Arms of Margaret Palgrave (died 1624), wife of John Pope, detail from top of her monument in St Peter's Church, North Barningham. She was a daughter of John Palgrave (1531-1611) of North Barningham by his wife Urith Saunder, a daughter of William Saunder of Ewell, Surrey. She was a sister of Sir Austin/Augustin Palgrave (1567-1639) of North Barningham, Norfolk, w:Sheriff of Norfolk in 1617. She was an aunt of w:Sir John Palgrave, 1st Baronet.

Monument on north chancel wall with figure and six coloured shields

(Per Farrer): " For a sacred and religious remembrance of Margarett Pope, daughter of John Pagrave, Esq". John Pope, D of Law, her husband, caused this monument to be sett up. Shee left her life the 25^^ December, 1624. "EuU of thee wish to dye and live agaane And at the l^t the same she did obtaine, "When cruell death her of her life disseised Then Joyfull Life of cruell death her eas'd. The most of her Ufe shee leadd in Yireinitie But always had care to serve well y* Trinitie. Her that so cared to serve God on earth Christ took to Heaven the day of His birth."

Text from: (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), p.415-16[1]) (Farrer, p.416: "This impalement of twelve quarterings is, I think, the most perfect example in this county of what Mr. Rye very appropriately calls bogus heraldry")

• 6 shields:

• • 1: Quarterly of six : —
    • 1: Or, two chevronels gules on a canton of the second a mullet of the first (Pope);
    • 2: Barry of six argent and gules, on a canton of the second a bend (?) (Boys ?)
    • 3: Sable, three mullets or in bend between two cotises argent
    • 4: Azure, a chevron counter-compony or and sable between three cross-crosslets argent;
    • 5: Ermine, on a bend gules three lions' heads erased or (Weston, co. Sussex. The bend should be azure)
    • 6: Azure, a lion rampant or supporting in the dexter paw a cross pattée fitchée of the last (Rysom, co. York. The cross should be "argent");

Impaling: Quarterly of twelve:

• • • 1: Azure, a lion rampant argent (Palgrave);
    • 2: Azure, a lion rampant guardant or (Hethersett of Hethersett Woodhall in Norfolk)
    • 3: Gules, a maunch ermine (Bemingham (Barningham  ?). This is attributed to Hethersett in. Fw. of Nor/., vol. ii. 23);
    • 4: Gules, a chevron argent between three plates (Sturmer of Norwich; Farrer: "It is the coat of Sturmyn" (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.464, "Sturmyn of Chester" marked "V"=incorrectly given in Glover's Ordinary, i.e. invalid)
    • 5: Ermine, a chief indented gules (Brome?)
    • 6: Argent, a fess between two chevrons sable
    • 7: Sable, two chevronels or (Burlyn)
    • 8: Per pale indented argent and sable, six martlets, two, two, and two, counterchanged (Wren; Mr. Rye's North Erpingham Hundred, part i., p. 260, suggests that they are " wrens ");
    • 9: Argent, 3 .... on a bend sable
    • 10: Sable, a chevron between three crosses-crosslet fitchée or;
    • 11: Sable, a fesse between two chevrons or (Gerbridge);
    • 12: Sable, a cross engrailed or (Ufford or Willoughby)
  • 2: Palgrave impaling Sanders: Sable, a chevron ermine between three bulls' heads cabossed argent (Sanders of Charlwood Place, Surrey); (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.895: "Sanders of Sanderstead and Sanders Place (now called Charlwood Place) in Charlwood, Surrey, a very ancient family in that county". "The Sanders family appears to have flourished in Charlwood in Surrey from at least the time of Edward II (1307-1327), and it has been asserted that they arrived there from the suggestively named Sanderstead, about 14 miles to the north-east, having lived there from the time of the Norman Conquest. The earliest contemporary mention of the Saunders family in Charlwood appears to be in 1314, when a William Saundre was called to witness a deed". (www.bedfordpark.net[2])
  • 3: Palgrave impaling Rede: Azure, on a bend wavy or three Cornish choughs proper a bordure engrailed argent charged with torteaux and pellets alternately (Rede of Norwich, Norfolk & Beccles, Suffolk, granted in 1522 by Sir w:Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms (Burke, 1884, p.844 "Rede of Norwich") (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, pp.59-60 "Rede of Beccles"[3]) (c.f. similar arms of Reade of Symington, Norfolk and Reade of Massingham Magna, Norfolk, per Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.843). John Palgrave (1531-1611) was the son of Clement Palgrave (c.1495-1583) by his wife Margery Rede, a daughter of William Rede of Beccles, Suffolk, son and heir of John Rede, Mayor of Norwich in 1496-7 (Bayne, AD, A Comprehensive History of Norwich, (1869: Jarrold), p.684[4]), who married Joan Ludlowe. The other son of John Rede, Mayor of Norwich, was w:Edward Rede (1476-1544) of Norwich, MP for Norwich in 1529 (REDE, Edward (by 1476-1544), of Norwich, Norf. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 [5]). Many other families named "Reade/Rede bore similar arm, with birds as shovellers/martlets/swans, etc. An earlier bearer of the basic variant of these arms was Sir Robert Rede/Read (d.1519), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1507, who bore arms: Gules, on a bend wavy argent three shovellers sable beaked and legged or (Burke, 1884, p.842). Sir Robert Rede was the son of William Rede of Wrangle, Lincolnshire, a Calais merchant. It seems the bordure was a difference. Arms of "Reade of Lincoln": Gules, on a bend argent three shovellers sable (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.843 "Reade of Lincoln"). See monumental brass[6] in Wrangle Church to Sir John Reade (d.1503), wool merchant of The Staple of Calais ("Here lyeth John Reede sometyme Marchant of ye staple and Margaret his wife, he dyed ye 24th day of October 1503, she ye 27th of March 1503"), great grandfather of Sir John Read (1560-1626), Sheriff of Lincolnshire, whose large tomb [7] is a feature in the same church. The brass of Sir John Reade (d.1503), wool merchant shows 2 different shields, one showing his merchant mark, the other apparently a version of the arms of the Haberdashers Company, with a lion on a chief rather than on a bend[8].
  • 4: Or, a chevron gules between three torteaux (Glemham), impaling: Argent, four bars gules, over all a lion rampant or (Brandon, co. Suffolk, Barry of ten argent and gules, over all a lion rampant or ducally crowned per pale of the first and second)
  • 5: Pope
  • 6: Palgrave

