English: Church of St Peter and St Paul, East Harling, monument to Sir Thomas Lovell (1540-1604) and his wife Alice Huddilston / Huddleston (1538-1602), a daughter of Sir John Huddleston (1517-57), of Sawston, Cambridgeshire, MP. (see pedigree of Huddleston: Fetherston, John, ed. (1872). The Visitation of the County of Cumberland in the year 1615, taken by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 7. London., p.24[1]). Inscribed:

Here lyeth buried Sir Thomas Lovell, Knighte, sonne and heire of Sir Thomas Lovell, Knighte, and Dame Alice his wife, daughter of Sir John Huddilston, Knighte. He died the 12th daye of December 1604 in the yeare of his age 64. And she died the first daye of September 1602 in the yeare of her age 64. They had yssue 5 sonnes and 3 daughters whereof 2 sonnes and 1 daughter died in there infancie. 3 sonnes viz Sir Franncys Lovell, Knighte, Charles Lovell and William Lovell, Esquires, outlived them. And 2 daughters were maryed in their lyfe time viz Katherine first to Sir Thomas Knyvet of Buckenham Castell, Knighte; secondly to Edwarde Springe and thirdly to Edward Downes, Esquires. And Elinor to Edward Waldegrave, sonne and heire apparent to Charles Waldegrave of Stann(ingley ?), Esquire

Sir John Huddleston (1517-57), of Sawston, Cambridgeshire, was thrice a Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire. "The Huddleston family, of Yorkshire origin, had by the 15th century made its principal seat at Millom, Cumberland; it was Sir John Huddleston’s grandfather who added a Cambridgeshire connexion by acquiring 12 manors, including two at Sawston, by marriage with a co-heiress of w:John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (c.1431-1471)" (Source: HUDDLESTON, Sir John (1517-57), of Sawston, Cambs. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982[2]).

Heraldry

Crest : A peacock's tail erect proper, banded with a belt sable, rimmed and buckled argent, the end pendent (Lovell) 4 shields:

• Top: Quarterly of 4: (Farrer, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol.1, 1889, p.43[3])
  • 1: Argent, a chevron azure between three squirrels sejant gules (Lovell) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.624 "Lovell of Barton and Harling, Norfolk")
  • 2: Sable, a cross between four lions rampant or (Bendish) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.70 "Bendish of Cambridgeshire")
  • 3: Vert, two chevronels argent each charged with three cinquefoils gules (Muswell) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.719 "Muswell of East Herling, Norfolk")
  • 4: Barry of ten argent and gules, a lion rampant or ducally crowned per pale of the first and second (Brandon (Earl of Suffolk))
• Bottom, left to right:
  • Quarterly of 4, as top;
  • Quarterly of 4, as top; impaling: Quarterly of 12, as right;
  • Quarterly of 12: (Farrer, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol.1, 1889, p.43[4])

• • • 1: Gules fretty argent (Huddlestone)
    • 2: Argent, a bend between two mullets sable (Peile) (per Farrer, who states that mullet in base is missing) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.786 "Peel of Cheshire"))
    • 3: Gules, a saltire argent a label of three points compony argent and azure (Neville, with label of Beaufort) (Isabel Neville, a daughter and co-heiress of w:John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (c.1431-1471) married Sir Thomas Huddleston of Millom, Cumberland)
    • 4: Argent, three fusils conjoined in fess gules (Montagu), Neville heiress
    • 5: Or, an eagle displayed vert beaked and membered gules (Monthermer), Montagu heiress
    • 6: Arms of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (Arms of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, sixth son of Edward I of England, and a younger half-brother of Edward II): Royal arms of King Edward I (Plantagenet) differenced by a bordure argent
    • 7: Argent, a saltire engrailed gules (Tiptoft), Inglethorp heiress
    • 8: Gules, a cross engrailed argent (Inglethorp/Ingoldsthorpe) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.528 "Inglethorp of Norfolk") "w:John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (c.1431-1471) married Isabel Ingoldsthorpe (c.1441-1476), of Burrough Green and Sawston, Cambridgeshire, daughter and heiress of Sir Edmund Ingaldsthorpe (d.1456), and heiress of her maternal uncle, John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester" (text per Wikipedia w:John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu)
    • 9: Argent, on a canton gules a rose or (Bradeston) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.113 "Lord Bradeston, summoned to Parliament 1322")
    • 10: Or, a lion rampant gules (Powys) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.820 "Princes of Powys-Wenwynwyn", Wales)
    • 11: Azure, a fess between three leopard's faces or (de la Pole) with an annulet sable for difference.
    • 12: Argent, on a fess dancetée sable three bezants (Burgh ?) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.146 "Burgh")

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