Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London
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The family of Cornwallis sprung originally from com- merce, and settled honourably in Suffolk nearly five cen- turies ago. * See page 39. 280 COMPANY OF GROCERS. William Harvey, Esq. Clarenceux King of Arms, in his visitation of the county of Suffolk, made anno 1561, states, that Thomas Cormvalleys, of London, merchant, the first of this family mentioned in the said visitation, " was a younger brother, and born in Ireland, from " whence the surname cometh, (where at this day be *' found divers ...of that name), as appears by a deed in- " dented in the forty-first year o^ Edward III. , and that " this Thomas gave the same arms which the house, at the " time of the said visitation, did bear, with afess dancette; " the like whereof (he says) is engraven in stone upon the " church porch of Ocley near Broome ; nevertheless, they " do now bear, and of long time have borne, the fess plain; " which deed, with the seal of arms, and the escutcheon " upon the porch, as is aforesaid, the said Clarenceux " testifies to have seen in his said visitation.
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