File:SealMatrix GeorgeCary 2ndBaronHunsdon Circa1586 MirrorImage.xcf

English: Seal matrix, c.1586, of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon (1547–1603). British Museum, Registration number 1944,0601.1; Diameter: 8.45 cm. Inscription: SIGIL(LUM) GEO(RGII) : CAREY : MIL(ITIS) .CAPP(ITANUS) . INS(ULAE) . VECTIS . E[...] ADMIRALLUS. COM(ITATIS) . SOWTHAMTO(N) ("seal of George Cary, Knight, Captain of the Isle of Wight and Admiral of the County of Southampton"). Cary was Vice-Admiral of Southampton, responsible for defending the Isle of Wight against the Spanish Armada in 1586-7.

Description, per British Museum catalogue:

Ivory double seal-matrix of Sir George Carey. It has circular faces connected by a moulded conical handle. On the larger face a three-masted man-of-war on the sea, the mainsail charged with the Carey arms, nine quarterings. Round the main-top, from which flies the Tudor banner, France and England quarterly, are three small shields charged respectively with a fleur-de-lis (?), the cross of St. George, and a portcullis (?). On the forecastle and stern respectively a lion and a dragon, each supporting a banner of St. George. From the mizen-mast flies a forked flag charged with a cross between four objects (mullets or fleurs-de-lis?), which appear also on a streamer flying from the foremast. The prow is in the form of a dragon's head with open mouth. On the gunwale, shields with badges similar to those round the main-top. Legend, interrupted in places by parts of the ship. On the smaller face, a shield of arms, almost square, with ogee base, surmounted and flanked by scroll designs, twenty quarterings:

• 1: Cary;
• 2: Spencer of Ashbury, Devon (frequently described erroneously as "of Spencercombe") (Cary heiress)
• 3: Beaufort (Spencer heiress, Sir Robert Spencer of Ashbury in Devon married the heiress Eleanor Beaufort)
• 4: Wake
• 5: Holland, Earl of Kent
• 6: Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick
• 7: Mauduit, Earl of Warwick
• 8: Newburgh, Earl of Warwick
• 9: de Tosny
• 10: Berkeley; Thomas de Berkeley, Baron Berkeley (d.1417) of Berkeley Castle, Glos, married the heiress Margaret de Lisle (of Kingston Lisle). His daughter and heiress was Elizabeth de Berkeley (d.1422), suo jure Baroness Berkeley, Baroness de Lisle and Baroness Tyes, who married Richard de Beauchamp/de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick. Her 2nd (of 3) daughter and co-heiress was Eleanor de Beauchamp, whose second husband was Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. (G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, n.s., Vol.VIII, pp.48-9, pedigree chart of de Lisle)
• 11: Lisle of Kingston Lisle
• 12: Lisle of Rougemont (senior line of Lisle of Kingston Lisle)
• 13: Teyes / Tyes (quartered by Lisle of Kingston Lisle: Warin de Lisle (d.1322) who founded the junior line at Kingston Lisle married Alice Teyes, sister and heiress of Henry, Lord Teyes. His son was Gerard de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle (d.1360). His overlord at Kingston Lisle was his cousin Robert de Lisle of Rougemont. (G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, n.s., Vol.VIII, p.51)
• 14: Boleyn (ancient)
• 15: Hoo (Boleyn heiress, Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings (c.1396–1455), whose daughter Anne Hoo (born c.1424), married Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, mercer and Lord Mayor of London: they were the great-grandparents of Queen Anne Boleyn;
• 16: Gules, two lions passant in pale ermine ducally crowned or (Felton) ? (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.345 "Felton of Litcham, Norfolk"). Sir Thomas Hoo (c.1370-1420) of Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire (son of Sir William Hoo (1335–1410) and his first wife Alice de St Omer) married firstly Eleanor de Felton (c. 1361-1400), the widow of Sir Robert de Ufford, de jure Lord Clavering (died c. 1393)), and the youngest of the three daughters of Sir Thomas de Felton (died 1381), of Litcham in Norfolk, Seneschal of Aquitaine, by his wife Joan Walkfare. Per British Museum catalogue: "Cundy (Boleyn heiress), an obscure family connection".
• 17: Butler of Ormonde / Boleyn (modern) (Boleyn heiress, arms adopted by Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire)
• 18: Stapledon (an heiress of Hankford of Devon (an early Cary heiress, the son of Sir John Cary (d.1395) was Sir Robert Cary (d. pre 1433) of Cockington in Devon, who married Jane Hankford, daughter and heiress of Sir William Hankford)
• 19: Holway of Devon (an early Cary heiress, Sir John Cary (d.1395), Chief Baron of the Exchequer and a MP for Devon, married Margaret Holway, da and heiress of Robert Holway of Holway in North Lew, Devon; (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.150, pedigree of Cary)
• 20: Bryan of Devon (an early Cary heiress, Sir John Cary (d.1395) was the son of Sir John Cary by his wife Jane de Bryan, a da and co-heiress of Sor Guy de Bryan, 1st Baron Bryan, of Tor Bryan in Devon;)