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English: St Margaret, Starston, Norfolk - mural monument of Bartholomew Cotton (1537-1613), son and heir of Roger Cotton, by his wife Ethelreda Cotton, daughter and heiress of John Cotton, second brother of Sir Robert Cotton of Landwade, in Cambridgeshire. He married, firstly, Cecilia Burrough, spinster and heiress ; secondly, Alice Gascoigne  ; thirdly, Anna Sterling — the last two widows — and he died June 21st, 1613, aged 76. (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 1 (1885), , pp.21-2 [1] , who states: "The account given of this achievement here differs considerably from that in Blomfield, History of Norfolk, Vol.V, p.346, and the E. C. C. p. 286. It may be that the monument has been lately restored. The identification of the quarterings of Cotton are taken from Bl. Norf. vi. 509.".)

w:Landwade per wikipedia: Parishes of its size were often absorbed in the Middle Ages, but Landwade survived thanks to the rebuilding of the church by Walter Cotton (d. after 1434), Lord of the Manor, in the 15th century to serve as a burial place for his family. The Manor of Landwade had passed to Sir Thomas Cotton, Knt., of Cotton Hall, Cambs., by virtue of his marriage to Alice, daughter and heiress of John Hastings, Lord of the Manor of Landwade in the 14th century. Landwade Hall, a large house that was partially destroyed by bombs during the Second World War, was the ancestral home of the Cotton family until they moved to Madingley in the 18th century. (Landwade was historically in Cambs., now in Suffolk).

Quarterly of 12 (Crest: A griffin's head erased argent charged with a crescent gules. The whole shield charged at the nombril point with a crescent gules):

• 1: Sable, a chevron between three griffins' heads erased argent (Cotton of Landwade, Cambrideshire), charged with a crescent gules for difference;
• 2: Argent, a fesse engrailed gules in chief a rose of the second barbed vert seeded or ;
• 3: Ermine, on a chief azure two mullets or (Hastings of Landwade, Cambridgeshire) (Bl. Norf. v. 346, gives the chief sable) ("Hastings of Cambridge", per Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.466);
• 4: Ermine, on a bend azure, three lions' heads erased argent ;
• 5: as No. 1 without the crescent;
• 6: as 2  ;
• 7: as 3  ;
• 8: Gules, a chevron between three pears pendent stalked/slipped or (Abbot) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1 "Abbot, Lord Mayor of London 1638"). This is the family of Abbot of Guildford, Surrey, sons of Maurice Abbot, a clothworker of Guildford in Surrey, who lived in that city in a cottage, the birthplace of the archbishop, ‘by the river’s side, near to the bridge on the north side in St. Nicolas’ parish). Maurice Abbot's five sons included the following three prominent men, who all bore these arms, presumably inherited from a common source, namely the paternal line "Abbot of Guildford":

• Robert Abbot (1560-1618), Bishop of Salisbury from 1615.
• George Abbot (1562–1633), Archbishop of Canterbury, born at Guildford on 29 Oct. 1562.
• Sir Maurice/Morris Abbot (1565–1642), an eminent merchant, governor of the East India Company, and Lord Mayor of London in 1638, the fifth and youngest son.

• 9: Argent, three eagle's heads erased sable a bordure engrailed of the last (Sharpe);
• 10: Sable, a cinquefoil within an orle of martlets argent (Staunton/Stanton) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.963 "Stanton": Sable, an orle of martlets argent, without cinquefoil)
• 11: Azure, three eagles displayed or a canton ermine (FitzSimon) ("FitzSymon of Hertfordshire", per Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.358, but with one eagle only);
• 12: Ermine, on a bend gules three eagles displayed or (Bagshote) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.39).