Arms.—Gules, three fleurs-de-lis argent, a chief vaire.
Present Representative, the Rev, William Lindsay Palmes.
Roundell of Screven.
On the authority of Whitaker we learn that Screven has been in this family since the early part of the fifteenth century; the first recorded ancestor being John Roundell, of Screven, living in the third of Henry VI.
See Whitaker's Craven, ed. 1812, p. 76.
Arms.—Or, a fess gules between three olive-branches vert.
Present Representative, the Rev. Danson Richardson Roundell.
"There is no subject more difficult to be dwelt on than that of honourable descent; none on which the world are greater sceptics, none more offensive to them; and yet there is no quality to which every one in his heart pays so great a respect."—SIR EGERTON BRYDGES'S Autobiography, p. 153.