STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET 87
GALPIN OF DORCHESTER
CoRY or GRAN'F or ARMORIALS FROM THE COLLEGE or ARMS
R 7 JAN. 1899
To ALL AND SINGULAR to whom these presents shall come,
Sir Albert William Woods, Knight Commander of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George,
_ Garter Principal King of Arms of the South East and West
Parts of England from the River Trent Southwards, Send
Greeting. Whereas Francis VVilliam Galpin, Vicar of Hatfield
Regis in the County of Essex, and of Trinity College in the
  · University of Cambridge, Master of Arts in the said Univer-
  sity, son and heir of ]ohn Galpin, late of Dorchester in the
* County of Dorset, Gentleman, and grandson of William
Galpin, late of Dorchester aforesaid, Merchant, both deceased,
hath represented unto the Most Noble Henry Duke of Norfolk,
Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, Knight of
the Most Noble Order of the Garter and one of her Majestyls
Most Honourable Privy Council, that being desirous of
bearing Armorial Ensigns duly recorded to his family in the
College of Arms, he therefore requested the favour of his
Grace’s Warrant for Our granting and assigning such Arms
and Crest as may be proper, to be borne by him and his descend-
· ants, by the other descendants of his father, the said ]o1—1N
GALPIN deceased, as also by the descendants of his uncle,
WILLIAM GAL1>rN, late of Dorchester aforesaid, Gentleman
deceased, who was the elder brother of the Memorialist’s
father, the said JOHN GALPIN, deceased, according to the Laws
of Arms, AND- FORASMUCH as the said Earl Marshal did by
- Warrant under his hand and seal bearing date the thirtieth day A
i of November last authorise and direct Us to Grant and assign
A such Arms accordingly. KNOW YE THEREFORE, that We,
the said Garter and Clarenceux, in pursuance of His Grace’s
Warrant, and by virtue of the Letters’ Patent of our several.
Offices, to each of Us respectively granted, do by these Presents
A grant and assign unto the said FRANCIS VVILLIAM GALPIN the
Arms following, that is to say