A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
sson. Sir Charles Alen, who m. Dorothy,daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, ofMaiden Bradley, in the county of Wilts,(ancestor of the Duke of Somerset,) a\dleft a son, Sir John Alen. This gentleman wed-ded Arabella, daughter of Sir RichardLevison, knt. of Staffordshire, (of the familyof the Duke of… … Few families can show a more ancientineage than that of Alen, of St. Wolstans,*ieriving in direct and unbroken male de-scent from one of the companions in arrasof the Conqueror, whose name is enrolled atBattle Abbey, and still fewer have allied withnore distinguished and ennobled houses.fFrom a…
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