Both these manors, shortly right after the study, have been possessed by Grimbald, the ancestor of the spouse and children of the Bacons, in this city he is reported to be a Norman, connected to William de Warrenna, or Warren, Earl of Surry, and arrived into England with him at the conquest, and was founder of the church of Letheringsete, in Norfolk, where by he resided he had 3 sons Ralph, lord of Letheringsete Reynold, or Ranulf, lord of this town and Edmund, rector of Letheringsete Ranulf took the surname of Bacon, George Bacon was his son, who gave lands at Lodne to Maud, widow of Sir Roger de Hales, and experienced Thomas Bacon, his eldest son, who married Agnes: this Thomas, by the inquisitions in the reign of Henry the III. Letheringsete, and a moiety of that advowson in 1261, Richard Bacon of Lodne was his son and heir, and married Alice, daughter of Conan, son of Elias de Moulton he bore gules, on a main argent two mullets sable and she sable 3 barrulets, and in main as quite a few annulets, or, as appears from the pedigree of the Bacon relatives, in the possession of St. Edmund Bacon Bart. 1426, married Margaret, daughter of Robert Baniard, whose arms have been, sable, a fess involving two chevronels, or, on whom Baniard’s manor in Spectishall in Suffolk, the manors of Baconsthorp, Lodue Bacons, Hacforths, Channons and Westhall in Tibenham, were being then settled: he died at his house in Norwich, in 1462, and was buried there in the conventual church of the Austin-friars, by John Bacon, Esq.

Lord Mayor of London, and dying in 1503, was buried by his father in Heydon chapel aforesaid by his woman he had three sons, Sir John Heydon, and Henry Heydon, Esq. in 1543, the moiety of Hide manor in Pangborn, Berkshire, the moiety of the manor and advowson of Nutfield in Surrey, the moiety of Shipton Solers manor and advowson in Gloucestershire were settled by John Armstrong, on the said Henry Heydon and Ann his wife, as her inheritance. By his second lady he had no challenge by the 3d a daughter Ann, married to Sir Theophilus Finch by the 1st, 3 sons, Sir William Hedon, Henry, and Christopher, and four daughters Mary, married to Thomas Bleverhasset of Barsham, Esq. Sir Roger Townsend of Rainham Margaret, to Sir Everard Digby of Rutlandshire Alice, and Ursula, who died single and numerous sons Sir Christopher, the eldest, married Ann, daughter of Sir John Heveningham of Keteringham, and dying just before his father, in 1540, he experienced four little ones John, who died younger Catherine the spouse of Sir Miles Corbet of Sprouston, and Mary, spouse of Roger Windham, Esq. Dorothy, to Sir Thomas Brook, son and heir to John Lord Cobham Elizabeth, to Walter Hobart of Hales-corridor, Esq. Ann to William Gurney, Esq. and Bridget to Sir William Paston, Knt.

1527 and in 1554, his son, (as I take it,) Thomas Garnish, succeeded, and dying in 1573, still left it to his only daughter, Elizabeth, who in 1583, with her next spouse, Mr. Phillip Strelley of Strelley in Nottinghamshire, offered it to William Heydon, Esq. William Heydon, 3d son, was slain by the rebels in Kett’s insurrection, 1549, and buried in St. Peter’s church Mancroft also 5 daughters Amy, married to Sir Roger le Strange of Hunstanlon, Knt. 1216, and left them to his son, Robert Bacun, or de Bacunsthorp, who was lord, and in 1227 settled a part of this lordship upon his brother, Roger de Baconsthorp, alias de Hingham, and his heirs. He died possessed of the manors of Baconsthorp Hall, and Woodhall, and the park in Bachonsthorp, Lound Hall and Michel Hall in Saxthorp, Nowers alias Estes in Saxlingham, Salthouse, Thorp’s and Ests in Repham, Thursford, Letheringset, Booles and Walcots, alias Snoring Parva, Netherhall, and Loosehall in Hemstede, Loverds in Heydon, with Cockford’s Averbeck’s, Creping, and Lewes in Saxthorp, Leches and Olton-Hall in Oldton, Bodman, Kelling, Cley, Holt, Hackford-Hall in Repham, Gunners in Cromere, Wiveton, Blakeney, Waborn, Corpusty, Threxton, the reversion of La Viles in Letheringset Waborn and East Beckham rectories, the web page of Waborn priory, with the advowsons of East Beckham, Waborn, Holt, Cley, Kelling, Salthouse, Bodham, Snoring Parva and Magna, St. Dunstans free of charge chapel in Saxthorp, in Norfolk.

Here less than this tombe lyeth ingraved the bodies of the Ladie Anne Heydon, daughter of Sir William Drury Knyghte, sometyme wyfe of Syr Christopher Heydon, of Baconsthorp in the county of Norfolk, Knt. Baconsthorp, fifty percent a knight’s cost of Robert Fitz Roger, and he of the Earl of Cornwall, as of the honour of Eye, but obtaining no difficulty, Roger his brother succeeded him, who was sued by Agnes, his brother’s widow, for distraining her tenants in Baconsthorp and Lodne, and breaking her park, her jointure getting in the said towns, and in Hardle and Dalling he produced to his personal sister Agnes, all the lands of his spouse and children in Normandy, and was in the arms with the barons against King John, experienced his estates seized, but was restored to favour by King Henry III. He was succeeded by his son and heir, William Heydon, Esq. Sir John Heydon, the eldest son and heir, was created Knt. They had 4 daughters Elizabeth, married to Thomas Darcy of Tolston Darcy in Essex, Esq. Eleanor to John Townsend, Esq. Elizabeth, to John Wentworth of Mounteneys in Essex, Esq. Ursula, to Roger Townsend, Esq. Horseford, who by Maud, daughter of Sir Thomas Bedingfield, experienced John Bacon of Baconsthorp, Esq.