[Illustration] This is the only remaining branch of an ancient
Norman family formerly seated at Upton and Norton near Warminster,
in Wiltshire; Walter de Scudamore being lord of the former manor in
the reign of Stephen. In that of Edward III. Thomas, younger son of
Sir Peter Scudamore, of Upton-Scudamore, having married the heiress
of Ewias, removed into Herefordshire, and was the ancestor of the
family long seated at Holme-Lacy, created Viscounts Scudamore in
1628, and extinct in 1716. From him also descended the house of
Kentchurch, who are said to have been seated there in the reign of
Edward IV.
See Gibson's Views of the Churches of Door, Holme-Lacy, and Hemsted,
&c. 4to. 1727; and Guillim's Heraldry, ed. 1724, p. 549.
ARMS.--_Gules, three stirrups, leathered and buckled, or_. Ancient
coat, _Or, a cross patée fitchée gules_.
Present Representative, John Lucy Scudamore, Esq.
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