Reginald, son of Robert succeeded, and is often wrote de Baconsthorp; he gave to the church or priory of St. Mary at Binham, a rent of 8d. per ann. Thomas her son succeeded, and dying about 1485, left two daughters, and coheirs, by Margery, daughter of John Jenny, Esq. 1527; and in 1554, his son, (as I take it,) Thomas Garnish, succeeded, and dying in 1573, left it to his only daughter, Elizabeth, who in 1583, along with her second husband, Mr. Phillip Strelley of Strelley in Nottinghamshire, offered it to William Heydon, Esq. By his 2d lady he had no difficulty; by the 3d a daughter Ann, married to Sir Theophilus Finch; by the first, 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 several sons; Sir Christopher, the eldest, married Ann, daughter of Sir John Heveningham of Keteringham, and dying before his father, in 1540, he had four children; John, who died young; Catherine the spouse of Sir Miles Corbet of Sprouston, and Mary, spouse of Roger Windham, Esq.
He married Catherine, daughter of Christopher Willoughby, Lord Willoughby of Parham, and died within the 82d yr of his age, August 16th, 1550, his lady in her 72d, 1542, and are both buried underneath an altar tomb, in the north isle of this church, now deprived of its brass plates, however these arms are nonetheless remaining,-quarterly, argent and gules, a cross ingrailed counterchanged, Heydon quartering Warren, and Oldton, and impaling Willoughby, or, fretty azure, with the crest of Heydon, a talbot passant ermin, and motto, Regardes Que Suyst, De Vertue Null. He constructed the corridor, or manor-home, at Baconsthorp, a spacious, sumptuous pile, completely from the bottom, besides the tower, (which was built by his father,) in the space of 6 years; additionally the church, and a noble house at West Wickham in Kent, which place he purchased before the death of his father, and dwelt there, and it continued in the family until the reign of Queen Elizabeth; the church of Salthouse was additionally built by him, and the causey between Thirsford and Walsingham was made at his expense. Fodringhey collegiate church, by her husband; was additionally chief bailiff of the honour of Eye; in 1497 an alternate was made between him and William Berdwell, jun. Esq.
Bath on the coronation of King Henry VIII; he was an awesome courtier, and is claimed to have lived profusely in his father’s time, but afterwards grew to become much reformed; the lordships of West Wickham, Baston, Keston and Southcourt in Kent, forfeited by Sir Robert Belknap, lord chief justice of the Common Pleas, within the reign of King Richard II. 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 chief argent two mullets sable; and she sable three barrulets, and in chief as many annulets, or, as seems from the pedigree of the Bacon household, within the possession of St. Edmund Bacon Bart. 1426, married Margaret, daughter of Robert Baniard, whose arms were, sable, a fess between two chevronels, or, on whom Baniard’s manor in Spectishall in Suffolk, the manors of Baconsthorp, Lodue Bacons, Hacforths, Channons and Westhall in Tibenham, had been then settled: he died at his home in Norwich, in 1462, and was buried there in the conventual church of the Austin-friars, by John Bacon, Esq.
Maud his mom, and gave legacies to Robert Baniard, his father-in-legislation and Margaret, his mothèr-in-legislation, to Margaret his wife this lordship and advowson, with the lordships of Channons, Westhall and Hacforths in Tibenham for all times, and then to Thomas his son. In 1311, this Roger, and Margaret his wife, granted the manor of Cockthorp to Richer, son of Ralph de Repham and Joan his spouse, for their lives solely: by Margaret his wife, he had Thomas, who occurs lord in 1315; he and Elizabeth his spouse had an interest within the manor of Channons, in Tibenham: Roger Bacon was son to the stated Thomas, who in 1320, with Margery his spouse, settled this manor and advowson on William de Calthorp, parson of Bayfield, Roger, parson of Gunton, Thomas, son of John de Antingham, &c. They had four daughters; Elizabeth, married to Thomas Darcy of Tolston Darcy in Essex, Esq.; Eleanor to John Townsend, Esq. He married Eleanor, daughter of Edmund Winter of Winter Berningham in Norfolk, Esq. Sir Edmund Windham, &c. 1274, however dying sine progenie, Roger his brother was his heir, and claimed free warren on this manor, as lord, in 1284, and in the following year, he purchased of Edmund de Swathing, and Alice his spouse, 22s. annual rent on this village, and in the Berninghams, and joined it to his manor right here.