File:St Mary's Church, Shelton, Norfolk - Tomb chest - geograph.org.uk - 1029378.jpg

English: St Mary's Church, Shelton, Norfolk, north side of altar - chest tomb of Sir Ralph Shelton (d.15 June 1568), who married firstly Mary Woodhouse, a daughter of Sir William Woodhouse of Waxham, Knight, and secondly Anne Barrow, a daughter of Thomas Barrow, Esq., of Barningham in Suffolk (Blomefield, History of Norfolk, Vol.V, p.268, quoted by Farrer). "This Ralph is made out to be High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1570, whereas in 1568 he died. The dates of birth of his several children are still on the tomb, in almost every case they differ from the account in Blomefield" (Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 1 (1885), , p.197 [1]).

Ten shields:

• 1: ... impaling Shelton (Azure, a cross or).
• 2: ... impaling Shelton.
• 3: Shelton.
• 4: Shelton impaling ....
• 5: Shelton impaling ....
• 6: Shelton impaling ....
• 7: Quarterly ermine and azure, in the second and third quarters a leopard's head argent (Woodhouse of Waxham) (per Blomefield, History of Norfolk, Vol.V, p.268)
• 8: Shelton impaling Woodhouse
• 9: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1: Shelton;
  • 2: Illey (Ermine, two chevrons sable "Illeigh of Northumberland", per Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.527);
  • 3: Burgulion (Quarterly or and gules, a bend sable in the second and third quarters three annulets argent (Burke, 1884, p.147 "Burgulion/Burgonyon");
  • 4: Cokefield (Azure, a cross chequy argent and gules (Burke, 1884, p.211 "Cokefield of Suffolk"));
• 10: Shelton.