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After nine months diligent effort I have completed my Memoir "Fortunë Favours the Bold"
Ronald George Westwood 1932 - 2011. It contains a good deal of information about the history of Cedeslai / Chaddesley Corbett and the legend assoiated with the Lady Ediva. With the assistance of Mrs Ruth Flowerdew of the Chaddesley Corbett Historical Soceity and later from the Midlands Historical Society when I visited Birmingham in 1982. I am a tenth generation of Hew Westwood, born Chaddesley Corbett c. 1525, died there 3 April 1586. My right to use the arms granted on 24th November in the 44th year of the reign of Eliizabeth 1 (Guillims Heraldry 1744) was confirmed by the Earl of Rossinver King of Arms in 1987. I adopted the mottot Fortuna Audaces Adjuvat ( Fortune Favours the Bold"in 1977 and added it to my armorial bearing.

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A memory of Chaddesley Corbett in Worcestershire shared on Monday, 26th December 2011.

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