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|Name=Salwey
|Blazon=Sa. a saltire engr. or, quartering Washborne, Musard, Tromwin, Porter, Searle, Griffith, Ditton, Caesar, Baker, Peryen, Ryther, Biddulph, Greenaway, Rogers, and Eckingham.
|Crest=A demi Moor sa. wreathed about the temples ar. and gu. a belt from the sinister shoulder to the dexter hip az.
|Supporters=
|Motto=Fiat voluntas Dei.
|Info=cos. Stafford, Worcester, and Salop; the Sewyns, the original name of this family, were settled at Cannoc, now Kanke, co. Stafford, in Saxon times; after the Conquest they spread into other counties, but their principal seat was at Richard's Castle, co. Salop; Geoffery de Saleway held lands in Norton-under-Cannoc, temp. Henry III.; his descendant, John Salwey, d. 8 Henry V., m. Isold, dau. of John Washborne, of Stanford, co. Worcester, and heir of her mother, the dau. and heir of Sir John Musard, Knt.; his descendant, John Salwey, Esq., of Richard's Castle, m. Jane, dau. and heir of William Griffith, Esq., of Ludlow; his son and heir, the Rev. John Salwey, M.A., m. 1708, the dau, and co-heir of Dr. Augustine Caesar, and was ancestor of Salwey, of Moor Park, co. Salop
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|Page=893
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