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 Abt 1520 - 04.01.1562/63
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| Name |
Heron, William |
| Born |
Abt 1520 |
Of Addiscombe, Surrey, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
04.01.1562/63 |
Croydon, Surrey, England |
| Buried |
10.04.01.1562/63 |
Croydon, Surrey, England |
| Person ID |
I08732 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
4 Jul 2015 |
| Family |
Roydon, Alice, b. Abt 1545, Of Roydon, East Peckham, Kent, England , bur. 19 Aug 1566, St Mary's Lambeth, Surrey, England (Age ~ 21 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1560 |
England |
| Family ID |
F02680 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- A List of Surrey Brasses: Surrey Archeologcial Society
Proceedings Society of Antiquaries, 2 S., XII, 269.
"V. Effigies of William Heron, esq., justice of the peace, 1562, in armour, and wife Alice, the latter much mutilated, with foot inscription. Now on wall of chancel. Aubrey (II, 15) notes this brass as "at the entrance of the altar rails, on a brass plate, is a man in armour and a woman, both praying ; over him are these arms, a chevron charg'd with three cinquefoils between three herons, and underneath this inscription." Sometime during the 18th century the brass disappeared from the church and was not heard of again until the year 1887, when it was placed in the hands of the late Rev. W. F. Greeny, F.S.A., the well-known writer on foreign brasses, for the purposes of an exhibition, with an understanding that, if identified, it could be restored to the church from which it had been taken. Mr. Greeny exhibited the originals before the Society of Antiquaries on 13 December, 1888, and communicated the following note: 1 " In April, 1887, Mr. L. A. B. Waller sent the knight, the bust of the lady (all that remains of her figure), and the inscription to me, to be exhibited in Norwich at an exhibition I had of rubbings and other kindred things. Mr. Waller's friend, into whose possession it had come before Mr. Waller purchased it at the sale of his effects, had a suspicion that it came from a Norfolk church, and it was hoped I might find its original home and restore it. A rubbing was taken at my exhibition and sent to Mr. Stephenson, who identified the brass as belonging to Croydon Church. Mr. Waller writes me, 'The recent history of the brass is this, at the sale of the effects of a friend of mine, W. C. Jourdain, who died in 1868, I bought it. He had obtained it from a friend of his and of mine, T. Gr. Waller (no relative), solicitor, of the Inner Temple and of Cuckfield, Sussex, who died suddenly in 1846, in his thirty-sixth year. Mr. Jourdain used to say that T. G. Waller obtained it from a client.'I am glad that the original resting-place of the monument has been found, and that the vicar of Croydon has guaranteed to Mr. Mill Stephenson and to myself to refix it."
In accordance with this guarantee the vicar, the late Rev. J. M. Braithwaite, caused the brasses to be fixed on the southern inner face of the north chancel pier. William Heron is represented slightly inclined to the right, bareheaded with short hair and with beard and moustaches, his head resting on his helmet and his feet on a mound covered with flowering plants. His armour consists of a gorget of plate, a breastplate with a tapul or projecting ridge, shoulder pieces with straight up- right guards, and small elbow pieces, alike in shape and size. The taces are short, being worn over a long skirt of mail escalloped on the bottom edge ; to the lowermost lame of the taces are attached two narrow rounded tuiles, the fastenings of which are very clearly shown. The knee pieces are large and globular with plates behind, and the sabbatons are broad and round-toed. The hands are without gauntlets and no spurs are shown. A long narrow sword with small pommel and quillons hangs on the left side from a plain narrow belt, and the hilt of a dagger appears on the right. Frills are shown at the neck and wrists. Of his wife Alice only the upper portion remains. It represents her wearing the Paris head or French hood, small ruff, under-gown with striped sleeves terminating in frills, and over-gown with turned-back collar and short sleeves puffed and slashed at the shoulders. Below the effigies is the inscription in four lines in black letter: "Here lies William Heron Esq. and Justys of the Peaxs and Alse his wife which William deceased the 4th day of January in ye yere of our Lorde MCCCCCX11 in whose soule God take to his mercy Amen." The male effigy is 23 inches and the fragment of the female 7i inches in height, the inscription plate measur- ing 21 by 4i inches. The brass is reproduced in Surrey Archaeological Collections, X, 135, and the head of the lady only in XVI, 46, but erroneously assigned to Elizabeth Heron, 1544. William Heron, "justys of the peaxs," eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth Heron (No. IV), died 4 January, 1562-3, without issue, and was buried on the 10th, the entry in the register being in 1563 "Mr. Wyllm Heron justyce was buryed the x day of January." The maiden name of his wife Alice is unknown and all attempts to trace it have so far failed. She did not long remain a widow, for on 3 August, 1563, the register records her marriage to Oliver St. John, esq., thus : "1563. Mastr Olyver Sent John Squyer and Maystrys Alice Heron, wydo, ware maryed the iii day of August."
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