Azure, on a bend wavy or three Cornish choughs proper a bordure engrailed argent charged with torteaux and pellets alternately (Rede of Norwich, Norfolk &amp; Beccles, Suffolk, granted in 1522 by Sir w:Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms (Burke, 1884, p.844 "Rede of Norwich") (Metcalfe, Walter C., ed. (1882). The Visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond Herald, 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk Pedigrees. Exeter: W. Pollard, pp.59-60 "Rede of Beccles"[1]) (c.f. similar arms of Reade of Symington, Norfolk and Reade of Massingham Magna, Norfolk, per Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.843). John Palgrave (1531-1611) was the son of Clement Palgrave (c.1495-1583) by his wife Margery Rede, a daughter of William Rede of Beccles, Suffolk, son and heir of John Rede, Mayor of Norwich in 1496-7 (Bayne, AD, A Comprehensive History of Norwich, (1869: Jarrold), p.684[2]), who married Joan Ludlowe. The other son of John Rede, Mayor of Norwich, was w:Edward Rede (1476-1544) of Norwich, MP for Norwich in 1529 (REDE, Edward (by 1476-1544), of Norwich, Norf. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 [3]). Many other families named "Reade/Rede bore similar arm, with birds as shovellers/martlets/swans, etc. An earlier bearer of the basic variant of these arms was Sir Robert Rede/Read (d.1519), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1507, who bore arms: Gules, on a bend wavy argent three shovellers sable beaked and legged or (Burke, 1884, p.842). Sir Robert Rede was the son of William Rede of Wrangle, Lincolnshire, a Calais merchant. It seems the bordure was a difference. Arms of "Reade of Lincoln": Gules, on a bend argent three shovellers sable (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.843 "Reade of Lincoln"). See monumental brass[4] in Wrangle Church to Sir John Reade (d.1503), wool merchant of The Staple of Calais ("Here lyeth John Reede sometyme Marchant of ye staple and Margaret his wife, he dyed ye 24th day of October 1503, she ye 27th of March 1503"), great grandfather of Sir John Read (1560-1626), Sheriff of Lincolnshire, whose large tomb [5] is a feature in the same church. The brass of Sir John Reade (d.1503), wool merchant shows 2 different shields, one showing his merchant mark, the other apparently a version of the arms of the Haberdashers Company, with a lion on a chief rather than on a bend[6].