Image: St. Bartholomew the Great - the tomb of Sir Walter and Lady Mary Mildmay - geograph.org.uk - 1124881

Description: St. Bartholomew the Great - the tomb of Sir Walter Mildmay (1520-1589), founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and from 1566 Chancellor of the Exchequer to Queen Elizabeth I - see http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/about/famous/index.cfm?id=5. The arms shown on the monument (see image[1]) are quarterly of four: 1: Argent, three lions rampant azure (Mildmay ancient; in 1583 Sir Walter Mildmay is recorded as having a "restitution of the ancient arms"[2]), with a martlet for difference. 2: Per fess nebulée argent and sable, three greyhound's heads couped counter-changed collared gules studded or (Mildmay modern, per www.heraldry-online.org.uk). 3: Azure, on a canton or a mullet sable (Le Rowse, 13th c.), tinctures incorrectly restored on monument 4: Sable, a chevron embattled or between three roses argent (Cornish of Much Waltham, Essex, 15th c.) For Mildmay quarterings (namely Le Rowse, Cornish, etc) see Mildmay in 1612 Heraldic Visitation of Essex[3]. Also as shown on monument to Sir Anthony Mildmay (d.1617), St Leonard's Church, Apethorpe, Northants.
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