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Description: Arms of Watkins of Badby House, Northamptonshire: Azure, a fess vair between three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys or (Burkes General Armory, 1884). These are also the arms of Rev. Richard Watkins, Rector of Whichford, Warwickshire, whose daughter Henrietta Watkins married Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet (1679-1749) of Richmond Green in Surrey, of Dutch origin, MP, Governor of the South Sea Company from 1711 to 1712, and a Director of the East India Company in 1713. As impaled by Decker on his monument at St Mary Magdalene's Church, Richmond, Surrey. These are a difference of the arms of de Cantilupe, a powerful mediaeval family in the Hereford/Glamorgan regions, which were adopted with differences by many of their feudal tenants.
Title: Watkins OfBadbyNorthants Arms
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