Image: Roe (of Higham Hall, Walthamstow, Essex) arms

Description: Arms of Roe/Rowe of Higham Hall, Walthamstow, Essex: Gules, a quatrefoil or (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.866 "Roe of Higham Hall, Essex and Muswell Hill, Middlesex") (see also: 'Walthamstow: Manors ', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6, ed. W R Powell (London, 1973), pp. 253-263 [1]). Also arms of Rowe "of Middlesex" (Burke, 1884, p.876, as quartered by Hill, Marquess of Downshire). Text from: Hornsey in History: Pin’s or (Muswell) Hill, from a 1972 series of Hornsey Journal articles by Ian Murray, first Chairman of Hornsey Historical Society and Haringey Council Archivist. [2]: In 1577 the Muswell Hill Estate passed into the hands of the Rowe family, mentioned in Norden’s History (Speculum Britanniae, 1593). This family produced three Lord Mayors of London, a dramatic poet who is now forgotten except for his editions of Shakespeare, and one of the judges who condemned Charles I, Colonel Owen Rowe. At the Restoration he was himself condemned to death but was reprieved and finally died in the Tower of London in 1661. He was buried in Hackney Church where most of the same family are buried. In about 1700 Muswell Hill passed into the hands of the Pulteney family where it remained for the rest of the century, Sir William Pulteney becoming in 1795 the first Earl of Bath. Another branch of the family which bore the same arms was Roe/Rowe of Knotts in the parish of Leyton,[1] Essex, a member of which was Sir w:Thomas Roe (c.1581-1644) (of Rendcomb, Glos. and St. Martin's Lane, Westminster; later of Woodford, Essex[2]), knight, diplomat, scholar and Member of Parliament. His sister Mary Roe/Rowe (1579-1615) (both issue of Robert Roe/Rowe of the City of London, Haberdasher), married Richard Berkeley (1579–1661) of Stoke Gifford and Rendcomb both in Gloucestershire, a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire in 1614. These arms of Roe Gules, a quatrefoil or are shown on Richard Berkeley's mural monument in St Michael's Church, Stoke Gifford.
Title: Roe (of Higham Hall, Walthamstow, Essex) arms
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