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Notes for Thomas Quatermaine and Katherine de Bretton

The Visitation of Oxford describes a Quatermaine tomb in Thame Church. [1]

On anothr tombe of marble.
[On which are the effigies of two men armed, with one of them having his wife on his right hand, and the other his on his left, each having armes over their heads,--Nos. XII to XV.]
Thomas quartermayn of North Weston & Kathrin his wyff daughtr of Gye de breton & Jone his wyffe daughterr & heire of Thomas Graye sonne of Robert d. Graye of Rotherfeld Knight ob. vj of June mcccxlii & thomas sone of the said Quartermayn & Jone his wyffe qui ob. vj of Maye mcccxcvi.
XII. Quarterly 1 and 4. Grey of Rotherfield. 2 and 3. Bretton.
XIII. Quatremayne impaling, Bretton, quartering per fess Grey.
XIV. Quarterly I. Quatremayne. II. Quarterly 1 and 4. Grey. 2 and 3. Bretton. III. Bretton. IV. Grey of Rotherfield.
[These arms are over the head of the second women.]
XV. Quatremayne, impaling, Arg. on a bend between six fleurs-de-lys Gu. a quatrefoil. [Fitz Ellys.]
In a wyndow. … (more descriptions of combinations of the same and other arms)


Footnotes:

[1] William Henry Turner, ed., The Visitations of the County of Oxford Taken in the Years 1566 By William Harvey, Clarencieux; 1574 By Ricard Lee, Portcullis, Deputy of Robert Cooke, Clarencieux; and in 1634 by John Philpott, Somerset, and William Ryley, Bluemantle, Deputies of SIr John Borrough, Kt. Garter, and Richare St. George, Kt., Clarencieux. Together with The Gatherings of Oxfordshire Collected by Richard Lee in 1574 (London: Taylor and Co., Printers, 1871), 22, [GoogleBooks].