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 to, it is not at all unlikely that this Sir John Ashbome was of the Sussex family, and bore the arms of the Sussex Ashburnhams. There is no pedigree of either Ashbome or Ashburnham in the Visitations of Worcestershire.

—Argent, on a fesse between 3 crescents gules, 3 mullets or; another, the mullets arg.

or, Worcestershire.—Gules a fesse between. 6 martlets ar; another, or ; another, the fess or, &c.

AsHERBURN or AsHBURNER, Cockermouth. — Arg. on a fess between 3 crescents gules, 3 mullets or.

Ashburnham, Sussex and Suffolk. — Gules a fess arg. between 6 plates.

Ashburnham. — Gules a fess between 3 mullets arg.

— Arg. on a fess between 3 crescents gules, 3 mullets arg.

— Azure a fess between 3 martlets or; another, the fess or.

, Worcestershire.—Gules a fess between 3 mullets arg.

of Penhurst, bore sable a mullet arg. (29). of Hastings and Denne, bore ermine on a bend three mullets (32). of Herrings in Warbleton, bore ''Sa. three mullets arg. a chief dancette ermine'' (33). of Buxted, bore ermine a fess between six mullets (31). All these seem to have a common origin.

The arms of are three mullets on a chief, which, with the name, would seem to have had a common origin with the name and arms of Eversfield. The great Kentish family of Hever, settled first at Northfleet, and afterwards at Hever Castle, ramified very extensively. A branch settled at "Hever's Wood," in Horley, co. Surrey, whence came the Hevers of Cuckfield; another branch gave name to Hersham (Hever's ham), in Walton-on-Thames. Two other branches might have settled on localities named after them, Hever's-field and Hever's-stede, and bearing mullets on their arms (which were not the bearings of the chief line). These branches might end in heiresses, whose husbands took their arms and the name of their estate. The Falconers of Kent thus, on removing to Michelgrove in Sussex, changed their name for that of their residence. The name of Hever was often spelt