St Gregory's Church, Norwich, chest tomb by the South Wall of the South Chapel, with four coloured shields, of Francis Bacon (1587-1657), a venerable and learned Judge of the King's Bench, sergeant-at-law. He was a descendant of Thomas Bacon (d.1553) of Hesset in Suffolk, by his second wife Anna Rouse, a daughter of Henry Rouse of Dinington, Suffolk. (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 3 (1893) Lynn, Norwich, Thetford, Yarmouth, p.60[1])

Heraldry

4 shields:

• 1: Argent, on a fesse engrailed between three escutcheons gules as many mullets pierced or (Bacon of Hesset, Suffolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.38, but with mullets argent pierced sable)
• 2: Bacon, impaling: Sable, three beehives or (Jervis of Suffolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.542 "Jervys");
• 3: Bacon, impaling: Argent, a saltire engrailed azure (Legat of Suffolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.596 "Legat of Pondhall Suffolk");
• 4: Bacon, impaling, Gules a lion rampant argent debruised by a bendlet azure (Tylott, of Suffolk) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1041 "Tylliot/Tillot of East Bardsale, Suffolk").

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