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St Edmund's Church, Emneth, Norfolk, south wall of south aisle, monument to Thomas Hewers (1519-1585), Esquire, the Elder, and his wife Wenefreda Repps (1529-1576), formerly the wife of William Ogard, and a daughter of John Repps, Esquire. By Wenefreda Repps he had three children: Thomas, Thomasina and Elizabeth. Thomas Hewers, Esquire, the Elder, married secondly Margery Kay, a daughter of Edward Kay, of gentry blood, formerly the wife of William Laurence, Esquire.

For heraldry see: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), pp.214-15[1]

3 shields:

• 1: Quarterly of 4:
  • 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: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1: Hewar
  • 2: Hielt/Hiet ?
  • 3: Wentworth ?
  • 4: Coe

Impaling: Quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Ermine, three chevrons sable (Reppes/Repps)
• 2&3: Or, a bend between three trefoils slipped azure (Smythe, arms of Smythe of Walpole, Norfolk)

• 3: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1: Hewar
  • 2: Hielt/Hiet ?
  • 3: Wentworth ?
  • 4: Coe

Impaling: Or, a bend azure voided sable / Argent, two bendlets sable (Kay)

Winefreda ob(ii)t 9 Feb(ruarii) AD 1576, aetat(is) suae 47; Thomas ob(ii)t 12 Martii 1585 aetat(is) suae 66.

Which may be translated:

Thomas Hewar, Esquire, and Wenefreda his wife, a happy daughter of John Repps, Esquire, who before married the famous William Ogard; now empty of light (lumine cassi = "empty of light"/ dead) they are enclosed in this tomb. She bore Thomas, Thomasina and Elizabeth, to Thomas her husband rejoicing from this triple issue. After Wenefreda Thomas married Margery, his wife having been extinguished by Fate, (Margery) who was bereft of her father Edward from the gentry blood of Kay, but she was firstly the most faithful wife of William Laurence, Esquire, thus was twice bereft by a husband. Wenefreda died on the 9th February 1576, of her age 47; Thomas died on 12 March 1585 of his age 66.