Image: Holy Trinity Church, Scoulton, Norfolk - Hatchment - geograph.org.uk - 934620

Description: Holy Trinity Church, Scoulton, Norfolk, hatchment to w:John Weyland (1774–1854), Esquire, of Woodrising, Norfolk, MP, who on 12 March 1799 married Elizabeth Keene, daughter and heiress of w:Whitshed Keene (c. 1731–1822), Esquire, of Richmond, MP for Montgomery, by his wife (whom he married in 1771), Elizabeth Legge, a daughter of George Legge, Viscount Lewisham, and sister of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. Whitshed Keene was an Irish soldier in the British Army, and a politician, the son of Captain Gilbert Keene and his wife Alice Whitshed, daughter of Thomas Whitshed of Dublin, serjeant-at-law. (Source:The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964[1]). Arms: Ermine, on a cross gules five escallops argent (Weyland) impaling: Azure, a talbot passant or on a chief indented argent three crosses-crosslet sable (Keene). (Source: Farrer, Edmund, The church heraldry of Norfolk: a description of all coats of arms on brasses, monuments, slabs, hatchments, &c., now to be found in the county. llustrated. With references to Blomefield's History of Norfolk and Burke's Armory. Together with notes from the inscriptions attached, Vol II, Norwich, 1889, p.147[2])
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