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Mural monument, south wall of nave, with three kneeling figures and three coloured shields.

In this chancell lyeth buried Jane, Anne, and John, three of the children of Thomas Steward of Little Barton in Suffi., Esq., and Frances his wife, eldest daughter of William Buttes of this Towne of Shouldham Thorpe in Norff., Esquire, deceased. Wheareof the said Jane was buried the 27th day of Februarie, Ann. Dom. 1590, and the said Anne the 19th day of November, Ann. Dom. 1591, and the said John the 11th day of Februarie, Ann. Dom. 1602

Three shields: (Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), p.190[1]):

• Top: Quarterly of 14 (Crest: A buck passant argent (Steward))
  • 1: Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised by a bend raguly or (Steward Augmentation). w:Augmentation of honour to the arms of Steward given by the French King Charles VI (1368-1422) to Sir Alexander Steward "The Fierce" (a grandson of w:Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland (died 1283), from whose first son were descended all the Stuart kings of Scotland), for service done by his father Andrew Steward to that king and to the king of Scots, and also to John the French king, grand-father to Charles VI. Evidently alludes to the following event. An armed knight fought with a lion, and having broken his sword, which lay in fragments at his feet, snatched up a rude club with which he combatted the beast. In allusion to this, the following crest is given to the Steward family: A sword broken in two, the pieces placed in saltire on a wreath, and surmounting a ragged staff erectly or. (Source: Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 1777, pp.183-5[2])
  • 2: Or, a fesse chequy argent and azure (Steward, Hereditary Steward of Scotland)
  • 3: Vert, three boar's heads couped argent (Boreley/Burley) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.101 "Boreley / Borseley of Wiltshire")
  • 4: Argent, a lion rampant sable on the shoulder a mullet or (Walkfare) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1066 Or / argent, a lion rampant sable "Walkfare of Norfolk")
  • 5: Argent, a chevron gules between three hurts (Baskeville);
  • 6: Per pale sable and gules, a lion rampant guardant argent crowned or (Bestney) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.78 "Bestney of Hertfordshire") Visitations gives: Per pale gules and sable, a lion rampant argent crowned or on the shoulder a crescent of the second (Bestney); Pedigree of "Bestney of St. Albans, Hertfordshire" (probably today's "Beeson End, Redbourn", 4.7 km north of St Alban's Abbey, see Rev. C. More, 'Catalogue of field names occurring on the Hertfordshire estates of the Earl of Verulam', Transactions of the St. Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, 1927, pp.19-20[3]) as reported to the 1634 Visitation of Hertfordshire, Appendix II, p.126[4]: Per pale sable and gules, a lion rampant guardant argent ducally crowned or. Descended from Edward Bestney "of West Bestney", Constable of Flint Castle in Wales.
    
    
  • 7: Or, a castle triple- towered sable (unknown). See Farrer, page 180, Marham Church, Steward shield [5] ;
  • 8: Gules, an eagle displayed with two heads argent (unknown);
  • 9: Argent, a cross flory sable between four martlets of the second/'four Cornish choughs proper' (Spenlow/Spendelow) (source: Clay, J. W., ed. (1897). The Visitation of Cambridge made in Anno 1575, continued and enlarged with the Visitation of the same county made by Henery St George, Richmond Herald, marshall and deputy to Willm. Camden, Clarenceulx, in Anno 1619, with many other descents added thereto. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 41. London, p.7 [6]) (Spenlow of St Albans, Hertfordshire (1634 Visitation of Hertfordshire, Appendix II, p.126[7])) (heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire") (here shown as Cornish choughs proper, which would be "Philips of Shropshire" (Burke, p.800)) (not listed in Burke).
    
    
  • 10: Argent, a cross double pierced between nine fleurs-de-lis sable. See Farrer page 180; ? Argent, two pallets and three barrulets between nine fleurs-de-lis sable ? (an heiress of Spenlow ?)
  • 11: Vert, three lions passant or (FitzGeffrey) (an heiress of Spenlow ?) (not listed in Burke)
  • 12: Argent, a lion rampant guardant sable within a bordure (engrailed) of the second (Beruen) (heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire") (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.76 "Beruen/Berven/Berwen") (heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire")
  • 13: Azure, a chevron between three leopard's faces or (Frowicke/Froyk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.380 "Frowicke of Wyley, Hertfordshire & Morth Mimms, Middlesex")
  • 14: Or, a griffin segreant sable (Morgan)

Impaling: Quarterly of 4:

