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[65] gold ground from the Vescis. In 1316 Sir Gilbert de Aton, father of Sir William, probably took the cross of the de Vescis, as sole heir to that family. Previously he had been the heir and representative of Warin de Vesci, of Knapton, a younger son of that house, and it has been suggested that Warin added the five bulls' heads as a difference. The Sir Robert de Boynton who contended for this coat, was of Hunmanby and it would appear that this particular bearing should belong to that branch of the family. This coat is also given by Glover for Boynton. In a 16th century North Country Book of Arms, this coat is given for Boynton quartering Gules a leaping goat silver with horns gold. What the origin of this device is, has not been discovered, nor why it occurs on the Boynton shield. On the slab of Henry de Boynton and his wife Isabella (Lumley) at Gilling (near Richmond), Henry's feet rest on a goat. There is at Durham a small seal of Christopher Boynton (1437) bearing a goat's head erased. The Boynton's have for a very considerable period used a black goat guttée d'éau, bearded, armed and hoofed gold, as a crest.

The Boyntons of Sedbury bore Gold, on a fess between three crescents gules, a lion passant of the first. This coat Papworth gives for Sir Thomas Boynton, of Acklam in Cleveland, Co. York, for Sir Thomas Boynton, of Sedbury, on the authority of Glover's Ordinary and also for Boynton of Barmston (Baronetcy, 1618). Harl. MS. 521 gives this coat without the lion passant for "Christopher Boynton" who so far as I find was of the Sedbury line. Tonge's Visitation gives for Boynton, of Sedbury, Or between