Burrells in an Inscription in the Parish Church of Cuckfield

In a recent post we wrote about Bunnell/Bunnell/Burrell etc. archers in the Hundred Year's War. 

That post was inspired by a chapter in  former editor Charles E. Bunnell (Charlie to his friends) recently compiled Bonnells & Bunnells of Note (And a few Burnells & Burrells for Good Measure). The complete work is available on Internet Archive at this link: Charlie Bunnell's Bonnells & Bunnells of Note.

It started with a quote from Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities, by William S. Walsh, J.B. Lippincott Company, London, 1898; pages 293- 296: "The boys go round asking for money in the name of St. Crispin, bonfires are lighted, and it passes off very much in the same way as the 5th of November. It appears from an inscription on a monument to one of the ancient family of Bunell, in the parish church of Cuckfield, that a Sir John Bunell attended Henry V to France in the year 1415 with one ship, twenty men-at-arms, and forty archers …" 

The Webmaster of CuckfieldCompendium.co.uk wrote Charlie:

"I have never heard of Bunell in relation to Cuckfield church but it doesn't mean to say that it isn't.   However the name Burrell is significantly associated with Cuckfield and according to this link it was Sir John Burrel that attended Henry V.  Gerald and Ninian Burrel were both vicars of Cuckfield Holy Trinity Church."

"Please see the top of the left hand column on page 634 (A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours, Volume 4 (Google eBook)."

The recommended page in the chapter Burrell of Broomepark reads:

In Cuckfield church, in Kent, there are numerous monuments to the memory of the ancestors of Lord Willoughby, and upon the oldest of them is the following inscription:

"Gerrard Burrell, D.D. Archdeacon and Residentiary of Chichester, settled at Cuckfield 1446, died April 1509. He was the youngest son of Sir John Burrell, of Devonshire, who attended Henry V, to France 1415, with one ship, 20 men at arms and 40 archers. His grandfather, Ralph Burrell, descended from an ancient family in Northumberland, married Sismonda, daughter and co-heir of Walter Woodland, in Devonshire."