Working through footnotes for the current issue of The American Genealogist and stumbled on this rare appearance of heraldry in a probate register: arms of John Agmondisham, Esquire, of Rowbarne, parish of East Horsley, Surrey, in the registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury for 1572. [In the new style, this is TNA PROB 11/55/103; in the old style, this is 7 Peter, f. 51r.]
Maybe the copyist sensibly presumed we would have trouble with his odd surname, so helpfully drew his coat of arms?
I’d love to see other examples of heraldry in probate registers!
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