B43432-Payn

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Name of the family:

Payn

Blason:

Ar. three trefoils slipped sa.

Crest(s):

A woman's head couped below the shoulders, vested az. turned up ar. face ppr. hair or, on her head an antique crown of the last.

Supporters:

Two angels ppr.

Motto:

Playsyr vaut Payn.

Info about the family:

Seigneurs of Oulande, la Gadelière, Samarés, Ponterrin, Montfort, Dielament, le Chaslelet, Payn, Grainville, Quetivel, la Fosse, les Nièsmez, &c., Jersey; descended from Thibault Payen, Count of Gisors, whose son, Hugh Payen, gave by Charter, circa. 1200, the original of which now exists in the departmental Archives at St. Lo, Normandy, six quarters of wheat rent, derived from his lands in Jersey, to the Abbot of Saint Mary, near Cherbourg. From this Hugh Payen, who was Valvasor of the king of England, and jurat of his royal court there, scarcely a generation of the family has existed without having a representative on the local bench. At the period of the Great Rebellion, Abraham and Stephen Payn vel Payne, being ardent Royalists, migrated to co. Devon, and founded families still existing in England

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781

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