Description
each with engraved arms, the first citrine seal with three pike layed out on a slab is for WAY impaling PAXTON, the other bloodstone seal with three demi-humans in top left is for SWAYNE impaling SWINBURNE.
Footnote
The 1852 edition of Burke's Landed Gentry records the marriage of
GREGORY LEWIS WAY (1756-1799) of Spencer Farm, Essex who was
second son of Lewis Way of Streatham, member of the Inner Temple,
director of the South Sea Company, President of Guy's Hospital to
ANN FRANCES PAXTON only daughter of the Revd William PAXTON,
Rector of Taplow, Bucks.
Footnote:
Mr G L Way was the author of a selection of translations in verse from the metrical tales of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, collected by Le Grand. Of his literary labours (still esteemed highly by the lover of elegant versification and historical romance) and of himself, the faithful character will be found in vol. ii of the work, p. 291, by his friend George Ellis, who after his decease, conducted the publication which first appeared in 1800.