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English: Hatchments in Horkstow Church. These are mentioned in Pevsner "HATCHMENTS. Three under the tower:
  • Top: Hatchment to Colonel John Tufnell (d.1838), who married Anne Hele, a daughter of Thomas Hele and widow of Rear-Admiral Hon. Thomas Shirley (1733-1814), Royal Navy, of Horkstow Hall, Lincolnshire, which he built in about 1776 (Listed building text[1]). Arms: Tufnell (Azure, on a fess between three ostrich feathers argent as many martlets sable) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1035) impaling Hele (Hele of Hele in the parish of Cornwood, Devon) Gules, five fusils in bend argent on each an ermine spot (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.487). The dexter/baron side of the hatchment is black, denoting the death of the husband.
  • Lower left: Hatchment of Anne Hele (1764-1860) (Source: E.P. Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana, p.200[2]), wife succesively of Rear-Admiral Hon. Thomas Shirley (1733-1814) of Horkstow Hall and of Colonel John Tufnell (d.1838). An unusual impalement in that it shows the two husbands of a deceased woman, generally only the most recent husband is shown. Arms: Dexter/baron: in chief Shirley, in base Tufnell, both impaling Hele;
  • Lower right: Rear-Admiral Hon. Thomas Shirley (1733-1814), Royal Navy, of Horkstow Hall, Lincolnshire. Leader of w:Shirley's Gold Coast expedition. It was in his garden at Horkstow that the celebrated Roman Mosaic pavement, now in Hull Museum, was discovered. He was a son of Hon. Laurence Shirley (a son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers) and Anne Clarges (c.1695-1782) a daughter of Sir Walter Clarges, 1st Bt. His brothers included Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (1720-1760), Vice-Admiral Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers (1722-1778) and Robert Shirley, 6th Earl Ferrers (1723-1787). He married twice: (1) 1773, Mary Elsegood, daughter of William Elsgood of Norwich, and widow of Sir Stephen Anderson, Baronet, of Eyeworth , Bedfordshire (Source: E.P. Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana, p.200[3]); (2) 1809, Anne Hele, daughter of Thomas Hele of Plympton St Maurice, Devon. Died without issue. Arms of Shirley: Paly of six or and azure, a canton ermine; quartering arms of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (5th surviving son of King Edward III): Royal arms of King Edward III differenced by a bordure argent; (a Bourchier quartering; Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Baronet (1588-1633) (ancestor of 1st Earl Ferrers) married Lady Dorothy Devereux, daughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. On the death of her brother Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, she became the youngest co-heiress to the baronies of Ferrers of Chartley and the barony of Bourchier, which had fallen into abeyance on the death of the 3rd Earl). Motto: SEMPER PARATUS (Always Ready). Also monuments: pair of marble wall tablets at east end of nave to Rear Admiral Thomas Shirley of 1814, and Colonel John Tufnell of 1838, with carved ornament on grey obelisk-shaped bases;
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