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 Hutchins's History of Dorset, vol. i. 238, where the pedigree is given from the Heralds' Office, CC. 22, 155, continued from 1623 to 1753 by James Lane, Richmond Herald, and the new edition of Hutchins, vol. i. p. 398.

Arms.—Argent, a bend pules cotised sable. Said to have been borne by the first ancestor, John Frampton.

Present Representative, Henry James Frampton, Esq.

Bond of Grange and Lutton, in the parish of Steple, in the Isle of Purbeck.

Originally of Cornwall, and said to be a family of great antiquity, but not connected with Dorset till the middle of the fifteenth century. In 1431 (9th Henry VI.) Robert Bond of Beauchamp's Hache, in the county of Somerset, was seated at Lutton, his mother having been the heiress of that name and family. Grange was purchased by Nathaniel Bond, Esq in 1686.

There were other branches of this family seated at Blackmanston, Swanwick, and Wareham.

See Hutchins's History of Dorset, vol. i. 326, and the new edition, vol. i. p. 602.

Arms.—Sable, a fess or. A former coat, recognised in the Visitation of Dorset in 1623, was, Argent, on a chevron sable three besants.

Present Representative, The Rev. Nathaniel Bond.