More on Richard Chatfield 1500-1586

Richard Chatfield, the testator of 1582, of Bedyles in the parish of Ditchling, of Oving, Treyford, Sidlesham, and Chichester co. Sussex, and of the Isle of Hayling co. Hants, born about 1500 and died in July 1586. When he was a young man, he removed thirty miles westward from his ancestral region of Mid-Sussex and settled in Chichester. In this city, he probably secured in trade the means which enabled him to acquire numerous pieces of property (some of which formerly belonged to monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII), and to raise his branch of the family into the armigerous gentry, with its pedigree and arms entered in the Heralds' Visitations, while the branches in Mid-Sussex remained among the yeomanry. In the subsidy of 1523 he was assessed for lands in the Hundred of Street and for goods in Chichester. Between 1544 and 1572 he was assessed in the Rape of Chichester in various subsidies, and acquired property at Chichester, Oving, West Ashling, Sidlesham, Treyford, Westmeston, MIddleton, Twineham and Bolney. When he made his will in 1582, he was living at Chichester, and he was buried in the cathedral there 26 July 1586. His will is a brief and unsatisfactory document, as it names only two of his cildren, although it is certain that he had at least six and probably even more. It is evident that he had given portions to his children during his lifetime. No monument to him remains, as the iconoclastic partisans of Cromwell wrecked that part of the Cathedral in which he was buried. 

The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 70; Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert; New England Historic Genealogical Society; 1916 

A further search turns up information on the Heralds' Visitation of Sussex in 1562 that has a pedigree and arms for Richard Chatffeild of Bedyles in Dychering.  The armorial bearing recorded is: 

ARMS-Or, a griffin segreant sable, on a chief purpure three scallop-shells argent.

CREST-An heraldic antelope's head erased argent, armed or, gorged with a coronet sable

Translated, this would equal, I believe, a shield with a background of gold in the lower/main portion with a black griffin standing in its back legs.  The upper portion of the shield has a purple background with three silver shells.  Finally, it is topped off by a black crown with 3 strawberry leaves (the fourth "invisible") with a two horned antelope's head with golden horns and a split or "torn" base in silver.   There are some online companies that claim to have this available for purchase, but the one that two that I saw a sample of ignored the initial "or" meaning gold for the main shield.