English: St Andrew's church, Quatt, Shropshire, Arms of Wolryche impaling Otley. Arms of w:Sir Thomas Wolryche, 1st Baronet (1598–1668), of Dudmaston, who married before 1628, Ursula Otley / Ottley, a daughter of Thomas Otley, of Pichford, Shropshire. Arms of Otley, of Pichford, Shropshire: Argent, on a bend azure three oat sheaves or (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.766), same arms as Ottley of Ottley, Shropshire. (Possibly today's Oteley Hall, Ellesmere, Wrexham, Shropshire).

Text from: Complete Baronetage[1]: " Thomas Wolrtchb, of Dudmaston, go. Salop, Knt.," s. and h. of Francis Wolriohe, of the same, by Margaret, da. of George Bromley, of Hatton, in the said county, was b. at Worfield in 1598 ; sue. his father in 1614 ; ed. at Cambridge Univ. ; admitted to Inner Temple, 11 Oct. 1615 ; M.P. for Wenlock, 1621-22, 1624-25 and 1625 ; was Col. in the Royal Army, during the Civil Wars ; a zealous supporter of the King by whom he was made Governor of Bridgnorth ; was Knighted at Whitehall, 22 July 1641, and cr. a Baronet, as above, 4 Aug. 1641. He was twice sequestered, once imprisoned and was, 11 March 1647, fined £730. He m., in or before 1628, Ursula, da. of Thomas Otley, of Piohford, Salop, by Mary, da. of Roger GiFFORD, M.D., Physician to Queen Elizabeth. He d. 4 and was bur. 9 July 1668 at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, in his 71st year. M.I. at Quatt, CO. Salop. Will dat. 21 Deo. 1662 to 2 Feb. 1662/3, pr. 7 Nov. 1668, by Ursula, his widow.

Heraldry

Quarterly of 7, overall a canton of a baronet: (per George Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands (editors) (1889). The Visitation of Shropshire, taken in the year 1623: Part II, p.508[2])

• 1: Azure, a chevron between three swans argent (Wolryche)
• 2: Argent, a cross moline azure within a bordure engrailed sable in dexter chief a bird sable (de Dudmaston of Dudmaston) Burke, 1884, p.303: ''Argent, a cross moline and a bordure engrailed azure in the dexter chief quarter a bird reguardant of the last
• 3: Argent, a lion rampant sable a chief of the last fretty argent (Walton) (Not listed in Burke 1884) Andrew Wolrich of Dudmaston married ..... Walton the daughter and heiress of Thomas Walton of .... in Staffordshire;
• 4: Barry of six per pale or and gules, twelve lions passant guardant all counterchanged (Walton ?) (Not listed in Burke 1884)
• 5: Argent, on a bend between two ravens sable three escallops argent (Peshall) (Not listed in Burke 1884; not listed in Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.208)
• 6: Quarterly per fess indented or and gules (Leighton) here shown with tinctures transposed. (Leighton of Watlesborough, Shropshire, baronet, per Burke 1884, p.599)
• 7: Or, a parrot vert (Poyner) Or, a parrot close vert legged gules (Poyner of Beslow & Shrewsbury, Shropshire, per Burke 1884, p.821)