ABNEY OF MEASHAM.

[Illustration] This is a younger branch of a family who were seated

at Willersley, by a match with the heiress of Ingwardby at the

beginning of the fifteenth century. Willersley was the property of

the late Sir Charles Abney Hastings by female descent. Measham is a

purchase of about a century.

See Lysons, cxii.

ARMS.--_Or, on a chief gules a lion passant argent_. Lysons however

gives, _Argent, on a cross sable five bezants._

Present Representative, William Wotton-Abney, Esq.

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