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St Mary's church in Huntingfield - table tomb inscription
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Ledger stone to Sir John Paston (d.1582), father-in-law of Sir w:Edward Coke (1552-1634), who married Bridget Paston. Inscribed in verse as follows: (Source: Cuthbert William Johnson, Life of Edward Coke, p.68 [1])

This earthlye coloured marble stone behold with weeping eyes,
Under whose cold and massive weight, John Paston buried lies.
A gentleman by birth and deedes, the second son to one
Sir William Paston, worthie knight deceased long agone.
This gentle Squire in Huntingfield a wydowe took to wyfe,
That hight Anne Arrowsmith, with whom he led a loving lyfe,
Eleven years space and somewhat more, by whom he also had
One only child, a virgin mayd, his aged heart to glad.
In youthful yeares this gentleman a gallant courtier was,
With rarest virtues well adorned, to courtiers all a glass,
A pensioner to princes four, Henry the Eight that boye,
To Edward King, to Mary Queen, to Elizabeth our joye,
Which four he served faithfullie, the court laments his end,
His countrie neighbours all bewail the loss of such a friend.
To poore a present remedie, to honest men an ayde,
A father to the fatherless, the widows playnt he wayde,
Against the hungrie travailer his doors were never shett,
Against the reely needie soul his purse was never knitte.
When he had lived three score yeeres and four, death closed up
his eyes,
He lyved well, he dyed well, and buried here he lyes.

Paston arms, quarterly of 12, see file description

Arms, quarterly of 8: (Source: Heraldic Visitation of Norfolk (Rye, W., ed. (1891). The Visitacion of Norffolk, made and taken by William Harvey, Clarencieux King of Arms, Anno 1563, enlarged with another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cooke, with many other descents; as also the Visitation made by John Raven, Richmond, Anno 1613), pedigree of Paston, p.214[2])

  • 1&8: Paston
  • 2: Or, on a chevron between three lion's heads erased gules as many bezants (Somerton/Comerton of Norfolk, for Beatrix Somerton, daughter and heiress of John Somerton, wife of Clement Paston of Paston, son of William Paston (son of Clement Paston and Ciceley Leech) and Elizabeth Staleham)
  • 3:Argent, a chevron between three bear's heads couped at the neck sable muzzled and collared or (canting arms of Barre/Barrey (Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.52)/Berry, for Agnes Barrey, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edmund Barrey and wife of William Paston of Paston, Judge, son and heir of Clement Paston and Beatrix Somerton)
  • 4: A cross
  • 5:Ermine, on a chief indented gules three ducal coronets or (Leeche/Leech, for Ciceley Leech, daughter and heiress of William Leech, wife of Clement Paston of Paston, son and heir of Walter Paston and Ciceley Peache)
  • 6: Argent, a fess between three crescents gules (Watsam, only two crescents in chief shown here)
  • 7: Argent, a fess between two chevrons gules a mullet for difference or ("Peeche" / Pecche, for Ciceley Peache, daughter and heiress of Symon Peache, wife of Walter Paston of Paston)
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English: St Mary's church in Huntingfield - table tomb inscription Edit this at Structured Data on Commons
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church interior, Huntingfield Edit this on Structured Data on Commons
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Huntingfield Edit this at Structured Data on Commons (Huntingfield→East Suffolk→Suffolk→East of England→England→United Kingdom)
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