place gaue the honor of knighthood to this Iohn Norton here entombed to Iohn Fogge Iohn Scot Thomas Lynde Gentlemen of this countrey and Souldiers of eminent performance in that seruice Sampson Norton Armig. cum LXXXVII sagittarijs in Seruitio Hen. 7. Eastbridge An Hospitall founded by king Henry the first or rather confirmed by him and founded by one Robert Bruce for Henry the first gaue for William his father Quicquid Robertus Brus dederat Ecclesie de Esteburch et fratribus ibidem regularibus valued at the suppression to bee worth 23. l. 18. s. 6. d. ob q. per annum Graueney Hic iacet Iohannes Marten Iusticiarius de communi Banco qui ob 24. Octob. 1436. Et Anna vxor eius This Anne was the daughter of Boteler brother to Boteler Lord Baron of Wenime Orate ... Iohannis Martin Ar. qui ob vltimo Octob. 1479. Hic iacet Ioanna quondam vxor Iohannis Boteler de Graueney fuit filia Richardi de Feuersham quondam domini de Graueney ob 3. Nouemb. 1408. 1. Reg. H. 4. Cuius Orate ... Tho. Borgeris Ar. qui ob 22. Nouemb. 1451. .... Pur Dame Iohanne de Feuersham et Ichan son filz Thomas Feuersham Iusticiarius et Ioanna vxor eius West Langdon Here sometime was a Monastery but by whom founded I cannot learne dedicated it was to the honour of Saint Thomas the Martyr and filled with white Canons premonstrates Of the yearely value of 56. l. 6. s. 9. d. This house was surrendred 13. Nouemb. Ann. 27. Hen. Octaui Great Chart. Orate pro ... Iohannis Toke de Godington in ista Parochia Armig. et Margarete Anne vx Margareta vxor prima erat filia Iohannis Waller de .... Com. Suffol Anna filia Iohannis Engham de Singleton in ista Parochia obijt Maij 20. Ann. 1513. I finde that foure of the Enghams of Shinglton succeeding one another as heires liued 329. yeares viz. Alen. 79. Richard 79. Robert 85. Moises 86. Little Chart. Hic iacet Iohannes filius .... Lancastri Heraldi Regis Armorum qui obiit 10. die Iunii An. 1441. Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Orate pro animabus Stephani Norton Ar. qui me dedit ... This Norton was owner of Norton place in this Parish and a potent man in these parts who built or repaired this Church as it seemes by the Inscription Minster in Shepey In this little Island containing some twenty miles in compasse are the remaines of a ruinous little Monastery now called Minster built by Sexburgh the wife of Ercombert king of Kent Ann. 710. wherein shee placed Nunnes which was valued at the fatall period of all such foundations at 129. l. 7. s. 10. d. ob per annum Some part of it is now conuerted into a Parish Church in which are diuers funerall Monuments which haue beene remoued as I conceiue out of the Chappell adioyning some of which make a shew of wondrous great antiquitie One of them is thus inscribed Hic iacent Rogerus Norwood et Boon vxor eius sepulti ante Conquestum The Norwoods are a worthy ancient familie I confesse and may very wel for any thing that I know haue flourished before the Conquest but I am sure that the character of this Inscription is but of later times making but little shew of any great Antiquitie In the most holy name of Iesu prey for ye sowl of Iohn Soole late of ye toun of Feuersham Maire and Margaret his wyff Agnes and Elisabeth ther dawters and for the sowls of Richard Ware and Elisabeth fader and moder to the seyd Margaret his wyff and for all Christian sowls The which Iohn decessyd the day of ye decollation of S. Iohn Baptist. 1521. Here I saw some antique Monuments of the Shurlandâ— sometimes Lords of the Mannor of Shurland hereunto adioyning of whom the inhabitants haue many strange relations not worth remembring Sir Robert Shurland flourished in the raigne of king Edward the first Hic iacet Dominus Thomas Cheyne inclitissimi ordinis Garterij Miles Guardianus quinque Portuum ac Thesaurarius Hospitij Henrici octaui ac Edwardi sexti Regum Reginaeque Mariae ac Elisabethae ac eorum in secretis Consiliarius qui obijt .... mensis Decembris Ann. Dom. M.D.LIX. ac Reg. Reginae Elisab primo This Sir Thomas Cheyne was also Constable of Queene-borough Castle a strong fortresse in this Isle pleasant for sight built by King Edward the third to the terrour of his enemies and solace of his people vnto which he adioyned a Burgh and in the honour of Philip the Queene his wife called it Queene-borough as one would say the Queenes Burgh This hath beene an office euer thought worthy of many great personages as appeares by their Catalogue which I copied out of the Collections of Glouer alias Somerset Iohn Foxley was the first Constable Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster the second Arnold Sauage knight the third Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury the fourth Robert de Veere Marquesse of Dublin and Earle of Oxford the fifth Iohn Cornwall Baron Fanhope the sixth Gilbert Vmfreuill the seuenth Will. le Scrope sonne of the Lord Scrope the eighth Humphrey Duke of Buckingham the ninth Iohn Norwood Esquire the tenth George Duke of Clarence the eleuenth Sir Thomas Wentworth the thirteenth Sir William Cheyneie the fourteenth Sir Francis Cheyneie the fifteenth this Sir Thomas Cheyneie the sixteenth Sir Richard Constable the seuenteenth Sir Edward Hoby the eighteenth Philip Earle of Mountgomerie now liuing Ann. 1630. the nineteenth The Mannor of Shurland seated Eastward from hence belonged to these Cheyneies and now to the said Philip Earle aforesaid whom King Iames created Baron Herbert of Shurland and Earle of Mountgomery vpon one and the same day viz. the fourth day of May 1605. And whom King Charles our dread Soueraigne hath made Lord Chamberlaine of his Houshold And to whom at this day by the death of his thrice noble Brother William Earle of Penbroke are added the honours and titles of Earle of Penbroke Baron Herbert of Caerdiffe in Wales Lord Parre and Roos of Kendall Marmion and S. Quintin Vlcombe Here in this Parish was anciently the mansion house of the family De Sancto Leodegario S. Leger now commonly called Sellenger one of the owners whereof namely Sir Thomas Sellenger who married Anne Duchesse of Exceter sister to king Edward the fourth lyeth here interred say the inhabitants amongst his ancestours But I finde him to bee entombed with his foresaid wife in the Collegiate Church of Windsore Here lyeth Iohn S. Leger Esquire and Margerie his wife sole daughter and heire of Iames Donnet .... 1442 ... Here lyeth Raph S. Leger Esquire and Anne his wife who dyed 1470. Here lyeth William Maidston Esquire who dyed 8. April ... 1429. Tho. Seint Leger seruir le Roy super salua custodia castri Rotten cum quadraginta equitibus per
the eight in the 30 of his raigne Saint Botolphs Algate In this Church ouer a vault is a faire tombe of Alabaster curiously wrought hauing these lines following engrauen thereon Here lyeth Thomas Lord Darcy of the north and sometime of the order of the Garter Sir Nicholas Carew knight sometime of the Garter Lady Elizabeth Carew daughter to Sir Francis Brian Knight and Sir Arthur Darcy Knight yonger sonne to the aboue named Lord Darcy and Lady Mary his deare wife daughter to Sir Nicholas Carew knight who had ten sonnes and fiue daughters Here lye Charles William and Philip Mary and Vrsula sonnes and daughters to the said Sir Arthur and Mary his wife whose soules God take to his infinite mercy Amen This Thomas Lord Darcy and Sir Nicholas Carew who was also master of the Kings Horse were both beheaded on the Tower hill the first because he was one howsoeuer constrained thereunto by the Rebels of the commotion in Yorkeshire Anno 1536. the second for being of councell with Henry Marquesse of Exceter and Henry Poole Lord Mountague who were indighted and found guilty of high Treason for deuising to maintaine promote and aduance one Reginald Poole late Deane of Exceter enemie to the King beyond the sea and to depriue the King Anno 1539. Sir Arthur Darcy here mentioned was first buried in the new Abbey of Eastminster wherein he deceased Sir Edward Darcy knight sonne of Sir Arthur lieth with his noble Ancestors in the same vault but hee died but lately Hic iacet Iohannes Epis Bathon Wellensis qui cum plures insignes Legationes .... tandem obijt in Legatione Cleuensis .... Ianuar. M. ccccc.xl cuius anime propitietur Altisimus This Iohn Clerke Doctor of Diuinitie and master of the Rolls was brought vp in Cambridge and consecrated to his Bishopricke the yeare 1523. A man much imploy'd in Ambassages He died as before and was first buried in the Minories being poysoned as it was supposed in Germany when he went Embassadour to the Duke of Cleue to render a reason of the Kings diuorce from the Lady Anne of Cleue his sister King Edgar established here without Aldgate a Knightengield or Confrery for thirteene knights or souldiers of good desert to him and the realme the like by supposition saith Verstegan was in Knight-riders street being the place where the residence or meeting of such Knights-riders with the King might be kept Saint Mary Bethlem This Hospitall of Saint Mary of Bethlem was founded by Simon Fitz-Mary one of the Sheriffes of London in the yeere 1246. He founded it to haue beene a Priorie of Canons with Brethren and Sisters it is now an Hospitall for distracted people who are here receiued and kept yet not without charges to their kindred or friends Saint Mary Spitle This Hospitall was founded by Walter Brune Mercer and Sheriffe of London and Rosia his wife A.D. 1235. it was dedicated to the honour of Iesus Christ and his mother the perpetuall Virgine Mary by the name of Domus Dei and Beate Marie extra Bishopsgate This Hospitall surrendred to king Henry the eight was valued to dispend 478. l. 6. s. 8. d. wherein were found besides ornaments of the Church and other goods pertaining to the Hospitall one hundred and fourescore Beds well furnished for receipt of the poore This place is now best knowne by the Sermons there preached on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday in Easter weeke Saint Leonards Shordich So called of the Sordiches Lords thereof one of which familie namely Sir Iohn Sordich knight flourished in the raigne of king Edward the third as appeares by this deed of grant to his Chaplaine William Croston here resident Sciant c. nos Ioh. de Sordich Miles et Elena vxor mea et Nicholaus de Sordich dedimus Will. de Crostone Capellano omnia illa Red. terr que habuimus in Hackney tam in Dominio quam in Seruitio c. Ann. Reg. Regis Edwardi tertij duodecimo This knight serued in the warres vnder Ed. the third in France and is remembred in our Annals Ann. 14. Ed. 3. Orate pro animabus Humfredi Starky militis nuper capitalis Baronis de Scaccario Domini Regis Henrici septimi et Isabelle vxoris eius et omnium amicorum suorum quorum c. ...... Erlington modo miles Et Margareta coniux ....... ................ Sit pietate dei vita perhennis ei M. C. quater x semel ......... Vnder this defaced Monument Sir Iohn Erlington knight with Margaret his wife daughter and heire to Thomas Lord Itchingham widow to William Blount sonne and heire to Walter Blount the first Lord Mountioy lye entombed In this Church diuers honourable persons lie buried of whom because they dyed but in these later dayes I shall speake hereafter The plates with the Inscriptions of such Monuments as were of more Antiquitie were all taken away for couetousnesse of the brasse by one Doctor Hanmer as I haue it by relation of the Inhabitants Vicar of this Church which he conuerted into coine and presently after ashamed belike of such a detestable act went ouer into Ireland and there ignominiously ended his dayes The Priory of Holywell This was an house of blacke Nunnes anciently founded by a Bishop of London and consecrated to the honour of God S. Iohn Baptist. Stephen Grauesend Bishop of this Diocesse about the yeare 1318. was hereunto a great benefactour Sir Thomas Louell knight of the Garter in the raignes of King Henry the seuenth and of Henry the eighth with whom hee was of Councell was another benefactor not onely in building a beautifull Chappell wherein his body was interred but in many other goodly buildings and endowing the same with lands In most of the glasse windowes of this house these two verses following not long since to be read were curiously painted Al the Nunnes in Holywel Pray for the soul of Sir Thomas Louel He died the 25. of May at Endfield Ann. 1524. This Priory was valued at the suppression to haue of Lands two hundred ninetie three pounds ten shillings three pence by yeare which with the house were surrendred Ann. 1539. the one and thirtieth of Henry the eight I finde in a pedegree of the right noble Lord Francis now Earle of Rutland that Sir George Mannors knight Lord Ros of Hamlake being with King Henry the eight at the siege of Turney and Turwine there tooke a grieuous sicknesse whereupon he languished in the same yeare of this their expedition into France which was Ann. Dom. 1513. And according to his will was here entombed in the Chappell and neare to the high Altar of this Priory This Sir George Mannors was the eldest sonne of Sir Robert Mannors knight by Eleanor his wife the daughter and heire of Thomas Lord Ros of Hamlake hee married Anne the daughter and heire of Sir Thomas Saint Leoger or Sellinger knight begotten of his wife Anne Duchesse of Exceter
it is one of these in the North or South wall This Pagan king of Denmarke after he had for many yeares infested and harried this kingdome and driuen Alfred our king to strange extremities was in the end ouercome by Alfred in battell presently vpon which he was washed in the lauer of Baptisme which was one of the conditions of peace at his ouerthrow Alfred receiued him for his godsonne by the name of Athelstane and gaue him in free gift this countrey of East Angels and in the same fountaine of Grace saith Simon of Durham thirtie of the chiefe Danish Nobilitie were initiated vpon whom the true Christian King bestowed many rich gifts Of all which my old ryming Cronicler Gutron the king of Denmarke that was tho In Westsex werred full sore and brent the lond Wyth whych the kyng so marryd was wyth wo He wyst not well whether to ride or stond But to Ethelingay anone he tooke on hond To ryde where then he hyd hym in a place For drede of Danes such was hys hap and grace Where then hys Lordes and knyghtes in good araye Came to him then wyth hooste and greate powre Where than the kyng vpon Gutron that day In batayle strong wyth corage fresh and clere Fought sore and tooke Gutron prisonere And thyrtye dukes wyth hym in compaye Vnchrysten were they all of panymrye And had the felde wyth all the vyctorye And of Danes many thousand slewe He baptyzed than as made is memorye Thys kyng Gutron that after was full trewe And named was Athylstan all anewe To whome the kyng gaue than all Estenglond As Edmond had to holde of hym that lond And all hys dukes were also there baptyzed And chrysten menne bycame for goddys loue The yere of Chryste viii C. thenne compeysed Seuente and viii as Flores doth approue This Battell and the baptising of Gutron and his Lords I haue also out of an ancient namelesse Manuscript in my owne custody thus deliuered Than Gunter that fader was of Haueloke Kynge of Denmarke was than of mykle myght Arevyd so than in Ingylond wythe hys floke Of Danes fell cruyll myghty and wyght Wyth whom the kyng full strongly than dydd fyght And hem venquyste wyth sore fyght and batayll And ovar hond had so thrughe hys gouernayll The whiche Gunter and thyrty of hys Lords Thrughe grace toke than baptyme at theyr desyre After he had gouerned these counties of Suffolke and Norfolke keeping his residence here in this Towne the space of twelue yeares complete he died and was buried in the kings towne called Headlega so Hadley is called in the Saxons language in Suffolke among the East English in the yeare 889. Ipswich in times past Gipswich Had Ipswich the onely eye of this Shire beene as fortunate in her surname as she is blessed with commerce and buildings shee might well haue borne the title of a Citie neither ranked in the lowest row whose trade circuit and seate doth equall most places of the land besides It is adorned with twelue or fourteene Churches in all which I finde not any funerall Monument of Antiquitie saue one which came to light not long since vpon the remouall of a Pewe in Saint Laurence Church and so like wise in other Churches many Monuments are buried vnder which the Founder of the said Church was interred as appeares by this Epitaph engrauen vpon the Stone Subiacet hic lapide Iohn Bottold vir probus ipse Istius Ecclesie primus Inceptor fuit iste Cuius anime Domine misereris tu bone Criste. Obijt M. ccccxxxi litera dominicalis G. Since then that so few funerall Monuments are remaining at this day in the Parish Churches of this Corporation I will take a view of the sites of the Religious Houses in and about this Towne now ouerturned Of which and such persons as I finde to haue beene therein inhumed as followeth The Priory of Saint Trinity This Priory was founded by Norman the sonne of Enott and Iohn de Oxenford Bishop of Norwich tempore Hen. 2. replenished with blacke Canons Augustines and valued to bee yearely worth fourescore and eight pounds sixe shillings nine pence Herein lay buried Norman the Founder and Langeline his wife and Dame Ioane Filian The Friars Preachers This Monastery was founded by Henry de Manesby Henry Redred and Henry de Londham saith the Catalogue of Religious Houses to whose honour consecrated I doe not learne neither doe I know any thing of the value or surrender Bodies which I finde to haue beene herein buried were Dame Maud Boerell Edmond Saxham Esquire Iohn Fostolph and Agnes his wife Gilbert Rouldge Ione Charles Edmond Charleton Esquire The white Friers Carmelites This Religious Edifice was founded by Sir Thomas de Londham saith one howsoeuer I finde in the Catalogue of Religious Foundations aforesaid in Speed that the Lord Bardesley Sir Geffrey Hadley and Sir Robert Norton knights were the Founders about the yeare 1279. Herein for of the dedication value or surrender I finde nothing were buried Sir Thomas and Sir Thomas de Londham knights Iohn Londham Esquire Margaret Colevile Gilbert Denham Esquire and Margaret his wife daughter of Edward Hastings And in a Manuscript penned by Iohn Bale I finde these Carmelites following to haue beene here sometimes inhumed Iohannes Hawle ob 1433. Maij 15. Richardus Hadley ob 1461. Aprilis primo Iohannes Wylbe ob 1335. 