English: Monument in Waltham Abbey, Essex to Sir Edward Denny (1547-1600) of Bishop's Stortford, a soldier, privateer and adventurer in the reign of Elizabeth I, and his wife Margaret Edgcumbe, with 'weepers' depicting their 7 sons and 3 daughters. The symbolism shows that the boys with swords were over 21 when their father died, the girls with ruffs were married and the two children with linked arms were twins. The monument was sculpted in 1600 by Bartholomew Ayde and Isaac James of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Margaret survived her husband by 48 years and is buried at Bishop's Stortford. In the spandrels are figures of Fame and Time.
Arms: Top, quarterly of 4:
1&4:: Gules crusilly or, a saltire argent (Denny);
2: Or, a fess dancettée gules in chief three martlets sable (More; as borne by More of Leicestershire (Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.703));
3: Azure, three trouts fretted in triangle and in chief a mullet argent (the mullet possibly a cadet mark, not mentioned in Burke, 1884) (Troutbeck, aliter Troutback, Trowtback, Trowtbeck (Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.1033). Borne by Troutbeck of Dunham, County Chester. Sir w:Edmund Denny (d. 22 December 1520), a Baron of the Exchequer, married secondly (c.1488) Mary Troutbeck, a daughter and co-heiress of Robert Troutbeck of w:Bridge Trafford, County Chester.
Left: Denny impaling Edgcumbe, Earls of Mount Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall: Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent (here displayed inverted / mirror image, with bend sinister, apparently an error), for Margaret Edgcumbe, wife of Sir Edward Denny.
(Source: C. R. Councer, Heraldic Painted Glass in the Church of St. Lawrence, Mereworth, Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol.77, 1962, pp.48-62, esp. p.50 et seq[1] also www.theheraldrysociety.com[2])
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