of the same with the certificate of G. Ambrose Lee, Bluemantle, is presented herein on the page facing this. In the painting furnished by Mr. G. Ambrose Lee the shield and shells are black and the crosses and chevron are gold. In the cut here given the gold color is represented by little black dots on the white ground.

The christian name of this "King of London" is not given nor was a pedigree filed, which is not unusual. It however renders the proof of a direct descent and the establishment of an unbroken connection with the original grantee, an extremely difficult if not impossible task. It will be observed however that this coat of arms is precisely the same as that used by James King of Suffield, except that it has the addition of a crest—an arm grasping a broken spear.

The King family of Suffield, Connecticut, came directly from Ugborough, Devonshire, England, and not from London, and it was to a resident, either temporary or permanent, of this latter city that in 1611 these arms were originally granted. It is supposed, however, that William and Margaret King were early ancestors of the Ugborough family, who, with some of their children left Ugborough and took up their residence at London about the year 1587, when the Spanish Armada was threatening the south coast of England, and this is very probable for there is no record' of them in the parish registers of Ugborough after that time nor any record of their burial there.

In this way, if the "King of London," to whom these arms were granted, was one of these ancestors of the Ugborough family, then the Kings remaining at Ugborough, and among them the ancestors of the Suffield, Connecticut, Kings, would have been direct heirs of course and entitled to bear these arms.

That some such relationship existed seems evident from the very use itself of these arms by James King of the Ugborough family (born at Ugborough, 1647) but it may be impossible now to obtain definite information.

While Burke's General Armory blazons thirty-eight King and fifteen Kinge coats of arms it will be found upon examination that many of them are identically alike, others only differ in coloring of the field or charges and others again differ only as to their

The above Armorial Bearings are entered in the book marked "Camden's Grants I" (dD. 1611) to "King of London

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Ambrose Lee

Bluemantle