View source for B47812-Rossiter,-Rauceter,-and-Roucester

{{CoatofArms
|Name=Rossiter, Rauceter, and Roucester
|Blazon=Ar. an alligator vert.
|Crest=An eagle displ. with two heads ppr.
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|Info=Rathmacnee, co. Wexford, an Anglo-Norman family which settled in that co. at the invasion ot 1172, and continued one of the chief gentry and landed proprietors in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, in the co. until deprived of their estates by Oliver Cromwell. in 1280, 9 Edward I., John de Boucesteb was paid 11. for services to the king; in 1349, 19 Edward III., John Roocesteb was summoned, with many other gentry of Wexford, to attend the Lords Justices with horse and arms; and in 1364-65, Robert Rawcetkb wub summoned to attend with men-at-arms and hohillcrs at the Duffry; John Robbiter, Esq., of Rathmacnee, d. 8 April, 1627, leaving three eons, Thohas, Pbiup, and Marcus, who were deprived of all their lands
|Comment=N.B. The arms of the Norman family of Rorcester, or Rossiter, were " Ar. on a chev. gu. three pheons or." An old MS. collection of arms of Irish families in Ulster's Office gives the Rosbitebs, of co. Wexford, the same arms, differenced with a " lizard or alligator in chief," a device borne by many ancient Milesian families in their arms and crests. the Wexford Rosbitebs, having become Hibernicised, appear to have adopted the lizard or alligator, not only as a difference in their shield to distinguish them from the parent stock in England, but also aa a mark of their adopted nationality; in course of time the family dropped the charges on their former shield, retaining only their adopted device or mark of difference, and bo the arms, as they now appear in the books ot Ulster's Office, are charged with the alligator alone.
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