Hatchment in St Mary's Church, Coddenham, Suffolk, of Rev. Nicholas Bacon d.(1796), Vicar of Coddenham and younger brother and heir of John Bacon (d.1788) of Shrubland Hall in Coddenham, lord of the manor. Arms: Gules, on a chief argent two mullets pierced sable (Bacon); quartering: Barry of six or and azure, a bend gules (Quaplade), overall an inescutcheon of pretence: Gules, a chevron ermine between three lion's gambs erased argent (Browne of Essex) (Papwoth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.455). Crest: A boar ermine.

In 1780 Rev. Nicholas Bacon married Anna Marie Browne (d.1785), the eldest of the two daughters and co-heiresses of John Browne (d.1789), a merchant of Ipswich in Suffolk. He died without issue, being the last in the male line, having sold the Shrubland estate. The other sister Charlotte Browne was the wife of Rev. John Longe, who succeeded Rev. Nicholas Bacon as Vicar of Coddenham. His son Rev. Robert Long succeeded him. (Source: https://joemasonspage.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/coddenham/)

The Bacon family descended from Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510 – 1579) Keeper of the Great Seal to Queen Elizabeth I. He was a descendant of Sir Edmond Bacon of Essex by his heiress wife Margery Quaplade. (1568 Visitation of Suffolk). Today Bacon of Raveningham Hall in Norfolk are premier baronets of England. Bacon of Shrubland Park was a cadet branch.