The Noble and Gentle Men of England / or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.

by Evelyn Philip Shirley

See Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 28.

Arms.—Gules, a fess and in chief three piles wavy argent. This coat was borne by Robert de Isham in the 2nd of Richard II.

Present Representative, Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet.

Palmer of Carlton, Baronet 1660.

This family appears to have been founded by the law early in the fifteenth century, and descends from William Palmer, who was established at the present seat of Carlton in the ninth of Henry IV. The celebrated Sir Geoffry Palmer, Attorney-General to Charles II. was the first Baronet.

See Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 19; and Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 543.

Arms.—Sable, a chevron or between three crescents argent.

Present Representative, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 8th Baronet.

Fane of Apthorp, Earl of Westmoreland 1642.