1. Stephen de
Cobham, Lord
of Shorne, who
leaving the
paternal coat,
took his
Mother’s Arms.		 2. John de
Toneford,
where he dwelt,
a place in
Chartham.		 3. Stephen de
Cobham, father
of Henry, Lord
of Dunstall.

This elder Stephen was father of Sir John de Cobham of Rundale, and of Robert de Cobham, which Sir John was father of Sir Thomas Cobham de Rundale, and of John de Hever, who had the manor of Hever, and thence his name.

Robert de Cobham. John de Hever of Hever.

John de Cobham, aforesaid, who bore the three lions on his cheveron, was father of Henry Lord Cobham, and of John Cobham de Blackburg, in co. Devon. Henry Lord Cobham was father of Henry Lord Cobham and of Thomas Cobham, of Chafford in Kent. This Henry Lord Cobham was father of John Lord Cobham and of Thomas Cobham, owner of Belunele and Pipards-clive, who had issue two sons, Thomas and Henry; now all these younger Cobhams varied their Arms as under.

John Cobham
de Blackburg.		 Thos. Cobham
de Chafford.		 Thos. Cobham
de Belunele.		 Henry Cobham
de
Pypard’s Clive.[319]

In like manner the family of Dering, though not so eminent, (yet as antient, and more numerous, for aught yet appears,) did, as the use and necessity of those former ages required, vary their arms upon several occasions, which need not here be repeated, being more visible in the descent,[320] it shall therefore be enough in this place to set down the several shields borne anciently and at present by this name and the several branches thereof, by seals, monuments, old rolls, windows, &c. The antient paternal coat of this family was (if tradition may persuade us) only the blue fesse in a white field, until, say they, one of our ancestors being slain in the king’s wars, his shield was found to have three great bloody spots in place where now the roundels are. I cannot justify such far-fetcht storys; yet two things have a proportionate correspondence with this tradition.

First, it is certain that Norman Fitz-Dering was sheriff of Kent, as shall be evident in the part of the genealogical history which concerns him. 2dly. The Arms of William de Wrotham, Constable of Dover castle, and one of this family, were by old rolls the fesse without the roundells, which may confirm the report, because he was descended from Godred, brother to Norman, who was slain as aforesaid, and not of the body of the said Norman.

The concurrence whereof has induced me to assign that coat unto all before the said Norman Fitz-Dering.

So then the several shields borne by the several persons of this family have been as follows, setting them down as they have first been in antiquity used, and so in order successively.

Sired Fitz-Dering,
t. W. Conqr.
——
De la Hell, T. R.
Steph. ao. 1.
——
Deermanao. 1,
Hen. 2d.
——
W. de Wrotham,
1 R. Johis.
——
Hamo de Pirefeld,
T. R. 1.		 Norman Fitz-Dering,
1 Hen. I and
T. R. Steph.
——
 Arnaldus de
Cuckeston,
t, H. 2.
——
Wm. de
Cheriton,
T. H. 3.		 Normannus
de Ashde
Fraxino—and
de Fresne,
Miles,
T. R. 1 et
H. 2.[321]
Wm. de Perington
Miles, T. Hen. 3.[322]		 Wimond
Fitz-Wimond,
T. Hen. 3.
——
Hamo Wimond,
filius ejus,
T. Ed. I.[323]		 Ricus Fitz-Dering,
qui obiit II Ed. I.[324]		 Henry Dering,
frater junior
Ricardi.[325]
John Dering,
Dns. de
Evering-acre
in Pluckley,
ao 1 Hen. 5
et Ricus
filius ejus,
occis apd.
Bosworth.[326]		 Wm. Dering
de Petworth
in co. Sussex,
et de Lisse
in co. Hants,
Arm. T Hen.
7.[327]