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English: St Peter's church - memorial to Sir Drue Drury (c. 1531 – 1617), a courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1562 and 1584. Text from Wikipedia:

He was the fifth but third surviving son of Sir Robert Drury (c. 1503 – 1577) of Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire, and Elizabeth Brudenell, the daughter of Edmund Brudenell of Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. He was the grandson of Sir Robert Drury (c. 1456 – 2 March 1535), Speaker of the House of Commons in 1495. Drury died at his seat at Riddlesworth, Norfolk, aged about eighty-six, though on his monument the age of ninety-nine is given. Drury married, firstly, Elizabeth Calthorpe, daughter of Sir Philip Calthorpe, and widow of Sir William Woodhouse of Waxham, Norfolk. She brought him a moiety of Riddlesworth. In 1582 he married for his second wife Katherine Finch, daughter and heiress of William Finch of Lynsted, Kent. See her mural monument in Lynsted Church, with kneeling effigies of herself and her husband File:Lynsted, Ss Peter & Paul church, Memorial to Sir Drue Drurye (31800405765).jpg. Through her, he acquired the manor of Sewards in Linstead, and Perry Court at Preston, Kent. He had an only son w:Sir Drue Drury, 1st Baronet (1588 – 1632) who married Anne Waldegrave, a daughter of Edward Waldegrave, of Lawford, Essex) and three daughters:

• Elizabeth Drury who married Sir Thomas Wingfield and then Henry Reynolds,
• Anne Drury
• Frances Drury (d.1657) who married Sir Robert Boteler of Watton Woodhall, Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, by whom she had a sole child and daughter:

• Jane Boteler, the first wife of w:John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse. ( Cokayne, G. E. & Gibbs, Vicary, eds. (1912). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Bass to Canning). 2 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, p.90). She was the niece of John Boteler (1587-1653), of Watton Woodhall, Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire (2nd son of Sir Philip Butler (d.1592) of Watton Woodhall, MP, and Catherine, da. of Sir Francis Knollys of Rotherfield Greys, Oxon) twice MP for Hertfordshire in 1625 and 1626 (History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010[1])

Farrer's description (1885)

Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 1 (1885), pp.49-50[2] (See fuller image[3])

Monument on the North Wall of the Nave, with Seven coloured Shields. The tinctures on this monument are becoming very indistinct : the impalements on the last two shields are just to be distinguished. For Sir Drue Drury, Knt., third son of Robert Drury of Egerly, co. Buckingham, who was second son of Robert Drury of Hasted, Suffolk. He married first, Elizabeth Calthorp, daughter of Sir Philip Calthorp and relict of Sir William Wodehouse; secondly, Katharine Finch, daughter and heiress of William Finch of Linstead in Kent. He died April 29th, 1617, aged 99 years. The shields on the monument commemorate also the marriages of his family. His eldest son, w:Sir Drue Drury, 1st Baronet, married Anne Waldegrave, daughter and sole heiress of Edward Waldegrave of Lawford in Essex. Her eldest daughter, Elizabeth Drury, married Sir Thomas AVingfield of Leveringham, Suffolk. His second daughter, Anna Drury, married John Deane of Dynes Hall, Essex; and his third daughter, Frances Drury, married Robert Botler of Woodhall, Hertfordshire. Seven shields (Crest : A greyhound courant, argent, collared or):

• 1: Quarterly of 6, with inescutcheon of pretence: Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant sable (Finch):
  • 1&6: Argent, on a chief vert a cross tau between two mullets pierced or (Drury), with a crescent sable for difference;
  • 2: Argent, six crosses-crosslet fitchée, three, two, and one, gules a chief indented azure (Saxham);
  • 3: Sable, six cinquefoils, three, two, and one, pierced argent (Frissell);
  • 4: Chequy argent and gules, on a fesse azure three buckles or (Geddyng);
  • 5: Argent, a chevron gules between three morions proper (Brudenell) ;
• 2: Drury impaling: Chequy or and azure, a fesse ermine (Calthorpe);
• 3: Drury impaling Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant sable (Finch);
• 4: Drury impaling: Per pale argent and gules (Waldegrave), with a mullet sable for difference;
• 5: Argent, on a bend gules three pairs of wings conjoined in lure of the field (Wingfield), impaling Drury.
• 6: Sable, a fesse ermine between three chaplets argent (Deane) (defaced), impaling Drury.
• 7: Gules, a fesse chequy argent and sable between six cross-crosslets fitchee or (Boteler) (defaced), impaling Drury.

