Variously spelt Nermits, Nernuyt, Nernewtes, Nernieut, Neyrnut, Neinmuth, &c. The first mention I find of this family is in the time of Hen. I., when Robert Nernoit was of Berkshire (Rot. Magn. Pipæ). In the following century Maud, second daughter and co-heir of Geoffrey Bellew, married a Neyrnut. Their son, Milo, is mentioned in 1210, and was one of the Collectors of the Aid demanded by Henry III. “In 1299, John de Neyrnut held his lands under the Honour of Wallingford, belonging to Edmund Earl of Cornwall; and in 1320 they were settled on Sir John Neyrnut for life, with remainder to his sons, John, William, Thomas, and Edmund, and their respective heirs in tail; but in default of issue passed by the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir John Neyrnut, to John Hervey of Thumley, co. Beds.” (ancestor of the Marquesses of Bristol). - Lipscomb's Buckinghamshire. This Sir John was seated at Burnham in Bucks, and died 1373. He bore Sable a lion rampant between six billets Argent: but Edmondston gives a rather different coat for Nernieut or Nernewtes; Gules, a lion rampant Argent within a border gobonated Argent and Sable. Westbury-Nernewtes, in the parish of Ashwell, Hertfordshire, and Upton-Nervets, or Nermits, in Berkshire, still recall the name.