_Chipchase of Chipchase._--I should be glad to learn if any pedigree exists
of the ancient family of Chipchase, or De Chipches (as the name is spelt in
pleadings and deeds of the fourteenth century). A family bearing that name
appears to have occupied or dwelt near the "Turris de Chipches," co.
Northumberland, so early as Edward I.; at which time the manor of Prudhoe,
of which Chipchase is a member, was held by the Umfravilles. The fact of
the principal charges in the armorial bearings of both families being
similar, seems to have led to the suggestion that the Chipchases were
cadets of the former; but this opinion is without sufficient foundation.