English: Mereworth Church, Kent, detail from East Window. Arms of Walsingham (quarterly of four) impaling Denny (quarterly of four), symbolising the marriage of William Walsingham (d.1534), of Scadbury Hall[5] in the parish of Chislehurst in Kent, and his wife Joyce Denny, a daughter of the courtier Sir Edmund Denny of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, and a sister of the courtier Sir Anthony Denny, the principal Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII. Parents of Sir w:Francis Walsingham(c. 1532 – 6 April 1590) principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and popularly remembered as her "spymaster". (Source: C. R. Councer, Heraldic Painted Glass in the Church of St. Lawrence, Mereworth, Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol.77, 1962, pp.48-62, esp. p.50 et seq[1]) Arms
Baron (dexter): quarterly of four
1&4: Gules bezantée, a cross couped chequy argent and azure (Walsinghham of Scadbury Hall, Chislehurst, Kent);
2: Sable, on a bend argent a bendlet wavy of the first in sinister chief a cross-crosslet fitchée of the second (Writtle, for Eleanor Writtle, wife of James Walsingham (1462-1540) of Scadbury, Sheriff of Kent in 1497, and daughter and heiress of Walter Writtle of Bobbingworth, Essex)
3: Ermines, on a chief indented argent an annulet between two trefoils slipped sable (Bamme, for Margaret Bamme, wife of w:Thomas Walsingham (died 1457) of Scadbury, MP, who purchased Scadbury in 1424, and daughter and heiress of Henry Bamme of the City of London, a member of the Worshipful Company of Vintners).
Impaling femme (sinister):
1&4: Gules, a saltire argent between twelve crosses pattee or (Denny)
2:
3: Azure, three trouts fretted in triangle argent, in chief a mullet of the second (Troutbeck of Dunham)
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