SIXTEENTH GENERATION

52880. Sir William READE ⁽¹⁸⁶⁾. Through his marriage with Elizabeth MENIS came about the quartering of the Menis arms with those of Reade, in accordance with the unwritten laws of the English College of Arms and the usages of Heraldry. Sir William, as was the custom of armorial families of that period, impaled his wife's family arms with his own, and his descendants quartered the two coats; hence these arms have been, from that date to the present, the authoritative arms of this branch of the Reed family, and are so recorded and certified to by the English College of Arms, London. Our family coat of arms, thus quartered, is therefore in heraldic terms described as follows, viz.: Quarterly, I and 4; azure, a griffin segreant or rampant or, clawed gules; 2 and 3; gules, a chevron vaire, between three leopard's faces or, for Menis.

52881. Elizabeth MENIS⁽¹⁸⁶⁾ . Of Sandwich, in the County of Kent, daughter and heir of Menis. Children were:

26440 i. William READE.
ii. Matthew READE⁽¹⁸⁶⁾. Died without issue
iii. Alice READE⁽¹⁸⁶⁾.
iv. Rebecca READE⁽¹⁸⁶⁾.

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