St Mary's Church, Cranworth, Norfolk, detail from mural monument to w:Sir William Cook, 2nd Baronet (c.1630-1708), of Broome Hall in Norfolk. Text from Wikipedia: "n 1664 (date of marriage settlement) he married his step-sister Jane Stewart (died 1698), a daughter of William Stewart of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire and of Barton Mills, by his wife Mary Greenwood (d.1686) (a daughter of William Greenwood of Burgh Castle in Suffolk) (whose inscribed ledger stone survives in Broome Church), the second wife of the 1st Baronet. By his wife he had seven daughters but no son.

Heraldry

Arms: Cook quarterly of 12 impaling Steward quarterly of 24:

• Dexter:
  • 1&12: Or, a chevron engrailed gules between three cinquefoils azure on a chief of the second a lion passant argent with canton of a baronet (Cooke of Linstead, Suffolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.224)
  • 2: Or, a cross gules (Cockerell) (Source: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk)
  • 3: Gules, eight martlets or, 3, 2, 3 with a crescent argent for difference (Bohun) (Source: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk)
  • 4: Vert, nine fleurs-de-lis argent (Dallinghowe)
  • 5: Argent, a fess vert between three crescents sable (?)
  • 6: Argent, on a fess azure between three unicorn's heads couped sable as many fleurs-de-lis or (Lee)(Source: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk)
  • 7: Argent, a fess between three leopard's heads sable (Lee) (Source: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk)
  • 8: Sable, a chevron or between three fleurs-de-lis argent (Cawsse) (Source: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk)
  • 9: Azure, a cross or (Shelton) (Source: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk)
  • 10: Argent, a chief indented gules (Brome)
  • 11: Or, a fess chequy argent and azure (Stewart, Hereditary High Steward of Scotland)
• Sinister:
  • 1&24: Or, a fess chequy argent and azure (Stewart, Hereditary High Steward of Scotland)
  • 2: Stewart, Hereditary High Steward of Scotland with inescutcheon of Steward Augmentation
  • 3: Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised by a bend raguly or (Steward Augmentation). For the official pedigree of the Steward family of the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, which largely agrees with the inscription, see Clay, J. W., ed. (1897). The Visitation of Cambridge made in Anno 1575, continued and enlarged with the Visitation of the same county made by Henery St George, Richmond Herald, marshall and deputy to Willm. Camden, Clarenceulx, in Anno 1619, with many other descents added thereto. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 41. London, pp.7-11, pedigree of "Stuart" [1].
  • 4: Vert, three boar's heads couped argent (Boreley) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.101 "Boreley / Borseley of Wiltshire")
  • 5: Argent, a lion rampant sable on the shoulder a mullet or (Walkfare) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1066 Or / argent, a lion rampant sable "Walkfare of Norfolk")
  • 6: Azure, a chevron gules between three hurts (Baskerville) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.56 "Baskerville of Eardisley Castle, Herefordshire"). Sir Mark Steward's grandparents were Nicholas Steward of Wells and his heiress wife Cecilia Baskerville (Rye, Walter, The Steward Genealogy and Cromwell's "Royal Descent"[2]);
  • 7: Gules, a fess ermine a label of five points or (Wallis / Walers ? or Lenthall ?). For Wallis / Wales see: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk[3] & Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1064 "Walers", p.1068 "Wallis of Cowden, Hampshire"; for Lenthall see: Heraldry of the Whitney Family [4])
  • 8: Gules, a fess chequy argent and sable between six crosses-crosslet or (Boteler of Watton Woodhall, Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, pp.103-4, variants) (a Baskerville heiress)
  • 9: Quarterly argent and azure, on a bend sable three martlets or (Grosse / Le Gros) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.431 "Grosse of Norfolk") (a Baskerville heiress, as quartered on a Baskerville hatchment in St Weonard's Church, Herefordshire, seeFile:Hatchment, St Weonard's.JPG)
  • 10: Argent, on a cross sable a leopard's face or (Brugge / Abruges / Bruges) an early heiress of Baskerville of Eardisley Castle, Herefordshire (Heraldic Visitation of Herefordshire, pedigree of Baskerville[5] (later Brydges of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire (Duke of Chandos)) ("Bruges of Letton" as quartered by Whitney, see: Heraldry of the Whitney Family [6]). Sir John Baskerville of Eardisley Castle, Herefordshire, married Joan Brugge, daughter and heiress of John Brugge (d.1436), MP, of Staunton-on-Wye, Letton and Sapey, all in Herefordshire (BRUGGE, John (d.1436), of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefs. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993[7]). His eldest son was Sir John Baskerville (1408-1455) who married a daughter of Lord Audley and his younger son was Ralph Baskerville of Icomb Baskerville (now Icomb), Gloucestershire (Source: The Picards or Pychards of Stradewy (now Tretower), Castle, and Scethrog, Brecknockshire, London, 1878, p.104 [8]), who married the heiress of Sir John Blaket / Blacket (1381-1431) of Icomb whose effigy survives in Icomb Churchof Icomb.
  • 11: Gules, a fess or between three escallops argent (Pychard/Picard) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.831 "Pychard of Hereford") (a Brugge heiress) Johanna Pychard of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefordshire, was the mother of John Brugge (d.1436), MP, and the daughter and heiress of Thomas Pychard of Staunton-on-Wye. (Source: The Picards or Pychards of Stradewy (now Tretower), Castle, and Scethrog, Brecknockshire, London, 1878, p.104 [9] and Pychard fold-out Pedigree after p 172[10])
  • 12: Azure, a fess between three chessrooks or (Bodenham) (Source: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk)
  • 13: Or, a chevron sable (Wimondsell) (Source: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk)
  • 14: Argent, a griffin segreant sable (Morgan) (Source: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk)
  • 15: Per pale sable and gules, a lion rampant guardant argent crowned or (Bestney) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.78 "Bestney of Hertfordshire") Visitations gives: Per pale gules and sable, a lion rampant argent crowned or on the shoulder a crescent of the second (Bestney); Pedigree of "Bestney of St. Albans, Hertfordshire" as reported to the 1634 Visitation of Hertfordshire, Appendix II, p.126[11]: Per pale sable and gules, a lion rampant guardant argent ducally crowned or. Descended from Edward Bestney "of West Bestney", Constable of Flint Castle in Wales.
  • 16: Or, a castle triple-towered (?)
  • 17: Gules, an eagle with two heads argent crowned and armed or (?)
  • 18: Argent, a cross flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper / martlets of the second (Spenlow) (Spenlow of St Albans, Hertfordshire (1634 Visitation of Hertfordshire, Appendix II, p.126[12])) (heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire") (here shown as Cornish choughs proper) (not listed in Burke).
  • 19: Argent, nine fleurs-de-lis sable, 3, 3, 3 (?)
  • 20: Vert, three lions passant or a mullet of the last (FitzGeffrey) (not listed in Burke)
  • 21: Argent, a lion rampant sable within a bordure of the second (Beruen) (heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire") (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.76 "Beruen/Berven/Berwen") (heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire")
  • 22: Azure, a chevron ermine between three leopard's faces or (Blackney) (shown here incorrectly as escallops) (Blackney of Cropley Hall, Hertfordshire, heiress of "Bestney of Hertfordshire" (1634 Visitation of Hertfordshire, Appendix II, p.126[13]) (here with chevron or) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.87 Sable, a chevron ermine between three leopard's heads or "Blackney of Norfolk")
  • 23: Argent, a griffin segreant sable (Morgan) (Source: Ken Mourin, Heraldry in Norfolk)