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St Edmund's Church, Emneth, Norfolk, monument at east end of south aisle, to Sir Thomas Hewar (died May 15th 1631) The Younger, of Hackbeach Hall in the parish of Emneth. (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), pp.214-15[1]). He was the son of Sir Thomas Hewar (d.1585/1579 (inq.pm)) The Elder (whose monument and effigy is in the same church) by his first wife Winifred Reppes, a daughter of John Reppes / Repps of West Walton and widow of William Ogard of Emneth. He married Emma Lawrence, a daughter of William Lawrence of St Ives in Huntingdonshire, (Source: jmc4 - Church Explorer [2]) by whom he had an only son Thomas Hewar, who "was taken away at a tender age". The sister and heiress of Sir Thomas Hewar (died May 15th 1631) The Younger, was Thomasine Hewar, who married Thomas Oxburgh (d.1623), whose descendants inherited the Hewar estates. (Source: Francis Blomefield, 'Freebridge Hundred and Half: Emneth, or Enemeth', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 403-410 [3])

The second tablet is in memory of Hewar Oxburgh (1681-1729), Esquire, who died aged 48, and his wife Diana Whitehall (1687-1767), who died aged 80.

M(emoriae) S(acrum) Thomas Hewar, Eques auratus, vir bonus et honestis moribus præditus, de pratria et principe optime meritus, hoc juxta parentes suos hic sepultos monumentum mortis suæ non immemor sibi proposuit. Duxit in uxorem Emmam Willi(elmi) Laurence de Villa St Ivonis in agro Huntingdonensi, Armigeri, filiam spectatae fidei et vitae integerrimae faeminam, de qua unicum filium Thomam teneris annis oblatum suscitavit. Fixa fideo caelo, dispersaq(ue), fama per orbem, Te prohibent Hewar, te moriente mori.

Hic etiam contumulabatur Hewar Oxburgh, Arm(iger) una cum Diana uxore eius filia Jacobi Whitehall; ille obiit 19 Jan(uarii) 1729 aet(atis) 48; illa occidit 8 Feb(ruarii) 1767 aet(atis) 80.

Three shields:

• 1, front, above cornice: Quarterly of 4 (Surmounted by crest: A demi-dragon azure wings endorsed or collared and lined of the last holding the line in her forelegs (Hewar):
  • 1: Sable, between two flaunches ermine as many talbot's heads in pale erased or (Hewar) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.485, but with heads couped);
  • 2: Argent, a lion rampant sable a chief indented per fesse gules and of the second (Hielt)  ? ("Hiet", per Burke, p.488, but with chief indented sable)
  • 3: Sable, a chevron engrailed between three leopard's faces or (Wentworth) ? — BL Nor/. ix. 407. Farrer: "I do not think it likely");
  • 4: Argent, three piles wavy gules between ten martlets sable (Coe/Cooe) (Burke, p.210, but with 12 martlets, "Coe of Norfolk") (Coe of Ashwell in Norfolk, see Blomefield's pedigree of Hewar).
• 2, side, above cornice: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1: Hewar
  • 2: Hielt/Hiet ?
  • 3: Wentworth ?
  • 4: Coe

Impaling: Ermine, a cross ragulée gules on a chief of the second a lion passant guardant or (Lawrence/Laurence) (Burke, p.589, "Lawrence of St Ives, Huntingdonshire, baronets"; same arms as "Lawrence of Iver, Buckinghamshire, baronets")

• 3, side, below cornice: Or, two bars azure (Hakebeche) (Burke, p.440, "Hakebeche/Hakbeech"); Farrer: "In the 5th of King John it appears that there was a place in the hamlet of Emneth called Hagebech, which gave its name to a family then lord of it. Sir Adam de Hakbeck lived in 1277 this lordship on the death of the last Sir Robert de Hakebech, in King Henry VI. time, seems to have come to Sir Andrew Ogard." — Blomfield. History of Norfolk, ix. 403, 404, 408[4]. Hewar Oxburgh took this coat as the foundation of his, "Or, two bars azure, over all a lion rampant guardant gules."