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St Mary's Church, Elsing, Norfolk, ledger stone of a son and grandson of Sir Richard Berney, 1st Baronet (died 1668), lord of the manor of Elsing. Spelled here "Barney". "William Barney dyed 1658 and his son Richard Barney dyed 1675". Arms of Berney: Quarterly gules and azure, a cross engrailed ermine.

Descent: Sir Anthony Browne, KG (c.1500-1548) of Battle Abbey and Cowdray Park, both in Sussex, a Member of Parliament and a courtier who served as Master of the Horse to King Henry VIII. He married firstly Alice Gage (died pre-1540), a daughter of Sir John Gage by his wife Philippa Guildford, by whom he had seven sons and three daughters including:

• Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, eldest son and heir
• William Browne, a younger son, who married Anne Hastings (1528-1572), the eldest of the two sisters and co-heiresses of John Hastings, de jure 15th Baron Hastings (d.1542), of Elsing in Norfolk. The eventual heiress of Elsing and Wesenham was Phillipa Browne, who married John Berney (d.1719), and thus Elsing passed to her Berney descendants (see w:Berney baronets). The eventual heiress Frances Berney (born 1760) married Rev. Richard Eaton (1757-1821), Rector of Elsing (see his mural monument in Elsing Church), who assumed by royal licence dated 1786 the surname "Browne", thus Elsing Hall was once again held by the Browne family. (Source: Pedigree of Hastings in: Cokayne, G. E.; H. A. Doubleday; Duncan Warrand & Lord Howard de Walden, eds. (1926). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Gordon to Hustpierpoint). 6 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, pp.365-7).