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English: St Margaret's Church, Toft Monks, Norfolk, mural monument on north chancel wall to John Bayspoole (d. 30 August 1624). He married Elizabeth Spelman, only daughter of Henry Spelman of Congham, Norfolk, and "sister of the most noble man w:Henry Spelman, Knight", the antiquary. He had four daughters and two sons, the elder of whom, Henry Bayspoole, died in his youth, the younger, John Bayspoole, who "of filial piety towards his most dear parents supervised this monument to be placed in 1653". John Bayspoole married Anne Coppenger, a daughter and co-heiress of Ralph Coppenger, Esquire, of Kent.

Heraldry

Two coloured, but defaced, shields (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 1 (1885), pp.111-12 [1]):

• Dexter (left): Quarterly of 4:
  • 1: Or, three bendlets gules on a fesse sable three plates (Coppenger/Coppinger)
  • 2: Argent, two bendlets sable in the sinister chief a cross-crosslet (Bond ?)
  • 3: Argent, a fesse between three boar's heads sable
  • 4: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three hunting-horns sable stringed gules
• Sinister (right): Quarterly of 4 impaling quarterly of 4:
  • 1&4: Argent, a chevron embattled between three lions rampant sable (Bayspoole)
  • 2&3: Gules, a chevron argent, in the dexter chief a martlet or for difference;
    

impaling:

• • 1: Sable, eleven plates, three, two, one, two, three, between two flaunches argent, with a crescent for difference (Spelman)
  • 2: Gules, a chief ermine (Narburgh/Narborough)
  • 3: Azure, a chevron between three leopard's faces or (Froyk/Frowicke)
  • 4: Azure fretty gules, three sturgeons naiant in pale or (Sturgeon)