This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter Two THE BRISTOL FOREBEARS In 1699, thirty-two years after Miles Cary, our Virginia immigrant, was dead and buried, three of his kinsmen of the Bristol family, who had achieved fame and fortune as English merchants engaged in overseas trade, united in an application to the Heralds' College for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter Two THE BRISTOL FOREBEARS In 1699, thirty-two years after Miles Cary, our Virginia immigrant, was dead and buried, three of his kinsmen of the Bristol family, who had achieved fame and fortune as English merchants engaged in overseas trade, united in an application to the Heralds' College for confirmation to them and their descendants of the right to bear the arms of Cary of Devon, which they certified they and their ancestors in Bristol had borne "time out of mind," in accordance with "the constant tradition," that they were descended from a cadet of the Devon family.1 With the consent of the contemporary head of the Devon family, the application was granted 1 Although many of the Bristol Carys were buried in the crypt of St. Nicholas Church, including the two Mayors, they do not seem to have erected there any family monument showing an achievement of arms; certainly none has survived. It may be noted then in passing that Miles Gary's 1667 tombstone in Virginia (see post, p. 36) is the only recorded and surviving evidence of such use of arms by the Bristol family prior to 1699. In accordance with the Virginia fashion Miles Cary's descendants displayed the arms consistently, throughout the eighteenth century, on tombs, signet rings, table plate, coach panels, book plates, etc. At the end of the nineteenth century the practice was resumed. by the Earl Marshal.1 (See Appendix II.) In support of this application there was filed a certificate of the Chamberlain of Bristol from the Great Red Book of Bristol, then known as the Tolzey Book, as to Carys who had held municipal office in Bristol, viz.: Lawrence de Cary, Senister 1313; John de Cary, bailiff 1350 and 1353; William Cary, sheriff 1532 and Mayor 1546; William Cary, sheriff 1599...
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