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English: St Albans Cathedral. Monument to William Payne King (1706-1766) of Fineshade Abbey, Northamptonshire. He married Anne Maria Colebrooke (a daughter of w:James Colebrooke (1680-1752), mercer, banker, and Citizen of London, and a sister of Sir James Colebrooke, 1st Baronet (1722-1761) of Gatton, Surrey) who in 1769 remarried to w:Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797).

King (Ermine, on a chevron engrailed .... 3 ....) impaling: Gules, a lion rampant ermine ducally crowned or on a chief of the last three martlets proper (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.213 "Colebrooke, Baronet, of Gatton, Surrey")

• Text from: www.fineshade.org [1]: In 1748 Charles Kirkham sold Fineshade Abbey to the trustees of William Payne King. Stuckeley recorded in his diary of 1749, that “William Payne King demolished the house and surviving monastic remains (Surtees Soc. 80, (1887), 72).” (BHO, 1984f) And, “no trace remains on the ground of the Priory” as it “probably lay on the site of, and around, the 18th-century house” (BHO, 1975c). And in 1749, William Payne King set to work on building his new Georgian mansion. In the pictures and plans of King’s mansion [Fig. 6 & Fig. 7] and [Fig. 8] the balance and symmetry of the classical style can clearly be seen, as amongst many features of the property, “there was a moulded plinth and a first-floor plat-band” and “the central door had a rusticated architrave and rusticated Ionic columns supporting a pediment.” (BHO, 1984f) William Payne King of Fineshade was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1759, the year he died. He left the estate to his widow who remarried the Hon. Edwin Sandys. In 1769 Sandys sold it to the Hon. John Monckton (d.1830) the son of John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway. House demolished 1956.
• Text from Lost Heritage[2]: It remained with the Kirkhams until 1748 when it was sold to the trustees of William Payne King. He made extensive alterations to the house in 1750 including a particularly fine dining room with fine stucco and carved wood decorations. On his death it passed to his widow, Anne Maria, who remarried to the Hon. Edwin Sandys on 26 January 1769. Having no need for the estate, he sold it in the same year to the Hon. John Monckton (b.1739 - d.1830), son of the 1st Viscount Galway,

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