2. Decemb. Iohannes Barmyngham vir doctissimus Oxonia diu studuit Parisijs intex Sorbonicos he was a man very learned he studied a long time in Oxford and at Paris amongst the Sorbons He writ diuers bookes mentioned by Pitseus and died a wondrous old man being as then Prior of this Fraternitie the two and twentieth day of Ianuary Anno reparationis humana 1448. Iohannes Balsham Episcopus Archiliens hic sepultus ob 1530. The Grey Friers Founded by the Lord Tiptoth In which lay buried for I finde no further of it then the Foundation Sir Robert Tiptoth knight and Dame Vna his wife The heart of Sir Robert Vâ—ere the elder Margaret Countesse of Oxenford wife of Sir Robert Veere the younger Earle of Oxenford Dame Elisabeth wife of Sir Thomas Vfford daughter of the Earle of Warwicke Sir Robert Tiptoth the younger Margaret wife of Sir Iohn Tiptoth Robert Tiptoth Esquire Elisabeth Vfford Elisabeth Lady Spenser wedded to Sir Phellip Spenser daughter of Robert Tiptoth Phellip George Elisabeth children of Sir Phellip Spenser Ione daughter of Sir Hugh Spenser Sir Robert Warhesham and Dame Ione his wife Iohn sonne of William Claydon Sir Thomas Hardell knight Dame Elisabeth wife of Sir Walter Clopton of Hadley Sir William Laynham Sir Hugh Peach and Sir Hugh Peach Sir Iohn Loueloch knights Item the Heart of Dame Petronill Vfford Dame Beatrix Botiler Dame Aueline Quatefeld Dame Margery Aunte of Sir Robert Vfford Dame Alice wydow of Sir Iohn Holbrok The Blacke Friers Of this House I onely finde that one Iohn Hares gaue
Stâ—w Annal. The finall dissoluâ—â—â—â— of Pâ—â—ories Aliens Aelphege Archbishop of Canterbury Caâ—graut in vita Elphege Ditmaâ— Marâ—â—◠〈◊〉 The Friery aâ— Greenwich Lamb. peramb. The Priory Weeuer and Ioane his wiâ—e The Popes Bul to the Staple Merchants for a portable Altâ—r and a Masse-priest Their Priest Confessour The forme of an Absolution The definition of a Merchant What Pedlers are Staple whar Burialls at Otford Alrick king of Kent Bartilmew the Saint at Otfâ—rd and his offering A part of Saint Tho Beckets 〈◊〉 Burials in Holmes Dalâ— M. Drayton Polyol Song 18. Io. Sariâ—â—â—r de Nugis Curial li. 6 ca 18. Camd. in Kent The Gentrie of Kent The Yeomanry of Kent The conclusion of this Diocesse Lamb. Godwin Lamb. Camd. Midlesex * Yorke * Other Speed Midlesex In Midlesex Albions England Chap. 14. The foundation of Saint Pauls Church Diploma Regis Ethelberti In Arch. Turris Lond. Cartae antiqua A. Sebba king of the East-Saxons Lib. 4. cap. 11. Etheldred king of England surnamed The Vnready Will. Malms Rob. Glocest. * they i Lib 6 cap. â— â—ib 1â— ca â—lt * Etheldred Erkenwald Bishop of Lond. De gestis Pontif. lib. 2. Beda lib. 4. ca. 6. Harpsfeeld Secul 7. cap. 13. Eustace de Fauconbridge Bishop of Lond. In bib Cott. Henry de Wingham Bishop of London Mat. Paris Lib. Mon. de Wauerley in bib Cott. Rager the black Bishop of London Rob. Braybrooke Bishop of London Rob. Fitz-Hugh Bishop of London Thomas Kempe Bishop of London Brian Twyn Antiq. Acad. Ox. Iohn Stokesley Bishop of London William Bishop of London Charta London Fulke Basset Bishop of London Mat. 〈◊〉 Paris In bib Cott. Io. Chishull Bishop of Lond. Mat. Westm. Rich. Newport Bishop of London Raph Baldocke Bishop of London Godwin Catal. Stow. Annal. Fran. Thinne Rob. Glocest. Michaell Northbrooke Bishop of London In Arch. Turris Lond. Rich. Clifford Bishop of London Godwin Catal. Richard Fitz-Iames Bishop of London Godwin de Praesul Ang. Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Blanch Duchesse of Lancaster Fabian Constance Duchesse of Lancaster Vpodigma Neust. Henry Lacy Earle of Lincolne In bib Cott. Vincent Catal. Lib. Moâ— de Whalley Laurence Allerthorp Lord Treasurer * Francis Thinne In Arch. Turris Lond. Sir Simon Burley knight of the Garter Stow. Annal. In Arch. Turris Lond. Sir Raph Hengham chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench. Iudges fined for briberie and extortion Stow. Annal. Fulke Louell Archdeacon of Colchester Io. Boys Nich. Rikkell and Isabell their wife William Worsley Deane of this Church .... Odeâ—y Canon of this Church Iohn Colet Deane of this Church Cent. 5. William Liâ—â— the first Master of Paulâ— Schoole Bale Cent. 5. Tho. Linakâ—r phisition and his vale Tho. de Eure Deane of Pauli Tho. Wynterburne Deane of Pauls Reymund Pilgrim Canon Rich. Pleâ—â—ys Canon William Harington Secretary Apostolicall Si◠〈…〉 Lord 〈◊〉 In Arch. Turrâ—â— Lond. In Arch. Turris Lond. Suruay Rich. Piriton Archdeacon of Colchester Margaret Countesse of Shrewsbury Râ—maines Romaines The foundation 〈…〉 Peâ—â—y Canons Polyol 1. Song â—â—land ad Cyg Cant. Brute King of great Britaine Gildas Cambrius Hard. in viâ— Bruti * forth * â—he * an hauâ—â— â—owne * thither * there The body of a boy found in Saint Bâ—nâ—is Church-yard by Pauls Whaâ—fe enshrined afterwards in this Church who was martyred by the Iewes Stow. Annal. 〈◊〉 Paris 〈◊〉 codem Pardon Church-yard Thomas More Deane of Pauls Dance of Pauls Chappell in Pardâ— Church yard Gilbert Becket Portgraue of London Stow Sur. in Faring Ward Chappel at the North doore of Paulâ— Charnell-house with our Ladies Chappell Sir Hen. Barton Sir George Mirfin knightâ— Rob Barton Bell-house in Pauls Church-yard Holmes Colledge Adam de Bury Lord Maior Anne Duchesse of Bedford Poultneys Chappell Sir Iohn Poultney Iesus Chappell Sir Alan Boxhul knight of the Garter Shrines in S. Pauls Ex. Mss. in bib Cot. Camd. in Mid. Dierius alij Sir Hen. Spelman Gloss. liâ— C. Regist. lib. 3. Epist. 14. Cardinals of S. Paul 〈…〉 Church William Wâ—st Canon and Cardinall Iohn Good Chanâ—er of the Bale William Lily Lud King of the Britaines Io. Harding Now the Bishop of Londons house saith Harding Rob. Glocest. Cadwallo K. of the Britaines Geâ—â—â—ay Mon. Harding Iohn Benson and Anne his wife The foundation of Christ-Church or the Friers Minorites Margaret the â— wife of King Ed. 1. â—â—gist Frat. Miâ— Mss. in bib Câ—t The foundation of the blacke 〈◊〉 in vita R K. 〈◊〉 chiâ—piscopi Suruey of London Elizabeth Countesse of Northampton Margaret Hatfâ—eld Katherine Riplingham Her Will Tho. Riplingham His Will Agnes Milborne Nicholas Faringdon Lord Maior The Foundation of S. Martins In Arch turris London Lib. S. Martin Stow Sur. Iohn Pemberton Vpon a Table in the north Isle A Table in the Quiâ—e Deus Diabolus Vita Mors. Coelum Infâ—rnum Ioan the wife of Baron Thorp Stow Annal. William Brecke-speare Robbert Traps Agnes and Ioan his wiues Robert Agnes Ioan. Ioice Frankland An Inscription â—nder the portraiture of Queene Elizabeth Io. Brokitwell Michael Forlace and Mary his wife Mary Pawson Sir Hen. Weâ—â—eâ— knight and his wife Ioan. Sir Iohn Woodcocke Lord Maior The head of Iames the 4. king of Scotland Stow. Annal. Suruay Lond. Lib. Monasterij de Whalley in Com. Lanc. Io. Lesle in vil Iac. 4. Remaines pa. 371. The mount of Flodden * De corpore enim nondum compertum est Inscâ—iptâ— the waâ—â— Shanke bone of 28. inches long Camâ—en in Cornwall * In Cornwall Râ—b Glocest. * saith * wiâ—h Gogmagog the last Giant Camd. in Essex Selden in his Illuâ—â—râ—tions Polyol Song 1. Tho. Morsted Giles Dewes Iohn Burton 〈◊〉 Ienet his 〈◊〉 â—holl Moore Doctor of Law â—nd Agnes his brothers wife Sir Godfrey Bullen Lord Maior Catal. of honouâ— Tho. Bullen Iohn Pickering and 〈◊〉 his wife Tho. Cressly and Agnes his wife The foundation of the Collegiate Chappell at Guild-hall Hollins Speed Hist. Foundation of Mercers Chappell Stow. Iames Butler Earle of Ormond and Ioane his wife Thomas Butler Earle of Ormond Camden in the County of Tipperary Ireland Becket was borne neere to this Church here he had a shrine and his picture ouer the Chappell dore Iohn Rich. Stow Suruay Ambrose Cressacre Iohn Peris and Margaret his wife Raph Tilney and Ioan his wife Yarford Io. Allen Lord Maior Stow Suruay Iohn Couentrie Lord Maior Fabian Stow Annal. Stow Suruay Vnder the Statue of K. Ed. the sixt vpon the Standard in Cheape Tho. Knowles Lord Maior and Ioane his wife Tho. Knowles Ioan Spenser Walter Lempster 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Simon Street Agnes his wife Will. Goldhirst and Margaret his wife Stephen Spilman Sheriffe of London Ric. Grey Sheriffe of London R. Marlow Lord Maior Corpus Christi play Ric. Hill Master or Sergeant of the kings câ—ller Sir Charles Blunt knight Lord Mountioy Camd. in Shrop. Camd. in Darbishire Rob. Dalusse Baâ—her and Alice his wife Io Micolt and Ioan his wife Raph Astry Lord Maior Margery and Margaret his wiues
Camdene Seldeni gloria creuit Ingentes Dominos titulorum dote superbos Famo sosque Equites simul omnes si perijssent Quiuis Rex Orbi potis est renouare beatum Cottoni pectus nullâ est reparabile cera Ingenio quicunque vigent tua tecta frequenter Visebant tanquam à Phoebo responsa petentes Nunc Oracla silent sed non Schediasmate tantae Oceanum laudis liceat transnare misellum Nescio quid gaudens ad amici iusta litasse Omnia complectar celebrat Wigornia verbis Queis Neckami obitum crescitque in carmine verum Eclipsim patitur sapientia Sol sepelitur Cui si par vnus minus esset flebile funus He died at his house in Westminster the sixt of May about ten of the clocke in the forenoone Anno 1631. being aged threescore yeares three moneths and some few odde dayes He tooke to wife Elizabeth one of the daughters and heires of William Brocas Esquire by whom hee had issue onely one Sonne Sir Thomas Cotton Baronet now liuing who married Margaret Daughter of the Lord William Howard grandchild to Thomas Duke of Norfolke by whom hee hath issue one Sonne named Iohn and two Daughters Lucie and Francis But to returne I haue had many helpes I confesse from Sir Henry Spelman Knight and Iohn Selden Esquire the most learned Antiquaries now liuing of our times nor haue the helpes beene few which I haue long receiued from the well furnisht and daily increasing Librarie of Sir Simonds D'Ewes Knight whose iudicious directions and ready assistance were as often vouchsafed vnto mee as I had occasion to request and whose long studied and still intended labours for the publique good though in another kinde may in due time make his memory and themselues deare vnto posteritie Diuers of the Heralds haue much furthered these my intended designes namely Sir Richard and Sir Henry Saint George Knights Iohn Philipot and William Le Neue Esquires which I shall euer acknowledge as occasion presents it selfe Venerable Bede when hee compiled the Chronicles of the English Saxons had all the helpe that might be of the Bishops and learned men of this Land Cymbertus wrote vnto him all that was done in Lincolnshire Nothelmus also sent vnto him all that he had gathered together in Sussex Surrey and Kent Alcuinus gaue him his labours and collections for the Prouince of Yorke Daniel of Winchester made him priuie of all that was done amongst the west Saxons And from all other quarters of the Land were Letters Scrowles and writings directed vnto him by messengers to aide and assist him in his enterprise as he doth himselfe acknowledge in his Epistle Dedicatory to Ceolnulph King of the Northumbers Now generous Reader as hee had these helpes for the perfecting of his Ecclesiasticall Historie and as I haue had the acceptable assistance of many of my good friends studious in this kinde for the finishing of this first part and the rest of the worke now in hand which is already in a good forwardnesse let me intreate thy furtherance in the same thus farre that in thy neighbouring Churches if thou shalt finde any ancient funerall Inscriptions or antique obliterated Monuments thou wouldst be pleased to copie out the one and take so much relation of the other as tradition can deliuer as also to take the Inscriptions and Epitaphs vpon Tombes and Grauestones which are of these times and withall to take order that such thy collections notes and obseruations may come safely to my hands and I shall rest euer obliged to acknowledge thy paines and curtesie And I would earnestly desire the Tombe-makers of this Citie of London and elsewhere that they would be so carefull of posteritie as to preserue in writing the Inscriptions or Epitaphs which they daily engraue vpon Funerall Monuments from whom I shall expect the like kindnesse and to whom I will euer remaine alike thankfull For I intend God willing hereafter to publish to the view of the world as well the moderne as the ancient memorialls of the dead throughout all his Maiesties foresaid Dominions if God spare me life if not it is enough for me to haue begun as Camden saith in his Epistle to the Reader of his booke Britannia and I haue gained as much as I looke for if I shall draw others when I am dead into this argument whose inquisitiue diligence and learning may finde out more and amend mine It may seeme peraduenture vnpleasing to some for that I do speake so much of and extoll the ardent pietie of our forefathers in the erecting of Abbeyes Priories and such like sacred Foundations To the which I answer with Camden that I hold it not fit for vs to forget that our Ancestours were and we are of the Christian profession and that there are not extant any other more conspicuous and certaine Monuments of their zealous deuotion towards God then these Monasteries with their endowments for the maintenance of religious persons neither any other seed-plots besides these from whence Christian Religion and good literature were propagated ouer this our Island Neither is there any other act of pietie more acceptable in the sight of Almighty God then that of building Churches Oratories and such like sacred edifices for the true seruice of his heauenly Maiestie Ethelbert the first Christian King of Kent hauing built S. Pauls Church London and diuers other Churches and religious structures as I shew hereafter is thus commended to posteritie by this Epitaph following which passed with applause no question in those dayes Rex Ethelbertus hic clauditur in Polyandro Fana pians certus Christo meat absque Meandro King Ethelbert lyeth here closed in this Polyander For building Churches sure he goes To Christ without Maeander The pious care likewise and gracious intention of our late Lord and Soueraigne King Iames of famous memory had for the repairing of the foresaid Church of Saint Paul and the earnest desire and purpose which our dread Lord and Soueraigne now hath proceeding out of his zeale to Gods glory and his diuine worship for the repairing and vpholding as his Father intended of that venerable large Fabricke and goodly Pyle of building will be had in remembrance to all generations and their names will be registred in the booke of the liuing And the munificent allowance towards the said worke from William Laud now Lord Bishop of London of one hundred pounds by the yeare while he doth contiune there Bishop shall be commended and had in remembrance of all his Successours for euer It may perhaps bee distastfull to some for that I write so fully of the fall and backsliding of Religious Persons from their primitiue zealous ardour of piety making that the maine cause of the dissolution of Abbeyes which I doe for that some are of opinion that because many of these Monasteries were built vpon the occasion of rapine and bloud the Founders thereby thinking to expiate their guilt and make satisfaction for their sinnes an
