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English: Ornate momument with semi-recumbent effigy of Sir William Paston (1528-1610), St Nicholas Church, North Walsham, Norfolk. Erected by him in 1608 in anticipation of his death. Latin inscription translated as: "Sacred to Piety and Beneficence. Here rests the Lord William Paston, an illustrious Knight sprung from an ancient and noble stock, most noble in his descent and family connections, famed for a hospitality of fifty-five years standing, which is to continue twenty years after his death, munificent in repairing the cathedral churches of Bath and Norwich, and Gonville and Caius College; a benefactor to the poor of the town of Yarmouth, who has piously founded by perpetual endowment a school in this place for the instruction of youth and the propagation of the Word of God: and he, mindful of his mortality, has set up in his lifetime, in the year of the Lord, 1608, this monument, in the sure hope of rising again in Christ"[1]. Heraldic panel above, 18 shields in border, clockwise from top left (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: Argent, six fleurs-de-lys azure (Paston ancient)
• 2: Argent, six fleurs-de-lys azure (Paston ancient) impaling Azure, a chief indented or (tinctures as painted on monument today, Glanvile of Suffolk and of Broomhall, Yorkshire, earliest Paston heiress, whose arms are blazoned in Heraldic Visitation and Burke's General Armory as Argent, a chief indented azure
• 3: Argent, six fleurs-de-lys azure a chief indented or (Paston modern) impaling: 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)
• 4: Paston modern quartering Pecche impaling 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)
• 5: Paston modern quartering Leech impaling Azure, a saltire or (Staleham (?))
• 6: Paston modern impaling 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)
• 7: Paston modern impaling 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)
• 8: Paston modern impaling Azure, a cross or (for Margaret Mawtbye/Mautby of Mautby in Norfolk, daughter and heiress of John Mawtbye and wife of John Paston of Paston, son and heir of William Paston and Agnes Barrey)
• 9: Paston modern impaling Argent semée of cross-crosslets (sable), a lion rampant gules crowned or (Brewse of Suffolk (Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.121)/Brewes/Brews, for Margery Brews, daughter of Sir Thomas Brews, Knight, and wife of Sir John Paston of Paston, son and heir of John Paston and Margaret Mawtbye)
• 10: Paston modern impaling Quarterly argent and gules, a cross engrailed counterchanged (Heydon of Norfolk, for Bridget Heydon, daughter of Sir Henry Heydon, Knight, and wife of Sir William Paston of Paston, son and heir of Sir John Paston and Margery Brews)
• 11: Paston modern impaling Azure, a chevron between three lion's heads erased or (Wyndham, for Mary Wyndham, a daughter of Sir Thomas Wyndham of Felbrigg in Norfolk, wife of Erasmus Paston of Paston, son and heir of Sir William Paston and Bridget Heydon)
• 12: Paston modern impaling Argent, on a fess azure three eagles displayed or (Clere of Ormsby, Norfolk, for Frances Clere, daughter of Sir Thomas Clere of Stokesby, Norfolk, wife of Sir William Paston of Paston, son and heir of Erasmus Paston and Mary Wyndham)
• 13: Paston modern impaling Audley (Or, a fret gules, usually shown as Gules, a fret or) quartering Argent, a chevron gules between eight ... sable (?), for Anne Audley, daughter of Philip Audley of Pagrave, Norfolk, eldest son and heir of Sir William Paston and Frances Clere; died without issue.
• 14: Paston modern impaling Knyvett (Argent, a bend sable a bordure engrailed of the last)
• 15: Mautby impaling Gules billety or, a fess argent (Lovain/Louvain/Lovayne, etc, feudal baron of Little Easton in Essex) for the marriage of Sir Robert Mautby and Ellen Lovayne, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Lovayne;
• 16: Bourchier, Earl of Essex, impaling Lovain
• 17: Mautby impaling Gules, seven fusils in bend or / Gules, a bend fusilly or (Marshall, Baron Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, for Ellen Marshall, daughter of William Marshall, and wife of Robert Mawtby);
• 18: Mautby impaling Gules, a fess between six martlets or (Beauchamp of Powick, Worcestershire; Beauchamp's Court, Alcester; Bletsoe: a difference of the senior line of Beauchamp of Elmley, Worcestershire, Earl of Warwick) for Margaret Beauchamp, daughter and heiress of Roger Beauchamp of Bletsoe (by his wife Joane Clayton or Claxton, daughter of William Clayton or Claxton) and wife of Robert Mawtby