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INTRODUCTION.
The arms of Willoughby of Middleton, viz., " Or on two bars gules
"three water-bougets argent," is
Ralph Bugge, of Nottingham, merchant of the
staple, "the original ancestor," says Morton, "of
" some good families." He amassed considerable
wealth, and purchased lands at Willoughby on the
wolds, in Nottinghamshire, which he left to his
son Richard, who thereupon assumed the name of
Willoughby. His son, Sir Richard, acquired the
manor of Wollaton, and his son, again Sir Richard,
was an eminent lawyer and Justice of the Court
of Common Pleas, 1338.
the coat of the originator of that family,
Notes on the Churches of
Notts, Godfrey (p. 315).
The family of Bugge carried, says Burke,
"Azure three water-bougets or, two and one."
In Stowe's Survey of London reference is
made to John Bugg, Esq., a rich merchant, who
was mainly instrumental in rebuilding St. Dionis,
Backchurch, in the choir of which church he was
buried during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In
the following reign, when Mr. Seymour was
brought before the Privy Council, February 2oth, '(]
1609-10, on suspicion of having held clandestine
interviews with Arabella Stewart, he confessed
."after that we had a second meeting at Mr. Bugge's,
"his house in Fleet Street."
Heraldry, therefore, shows that the etymology of this name has nothing
to do with entomology ; indeed, "bug" the insect, is derived from a Welsh
word, bwg, meaning a hobgoblin so bogy, bogle. In this sense it is used
in Psalm 91, in Taverner's version of the Bible, 1539: "So that thou shalt
" not need to be afraid for any bugs by night nor for the arrow that flyeth
" by day." In America the word is generally applied to beetles, e.g., Maybug,
lady-bug, land-bug, water-bug, house-bug.
But true Heraldry, albeit it flourished in the Middle Ages,
is the
exponent, the record, the language (if you will) of chivalry, i.e., of a
genuine noble effort to remedy wrong and mitigate suffering, to purify and
keep pure society, and hold men together in lawful and loyal combinations
by appealing to all the higher instincts of humanity, and by elevating all
the features of true magnanimity, as worthy of reverence, protection, and
imitation.
In those days, when might was right, and there was no public opinion
to affect men's tyrannical or wanton gratification of their passions of anger,