Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
KNIGHTLEY of Kingston-upon-Thames, of Prior Farm [Little Ashtead] in Ashtead, and Leatherhead. *
Arms: Quarterly Ermine and paleways of six Or and Gules, over all on a bend Azure a lance of the second headed Argent.
Crest: A stag head couped Argent charged with a trefoil slipped Vert and attired Or.
As granted to William Knightley of Kingston, son of John Knightley of Nottingham, by Camden, Clarenceux, July 10, 1620, and as borne by
him, (SV1623). John Knightley, grandson of Sir Robert Knightley who bought Priors Farm in 1671, held lands in Ashtead, Leatherhead and
Kingston in 1713.
* Field adds in a marginal note: "Of this family, it may be presumed, was the Mr Knightley of Jane Austen's Emma, the 'Highbury' of which
book seems identical with Leatherhead"
KNIGHTS OF St. JOHN The Knights of St. John held Capel, or Temple Elflande, from 1308 until the dissolution of the Order, 1539; they
also held a third of the manor of Merrow. (VCHS iii 137, 358)
Arms: Gules a cross Argent. (WEC)
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS The Knights Templars acquired Capel and a third of the manor of Merrow from the time of Henry III
Arms: Argent a cross Gules and a chief Sable. (VCHS iii 137)
KNOWLYS Thomas Knowlys of Stockwell, was father of Thomas John Knowlys, JP, (b.1803), who acquired Heysham, Lancashire, by
marriage, 1828, to Anna Maria, (b.1808), daughter and heir of Robert Hesketh, of Wennington, Heysham and Rossall, Lancashire,
Arms: Gules on a chevron Argent three roses Vert barbed and seeded of the field on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the
first.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Gules an elephant's head Argent.
Motto: Lento sed certo et recto gradu. (AWL)
KNUTSFORD Viscount see HOLLAND
KYMPYNGDEN of Leatherhead.
Arms: Gules on a bend engrailed Or between three hunting-horns stringed Argent as many hurts.
As granted by Thomas Wriothesley, Garter, May 11, 1516, to John Kympyngden.
(Catalogue of the Birmingham Heraldic Exhibition, 1936, p.98)
KYNNERSLEY of Addington.
Arms: Azure crusilly and a lion rampant Argent.
Crest: On a mount Vert a greyhound sejant Argent collared Or under a hawthorn tree Proper.
From the monument in Addington Church to Henry Kynnersley, (d.1647), 7 th son of Walter Kynnersley of Loxley Park, Staffordshire.
(MB ii 565)
KYNNERSLEY of Richmond.
Arms: Azure crusilly and a lion rampant Argent.
From the monument in Pyrford Church to Elizabeth, (d.Jan 26, 1684), wife of John Langston of Hanley, Worcestershire, and daughter of
Clement Kynnersley of Richmond. (MB i 158)
Clement Kynnersley (d.Jul 30, 1662). He was Yeoman of the Wardrobe to Kings Charles I and II.
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