Arms of Deane of Dyne's Hall, Great Maplestead, Essex: Sable, a fess ermine between three chaplets argent (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.271 "Deane of Maplestede, Essex and Blackburne, Lincolnshire; Deane of Gosfield, Essex (Granted 1577, per Grantees of Arms ed. W.H. Rylands (Harl. Soc. lxvi), 72., quoted in History of Parliament biography of Sir John Deane (1583-1626), of Dyne's Hall, Great Maplestead, MP for Essex in 1625[1]))

• "Dyne's Hall, Maplestead, Essex" (listed building text [2]);
• Dyne's Hall / Deane's Hall is named after the Deane/Dyne family seated there from the late 13th century. It was acquired in 1575 by William Deane (d.1585), the steward and third husband of Anne Wentworth (1537-1580) (Lady Maltravers), one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Sir John Wentworth of Gosfield Hall in Essex, and the widow successively of Sir Hugh Rich (a son of w:Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich) and then of Henry FitzAlan, Lord Maltravers, son and heir apparent of w:Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel. William Deane rebuilt the house and lived there after his wife's death, when he remarried to Anne Egerton ("widow of George Blythe, Esquire, Clerk of the Council of the North in 1572, a younger daughter of Thomas Egerton, citizen and mercer of London, ‘who claimed to be descended from the Egertons of Wrinehill in Cheshire’. Her brother was Stephen Egerton (c.1555-1622), the Puritan preacher of St Anne’s in the Blackfriars, for whom see the ODNB entry" (Notes on NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/57/549 1)). (Sources: Fiona Cowell, Essex Gardens Trust, report to BRAINTREE DISTRICT COUNCIL DYNES HALL, GREAT MAPLESTEAD, TL 805 331 [3]; Notes on NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/57/549 1, Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the will, dated 20 June 1575 and proved 19 November 1575, of Dame Anne Wentworth of Gosfield, Essex, wife of Sir John Wentworth[4]).

• Text from Fiona Cowell: Morant states that (William Deane) ‘planted a handsome avenue of elms’, most of which blew down in the gale of 1703. Rush (Seats in Essex, 1897) quotes a History of Essex relating that William Deane ‘was about a year with horses, teams and men, making the dam of the great pond at Dynes, which then formed the reservoir to turn a water-mill that stood just below it’. This mill-pond was the origin of the later piece of ornamental water. Dynes remained with the Deane family for another three generations, and sometime before 1650 ‘a fayre terras walk overlooking two fayre gardens’ was constructed, as described in ‘A Particular of Dynes Hall in Essex’ (Essex Record Office: D/DAc 158). This same document also refers to the elm avenue as ‘a pleasant walk to ye house, with great elms on either side’, and to the ‘impaled ground for park or warren near the house conteyning about 80 acres’. An associated document (D/DAc 159) specifies the dovehouse (built c 1600, demolished 1924) and ‘gardens orchards courts yards with severall fishponds’. Three years after this report, Dynes was sold in 1653 to Colonel Sparrow of Gestingthorpe.