• • 1&4: Azure, on a chevron between three estoiles or as many lozenges gules (Butts of Shouldham Thorpe)
  • 2&3: Per bend argent and sable, three fleurs-de-lis in bend counter- changed (Cocket) (Per Farrer, as seen here; Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.209 implies fl-de-lys 2 and 1)
• Dexter (viewer's left): Butts impaling Tyndal of Hockwold, quarterly of 5:
  • 1: Argent, a fesse dancettee gules in chief three crescents of the second (Deene of Deene, Northamptonshire (Now Deene Park)) ("Tyndale of Hockwold, Norfolk", per Farrer; Burke pp.1041, 270 gives these arms as "Dean (of Deane/Deene) Northamptonshire", as quartered by Tyndale of Deane, Northamptonshire and of Hockwold, Norfolk (Argent, a fess gules between three garbs sable banded or (Tyndale)); See biog of TYNDALE, John (d.1413), of Deene, Northants in History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993[8] "s. and h. of William Tyndale of Tansover, Northants. by his w. Elizabeth. m. (1) by 1375, Katherine Zouche, wid. of Sir Henry Deene of Deene,"

• • 2: Or, a lion rampant gules (Felbrigg); Sir Simon de Felbrigg (d.1351) of Felbrigg in Norfolk. His brass in Felbrigg Church is inscribed: Here lie Simon Felbrigg, knight, former Standard bearer to the most illustrious lord, our lord the King Richard the Second. He died on the ...day of the month of ... in the year of our Lord 14.. and the lady Margaret formerly his wife, of the nation and noble blood of Bohemia and formerly maid of honour to the most noble lady Anne, Queen of England; she died on the 27th day of June in the year of our Lord 1416; upon whose souls may God have mercy; Amen. He married Margaret von Teschen/Cieszyn (b. ca. 1365/70 – d. 27 June 1413/16), a daughter of the Duke of Teschen/Cieszyn (w:Przemyslaus I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn), whose arms are shown on the brass.(https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1397824).
  • 3: Vert, an eagle displayed with two heads gules ("Theise, Sable, an eagle displayed with two necks gules. "Arms of the Duke of Theise, as I take it." — Bl. Nor/, vii. 428, 429) (w:Przemyslaus I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn "Duke of Teschen" (Polish: Przemysław I Noszak, Czech: Přemyslav I. Nošák, German: Przemislaus I. von Teschen; 13 February 1334[1] – 23 May 1410), was a Duke of Cieszyn-Bytom-Siewierz from 1358 (during 1359–1368 he lost Siewierz and in 1405 also lost Bytom), from 1384 ruler over half of both Głogów and Ścinawa (except during 1404–1406) and after 1401 ruler over Toszek. The arms should be: Azure, an eagle displayed or (arms of Duke of Cieszyn/Teschen);
  • 4: Gules, six escallops, three, two, and one, argent (Scales) (Scales of Scales Hall/Scales' Manor in the parish of Hockwold (Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Grimeshou: Hockwold', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (London, 1805), pp. 177-187 [9]))
  • 5: Argent, three fleurs-de-lis gules (Mondeford or Mundford of Feltwell); (Moundeford, per Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.712, but with field or).

Text per Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Grimeshou: Hockwold', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2 (London, 1805), pp. 177-187. [10] "Scales's Manor: Robert de Scales, by the marriage of Margery, one of the daughters and coheirs of Fulk de Beaufo, had a part and lordship in this town; and in the reign of King Henry III. held three-quarters of a fee in Hockwold and Wilton. In 3d King Edward I. Alice Lady Scales recovered damages of Richard Maule, for the taking two swans and seven cygnets out of her fishery here; (fn. 15) and in the reign of King Henry VI. Robert Lord Scales was found to hold three-quarters of a fee here, of the Earl of Arundel; and in 13th of the said King, John Hened, parson of Wridlyngton, and William Bateman, granted to John Cley, clerk, Nicholas de Massingham, &c. this manor, which they had of the feoffment of Robert Lord Scales. After this, it was held by Anthony Woodvile Lord Scales, (fn. 16) and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and coheir of the Lord Scales; and on the death of the said Elizabeth, sans issue, it descended to Will. Tindale, who was knighted at the creation of Arthur Prince of Wales, and declared heir of the kingdom of Bohemia, in right of Margaret, his great-grandmother, daughter to the Duke of Theise, and niece to the King of Bohemia, the wife of Sir Simon Felbrigge, whose daughter and heiress, Alana, was married to Sir William Tindale of Dean in Northamptonshire, and Redenhale in Norfolk, &c. grandfather of the aforesaid Sir William Tindale of Hockwold, who kept his first court here, with Mary his wife, in 6th Edward IV. This Sir William died on 22d Feb. 12th Henry VII. (fn. 17) and John was found his son and heir, who was created Knight of the Bath, at the coronation of Queen Ann Boleyn, and married Amphelicia, daughter of Sir Humphry Conynsby, one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Thomas Tindale, who, on 14th Dec. 26th Henry VIII. settled this lordship for the payment of 42l. per annum, by way of jointure, on Dame Winifred, his second wife; and William Tindale, Esq. son and heir of Sir Thomas, with his brother John, sold it. (as has been observed above, in the manor of Poinings, to Sir William Paston,) and so it came as above to Cyril Wiche, Esq. the present [1738] lord.

• Sinister (viewer's right): Butts impaling Cocket.