[Denston's  two  coats  are,  Denston  and  Wanton  quarterly,  and  in  this
instance  they  impale  Clopton,  shewing  that  it  is  the  shield  of  John
Denston  who  married  Katharine,  daughter  (by  his  first  wife)  of  William
de  Clopton,  of  Kentwell  in  Melford,  who  died  1446.  The  portrait  of
this  John  Denston,  in  painted  glass,  is  one  of  the  figures  which  I  have
restored  and  placed  in  the  east  window  of  Melford  church.  The  tomb
and  effigy  of  William  de  Clopton  are  in  Melford  church.  His  mother
was  Katharine  Mylde,  the  heiress  of  the  family  of  Mylde  of  Clare,  and
she  by  her  second  husband,  Sir  William  Tendring,  Knt.  had  an  only
daughter,  Alice,  who  married  Sir  John  Howard,  and  was  grandmother
of  the  first  Duke  of  Norfolk  of  that  name.  Elizabeth  Clopton,  daughter
of  William  de  Clopton  by  his  second  wife,  married  Richard  Cavendish,
Serjeant  at  Law.  This  will  shew  the  family  affinity  of  several  of  the
coats  named.     (See  Cullum's  Hawstead,  p.  112.)     R.  A.]

In  a  house,  late  brought  from  the  pryory  : —

One  of  St.  Edmond.
One  of  Playce.
One,  Gules,  six  lefte-hand  gloaves  ar.
One  of  Baynard.
One  of  Or,  a  Salter  sa.  engrailed  and  annulet  ar.
Many  of  Clare  with  Ulster  in  a  bordure  sa.  gutted  or.
On  th'  outside  of  a  house,  one  of  Mortymer  quartering
Ulster.
In  a  wyndow,  one  of  Barnardeston.
In  the  church-yard,  Frette,  charged  with  fleurs-de-hs  saunce
number,  in  a  quarter  dexter  a  starre.
Finis.
'  The  noble  family  of  Cavendish  is  derived  from  ancestors  long  settled  at  Caven-
dish, a  parish  adjoining  to  Clare.
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A    DESCRIPTION    OF    CLEVELAND  ;    IN    A    LETTER    ADDRESSED
BY    H.    TR.    TO    SIR    THOMAS    CHALONER.