declamations in a storme onely to his poore Bargeman Amyclas being as then out of all hope or helpe for buriall saue in the bottome of the sea otherwise at another time I do not doubt but that he would haue desired sepulture with all her ceremonies as earnestly as Hector or any one of his nine fellow-worthies For neuer any saith Camden neglected buriall but some sauage nations as Bactrians which cast their dead to the dogs some varlet Philosophers as Diogenes who desired to bee deuoured of fishes some dissolute Courtiers as Macaenas who was wont to say Non tumulum curo sepelit natura relictos I 'm carelesse of a graue Nature her dead will saue As another said De terra interram quaeuis terra Sepulchrum From earth to earth wee go Each earth 's alike graue so Lucius Scipio likewise being ouerthrowne at the battell of Thapsus where hee was Generall fled disguisedly by sea for his owne safety but being driuen by a storme into the Bay of Hippo where Caesars Nauie lay to guard the shores and perceiuing them himselfe and his Barke both lost he stabbed himselfe with his ponyard leapt ouerboard and drowned himselfe in the maine vttering vpon his instant resolution certaine words in disdaine of buriall Thus exquisitely deliuered in verse by my worthy Friend the continuer of Lucans Historicall poeme My course is runne and though this armed hand Shall testifie I could haue di'd by land The Ocean likes me best within the maine Vnknowne for euer Scipio shall remaine O let my floating carcase neuer come To land lest Affricke should bestow a Tombe And to her sonnes in after ages show A Monument of vanquisht Scipio Loath he was that his dead bodie should either suffer despight or receiue fauour from his enemies so that I thinke no otherwise of his imprecations then I do of Caesars These carelesse Mecaenas-like resolutions make so many I beleeue of especiall note amongst us who either vpon a sparing or precise humour are content to commit to the earth their parents wiues children and the nearest vnto them in tenebris with little better than Sepulchra asinorum This office of burying the dead this last dutie done to our deceased friends hath euer had the prime place of commendation by Lucan lib. 18. for that he so solicitously tooke care to giue all funerall dues to the head lesse Trunke of great Pompey cut off by the treachery of the vngratâ—full base Ptolomey vpon whom he is made in the said booke to bestow this Epitaph Here the great Pompey lies so Fortune pleasde To instile this stone whom Caesars selfe would haue Interr'd before he should haue mist a graue And Virgil makes buriall an honour to such as are slaine in battell and so consequently of others Meane while th'vnburied bodies of our mates Ciue wee to graue sole honour after fates Go honour those braue soules with their last dues Who with their bloud purchas'd this land for vs. Toby his burying of the dead was acceptable vnto God as the Angell testifieth And the Lord himselfe being to arise againe the third day commended that good worke of those religious women who poured those pretious ointments with sweete odours vpon his head and body and did it to bury him And the Gospel hath crowned them with immortall praise that tooke downe his bodie from the crosse and gaue it honest and honourable buriall Which signifieth saith S. Augustine that the providence of God extendeth euen vnto the very bodies of the dead for he is pleased with such good deeds and doe build vp the beleefe of the resurrection Where by the way saith he we may learne this profitable lesson how great the reward of almes done vnto the liuing may be since this duty and fauour showne but vnto the dead is not forgotten of God Decent buriall according to the qualitie of the person deceased with attendants of kindred and friends is an honour to the defunct Hezekiah saith the text slept with his fathers and they buried him in the highest sepulchre of the sonnes of Dauid and all Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem did him honour at his death We commend many of vs I am sure doe that good worke of Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester who caused the bones and other reliques of such sacred Princes and sainted Prelates as there had beene buried in that Church and dispersed abroad in seuerall odde corners to bee placed together in seemly monuments vpon the top of the new partition built by himselfe for the same purpose And likewise wee cannot but loue the memory of such who vpon the dissolution and finall destruction of our religious structures caused so many funerall monuments with the bodies therein included to bee remoued into other neighbouring Churches where by all likelihood they may rest in peace and safety vntill the last sound of the Trumpet In the works of Aurelius Prudentius Clemens a Spaniard by birth an ancient Christian Poet and one Qui palmam inter omnes Christianos Poetas obtinuit who flourished about foure hundred yeares after the incarnation of our Lord and Sauiour I finde this Funerall Hymne following of which and not impertinently I may make some vse here in this place translated by Sir Iohn Beaumont Baronet O God the soules pure fiery spring Who different natures wouldst combine That man whom thou to life didst bring By weakenesse may to death decline By thee they both are fram'd aright They by thy hand vnited be And while they ioyne with growing might Both flesh and spirit liue to thee But when diuision them recalls They bend their course to seu'rall ends Into drie earth the body falls The feruent soule to heau'n ascends For all created things at length By slow corruption growing old Must needs forsake compacted strength And disagreeing webs vnfold But thou deare Lord hast meanes prepar'd That death in thine may neuer reigne And hast vndoubted wayes declar'd How members lost may rise againe That while those generous rayes are bound In prison vnder fading things That part may still be stronger found Which from aboue directly springs If man with baser thoughts possest His will in earthly mud shall drowne The soule with such a weight opprest Is by the body carried downe But when she mindfull of her birth Her selfe from vgly spots debarres She lifts her friendly house from earth And beares it with her to the starres See how the emptie bodie lies Where now no liuely soule remaines Yet when short time with swiftnesse flies The height of senses it regaines Those ages shall be soone at hand When kindly heate the bones reuiues And shall the former house command Where liuing bloud it shall infuse Dull carcases to dust now worne Which long in graues corrupted lay Shall to the nimble aire be borne Where soules before haue led the way Hence comes it to adorne the graue With carefull labour men affect The limbes dissolu'd last honour haue And fun'rall Rites with
of Rome vnto the generall Councell may also be transumed impressed published and set vp on euery Church-doore in England to the intent that if any censures should be fulminate against the king or his realme that then it may appeare to all the world that the censures be of none effect considering that the king hath already and also before any censures promulged both prouoked and appealed Item like transumpts to bee made and sent into all other realmes and dominions and specially into Flanders concerning the kings said prouocations and appellations to the intent falsehood iniquitie malice and iniustice of the Bishop of Rome may thereby appeare to all the world And also to the intent that all the world may know that the Kings highnes standing vnder those appeales no censures can preuaile neither take any effect against him and his realme Item a letter to be conceiued from all the Nobles as well Spirituall as Temporall of this Realme vnto the Bishop of Rome declaring the wrongs iniuries and vsurpations vsed against the kings highnes and this realme Item to send exploratours and espies into Scotland and to see and perceiue their practises and what they intend there And whether they will confederate themselues with any other outward Princes Item to send letters for that purpose to the Earle of Northumberland my Lord Daves and Sir Thomas Clyfford Item certaine discreete and graue persons to bee appointed to repaire into the parts of Germany to practise and conclude some lege or amitie with the Princes and Potentates of Germany that is to say the King of Pole Iohn of Hungary the Duke of Saxony the Duke of Bauyere Duke Fredericke the Landegraue Van Hesse the Bishop of Magous Bishop of Treuers the Bishop of Collene and other the Potentates of Germany and also to ensearch of what inclination the said Princes and Potentates be of towards the King and this realme Item like practise to be made and practised with the Cities of Lubeke Danske Hambourgh Bromeswicke and all other the steads of the Haunse Tuâ—onyk and to ensearch of what inclination they bee towards the King and this realme Item like practise to be made and practised with the Cities of Norimbourgh and Aughsbrough Item to remember the Merchants aduenturers haunting the dominions of Braband and to speake with them Item to set order and establishment of the Princes Dowagers house with all celeritie and also of my Lady Maryes house To these or some of these purposes the King dispatched messengers to all his Embassadours and Agents beyond seas hauing before that sent the Duke of Norfolke Viscount Rocheford Sir William Pawlet afterwards Marquesse of Winchester and others to the Pope the Emperour and the French King being all three together at Nice He also caused his Secretarie to write in this manner to Iames the fifth King of Scotland Moste excellent myghtye and victorious Prynce Pleâ—sâ—th your Magestie that by the commaundment of my most dread Lord and Soueraigne Kyng of England your graces moste dere Vncle I haue in charge vndre commyssion certeyn specyall maters concernyng his highnes pleasure secreatly to be signyfyed vnto your grace wherein not only as a naturall Cousyne of your royall consanguinity but as a moste loueing Father entierly tendryng your worthye honor no lesse desirous hereof then regardyng his owne peculyer prosperyte vnfaynedly accomptyng your graces aduancement his moste conformable consolacion In consideracyon whereof sith it hath so pleasyd God of his infynyte fauour to revele vnto his highnes as well by studyous endeuor of good letters as by erudyte consultacyon of famous estemyde Clerke Also by long attempted experience ensearchyng truyth chyeflye in Christs doctryne who saith Iohn the fourteenth Ego sum veritas now clerely to perceive the thrall captyvyte vndre the vsurpyd power of the Busshop of Rome and his vngodly lawes Wherein his highnes and other many of his noble progenitors were moste wyckedly abusyde to their intollerable calamity and excedyng molestacion of their Subiects ouer whom God had yeuon them auctoryte and gouernaunce to rule as by all storyes of the olde testament and informacyon of the new playnely apperith Which groundly knowen to his highnes wisshith lykewise the same to be persuadyd vnto your grace wherby your honorable renoune and royall auctoryte shuld be moche enlargyd with no lesse felycitye of soule pryncipally to be regardyd then with aboundant comoditie of riches and vnfayned obeysaunce of faythfull Subiects ferr from the comeberous calamyte of the Popysshe myserable molestacyon What more intollerable calamyte may ther be to a Christian Prynce than vniustlye to be defeatyd of his righteous iurisdiction within his realme to be a King by name and not indede to be a ruler without regyment ouer his owne liege people what more greuous molestacion can chaunce to true harted Subiects than to be seuerâ—d from the alliegiaunce due to their naturall Soueraigne ther annoyntyd King grauntyd by Gods lawes and to become servile slaues to a foreyn Potentat vsurpyng to reigne ouer them agaynste the lawe of God as by the violent tyrannye of the Bushop of Rome hathe many yeres hitherto bene practysed throughout all regions to the ruynous desolacyon of the hole Christentie what Realme is ther but that the Busâ—shop of Rome hath planted therein his kingdome and established his regiment after soche a subtiell way that he and his craâ—tye creatures were obeyd of Prynces to whome of dutye they ought to haue bene subiect 1. Pet. 2. siue Regi tanquam praecellenti c. of whome all Romayn Busshops haue presumyd to be successors but not folowers contrarye to his example Qui non venit ministrari sed ministrare In all Realmes the Popisshe practise hath had soche confederacye of false forsworne factious and trayterous Titinylks vntrue to ther Soueraigne that nothyng was so secreatly in counsaill of any Prynce but forthwith it was caried by relacion to the Popes care And if ought were attemptyd agaynste his owne person or any crookyd creature of his creation in restraynyng of ther extortionate claymes as ther was nothyng but they claymed to haue auctoryte vpon incontynent they bouncyd out their thunderbolts and currsyng fulminations with soche intollerable force of vnmercyfull crudelyte that they made the greatiste personages of the world to trymble and quake for feare For by the negligente soufferaunce of Prynces thrughe dâ—faute of knowlege of Goddes worde the Popisshe pride was so haught his auctoryte so preemynent his power so puisaunte his strengthe so myghtye his displeasure so daungerous his Tyrrannye so terrible that scarse any durst resiste to coutrevaill none was able Example of many excellente Prynces as Iohn the furst and Henry the second of gracyous memory Kings of England here in their liffe times moste cruelly vexyd and after there disseas by forged leasyngs and slaunderous ympechements mysreportyd and faulselye belied with dispitfull dishonor of ther excellent progenye After like fasshion the victorious Emperor Lodovicus enterprysing
with better respect then Prince Henry his brother had done and was made President of the Councell when his brother was dismissed that office for striking the Lord chiefe Iustice yet for all that his father sore feared that his hastie distempered humour would breed great troubles in the State and questionlesse he was of a violent selfe-willie disposition neglecting now at the last cast the graue aduise of his owne countrey-men his chiefest Commanders by which by all likelihood he might haue escaped all danger and adhering to the trecherous perswasion of a Stranger by which hee was betrayed to present destruction Which fierie-rash temper of his together with the losse of the Battell and the place of his buriall is briefly thus set downe by my Author Iohn Harding And nere at Bawge came Gilbert Vmsreuile Marshall of France with V. horse and no mo And of good wyt counsayled hym that whyle To keepe the Church and Goddes seruice tho And after the Feast to seke vpon his foo And he aunswered him yf thou be aferd Go home thy way and kepe the church yerd Wyth that he sayd my Lorde ye haue no men Wyth the enemyes thus hastely to syght Your menne wot not of this ne how ne whenne To semble to you of power ne of myght For trewly nowe my Cosin Gray nowe ryght And I haue here but ten men and no mo But yet ye shall neuer say we leaue you so So rode they furth ay chyding by the way Tyll they to Bawgy ouer the Bridg were gone When the enemyes were battayled in aray Where then they light and fought wyth them anone The Duke was slayne that day there wyth hys sone Wyth hym were slayne then therle Vmfreuile And Sir Iohn Gray the Erle of Tankeruile The Lord Roos and syr Iohn Lumley Wyth many other were with hym slayne that daye Whose names I cannot wryte nor saye The Earles two of Huntingdon no naye Of Somerset also were taken there I saye For prisoners and put to great raunson And laye full long in France then in prison Thenglish Power came when all was done And rescowed then the deed men where they laye And brought the Lordes home fro thens full sone That there lay slayne vpon the feeld that daye And buryed them in Englond in good araye Eche one in hys Abbaye or Colage Afore founded within his heritage The English power vnder the conduct of Thomas Montacute Earle of Salisbury comming somewhat too late to this ouer-hastie encounter thought to haue requited this losse vpon their enemies heads but at the sight of their forces the French gaue ground whereby the dead bodie of Clarence was recouered and with the rest conueied into England and buried in this Church Att Canterbury the Duke was of Orleance Besyde hys Father King Henry buryed With suche honoure costage and expence As the Duches his wife coulde have signifyed Which neded not to haue bene modifyed She was so well within her selfe avysed Of greate sadnesse and woman hede premised This following I haue read for his Epitaph Hic iacet in tumulo Tho. Dux Clar. nunc quasi nullus Qui fuit in bello clarus nec clarior vllus In the vndercroft of our Ladies Chappell is an ancient Monument thus inscribed Ioane de Borwaschs dame de Moun. thus surnamed of Burwash a towne in Sussex wherein she inhabited which likewise gaue name to Sir Bartholomew Burwash Knight of the Garter Constable of Douer Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque ports Here lieth interred Isabell de Douer Countesse of Assyle as Stow calls her but I thinke there is a mistaking of Assyle for Atholl as will partly appeare by the sequele Fulbert Lord of Chilham had one onely daughter and heire whom Richard the base sonne of King Iohn tooke to wife by whom he had two daughters Lora the wife of William Marmion and Isabell wife to Dauid of Stratbolgy Earle of Atholl and afterwards to Sir Alexander Baliol who was called to Parliament by the name of Lord of Chillham and mother to that Iohn Earle of Athol who being condemned oftentimes for treason was hanged at the last vpon a gibbet fiftie foot high as King Edward the first commanded because he might be so much the more conspicuous in mens eyes as he was of higher and nobler birth being of the Kings bloud Lora was secondly married to one of the Lord Berkeleyes Ancestours if we may giue any credit to these ancient rimes Sir Richard the Fitz-Roy of wham we spak by for Gentilman he was inough though he wer last ibor For the Erles doughter of Warren his good modir was And his fadir Kyng Iohn that by gat hym a perchas Sir Morreys of Berkele wedded suth by cas His doughter and wan on hur the good knyght Sir Thomas This Isabell deceased at Chilham here in Kent in the moneth of February Ann. Dom. 1292. The first Archbishop that I finde to be buried in this Church was Cuthbert or Cudbrict for before him they were alwayes buried at Saint Augustines an Englishman of great parentage translated from Hereford the yeare 742. to this seate of Canterbury In whose time the Laitie were wicked and the Clergie worse the whole land was ouerwhelmed with a most darke and palpable mist of ignorance and polluted with all kinde of impietie Which to reforme hee called together a Synode of Bishops and learned men at Cloueshoo now Cliffe at Hoo beside Rochester and there after long consultation caused one and thirtie Canons to bee decreed one of which was That the Priests were required to reade to their Parishoners the Lords prayer and the Creed in the English tongue which with the rest you may reade in William Malmesbury This Bishop obtained from the Pope a dispensation for making of Coemiteries or Churchyards within Townes and Cities whereas vntill his time within the walls none were buried as I haue it thus in a Manuscript Cutbertus Archiepiscopus Cant. xi ab Augustino cum Rome videret plures intra Ciuitates sepeliri rogauit Papam vt sibi liceret cemiteria facere guod Papa annuit reuersus itaque cemiteria vbique in Anglia fieri constituit He died Ann. Dom. 758. I finde little of any other Bishop here buried vntill the time of Odo Seuerus who lyeth here interred vnder a Tombe of Touchstone surnamed Seuerus of the austeritie of his life and gouernment borne of Danish parents Pagans and vtter enemies of Christ and Christian religion insomuch that they disinherited this their Sonne Odo for keeping companie with Christians so that he was constrained to forsake his fathers house his kindred and countrey and betake himselfe to the seruice of a Nobleman in the Court of King Edward the elder named Ethelelm who set him to schoole where he profited exceedingly He was not baptised till hee was come to mans estate soone after his baptisme by the aduise of Ethelelm
