[Illustration] Walpole, in Mershland, in this county, gave name to
this historical family, and here Joceline de Walpole was living in
the reign of Stephen. Reginald de Walpole, in the time of Henry I.
seems to have been lineal ancestor of the house. He was father of
Richard, who married Emma, daughter of Walter de Hawton, or
Houghton, which at a very early period became the family seat, and
which, after the death of the third Earl of the first creation,
passed to the issue of his aunt Mary, Viscountess Malpas, daughter
of Sir Robert Walpole; whose descendant, the Marquess of
Cholmondeley, is the present possessor.
See Blomefield, iii. 796, and iv. 708; also Brydges's Collins, v.
631.
ARMS.--_Or, on a fess between two chevrons sable three
cross-crosslets of the first_.
Present Representative, Horatio William Walpole, 4th Earl of
Orford.