[Illustration] This family appears to have been founded by the law
early in the fifteenth century, and descends from William Palmer,
who was established at the present seat of Carlton in the ninth of
Henry IV. The celebrated Sir Geoffry Palmer, Attorney-General to
Charles II. was the first Baronet.
See Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 19; and Nichols's Leicestershire, vol.
ii. pt. ii. p. 543.
ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron or between three crescents argent_.
Present Representative, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 8th Baronet.