File:-2016-04-27 Hatchment, Saint Nicholas parish church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.jpg

English: Church of Saint Nicholas in the town of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. Hatchment of Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper (1763-1817). He was the 3rd son of Rev. Samuel Cooper (1739/40-1800), of Brooke Hall, about seven miles from Norwich, curate of Great Yarmouth, and rector of Morley and Yelverton, Norfolk (B.A. of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1760, M.A. 1763, D.D. 1777), who published a large number of sermons, wrote comments on Priestley's letters to Burke on civil and ecclesiastical government. Rev. Samuel Cooper (1739/40-1800) married Maria Sarah Bransby. Rev. Samuel Cooper (1739/40-1800) was a son of Samuel Cooper, "a surgeon of good repute at Norwich" by his wife Mary Lovick. The 4th son of Rev. Samuel Cooper (1739/40-1800) was Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet (1768–1841), surgeon (Dict of Nat Biog [1]). Showing arms of Cooper, with motto of Cooper: Nil magnum nisi bonum (nothing is great unless it is good). The shin/thigh bones were given in 1761 to show the descent from the Newton family, who bore: Sable, two shin-bones in saltire argent. (Burke). Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper (1763-1817) married Sarah Leman Rede at Great Yarmouth on 29th Nov 1787 and was the father of Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 2nd Baronet (1798–1866), who inherited from his uncle the 1st Baronet by special remainder. (Source: https://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-cooper6269+2-2-0-1-0)

Heraldry

Quarterly of 4:

• 1: Vert, a fess embattled or between two pheons in chief points downwards and in base two human thigh bones in saltire argent (Cooper) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.225 "Cooper of Gadesbridge, Hertfordshire" (Now Gadebridge, a district of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire))
• 2: Sable, a saltire argent on a chief of the second three bull's heads cabossed afrontée in fess of the first (Lovick/Lovyck/Lowyke) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.625 "Lovyck")
• 3: Argent, on a bend cotised sable between two fleurs-de-lis gules a lion passant guardant or (Bransby) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.117 "Bransby of Shottisham, Norfolk"). Shown here: lion passant.
• 4: Argent, six fleurs-de-lys azure a chief indented or (Paston of Paston, Norfolk, apparently a Bransby heiress - see Bransby monument in All Saints Church, Shotesham, showing Bransby impaling Paston File:All Saints Church - monuments on south wall - geograph.org.uk - 1371805.jpg)

all impaling: Azure, on a bend wavy or three Cornish choughs close proper a bordure engrailed argent charged alternately with torteaux and hurts/pellets (Rede) (for his wife) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.844 "Rede of Norwich and Beccles, Suffolk").