SHELDON, RALPH
Arms.—Sa., a fess arg., between 3 sheldrakes ppr. Sheldon.
[The Annals of Cornelius Tacitus. London, 1640.]
Variety.—Quarterly.
1st and 4th; sa., a fess arg., between 3 sheldrakes ppr. Sheldon.
2nd; arg., on a bend sa., between 2 lions rampant of the second, a wyvern, extended, of the first. Newport.
3rd; gu., a saltire vair. Wellington.
[Nostradamus. The True Prognostications, etc. London, 1672.]
Ralph Sheldon (born 1st August 1623, died 24th June 1684) was the son of William Sheldon of Beoley, Worcestershire, and an ardent collector of antiquities, particularly books and manuscripts. He collected a large library at his house "Weston," at Long Compton, Warwickshire, and bequeathed to the College of Arms a large number of the manuscripts of Augustine Vincent, Windsor Herald. Mr. Sheldon suffered persecution as a Catholic. He wrote several genealogical treatises, many of which are now kept at the College of Arms.
