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English: "Knight's Bedroom", Lyme Park, England, United Kingdom. "An early seventeenth century, plaster overmantel painted brown, with the coat-of-arms of Gerard impaling Radcliffe; Pediment top with central mask flanked by conical finials and scallops at either end of the pediment. The central frieze has the coat-of-arms painted in gold, white and blue; on either side are two columns topped with male and female busts with fruit spilling from their head-dresses. Imbetween the two columns is a section containing a male mask with smaller mask and a female face above. The border underneath the pediment has a design of interlocking circular flowerheads." (http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/499420).

Margaret Gerard (d.1603) (Lady Legh) was the first wife (married 1584) of Sir Peter Legh (1563-1636) of Lyme Park, MP.[1] She was one of the four daughters of Sir Gilbert Gerard (c.1519/20-1593) of Ince, Lancs. and Gerrard's Bromley, Staffs. (Attorney General to Queen Elizabeth I, then Master of the Rolls) by his wife Anne Ratcliffe (http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/500454) a daughter of Thomas Ratcliffe (c.1391-1440), of Astley and w:Winmarleigh, near Garstang, Lancashire, thrice MP for Lancashire, by his first wife Isabel Boteler, da. of Sir John Boteler (d.1404) of Rawcliffe (Source: History of Parliament biog[2]). Sir Gilbert Gerard built Gerard's Bromley Hall, Staffordshire, his seat, demolished in the 1750s.

Arms:

• Dexter (Baron): Azure, a lion rampant ermine crowned or (Gerard); quartering Argent, three torteax in bend between two cotises sable (Ince of Ince-in-Makerfield, Lancashire) (Source: Burke, General Armory, 1884, pp.394,527). The shield on the overmantel has been re-painted with the wrong tinctures. Certainly the present scheme of a lion argent on a field or contravenes the heraldic rule of "no metal on metal". The crest of Gerard is at extreme sinister: A lion's gamb couped and erect ermine holding a hawk's lure gules tasselled and garnished or (Source: Burke, General Armory, 1884, p.394). The crest of Radcliffe also appears: A bull's head erased sable horned ducally crowned and chained or (Source: Burke, General Armory, 1884, p.835)
• Sinister (Femme): Quarterly of 6:
  • 1: Argent, a bend (engrailed) sable in the sinister chief an escallop gules (Radcliffe/Radclyffe of "Winmarleigh", Lancs. (Burke, General Armory, 1884, p.835))
  • 2: Azure, a cross patonce/flory between four martlets argent ? Plessington (Burke, p.808). The mother of Thomas Radcliffe of Wimmersley and Clitheroe in Lancashire was Isabella Plessington (fl.1368), heiress of "Wimmersley" (w:Winmarleigh) (Whitaker, History of Whalley, pp.414-5, pedigree of Radcliffe[3]).
  • 3: A lion rampant
  • 4: A cross nebuly ?
  • 5: Azure, two bars argent in chief three mullets pierced of the last Venables (quarteded by Radcliffe per Burke, p.835, arms of Venables p.1053)
  • 6: A chevron between three covered cups ?
    

Better image of arms see[4]. Further reading re pedigree of Radcliffe: Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell, London, 1818, pp.282-3, 411-5[5]