[Illustration] Welby, near Grantham, in this county, is supposed to
have given name to this "ancient howse, Bering armes,"* and here Sir
William Welby, who heads their well-authenticated pedigree,
undoubtedly possessed property between 1307 and 1327. The manor of
Frieston, with Poynton Hall, also in Lincolnshire, was held by Sir
Thomas Welby, (who it cannot be doubted was a still earlier
ancestor,) of King Henry III. in chief, in 1216. The first-mentioned
Sir William having married the heiress of Multon of Multon in this
county, that place continued, till the end of the sixteenth century,
the principal seat of his descendants. Denton was purchased by John
Welby, the ancestor of the present family, in 1539.
See "Notices of the Family of Welby," 8vo., Grantham, 1842; and
Allen's History of Lincolnshire, ii. 314; for Welby of Multon, see
Blore's Rutlandshire, 192.
ARMS.--_Sable, a fess between three fleurs-de-lis argent_.
Present Representative, Sir Glynne Earle Welby, 3rd Baronet.
* So styled in the Heralds' grant of crest in 1562.