English: Canterbury Cathedral, Trinity Chapel, monument and effigy of w:Nicholas Wotton (c.1497-1567), who was the first to occupy the office of Dean of Canterbury, founded in 1541 by King Henry VIII. He was the fourth son of Sir Robert Wotton of w:Boughton Malherb in Kent by his wife Anne Belknap. He served as an ambassador to Henry VIII who appointed him an executor of his will. He died unmarried in London and was buried in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral. Monument described by Edward Hasted ('Canterbury cathedral: The deans (from the Reformation to 1672)', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 12 (Canterbury, 1801), pp. 1-26[1]):

In the eastern part of this cathedral, where there is an elegant tomb, erected to his memory by his nephew and heir, Thomas Wotton, esq. having his effigies in white marble kneeling on his tomb, with his hands joined and uplisted before a desk, on which is an open book. The whole is much admired for its excellent sculpture, the head especially, which is said to have been executed by an eminent artist in Italy, during the dean's residence there. Over it is the following inscription:—

Nicolaus Wottonus, Robert Wottont Equitis Aurati ex ANNA BELKNAPPA Filius, utriusque juris Doctor, Ecclesiae hujus primus, itemq; Metropolitanae Ecclesiae D. Petri Eborancensis Decanus; HenRICO VIII. EDOVARDO VI. MARIÆ & ELIZABETHÆ, ANGLIÆ Regibus, a secretis Consiliis. Ad CAROLUM V. Cæsarem bis, et ad PHILIPPUM HISPANIARUM Regem semel, ad FRANCISCUM Primum FRANCORUM Regem semel, ad HENRICUM II. ejus Fillium ter, ad MARIAM HUNGARIÆ Reginam BELGARUM Præsidem semel, ad Gulielmum Cl. vensium Ducem bis, legatione sunctus. Renovatae pacis inter ANGLOS, Francos, et SCOTOS, inter GUINAS et ARDE RAM, anno 1546; similiter et ad Castrum CAMERA. CENSE, anno 1559; denique EDINBURGI SCOTIAE, anno 1560, Oratorum unus. Hic tandem sere septuagenarius requiescit.

Haec ille ante mortem et ante morbum, quasi fatalem diem praesentiens, et cigneam cantionem prophetice canens, sua manu in Musaeo scripta reliquit.

Qui apud tales Principes, Divina Providentia gubernante, laudabiliter, et in tot, et in tantis causis (quarum magnitudo gravissima utilitas publica suit) feliciter bonam vitae suae partem consumsit; eum Virum sapientem et experientissimum ipsa invidia judicare debet. Quam semper ab omni contentione Honorum fuerit alienus, illud declarat, quod ad hanc Ecclesiasticam Dignitatem non ambitione ulla sua inflammatus, nec amicorum opera usus aspiravit, sed eam utramque Henricus VIII. (hominis merito et virtute provocatus) ultro detulit. Cumque idem Rex illustrissimus morbum lethalem ingravescere persentisceret, et Edovardi Principis sane excellentissimi, adhuc tamen pueri et Reipublicae administrandae imparis imbecillam a tamen senili prudentia secretioris sui consilii regendam esse existimaret, illis ex sedecim, quos supremae voluntatis suæ Testes et Vindices Testamento instituit, hunc Nicolaum (absentem tunc in Francia Legatum) unum esse voluit. Edovardo Regi jam medio Regni curriculo prope consecto, unus é primariis Secretariis suit; quem locum diutius tenere potuisset, nisi et suis et assiduis amicorum precibus abdicandi veniam impetrasset.

Corpus illi erat gracile quidem et parvum, sed rectum; habitudo sana, vultus liberalis, victus exquisitus, quem semel tantum in die carpere consueverat. Valetudo adeo firma, ut raro morbum aliquem senserit. Animus vero totus, libris ac literis dicatus, Artium, Medicinæ, Jurisprudentiae, et Theologiae studiis intentus; Linguarum Romanae, Italicae Gallicae, et Germanicae inserioris cognitione pulchre exornatus. Ita: vir iste genere clarus, legationibus clarior, domi ac foris clarissimus, honore florens, labore fractus, aetate confectus, postquam Decanus huic Ecclesiae annos 25 dies 293 præsuisset, Londini, Januarii 26, Anno nostrae Salutis 1566, pie et suaviter in Domino obdormivit, Thoma Wottono, Nepote, Hærede relicto; qui ei hoc Monumentum, non Honoris ergo, quo abundavit vivus et florescet mortuus; sed Amoris causa quem Memoria colet, ut debet, sempiterna consecravit".

Heraldry

Arms of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral (Azure, on a cross argent the Roman letters X surmounted by I in pale sable), recorded by the College of Arms during the Visitation of Kent in 1619, where they are listed in the heading as "Canterbury: Dean & Chapter" (with the text giving the full name as "the Denery & Chapter of the Cathedrall church of Christ in Canterbury") and blazoned as: Azure, on a cross argent a Roman letter X surmounted by the letter I sable. "Some accounts say that the letters on the cross are Greek (iota, chi) and stand for the initial of Jesus Christ. Others say that they are an abbreviation of Christi, and thus properly chi, iota; hence the lower case "i" in some versions" (Source: http://blog.appletonstudios.com/2019/02/the-arms-of-canterbury-cathedral.html#:~:text=The%20arms%20were%20recorded%20by,as%3A%20Azure%20on%20a%20cross).

Impaling quarterly of 6:

• 1: Argent, a saltire engrailed sable (Wotton of Boughton Malherb, Kent)
• 2: ...... on a chief argent a lion passant sable (?)
• 3: Belknap
• 4: Boteler
• 5: Sudeley
• 6: Mountford (of Beaudesert, Warwickshire)