aut per me aut per meum nuntium nisi Apostoliâ—a absoluat licenâ—ia Possessiones vero ad mensam mei Archiepiscopatus pertinentes non vendam neque donabo neque impignerabo neque de nouo insendabo vel aliquo modo alienabo inconsulto Rom. Pontifice sicut me Deus adiuuet c. The crosse was deliuered vnto him by a Monke of this his Church in these words Reuerend Father I am the messenger of the great King that doth require and command you to take on you the gouernment of his Church and to loue and defend the same in token whereof I deliuer you this his ensigne But I doubt I am tedious I will draw to his end which happened August 23. 1532. after hee had continued Archbishop eight and twentie yeares and was buried without any great funerall pompe mourning clothes being giuen onely to the poore Hee purchased much land for his kindred and bestowed very much in repairing and beautifying his houses with faire buildings euen to the value of thirtie thousand pounds as hee professeth for which cause hee prayed his Successours to forbeare sute for dilapidations His motto I finde in many places of the pallace which was Auxilium meum à Domino I finde no more Archbishops to bee here buried saue Cardinall Poole whom I reserue for another booke Here sometimes was a monument erected to the memory of that valiant Knight Sir William Molyneux of Seston in Lanchishire who at the battell of Nauarret in Spaine was made knight Banneret by Edward the black Prince Anno 1367. vnder whose command he serued in those warres as also for a long time in the warres of France From whence returning homewards he died here at Canterbury Anno 1372. Whose Epitaph I haue out of the pedegree of that honourable worthy gentleman Sir Richard Molyneux of Seston Knight and Baronet and Viscount Marybourgh in Ireland now liuing who from the said Sir William is lineally descended Miles honorificus Molyneus subiacet intus Tertius Edwardus dilexit hunc vt amicus Fortia qui gessit Gallos Nauar osque repressit Hic cum recessit morte feriente decessit Anno milleno trecento septuageno Atque his iunge duo sic perit omnis home Icy gist Gulian Septvaus cheualier qui morust le dernier iour D'aust â—an de Grace M. CCCC.VII de quele alme Deux eit pite et mercy Amen This Sir William serued in the warres of France vnder Edward the third as I haue it in the Pell office Sub hoc marmore iacent corpora Wilhelmi Septvans militis qui obijt 4. die mens Mar. Ann. Dom. 1448. et Elizabethe vxoris eius silie Iohannis Peche militiâ— que obijt 28. Mar. Sequenti quoruÌ„ animabus propitietur Deus Sum quod eris volui quod vis credes quasi credis Viuere forte diu mox ruo morte specu Cessis quo nescis nee quomodo quando sequeris Hinc simul in celis vt simus queso preceris Hic iacet Odomarus Hengham Ar. qui obijt 4. April Ann. Dom. 1411. he dwelt at Gowsted in Stokebury Hic iacet expectans miserecordiam Dei prenobilis vir Iohannes Guilâ—eford miles vnus consiliariorum illustrissimi Regis Hen. 7. qui quidem Iohannes obijt 19. die mens Iuly 8. Hen. 7. Ann. 1493. Cuius anime proâ—â—tetur altissimus Iesu filius Dei miserere mei Camden tells vs that this familie of the Guildfords is very ancient but most eminent euer since this Sir Iohn Guilford here interred was Controuler to the house to King Edward the fourth whose sonne and heire Sir Richard was by King Henry the seuenth made Knight of the Garter of his sonnes againe Sir Edward Guilford was Marshall of Callais Lord Warden of the Cinque-ports and Master of the Ordnance father to Iâ—ne Dutches of Northumberland wife to Sir Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland mother of the late Earles of Waâ—wick and Leicester of Guilford Dudley beheaded with his wife the Lady Iane and of fiue sonnes and eight daughters besides and Sir Henry was chosen Knight of the Garter by King Henry the eight and had his armes ennobled with a Canton of Granado by Ferdinando King of Spaine for his worthy seruice in that kingdome when it was recouered from the Moores and Edward liued in great esteeme in his countrey To be briefe from this Sir Iohn Guilford are issued by females immediatly the Darells Gages Brewâ—es Walsinghams Cromers Isaacs and Iselcies families of prime and principall note in these parts But I digresse and I craue pardon Onely let me tell you that Sir Richard Guilford aforesaid serued King Henry the seuenth sâ—pra mare cum 550. Nautis et Soldarijs pre duos menses 5. Hen. 7. Thomas Fogge iacet hic iacet hic sua sponsa Iohanna Sint celo ciues per te Deus hos O sanna Regni protector Francos Britones superauit Nobilium Rector sicuti Leo castra predauit Et quoque militiam sic pro patria per amauit Ad summam patriam Deus hic ab agone vocauit Fogge a name both of antiquitie and eminencie one of which familie namely Sir Iohn Fogge was of the priuie Councell to King Edward the fourth and sate with the Duke of Clarence the Earle of Warwicke and the Lord Riuers in iudgement vpon Sir Thomas Cooke of Giddie-Hall in Essex And I finde one Sir Iohn Fogge a warriour in the beginning of the raigne of King Henry the eight But this great conquering Knight did flourish long before he was the sonne of Sir Thomas Fogge knight buried at Glastenbury by his wife the Countesse of Ioyeux in France And this Ioane his wife here buried was the daughter and heire of Valons or Valance Hic iacent Wilhelmus Bruchelle siue Brenchley miles quondam Iusticiarius Domini Regis de communi Banco qui obijt in Holborne in suburbo London 20. Maij 1406. et Ioanna vxor eius que obijt 1453. Aug. 8. Here lieth Edmund Hawte Esquire ..... 1488. Hic iacet Iohannes Fyneux miles et Elisabetha vxor eius filia ..... Paston ..... the rest gone This Fyneux was Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas the â—â— of Henry the seuenth Hic iacet Iohannes Fynch de Winchelsey quond â—n prior huius Ecâ—lssie 〈◊〉 obijt ..... 9 die Ianuar ...... edificta constructa plura alia collata bona .... cuius anime .... Hic iacet reuerendus pater Thomas Goldstone huius sacrosancte Ecclesie Prior ac sacre pagine Prosessor 〈…〉 Ecclesiam per annos 24.8 mens et dies 16. optime 〈…〉 migrauit ad dominum 16. Septemb. Ann. Dom. 1517. Cuius animâ— Plangite vos Cythâ—ram plangentes carmine mole Hic iacet occulta Religionis honos 〈◊〉 Doctor Thomas Goldston vocitatus Moles quem presâ—ns saxea magna tenet O â—os spectantes huius â—um fureâ— a patris Nunc est is memores fundite que so preces Hic
Edwin king of Northumberland Sandwich Before the generall suppression here was a religious house of white Friers Carmelites founded by one Henry Cowfeld an Almaine Ann. 1272. and an Hospitall founded by Thomas Rabyng William Swanne Clerkes Iohn Goddard and Richard Long. In a booke of this order of Carmes written by Iohn Bale of which I haue spoken in the prefixed discourse I finde the Foundation of this Religious structure as also certaine Epitaphs made to the memorie of diuers of the Fraternitie therein interred in this manner following Anno Domini M.CC.LXXII fundatus erat Conuentus Sandwici per Henricum Cowfeld de Alemania Epitaphium Magistri Fratris Thome Legatt qui obijt Anno Domini M. CCCCIX Carmelita Thomas Legatt qui Theologie Doctor erat quondam conditur hoc lapide Epitaphium Fratris Thome Hadlow Hic Prior iste Hadlow nunc hoc sub marmore tectus Turmas celicolas adeat nostra prece vectus M.C. quater X. sepâ—eno transijt anno Huic deciâ—o sexto Septembris lumina nexo Magister Frater Willelmus Becklee hic sepultus cum hoc Epitaphio Nunc me petra tenet saxoque includor in isto Et lacerum vermes laniant nunc vndique corpus Quid mihi diuicie quid alta palacia prosunt Cum mihi sufficiat paruo quo marmore claudor Quam fastus quam pompa leuis quam gloria mundi Sit breuis fragilis humana potencia quam sit Collige ab exemplo qui transis perlege posco Obijt Ann Dom. M. CCCC.XXXVIII Epitaphium Magistri Iohannis Sandwich huius Conuentus Prioris perquam amabilis Subiacet huic Tumbe deuotus mente Iohannes De Sandwich dictus huiusce Prior que domus Mille quadringentos tres annos congere lumen Quindecimam Iunij sumite tempus habes Quo sors superna rapuit de corpore vitam Fundito queso preces vt sit ei requies Epitaphium Fratris Dionisij Plumcooper Cuspide lethisera mors que premit impia cuncta Mole sub hac gelià a clausit ossa viri Qui rogitat nomen cognomen postulat ipsum Hoc Dionisius est Plumcooper illud erat Mollibus hic annis Carmeli dulcis alumnus Extitit placide Pacis amator erat Ad canos veniens nature iura reliquit Mors dedit lassis artubus hic requiem Valedicit mundo xx Febr. Ann. Dom. MCCCC LXXXI Ann. 1563. Sir Roger Manwood before remembred natiue of this place founded here a free Schoole which hee endowed with fourty pounds of yearely reuenue Right famous in former times saith Camden was the Citie of Richborow whereof now nothing remaines saue certaine walls of a Castie of rough flint and Britane brickes in forme of a Quadrant Ouer the entrie whereof is the head of Queene Berta as some say grauen in stone the wife of King Ethelbert who here had a royall pallace The Romanes had their Presidents or Prouosts who had the gouernment of this Citie of which I finde but onely two to haue beene here interred namely Flauius Sanctius and Claudius Contentus the one ruling with all peace the other liuing in all riches and prosperitie whose memories are thus preserued by the Poet Ausonius Militiam nullo qui turbine sedulus egit Praeside letatus quae Rhutupinus ager His martiall seruice he discharg'd with care without all strife And Rutupin reioyc'd in him whilst there he was in life The same Authour setteth forth likewise in a lamentable funerall verse in the praise of Claudius Contentus whom he calls Vnkle who being ouertaken with death left behinde him vnto strangers a mighty great stocke of money which he had put out to vsury among the Britaines and increased by interest Et patruos Elegia meos reminiscere cantus Contentum tellus quem Rhutupina tegit My dolefull Muse now call to minde the songs of Vnkle mine Contentus who enterred lyes within mould Rutupine Ashe-Church In this Church are many ancient Monuments of worthy Gentlemen namely Sir ... Goshalls Sir ... Leuericks who lye crosse-legged as knights of Ierusalem One of the Septvaus with a collar of S S about his necke his wifes portraiture vpon the same Tombe diuers of the surname of Saint Nicholas of the Harslets and others all without Inscriptions sauing two and those shamefully defaced Claus. 25. Hen. 6. Memb. 30. 1446. Christian S. Nicholas Lady Prioresse of the Minories without Algate was daughter and heire of Nicholas S. Nicholas of S. Nicholas in Thanet and Thomas S. Nicholas is named in the same Record Hic iacet .... Clitherow Ar. ..... vxor eius silia Iohannis Oldcastell qui obijt ..... Pray for the sowle of Ioane Keriell Ye frends all that forth ypasse In endlesse lyff perpetuall That god it grant mercy and grase Roger Clitherow her fader was Tho erth to erth of kynd returne Pray that her sowle to lyff may come The name of Kiriell hath beene of great note and antiquity within this County Sir Nicholas Kiriell flourished in the raigne of King Richard the second and Sir Thomas Kiriell beheaded with the Lord Bouvile the day after the second battell at Saint Albons in the raigne of King Henry the sixth or slaine in the battell according to Iohn Harding ..... The Lords of the North Southward came To Sainct Albones vpon the fasting gang eue Wher then thei slewe the Lord Bouvile â—eue And Sir Thomas Kyriell also of Kent With mekell folke that pitee was to se. Sibbertswood In this Church are some ancient Monuments but now without Inscriptions erected to the memory of the Philipots or Philpots a familie which hath resided here a long time at Vpton Court within this Parish of which name and family was that renowned Lord Maior of London Sir Iohn Philpot knighted in the field by King Richard the second together with Sir William Wallworth then Maior and other Aldermen for the good seruice they performed against Watt Tylar and his complices Rebels of Kent and Essex This Sir Iohn gaue to the City certaine lands for the finding of thirteene poore people for euer It is likewise remembred of him to his eternall honour that Ann. 2. R. 2. he manned forth a Fleete at his owne charges to scoure the narrow Seas of such Scottish French and Spanish Pyrats as had done much villany by their often incursions to many of our English Ports and Harbours with which he not onely guarded both water and Land from their intollerable violences but also tooke their prime Captaine one Iohn Mercer a Scot with all his whole Nauie consisting of fifteene Spanish ships all being fraught with very rich commodities Which memorable atchieuement as it was right worthily applauded extolled and admired of all the faithfull Commonaltie so was it most wrongfully vnderualued enuied and drawne into question by some of the slothfull Nobilitie Ikham In this Church I saw an old Monument vpon
