The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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Hierom, as he is called in the Will, or Hieron as the name
is elsewhere spelled, was the son of Jherome Guylberd by
his second wife, Jane Wingfield. Jherome was born at Clare
Manor, Hintlesham, Suffolk, but later resided at Colchester,
Essex, of which city he was a Burgess and Recorder, and
died there 23 May, 1583. His first wife was Elizabeth ,
who appears to have been the mother of his daughter Mar-
garet. By Jane Wingfield he had four sons, of whom the
eldest was William, "docter of physick and phissition* to
Queen Elizabeth," and to her successor, James I : he was
born in 1540 and died unmarried, 30 November, 1603. He
was a noted scientist, and has been called " the Newton of
his time." He was the author of a treatise on magnetism
and an early investigator of electricity. A monument to his
memory is still standing in Trinity Church, Colchester,!
bearing the Guylberd arms, which are "argent, on a chevron
between three leopard's heads affrontee azure as many roses
of the field."*
Hieron was the second son, and Ambrose and George were
younger, but the dates of birth have not been learned. The
last two owned estates in Elmsted and Ardley, Essex.
* " Essex Visitations, 1634, Pub. Harleian Soc," Vol. XIII, p. 405, which names two
Williams among the sons ; the second is called George by other authorities.
t Cooke's "Topographical Description of Essex," p. 64. See also Chancellor's
" Ancient Sepulchral Monuments of Essex," Plate Ixvii, for an engraving of this tomb ;
and an account of the family will be found on pp. 202 et seq.
X Described in modern terms, the device would be a shield with the field of silver
or white (identical tinctures in heraldry) , with a blue chevron between three leopard's
faces, two above and one below, of the same color ; on the chevron are three white
roses; heraldic "roses" are rather rosettes of five lobes, enclosing smaller rosettes on
their centres, and five barbs or points, one between each pair of lobes, but no leaves.