Relhan Collection : 58 Arms of Bourn families

Relhan, Richard, 1782-1844

Relhan Collection

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Relhan’s single drawing of the arms of Peche or Pechey, Riggesby, Ellis and Haggar (three shields, the third very different) with those of the four separate drawings that follow (59-62). Cole (1743) describes and illustrates the arms, which hung over a large arch between the chancel and nave. In 2019 these 9 tiny arms still hang in situ but appear (visual inspection only from the ground) to have lost all colour and inscription. William Peverell died on the Second Crusade in 1147; his daughter Alice married Hamon Pecche (d. between 1178 and 1185); Riggesby was one of the Bourn estates. The church also has stones in the aisle to members of the Haggar family, including Robert Haggar, Sheriff of Cambs 1627, who was granted arms by Charles I. The Haggars held the manor of Bourn from 1554 until it was purchased by Balthazzar Lyell. </p><p>Palmer 1932; VCH 1973</p></p>