Here was a religious foundation called a Preceptorie I should thinke it to haue beene a free-Schoole howsoeuer her allowance is very large and Colledge-like for her yearely reuenues did amount to 87. l. 3. s. 3. d. ob according to the pricement at the suppression Who should bee the Founder I cannot finde Here is an ancient faire Monument whereon the portraiture of an armed knight crosse legged is to bee seene and onely Hic iacet of an Inscription tbe rest gone Orate pro anima Willelmi Tonge et Iohannis filij eius qui hanc fenestrum fieri fecerunt Shelwich Hic iacet Dominus Richardus Atte-Leese milesac domina Dionisia vx eius qui quidem Richardus obiiâ— Ann. 1394. Vpon an old Tombe and in as old a character these words Ici gist Richard Lisla Hic iacet Iohannes Cely Ar. et Isabella vx qui ob 19. Octob. 1426. Reâ—ald de Deyre gist icy Dien de salme eit mercy Wye The ruines of a Collegiate Church are here yet still to be seene first built by Iohn Kempe Archbishop of Canterbury borne in this Towne the sonne of Thomas Kempe and Beatrice his wife who were fairely entombed in this their sonnes foundation with this Epitaph Hic sistunt ossa Thome Kempe marmore fossa Cuius opus pronum se probat esse bonum Dum vixit letus fuit bonitate repletus Munificus viguit pauperibus tribuit Iungitur huic satrix virtutum sponsa Beatrix Que partitur opes sponte iuuans inopes Ex his processit vt ramus ab arbore crescit Cleri Presidium Dux sapiens ouium Christo Lectoris mens cunctis supplicet horis Vt Patris Deitas luminet has animas In this Colledge he placed secular Priests to attend diuine Seruice and to instruct the youth of the Parish in Grammar and other learning according to his foundation the gouernour of the Colledge was called a Prebendary It was begun and finished in the raigne of King Henry the sixth The value of it at the suppression was 93. l. 2. s. 6. ob per annum There was saith Lambard a Colledge in this place wherein Edward the second held the solemnitie of a whole Christmas Hic iacet Iohn Andrew iustus Palmerque venustus ........... Ashford Here is likewise a Collegiate Church of Priests founded by Sir Ro. Fogge knight wherein many of that ancient and noble Familie lye interred there hang in the Quire the Achieuements of sixe of them that haue had their funerall obsequies an honour to the dead now most shamefully neglected attended with Heralds of Armes But that which presenteth the greatest glory and antiquitie to this Church is the Monument of the Countesse of Atholl in Scotland whose Epitaph in old French as also the Banners in her hands shew her to be the daughter of the Lord Ferrers Icy gist Elizabeth Comite D'athels la File Sign de Ferrers .... Dieu asoil Que morust le 22. iour D'october L'an de Grace M.CCC.LXXV She was wife to Dauid de Strabolgie the fourth of that Christian name Earle of Atholl and the daughter of Henry Lord Ferrers of Groby and being secondly married to Iohn Maleweyn of this County here dyed in this Towne Here lyeth Sir Francis Fogge who flourished tempore Hen. 2. Sir Anthony Fogge a knight of the Rodes Sir Iohn and Sir Iohn Fogge with many more of the family Here are many goodly pourtraitures in the windowes As of Edward the third of the blacke Prince Richard Duke of Glocester Richard Earle Riuers the Lord Hastings the Lord Scales Sir William Hawte Valoins and his two wiues the first the daughter of Hawte the second of Fogge. Feuersham The funerall Monuments of this Church are more carefully preserued then in any other that I haue seene in all Kent Diligunt decorem Domus Domini Hic probus et dignus vir honestus amans que benignus Vt vere scitur Semanus Tong sepelitur Hic vir oportunus Baro de portubus vnus In Thrughleigh natus suit in Feuershamque moratus Mortuus ipse die celsa fuit Epiphanie Anno milleno C. quater quarto quoque deno Huius Semani sucrant quadraginta bis anni Tempus in hac vita sibi celica sit via scita Amen Orate pro animabus Iohannis Wigmore gen quondam de Grayes Inn .... Consortis sue omnium filiarum Richardi filij qui ob Octob. 23. Ann. 1492. Viue memor Lethi Hic iacet Willelmus Norton istius ville de Feuersham Ar. Elisab vx or eius â—ilia Marci Hussey Ar. qui quidem Willelmus fuit istius ville ter Maior et obijt April 27. 1468. Hic iacet electus Willelmus Thorne bene tectus Marmore deiectus heu mortis vi quoque rectus Aprilis dena luce cessit ab hacque Calendas Anno milleno quatuor cent bis quater addas Ex istis â—inis vicenis rexit annis Cuius nos anime rogitemus cuncti potentem Vt precibus nostris nunc miserere velit Orate Richardi gen filii Willelmi Norton Ar. et Iohanne consortis â—ue ac matris sue Elizabethe qui quidem Richardus suit istius ville Maior ob Decemb. 10. 1500. Hic iacet Iohannes Rust Capellanus .... 1464. Es testes Christe quod non iacet hic lapis iste Corpus vt ornetur sed spiritus vt memoretur Hem tu qui transis magnus medius puer ansis Pro me funde preces quia sic mihi fit venie spes Hic iacet Iohannes Read sexies Maior istius ville de Feuersham qui obiit .... 1503. Vermibus hic donor et sic discedere conor Qualiter hic ponor ponitur omnis honor Hic iacet Willelmus Vpton qui ob Ian. 2. 1432. Cuius Hic iacet Henricus Par Ar. qui obiit in crastino Annunciacionis beate Marie Ann. 1419. Vermibus hic esca iaceo quam tu tibi sortem Qui legis expecta neque fas tibi fallere mortem Hic iacet Agneta vxor Iohannis Feuersham que obiit 16. Septemb. 1427. Hic iacet Willelmus Leedes qui obiit die Sabbati ante festum omnium Sanctorum Ann. 1419. Cuius anime propitietur altissimus Here lyeth Henry Hatcher Merchant aduenturer and Ione his wife .... 1500. Christopherus iacet hic Anna cum coniuge Finchus Who so him bethoft inwardly and oft How hard it were to flit from bed vnto the pitt From pitt vnto peyne that nere shal cease certeyne He wold not doe one sinn all the world to winn These rimes are faire inlaid in brasse vpon a marble stone with this Inscription following about the Verge Hic iacet Richardus Colwel quondam Maior istius ville de Feuersham qui obiit .... 1533. And at euery corner of the stone this word Col with the liuely forme of a well expressing his name of Colwell An vsuall
passer ..... Hen. de Cobham ..... qui morust ban de gra .... 1392. This Henry de Cobham was sonne of the foresaid Reynold who also was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports Icy gist dame Margarete de Cobham iadis fille a noble Sir Counte de Deuonshire Femme de Sir de Cobham de ceste place qe morust le secound iour du mois de August l'an de grace 1385. L'alme de .... eit mercy Amen This Margaret was the daughter of Hugh Courtney the third of that Christian name Earle of Deuonshire Dame Ione de Cobham gist icy Dieu de salme aie mercy Qui pur le alme priera Quarant iours de Pardon auera Vous .... par icy passer ... lalme Thome de Cobham pries qui trespassa la .... S. Thom ... le Apostre ... luy ottrye a demorier en companye le vostre en lan de grace 1367. Le haut Trinyte luy soit defender d'inferne abisme Et Icy gist dame Maude de Cobham qe fust le Femme de Sir Thomas Cobham que dellya 9. iour de Auerillan de grace 13 .... 3. Ric. 2. De terre fust fait et fourme Est in terre .... retourne Cobham founder de ceste place Le Seint Trinyte mercy de mesme This Iohn Lord Cobham was the builder of Cowling Castle and the founder of this Colledge valued at the suppression at one hundred eight and twenty pounds ten shillings nine pence halfe penny by the yeare He was the last Lord Cobham of that surname for he left but one onely daughter wife to Sir Iohn de la Pole knight And shee likewise howsoeuer she had many husbands of which number Sir Iohn Oldcastle was one had not any issue but onely by Sir Reygnold Braybroke who dyed all young excepting one daughter called Ioane who married with Thomas Brooke of Somersetshire to whom she brought both her mothers inheritance and honour which these Brookes did happily enioy for the space of sixe descents being euer employed in offices of State and matters of high consequence Yet alwayes standing firme both in the fauour of the Prince and his people vntill the last of these Lords stumbling vpon a shallow-pated Treason which was laid in his way fell downe to the ground together with his house his inheritance and all his additions of honour But to returne to the rest of the Epitaphs Hic iacet Iohanna Domina de Cobham quondam vxor domini Reginaldi Braybroke militis que obiit in die Sancti Hilarii Episcopi Ann. Dom. 1433. Cuius anime propitietur altissimus Hic iacet Dominus Reginaldus Braybroke miles ac maritus Domine Iohanne Domine de Cobham heredis Domini Iohannis de Cobham fundatoris istius Collegii qui quidem Reginaldus obiit apud Midleborrow in Flandria 20. die mens Septemb. Ann. 1405. Cuius anime propitietur Deus Vpon the same marble these words are engrauen Hic iacet Reginaldus filius eorum Hic iacet Robertus filius eorum Which were his and her children that dyed in their infancie This Reignold by the honour of his marriage stiled Lord Cobham was the sonne of Gerard Braybroke who was the sonne of Henry Braybroke Lord Warden of the fiue Ports in the raigne of king Henry the third Hic iacet Nicholaus Hawberk quondam maritus Domine Iohanne Domine de Cobham heredis Domini Iohannis de Cobham fundatoris istius Collegii qui quidem Nicolaus obiit apud Castrum 9. die Octobris Ann. Dom. 1407. Hic iacet Iohannes Broke miles ac Baro Baronie de Cobham ac domina Margareta vxor sua quondam silia nobilis viri Edouardi Nevil nuper Domini de Burgaueny qui quidem Iohannes obiit .... die mens Septemb. Ann. Dom. 1506. quorumanimabus Amen Orate pro anima Tho. Broke militis Domini de Cobham consanguinei et heredis Richardi Beauchampe militis qui quidem Thomas cepit in vxorem Dorotheam filiam Henrici Heydon militis habuerunt exitum inter eos septem filios sex filias predicta Dorothea obiit .... et predictus Thomas cepit in vxorem Dorotheam Fowthewel viduam que obiit sine exitu postea cepit in vxorem Elisabetham Harte habuerunt nullum exitum inter eos Qui quidem Thomas obiit 19. Iulii 1529. Raph de Cobham de Kent Esquier Qi morust le xx iour de Ianier L'an de Grace mil cccc gist icy Dieu desâ—alme eyt mercy Hic iacet Iohannes Terrye quondam socius istius Collegii qui obiit 7. Id. Iulii Ann. Dom. 1417. Hic iacet Iohannes Clauering quondam filius Rogeri Clauering ciuis pannarij de Ciuitate London Orate pro animabus predicti Iohannis Clauering Iuliane Alicie vx eius predicti Rogeri Clauering Iohanne vx eius patris matris predicti Iohannis Clauering fratrum sororum suorum et siliorum eorum ac etiam Anne Westbye et Matildis matris eius et progenitorum nostrorum et Iohannis de Brendward Thome Legge et Simonis filij eius et pro animabus omnium Benefactorum nostrorum et omnium fidelium defunctorum quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Such was the politike deuotion of religious houses in those dayes thus publikely to remember and pray for the soules of all their Benefactours thereby to incite others to the like works of charity by which they still encreased their Founders first endowments Shorne Neare to the high Altar of this Church is a very faire Monument for Sir Henry de Cobham knight Lord of Roundall a Mannor within this Parish where now scarce the ruines appeare to direct one where the house stood Hee is buried crosselegged with his coat-armes on his robe about whose Tombe in an old Character thus much may be read Icy gift Sir Henri de Cobeham Sheualer Signeour de Roundall Dieu de sa ...... The Lieger booke of Feuersham makes mention of one Henry Lord Cobham who liued in great honour in the raignes of Edward the first and Edward the second these are the words but I thinke this is not the man which lyes here entombed Regnante Edwardo cius nominis primo etiamque secundo floruit Henricus Dominus de Cobham primus totius Anglie Iusticiarius nec non Dorentium Castrorum Roucestrie ac Tunbridge Prefectus quinque Portuum Gardianus vxorem duxit Iohannam filiam vnam Heredum Domini Stephani de Pynchester militis qui vero Stephanus prius Castri Dorensis gubernationem ante Cobhamum tenuit Alicia vero natu minor Stephani de Pynchester filia vna Heredum in virum accepit Dominum Philippum de Columbaris militem ex qua duos suscepit filios Stephanum Thomam qui sine herede Patrimonium omne à patre acceptum reliquit Hiis testibus Dom. Gualfrido Domino de Say Ottone de Grandisono Rogero de Hengham Gulielmo de Cheynie
I found it in the Collections of Master Camden Hagnes hic iaceo coniux olim Gulielmi Lilia cognomen cui tribuere fui Septem ter denos aetas mea viderat annos Bis septem vixi tres quoque iuncta viro Mater eram foelix ter quinque prole puellae Sex fuerant numero caetera turba mares Me luce octaua mensis Sextilis adorta est Me luce vndecima sustulit atra lues Aeterne vs pateat Lector mihi lumina lucis Authorem lucis supplice mente roga Thomas Linacrus Regis Henrici viii Medicus vir et Grecè et Latine atque in re medica longe eruditissimus multos aetate sua languentes et qui iam animam desponderant vitae restituit Multa Galeni opera Latina lingua mira et singulari facundia vertit Egregium opus de emendata structura Latini sermonis amicorum rogatu paulo ante mortem edidit Medicine studiosis Oxoniae publicas lectiones duas Cantabrigiae vnam in perpetuum stabiliuit In hac vrbe Collegium Medicorum sua industria fieri curauit Cuius et Praesidens primus electus est Fraudes dolosque mirè perosus fidus amicis omnibus ordinibus iuxta charus aliquot annos antequam obierit Presbiter factus plenus annis ex hac vita migrauit multum desideratus Ann. Dom. 1524. die 7. Octob. Somewhat aboue the Tombe in the wall vnder the picture or pourtraiture of the Phoenix this Inscription Viuit post funera virtus Thomae Linacro clarissimo medico Iohannes Caius posuit ann 1557. This old Physitian and young Priest Tho. Linaker borne in the towne of Darby was like William Lilie for none of his works so famous as for his rudiments or instructions to the better vnderstanding of the Latine tongue Hic infra iacet corpus magistri Thome de Eure Legum Doctoris istius Ecclesie S. Pauli quondam Decani qui die nono mens Octobris Ann. Dom. millesimo quadringentesimo sui Decanatus anno duodecimo diem suum clausit extremum Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Hic iacet Magister Thomas Wynterburne Legum Doctor dum vixit Decanus huius Ecclesie S. Pauli qui obijt 7. die mens Decemb. An. Dom. 1478. Anime cuius sis Deus propitius Amen Hic iacet Magister Reymundus Pelegrim Canonicus huius Ecclesie Capellanus Commissalis Domini Pape qui obijt xi die mens Aug. Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Hic iacet Magister Richardus Plessys quondam Can ......... ob M. CCC LX.I Gulielmus Harington Iurisconsultus Protonotarius Apostolicus D. Pauli Canonicus ex illis quos Residentiarios dicunt Patria Eboracensis natus in Pago qui Estryngton vocitatur Patre Gulielmo Haringtono viro claro genere orto in pago commerlandie non ignobili qui Neubyging nuncupatur Matre Iohanna filia Gulielmi Haske aliter Baliui dicti viri generosi in eodem pago Estryngton nata Memor exitus vite qui omnibus horis impendet hoc sibi sepulchrum posuit Anno salutis humane 1523. Here lieth buried in a Chappell built by himselfe wherein he founded three Chaplaines Sir Iohn Poultney foure times Lord Maior of London who founded also a Colledge in the Parish Church of S. Laurence called Poultney He built also the parish Church called little Alhallows in Thames street and the Carmelite Friers Church in Couentrie hee gaue reliefe to the prisoners in Newgate and in the Fleet and ten shillings the yeare to S. Giles Hospitall by Oldborne now Houlborne for euer and other Legacies too long to rehearse And died in the yeare 1348. Here lieth Hamond Chickwell Pepperer who had beene Lord Maior of this Citie sixe times within nine yeares And died about the yeare 1328. Here lieth the body of Anne daughter of Iohn Duke of Burgundie the wife of Iohn Plantaginet third sonne of king Henry the fourth Duke of Bedford Protector of the Realme of England and head of the common weale Who died the yeare 1433. Here in a Monument broken all a peeces lieth entombed the body of Iohn Neuill Lord Latimer whose widow Katherine Parre daughter of Sir Thomas Parre of Kendall and sister to William Lord Parre Marquesse of Northampton was the sixth and last wife to king Henry the eight He died in the yeare 1542. Sir Iohn Beauchampe Constable of Douer Castle Warden of the Cinque Ports knight of the Garter and Lord Admirall of England the second sonne of Guy Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke lieth buried here in the body of the Church within a little Chappell He died Ann. 1360. 34. Ed. 3. He was also Constable of the Tower of London as appeares by ancient Records Cum Rex nuper concesserit Iohanni Darcy de Knayth custodiam Turris London ad vitam suam et idem Iohannes propter alia negotia intendere non possit eidem custodire ex Regis assensu concessit custodiam predictam Iohanni de Bellocampo de Warwic ad totam vitam predicti Iohannis Darcy c. T. R. apud Mortelake 15. Marcij Ann. 26. Ed. 3.1 Pars. pat M. 17. Vpon some displeasure vpon false suggestions which the King had taken against him he was put by this office and to the same the truth being tried restored againe a little before his death For proofe Cum Iohan. Darcy cui nuper Rex custodiaÌ„ Turris London ad totaÌ„ vita suaÌ„ concesserit ob affectioneÌ„ quam habuit ad personaÌ„ Ioh. de Bellocampo de Warwick statuÌ„ quem idem Ioh. Darcy in custodia Turris predicte habuit prefato Ioh. de Bellocampo concesserit et Rex illaÌ„ concessioneÌ„ confirmauit post moduÌ„que ob quendaÌ„ rancoreÌ„ quem Rex erga ipsuÌ„ Ioh. de Bellocampo ex sinistra suggestione ipsi Regi facta concepisset ipsum de custodia illa amoueri fecit et â—andem custodiam primo Bartholomeo de Burghesse postmodum Roberto de Morle concessisset Iamque ijdem Bartholomeus et Robertus viam vniuerse carnis ingressi sunt Rex ad gratum et laudabile obsequium siâ—i per dictum Iohannem diuersimodo impensum et ad hoc quod suggestio predicta minus vera existit sicut plenius Regi constat consideracionem habens ac volens ipsius proinde honori commodo prospicere in hac parte â—undem Iohannem ad dictam custodiam restituit habendam ad totam vitam suam Dat. apud Villam Sancti Georgij iuxta Castrum de Beauford in Francia An. 34. Ed. 3. This deceased Nobleman saith Stow by ignorant people hath beene erroniously mistearmed and said to bee Duke Humphrey the good Duke of Glocester who lieth honourably buried at S. Albans in Hertfordshire In Idle and friuolous opinion of whom some men of late times saith hee haue made a solemne meeting at his Tombe vpon Saint Andrewes day in the morning and concluded on a breakfast or dinner as assuming themselues to be seruants and to hold diuersitie
