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Coat of arms of Sir Robert Walpole, KG, KB. Quarterly of 9:

• 1: Or, on a fesse between two chevrons sable three crosses crosslet of the field (Walpole)
• 2: Vert, a lion rampant or vulned in the shoulder (Robsart) (See File:St Martins church in Houghton - heraldic glass (geograph 1937896).jpg St Martin's church in Houghton - heraldic glass. See Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 1 (1885), p.288[1] Walpole quartering Robsart impaling (unknown). "Shield in the East Window of the South Aisle. XIX. Quarterly: — 1 and 4, Walpole; 2 and 3, Vert, a lion rampant or, vulned in the shoulder, Robsart;). Sir John Robsart, 1445[2]
• 3: Gules, a saltire engrailed argent (Kerdiston/Kerdeston ?)
• 4: Azure, a chevron between three crosses couped or (Calbot/Calibut/Calybut of Norfolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, pp.160, 161) (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.412)
• 5: Vert, a saltire or (Hunt of Hermyngtoft (now "Horningtoft"), Norfolk; of Little Bradley, Suffolk; of Hunt's Hall, Essex) (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.II, London, 1874, p.1060) ("of Hermyngtoft, Norfolk", per Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.520). See arms on monumental brass of Edmund Hunt (d.1558) in Hindolveston Church in Norfolk.[3]. Text from MBS: "Edmund Hunt was recorded in a Chancery Court document in the last couple of years of his life as constable of Hindolveston and late servant to Sir John Robsart but little is otherwise known of him. The children recorded in the heraldic visitations of Norfolk were Edmund, later of Horningtoft, who married Lucy, daughter of ... Howett of Weston, Norfolk, Nicholas, Thomas, Richard, Geoffrey, Henry, William, John, Margaret, who married Francis Beaumont, Mary, who married William Wagstafe, Elizabeth, who married William Whyte, and Cicely, who married Robert Lawes. Their mother Margaret was recorded as the daughter of John Potter of Beeston, Norfolk." Will: Hunte, Edmund, of Hindolveston 1557-1558 ANW, will register, Wynter, fo. 124. Made 10 October 1557. Proved 14 November 1558. Money to poor in Hindolveston, Horningtoft, Foulsham. Elizabeth, Margaret Baymont, Mary Wagstafffe, Cecely Lawes, daughters. "The children of Robert Lawes" . "Margaret my wife" (executrix) . "Nicholas Hunt my sonne". "Thomas and Jefferye my sonnes" . "Thomas and Harry my sones" (next after Jeffrey). "John my sone" (not yet 21). "Richard Willia~ my sonnes". "Edmund my sonne". Richard not yet 24. Nicholas and Thomas to be executors if wife Margaret dies.
• 6: Argent, on a fess engrailed between three escutcheons gules as many mullets of the field pierced sable ("Bacon of Hesset, Norfolk (sic, should be "Hessett, Suffolk"); the heiress married Bacon of Friston" (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.II, London, 1874, p.818; Burke, 1884, p.38))
• 7: Argent, a fess between three crosses crosslet fitchée gules (Crane of Chilton, Suffolk, baronets) (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.II, London, 1874, p.744; Burke, 1844, p.239)
• 8: Or, a chevron ermine between three bur (oak) leaves erect vert/proper (shown here counter-ermine) (Burwell) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.151 "Burwell of Woodbridge, Suffolk"). (Quercus macrocarpa, the bur oak, commonly spelled burr oak, is a species of oak tree native to eastern North America). Robert Walpole (d.1700) of Houghton, married Mary Burwell, daughter and heiress of Sir Geoffrey Burwell of Rougham, Suffolk ( Cokayne, G. E.; H. A. Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden, eds. (1945). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Oakham to Richmond). 10 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, p.81). His son was w:Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford. The arms are similar, if not identical, to those of the Lent family (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.453, and Burke, 1884, p.601)
• 9: Argent, a saltire azure between four griffin's heads erased gules (Aylwarde/Alwarde of Suffolk / Aubery/Awbre of Suffolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.36) (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.II, London, 1874, p.1075 "Aylwarde/Alwarde of Suffolk / Aubery of Suffolk"). An heiress of Burwell.