Em terça-feira, 5 de setembro de 2017 21:15:21 UTC+1, joe...@gmail.com escreveu: > Some corrections to your statements are in order: > > On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 3:52:23 PM UTC-4, Paulo Canedo wrote: > "> So like many you descend from Thomas Dudley. About Thomas Dudley's descent from Edward III. Thomas Dudley's use of the Sutton-Dudley heralds in his will proves he was descended from them" > > -> No, it proves merely that 1) he wanted people to think he was OR 2) he just liked the way they looked OR 3) he was descended from them. > > "the College of Arms confirmed that Thomas Dudley had right to use them. " > > -> The College of Arms did no such thing, and anyway statement is as useful as if your uncle Bob had confirmed it. > > "To me the question is where exactly he belonged in the Sutton-Dudleys. As you know Marshall Kirk made a very good case he was paternal grandson of Henry Dudley and it appears that H. Allen Curtis proved it see http://www.familypage.org/mystdud.pdf and https://web.archive.org/web/20110726045518/http://www.familypage.org/RogerSonoHenry.pdf." > > As I said, I think it is a very good case, and I think he is probably right on target, but falls short of an absolute 'proof' because it fails (in my opinion) to resolve the conflicting evidence sufficiently to rule out alternatives. > --Joe C That he wanted people to believe he was can be easily discarded if he wanted so he would have put it in many if not all of his documents not only in his will that I'm sure that most of the colony did not see. About the College of Arms. From H.Allen Curtis ´In a letter dated 9 February 1953, Captain de La Lanne-Mirrlees, then Rouge Dragon pursuivant, of the College of Arms agreed that Thomas Dudley was entitled to the use of the Sutton-Dudley coat of arms, and that his seal provides “reasonable, though inferential proof” of Thomas Dudley’s paternal lineage.`