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{{CoatofArms
|Name=Davenport
|Blazon=Ar. a chev. betw. three crosses crosslet fitchée sa.
|Crest=A man's head, couped at the shoulders and side head, ppr. with a rope round the neck, or. This singular crest is supposed to have been borne on the helmets of the Master Sergeants in their perambulations through the Peke Bills and the forests of Leek and Macclesfield, to the terror of the numerous gangs of banditti which infested in former times those wild districts. There is in the possession of the Capesthorne family a long and very ancient roll, containing the names of the master robbers who were taken and beheaded in the times of Kohan, Booeb, and Thomas de Davenpobt, and of their companions.
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|Info=Davenport, co. Chester, descended from Obmos de Davenpobt, temp. Conquest. The direct male line became extinct in 1677, when Davenport passed, in marriage, with Elizabeth, elder dau. and co-heir of John Davempobt, Esq., to Robert Davibs, Esq., of Manley, whose heiress carried the estate to Sir Matthew Dbanb, Bart., but d.s.p.
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