Lot Essay
Unusually the crest appears to relate to the sinister, or right hand impalement, rather than the husbands impalement on the left or dexter side of the coat. The arms of Gregory being Gules on a chevron between ten Cross Crosslets Or three Cross Croslets Gules, crest three garbs, or wheatsheafs, illustrated in T. Woodcock and J. M. Robinson, The Oxford Guide to Heraldry, Oxford, 1988, p. 42. These were granted to Gregory Gregory of Nottingham on 4 July 1663 by William Dugdale, Norry King of Arms. It has been suggested that the engraving was copied form a seal on which the arms are reversed with the husband's arms appearing on the right rather than the left.
The Harlaxton estates entered the Gregory family with the marriage of Anne Orton 1713-1788) to Gregory Gregory Esq. (1696-1758), of Rempstone Hall, co. Nottingham, in 1738. Anne was the great-grand-daughter of Sir Daniel de Ligne Kt. (d.1656)
The Harlaxton estates entered the Gregory family with the marriage of Anne Orton 1713-1788) to Gregory Gregory Esq. (1696-1758), of Rempstone Hall, co. Nottingham, in 1738. Anne was the great-grand-daughter of Sir Daniel de Ligne Kt. (d.1656)