[Illustration] Founded by William Weld, Sheriff of London in 1352,
who married Anne Wettenhall; his posterity were seated at Eaton in
Cheshire, till the reign of Charles II. The present family are
descended from Sir Humphry, Lord Mayor of London in 1609, who was
fourth son of John Weld of Eaton and Joan Fitzhugh. Lulworth was
purchased in 1641.
Younger branch, Weld-Blundell of Ince-Blundell, Lancashire.
See Ormerod's Cheshire, ii. 131; Hutchins's Dorset, i. 226; and the
new edition, i. p. 372; Blakeway's Sheriffs of Salop, p. 120,
ARMS.--_Azure, a fess nebulée between three crescents ermine_.
Confirmed by Camden in 1606. See Morgan's Sphere of Gentry, book 2,
p. 112.
Present Representative, Edward Weld, Esq.