English: Memorial to Samuel Hinton in Lichfield Cathedral. From: A Short Account of Lichfield Cathedral ... By John C. Woodhouse, assisted by ...

By Cathedral Church (LICHFIELD), William NEWLING, John Chappel WOODHOUSE (Dean of Lichfield.)[1]

IN THE NORTH AILE ADJOINING THE CHOIR. HINTON. Juxta heic situs est Samuel Hinton, L.L.D. (Willielmi Hinton, S.T.D. ac Coventr. Archidiaconi filius,) Qui in temporibus non minime turbidis et periculosis, regiis partibus, ac ecclesiæ Anglicanæ regulis fortiter et fideliter adhaesit. Necnon Elizabetha uxor charissima Roberti Chester de Royston, in agro Hert. Eq. Aurati filia; e qua filios Edvardum, Samuelem, et Carolum, superstites ; filias Annam xvi ætatis anna denatam hic sepultam; Granadam Edv'ds Firth de Thornes, Gen.; ac Eliz. Waltero Fowler de Penford, Arm(iger) enuptas genuit. Diem obiit ille xiij Jan. A(nn)o MDCLXVIII^o illa vero vii Maii MDCLXXI^o. ("Near here is placed Samuel Hinton, L.L.D. (son of William Hinton, S.T.D. and Archdeacon of Coventry) who in times not less disturbed and dangereous, on the parts of the King and the Anglican Church, stuck to strongly and faithfully. And not least Elizabeth his most dear wife, daughter of Robert Chester, Knight Bachelor, of Royston in the County of Hertfordshire. From whom he bore sons Edward, Samuel and Charles, surviving; daughters Anna, buried here (aged?) 15 years; Granada (married to) Edward Firth, Gentleman, of Thornes and Elizabeth, married to Walter Fowler, Esquire, of Penford. He died on the 13th day of January in the year 1668, she on the 7th of May 1671")

ARMS: Per fess indented sable and or, six fleurs-de-lys counterchanged three and three (Hinton) impaling: Ermine, on a chief sable a griffin passant or (Chester)

At the bottom of the monument are five shields containing the arms of their children.

Hinton, as before, impaling or, two bars, azure, in chief, a lion passant, sable.

Hinton, with a crescent for difference, impaling gules, a saltire, ermine, in chief a mullet for difference, argent.

Hinton, with, a mullet for difference, impaling ermine, on a chief, gules, three bezants.

Sable, on a chevron, the top imbattled, or, between three battle-axes, argent, as many pellets by the name of Frith, and impaling Hinton as before.

Azure, on a chevron engrailed argent, between three lions passant guardant or as many crosses moline of the first (Fowler), impaling the arms of Hinton.

CHESTER FAMILY: From: 'Parishes: Royston', in A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 253-265. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp253-265

"Robert Chester had a new lease of (Royston Priory) 20 May 1539, and in 1540 he received a grant in fee of the house and site of the priory, the lordship and manor of Royston and all the lands of the late prior in the counties of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. He was gentleman usher of the chamber to Henry VIII and in July 1544 left Royston with twenty-five archers, who formed the king's bodyguard when he left Calais for the siege of Boulogne.

Chester. Ermine a chief sable with a griffon passant argent therein.

In 1551 Chester (who was knighted about this date) entertained Mary of Guise at Royston on her return to Scotland from France. In 1565 he served as Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire. In November 1564 there took place at Royston a double marriage between Sir Robert Chester, then a widower, and Lady Magdalene, widow of Sir Jaques Granada, kt., and between Sir Robert's son and heir Edward and Katherine daughter of the Lady Magdalene by her former husband. At the same time Royston was settled upon Edward and Katherine in tail-male. Sir Robert Chester died 2 5 November 1574. (fn. 207) Shortly afterwards Edward Chester, 'getting greate credytt in respect of his good service' in the Low Countries, received an annuity from the Estates of 400 marks to himself and his eldest son for life. He died 25 November 1577 beyond the seas, having transported a band of volunteers to the Netherlands at his own cost. (fn. 208) His son and heir Robert was then aged twelve. (fn. 209) He had livery of Royston Manor about 1586, (fn. 210) and was engaged in continual litigation in respect of the annuity due to his grandmother Lady Magdalene, the extent of the possessions of the late priory and the market rights of Royston. (fn. 211) He was knighted in 1603 by James I, (fn. 212) whom he had entertained upon his first journey to London from Edinburgh. (fn. 213)

Sir Robert Chester resided at Cockenhatch in Barkway, (fn. 214) and died in 1640, having settled Royston Manor upon his son Edward, who married Katherine daughter of John Stone of London. (fn. 215) The manor evidently passed to their second son John. (fn. 216) His son Edward was Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1675 and died in his year of office. (fn. 217) He was succeeded by his son Robert, (fn. 218) whose son Edward Chester (fn. 219) sold the manor in 1759 to Thomas Plumer Byde of Ware Park. (fn. 220) "