" d. e rnam : S u e 3m a . I NTROD T U C I ON . T H E u surna m e throu h out notices of any partic lar , scattered g the records of past centuries , although unassociated with any prominent historical events , and seldom occurring, save in the pages of the County historian , may yet acquire , by their union in a collective form , a certain amount of interest, as illustrating the fortunes of a member of the common family . - m h The Anglo Norman Surna e Archer, was not uncommon in the seventeent . i l century Several fam lies of loca distinction , bore it in various parts of England , U m bersla de i and amongst them , the principal was that of , in Warwickshire , a fam ly much more widely spread, than might be supposed , and the only one , of any note , Coo ersa le — which , unlike those of p , Lizard , Stoke Archer and Dover, is certainly , not w extinct , although in the person of Andre , second and last Lord Archer , the senior male line expired , in the year The following are “ arms assigned to various families of the name — l l 3 i . Archer, Cornwal sable, a chevron between broad arrows argent (the L zard) — Tr l tw . 3 . 2 . k e a s e . be Archer, , Cornwall sab a chev . engr pheons or — 3 . n betw . 2 Archer, Essex azure , a garb erect or laurel branches , tied by a ribbo 3 be tw. 8 t wo in base on a chief emb . arg . arrows, points down , ermine spots , 1 828. t wo G . and , in pale sable . ranted to T Archer, of Chelmsford , in — 4 . 3 . Archer , Essex ermine , on a chief azure , lions rampant or (Spelt also ” A uch e r. j 5 — m . Archer, Essex er ine , a cross sable — ‘ 6 . Archer , Essex erm . on a cross sable , a cresc . argent . 1 — o &c . B urke Jac b , I N TR O DU CT I O N . — l 3 . Archer, Lincoln per pa e gules and azure , arrows or, barbed and feathered arg 24 1 684— ’ Granted March , crest , a dragon s head per pale , gules and azure , m - wings expanded, out of a ural crown , per pale , of last and third to Robert W Archer of a iufleet . h l . Arc er, Salop sable , a ion rampant or A — U m bersla de 3 . rcher of , Warwickshire azure , broad arrows or Confirmed in 1 597 . — A cim rd l . Arms of Or, a bend engr . sable 2 . 6 5 . Gyronny of argent and gules, a label of points azure 3 . 6 5 u . Barry wavy of argent and gules, a label of points az re 1 0 — 3 , Archer gules , arches single or . This name appears rather to be Arches ;the arms are quartered by Carew , and other old Devonshire families . — 1 . or . Archer , five fusils in bend sable 9 — . 3 . Archer azure , arrows in pale argent — 3 . Archer argent, pheons gules — 3 . Archer sable, pheons argent ’ 1 — U m bersla de N eith or . m Archer of p (Herald s Visitation , Brit Museu ) , variation of , “ ” “ ” “ ” “ ” ” n H uleha le S a wce Clebur quarteri g , y, y , Canke , and Delamere , ‘ diff . ff the whole charged in the nombril point with a cresc for , the same di er ence being charged on the neck of the wyvem in the crest . No motto . — - 1 6 . A . 3 rcher (Lawrence Archer) , Scotland per fesse , azure and argent , in chief l . arrows or, in base a cross , ragu y gules thereon a saltire of the third — 1 7 . or 5 Archard , Yorkshire , fusils in bend , sable . — 1 8 . r 5 A chard argent fusils in cross sable . ’ — 1 9 . A w er A u her? lio n g or Ager, (or c ) Kent and Glo ster ermine on a chief azure a ra m t p . arg . 1 N eitk or N e ilhro o r N e lh ertk or e O . p , pp , p , xfordshire — ’ N . B . h a o f o f N e ith or s t h e Althoug there is sketch Archer p arms , representing paternal a th e a m h o f U m b ersla de th e M S . qu rter, s e as t at Archer of , itself has in writing, these words — A rm s Three arro ws reversed on a field argent . — ’ Grea t A riifin s a . g head , from castellated coronet LIKE the origin of most of the patronymics of the earlier period of Anglo - Norman A i m history, that of rcher appears to be nvolved in so e obscurity ;and it is doubtful . whether the armorial