Image: St Peter's Church, Petersham, George Cole memorial
Description: Memorial to George Cole (d. 1624) and wife. St Peter's Church, Petersham, Surrey. Heraldry: At top of right-hand column arms of Lee (Argent, a fess sable between two pellets in chief and a martlet in base of the second a mullet gules for difference) impaling Cole (Argent, a bull passant sable armed or a bordure of the second bezantée), for marriage of Elizabeth Cole, daughter of George Cole (d.1624), to Henry Lee of London. (Source: Victoria County History, Surrey, Vol.3, p.532, quoted in: Surrey Coats of Arms[1]) Preston of Petersham: Ermine, two bars and a canton gules thereon a cinquefoil or (Edmondson, Joseph, A Complete Body of Heraldry, Volume 1, 1780, p.94Argent three bends within a bordure engrailed Gules&f=false) Cole quartering 2&3: Argent, three bendlets gules a bordure engrailed of the last (Bodrugan, with difference a bordure engrailed, for an illegitimate branch of Bodrugan). Sir John Cole (fl.1380) of Nethway, Brixham, Devon, married Anne Bodrugan, daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas Bodrugan (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.213) The bordure should be sable, not gules, see: The Genealogie or Pedegree of the Right Worshipfull and Worthie Captaine Sir William Cole of the Castell of Eneskillen in the Countie of Ffermanaugh in the Kingdom of Ireland, Knight, by Sir William Segar, Garter, and William Penson, Lancaster; Copied from the Original Roll, published 1870, Plate 16 [2]
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