Arms.—Argent, on a cross gules five escallops or. The ancient arms founded on those of the Bellemonts Earls of Leicester were Sable, three cinquefoils argent.
Present Representative, Victor Albert George Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey.
Gentle.
Coker of Bicester.
The younger, but I believe now the only remaining, line of a family formerly seated at Coker in the county of Somerset, where it can be traced to the time of Edward I. Mapouder in Dorsetshire, derived from the heiress of Veale in the reign of Henry V., became afterwards the family seat. In 1554, John Coker, who appears to have been second son of Thomas Coker, of Mapouder, purchased the Manor of "Nuns' Place or King's End in Biscester," which has since remained the residence of this ancient family.
See Coker's Survey of Dorsetshire, p. 98; Hutchins's History of Dorsetshire, vol. iii. p. 273; Kennett's Parochial Antiquities, 1st. ed. p. 109; and Burke's Commoners, 2nd ed. vol. iii. p. 347.
Arms.—Argent, on a bend gules three leopard's heads or. The Mapouder line bore the arms within a border engrailed sable; but the elder branch of the family, who are represented by the Seymours Dukes of Somerset, omitted the border.
Present Representative, Lewis Coker, Esq.
Parker of Shirburn Castle, Earl of Macclesfield 1721, Baron Parker 1716.