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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Barn Owl, post: 1123792, member: 4864&quot;]After further searching, I found an article mentioning the Wynyard family crest, which apparently features a heraldic antelope and the motto Eprouvez. But I can&#039;t find a picture of their crest online.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another resource I found about the Wynyard family:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The name of Wynyard appears to have existed from an early period, at least in</p><p>the West of England. In the pedigree of the Drewes of Devonshire, we find that</p><p>&quot; Robert French of Horneford, Devon, married Matilda, daughter and heir of</p><p>Rob^ Wynyard of Harcomb, in the same county ;&quot; and possibly the Wynard Alms-</p><p>houses at Exeter may have been founded by a member of the same family. There</p><p>is a spot called Wynyard&#039;s Gap at Cheddington, in the county of Dorset, and it will</p><p>be remembered also that Lord Londonderry&#039;s seat in the county of Durham bears</p><p>this name.</p><p><br /></p><p>The word Wiii-eard, or Win-gear d is the Anglo-Saxon parent of our English</p><p>Vineyard; and seems to have been not an uncommon patronymic in Holland —</p><p>many books, for example, having been published at Leyden in the seventeenth</p><p>century, ex officind Adriani Wyngaerden. The name may, therefore, have been of</p><p>Anglo-Saxon, local, or continental derivation.</p><p><br /></p><p>In King James&#039;s &#039; Discourse of Powder-Treason,&#039; (Works, 1616,) he says : &quot; And</p><p>enquiring of Whyneard, Keeper of the Wardrobe, to what use hee had put those</p><p>lower roumes, &amp; cellars,&quot; &amp;c. p. 228 ; and again, p. 230, &quot;it was thought meet that</p><p>upon pretence of Whyneard&#039; s missing some of the King&#039;s stuffe, or hangings,&quot; &amp;c.</p><p><br /></p><p>There seems no reason to doubt that this man was the ancestor of the family of</p><p>which we treat, viz. : John Wynyard, who was Groom of the Wardrobe to Queen</p><p>Elizabeth, etc. ; and who died soon after the discovery of the plot, Jan. 20, 1606.</p><p>In all probability, too, he would be the John Wynyard of London, gent., son and</p><p>heir of Geo. Wynyard, gent., to whom arms were granted 2nd Jan., 1579, viz. :</p><p>Paly of six argent and sable on a chief gules a lion passant argent. Crest : On a</p><p>wreath&#039;of the colours, a mount vert thereon a tiger sejant ermine. Motto : Eprouvez.</p><p><br /></p><p>A pedigree is in existence compiled by some professional pedigree-manufacturer,</p><p>and based in apparent error on a certain almanack and memorandum book, which had</p><p>been in the possession of some member of the family ; but originally seems to have</p><p>belonged to &quot; Henry Rimborne,&quot; to whom and to whose family the entries probably</p><p>refer. Whoever was its possessor, it appears that he was the Yeoman Usher of the</p><p>Black Rod, whose fees he records, and also that the Coronation jewels and robes</p><p>were entrusted to his charge, April 23, 1661. He speaks of &quot;Brother Wenham,&quot;</p><p>thus connecting him with John Wynyard, who mentions &quot; Cousin John Wenham,&quot;</p><p>in 1686, as stated below.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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