[Illustration] This is a younger branch of the very ancient baronial
house of Wake, who were Lincolnshire Barons in the reign of Henry I.
Sir Hugh Wake was lord of Deeping in the county of Lincoln, and of
Blisworth in this county, by gift of his father, Baldwin fourth Lord
Wake. He died in 1315, and was the direct ancestor of the present
Baronet. See memoir of the family of Wake privately printed in 1833,
but written by Archbishop Wake; and Wotton's Baronetage, i. 465.
ARMS.--_Or, two bars gules, in chief three torteauxes_. This coat
was borne by Hugh Wake in the reign of Henry III., and again by Sir
John Wake in that of Edward II. Sir Hugh Wake at the latter period
differenced his arms by a canton azure. His uncle reversed the
colours gules and argent, the field being gules. M. Thomas Wake de
Blisworth in the reign of Edward III. bore the same arms, with a
border engrailed sable. (Rolls of the dates.)
Present Representative, Sir William Wake, 11th Baronet.