeldest daughter and coheir of Thomas Jelf Powys sometime ofBerwick House aforesaid Esquire also deceased His Royal Licenceand Authority that he may in compliance with a provision anddirection contained in the last Will andTestament of hismaternal Grandfather the said Thomas Jelf Powys Esquireassumeand from henceforth use the surname of Powys only instead of hispaternal surname of Feilding and also bear the Arms of Powysonly and that the said Surname and Arms of Powys only maylikewise be borne and used by his issue such arms being firstduly exemplified according to theLaws of Arms and recorded inthe Heralds Office otherwise the said Royal Licence andpermission to be void and of none effect: And Forasmuch as thesaid Earl Marshal did by Warrant under his hand and seal bearingdate the fifteenth date of August instant authorize and directus to exemplify such Arms accordingly: Know Ye Therefore that Wethe said GARTER and CLARENCEUX in obedience to His Majesty'sCommand in pursuance of His Grace's warrant and by virtue of theletters patent on Our several Offices to each of us respectivelygranted do by these presents exemplify untothe said HenryWentworth Feilding now Henry Wentworth Powys the Arms ofPowysvizt: Or a Lion's jamb in bend erased between two Crosscrossletsfitchy gules And the Crest of Powys On a Wreath of theColors: A Lions erased gules grasping a Sceptre surmounted witha Fleur de lis Or as thesame are in the Margin hereof moreplainly depicted to be borne and usedfor ever hereafter by himthe said Henry Wentworth Powys and his issuepursuant to theTenor of the said Royal Warrant and according to the Laws ofArms: In Witness whereof We the said GARTER and CLARENCEUX KingsofArms have to these presents subscribed our Names and affixedthe seals of our several offices this twenty fourth day ofAugust in the third years of the reign of our Sovereign LordWilliam the Fourth by the Grace ofGod of the United Kingdon ofGreat Britain and Ireland King Defender ofthe Faith &c. and inthe year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred andthirty-two.Ralph Bigland Garter William Woods ClarenceuxWhoever is his heir is entitled to collect this magnificentdocument: Iam merely the custodian pro tem._In the 1871 census he was the Head of Berwick House("Mansion")of Saint Mary Berwick township, North Shropshire.He described himself as gentleman, though someone had writtenabove ths "Landed Proprietor and Honble"He had in the house with him 10 servants and one visitor(possibly a relation of one of the servants). In Berwick "Farm"there was also a shepherd with his wife and a boarder.The servants were:Housekeeper, Butler, Gamekeeper, Cook, Housemaid. Kitchenmaid,Under housemaid, Groom, Helper by stables and (possibly) Washer,all save the last unmarried.<pre>

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1 SOUR Book - Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe - 1 PERI Powys-Lybbe genealogy -

These are the various documents he left behing summarising his -

researches. They included: -

(1) His master tree of all families married by our forebears. -

(2) His formal pedigree of the Powyses, in the style of Burke. -

(3) His two pages of trees of various descents from medieval -

royalty, including the Trotters back to the Scottish Stewarts. -

(4) His trees of the recent Trotter marriages. -

Remarkably most of this has proved to be confirmed by publicly -

available documents and some of it is a remarkable set of -

findings. One or two errors have appeared, mainly where he got -

the wrong wife as the ancestor. Perhaps only 20% of this -

remains to be checked, principally the families married into by -

the Trotters in the 18th and 19th centuries. -

However his besetting and frustrating fault is his almost -

invariable omission of sources and similarly of dates. -

I suspect he relied heavily on Burke's Extinct Peerage, judging -

by the heavily thumbed copy in APL's possession in 1999. But -

there is also evidence that went to various libraries and paid -

handsomely for primary documentary evidence of some 16th and -

17th century families. -

Nevertheless most of my work has been to extend and verify his -

enormous efforts. He really was a serious genealogist (like -

Martin but who follows the stricter regime of the last quarter -

of the 20th century) and I have considerable admiration for what -

he found out.

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