Blomefield's description (1805)

Text frpm: Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Giltcross: Ridlesworth', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 1 (London, 1805), pp. 274-284 [4]
Against the north chancel wall is a fine monument for Sir Drue Drury, whose effigies is in armour in a kneeling posture, under a canopy supported by two angels; a book lies on a desk before him; the monument being adorned with the following arms: Drury's crest, a grayhound currant arg. collared or, and:

• 1: Drury and his quarterings (overall a coat of pretence of Finch, with a crescent or), viz:
  • 1&6: Drury;
  • 2: Argent a chief indented and six croslets fitche, 3, 2, 1, azure;
  • 3: Sable, six cinquefoils argent 3, 2, 1, pierced of the field;
  • 4: Chequy argent and gules on a fess azure three round buckles or;
  • 5: Argent, a chevron gules between three caps of maintenance azure;
• 2: Drury impales Calthorp;
• 3: (Drury impales Finch);
• 4: (Drury impales) Waldegrave with a mullet.
• 5: Wingfield, impaling Drury;
• 6: Deane: Sable, a fess ermine between three white roses, impaling Drury;
• 7: Botler: Gules, a fess chequy argent and sable between six croslets sable, impaling Drury.

Inscription

Transcribed by Blomfield; ; see also: John le Neve, Monumenta Anglicana, London, 1719, pp.58-9 [5]:

Condignae Famae & Memoriae sacrum, nobilis et illustris viri DRUGONIS DRURY, Militis, Filii tertii, Roberti Drury de Egerly in Comitatu Buckingham, Filii secundi Roberti Drury de Hasted in Comitatu Suffolke, Militum, Reginae ELIZABETHAE a primo Regni Anno, solius Silentiarii, Deinde JACOBO Regi nostro & Anno 1596 Praesidis Turris Londinensis, (annos nonaginta novem summa cum laude et integritate complevit) bis Conjugio connexi, primo Dominae Elizabethae: Woodhouse Filiae Philippi Calthorp, Militis, secundo, Dominae Katharinae Finch Filiae & Haeredi Gulielmi Finch de Linsted in Comitatu Cant(ii) Armigeri per secundam uxorem relictae, DRUGO DRURY, unicus Filius eius, uxorem duxit Annam aetate primam, et unam ex Cohaeredibus Edwardi Waldgrave de Lawford in Comitatu Essex, Armigeri: Elizabetha prima eius Filia, nupta fuit venerabili Thomae Wingefield Militi, de Leveringham in Comitatu Suffolke, Anna filia secunda, Johanni Deane de Deane Aula Comitatu Essex praedicto, et Francesca Filia tertia, Roberto Botler de Woodhall in Comitatu Hertford, militibus; ipse DRUGO DRURY Miles praeclarus, singulari Integritate, Pietate, Virtute, (et nulli in terris inferior) Charitate, praecipue praecellens, apud Riddlesworth in Comitatu Norfolke, 29 Aprilis 1617, Mortem subiit.

Which may be translated:

"Sacred to the very worthy renown and memory of the noble and brilliant man Drue Drury, Knight, the third son of Robert Drury of w:Hedgerley in the County of Buckingham, the second son of Robert Drury of Hasted in the County of Suffolk, Knight, sole gentleman usher of the privy chamber ("confidential domestic servant" (silentiarius)) of Queen Elizabeth, from the first year of her reign, then to James our king and in the year 1596 w:Lieutenant of the Tower of London. He completed ninety-nine years with the highest praise and integrity. He joined in marriage twice: first to Lady Elizabeth Woodhouse, a daughter of Philip Calthorp, Knight, second to Lady Catherine Finch the daughter and heiress of William Finch of w:Lynsted in the County of Kent, Knight, through his second wife, widow. Drugo Drury his only son, took for wife Anne, first in age and one of the co-heiresses of Edward Waldegrave of Lawford in the County of Essex, Esquire. Elizabeth, his first daughter, was married to the venerable Thomas Wingfield, Knight, of Leveringham in the County of Suffolk; Anne the second daughter, (was married to) John Deane of Deane Hall in the County of Essex aforesaid, and Frances the third daughter, (was married to) Robert Botler of Woodhall in the County of Hertford, (all) Knights. Drugo Drury himself, a renowned knight, singular in integrity, piety, virtue and (none lower in lands) in charity especially excellent, submitted to death at Riddlesworth in the County of Norfolk, on 29 April 1617"

