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St Mary's Church, Brome, Suffolk, monument to Henry Cornwallis (c.1525-1598), a MP for Orford, Suffolk, in 1553, who by his will made on 4 Jan. 1599 asked to be buried in Brome church, ‘happy to be saved by Christ’s passion only, and numbered among the elect’ (Source: CORNWALLIS, Henry (by 1532-99), of Brome, Suff. and Buxton, Norf. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982[1]) (evidence he was a Puritan) was a younger son of John Cornwallis (d.1544) (monument and effigy in same church) by his wife Mary Sulyard. He married twice: firstly to Anne Rokewood (d.1565) a daughter of Roger Rokewood / Rookwood of Euston, Suffolk, by his wife Olive Wychingham, a daughter of John Wychingham of Wychingham, Norfolk (Source: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/30/155 1 - http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com notes on Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the will, dated 10 April 1544 and proved 9 July 1544, of Sir John Cornwallis (c.1491 - 23 April 1544), Steward of the Household of Prince Edward[2]); secondly he married Anne Calybut, a daughter of William Calibut (d.1577) of Coxford Abbey, and widow of Thomas Gardiner (Source: Jessopp, Augustus, One Generation of a Norfolk House, 3rd ed. rev. (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913) p. 228 [3]) sometimes given (Cornwallis pedigree, see The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis, 1613-1644, (London: S. & J. Bentley, 1842), p. xxxii [4]) as a daughter of Edgar Calibut, sergeant at law, of East Rudham, Norfolk. He had 3 sons and 3 daughters, whose shields with impalements of their spouses (some blank) are atop the monument, l to r daughter, son, daughter, son.

Two shields in spandrels:

• Dexter/left: Cornwallis (quarterly of 8) impaling Rokewood (quarterly of 4):
  • Cornwallis (quarterly of 8):
    • 1: Sable guttée d'eau, on a fess argent three Cornish choughs proper (Cornwallis)
    • 2: Sable, three bars gemelles argent on a canton of the second a crescent of the field (Buckton of Brome) (1561 Heraldic Visitation : Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. (1882). The Visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond Herald, 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk Pedigrees. Exeter: W. Pollard., p.21 [5])
    • 3: Sable, a cross moline or (unknown family)
    • 4: Argent, a bend between six crosses-crosslet fitchée sable (Tye) (1561 Heraldic Visitation)
    • 5: Argent, two chevronels azure a bordure engrailed gules (Tyrell) (1561 Heraldic Visitation) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1042 "Tyrell of Stanford (Stanford-in-the-Vale), Berks"). In 1715 a moiety of the manor of Stanford-in-the-Vale was owned by Sir Walter Tyrrell, who served as High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1723, and was succeeded by his son Avery Tyrrell ('Parishes: Stanford in the Vale', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page and P H Ditchfield (London, 1924), pp. 478-485 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4/pp478-485). Stanford Rectory was built c.1706 by Walter Tyrell (listed building text[6]);
    • 6: Azure, a chevron argent between three storks of the second membered gules ("Stamford" (Stanford ?)) (1561 Heraldic Visitation) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.961 "Stanford": Azure, a chevron between three birds argent)
    • 7: Sable, a chevron between three covered cups argent
    • 8: Sable fretty argent, on a chief of the second a lion passant guardant of the first
  • Rokewood (quarterly of 4):
    • 1&4: Argent, six chess rooks 3 2 and 1 sable (Rokewood) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.867)
    • 2&3: Ermine, two rings interlaced sable on a chief of the last three crosses formée argent (Wychingham) (Burke, 1884, p.1141 "Wychingham of Norfolk")
• Sinister/right: Cornwallis (quarterly of 8) (as above) impaling Calybut (quarterly of 4):
  • • 1&4: Azure, a chevron between three crosses or (Calybut) (Burke, 1884, p.161)
    • 2&3: Or, a saltire humetée sable