This family is traced to Rawlin Try, in the reign of Richard II. He married an heiress of Berkeley, by whom he had the manor of Alkington in Berkeley. His great-grandson was High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1447, and married an heiress of Boteler, from whence came the manor of Hardwicke, sold to the Yorkes in the last century. Leckhampton came from the Norwood family in recent times.
See Atkyns's Gloucestershire, p. 238; and Rudder, p. 471, &c.
Arms.—Or, a bend azure. In the Roll of Arms of the Thirteenth Century, printed by the Society of Antiquaries in 1864 [numbers 69 and 70], occur the following coats:
"Signeur de Bilebatia de Try, d'or un bend gobony d'argent et d'azure.
"Regnald de Try, d'or un bend d'azure un labell gulez."
Present Representative, Rev. Charles Brandon Trye.
Estcourt of Estcourt, in Shipton-Moyne.
The printed accounts of this ancient family are somewhat meagre, but original evidences in the possession of the present Mr. Estcourt prove the long continuance of his ancestors as lords of the manor of the place from whence the name is derived, and of which John Estcourt died seised in the fourteenth year of Edward IV. The estate has remained the inheritance of his descendants from that period.