Heraldry

• Deane: Sable, a fess ermine between three chaplets argent (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.271 "Deane of Maplestede, Essex and Blackburne, Lincolnshire; Deane of Gosfield, Essex (1577))

• "Dyne's Hall, Maplestead, Essex" (listed building text [6]); Text from: Fiona Cowell, Essex Gardens Trust, report to BRAINTREE DISTRICT COUNCIL DYNES HALL, GREAT MAPLESTEAD, TL 805 331 [7]:
  

The name of the estate derives from the Dyne family, who held the manor from the late C13. After intermediate owners, Dynes was bought in 1575 by William Deane who married his former employer, the widowed Lady Maltravers of Gosfield Hall. He rebuilt the house, and after the death of his wife in 1580 he made Dynes his residence. Morant states that he ‘planted a handsome avenue of elms’, most of which blew down in the gale of 1703. Rush (Seats in Essex, 1897) quotes a History of Essex relating that William Deane ‘was about a year with horses, teams and men, making the dam of the great pond at Dynes, which then formed the reservoir to turn a water-mill that stood just below it’. This mill-pond was the origin of the later piece of ornamental water. Dynes remained with the Deane family for another three generations, and sometime before 1650 ‘a fayre terras walk overlooking two fayre gardens’ was constructed, as described in ‘A Particular of Dynes Hall in Essex’ (Essex Record Office: D/DAc 158). This same document also refers to the elm avenue as ‘a pleasant walk to ye house, with great elms on either side’, and to the ‘impaled ground for park or warren near the house conteyning about 80 acres’. An associated document (D/DAc 159) specifies the dovehouse (built c 1600, demolished 1924) and ‘gardens orchards courts yards with severall fishponds’. Three years after this report, Dynes was sold in 1653 to Colonel Sparrow of Gestingthorpe

• Boteler: Gules, a fess chequy or and sable between six crosses pattée argent (Boteler) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.103 "Boteler of Woodhall, Hertfordshire"); three versions given under "Butler", pp.154-5:
  • Gules, a fess counter-compony argent and sable between three crosses patée of the second (Burke, 1884, arms of "Margaret Butler wife of Simon, 4th son of Simon 5th Lord Slane", p.154);
  • Gules, a fess counter-compony argent and sable between six crosses formée fitchée of the second (Heraldic Visit Leics, 1619,"Butler", p.155);
  • Gules, a fess chequy argent and sable ("Butler", p.155)
  • Gules, a fess chequy argent and sable between six croslets sable (Blomefield) "Botler");
  • Gules, a fesse chequy argent and sable between six crosses-crosslet fitchée or (Farrer "Boteler")
• Geddyng: Chequy argent and gules, on a fess azure three buckles or (Geddyng, per Farrer; Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.392 "Gedding"; Chequy argent and gules, on a fess azure three round buckles or per Blomefield)

Other information

The building > 1707334 dates from the 14th century but the chancel was rebuilt in 1855. The C14 octagonal font > 1707358 has survived, its cover is Jacobean. The royal arms for Charles I > 1707361 - overpainted for Charles II - came from the ruined Knettishall church which also provided the Jacobean pulpit > 1707339. The church houses a number of memorials, the most noteworthy of them to Sir Drue Drury who died in 1617 at the age of 99. He was Governor of the Tower of London and had guarded Mary Queen of Scots before her execution in 1587. The church is adjoined by Riddlesworth Hall > 1707322. The village of Riddlesworth is mentioned in Alan Davison's book 'Deserted Villages in Norfolk' as having been a small and moderately prosperous place in the 1340s. By 1584 it was tiny, consisting of manor house, church, rectory and 10 houses, and in the 1670s its size had dwindled to two houses and 15 people. Whether as a result of depopulation by the Drurys, the Lords of the Manor, is not known. The modern-day hamlet consists of Manor Farm, a handful of cottages and St Peter's church. The Hall, and attractive Georgian-style house surrounded by 30 acres of parkland, now functions as a school.