Dame Barbara Bacon

• General Notes
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    Bacon (see QUARTERLY for October, 1893), but a daughter of John Bacon of Hesset:
       "At Cockthorpe, North Greenhoe  Hundred, Co Norfolk, England there is still preserved in
    the church a monumental Tablet at the East End of the South Aisle, with two coloured Shields:
       1.  Chequy or and azure, a fesse ermine, Calthorp.
       2.  Calthorp, impaling, Argent, on a fesse engrailed gules, between three escutcheons of
    the last, as many mullets of the first, Bacon of Hesset.  Crest:  A boar's head couped
    (Calthorp, A boar's head couped at the neck azure, bristled and tusked or. - Bl. Norf. ix.
    218).
       'To God and posterity, in assured hope of a joyful resurrection, resteth the body of Sr
    James Calthorp, Knight, and Dame Barbara his wife, daughter to John Bacon of Hesset, Esqrs.
    By her he had 8 sons and 6 daughters, in whose several marriages and issue the ancient glory
    of yt family (resting then chiefly and almost solely in himself) did reflourish and is
    dilatated into many of the best houses of this country.  He was buried the 16th day of June,
    A.D. 1615, and of his age 57.  The said Dame Barbara surviving him, and much comforted with
    the sight of 193 of her children and their offspring, at the age of 86 years exchanged this
    life for a better upon the 3d day of November, 1639.'
       'Behold, children are the inheritance of the Lord,
       And the fruit of the womb his reward.  PS. 127, 3'"
       From Farrer's "Church Heraldry" of Norfolk, II. 345.