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St Michael's church in Ryston, Norfolk. Funeral hatchments in the Nave (Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 2 (1889), pp.188-9[1]):

• Pratt; in pretence, Browne. See No. IX.
• Pratt, with the " mascles argent " ; impaling Astley (right, above organ). See No. III.
• Centre: Quarterly:— 1 and 4, Pratt; 2 and 3, Sable, on a chevron argent between three pewhit's heads erased ermine beaked gules, as many annulets of the field (Gylour of Ryston) (The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tew-it, green plover, or (in Ireland and Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily); in pretence, Browne (Browne of King's Lynn).

Note another mural monument: on the North Side of the Nave, with Shield in White, IX. Pratt; in pretence, Browne. Crest: Between a branch of oak, and another of pine, each f ructed or, a wolfs head erased per pale argent and sable, gorged with a collar charged with three roundels, all counterchanged, langued gules. (Pratt See No. III.) For "Pleasance Pratt, wife of Edward Roger Pratt of this parish, Esq., eldest daughter and coheiress of Samuel Browne of King's Lynn, who died Oct. 3, 1807, aged 42." X. Pratt, with martlet for difference. Crest : Pratt. Beneath the shield, "Algiers." For " Robert, 4th son of Edward Roger Pratt and Pleasance his wife, who fell in action 27th August, 1816, in his 18th year," On the nave floor a slab, for " Charles Browne Pratt, 4th sur- viving son of Edward Roger and Pleasance Pratt, bom May 31, 1802, died Oct. 12, 1822. Edward Roger Pratt, bom Oct. 24, 1756, died March 6, 1838, aged 82, only son of Edward and Blanch Pratt."

Per: Francis Blomefield, 'Clackclose Hundred and Half: West Riston', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 7 (London, 1807), pp. 393-397 [2]

William Dalling, in the 21st of Henry VI. gave it to William Yelverton, serjeant at law, Sir John Clifton, Knight, Henry Grey, Esq. Osbert Mundeford, &c. in trust, to be settled on William Gylour and Margaret his wife, daughter of Dalling, intail, with lands in Fordham, Roxham, &c. Walter Gylour was lord in the reign of Henry VII. and by a daughter of Gylour it came to the Prats; William Prat was lord, and by his will, dated December 4, 1557, desires to be buried in the church of St. Edmund of Downham Market. The Pratts derive from Robert Prat, whose son Edmund was lord of the manor of Cartes in Hockwold, and died in the 34th of Henry VIII.; this Edmund married the heiress of Walter Gylour, and John was his son and heir. William Prat, son of John, by his will dated as above in 1557, gives this lordship, with lands, tenements, &c. in Roxham, Hilgey, Fordham, Denver, Downham, Derham and Bexwell, to Gregory Pratt of Hockwold, and his heirs male; (fn. 5) this Gregory was nephew to William, (who died s. p.) and son of his brother Edward Pratt, by Catherine, daughter of . . . Tassell; Gregory and Richard Prat, executors, and Edmund Beaupre, Esq. supervisor. Gregory was lord in 1573, and married Ann, daughter and coheir of William Cocket, Esq. of Besthorp in Norfolk, by whom he had two sons, Gregory and Francis. This Gregory married Theodosia, daughter of . . . . Tyrell, and relict of Edmund West, of Marchworth in Bucks; and she was buried there in Janunry, 1629. Sir Roger Pratt, their son, died lord in 1684, s. p. So that we must return to Edward Pratt, 2d son of Edward, (brother to Gregory,) by Catherine Tassell; this Edward was of Hockwold, and married Dorothy, daughter of William Cobb, Esq. of Sandringham, and father of Edward Pratt of Honningham in Suffolk, who by Ursula his wife, daughter of Rossington of Framingham in Suffolk, was father of Edward Pratt. Gent. of Yoxford in Suffolk, by Emma, his wife, daughter of . . . . Tiffin of Crimplesham, widow of —Bexwell; he had Edward Pratt of Woodbridge in Suffolk, who married Mary, daughter of Anthony Applethwait of Ipswich, and was heir, as I take it, to Sir Roger Prat. By Mary he had a son and heir, Roger Pratt, Esq. now lord of Riston, who by Henrietta, daughter of Sir Robert Davers, Bart. of Rushbrook in Suffolk, has two sons, Edward and Jermyn; Edward, the eldest, is married to —, daughter of Sir Jacob Astley, Bart.