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All Saints Church, Worlingham, Suffolk, monument to Parnell Rous (d.1637) (and to her daughter Anne Duke (d.1658)), a daughter of Sir Thomas Rous, of Henham Hall, Suffolk (by his wife Parnel Goodwin, a daughter of Sir John Goodwin of Upper Winchendon, Bucks), and a sister of Sir John Rous (1586-1652), of Henham Hall, MP for Dunwich (https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/rous-sir-john-i-1586-1652). She was the wife of John Duke of Worlingham. Same arms as Duke baronets of Behhall, Suffolk, created 1661, for Sir Edward Duke, 1st Baronet (c.1604-1671) of Benhall, MP, son of Ambrose Duke of Benhall and his wife Elizabeth Calthrop, daughter of Bartholemew Calthrop of Suffolk. From Alfred Suckling, 'Worlingham', in The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1 (Ipswich, 1846), pp. 103-111[1]: A branch of the ancient family of Duke was afterwards long possessed of this manor (Worlingham). Robert Duke was living here in the reign of Henry VIII. John Duke, Esq., married Parnel, daughter of Sir Thomas Rous, of Henham, soon after the year 1600; and in 1649, Thomas Duke, of Worlingham, Esq., was seized of the advowson and manor of Diss, in Norfolk. (fn. 5) It afterwards became the property of John Felton, Esq., son of Sir John Felton, of Playford;.

John Duke of Worlingham was the "Master of his Majesty's Royal Game of All manner of swannes and signettes within and throughout the counties of Essex and Suffolk" as is stated on his deed dated 19th July 1638 granting a swan mark (unique identifying notch on the beak) to John Hobart of Weybread in Suffolk. See [2]: deed of grant of a swan mark dated 19th July 1638 signed and sealed by John Duke of Worlingham, Suffolk. 287x186mm. Written in black ink on vellum, with a pen and ink diagram of a swan's bill with the mark being granted at the head of the document, red wax seal. The signatures of the witnesses are also present as is the later signature of Thomas Bransby. The grantee of the swan mark is John Hobart of Weybread in Suffolk. The deed states that "I John Duke of Worlingham do give and grant unto John Hobart of Weybread.full power and authoritie to use the marke above specified for his swannes and cignettes". John Duke of Worlingham is described in the document as the "Master of his Majesty's Royal Game of All manner of swannes and signettes within and throughout the counties of Essex and Suffolk". The Duke family were wealthy landowners who owned the manor of Worlingham. John Hobart was a member of a rich and important East Anglian family who owned land around Norwich and, more significantly, at Blickling in North Norfolk where Sir Henry Hobart was the deputy Swan-Master for east Norfolk and Suffolk in 1625.

Arms, tierce per pale:

• Centre:Azure, a chevron between three birds close argent membered gules (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.304 "Duke baronets of Benhall and Brompton (sic) in Suffolk") (Brampton in Cambridgeshire) with a crescent for difference (Duke);
• Dexter: Sable, a fess dancetée or between three crescents argent (Rous, Earl of Stradbroke), for his first wife Parnell Rous;
• Sinister: Ermine, a cross engrailed or for his second wife.