David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The arms of De la Pryme were earned by a crusader of the twelfth century, named Alexander Priem, whose services were rewarded with a patent of gentility and a grant of arms, being a cross and poniard quarterly, — the crest, a cross upon a wreath. ”

“ Abraham, of Hatfield, gent, married in 1666, Anne Dillingham, and died 23rd July 1687; his children are unrepresented. David, of the Levels, married Mary Guoy; he was buried at Hatfield on 1st February 1672, and she on 26th October of the same year; their son, David, died intestate, and the administration of his property was granted to his grandmother, Susan Guoy, on 6th October 1684. The second son of Charles and Prudence, namely, Matthias de la Pryme, of the Levels, he was born on 31st August 1645. According to tradition he grew up a man of immense size ”