Hockwold, St Peter

All Recorded Ledgerstones

Church of England

Hockwold

Norfolk

TL 725 880

TCCT

9

1657

1781

Recorded Ledgerstones

Hockwold, St Peter : Ledgerstone 1

Rectangular
Aligned West to East
Lettering on upper third of stone
Roman caps
Condition fair. Diagonal crack across inscription and a diagonal crack across lower half of stone

Black stone

1719

79 x 34 inches
2010 x 870 mm

The monument on the wall immediately above this ledgerstone also refers.

MARIA HUNGERFORD.
A D 1719.
JERMYN WYCHE.
A D 1719.

c/o Alison Wakes-Miller
King’s Lynn Church recorders

Hockwold, St Peter : Ledgerstone 2

Rectangular
Aligned South to North
Fragmentary. Part of a rectangular slab containing a cut off matrix of a brass figure, possibly female. Impressions of 5 bolt holes with remains of 4 bolts.
Length of matrix 15 ins x maximum width 8 ins
390 mm x 220 mm

Gray stone

35 x 42 inches
890 x 1070 mm

c/o Alison Wakes-Miller
King’s Lynn Church recorders

Hockwold, St Peter : Ledgerstone 3

Rectangular
Aligned West to East
Heraldry above inscription in the top half. Shield is set in a roundel decorated with indentations. There is a trefoil at each compass point on the outside edge of the roundel.
Incised roman caps and lower case. Archaic spelling and long ʃ is used.
(Argent) a chevron engrailed (Gules) between three Lings’ heads erased (Sable) [Lyng].
Condition: Very good

Black stone

1679

67 x 34 inches
1710 x 850 mm

Here Lyeth the Body of William
Lyng Sometime Senior Fellow of
Gonvile and Cajus College in Cambridge
Rector of this Pariʃh and Vicar of
Wilton who Dyed Ian:13 Anno
Domini J679 Ætatis 54

c/o Alison Wakes-Miller
King’s Lynn Church recorders

Hockwold, St Peter : Ledgerstone 4

Rectangular
Aligned West to East
Condition poor. Matrix of a female figure above a label. There a 7 bolt impressions and the remains of 1 bolt at the head. Loose fragment at the base of the stone.
Length of matrix 16 x 18 inches
410 x 460 mm

Gray stone

66 x 40 inches
1680 x 1010 mm

c/o Alison Wakes-Miller
King’s Lynn Church recorders

Hockwold, St Peter : Ledgerstone 5

Rectangular
Aligned West to East
Condition poor. Matrix of 4 shields, one at each corner and a central horizontal matrix. Each shield matrix has a central bolt hold with remains of the bolt in place. The horizontal matrix has 3 bolt impressions. There is a crack across a corner of the base of the stone.
Length of central matrix 16 ins (400 mm)
Length of shields 6 ins (150 mm)
Width of shields 5 ins (125 mm)

Gray stone

83 x 36 inches
2011 x 900 mm

c/o Alison Wakes-Miller
King’s Lynn Church recorders

Hockwold, St Peter : Ledgerstone 6

Rectangular
Aligned West to East
Lettering on upper section
Roman caps and lowercase. Inscription in Latin. Long ʃ is used.
Condition poor. Badly cracked. The cracks obliterate letters in a number of words.

Black stone

1746

80 x 39 inches
2040 x 990 mm

H. J.
THOMAS EGLINTON D.D.
Coll: Ca[–] [-]n Acad: Cantab: per multos Annos
SOC[–]s.
Philosophiæ, bonarum A[–]ium, Literarumque
Cultor et Sat[-]r, sedul[–] et fælix.
Ad hujus Parochiæ R[–]ctoriam tandem emiʃsus
brevi tempore, Annos cum compleverat
XLI
e Vitȃ recisus est
14 April J746

Translation:

Here lies Thomas Eglinton, Doctor of Divinity, for many years a Fellow of Caius College in the University of Cambridge. [He was] a supporter and promoter of Philosophy, Fine Arts, and Literature, [where he showed himself to be] zealous and successful. Sent eventually to be Rector of this parish, within a short while, when
he had completed his 41st year, he was cut off from life.
14th April 1746.

NB There are agricultural metaphors in the Latin here, possibly reflecting on the agricultural nature of this parish, both then and now.
Cultor, literally a ‘cultivator’, is here translated ‘supporter’; Sator, literally a ‘sower’, so maybe he taught; recisus est literally ‘pruned’

The surname has been checked with the list of vicars from this church now in Wilton Church.

c/o Alison Wakes-Miller
King’s Lynn Church recorders

Hockwold, St Peter : Ledgerstone 7

Rectangular
Aligned West to East
Lettering throughout the slab
Roman caps of various sizes and lowercase. Long ʃ is used.
Condition good. Cracked across lower half of slab.

Black stone

1781

79 x 39 inches
2000 x 985 mm

Sacred to the Memory
of
WILLIAM ADAMSON A: M:
late Incumbent of theʃe united
Pariʃhes of HOCKWOLD cum WILTON
who was born in September 1706,
was for ʃeveral Years Fellow of
Caius Colledge (sic), In CAMBRIDGE.
And
Preʃented by that Society in
October 1746,
To the above Pariʃhes
of which he continued Rector
untill (sic) his Death, on the 4.th of Sept.r
1781.
His Loʃs is deservedly lamented
by his Relations,
and regretted by his Pariʃhioners.

c/o Alison Wakes-Miller
King’s Lynn Church recorders

Hockwold, St Peter : Ledgerstone 8

Rectangular
Aligned West to East
Lettering on top half of stone
Stylised roman caps
Condition good. Large crack across top right corner

Black stone

34 x 25 inches
860 x 650 mm

A wall memorial on the North wall of the Chancel immediately above the slab may relate to this stone.

S

W M

c/o Alison Wakes-Miller
King’s Lynn Church recorders

Hockwold, St Peter : Ledgerstone 9

Rectangular
Aligned West to East
Lettering on top quarter of the stone
Stylised roman caps and lowercase with archaic spelling, corrections and the following errors e.g. Arthur the first ‘u’ partially corrected to an ‘r’ and the ‘a’ in Day is reversed.
Condition good. Slight chipping to edges suggests it might have been lifted. The central portion of the slab is covered by the altar table.

Black stone

1657

80 x 34 inches
205 x 87 mm

Here LYeth ye BoDY of Collenell(sic)

Authur (sic) HeueninGham(sic) Second BRO

ther of William HeueninGham of
OF
HeveninGham in the County Suf

folKe Esq r who Departed this LYfe

The 20th DaY of February

J657

c/o Alison Wakes-Miller
King’s Lynn Church recorders