became sole lord. He died at Besthorp, April 28, 1716, and was buried there, leaving two sons and one daughter; Elizabeth, married to King Gould, Deputy Advocate of the Admiralty, who hath issue two sons, Charles and Paston: John Shaw of Besthorp, Esq. Captain in the Guards, inherited, and died without issue in 1722, and it descended to Charles Shaw, Esq. of Besthorp, his only brother, who married Frances, daughter of Mr. Lightfoot of Hampshire, and died lately, and is buried here, leaving Elizabeth, his only daughter, who is now a minor, his sole heiress.
The Custom of all the manors are, that the fines are at the will of the lord, and the eldest son is heir.
There are two halls, or manor-houses in this parish, now distinguished by the names of the Old Hall (or Plassing Hall) and the New Hall, which is a good building, erected by the Drurys, as their arms on the outside shew us, and is now the seat of the Shaws. In the windows, &c. are the arms of Drury, with 1593 under them, the time, I suppose, the house was built, and
Drury, impaling the following arms, Briggs, gul. three bars gemelle or, a canton sab.
Hethe, arg. three pellets.
Denston, az. two lions passant guardant, or.
Kemp, Spelman, Brampton, Garneys, and
Sab. three cinquefoils arg.
On the chimney-piece,
Drury impales Cokain, arg. three cocks gul. armed, and crested sab.
Drury and Nedham, arg. a bend engrailed az. between two bucks heads caboshed sab.
Drury and Harbord, quarterly gul. and az. four lions rampant arg.
Shaw and Harbord.
Sir John Shaw of Eltham in Kent married in 1675 to Bridget Viscountess Kilmurrey, daughter to Sir William Drury of Besthorp in Norfolk, and was the 755th baronet by creation, and bare for his paternal coat, Arg. a chevron between three lozenges erm.; and for his crest, seven arrows gul. headed, and one feathered, or, one perpendicular, and three and three crossing saltire ways, all within the slit of a girdle, extended at length az. buckle and clasp or.
