Volume 57 Gentleman’s Magazine 1787

Mr Urban
I have seen frequent mistakes regarding the family that had the honour of producing James hammon, the elegiac poet (and particularly in many parts of Mr Noble’s “History of the family of Cromwell”). I have seen them confounded with a family of Acrise and Bradsted in their county of Kent who bore their arms: Az. 3 demi lions passant, guardant, Or. I have seen them confounded with a family of Chertsey in Surrey which had the singular honour of producing that eminent divine, Dr Henry Hammond and the great dishonour of producing his well known relation, the Governor of Carisbrooke Castle during the unfortunate Charles’s confinement there. This family bore: Or, 5 crescents in cross, Az. On a canton of the last an ostrich’s feather in pale, Arg. I have also seen them confounded with a Norfolk family, of which was Anthony Hammond of Wotton in that county, who married Susan, sister of Sir Robert Walpole. The following table which I shall make as short as possible I know to be true.
The arms of this family are: Arg, a chevron, a sable charged with three scallops, Or, between 3 ogresses each charged with a martlet of the field, all within a bordure engrailed, Vert.

Anthony Hammond esq of St Albans in Nonnington Kent (great grandson of Edward Hammond of that place who purchased it about 1555). Died at Wilburton in the Isle of Ely, Sept. 24 1661.
= Anne daughter of Sir Dudley Digges of Chilham castle Kent, Master of the Rolls temp. Car. I

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Anthony Hammond Esq of Somersham Place County Huntingdon
= Amy daughter of ……. Brown Esq of Gloucestershire who died in 1693. He died in 1680

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Anthony Hammond Esq. of Somersham Place baptised sept 15 1668; MP for Shoreham in Sussex, vacated his seat in Dec 7 1708 upon being made a commissioner of the navy. He died about 1728.

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James Hammond Esq the Elegaic Poet Died unmarried June 7 1742 being then the MP for Truro and equerry to the Prince