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 Burn's Westmorland, vol. i. p. 87; and Whitaker's Richmondshire, vol. ii. p. 333.

Arms.—Sable, three escallops within a border engrailed argent. The present coat, but without the border, was borne by Walter de Strykelande, in the reign of Richard II. Another coat, used in the reign of Edward II. was Argent, two bars and a quarter gules. (Rolls.) The Stricklands of Boynton bear, Gules, a chevron or between three crosses patée argent, on a canton ermine a stag's head erased sable.

Present Representative, Walter Strickland, Esq.

Fleming of Rydal; Baronet 1705.

Michael le Fleming, living in the reign of William the Conqueror, is the ancestor of this ancient family, originally seated in Cumberland and at Gleston, in Furness, in Lancashire. Isabel, daughter of Sir John de Lancastre, living in the sixth of Henry VI., having married Sir Thomas le Fleming, of Coniston, Knight, seated the Flemings at Rydal, ever since the residence of the family.

See Burn's Westmorland, vol. i. p. 150; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iv. p. 105.

Arms.—Gules, fretty argent. The present coat, called "The arms of Hoddleston," with a label vert, was borne by John Fleming de Westmerland in the reign of Edward III. (Roll.) A more ancient coat, according to Wotton, was a Fleur-de-lis, within a roundell.

Present Representative, Sir Michael le Fleming, 7th Baronet.

Gentle.