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Mural monument to Francis Bacon. There is a long Latin inscription to this given in Blomefield, History of Norfolk, iv. 275. For particulars see No. III (re chest tomb in same church). Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 3 (1893) Lynn, Norwich, Thetford, Yarmouth , pp.59-60 [1]

5 shields (Crest: A talbot's head erased per fesse sable and argent holding a sheep's foot in its mouth or (Bacon)):

• 1: Argent, on a fesse engrailed between three escutcheons gules as many pierced mullets or (Bacon of Hesset, Suffolk)
• 2: Bacon, impaling: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1&4: Gules, on a chief argent two mullets sable (Bacon of Garboldisham, per Blomefield, History of Norfolk, iv. 274) (i.e. as Bacon of Redgrave, Suffolk, Premier Baronet);
  • 2&3: Azure, ten estoiles or (Alston of Saxham Hall, Suffolk)
• 3: Bacon, impaling: Sable, a fesse dancettée between three crescents or (Rouse, the crescents should be argent — BL Norf. iv. 274);
• 4: Bacon, impaling: Gules, two chevrons argent (Paynell);
• 5: Bacon, impaling: Sable, a fret argent on a chief gules three escallops of the second (Robinson).

See: Francis Blomefield, 'City of Norwich, chapter 42: West Wimer ward', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 4, the History of the City and County of Norwich, Part II (London, 1806), pp. 247-287 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol4/pp247-287]

In St. Thomas's chapel on the south side of the chancel, is an altar monument, and also a very handsome mural one, on the top of which is a death's head, or dead man's scull, and under it a spade and mattock in saltier, with this, Mors Ligonibus æquat Sceptra.

And then the arms and crest of

Bacon, arg on a fess ingrailed between three inescutcheons gul. three mullets or.

Crest, a talbot's head erased per fess sab. and arg. holding a sheep's foot in his mouth or.

Bacon impaling Rouse, sab. a fess dancetté or between three crescents arg.

Bacon impaling quarterly, 1st and 4th Bacon of Garboldesham, 2d and 3d az. ten estoils or, 3, 3, 3, and 1. Bacon impaling gul. two chevrons arg. Bacon impaling

Robinson, sab. a frett arg. on a chief gul. three escalops of the second. At top, Tota Funeris Pompa, contemnenda est in nobis, non tamen negligenda in nostris—Cic.

On the table: Quis hic tandem? Quem luges rigida Niobe? Cuinàm Lachrymas marmore exudas? Quem nemo non luget; cui nullus non illachrymatur, nisi marmore durior.

Nè sileant Homines, saxa loquantur, Æquum est scilicet, Justa facere, Jus dicenti, At quis huïc oneri invito succumbit, Si nescis, Ignare, audies: Atlas utriusque poli vergentis Juris Æquitatis, Legis, Morum, Pacis, Arbiter, Vindex, Censor, Sequester, Judex in Terris integer, (si quis alius) Judice Coelo Tandem quietus est, et hic jacet; Nec jacet tamen, sed subsidit, Laboris et Senij, non tamen sui, Quàm delirantis Mundi, pertæsus, Paucisque in terris repertis Bonis, abijt ad Plures; Diebus nefastis, Justitio in terris indicto Irati Coeli Justitia, Terram reliquit, Ad Astra fugiens, Astreæ sequax, Cum Sanctis Collegis redux, Luce novissimâ, Terram denuò judicaturus, Quin tandem Nomen ut eloquar, Magni Verulamij et Sanguine et Nomine, Utroque dignus, audit Franciscus Baconus.

