Storeys of Old.

In Berry's "Encyclopædia Heraldica" the arms of the Story family of Leicestershire are given as per fesse indented, argent and sable, three ravens counterchanged; quarterly, azure, a sinister gauntlet, or, for Lacock. Story crest - a raven sable. Lacock crest - a cock gules, resting, dexter foot on a gauntlet, borne by P. Lacock, Esquire, of Tusmore House, Oxfordshire, in 1834.

Story, as 6th in first Dict., crest - a cupid, in dexter hand an arrow, in sinister a bow, and at his back a quiver proper.

Another is given as-

Story - Ermine, a stork close. . . . . Crest - a stork head erased; in the beak a serpent nowed.

There are likewise:- Storey - a lion rampant. Crest - a demi-lion rampant.

Storey - Argent, a lion rampant, tail nowed, purpure. Crest - an escalop or, between two eagles' wings proper. (See observations on the Story and Storey arms.)

Edward Story, gentleman, of St. Dunstan's East, 30, and Elizabeth Strother, of St. Giles's in the Fields, married at St. Augustine's, 19th January, 1697. [Probably son of Edward Storey, of Storeysgate.]

A Richard and a Francis Story occur in other transcripts of Registers on p. 19 of the "Story of Lockington" branch.

The Kneveton Registers of Story of Kneveton, come down from 1600 to 1818; the Lockington Registers commence 8th June, 1801, and end 13th January, 1887.

Richard Storye, of St. Peter's, Cornhill, and Johanna Snigwell married at St. Botolph's, Aldgate, 21st July, 1566.

It is not unlikely that this Richard and Johanna Storye were the parents of Christopher Story, of St. Botolph's, Aldgate, who married Katherine, daughter of John Brewer, in April, 1613. (V. ante.)

The genealogy of "Story of Lockington" was compiled by W. W. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A., in 1893, and printed by Messrs. Clarke and Hodgson, of Leicester.

Colonel Story, of Bingfield, Ireland, writing on the 20th November, 1907, says :- "The Storys of Lockington, Leicestershire, are also connected with us." [Letter of Colonel Story's re Storeysgate and certain London thoroughfares.]

There were the Stories or Storys of Colwick as well as those of Kneveton. In Vol. I. of Thoroton's "Nottinghamshire," page 302, is this paragraph-