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St Mary's Church Brome Suffolk. Monument to Sir Thomas Cornwallis (1518/19 – 1604), MP, Treasurer of Calais, the eldest son of Sir John Cornwallis (c. 1491–1544) (steward of the household of the future King Edward VI during the years 1538–1544) by his wife Mary Sulyard, daughter of Edward Sulyard of Otes, Essex. He married Anne Jerningham (a daughter of Sir John Jerningham of Somerleyton, Suffolk, by his wife Bridget Drury, a daughter of Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead, Suffolk), by whom he had two sons, Sir Charles Cornwallis and Sir William Cornwallis, and four daughters, including Elizabeth Cornwallis, the second wife of Sir Thomas Kitson (1540–1603), son and heir of Sir Thomas Kitson (died 1540).

Shield on east wall, above feet of effigies, Cornwallis (quarterly of 8) impaling Jerningham (quarterly of 8):

• Baron/dexter:
  • 1: Sable guttée d'eau, on a fess argent three Cornish choughs proper (Cornwallis)
  • 2: Sable, three bars gemelles argent on a canton of the second a crescent of the field (Buckton of Brome) (1561 Heraldic Visitation : Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. (1882). The Visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond Herald, 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk Pedigrees. Exeter: W. Pollard., p.21 [1])
  • 3: Sable, a cross moline or (unknown family)
  • 4: Argent, a bend between six crosses-crosslet fitchée sable (Tye) (1561 Heraldic Visitation)
  • 5: Argent, two chevronels azure a bordure engrailed gules (Tyrell) (1561 Heraldic Visitation) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1042 "Tyrell of Stanford (Stanford-in-the-Vale), Berks"). In 1715 a moiety of the manor of Stanford-in-the-Vale was owned by Sir Walter Tyrrell, who served as High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1723, and was succeeded by his son Avery Tyrrell ('Parishes: Stanford in the Vale', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page and P H Ditchfield (London, 1924), pp. 478-485 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4/pp478-485). Stanford Rectory was built c.1706 by Walter Tyrell (listed building text[2]);
  • 6: Azure, a chevron argent between three storks of the second membered gules ("Stamford" (Stanford ?)) (1561 Heraldic Visitation) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.961 "Stanford": Azure, a chevron between three birds argent)
  • 7: Sable, a chevron between three covered cups argent
  • 8: Sable fretty argent, on a chief of the second a lion passant guardant of the first
• Femme/sinister: quarterly of 8 (Heraldic Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. (1882). The Visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond Herald, 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk Pedigrees. Exeter: W. Pollard, p.46 [3]):
  • 1: Argent, three buckles lozengy gules (Jerningham)
  • 2: Gules, a cross engrailed argent (Inglethorpe of Norfolk)
  • 3: Gules, three bars gemelles or a canton argent (FitzOsborne of Suffolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.356)
  • 4: Argent, a unicorn salient sable (Herling of East Harling, Norfolk) (Burke, 1884, p.457)
  • 5: Or, six fleurs-de-lis azure (Mortimer of Attleborough, Norfolk (heiress of Herling of East Harling, Norfolk) (Burke, 1884, p.709, with variants)
  • 6: Argent, on a chevron between two couple closes indented sable three escallops or (Gonville) (Burke, 1884, p.408, arms of Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington and Rushworth, Norfolk, founder of Gonville College, Cambridge) (Heiress of Herling of East Harling, Norfolk)
  • 7: Gules, a pall reversed ermine (Kelvedon) (Burke, 1884, p.556: "Kelverdon, Gules, a pale ermine)
  • 8: Sable, a lion rampant between six cinquefoils argent (Clifton) (Arms of Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire (Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold): Sable semée of cinquefoils and a lion rampant argent)