More Heraldic Memorials at St. Paul's Without the Walls

Continuing my survey of heraldic memorials in the church of St. Paul's Without the Walls,* a church which has an old (about 425 years old!) family connection, here are two more:

First, this plaque

Near this place Lyeth y^e Body of S^r William

Rooke of S^t Lawrence in this Parrish K^t

who after some YEARS Imprisonment & other

sufferings in his Estate for his Constant

Loyalty was soone after King Charles y^e

Seconds Blessed Restoration put into the

Commission of y^e Peace - had likewise a Regiment

of Foote and the Same Time the Command of a

Troope of Horse. He was one of y^e Deputy

Liuetenants for this County of Kent and

Highsheriff of the same for Several YEARS

Part in King CHARLES the Second's Reigne

and neare fowre YEARE in KING IAMES's Reigne

Hee Marryed IANE FINCH

Daughter and Coheire to THOMAS

FINCH of Coptre Esq^r in Allington Parrish neare

Maidstone. By whome he had Issue - GEORGE

MARY URSULA ANN THOMAS

JANE and Finch ROOKE

He departid this Life March y^e 10^th 1690 in

the 70^th year of his Age

Above the descriptive plaque on the wall was this carved coat of arms:

Sir William Rooke of St. Lawrence. Quarterly: 1, Argent on a chevron engrailed between three rooks sable three chess-rooks argent; 2, Argent a chevron between three griffins passant sable (Finch); 3, Argent a saltire engrailed between four bear’s heads erased sable muzzled or (Bettenham); and 4, Azure a bend or (Scrope?). (The blazons for these quarters are taken from the description of the eight quarters on the memorial in Canterbury Cathedral to Vice Admiral (George) Rooke found in An Alphabetical Catalogue of Coats of Arms in Canterbury Cathedral by Cecil R. Humphrey-Smith.) Crest (per Burke's General Armory): An arm embowed in armor proper  garnished or holding in the gauntlet a pistol or [the arm environed with a trumpet argent].

Sir William does not have an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, and I found only a little genealogical information on the web: Sir William Rooke of St. Lawrence, Canterbury, married Jane (died 1711), daughter and coheir of Thomas Finch of Coptree, Allington, Kent.

Sir William and Jane (Finch) Rooke were the parents of Admiral Sir George Rooke, born 1650, famous for his capture of Gibraltar in 1704. (The Admiral is buried in a vault beneath the organ in the church.)

We then move along to this memorial:

Lieutenant John Toker, died in 1713, age 45. Sable on a bend argent three hearts gules.

These arms match those in Burke's General Armory for Tooker or Tucker, Vert on a bend engrailed argent three human hearts gules. Crest: A heart gules encircled with a crown or.

I have, alas, found no more information for Lt. Toker beyond what appears on the inscription on the monument:

Near this Place lies interr'd

y^e Body of Lieutenant Iohn Toker

who began his service under the

Crown of England in the Reign of

King Iames the 2^d in Princess Anns

Royall Regiment of Horse in the

Year 1688. He departed this life

October the 7^th 1713. In the

46 Year of his Age.

*  The church has walls, but it lies just outside the old city walls of Canterbury, hence the name, without the walls, as opposed to within the walls.