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The Manor of Alderton 3 rd edition
Thomas married Elizabeth Kaynall or Keynell. She was the daughter of
William Kaynall (living 1483) and his wife Sybil. 92 This marriage brought
the Manor of Yatton Keynell into the Gore estates, about 500 acres there
and elsewhere, but Yatton Keynell manor itself was sold after 25 years.
93 .
Fig. 9 The birds in the Whittoksmead arms are depicted
as Thomas Gore rendered them in his book, they would
appear to be lapwings, unfortunately Gore only gave visual
representations of the arms, he did not blazon them An
example of a heraldic lapwing is, for example, found in the
arms of Rusell of Charlton Park, Gloucestershire *
The Keynall arms appear on the exquisite screen which was erected in
Yatton Keynell church. This screen is really very fine, and is in stark
contrast to the plain interior that the remodelling of the mid nineteenth
century has left us.
Fig. 10 Arms of Keynall * (after Gore, T 94 )
92 Gore, T (1666) Syntagma Genealogicum or A genealogical treatise of the
family of the Gores of Aldrington or Alderton p108. William Kaynell was the
son of Richard of Yatton Kaynell by his wife Edith, daughter of Richard Hall
93 Elyard SJ (1894) Some Old Wiltshire Houses p24
“The Manor was purchased by the Snells of Kington St Michael and remained in
that family until sold by the extravagant Sir Charles Snell to partly defray the
cost of the ship which he had built for Sir Walter Raleigh”
94 Gore, T (1666) ibid illustration p121. Buckeridge, D (1995) Church Heraldry
in Wiltshire p33 gives the Keynall arms as “Sable on a fesse or, between six
arrows bendwise points upwards, three moors heads in profile couped at the
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