Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 141
both were assumed when our ancestor Antoine Loffroy left theNetherlands in the time of the Duke of Alvas persecutions; that the cap was in-tended to represent his adoption of Huguenot principles,and the motto his inflexible adherence to that which heconsidered the cause of Religion and Liberty.… … No earlier proof of the arms being borne inEngland has been discovered than the monu-ment of Thomas Lefroy (ob. 1723) in Pethamchurch, Kent, impaling Thomson, as shewnin this engraving. The same is at Itchel, ashield 3 \ by 3 inches, painted in oil on can-vas,—probably a funeral hatchment. The…
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