File:Dix Family sarcophagus Wickmera 17 August 2014.JPG

North wall of the sanctuary, Saint Andrew’s Church Wickmere, Norfolk, monument of William Dix (d.1596), MP for New Shoreham, Norfolk, in 1571. Attributed to Thomas Gooding. He was the eldest son of John Dix of Wickmere by his wife Margaret Notts/Nolte, a daughter of John Notts (or Nolte) of Norfolk. As requested in his will he was buried in the chancel of Wickmere Church ‘there to remain in hope of the Resurrection ... with the elect of God to the fullness of all joy to continue for evermore’. (Source: Biography of DIX, William (d.1596), of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London; later of Wickmere, Norf., Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981[1]) He married twice:

• Firstly to Lucy Smith, a daughter of John Smith of Blackmore, Essex (probably by his wife Elizabeth Trymnell, a daughter of William Trymnell of Orley Hall, Worcs), without issue. John Smith was a son of Thomas Smith of Rivenhall, who married secondly Isabel Foster, daughter and heiress of William Foster of Little Baddow in Essex (Source: Biog of Sir Clement Smith[2]). John Smith was Thomas Cromwell’s auditor, and had property in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, London, Norfolk and Worcestershire, as well as in Essex, much of it held on lease. John Smith's brother was Sir Clement Smith (c.1515-1552) of Great Baddow in Essex, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer in the Exchequer (often erroneously called "Chief Baron of the Exchequer"), MP for Maldon 1545 and 1547, who married Dorothy Seymour, youngest daughter of Sir John Seymour (d.1536) of Wulfhall, Wiltshire, and sister of Queen Jane Seymour (d.1537), wife of King Henry VIII. John Smith in his will of 10 May 1543 provided that his children and wards should be ‘brought up honestly and diligently at school till they and every of them shall have convenient learning in the Latin tongue and after that by the discretion of my executors to learn the laws of this realm or with some auditor or in some other offices toward the law whereby they may be the better able for to live honestly according unto the laws of God’. Lucy's brother was SMITH, Thomas IV (1525/26-94), of Blackmore, MP for Wigan in 1558. (Source: SMITH, Thomas IV (1525/26-94), of Blackmore, Essex. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982[3])
• Secondly, to Denice/Dionise Nele (d.1603), a daughter of John Nele/Neale of London, by whom he had one son who predeceased him.
  

Four shields:

• Top: Azure, on a bend or three martlets gules on a chief argent two stag's heads erased gules (Dix). (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.287: Confirmed in 1612 by Camden, Clarenceaux, to Rev John Dix)
• Bottom left: Dix (shield on a strapwork support)
• Bottom centre: Dix impaling: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1&4: Argent, a cross gules between three peacocks azure (Smith of Little Beddow, Essex). These arms were borne by Clement Smith (c.1515-1552) of Great Baddow in Essex, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer in the Exchequer (often erroneously called "Chief Baron of the Exchequer"), MP for Maldon 1545 and 1547, who married Dorothy Seymour, youngest daughter of Sir John Seymour (d.1536) of Wulfhall, Wiltshire, and sister of Queen Jane Seymour (d.1537), wife of King Henry VIII.
  • 2&3: Two chevrons and in chief a lion passant (Possibly Foster of Great Beddow, heiress of Smith; not listed in Burke)
• Bottom right: Dix impaling: Argent, a fess gules in chief two crescents of the second in base a buglehorn of the last stringed vert (Neale) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.724 "Neale of Warnford, Hampshire, granted 1579")