(Boycott, Hinton, and Rudge, co. Salop. The present representative of this family is Miss Emma Botcott, of Rudge Hall, the eldest dau. and co-heir of the late Thomas Boycott, Esq., of Rudge. The only one of the daus, and co-heirs of the said Thomas Boycott, who left issue, was Lousia Mary Catherine, the youngest, who married Andrew Wight, Esq., of Ormiston, N.B., by whom she had issue an only surviving child, Cathcart Boycott Wight, Esq., of Ormiston, heir to the Rudge estates, who in. Lizzie, youngest dau. of George Grazebrook, Esq., of Pedmore, near Stourbridge, co. Worcester, and has issue. The original grant of Arms to Silvanus Boycott, of Hinton, and his brother Francis Boycott, of Buildwas, is at Rudge Hall. It is dated 21st March, 1663, and was made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Knt., Clarenceux. Tbe Arms and Crest are thus blazoned in the grant. “ Upon a cheife ar. in a field gu. three granadocs ppr. And for the Crest, an armed arme (embowed) ppr. issuing out of a crowne murall (gu.) casting a granado.
(Morse-Botcott. Exemplified to John Hall Morse-Boycott, Esq., of Sennowe Lodge, co. Norfolk, and of Sennoweville, Busbey, Herts, only son of the late John Morse, Esq., of Sprowston Hall and Bagthorpe, Norfolk, and Abbots Wooton, co. Dorset, High Sheriff of Norfolk 1807, by Elizabeth Anne his wife, only dau. of Gen. Hall,of Wratting Park, co. Cambridge, upon his assuming by royal licence, 1844, the surname of Boycott in addition to, and after that of Morse, and the Arms of Boycott quarterly with those of Morse). Quarterly: 1st and 4th, paly of six or and gu. on a chief engr. erm. three fire-balls ppr., for Boycott; 2nd and 3rd, per pale ar. and sa. two chevronels betw. three mullets pierced all counterchanged, for Morse. Crests —1st: Issuing from a mural coronet ar. a dexter arm vambraced, the fist clenched ppr. from the little finger pendant by a thong gu. an escutcheon also ar. charged with a fire-ball ppr., for Boycott; 2nd: A demi man in complete armour ppr. garnished or, his helmet surmounted by a plume of three ostrich feathers az., on his breast a crossbelt sa. in dexter hand a halbert ppr., for Morse. Motto—Deo non armis fido.