See chest tomb: An altar erected over his grave hath this on its top, Resurrecturum in Resurrectione, in novissimo die, hìc in spe requiescit Corpus vere venerabilis perdoctiq; Judicis Francisci Bacon: Qui ex Thoma Bacon (Proavo suo) de Hesset in Comitatù Suffolciœ; Generoso (anno primo Edwardi Regis Angliœ Sexti defuncto) per Annam Rowse Uxorem suam secundam & Filiam Henrici Rowse de Dinington in Comitatû predicto Armigeri, originem suam deduxit, Quiq; etsi multò magis ob cognomen, quam Divitias Prosapiæ ejus devinctus fuit, attamen Dei Benedictione, suisq; Studijs, sine istâ Animâ venali, quâ in hâc hominum Ætate Aurifures opulescunt, honestè & modicè ditescens, sibi benefecit, & lautè vixit: Liberos benè Moratos, ac ad eruditionem educavit, & (cum Familiâ piè gubernatâ) copiosè sustentavit, pauperibus et egenis amicè subvenit: esurientis quotidiè exsaturavit; et (tandem) Salvâ Conscientiâ, honestissimâ Famâ prorsus omnibus per amatus, et deploratus obijt. Quemq; (post multos Annos studiosè & per officiose (in Vitæ serie) contritos, et ultra quam quatuor Tyrocinia in Legibus Angliœ Ambagiosis, evigilando adimpletâ; unamque Legis Lectionem Societati suæ publicè in Hospitio Graïensi præleetam) Rex noster Carolus insigni honore bis nobilitavit, scilicet, Termino Trinitatis Anno Regni sui 16° & 1640, ad Statum & Gradum Servientis ad Legem gratis ordinavit: & Termino Michaelis 18° Regni sui, 1642, unum Justiciariorum de Banco Regis, et coram ipso Rege (insperato & sine ambitû) delegavit (postquam nec Serviens ad Legem, neque Judex apud Westmonasterium per ipsum Regem ordinatus nec constitus fuit) & in eâdem Curiâ (nec Amore præmij, nec timore Pœnæ Jus violare unquam persuasus, cum Pietate, Fidelitate, & Honestate, Deo, Regi, & Patriæ cum Collegis suis, et pro tempore haud parvo, ut Judex unicus tempore bellicoso) munus suum Judiciarum præstitit; usquequò diploma ejus (per præmaturum Regis prædicti Fatum) legitimè finitum fuit: per quod, optimum Magistrum, honorabile, & perutile servitium amittens, & nolens (Rebus sic stantibus) novam Commissionem exequi: etsi hìnc Divitias exaggerare, suosq; posteros Impendio locupletaret) sese negotijs publicis (ullo modo) tumultuare penitissime recusavit: et ab eo tempore vitam privatam egit, Tædiumque Vitæ, Clientibus privatim consulendis delusit, usque 22am diem Augusti, Ao. Dni. 1657, quâ stadium pertæsum sibi propositum (per Tollerantiam) decucurrit, et Ao. Ætatis suæ 70° (morte pergratâ) Periodum imposuit, ex quo Filius suus natû maximus, (Filiali Debito Reverentiæ & Gratitudinis obstrictus) in Memoriam Honoris & Integritatis ejus Pijssimam (anno Salutis nostræ 1659, cum tristissimo Dolore) hoc Monumentum constituit, et (quantum in se fuit) Æternitati Mandavit.

Arms at the east end of the tomb,

Bacon, arg. on a fess ingrailed between three inescutcheons gul. three mullets or, impaling gul. a lion rampant arg. surmounted by a bend az.

On the side,

Bacon impaling sab. three beehives or. Bacon alone, and Bacon impaled with arg. a saltier ingrailed az.

On a stone in the same chapel:

Elizabeth the charitable and pious wife of Francis Bacon, (the last Judge that was commissionated in the Court of King's Bench by our late deceased King) was here buried, in the Grave of her Father William Robinson Gent. about the 56th Year of her Age, Oct. 9, Ao. Dni. 1651.

When Christ who is our Life shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in Glory. Colos. 3. 4.

Here also lies Francis Bacon Esq; (eldest Son of the abovesaid Francis and Eliz.) who died 28 Sept. 1692, aged 68.

Bacon impales Robinson.

Bacon and Bedingfield impaled.

Here resteth in hope of her Resurrection to everlasting Blisse, Dorothy, the faithfull, loving, charitable, and pious wife of Francis Bacon Esq. (eldest Son of the late Judge) and the eldest Daughter of Philip Bedingfield of Ditchingham in the Countie of Norfolk, Esq; and Anne his Wife, the Dr. of Edward Bacon of Shribland-Hall in Suffolk Esq. she died in the prime of her yeares, and was interr'd upon the 12th Day of August in the 15th Yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles the second, Annoq; Dni. 1663.