The
arms of this family were registered by Thomas Garland of Essex in 1584 and were also attributed to the
Garlands of Devon.
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“Arms:
Or, three pales gules on a chief parti per pale gules and sable a chaplet
and a demi-lion issuant argent; Crest:
On a mural crown or,
a lion sejant reguard argent the dexter paw resting on an escutcheon of
the second charges with a garland proper; Motto: Libertas.” |
These
arms appear in the church of SS Peter and Paul at Todwick and in Todwick Hall
they appear on some of the old furniture.
Augustine
Garland of Essex, Regicide.
The
same arms were on the seal of Augustine Garland (1602- ) affixed to the warrant
for the execution of King Charles I in 1648.
Augustine was baptised at St. Antholin’s in London (13th
January 1602) the son of Augustine
Garland ( -1637) of
Coleman Street, London, and his first wife Ellen
Whitteridge, daughter of Jasper
Whitteridge.
He
went to Emmanuel College at Cambridge in 1618 as a pensioner and became a member
of Lincoln’s Inn. He owned
property at Hornchurch, Waltham-Holy-Cross and Queensborough on the Isle of
Sheppey in Essex, but went up to London during the Civil War:
“I lived in Essex at the beginning of these troubles and I was
enforced to forsake my
habitation. I came from
thence to London, where I behaved myself fairly in my way.”
He
was elected member of Parliament for Queensborough (26th May 1647)
in place of Sir E. Hales. He signed
the protest against the King’s concessions being accepted (20th
December 1647), and later at his trial he said that
he allowed his name to be put down “…for
fear of my own destruction. I did
not know which way to be safe in anything – without doors was misery; within
doors was mischief”.
Later
he was appointed as one of the King’s judges and acted as chairman of the
committee selected to determine the method of the King’s trial.
He attended twelve of the sixteen sittings of the court and was there
when the King was sentenced and signed the death warrant (29th
January 1648).
Until
its expulsion by Cromwell, Augustine continued to sit in the Long Parliament and
was recalled to Parliament in May 1659, but he took little part in the public
affairs of the Protectorate other than being made a Navy Commissioner in 1650.