[Illustration] Descended from Thomas Hervey, who died before 1470,
having married Jane, daughter and sole heir of Henry Drury, of
Ickworth. There is some uncertainty as to who this Thomas Hervey
was; the peerages indeed assume that he was younger brother of Sir
George Hervey, of Thurleigh, in Bedfordshire; Mr. Gages however has
proved that this could not have been the case, but the Rev. Lord
Arthur Hervey in his interesting Memoir on Ickworth and the Hervey
family, has adduced several reasons by which it would seem that
Thomas Hervey was a younger son of John Hervey, senior, of
Thurleigh, and the coheiress of Niernuyt, and uncle of Sir George,
the last of the legitimate elder line of that knightly family.
Younger Branch. Bathurst Hervey, of Clarendon, Wiltshire, Baronet
1818, descended from the eighth son of the first Earl of Bristol.
See Gage's Thingoe, p. 286; Brydges's Collins, iv. p. 139; Davy's
Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,135, vol. lix. p. 160; the Rev.
Lord Arthur Hervey's papers on Ickworth and the Family of Hervey,
4to. Lowestoft, 1858; and Proceedings of the Suffolk Archaeological
Society, vol. ii. No. 7.
ARMS.--_Gules, on a bend argent three trefoils slipped vert_, and so
borne by John Hervey, Esq., as appears by "The Proceedings in the
Grey and Hastings Controversy" in the Court of Chivalry in the year
1407. See the Proceedings, privately printed by Lord Hastings in
1841, p. 27. The arms of Hervey appear to have been founded on the
coat of Foliot, _Gules, a bend argent_.
Present Representative, Frederick William John Hervey, 3rd Marquess
of Bristol.
+Gentle.+
ROUS OF DENNINGTON AND HENHAM, EARL OF STRADBROKE 1821; BARON 1796;
BARONET 1660.
[Illustration] "All the Roucis that be in Southfolk cum oute of the
house of Rouse of Dennington," writes Leland in his Itinerary, vol.
vi. fol. 13. That estate appears to have come into the family by the
marriage of Peter Rouse with an heiress of Hobart in the reign of
Edward III., and to have been increased afterwards by matches with
the heiress of le-Watre and Phillips, the last representing one of
the co-heiresses of Erpingham. Henham, the present residence, was
purchased in 1545 by Sir Anthony Rous, son of Sir William Rous of
Dennington.
See Wotton's Baronetage, iii. p. 159; Brydges's Collins, viii. p.
476; Suckling's History and Antiquities of Suffolk, vol. ii. p. 365;
and Davy's Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,147, vol. lxxi. p.
192.
ARMS.--_Sable, a fess dancettée or between three crescents argent_.
Present Representative, John Edward Cornwallis Rous, 2nd Earl of
Stradbroke.