St Gregory's Church, Pottergate, Norwich, mural monument on north wall of chancel to Sir Joseph Payne (1600-1668), Knight Bachelor. See National Archives, PROB 11/328/159, "Will of Sir Joseph Payne, Alderman of Norwich, Norfol", date of probate 21 October 1668. Text per: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 3 (1893) Lynn, Norwich, Thetford, Yarmouth, p.59 [1]:

Heraldry

Three shields:

• 1: Sable, a fesse ragulée between three lion's gambs erect and erased or (Paine)
• 2: A sword in pale point uppermost in chief the date 1660 and in fesse J.P. (possibly a reference to his year as Mayor)
• 3: Gules, a castle triple- towered argent in base a lion passant guardant or (City of Norwich); crest: A lion's gamb erect erasedholding a ragged staff (Paine)

Inscription

" Josephus Paine, Eques Auratus, Huiusce Urbis Civis, Senator PrsBter, Tribunus, Pius, Prudens, Justus, Fortis, Familliam Honestam, Honore auxit IndustrisB, et Virtutis Proemia, &c obiit 15 August, 1668, atatis suae 68." "The Lady Emma Paine, wife to the Right Worshipful Sir Joseph Paine, Knt., died 28 of April, 1665, in 65th year. Robertus Paine, Josephi Paine, militis, &c. Filius primogenitus, &c., &c. Anno Aetatis 31 1656, Collectus ad tres Liberos preemissos, vid Rogerum, Mariam, et Josephum, qui hic sepulti adjacent."

Biography from www.norwich-heritage.co.uk

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Sir Joseph was Sheriff in 1654 and Mayor in 1660. After the end of the civil war, on 24th of July 1660, he presented the King with £1,000 in gold from the citizens of Norwich. He was knighted at that time and was to have been a Knight of the Royal Oak, he was also made a Colonel of the city regiment.

He was a staunch royalist during the time of the civil war, when Norwich and much of East Anglia was Parliamentarian. He was, however, greatly respected by the people of Norwich, in fact when the Parliamentarian Government called for the arrest of the Mayor of Norwich, he was asked, by the Mayor, to calm the populace who had threatened to riot.

He and his wife, Emma Bencely, the daughter of Richard Bencely of Carlton, bought Strangers Hall in Norwich in 1659. After being knighted by the King he enlarged his house incorporating a separate Elizabethan building by adding two storeys against the hall on the west side. The building is raised over vaults dating back to the 14th and 15th century. The lower of the two Elizabethan chambers had a wooded ceiling with moulded beams. The upper contains a fireplace of carved stone bearing on it spandrels “1659” and the initials of Paine and his wife. The same date and initials are painted on the older fireplace in the parlour. After his death Matthew Stevenson published a poem in Sir Joseph's honour :

An Elegy upon Sir Joseph Payne, sometimes Major and Collonel of the Train'd Bands of the City of Norwich, who dyed in Harvest

Source: Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654-1685,, Norfolk drollery, or, A compleat collection of the newest songs, jovial poems, and catches, &c., pp.88-90 [3]