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- From history of the Brereton family (https://archive.org/details/breretonsofchesh00brer/page/50):
"The monument was originally finished with a shield, which is now lying in the chancel, on which were the arms of Smethwicke, OR, (OR means gold color) three crosses patee-fitche, sable. On the friezes below were originally nine shields, as follows:
(i) Smethwicke, impaling Brereton ; argent, two bars, sable.
(2) Smethwicke, impaling Davenport; argent, a chevron on sable, between three cross crosslets fitchee of the second.
(3) Smethwicke, impaling Ratclyfife ; argent, two bars engrailed, sable, a label of three points, gules.
(4) Smethwicke, impaling Kingsley ; vert, a cross engrailed, ermine.
(5) Smethwicke, impaling Downes ; sable, a hart (deer) lodged, argent.
(6) De-stroyed.
(7) Smethwicke, impaling ____; argent, fretty gules, on a canton azure, a cross patee, argent.
(8) Dexter coat destroyed, impaling Vernon; OR., on a fesse, azure, three garbs, OR.
(9) Destroyed.
For the meaning of the foregoing heraldic terms, see the glossary in the appendix. The term "impaling" signifies the marriage connections with the families of the names mentioned.
The name Downes refers to the Knights of Donnybrook Castle, Kildare, with whom the Colclough family were probably connected. Those of the Vernons and Davenports were the same as those with whom the Breretons, of Brereton, also married."
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