[Illustration] It has been observed by old Fuller, "The Lands of
Berkshire are very skittish, and are apt to cast their owners;" and
again, "Of names which were in days of yore--few remain here of a
great store." The ancient family of Eyston, and the succeeding one
of Clarke, are indeed the only exceptions at the present day to this
rule. The Eystons have been seated at East Hendred since the reign
of Henry VI.; John Eiston, their ancestor, having at that period
married "Isabel, daughter and heir of John Stow, of Burford, co.
Oxford, whose wife was Maud, daughter and heir of Rawlin Arches, of
East Henreth, whose great-grandmother was Amy, daughter and heir of
Richard Turbervill, of East Henreth, Esq."
See the Visitation of Berks, 1566. Harl. MS. 1822, 26 b, and Harl.
1532, 19 b. See also Lysons's Berkshire, pp. 186, 292, and Clarke's
Hundred of Wanting, 4to. 1824, p. 130.
ARMS.--(Confirmed in 1566.) _Sable, three lions rampant or_.
Present Representative, Charles John Eyston, Esq.