A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours (1838)
pryes are re-(•onleil in the Heralds Visitations of bothcounties; those of Cornwall conimencingwith Thomas SniiK de Cutcrewe in Comit.Cornubia, arm. nup. Comit. Devonia?, towhose greal-grand-sonsthe arms, crest, andmotto of their ancestors were confirmed bySir William Segar,… … This ancient family, whose name hasbeen variously written De Spre, De Spray,De Sprey, Spreye, Sprie, Sprye, and Spry,was seated at a very early period in thecounty of Devon, where several places stillbear the designation, in its more ancientspelling; as the parish of Spiv;yton, SpciV-ton, or…
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