COVERT, WILLIAM
Arms.—Quartered.
1. Gu., a fess ermine between 3 martlets or. Covert.
2. Erm., 2 bars and a canton gu. Boyes.
3. Gu., a fess between 3 lions' heads couped or. St. Clair.
4. Arg., a chevron between 3 garbs gu. Sheffield.
5. Or, 2 crescents, 1 and 1, gu., a canton erm. Symonds.
6. Lozengy, arg. and gu., a fess sa. Rockly.
7. Arg., a cross sa., with 2 crosses crosslet fitchée of the last in the upper cantons. Balderstone.
8. Arg., on a chief gu., 3 lions rampant arg. Yonge.
9. Or, a cross gu. Bourke.
10. Arg., 5 fusils in bend, gu. Bradeston.
11. Arg., on a chief gu., 3 crosses pattée fitchée of the first. Dyall.
12. Arg., 3 garbs gu. Comyn.
13. Lozengy, arg. and sa., each lozenge sa., charged with a martlet or. Croft (?).
[Babington's Works. London, 1615.]
William Covert of Kent belonged to an old family, members of which were settled in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex since the sixteenth century.
John Covert, a member of the same family, had a command at the Siege of Boulogne in 1558.
