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 THE FOUNDING OF THE FAMILY 5

the arms of the Seycelds, quartered with Winston and Carlyon. 1

A pedigree, apparently genuine, at Hatfield, shows that Philip Seyceld of Allt yr Ynys had a son Richard, whose will, October 8th, 1508, is also extant. Richard had two sons, Philip, of Allt yr Ynys, who seems to have died in his father's lifetime, and David, who in all probability is identical with the grandfather of Lord Burghley.

Philip had a son John, who died in 1551 ; and John had three sons, the eldest of whom, William, died in March, 1598, leaving one son and eight daughters. One of his sons-in-law, Paul de la Hay, sends Burghley an account of the funeral, from which we see that the family looked up to the Lord Treasurer as their patron and protector. He describes how the eight sons-in-law of the deceased and three of his nephews followed the coffin, and after them his son Matthew's wife, the eight daughters, and William's sister Alice in mourning attire. " His wife refused to be present, albeit requested and a gown's cloth sent her." After- wards a distribution of bread and money was made to the poor, " and so," he continues, " in worship- ful manner was the funeral celebrated to your Lordship's commendations, for that to the credit

1 Mr. A. C. Fox-Davies has pointed out that the fact that Lord Burghley adopted these arms with quartering of Winston only (for Carlyon was brought in by Winston) " would seem to indicate the probability that that much of the pedigree was within his own know- ledge which it may well have been." The mother of the first Philip Seyceld, mentioned above, is said to have been a Winston. See The Genealogy of the Cecils, in Jack's Historical Monograph on Lord Burghley (1904).

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