The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3Browne, Thomas, Sir
Religion
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3
Browne, Thomas, Sir
Christianity; Ethics; Religion and medicine
There are here likewise the Coats of some great and worthy Families; as
of _Vere_, _Stanley_, _De la Pole_, _Wingfield_, _Heyden_, _Townshend_,
_Bedingfield_, _Bruce_, _Clere_; which being little taken notice of, and
Time being still like to obscure, and make them past Knowledge, I would
not omit to have a Draught thereof set down, which I keep by me.
There are also many Coats of Arms on the Walls, and in the Windows of
the East End of the Church; but none so often as those of the _Boleyns_,
_viz._ in a Field _Arg. a Chev. Gul. between three Bulls Heads couped
sab. armed or_; whereof some are quartered with the Arms of noble
Families. As also about the Church, the Arms of _Hastings_, _De la
Pole_, _Heyden_, _Stapleton_, _Windham_, _Wichingham_, _Clifton_,
_Heveningham_, _Bokenham_, _Inglos_.
In the North Window of _Jesus_ Chappel are the Arms of _Radcliff_ and
_Cecil_; and in the East Window of the same Chappel the Coats of
_Branch_, and of _Beale_.
There are several Escocheon Boards fastened to the upper Seats of the
Choir: Upon the three lowest on the South-side are the Arms of Bishop
_Jegon_, of the _Pastons_, and of the _Hobarts_; and in one above the
Arms of the _Howards_. On the Board on the North-side are the Arms of
Bishop _Redmayn_; and of the _Howards_.
Upon the outside of the Gate, next to the School, are the Escocheons and
Arms of _Erpingham_, being an Escocheon within an _Orle of Martlets_;
impaled with the Coats of _Clopton_ and _Bavent_, or such Families who
married with the _Erpinghams_ who built the Gates. The Word, _Pœna_,
often upon the Gates, shews it to have been built upon Pennance.
At the West End of the Church are chiefly observable the Figure of King
_William Rufus_, or King _Henry_ I. and a Bishop on his Knees receiving
the Charter from him: Or else of King _Henry_ VI. in whose Reign this
Gate and fair Window was built. Also the maimed Statues of Bishops,
whose Copes are garnished and charged with a Cross _Moline_: And at
their Feet, Escocheons, with the Arms of the Church; and also Escocheons
with Crosses _Molines_. That these, or some of them, were the Statues of
Bishop _William Alnwyck_, seems more than probable; for he built the
three Gates, and the great Window at the West End of the Church; and
where the Arms of the _See_ are in a Roundele, are these Words,--_Orate
pro anima Domini Willelmi Alnwyk_.--Also in another Escocheon, charged
with Cross _Molines_, there is the same Motto round about it.
Upon the wooden Door on the outside, there are also the _Three Miters_,
which are the Arms of the _See_ upon one Leaf, and a Cross _Moline_ on
the other.
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