File:-2022-07-02 Memorial of John Palgrave, Saint Peter’s, North Barningham, Norfolk (1).JPG

English: Monument of John Palgrave (1531-1611), lawyer and magistrate, on the north of the chancel in Saint Peter's Church, North Barningham, Norfolk. His monument is adorned with figures representing Peace, Labour, and Justice, but all three figures have had their heads removed. He was the son of Clement Palgrave (c.1495-1583) by his wife Margery Rede, a daughter of William Rede of Beccles, Suffolk, son and heir of John Rede, Mayor of Norwich; Margery Rede's sister married Christopher Playter of Sotterly in Suffolk (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, pp.59-60 "Rede of Beccles"[1]). He married Urith Saunder, a daughter of Sir William Saunder, Knight, by whom he had issue one son and three daughters:

• Sir Austin Palgrave (1567-1639), whose monument is in the same church, married Elizabeth Willoughby (1580-1633), a daughter of Sir John Willoughby of Risley, Derbyshire
• Jane Palgrave, first married Robert Laurence, Esq, and after Sir Isaac Jermy, Kt.
• Elizabeth Palgrave, married Sir Steven Ridlesden, Kt, Surveyor of the King's Ordnance.
• Margaret Palgrave, unmarried in 1611

From: Bulwer, Brigadier-General E. E. G., ed. (1895). The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms: Volume 2. Norwich, pp.23-27[2]

• John Palgrave of Palgrave, Norfolk, married Sibell Hethersett (d.1445), daughter and heiress of William Hethersett (of Hethersett ?) Norfolk
  • John Palgrave (d.1467), son, married Anne Sturmer/Turner, daughter and heiress of Henry Sturmer of Norwich
    • John Palgrave, son, married Margaret Yelverton, daughter of Sir William Yelverton of Rougham, Norfolk, Judge of the King's Bench
      • Henry Palgrave (d.1516) of Palgrave, son, married Anne Glemham, daughter of John Glemham of Glemham, Suffolk, by his wife Eleanor Brandon, a daughter of Sir William Brandon
        • Clement Palgrave (d.1583), 2nd son and heir, of North Barningham, married Margery Rede, a daughter of William Rede of Beccles, Suffolk, son and heir of John Rede, Mayor of Norwich;
          • John Palgrave (1531-1611), son, married Urith Saunder, a daughter of William Saunder of Ewell, Surrey
            • Sir Austin Palgrave (1567-1639), son, Sheriff of Norfolk in 1617, married Elizabeth Willoughby (1580-1633), a daughter of Sir John Willoughby of Risley, Derbyshire and sister of Sir Henry Willoughby, 1st Baronet
            • Jane Palgave, sister, married Sir Isaac Jermy of Stutton, Suffolk
            • Elizabeth Palgrave, sister, married Sir Stephen Ridlesden of Clavering-cum-Langley, Essex, Surveyor of the King's Ordinance
            • Margaret Palgrave, sister, married John Pope, LLD, of Over, Cambridgeshire
              • Sir John Palgrave, 1st Baronet (1605-1672), son and heir of Sir Austin Palgrave (1567-1639). Created a baronet in 1641. Married Elizabeth Jermy, a daughter of John Jermy of Gunton, Norfolk

Text from: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), pp.414-15[3] Monument by the North Wall of the Chancel, with Ten coloured Shields,

• Around the arch, above part of the inscription, 5 shields:

From lower left clockwise:

• 1: Argent, a chevron between three crosses-crosslet fitchée sable (Ridlesden ? The coat of Rydels, co. York, is Argent, a chevron between three crosses botonnée fitchée sable) impaling Palgrave,
• 2: Palgrave, impaling: Or, on two bars gules three water-bougets argent, two and one (Willoughby of Risley, Derbyshire) (arms of Willoughby of w:Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1118))
• 3 (top): Azure, a lion rampant guardant argent (Palgrave) impaling: Sable, a chevron ermine between three bulls' heads cabossed argent (Sanders of Charlwood Place, Surrey); (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.895: "Sanders of Sanderstead and Sanders Place (now called Charlwood Place) in Charlwood, Surrey, a very ancient family in that county". "The Sanders family appears to have flourished in Charlwood in Surrey from at least the time of Edward II (1307-1327), and it has been asserted that they arrived there from the suggestively named Sanderstead, about 14 miles to the north-east, having lived there from the time of the Norman Conquest. The earliest contemporary mention of the Saunders family in Charlwood appears to be in 1314, when a William Saundre was called to witness a deed". (www.bedfordpark.net[4])
• 4: Argent, a lion rampant gules (Jermy) impaling Palgrave.
• 5: (blank/plain) impaling Palgrave (Farrer: "The dexter side is, and always was, I think, plain" - no husband yet for Margaret Palgrave, unmarried in 1611)

