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English: Chest tomb in the chancel of St Mary's Church, Elsing, Norfolk, England, of Dame Anne Browne (1551-1623), who died aged 72, the wife of Sir Anthony Browne (d.1628) lord of the manor of Elsing. She was the mother of sons Francis Browne and Anthony Brown, who both died in infancy, buried with her, and of Thomas Browne (d.1632) of Elsing, eldest surviving son and heir. Verse above:

("Anthony Browne his wife" = modern "Anthony Browne's wife").

Heraldry: two shields sculpted in low relief on the base:

• Dexter (viewer's left): Sable, three lions passant in bend between two double cotises argent (Browne, Viscount Montagu, Marquess of Sligo) with a crescent for difference of a second son; imapling: A chevron ermine between three talbot's heads erased (? for his wife)
• Sinister (viewer's right): A chevron ermine between three talbot's heads erased (? for his wife)

Dame Anne's family is unknown, but she is thought to have been a daughter of a certain "Roger Bell, Esquire", however the arms of Bell stated to relate to him (Gules, a fess between three bells ...) do not match those shown here. (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol.2, 1889, p.67[1]).

Sir Anthony Browne (d.1628) of Elsing was the son and heir of William Browne of Elsing and Wesenham, Norfolk, the brother of w:Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu (1528-1592), both sons of Sir Anthony Browne (c.1500-1548), of Battle Abbey and of Cowdray Park both in Sussex, a Knight of the Garter and Master of the Horse to King Henry VIII. He married Anne Hastings (1528-1572), the eldest of the two sisters and co-heiresses of John Hastings, de jure 15th Baron Hastings (d.1542), of Elsing. The eventual heiress of Elsing and Wesenham was Phillipa Browne, who married John Berney (d.1719), and thus Elsing passed to her Berney descendants. The eventual heiress Frances Berney (born 1760) married Rev. Richard Eaton, Rector of Elsing, who assumed by royal licence dated 1786 the surname "Browne", thus Elsing Hall was once again held by the Browne family. (Source: Pedigree of Hastings in: Cokayne, G. E.; H. A. Doubleday; Duncan Warrand & Lord Howard de Walden, eds. (1926). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Gordon to Hustpierpoint). 6 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, pp.365-7)