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The Manor of Alderton 3 rd edition
Jackson 533 , maintained that quarter 5 shows three pieces of equipment
from the woollen industry (or maybe weels, see below) and this seems to
be the accepted interpretation of the arms. Given that Bradford on
Avon has been a wool town from time immemorial it seems likely. Jackson
rendered them as
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a) b)
Fig. 43 The charge as shown by Jackson 534 and Gore 535 *
An alternative is suggested by Schomberg 536 ; he gives the arms as Gore
impaling 1 & 4 sable three battleaxes argent 2 & 3 three eelpots *
argent. The * gives “Taken by some to be Atworth and the charge to be
either a weel [see below] or some sort of spindle”. Whether the argent
refers to the background or the “eelpot” is moot. The initial thought is
that it is the eelpots (or whatever) that are argent but if so what is the
background? Gore shows the charge as Argent, three (whatevers) sable
and that is what is followed above and below. This gives the arms as :
533 Jackson, JEJ (1854) Kingston House Bradford WAM vol 1 part III p 266
534 Jackson, JEJ (1854) Kingston House Bradford WAM vol 1 part III p 265
535 Gore, T (1666) Syntagma Genealogicum or A genealogical treatise of the
family of the Gores of Aldrington or Alderton p137 redrawn by the author
536 Schomberg, (1886) The Pedigree of John Stokes of Seend, co Wilts p8
166