File:-2020-11-20 Brass, Lady Ann Heydon (died 1561), Saint Mary’s, Baconsthorpe, Norfolk.JPG

Saint Mary’s Church, Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, monumental brass effigy set into a wall depicting Ann Drury (d.1561) (Lady Heydon), the first of the three wives of Sir Christopher Heydon (d.1579) of Baconsthorpe Castle, Norfolk, and one of the 13 daughters of Sir William Drury (1500-1557/8), of Hawstead in Suffolk, Speaker of the House of Commons (by his 2nd wife Elizabeth Soothill/Sothell, a daughter and co-heiress of Henry Soothill/Sothell of Stockerston, Leicestershire (J M Lee and R A McKinley, 'Stockerston', in A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Gartree Hundred (London, 1964), pp. 303-308 [1] "The manor (of Stockerston, Leicestershire) descended in the Boyville family until the death of John Boyville in 1467. Stockerston passed to his daughter Anne and her husband Henry Sothill. Their son John died in 1493 and was succeeded by his son Henry . He left two daughters, both aged about one, whose custody was granted to Sir William Pierpont. Elizabeth married Sir William Drury of Hawstead (Suff.) and the manor of Stockerston passed to her, although her sister Jane, who married Sir John Constable, seems to have retained some interests in the neighbourhood. In 1580 Henry Drury, second son and heir of Sir William and Elizabeth, sold the manor to John Burton of Braunston (Rut.)") by his wife Joan Empson). Cullum, John, Sir, 6th Bart., states in his History and Antiquities of Hawsted, in the County of Suffolk, 1784, p.124[2]: "The pedigree makes him (Sir William Drury) marry a daughter of Henry Sothell, attorney general to Henry VII. But no such perfon appears in Sir William Dugdale's series. Robert Southwell, miles, was made Master of the Rolls, 33 Henry VIII. and his successor appointed 4 Edward VI". See pedigree of Drury, Heraldic Visit of Suffolk[3]. The accompanying inscription (now moved to windowsill) states: "Here under this tomb lieth ingraved bodies of Ladie Ann Hayden, daughter of Sir William Drury, knyght, sometime wyfe of Syr Christoper Hayden, of Baconsthorpe in the county of Norfolk, knight, which Ladie Ann deceased the Vth day of Sept A(nn)o 1561, and the said Christopher the tenth day of Dec, 1579, and also the Ladie Temperance Heydon, second wife of the said Sir Chr., daughter of Sir Wymunde Carew, Kt. which Ladie Temperance deceased the nynth day of Oct., in A(nn)o D(omi)ni 1577." (from: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/DRURY.htm#Anne%20DRURY4).

Heraldry

Ann Drury displays on her mantle the arms of Heydon quarterly of 4, of which only quarters 2 and 4 are visible:

• 2: Quarterly argent and gules, a cross engrailed counterchanged (Haydon) ( , p.472 "Haydon of Baconstrope (sic), Norfolk"; see pedigree[4])
• 4: Quarterly vert and gules, a lion rampant argent (Oulton) ("Robert Heydon, Esq. of Heydon, who married Cecily, daughter and heiress of Robert Oulton of Oulton in Norfolk, Esq. an eminent lawyer in the reign of Henry IV. whose arms, quarterly, vert and gules, a lion rampant argent, over all, the Heydons quartered" (Source: Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of South Erpingham: Baconsthorp', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6 (London, 1807), pp. 502-513 [5]; aliter Aulton/Owlton) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.766 "Oulton of Oulton, Co. Chester")

impaling Drury quarterly of 4

• 1&4: Argent, on a chief vert a cross tau between two mullets pierced or (Drury)
• 2&3: Two crowned lions passant in pale (Denston). Anne Drury's great-grandfather was Roger Drury (d.1498) of Hawstead who married Felice Denston, da & heiress of William Denston of Besthorpe, Norfolk. See Drury impaling Azure, two lions passant guardant or (Denston) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.279 "Denston") in St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on chest tomb of his son Sir Robert Drury (1456–1536), Lord of the Manor of Hawstead, Suffolk, and a Knight of the Body to Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII. As a politician he was Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, Speaker of the House of Commons (elected 4 October 1495), and Privy Councillor. The series of impalements on his chest tomb represent the marriages of his Drury ancestors. Sir Robert Drury (1456–1536) was the eldest of four sons of Roger Drury (d. 1496) of Hawstead, Suffolk, by his second wife Felice Denston, daughter and heiress of William Denston of Besthorpe, Norfolk.