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Hatchment in St Margaret's Church, Sotterley, Suffolk, to a member of the Barne family of Sotterley Hall. No impalement of a wife given, making identification difficult. Miles Barne (1718-1780) was a Member of Parliament for Dunwich in Suffolk, and purchased Sotterley Hall in 1744 from Sir John Playter, 5th Baronet. He also acquired the rotten borough of Dunwich, (landedfamilies.blogspot.com) as he and several of his descendants served as an MP for Dunwich. The Barne family of Sotterley Hall was descended from Sir George Barne, Lord Mayor of London in 1552 and chief merchant of the Russia Company. (https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/11/396-barne-of-sotterley-hall.html) His descendant Frederick Barne (1842-1898) of Sotterley, MP for East Suffolk, married Lady Constance Seymour, a daughter of the 5th Marquess of Hertford. ( Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.105). Today Sotterley Hall is owned by Miles Robin Barne (born 1940), "who spent much of his early life undertaking farming in Papua New Guinea and Australia, where he retains large interests, and his experience there has informed his much-admired management of the Sotterley estate since 1979" (landedfamilies.blogspot.com). Arms: Quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Azure, three leopard's faces argent (Barne); (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.50)
• 2: Argent, a chevron azure between three Cornish choughs sable (Ashthorpe); (connection unexplained by pedigree in Burke, 1937)
• 3: Argent, on a chevron azure three fleurs-de-lys or (Elwick/Ellick), (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.321) Elizabeth Elwick, daughter and heiress of Nathaniel Elwick of Mayplace, Crayford, Kent, and 1st wife of Miles Barne (1718-1780)) (Arms not listed in Burke, 1884, but see arms on "China service made for John Elwick of Mile End and Cornhill, a director of the East India Company from 1713 to 1720", British Museum, Franks.1410.a[1]. From: Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Crayford', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (Canterbury, 1797), pp. 263-285. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol2/pp263-285

The mansion of Mayplace (in Crayford, Kent) and Ellam, was purchased by Nathaniel Elwick, Esq. who reserving to himself a life estate, settled them on his only daughter and heir, Elizabeth Elwick, on her marriage in 1745, with Miles Barne, Esq. of Sotterley, in Suffolk. She died in 1747, in her father's life time, leaving one son, Miles Barne, and a daughter, Elizabeth Elwick Barne. Nathaniel Elwick died in 1750, and lies bu ried in a vault in Crayford Church, with his daughter before-mentioned. On his death Crayford manor, with Mayplace and Ellam, by virtue of the before-mentioned settlement, came to Miles Barne of Sotterly, whose grandson Miles Barne of that place, and member of parliament in the last parliament for Dunwich, (the father of Snowden Barne now (1797) member for that borough) is the present (1797) possessor of Crayford estate.