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James Calthorpe was the son of Christopher Calthorpe, a student in Lincoln"s Inn, and Joan his wife (who survived him, and re-married Sir Jerome Bowes, of London).
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Calthorpe was a knight on 23 July 1603 in the Royal Garden at Whitehall just before the Coronation of James I, and was Sheriff of Norfolk in 1614. He died on 15 June 1615. Calthorpe was buried in All Saints Church Cockthorpe where there is a memorial table in at the east end of the south aisle with two coloured shields:
Chequy or and azure, a fesse ermine, Calthorp.
Calthorp, impaling, Argent, on a fesse engrailed gules, between three escutcheons of the last, as many mullets of the first, Bacon of Hesset.
A crest: A boar"s head couped. Inscription:
He was buried the 16th day of June, Anno Domini 1615, and of his age 57.
Behold, children are the inheritance of the Lord,
And the fruit of the womb his reward. Ps. 127. 3
Calthorpe married Barbara daughter of Francis Bacon, of Hesset in Suffolk and died June 15, in the 12th of king James.
They had at least three sons:.