then was saith Stow that this Sir Miles Partridge did set an hundred pound vpon a cast at dice against it and so wonne the said Bell-house and Bells of the King and then caused the Bells to bee broken as they hung and the rest pulled downe This Sir Miles was hanged on the Tower-hill the 26. of February in the sixth yeare of Edward the sixth for matters concerning the Duke of Somerset howsoeuer guiltlesse of any offence either against the king or his Councell as he tooke it vpon his death There was a faire Chappell of the holy Ghost on the North side of Pauls Church founded in the yeare 1400. by Roger Holmes Chancellour and Prebendary of Pauls for seuen Chaplaines and called Holmes Colledge Their common Hall was in Pauls Church-yard on the South side This Colledge was suppressed in the raigne of Ed. the sixth In this Chappell were buried Adam de Bury Alderman and Lord Maior of London in the yeare 1364. Anne the daughter of Iohn Duke of Burgundy the first wife of Iohn Plantaginet third sonne of king Henry the fourth Duke of Bedford who died in the yeare 1433. Sir Iohn Poultney knight foure times Maior of London in the yeare 1337. builded a faire Chappell on the North side of Pauls Church wherein he was buried He founded a Colledge in the Parish Church of Saint Laurence called Poultney Hee builded the Parish Church of little Alhallowes in Thames street and the Carmelite Friers Church in Couentrey He gaue releefe in Newgate and in the Fleet and ten shillings a yeare to Saint Giles Hospitall by Oldborne for euer And other Legacies saith Stow speaking of the Honour of Citizens too long to rehearse He died about the yeare 1348 But of him I haue spoken somewhat before Vnder the Quire of Pauls is a large Chappell dedicated to the name of Iesu by whom founded I do not know But it was thus confirmed in the 37. of Hen. the sixth as appeareth by his patent thereof dated at Crowdowne to this effect Many liege-men and Christian people hauing begun a Fraternitie and Guild to the honour of the most glorious name of Iesu Christ our Sauiour in a place called the Crowds of the Cathedrall Church of Pauls in London which hath continued long time peaceably till now of late Whereupon they haue made request and wee haue taken vpon vs the name and charge of the foundation to the land of Almighty God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost and especially to the honour of Iesu in whose honour the Fraternitie was begun c. It was likewise confirmed by Hen. the 7. the 22. of his raigne and by H. 8. the 27. of his raigne In this Chappell lieth buried Margaret the eldest daughter and coheire of Richard Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke second wife of Iohn Lord Talbot the Terrour of France first of that Surname Earle of Shrewsbury But of her I haue spoken before Many haue beene here interred as Iohn of London vnder the Northroode 1266. Iohn Louell Iohn of Saint Olaue and Sir Allen Boxhul with others as you may reade in the Suruay of London This Sir Allen Boxhul was knight of the Garter in Edward the thirds dayes and neare vpon the first foundation of that honourable order He was Constable of the Tower custos of the Forest and Parke of Clarendon the Forest of Brokholt Grouell and Melchet a man highly in fauour with the said king Edward Hee was buried by Saint Erkenwalds shrine about the yeare 1380. And here I think it will not bee vnfitting to set downe the number of the Shrines sacred to the honour of diuers Saints in the Cathedrall Church as they stood in the yeare 1245. First the Shrine of S. Erkenwald which was very sumptuous the fourth Bishop of this See which stood in the East part of the Church aboue the high Altar The Shrine of S. Mellitus first Bishop of this Diocesse afterwards of Canterbury The Shrine of Richard Fitz-Neile Bishop of London Ann. 1189. The Shrine of Egwolphe or Egtulphe here Bishop all beset with precious stones he was the seuenth Bishop of this Diocesse as then called Bishop of the East Angles He was a learned man and so shewed himselfe in the Conuocation holden by Cuthbert Archbishop of Canterbury Ann. 747. There was also a glorious Shrine super magnum Altare but to whose holinesse dedicated I do not reade Here sometimes was a Shrine with a portable coffin in the same place where Sir William Cockaines Tombe is erected with an Altar built to the honour of God the blessed Virgine S. Laurence and all Saints by one Roger Waltham Precentour of the Church as did appeare by this Inscription following which was legible though somewhat erazed before the erection of the foresaid Monument Hoc Altare in honore Dei beate Virginis Marie Matris eius ac Sancti Laurentij Martyris omnium Sanctorum construxit hanc Voltam cum adiacentibus picturis Martyris et Ymaginum in Septis ereis hic posuit cum duabus Caglarijs suis per perpetuum .... Dominus Rogerus Waltham huius Ecclesie Precent ........ pro salute anime sue et pro salute anime Regine ...... omnium ........ Amen There was likewise a Chantrie with an Altar sacred to the blessed Virgine Mary contiguous to the Bishops pallace and the body of the Church founded by Sir Gerard Braybroke knight Edmund Hamden Iohn Boys Esquires and Roger Albrighton Clerke for one Chantrie Priest daily to say Masse and pray for the soule of Robert Braybroke Bishop of London then liuing and for his soule whensoeuer he should passe out of this world For â—he soule of Nicholas Braybroke late Canon of this Church and for the soules of all the faithfull departed As may appeare by these Deeds following copied out of the originals vnder seale in the custodie of Sir Simonds Dewes knight Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum peruenerit Gerardus Braybrok iunior Miles Edmundus Hampden Armig. Iohannes Boys Armiger Rogerus Albryghton Clericus salutem in Domino sempiternam Nouerit vniuersitas vestra quod nos Gerardus Edmundus Iohannes Rogerus predict de licentia speciali excellentissimi Principis Domini nostri Domini Henrici Dei gratia Regis Anglie et Francie ac Domini Hibernie illustris per suas literas patentes Sigillo suo magno in cera viridi impressato sigillatas pro se et heredibus suis nobis data et concessa vnam Cantariam de vno Capellano diuina ad Altare beate Marie infra Palacium Episcopi Londonien in London naui Ecclesie Sancti Pauli contiguam pro salubri statu venerabilis in Christo Patris ac Domini Domini Roberti Dei gratia Episcopi Londonien dum vixerit et pro anima sua cum ab hac luce migrauerit ac anima Magistri Nicholai Braybrok nuper Canonici Ecclesie Pauli London nec non animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum singulis
also to my Lady Chamberlaine soiournyng with my brother Lathell my Mantell c. Saint Gregories by Pauls Here in this Church lyeth buried the body of Thomas Riplingham who was the husband of the foresaid Katherine who died An. 1469. but he is better knowne by this his will and testament This xii day of October the ix of Edward the fourth in the yeere of our Lord M. cccc.lxix aduowes first my soul to God and my body to be beryed in S. Gregories Church London I will yat the same Church haue the two Challices and a cupp pledged to me for x markes be restored to them frelie and more to the same Church I giue x markes to continually prey for my soul. I will that Katherine my wyff haue all such goods as she brought to me with her I will that Raph my Brother haue x. l and Iohn my Broder x. l and euery of my Sisters one hundred shillings to prey for my soul. Also I will that Richard my Broder haue my land in Riplingham to him and his heires for euer and as for my land in Etton I will that Iohn my Broder haue it to him and his heires for euer the remaynder in defaute to Raufe my Broder and to his heires and for defaute of yssue to the right heires of the said Richard Item to Richard Welden my best goune Item to my dauter Elisabyth a goune cloth I will that Ioan Welden my Goddauter haue x markes to her mariage Item I will to the Church of Rowley on hundryd shillings to the grey Friers of Beuerley on hundryd shillings Item to the white Friers of Sawburgh on hundryd shillings to prey for my soul and my moders Also I will yat a dozen Dishes and as many Sawsers of siluer ye which were my Lord Vesseys be deliuered to William Rilston and Iohn Fereby to be sold to my Lord Chamberlein and to Sir Thomas Burrow as we were agreed Item I will the two Obligations of the statute of the Staple concerning the summes of xii c markes and also a bagg of money conteyning cc markes be deliuered to the said William and Iohn I will another bagg of gold conteyning the summe of on c.l. pertaining to the executors of Iohn Heron be deliuered to Nicolas Statham to be disposed for the soul of Iohn Heron. Saint Fosters Lord of thy infinit grase and pitee Haue mercy on me Agnes sometym the wyf Of William Milborne chamberlein of this citee Which toke my passage fro this wrechyd lyf The yere of grase on thousand on hundryd and fyf The xii day of Iuly no longer was my spase It plesyd then my Lord to call me to his grase Now ye that are liuing and see this picture Prey for me here whyle ye haue time and spase That God of his goodnes wold me assure In his euerlasting Mansion to haue a plase Saint Peters Cheape ...... pur l'ame Nicole de Farindone .... de son Vnder this old monument as this maymed French Inscription would tell vs Nicholas Faringdon Goldsmith foure times Lord Maior of this Citie lieth intombed he was the sonne of William Faringdon Sheriffe of the same Of which two Faringdons the two Wards within and without tooke their denominations Hee liued after the first time of his Maioralitie which was An. Dom. 1309. full three and fiftie yeeres Saint Martins Nere vnto Aldersgate was sometime a faire and large Colledge of a Deane and secular Canons or Priests consecrated to the honour of Saint Martin and called Saint Martins le graund founded by Ingelricus and Edward his brother in the yeere of Christ 1056. and confirmed by William the Conquerour as appeareth by his charter dated 1068. This Colledge claimed great priuiledges of sanctuarie and other Franchises as appeareth in a booke written by a Notary of that house circa An. 1442. This Colledge was surrendred to King Edward the sixt in the second of his raigne and in the same yeere the Colledge Church was pulled downe and a Wine-Tauerne built in the place which continues to this day Saint Annes Aldersgate Orate deuote pro anima magistri Iohannis Pemberton Vtriusque iuris Bachalarij quondam Residentiar Ecclesie Cathedralis de Rippon Ebor. Diocesis huiusque etiam Eccles. Rectoris qui obijt 12 diâ— Septemb. An. Dom. 1499. Qu an tris di c vul stra os guis ti ro um nere uit H san chris mi t mu la. Quos anguis tristi diro cum munere strauit Hos sanguis Christi miro tum munere lauit Corda manus oculos aures animosque levemus Et domino voces sua sunt ei sua demus Vt tibi praeceptis mens conformetur honestis Sex animo semper sunt repetenda tuo Principio Deus est noster seruator author Hostis in opposita stat regione Sathan Tertiares presens est vita similima ventis Mors sequitur nobis quae prope semper adest Ordine sunt quinto Coeli Palatia summi Tartara sunt sexto constituenda loco Haec animo tacite secum qui saepe reuoluit Miror in hoc vitij si quid inesse potest Gualterus Haddonus Saint Iohn Zacharies Hic iacet Ioanna vxor Tho. Thorp vnius Bar. de Scaccario domini Regis Prolocutoris Parliamenti tenti apud Reding anno Regis Hen. sexti xxxi Que Ioanna obijt xxiii Iun. An. Dom. M. ccccliii cuius anime I finde this Baron Thorp to haue beene a man of many good parts and euer faithfull to his soueraigne Lord King Henry the sixt by whom hee was specially employed both in peace and warre against the violence of his headstrong Lords But in the end it was the hard happe of this vpright Exchequer man to be beheaded at High-gate by the Commons of Kent the 17 day of February An. 1461. Here lieth the body of Iohn Sutton Citizen Goldsmith and Alderman of London who died 6 Iuly 1450. This Sutton was slaine in that blacke and dismall battell by night vpon London Bridge betweene Iack Cade with his Kentish Rebels and the Citizens of London Here lieth William Breke-spere of London sometime Merchant Goldsmith and Alderman the Common-wele attendant Wyth Margaryt hys dawter late wyff of Suttoon And Thomas hur sonn yet liuyng vndyr Goddys tuitioon The tenth of Iuyl he made hys transmigration She disissyd in the yer of grase of Chrysts incarnatioon A thowsand four hundryd threescor and oon God assoyl her sowls whos bodys lye vndyr this stoon Saint Leonards Fosterlane When the bells be merely roung And the Masse deuoutly soung And the meate merely eaten Then â—all Robart Trappis his wyffs and his chyldren be forgetten Thus farre Stow. Wherfor Iesu that of Mary sproung Set their soulys thy Saynts among Though it be vndeservyd on their syde Yet good Lord let them euermor thy mercy abyde And of yowr cheritie For their soulys say a Pater
fyue hundryd and eighteen yere Inscriptions in the Stilliard the house sometime of the German-Merchants Haec domus est laeta semper bonitate repleta Hic Pax hic requies hic gaudia semper honesta Item Aurum blanditiae pater est natusque doloris Qui caret hoc maeret qui tenet hic metuit Item Qui bonis parere recusat quasi vitato fumo in flammam incidit Saint Mary Bothaw .......... Chich .... vocitatus ..... Robertus omni bonitate refertus Bauperibus largus pius extitit ad mala tardus Moribus ornatus iacet istic intumulatus Corpore procerus his Maior arte Grocerus Anno milleno C quater x quater anno ............. This Robert Chichley was Lord Maior An. 1422. hee appointed by his Testament that on his birth day acompetent dinner should be ordained for 2400 poore men housholders of this city euery man to haue two pence in money Saint Michaels Crooked lane Here lieth entombed in a Chappell of his owne foundation Sir William Walworth Knight Lord Maior of London whose manfull prowesse against that arch-Rebell VVat Tyler and his confederates is much commended in our English Chronicles his monument was shamefully defaced in the raigne of King Edward the sixt as many others were but since it was renewed by the Fishmongers he died Anno 1383. as appeareth by this Epitaph Here vnder lyth a man of Fame William Walworth callyd by name Fishmonger he was in life time here And twise Lord Maior as in bookes appere Who with courage stout and manly might Slew Wat Tyler in King Richards sight For which act done and trew entent The King made him Knight incontinent And gaue him armes as here you see To declare his fact and Chiualrie He left this life the yere of our God Thirteene hundryd fourescore and three od Iohn Philpot Nicholas Brember and Robert Launde Aldermen were knighted with him the same day To this Maior the King gaue 100 pound land yeerely and to each of the other 40 pound land by yeare to them and their heires for euer He founded a Colledge to this parish Church for a Master and nine Priests or Chaplaines Worthy Iohn Louekin Stockfishmonger of London here is leyd Four times of this City Lord Maior hee was if truth be seyd Twise he was by election of Citizens then being And twise by the commandment of his good Lord the King Cheef Founder of this Church in his life time was he Such louers of the common-welth too few ther be Of August the fourth thirteene hundryth sixty and eyght His flesh to Erth his soul to God went streyght Sir William Walworth was an apprentice to this Iohn Louekin Here lyeth wrapt in clay The body of William VVray I haue no more to say Saint Laurence Poultney This Church was increased with a Chappell of Iesus by one Thomas Cole for a Master and a Chaplaine the which Chappell and Parish-Church was made a Colledge of Iesus and of Corpus Christi for a Master and seuen Chaplaines by Iohn Poultney Maior and was confirmed by Edward the third in the twentieth of his raigne So that of him it was called Saint Laurence Poultney in Candlewickstreet This Colledge was valued at 79. l. 17. s. 11. d. per ann and surrendred in the raigne of Ed. the sixth The thrice honourable Lord Robert Radcliffe the first earle of Sussex of that name and Henry Radcliffe his sonne and heire as of his possessions so of his honours were first interred in this Collegiate Church whose relique were afterwards remoued to Boreham in Essex Saint Mary Abchurch Hac gradiens fortis tua lingua precando laboret Esto memor mortis dum virtus vivida floret Dum vita fueris quid agas circumspice mente Nam tu talis eris qualis concido repente Corpora Gilberti Melites celat lapis iste Eius vxoris Christine quos cape Christe Saint Mary Colechurch So called of one Cole the builder thereof King Henry the fourth granted licence to William Marshall and others to found a brotherhood of S. Katherine in this Church to the helpe of Gods seruice because Thomas Becket and S. Edmund Archbishops of Canterbury were baptised herein Alhallowes Barking On the North side of this Church was sometime builded a faire Chappell founded by king Richard the first and much augmented by king Edward the first Edward the fourth gaue licence to his cosin Iohn Lord Tiptost Earle of Worcester to found here a Brotherhood for a Master and Brethren And he gaue to the Custos of that Fraternitie the advowsion of the Parish Church of Stretham in Surrey with all the members and appurtenances the Priory of Totingbeck and a part of the Priory of Okeborne in Wiltshire both Priors Aliens and appointed it to be called the Kings Chantrie In Capella beate Marie de Barking king Richard the third founded herein a Colledge of Priests and reedified the decayed structure Great concourse of people came hither to our Lady of Barking a pilgrimage vntill the Colledge was suppressed and pulled downe in the second of Edward the sixth and the ground whereupon it stood imployed as a Garden plot Many funerall Monuments are yet remaining in this Parish Church which you may reade in the Suruay of this Citie Saint Mary Wolnoth Here lieth Sir Iohn Arundell knight of the Bath and knight Baneret Receiuor of the Duchy ....... Grey daughter to the Lord Marquese Dorset who died 8. Febr. the 36. of the reigne of king Hen. the 8. This Sir Iohn Arundell was of the house of Lanherne in Cornwall a family of great respect in that county Of which I shall haue further occasion to speake when I come to Saint Columbs where this mans Ancestors lye entombed The Christian name of his wife with time worne or torne out of the brasse was Elianor the third daughter of Thomas Grey Marquesse Dorset halfe brother by the mother to Edward the fifth by Cicely daughter and heire of William Bonvile Lord Harrington Quid caro letatur cum vermibus esca paratur Terre terra datur Caro nascitur moriatur Orate pro anima Simonis Eyre ......................................... vnder this defaced Monument Simon Eyre the sonne of Iohn Eyre of Brandon in Suffolk lieth interred He was Lord Maior in the yeare 1445. Hee built Leaden Hall for a common Granary for the Citie and a faire large Chappell on the East side of the Quadrant ouer the Porch whereof was painted Dextra Domini exaltauit me And on the North wall Honorandus famosus Mercator Symon Eyre huius operis Fundator He gaue 5000. l. and aboue the poore Maids marriages and did many other works of charitie Hee died the 18. day of September 1459. Saint Nicholas Acons O ye dere frendys whych sall here aftyr be Of yowr deuotion plese ye to remembyr Me Richard Payne which of this noble cite Somtym whylst I liud was