bearings of the family were derived from the name , and tha t a n w l again from occupation or profession , or ere assumed either in fancifu reference to a lu hn the name , or in l sion to the tenure by which Jo Archer , Champion to Thomas — Earl of Warwick , held his estates of that noble namely , by the annual payment of twelve broad arrows . ’ L A rcher in R obertus Robert is sometimes styled , the old charters of his time , 1 Sagittarius, which seems to give weight to the supposition that the name was derived l XV . from the war ike profession of its founder ;and even so late as the reign of Louis , 2 ’ the French families of Archet and L A rch er bore for their arms bows and arrows in s variation Dugdale . 3 . Te m . X V A heraldic work , printed at Lyons p Louis . ’ ” in ha l A rc h er i a 1 37 3 ride a wa s There was a castle Poitou called C tel , which (c rc , Froiss rt) ’ t h e Pla in m a rtin o f S ir G d A n le a of H n held by Lady , wife uiscard g , afterw rds Earl unti gdon (Froissart) . ’ ’ The ‘ re ch a us s ée W l a t he r m en Ge de M a . Archers of Lyons we e Marshal s , called ns il i m o ha d a m m th e m Conquer r nu ber of the a t th e battle of H astings . It is supposed that Nor an ”— h a n A . 1 . Archers shot wit rbalest . Ency Brit 7 97 S ir a n d hili de o th e l th e a s John Fortescue , P p C mines, mention exce lence of English archers, , indeed , do most writers . 3 “ ” “ “ ’ W R o b ertus a L A rch er ith reference to Sagittarius, Richard Ach rd, or Robert , to whom “ ” “ S er h olt n d . H en . a s a K I made a grant of seven m nors in Berkshire, including p Alder ’ e th e a ia th e H u o f man ton , following extracts from Cl rke s Paroch l Topography of ndred W a &c . O xf. m a th e nting, ( y serve to elucidate subj ect “ 1 T h e a S ersh lt th e m i H . a H . m nor of p o formed part of royal de esne, t ll enry I (M dox , ist William A h a r' d E h e . i t o R ich a rd A h a d H is xc q ) gave it w th divers others c r . son c held three ’ i hi th e in a ite 1 1 66 P e ter A h a d of S ersh o ll kn ghts fees in Berks re of king c p in . c r died seized it ( p ) in 1 2 8 R bert A h a/rd 1 2 9 a nd o o a S a cca rii . 7 , o c in 9 , an ther R bert Ach rd in (Liber Niger ) We find the following with reference to one of the earlier founders of this family 1 092 n l while yet in Normandy In , the friends of Henry the son of Ki g Wi liam , obtained possession of the castle of Domfront . Its inhabitants pitying the misfortunes ” l one H a reclcer of t i i e . of the il ustrious ex le , sent to invite him out France , into “ “ ‘ ’ . le H a r hier . c Normandy This person , says M Prevost , was not called , but ‘ 1 “ Archard Mr . Stapleton thinks our author was correct in writing it Hare A rch a rius cherins, and considers that word synonymous with , which frequently A r h a rius appears in the Rolls of the Exchequer . We find there a Richard c and a Richard de Domfront , whom he considers the same person . This inhabitant of m I Domfront received , fro the gratitude of Henry . , seven manors in Berkshire . This him A grant is made to un der the name of Robert the rcher , and Henry calls him ” ” 2 . h im H a schier Magister Meus Wace , who calls , adds that it was to Paris he went to give the invitation of his friends at Domfront to the young prince . He was d descended from another Achar , who appears as witness to the charter of the “ S ouloi 1 026 A ch a rdus foundation of , in , with this description , , dives miles de ” D onnifronte . r e In the Roll of Battle Abbey this name is written A ch re . fl s of th Such are the con icting opinions a to the origin a name , yet much of the di culty may safely be attributed to the incorrect and variable orthoepy of that compara tivel w y remote period , when the simplest names ere strangely metamorphosed by the barbarous Latinity then used , and which , after the lapse of centuries , cannot always be t he u .