[Illustration] On the authority of Whitaker we learn that Screven
has been in this family since the early part of the fifteenth
century; the first recorded ancestor being John Roundell, of
Screven, living in the third of Henry VI.
See Whitaker's Craven, ed. 1812, p. 76.
ARMS.--_Or, a fess gules between three olive-branches vert_.
Present Representative, the Rev. Danson Richardson Roundell.
"There is no subject more difficult to be dwelt on than that of
honourable descent; none on which the world are greater sceptics,
none more offensive to them; and yet there is no quality to which
every one in his heart pays so great a respect."--SIR EGERTON
BRYDGES'S Autobiography, p. 153.