By Mr. Edward Kite. 5 



Batnaed Gules bezantee, a cross coupee oi', Walsingham. 



Baynaed Party per fess embattled Or and Sable, six crosses patee 



counterchanged, Warnefoed. 



The whole is surmounted by a ninth, shield, bearing Baynard 

 and Bluet, quarterly, with the crest of Baynard, and date 1623. 



The individual thus commemorated, was great grandson of 

 Robert Baynard above mentioned ; he was thrice married, and by 

 his third wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Warneford of Seven- 

 hampton, Esq., had issue ten children, the eldest of whom, Sir 

 Robert Bajmard, Knight, of Lackham, erected to the memory of 

 his father, and nearly half a century after his decease, the monu- 

 ment here described. 



The third and last memorial (which is precisely similar to the 

 above, and erected at the same date,) commemorates Uesula, wife 

 of Sir Robert Baynard, Knight, and daughter of Sir Robert 

 Stapleton of Wighall, Co. York, Knight, by his second wife Olave, 

 daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Sherington of Lacock, Knight, 

 and widow of John Talbot, Esq., of Sal warp, Co. Worcester. The 

 inscription is as follows : — 



" Heare lyeth the Body of the Lady 

 Ursvla Baynard Davghter of Sir 

 Robert Stapilton of "Wyghall in the 

 Covnty of Yorke Knight, and wife 

 to Sir Robert Baynard Knight, by 

 whome [s]hee had issve Edward her 

 Sonne heare bvryed and Mary hir 

 Daughter. Shee lyved to the age 

 of 36 yeares and departed to God 

 in most firme Fayth in Christ in 

 the yeare of ovr Lorde God 1623. 

 God's goodness made her wise and well beseeming. 

 Discreet and Prvdent, Constant, Trvo, and Chaste, 

 Ilir vulves rare wan hir mvch esteeming, 

 In Coviie and Covntry, still with favovr graste, 

 Earth covld not yelde more pleasing earthly blisse, 

 Blest w'h two babes, thovgh Death brovght hir to this." 



The shields around the inscription set forth the following alli- 

 ances of the Stapleton family : — 



Argent, a lion rampant sable, SxArLEiON. impaling, Sable, frotty or, Bel- 

 leu, or Beaulieu. 



