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English:

Chest tomb monument, Church of St Michael, Ryston, Norfolk, North Chancel Wall, to Anne Monins (1643-1706) (Lady Pratt), third daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edward Monins, 2nd Baronet (1600–1663), of Waldershare, Kent, who married firstly Sir Roger Pratt (d.1684) of Ryston, Norfolk (see his ledger stone in same church), and secondly (on 19 Jan. 1692) Sigismund Trafford (c.1643-1723), of Walthamstow, Essex, and Dunton Hall, Tydd St. Mary, Linconlshire, MP for King's Lynn, Norfolk, in 1689. (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), p.186[1] ; History of Parliament biography "TRAFFORD, Sigismund (c.1643-1723), of Walthamstow, Essex and Dunton Hall, Tydd St. Mary, Lincs., published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983 [2]). With semi-recumbent effigy and coloured shield. (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), p.186[3]). (The mural monument above is to Henrietta Pratt File:St Michael, Ryston, Norfolk - Wall monument - geograph.org.uk - 1714521.jpg).

Inscription

"Here lyes buried the Body of Lady Pratt, whose first husband was Sir Roger Pratt of this place. She was the third daughter of Sir Edward Monins, of the antient family of Monins of Waldershare, in the county of Kent: her second husband was Sigismund Trafford of Dunton Hall, in Tidd St. Maries, in the county of Lincoln, Esq., who caused this monument to be erected to her memory. She died the 12th day of September, 1706, in the 63rd year of her age.

Heraldry

Shield on west end of chest tomb (per Farrer) (see better image[4]): Argent, a griffin segreant gules (Trafford) impaling: Gules, three crescents or (Monins) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.695 "Monins of Waldershare and Dover, Kent, baronets, extinct 1678")