"Who was Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Powell of Wales, and wife of William Forth of Hadleigh? A prolonged and most careful search amongst the wills at Somerset House and other Probate Courts; the Fines, Inquisitions, Close Rolls, Patent Rolls, &c., &c., at the Record Office; and the Pedigrees and Genealogical Collections at the Heralds' College and elsewhere, has failed to elicit a single fact in answer to this question. As Elizabeth Powell she witnessed the will of her future husband's father in 1540. As Elizabeth Forth she became the mother of an heir in 1541.We should have been altogether without clue to her identity had not three of her sons, or their immediate descendants, assumed the very remarkable quarterings of Powell of Whitchurch in Glamorganshire. The eldest, Robert Forth, caused them to be worked into the great gateway of Butley Abbey, where Davy, the Suffolk Antiquary, saw and noted them in 1810. They embellish the brass of William Forth, the third son, who died at Hadleigh in 1599. And John Forth, the youngest son, seems to have assisted, in 1611, a year or two before his death, in the preparation of the 'Emblazoned Pedigree' of Forth and Winthrop, in which the quarterings of Powell, Brokenspeare, Gwaringde, Morley and Vaughan are marshalled in all their splendour...."[1]
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