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Canopied chest tomb monument to Sir John Hopton (d.1489). Looking from the chancel into the Hopton Chapel. It thus forms a squint-hole for the occupants of the Chapel. Listed building text[1]: "Good monument to Sir John Hopton (d.1489): Purbeck marble tomb chest (brasses missing) with 3 cusped quatrefoils with painted shields, richly traceried and crested canopy". Arms, left to right:

• Ermine, two bars sable on each three mullets argent Hopton (ancient)(Metcalfe, p.43)
• Argent, on a bend gules three mascles or
• Gules, a griffin segreant argent (Ross/Roys/Royse of Wisset, Suffolk) (Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. (1882). The Visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond Herald, 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk Pedigrees. Exeter: W. Pollard, p.43, pedigree of Hopton[2]). See also Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.877 "Royse".

Other arms quartered by the Hopton family: Argent, a chevron azure a label of three points of the second each charged with five bezants (Hopton (modern)) (arms of Swillington) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.506, "Hopton of Suffolk"). Argent, a chevron azure being the arms of Swillington (Burke, p.990): See wikipedia w:John Hopton (died 1478). The original arms of Hopton were: Ermine, two bars sable on each three mullets argent (Metcalfe, p.43).

• Sir Thomas Hopton married the heiress of the Perte family of Yorkshire, his son and heir was:
  • Sir John Hopton, of Westwode, Suffolk, who married Anne Swillington, daughter and heiress of Sir Roger Swillington of Yorkshire, Chamberlain of the Household to John of Gaunt, by his wife the heiress of the Ross/Roys family of Wissett, Suffolk. His son and heir was:
    • John Hopton of Westwode. (Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. (1882). The Visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond Herald, 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk Pedigrees. Exeter: W. Pollard, p.43, pedigree of Hopton[3])