• At the bottom and aroumd the base of the tomb, 5 shields:

Left to right:

• 6 (left side): Palgrave impaling: Azure, on a bend wavy or three Cornish choughs proper a bordure engrailed argent charged with torteaux and pellets alternately (Rede of Norwich, Norfolk & Beccles, Suffolk, granted in 1522 by Sir w:Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms (Burke, 1884, p.844 "Rede of Norwich") (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, pp.59-60 "Rede of Beccles"[5]) (c.f. similar arms of Reade of Symington, Norfolk and Reade of Massingham Magna, Norfolk, per Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.843). John Palgrave (1531-1611) was the son of Clement Palgrave (c.1495-1583) by his wife Margery Rede, a daughter of William Rede of Beccles, Suffolk, son and heir of John Rede, Mayor of Norwich in 1496-7 (Bayne, AD, A Comprehensive History of Norwich, (1869: Jarrold), p.684[6]), who married Joan Ludlowe. The other son of John Rede, Mayor of Norwich, was w:Edward Rede (1476-1544) of Norwich, MP for Norwich in 1529 (REDE, Edward (by 1476-1544), of Norwich, Norf. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 [7]). Many other families named "Reade/Rede bore similar arm, with birds as shovellers/martlets/swans, etc. An earlier bearer of the basic variant of these arms was Sir Robert Rede/Read (d.1519), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1507, who bore arms: Gules, on a bend wavy argent three shovellers sable beaked and legged or (Burke, 1884, p.842). Sir Robert Rede was the son of William Rede of Wrangle, Lincolnshire, a Calais merchant. It seems the bordure was a difference. Arms of "Reade of Lincoln": Gules, on a bend argent three shovellers sable (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.843 "Reade of Lincoln"). See monumental brass[8] in Wrangle Church to Sir John Reade (d.1503), wool merchant of The Staple of Calais ("Here lyeth John Reede sometyme Marchant of ye staple and Margaret his wife, he dyed ye 24th day of October 1503, she ye 27th of March 1503"), great grandfather of Sir John Read (1560-1626), Sheriff of Lincolnshire, whose large tomb [9] is a feature in the same church. The brass of Sir John Reade (d.1503), wool merchant shows 2 different shields, one showing his merchant mark, the other apparently a version of the arms of the Haberdashers Company, with a lion on a chief rather than on a bend[10].
• 7: (front): Palgrave, impaling: Or, a chevron gules between three torteaux (Glemham of w:Glemham Hall, Suffolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.404). Built circa 1560 by the de Glemham Family, Glemham Hall with an estate of 3,000 acres is owned in 2023 by Thomas Hope-Cobbold who inherited it from his father in 2020; (https://www.glemhamhall.co.uk/#the-estate)
• 8: (front): Palgrave, impaling: Argent, three lioncels rampant gules a chief of the second (Yelverton of Rougham. The lions should be guardant)
• 9: (front): Palgrave, impaling: Sable, a chevron between three squirrels sejant argent (Lovell ? tinctures not matching, no blazon with matching tinctures listed in Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.391)
• 10: (right side): Palgrave impaling Glemham;

" Here resteth in Christ the body of John Pagrave (sic), Esq", who married Urith, the daughter of Sir William Saunder, Kt, by whom he left issue one sone and three daughters, and at the age of 80 years commended his spirit to his Redeemer, the 29th of May, 1611. Sir Austin Palgrave, his son, married Elizabeth, eldest sister of Sir Henry Willoughby, Knight and Baronet. Jane Palgrave first married Robert Laurence, Esq, and after Sir Isaac Jermy, Kt. Elizabeth Palgrave married Sir Steven Ridlesden, Kt, Surveyor of ye King's Ordnance. Margaret yet unmarried."