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

Arms.—Argent, fretty sable. This coat, with a quarter gules, was borne by Monsr. Richard Vernon in the reign of Richard II. (Roll.)

Present Representative, George John Warren, 5th Baron Vernon.

Pole of Radborne.

Originally from Newborough in Staffordshire, but from the fourteenth century established, through female descent, first at Hartington, and afterwards at Wakebridge, in this county. Radborne was inherited from the Chandos's, through the Lawtons, also in the fourteenth century. It came to the Chandos family from an heiress of Ferrers or "Fitz-Walkelin."

See Leland's Itinerary, vol. viii. fol. 70 a, and vol. iv. fol. 6; the Topographer, i. 280; Topographer and Genealogist, i. 176; and Lysons, xciv.

Arms.—Argent, a chevron between three crescents gules.

Present Representative, Edward Sacheverell Chandos Pole, Esq.

Cavendish of Hardwick, Duke of Devonshire 1694, Earl 1618, Baron 1605.