Funeral hatchment in St Mary's Church, Coddenham, Suffolk, of Rev. John Longe (1765-1834), Vicar of Coddenham, who married Charlotte Browne, sister of and co-heiress with Anna Marie Browne, wife of Rev. Nicholas Bacon d.(1796), of Shrubland Hall, Coddenham, lord of the manor and Vicar of Coddenham, whom he succeeded in that last post. The hatchment of Rev. Nicholas Bacon d.(1796) survives in the same church, showing the same inescutcheon of pretence of Browne. The Rev John Longe was born in Spixworth in Norfolk, the eldest son of Rev John Longe, Rector of Spixworth and nephew of .... Longe of Spixworth Park. (Source: https://joemasonspage.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/coddenham/) The estate of Spixworth was acquired in the late 17th.c. by Francis Longe (d.1734), Recorder of Great Yarmouth, who married Susanna Frere (d.1721), daughter and heiress of Tobias Frere (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.621) ( Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1407, pedigree of "Longe of Spixworth"). "w:Spixworth Park, Norfolk, was the seat of the Longe family from 1693 to 1952" (Wikipedia). See further: The Diary of John Longe, Ed. Michael Stone, Woodbridge, 2008[1].

Arms: Gules, a saltire engrailed or on a chief of the last three crosses crosslet of the first (Longe of Spixworth) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.621) quartering Gules, two leopard's faces in pale between as many flaunches or (Frere, of Roydon in Norfolk and Finningham in Suffolk (Burke, 1884, p.378, with tinctures transposed)), with 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), impaling Argent, on a bend engrailed sable between two acorns slipped vert three fleurs-de-lis or (Ward of Walcot and Salhouse in Norfolk, per Burke, 1884, p.1074). This arrangement reflects that he married twice, as he impales the arms of his second wife Frances Ward (a non-heiress) (for Frances Ward see Diary of John Longe, Introduction, p.36[2]) and shows the arms of his first (heiress) wife Charlotte Browne as an inescutcheon.

See also the 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.

Rev. Nicholas Bacon d.(1796), Vicar of Coddenham, was the 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.

From: www.coddenham-parish.uk [3]: The Bacon family held Shrubland Park for about 150 years to 1790. Philip Bacon was killed in the Battle of Sole Bay off the Suffolk coast in 1666, as is recounted at length in the memorial in the Chancel, north wall. The Revd Nicholas Bacon (Vicar of Coddenham) was the last of the line, dying a childless widower (see memorial in church). It was he who built the grand Vicarage seen from near the porch to the northwest up the hill and who died in 1796 shortly after selling the estate.