the holy crosse so denominated of wearing a Crosse anciently called a Crouch vpon their garments and of bearing the crosse for the badge and Armes of their house This house was valued at the suppression to 52 l. 13 s. 2 d. of annuall profits A Petition to Secretary Cromwell against the Prior of this house a little before the dissolution thereof Pleasethe it your honourable mastoreship to be aduertesid that in the time of Lent last past your continuall orator Iohn Bartelote with others to the number of fiue persons of good conuersation found the Priore of the Crossyd Friores in London at that time being in bed with his whoore both naked about xi of the clocke in the forenoone vpon a Friday at which time the said Priore to the intent his misdemeanour and shamefull fact should not be knowne whereby he should sustaine open shame kneeled vpon his knees and not onely desired your said orator and his company to keepe secret his said act and not to disclose in any wife the same but for the same intent freely and of his owne motion gaue amongst them about xxx l. which he then was possessed of of the which summe your Orator had by the said gift about vii l. And also the said Priore promised to giue amongst the said company xxx l. more by a certaine day and after by mediation of friends of the said Priore the said xxx l. was released to the summe of vi l. which sixe pounds the said Priore bound himselfe to pay to the said Orator by his Bill obligatory at a certaine day in the same limeted Yet this notwithstanding for by cause your said Orator for non paiment of the said vi l. did arrest the said Priore he hath so hainously informed the Lord Chancelour against your Orator that he will onely put him to shewertie making the premisses a hainous Robbery saying openly that your Orator is worthy to be hanged but also will by his high authoritie compell your Orator to repay agen to the said Priore the some of xxx l. vnlesse your most charetable goodnesse bee therein otherwise shewed It may therefore plese your good Mastershipe of your abundant goodnesse to prouide that the premeses may be duly examined according to equitie for this is the very and hole truth in the same And your seid Oratore shall prey to God for your honor and preseruation long to endure By your humble Oratore to his power during his life Iohn Bartelote Saint Katherines by the Tower This was the Church belonging to the Hospitall dedicated to the honour of Saint Katherine founded by Queene Maud the wife of King Stephen and much augmented by Eleanor the wife of King Edward the first and Philip wife to King Edward the third who left to it sufficient liuelihood for a Master 3 Brethren Chaplaines and 3 Sisters tenne poore women and sixe poore Clarkes This house was valued at the generall suppression at 315 l. 14 s. 2 d. per annum Here vnder an Ancient monument â—ouly defaced lieth entombed the body of Iohn Holland Duke of Exceter Earle of Huntington and of Iuory in Normandy Lord of Sparre Admirall of England Ireland and Aquitaine Lieuetenant Generall of the Duchie of Aquitaine Fellow of the honourable order of the Garter and Constable of the Tower of London as he writ in his stile when Henry the fift in the fift of his raigne was to goe ouer into Normandy this puissant Iohn Holland as then but Earle of Huntington was sent before to scoure the seas who meeting with nine Carrickes of Genoa which were going to aide the French King fought with them and sunke sixe of them and tooke the other three with great store of money and treasure and brought them with his prisoners to the King This battaile was fought nere Harflew vpon the fall of the Riuer Seyne into the narrow seas of which an old versifier They faught full sore afore the water of Sayn With Carrickes many well stuffed and arayed And many other shippes great of Hispayn Barges Balyngers and Galleys vnfrayed Whiche proudly came vpon our Shippes vnprayed And by th'euen their sailes aualed were set Their enemies slaine in battayll and sore bet And many dryent were that daye in the Sea That as our flete rode there then alway Vnto the feast next of his Natiuitee The Bodies flete among our Shippes eche daye Full piteous was and to see theim ay That thousandes were twenty as they then told That taken were in that same batayll bold This valiant braue Duke died full of yeares the fift of August in the 25. yeere of King Henry the sixt Anno 1447. Here lye entombed by him his two wiues the first was Anne daughter of Edmund Earle Stafford by his wife Anne the heire of Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester by whom hee had issue Henry Duke of Exceter She had bin formerly married vnto Edmund Mortimer Earle of March and Vlster I cannot finde the time of her death His second wife here entombed was also Anne daughter of Io. Mountague the third of that name Earle of Salisbury who formerly had bin twise married to Sir Richard Hanckford to Sir Iohn Fitz-Lewis Knights She died the 27 of Nouember 1457. Here lieth likewise entombed the body of Constance sister of the foresaid Iohn Duke of Exceter daughter of Iohn Holland first of that name Duke of Exceter married to Thomas Lord Mowbray the sonne of Thomas who died in banishment Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England and remarried to Sir Iohn Grey Lord Grey of Ruthin she died the sixteenth of Henry the sixt New Abbey in East-Smithfield Before the foundation of this Abbey there stood in the same place a little Chappell within a Coemitorie or Church-yard dedicated to the honour of God by Raph Stratford Bishop of London wherein were interred innumerable many of such persons as died in the first great Pestilence the 23 of King Edward the third Now the said King liking well this plot of ground and hauing before in a tempest on the sea and perill of drowning made a vow to build a Monastery to the honour of God and our Lady of Grace if God would grant him grace to come safe to land builded here a Monastery wherein he placed white Monkes of the Cistercian order which house at the generall suppression was valued at 546 l. 10 d. yearely The Kings store-house for victuall and for baking of Biskets to serue his Maiesties Ships is built in the same place where this Abbey stood The Minories Here was an Abbey of Nunnes of the order of Saint Clare founded by Blanch Queene of Nauarre and her husband Edmund Earle of Lancaster Leicester and Darby brother to King Edward the first in the yeere 1293. This house was valued to dispend yeerely 418 l. 8 s. 5 d. and was surrendred by Dame Elizabeth Sauage the last Abbesse there vnto King Henry
broghte his mattores to passe without brekyng vppe of any grate or yet counterfettyng of keayes such capassetye God hathe sent him From Syone this sondaye xii Decembere By the speedy hand of your assured poore Preeste Richard Layton Not farre from hence was a fraternitie founded by Iohn Somerset Chancellor of the Exchequor and the Kings Chaplaine which he called Ecclesia omnium Angelorum Thistleworth Al yow that doth this Epitaph rede or see Of yowr mere goodnesse and grete cheritie Prey for the sowl of Maister Antony Sutton Bacher of Diuinity Who died in secundo die Augusti Annoque Domini M. ccccc.xl and three Orate pro anima Henrici Archer qui obijt 2 die Septemb. Anno Domini 480. cuius anime ..... If the date of this Inscription were true this Archer did line in the raigne of Lucius the first Christian King of this Monarchie but questionlesse this was the ouersight of him which inlaid the monument leauing out the figure of one which might haue made it right 1480. Here lyeth Iohn Robinson With his wyfs Katherin and Ione Who dyed M. ccccc and three On whos sowls Iesu haue mercy Hic iacet Clemens Colyns de Isleworth Vicarius vtriusque iuris Doctor qui obijt 1498. Prey for the sowls of Iohn Holt Margerie and Elizabeth his wyffs and for the sowls of all his children who died Anno Dom. 1520. In the yere of owr Lord God M. ccccc the fourth dey of December Margerie to God her sowl she did surrender Iesu full of mercy on her sowl haue mercy For in thy mercy she trusted fully Pray for the sowl of Audry the wyf of Gedeon Aundesham who dyed 1502. Here lyeth Iohn Sampol yeoman Vsher of the Kings Chamber who dyed the yeare 1535. Sampoll antiently called Saint Paul a familie of which name flourished at Melwood in Lincolnshire of which hereafter Hic Dominus Iohannes Payne Vicarius ..... 1470. Quisquis eris qui transieris sta perlege plora Sum quod eris fueram quod es pro me precor ora Hownslow Chappell Which belonged sometime to a Frierie thereunto adioyning now a Chappell of ease for the Inhabitants which are of two parishes Heston and Thistleworth by whom this fraternitie was founded I cannot learne except by the Windsores a familie of many descents euer since the comming in of the Norman Conqueror who had their habitation at Stanwell not farre off and chose this Friers Chappell for their place of buriall which together with the house was after the dissolution giuen by exchange to the Lord Windsore by King Henry the eight Orate pro animabus Georgij Windsore filij Andree Windsore de Stanwell militis et Vrsule vxoris eius .......... suorum et heredis apparentis .... Iohannis comitis Oxonie ..... Orate pro anima Willelmi Iacob qui dedit vnam clausuram vocatam Bushiheme ad inueniendam vnam Lampadem ....... qui ob ..... 1478. Vermibus hic donor et sic ostendere conor Qualiter hic ponor ponitur omnis honor Quisquis ades tu morte cades sta respice plora Sum quod eris quod es ipse fui pro me precor ora Vnder the picture of the blessed Virgine these verses following were depainted now almost quite worne out Virginis intacte cum veneris ante figuram Pretereundo caue ne fileatur Aue. Stanes Here sometimes stood a Priorie founded by Raph Lord Stafford some of which family as noble and ancient as any lye here interred namely Nicholas Baron Stafford who died 10. Kal. Nouemb. 1288. as I haue it out of an old Manuscript Obijt Nicholaus Baro Stafford 1288. et 10. Kalend Nouembris apud Stanes sepultus est Hellingdon great In this Church lieth buried vnder a Tombe couered with a marble stone Iohn Lord Strange of Knocking vpon which this Inscription is ingrauen Sub hac Tumba iacet nobilis Iohannes Dominus le Strange Dominus de Knocking Mahun Wasset Warnell et Lacy et Dominus de Colham vna cum pictura Iagnette quondam vxoris sue que quidem Iagnetta suit sâ—ror Elizabethe Regine Anglie quondam vxoris Regis Edwardi quarii qui quidem Iohannes obijt 15 die Octobris Anno regni Regis Ed. quarti 17 quam quidem Tumbam Iohanna Dominale Strange vna cum pictura lagnette ex sumptibus suis proprijs fieri fecit 1509. This race of le Strange continued for many descents in the dignity of Lord Barons in latine Records called Extranei for that they were Strangers brought hither by King Henry the second the yeare 1148. This Iohn Lord Strange here intombed was the laft of that Surname Baron of Knocking for Sir George Stanley sonne and heire of Thomas Lord Stanley Earle of Darby the first of that name married Ioane the sole daughter and heire of the aforesaid Iohn Lord Strange here mentioned who to her fathers memory made this monument with whom he had both her fathers honours and ample inheritance of which Thomas Stanley sometime Lord Bishop of Man in his pedegree of the Stanleyes speaking of Thomas the first Earle thus makes his rime a Mss. He maried his first sonne George to no Ferme nor Grange But honourably to the heire of the Lord Strange Who liued in such loue as no man els had For at the death of him diuars went almost madd At an vngodly banquet alas he was poysoned And at London in Saint Iames Garlikhith lyes buried The stile title and dignitie of Lord Strange Iames Stanley eldest sonne and heire of William Earle of Darbie a gentleman of laudable endowments both of minde and bodie now at this day happily enioyeth Harrow on the Hill I finde diuers of the Surname of Flamberds of Flamberds in this Parish now the habitation of a worthy Gentleman Sir Gilbert Gerard knight and Baronet to be here interred One of whose Tombes is thus inscribed Ion me do marmore numinis ordine slam tumulatur Barde quoque verbere stigis è funere hic tucatur Edmund Flambard Elisabeth gisont icy Dieu de â—almes eyt mercy Amen Flambard Edmundus iacet hic tellure sepultus Coniux addetur Elisabeth et societur Sta moriture vide docent te massa Iohannis Birkhed sub lapide trux necat Atropos annis M. Domini C quater X octo numeratis Iungitur iste Pater Cuthherge luce beatur Hunc charitas grauitas fides prudentia morum Presulibus primus Regni fecere decorum O Deus in celis tua nunc fouet alma maiestas Quem tantum terris morum perfecit honestas Acton Pray for the soul of Sir Thomas Cornwal Baron of Burford in the County of Salop knight and Baâ—neret which tooke to wyf Anne the dawghter of Sir Richard Corbet of the same County who departyd this lyf the xix of August M. D.xxx.vii on whos soul c. Learned Camden speaking of the Ancestors of this
