Plate of the Sepulchral Brass TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. HENRY MARTYN. COMMUNICATED BY THE REV. CHARLES BOUTELL. MY DEAR SIR, The Rectory, Downham Market, There are several highly interesting specimens of Monumental Brasses yet remaining in various Churches in this County, which are not noticed in Cotman's work. Should the Committee consider it to be desirable that plates of these Brasses should from time to time appear in the publications. of our Society, I shall have much pleasure in placing at their disposal the necessary number of impressions from such engravings of them as I may possess. The cut which accompanies this is from a Brass now lying in the pavement, within the rails, in the chancel of Upwell Church: it is the memorial of Henry Martyn, some time Rector of Yaxham, and consists of an effigy, with a legend at foot. The deceased is represented as habited in the amice, alb, stole, and cope; and accordingly the adjustment of the stole is thus exemplified. The effigy in the original measures 2 feet 6 inches. I am, my dear Sir, Most faithfully yours, CHARLES BOUTELL. Dawson Turner, Esq., F.R.S. & S.A. V. P. of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæol. Soc. &c. &c. &c. EXTRACTS FROM A MS. DIARY OF PETER LE NEVE, ESQ. Norroy King of Arms, ENTITLED “MEMORANDS IN HERALDRY," OF SUCH ENTRIES AS RELATE TO THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK. COMMUNICATED BY GEO. A. CARTHEW, ESQ. (Continued from p. 34.) 1706. SOAMES, Edmund, Esq. of Dereham Grange in Norff., Collo- 2 1 See in Blomefield the inscription on the monument of this gentleman (of the family of Soame, Baronets of Little Thurlow, Suffolk), buried at West Dereham, 26th Sept. 1706; where, also, lies his only sister, Margaret, relict of Giles Green, Esq. Colonel Soame left an illegitimate daughter, named Mary, who married the eminent Soame Jenyns, her cousin in blood, to whom she brought the principal portion of her father's fortune, but afterwards eloped from him. 2 From the elder grandson of this gentleman, is descended the family which now bears the name of Peyton, created Baronets in 1776. From the younger, is derived the Rev. George Henry Dashwood, of Stow Bardolph, F.S.A.; to whom the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society is indebted for many most valuable and interesting communications. BROWN, Thomas, of Elsing and Wesenham in Norff., esq'. lived at Wesenham All Saints, and dyed there of the small pox, in the the conceit of having Sept. 1706: buried the year of his age. He fell sick on them only; dyed Munday, 14 day of the same month.3 COLSTON, Lady, of Pudding Norton in Norff., dyed 12 of October, 1706: buried in Lynton church in Cambridgeshire, day of ........: born at Ingaldesthorp in Norff. day of ........ 1621, so was in the 85th year of her age. She was the dr of ....... Cockett,1 of ...... Norff., and widdow of St Joseph Colston, Kt. a phisitian. 1707. BROGRAVE, Sr Thomas, dyed Saturday, 5th of July, 1707, at his lady remarried to a soldier. day of the same month LE NEVE, Oliver, of Great Wichingham in Norff., Esq., my brother; mard 31 of July, 1707, at St. James' church in Midds., to Elizabeth, eldest daughter and coheir of Robert Sheffeld, Esq. of Kensington in Midds." [She dyed the 8 November following, without issue.] 3 This gentleman, as great-great-grandson of Anne, elder daughter and coheir of Sir Hugh Hastings, Knt., was a coheir of that ancient Barony. From his daughter, Philippa, married to John Berney, Esq., of Lynn, descend the present Brownes of Elsing, who waived their claim to the Barony in favour of Sir Jacob Astley. 4 Anne, daughter and heir of Thomas Cocket, Esq., of Broomsthorpe. Her first husband was John Parry, Esq., of Pudding Norton, and of Little Linton in Cambridgeshire. 5 Hemel Hempstead, in Herts. The late Sir George Berney Brograve, Bart., was of the same family. C She was his third wife. |