[Illustration] The printed accounts of this ancient family are
somewhat meagre, but original evidences in the possession of the
present Mr. Estcourt prove the long continuance of his ancestors as
lords of the manor of the place from whence the name is derived, and
of which John Estcourt died seised in the fourteenth year of Edward
IV. The estate has remained the inheritance of his descendants from
that period.
Walter de la Estcourt is the first recorded ancestor. He held lands
in Shipton in 1317, and died about 1325. See Atkyns's
Gloucestershire, 2nd ed. p. 340; Rudder, p. 654 and Lee's History of
the Parish of Tetbury, p. 196.
ARMS.--_Ermine, on a chief indented gules three estoiles or_, and so
borne by William Estcourt, Warden of New College, Oxford, in 1426,
as appears by his silver seal in the possession of Mr. Estcourt.
Present Representative, The Right Hon. Thomas H. S.
Sotheron-Estcourt, late M.P. for North Wilts.