From: Bulwer, Brigadier-General E. E. G., ed. (1895). The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms: Volume 2. Norwich, pp.23-27[9]

• John Palgrave of Palgrave, Norfolk, married Sibell Hethersett (d.1445), daughter and heiress of William Hethersett of Hethersett Woodhall, Norfolk
  • John Palgrave (d.1467), son, married Anne Sturmer/Turner, daughter and heiress of Henry Sturmer of Norwich, Sheriff of Norwich in 1441, by his wife Katherine Hanningfield, a daughter of William Hanningfield. In 1441 Henry Sturmer was named as one of the defendants in the plea of the Prior of Norwich against the mayor, sheriffs and alderman of that city. On 20 June 16 Henry VI (1438) he was named as one of the citizens of Norwich who had been falsely accused of treason before Sir John Fortescue. Sir John Fastolf, in a letter to Thomas Howys, parson of Castle Coumbe on 11 Nov. 1450, mentions "my cousin Henry Sturmer's wife". The Sturmers had long been prominent burgesses of Norwich. In 3 Edward I (1274/5) William Sturmer was a warden of Norwich. In 1348 William Sturmer was bailiff and in 1352 Edmund Sturmer held the same office and was MP for Norwich in 1354. (Source: rootsweb.com [10] quoting Records of Norwich- Vol.I, pp.299,325,346

(2) Paston Letters- Vol.I, p.164; (3) Records of Norwich- Vol.I, p.217;(4) Ibid- Vol.II, pp.96,134

• • • John Palgrave, son, married Margaret Yelverton, daughter of Sir William Yelverton of Rougham, Norfolk, Judge of the King's Bench
      • Henry Palgrave (d.1516) of Palgrave, son, married Anne Glemham, daughter of John Glemham of Glemham, Suffolk, by his wife Eleanor Brandon, a daughter of Sir William Brandon
        • Clement Palgrave (d.1583), 2nd son and heir, of North Barningham, married Margery Rede, a daughter of William Rede of Beccles, Suffolk.
          • John Palgrave (1531-1611), son, married Urith saunder, a daughter of William Saunder of Ewell, Surrey
            • Sir Austin Palgrave (1567-1639), son, Sheriff of Norfolk in 1617, married Elizabeth Willoughby (1580-1633), a daughter of Sir John Willoughby of Risley, Derbyshire and sister of Sir Henry Willoughby, 1st Baronet
            • Jane Palgave, sister, married Sir Isaac Jermy of Stutton, Suffolk
            • Elizabeth Palgrave, sister, married Sir Stephen Ridlesden of Clavering-cum-Langley, Essex, Surveyor of the King's Ordinance
            • Margaret Palgrave, sister, married John Pope, LLD, of Over, Cambridgeshire
              • Sir John Palgrave, 1st Baronet (1605-1672), son and heir of Sir Austin Palgrave (1567-1639). Created a baronet in 1641. Married Elizabeth Jermy, a daughter of John Jermy of Gunton, Norfolk