Now, whereas there have been so many noble and ancient Families in these Parts, yet we find not more of them to have been buried in this the Mother Church. It may be consider'd, that no small numbers of them were interred in the Churches and Chappels of the Monasteries and religious Houses of this City, especially in three thereof; the _Austin-Fryars_, the _Black-Fryars_, the _Carmelite,_ or _White Fryars_; for therein were buried many Persons of both Sexes, of great and good Families, whereof there are few or no Memorials in the Cathedral. And in the best preserved Registers of such Interments of old, from Monuments and Inscriptions, we find the Names of Men and Women of many ancient Families; as of _Ufford_, _Hastings_, _Radcliffe_, _Morley_, _Windham_, _Geney_, _Clifton_, _Pigot_, _Hengrave_, _Garney_, _Howell_, _Ferris_, _Bacon_, _Boys_, _Wichingham_, _Soterley_; of _Falstolph_, _Ingham_, _Felbrigge_, _Talbot_, _Harsick_, _Pagrave_, _Berney_, _Woodhowse_, _Howldich_; of _Argenton_, _Somerton_, _Gros_, _Benhall_, _Banyard_, _Paston_, _Crunthorpe_, _Withe_, _Colet_, _Gerbrigge_, _Berry_, _Calthorpe_, _Everard_, _Hetherset_, _Wachesham_: All Lords, Knights, and Esquires, with divers others. Beside the great and noble Families of the _Bigots_, _Mowbrays_, _Howards_, were the most part interr'd at _Thetford_, in the Religious Houses of which they were Founders, or Benefactors. The _Mortimers_ were buried at _Attleburgh_; the _Aubeneys_ at _Windham_, in the Priory or Abbey founded by them. And _Camden_ says, _That a great part of the Nobility and Gentry of those Parts were buried at Pentney_ Abbey: Many others were buried dispersedly in Churches, or Religious Houses, founded or endowed by themselves; and therefore it is the less to be wonder'd at, that so many great and considerable Persons of this Country were not interr'd in this Church. There are Twenty-four Escocheons, _viz._ six on a Side on the inside of the Steeple over the Choir, with several Coats of Arms, most whereof are Memorials of Things, Persons, and Families, Well-wishers, Patrons, Benefactors, or such as were in special Veneration, Honour, and Respect, from the Church. As particularly the Arms of _England_, of _Edward_ the Confessor; an Hieroglyphical Escocheon of the Trinity, unto which this Church was dedicated. _Three Cups within a Wreath of Thorns_, the Arms of _Ely_, the Arms of the _See_ of _Canterbury_, quartered with the Coat of the famous and magnified _John Morton_, Archbishop of _Canterbury_, who was Bishop of _Ely_ before; of Bishop _James Goldwell_, that honoured Bishop of _Norwich_. _The three Lions of_ England, S. _George's_ Cross, the Arms of the Church impaled with Prior _Bosviles_ Coat, the Arms of the Church impaled with the private Coats of three Priors, the Arms of the City of _Norwich_.