Widdrington
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Kirkby Lonsdale (In. S. tablet, between 2 columns). Foelici memoriæ Elizabethæ Carvs,
filiae et haeredis Thomae Carvs, Nicholai Cvrwen Eqvitis Avrati vxoris,
matris svæ optime meritæ maerens filia Maria Hence. Widrington nvpta hoc
saxum posvit. Hie reqviescit ab ano Dni. 1611 aetatis svae 51, donec
postrema Ivx refvlgeat. Arms. ("These arms over the mon. to Eliz. Carus in
K. L. ch. If ye 3d is C. it is not the arms generally given. to them " see
infra. Hill Memory of SS. II. 328 citing Machell " 41y, 1 & 4. fret & chief (for
Curwen, i.e. ar. fretty gu. chief az.); 2 & 3 az. lion rampant ar. gutté de
sang (? shd. be billetté as per Coll. Arms, E. died N. Grafton's Lanc. 2nd
cat. 83) impaling 41y 1 (? & 4, a blank) az. on chevron ar. 3 mullets gu.
(for Carus, the 10 cinquefoils ar 6 in chief, and 4 in base omitted)† 2.
ar. 3 bars gu. canton of last (for Preston, i.e. 2 bars and on on canton a
cinquefoil or); 3 ar, ram sa. horned or, on chief of 2nd (3) garbs of 3rd.
† See Flower's Lancashire Visitation CoIl. Arms died 3 p. 47; I. C. B. 2. 2nd
cal. 3, i.e. copy of St. George's 1613 Westmorland Visitation & C. 37. 100
b. Dugdale's 1664 Lanc. Visit. for Carus arms and pedigrees. The latter
gives the above Curwen-Carus match, and notes to the line of Thomas Carus'
brother Christopher, the Carus arms (not, as above, minus the 10
cinquefoils, but) minus the 4 mullets on the chevron. Mr. W. Jackson notes
the billette lion as sometimes lozengy.