short But he so long deferred the execution of this intent that he was surprised by death before he could performe it the sixteenth day of Ianuarie 1127. He was Warden of the marches of Wales and gouernour of the County of Salop he sate Bishop twenty yeares in which time beside the building of this Monastery he purchased diuers whole streets and much housing neere to his Cathedrall Church of Saint Pauls All which he pulled downe and leauing the ground vnbuilt for a Cemitery or Churchyard enclosed the same with a wall which for the most part remaineth but at this day so couered with houses as it can hardly be seene The Canons of this house desired his body to be here buried which they entombed vnder a marble Monument with this inscription Hic iacet Richardus Beauueis cognomine Rufus London Episcopus vir probus et grandeuus per totam vitam laboriosus Fundator noster religiosus et qui multa bona nobis et Ministris Ecclesie sue sancti pauli contulit obijt xvi Iaenuarij M. c.xx.vii cuius anime propitietur altissimus Woodham waters In this Church I finde no monument of any great antiquity howsoeuer here was the ancient seate of the Lords Fitz-waters who being nobly descended saith Camden were of a most ancient race deriued from Robert the yonger sonne of Richard sonne to Gislebert of Clare accounted Earle of Hertford but in the age lately foregoing translated by a daughter into the stocke of the Radcliffes the predecessors of the Earles of Sussex Woodham Mortimer Prey for the sowlys of Iron Cokar and Christian his wyf which Ion dyed the viii of Octobre on thowsand fowr hundryd seuenty and eight and the seyd Ion for the helth of his sowl gaue by his Testament and last Will to God and to his Church a yeerely rent of xx pens and iii. schillyngs iiii pens for kepyng his obit in this Chirch to bee takyn out of his croft callyd Windets yerly for euer Maldon In this towne stood the pallace royall of Cunobeline or Kimbaline King of great Britaine a Prince that spent his yonger yeares in the warres vnder Augustus Caesar of whom he receiued the order of Knighthood by whom he was so fauoured that by his alone request the peace of this kingdome was continued without the payment of Romane Tribute who hauing for a long time enioyed peace in the vniuersall peace of the world for in the xiii yeare of his raigne the God of peace our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ was borne of the blessed Virgin He trained vp his people in a more ciuill and peaceable kinde of gouernement then that to which they had beene formerly accustomed and departed this world in peace within this his Citie of Maldon then the chamber of his kingdome in the one and twentieth yeare of our redemption when he had raigned thirty and fiue yeares of whom thus writeth my Author Io Harding ca. xlv Kymbaline so was his sonne and heyre Noryshed at Rome instruct with Cheualre That knyght was made wyth honor greate and â—ayer By Octauian reigning then enterly Emperor then of Romes great Monarchy In whose time was both peace and all concord Through all the worlde and borne was Christ our Lorde He was buried in this his chiefe citie some say at London Hic iacet Henricus Coggeshale filius et heres Thome Coggeshale filij Thome Coggeshale Armigeri qui obijt 9. Ian. 1427. cuius Quisquis eris quitransieris sta perlege plora Sum quod eris fueramque quod es pro me precor ora Orate pro anima Thome Darcy Ar. corporis Regum Edwardi quarti et Henrici sexti et nuper vnius Iusticiar ad pacem in com Essex ac filij et heredis Roberti Darcy militis nec non pro anima Margarete consortis sue vnius filiarum et heredis Iohannis Harleton in com Suffolk Ar. qui quidem Tho. obijt 25. Mens Septemb. 1485. Hic iacet Rogerus Darcy Ar. filius et heres Tho. Darcy Ar. pro corpore illustrissimi Principis Henrici septimi Regis Anglie et Elizabetha vxor eius filia Henrici Wentworth militis qui obijt vltimo die Septemb. 1508. Diuers other faire monuments but shamefully defaced are here erected to the memory of the Darcies a numerous familie and for antiquity and noblenesse of birth of great respect in many places of this kingdome Sir Robert Darcy Knight remembred in the former inscription by his last will and testament bequeathed his body to be buried in this Church the substance whereof I haue read in an old Manuscript as followeth Robert Darcy Knight made his Testament the 5 of October Anno Domini 1469. his body he willed to be buried in all Hallowes Church of Maldon before the Altar in the Isle where his father lieth in a Tombe of marble Also he willed l markes to be disposed for two thousand masses for him to be said within sixe weekes next after his deceyse iiii d. for euery masse and that they be charged for to prey for his soule his wifs soul his fathers and his mothers and for all his sisters soules and for all their husbands soules and for all the soules that he is bound to prey for Of which said l. markes hee willed to haue somewhat euery Prist that dwelled in Penbroke hall in Cambridge Also he willed that euery Fryer that was a Prist in Colchester haue xx d. and euery little Fryer vi d. to say three dirgees considering that he was a brother of that Order And the house of Chennesford xl s. the house of Clare xx s. and each yong Frier vi d. considering that hee was a brother of their Order And he made his Executors Elizabeth his wife Io. Clopton Esquire Nicolas Saxton and Richard Astley Clerkes And the superuisors of this his Testament my Lord of Essex my Lord Dinham Thomas Mountgomery and Thomas Tirrill Knights lowly beseeching the said Lord of Essex the Lord Dinham Sir Thomas Mountgomery and Sir Thomas Tirrill to helpe his sonne Thomas and all his children Also hee willed that my Lord of Essex and the Lord Dinham should each of them haue a But of Malmesey and that Sir Thomas Mountgomery and Sir Thomas Tirrill should each of them haue a pipe of red wine Also he willed that his brother Iohn Clopton one of his Executors should haue for his labour xx.l. Also he willed mistresse Anne Darcy his brothers wife to haue xx markes Yeuen at Danbury the day and yeare aboue said This his will was proued quarto diâ— mensis Maij coram reuerendo in Christo Patre Domino Thoma Episcopo London infra manerium suum de Wekeham Anno Domini 1470. One King a Butcher with his two wiues Alice and Anne lie here interred vnder a goodly marble richly inlayd with brasse his Axe for his Armes with this Epitaph who died 1415 Subiacet hic pictus diues durus
quingentesimo decimo nono In the hall of the Mannor house of Newton Hall in this Parish remaineth in old painting two postures th' one for an Ancestor of the Bourchiers combatant with another being a pagan king for the truth of Christ whom the said Englishman ouercame and in memory thereof his descendants haue euer since borne the head of the said Infidell as also vsed the surname of Bowser as I had it out of the collections of Augustine Vincent Windsore Herald deceased Boreham The inheritance and honours of this famous and right noble race of the Fitz-waters came at length by mariage into the stocke of the Radcliffes for in the pedegree of Sir Alexander Radcliffe of Ordsall in the county of Lancaster knight of the Bath descended as the Earle of Sussex is from the Radcliffes anciently of Radcliffe in the said County the sonne of that valiant and generally beloued Gentleman Sir Iohn Radcliffe Lieuetenant Colonell slaine fighting against the French in the Isle of Rhee the 29. day of October in the yeare of our Lord one thousand sixe hundred twenty and seuen I finde that Sir Iohn Radcliffe Knight sonne of Sir Iohn Radcliffe knight who married Katherine the daughter and heire of Edward Lord Burnell of Acton Burnell in the county of Salop married Elizabeth the daughter and heire of Walter Lord Fitz-water of Woodham a Baron of great riches as of ancient nobility the father of Iohn who was Father of Robert Radcliffe the first of that sirname Earle of Sussex Viscount Fitz-water Lord Egremont and Burnell who with other two Earles his Sonne and Grandchilde lie here interred vnder a sumptuous monument as appeareth by their seuerall inscriptions and liuely portraitures To the memory of the first Earle for I am tied by my method onely to his at this time these funerall lines following are engrauen Robertus Radcliffe miles Dominus Fitz-water Egremond et Burnel Vicecomes Fitz-water magnus Camerarius Anglie Camerarius Hospitij Regis Henrici octaui ac eidem a consilijs Prelijs in Gallia commissis aliquoties inter primos ductores honoratus in alijs belii pacisque consultationibus non inter postremos habitus aequitatis Institiae constantiae magnum aetatis suae columen obijt xxvii die Nouemb. Anno Dom. M. ccccc.xlii aetat This Earle had three wiues whose portraitures are cut here vpon the Tombe by all of which he had issue By his first wife Elizabeth who was the daughter of Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham hee had Henry after him Earle of Sussex here intombed George Radcliffe and Sir Humfrey Ratcliffe of Elnestow By Margaret his second wife daughter of Thomas Lord Stanley Earle of Darby he had Anne married to Thomas Lord Wharton who lieth here buried by her father and Iane maried to Sir Antony Browne Knight Viscount Mountague By his third wife the daughter of Sir Iohn Arundell of Lanherne in Cornwall Knight he had issue Sir Iohn Radcliffe Knight who died without issue in the yeare 1566. and lieth buried in Saint Olaues Hart-streete London Henry Radcliffe Earle of Sussex sonne of this Robert as aforesaid was one of the priuie Councell to Queene Mary as I finde it in her Grant of liberty made vnto him for the wearing of Coyfes or Cappes in her presence which I coppied out of the Originall amongst the Euidences of Robert late Earle of Sussex deceased expressed in these words following Mary the Queene Mary by the grace of God Quene of Englonde France and Irelonde defendor of the Feythe and in Earthe of the Church of Englonde and Irelonde supreme Hede. To all to whom this present wryting shall come sendeth greting in our Lord euerlasting Know ye that wee do gyue and pardon to our welbeloued and trusty Cosen one of oure priuey Counsell Henry Earle of Sussex Viscount Fitz-water Lord Egremond and Burnell liberty licens and pardon to were his Cappe Coyf or night Cappe or twoo of them at his pleasor as well in oure presens as in the presens of any other person or persons within this our Relme or any other place of our dominion wheresoeuer during his life And these oure lettres shall be his sufficient warrant in this behalfe Yeuen vndre oure Signe Manuell at oure Palaes of Westminstre the second dey of October in the first yere of oure Reigne Her Seale with the Garter about it is fixed to this Grant with a labell of silke and so are the Armes of the Kings of England and E. R. the Seale manuell of Edward the sixt not altered This Henry departed this life at Sir Henry Sidneyes house in Chanon Row at Westminster on wednesday morning the 17. of February betweene fiue and sixe a clocke in the third and fourth yeare of Philip and Mary Anno 1556. as Vincent in his Discouerie of Brookes Errors verifieth by a certificate thereof in the booke of Burials in the Office of Armes Fol. 225. He was buried first by his Father in Saint Laurence Poultney Church in London from whence their remaines were remoued hither as you shall vnderstand by the present sequele That braue-spirited politicke-wise Lord Thomas Earle of Sussex Lord Chamberlaine of the Houshold to Queene Elizabeth of famous memory built or began to build a Chappell in this Church wherein this glorious Tombe is erected as a place of buriall for himselfe and his worthy progeny and commanded by his last Will and Testament as I was told that the honourable remaines of his Father and Grandfather Henry and the foresaid Robert Earles of Sussex should be remoued from the parish Church of Saint Laurence Poultney London where their bodies lay buried to this his Chapbell at Boreham wherein hee desired to be entombed all which was accordingly performed This Tombe was made by one Richard Stephens an outlandish man and finished with all furniture as gilding colouring and the like thereunto belonging the xxviii of May M.D. lxxxxix the whole charge thereof amounting to the summe of cclxxxxii l xii s. viii d. as appeares by the account which I haue seene This Thomas Earle of Sussex saith Camden was a most worthy and honourable personage in whose minde were seated ioyntly both politicke wisedome and martiall prowesse as England and Ireland acknowledged but more of him hereafter These Earles of Sussex of this sirname from Robert the first to Robert the last who died An. Dom. 1629. haue euer beene Knights of the Garter Hic iacet Thomas Coggeshale Ar. filius Thome Coggeshale Armigeri Iohanna vxor eius que quidem Iohanna obijt xvii Iulij M.ccc.xv Thomas obiit ..... Newport Her lyeth Thomas Brown Who 's sowl God pardown ......... M. ccccc.xv Her vndyr this marble ston Lyeth the body of master Ion Heynes Bacheler of Law And somtym Vycar of this Chirch I traw Who passyd out .......... ...... M. cccc Here sometime stood an hospitall in this Towne by whom founded I cannot reade Valued at the fatall destruction of all such houses at 23.
bodyes her befor yow lyn closyd in cley Euery man and woman of yowr cheritie do yow prey That to the blis of heuen sweet Iesu do their soulys bring Vnto the plas celestial befor owr heuenly King Richard deseysed the iiii of August M. ccccc.xxvii and Margerie M. ccccc ... Her vndyr this ston lyes Piers Ion And Elisabyth his wyff lyeth him hard by On whos sowlys Iesu haue mercy Besech yow for cherite Sey a Pater Noster and an Aue. The whych decessyd the on and twentyth of Septembre In the yer of owr Lord God on thowsand four hundred seuenty and thre Her lye Iohn Outred and Ione his wyff Who liuyd long togeddyr withoutyn stryff Iohn left this world and passyd to heuen On thowsand fyue hundryd yere and eleuen This Church is beautified with a sumptuous funerall Monument wherin diuers of the familie of the Cookes lie entombed whose habitation was at Giddy-Hall hereunto adioyning which house was built for the most part by Sir Thomas Cooke Lord Maior of London and knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Elizabeth wife to King Edward the fourth vpon the Frontispice of which these verses were engrauen of later times Aedibus his frontem Proauns Thomas dedit olim Addidit Antoni caetera sera manus 1568. Aedes quisque suas Domini sed maenia pauci Aedisicant leuior cura minora decet Vpmenster This towne of Vpmenster or Vpminster as it is diuersly written lying three miles from Rumpford requireth some large remembrance from mee in respect that it hath enioyed within little more then the space of three hundred yeares diuers eminent families who haue beene Lords of the same or at least of the Mannor of Gains called also the Mannor of Vpmenster lying within the same to which mannor as long tradition hath left to posteritie there is a little Isle or Chappell standing on the north side of the Chancell of the same Church belonging and time out of minde appendant to the Mannor of Gains aforesaid and appropriated to the Lords of the same for their particular place of buriall for themselues and their issue The first familie of whose posteritie I can dilate which I finde to haue beene Lords of the said mannor of Gains alias Vpmenster was that most ancient sirname of Engaine whether thence drawne or no I leaue to others to coniecture and it is warranted by a long tradition that Sir Iohn Engain Knight the sonne of Vitalis Engayn being Lord of the said mannor did build the before mentioned Chappell which since hath receiued its denomination from the blessed Virgin This familie ended in the male line when Sir Thomas Engayne Knight sonne of Iohn Engayne Esquire and grand-childe to the former Sir Iohn left his three daughters his coheirs of whom Iocosa the eldest was wife of Iohn de Goldington Elizabeth the second was married to Sir Lawrence de Pakenham knight Mary the third daughter coheire was wife of Sir William de Barnake knight There is no Tombe or grauestone left of this familie but onely their Coatarmour in the East window of the aforesaid Chappell This Mannor of Gains alias Vpmenster was afterwards seuerally in the possession of Symon de Hauering who I conceiue was but the Feoffe in trust of Sir Iohn the sonne and heire of Iohn Engayne of Alice de Perrers afterwards attainted by Act of Parliament in a. 1. R. 2. and of Henry de la Felde whose further mention leauing the first two in silence serueth onely to this present Narration The said Henry de la Felde did by his Deede indented a. 9. H 4. entaile the said mannour vpon Richard Walter and Iohn his sonnes each after other vpon the default of issue and lastly vpon Iohn Deincourt and Elizabeth his wife the daughter of the said Henry de la Felde in whose right afterwards it should seeme he came to be Lord thereof and there lieth buried together with his wife vnder a faire Tombe placed iust vnder the Arch which diuideth the said north Chappell or Isle from the Chancell of Vpmenster Church Es testis Christe quod non iacet hic lapis iste Corpus vt ornetur sed spiritus vt memoretur And about the tombe though somewhat mutilated is written this Epitaph Sancte deus sancte fortis sancte miserecors saluator miserere Animabus Rogeri Dencourt Armigeri Elizabeth consortis sue quorum corpora sub isto lapide marmoreo tumulantur ac etiam orate Filiarum suarum qui quidem Rogerus obijt vicesimo An. Domini Millesimo cccclv Nec non orate pro animabus omnium defunctorum hic vbique in Christo quiescencium The next owner of this mannor of a new sirname I finde to haue beene Nicholas Wayte of whom or his familie I can say little onely by his sale it came to be the inheritance of Ralph Lathum Esquire a lyneall descendant in the male line from a yonger branch of the ancient familie of Lathom of Lancashire who were Lords of that place in the said Countie as all the receiued descents of that familie warrant from the time of King R. 1. vntill the latter end of E. 3. when Isabel the sole daughter and heire of Sir Thomas Lathom Knight was married to Sir Iohn Stanlye knight from whom the now earle of Darbie is lineally descended and as I conceiue is from the right of this intermarriage Lord of the Mannor of Lathom at this day The Epitaph of this aboue said Ralph Lathom is placed in brasse set into a faire marble stone couering his tombe and is as followeth Here lieth buried Rayff Lathum esquire late Lord of Vpmistre and Elizabeth his wife which Rayffe deceased the xix day of Iuly An. M. ccccc Lvii. whose soule and all christen soules Iesus haue mercy The next familie to whom by the sale of William Lathom sonne and heire of the aforesaid Ralfe Lathom the before mentioned Mannor of Gains did appertaine was the familie of D'Ewes from whom also it was again at last repurchased by Lathom for Adrian D'Ewes being descended of the ancient stem of Des Ewes Dynasts or Lords of the Dition of Kessell in the Dutchie of Gelderland setling and marrying in England not many yeares after the beginning of the raigne of King H. 8. had issue Gerardt D'Ewes his sonne and heire who hauing purchased the said Mannor of Gains as aforesaid was after his death according to the former vsage buried in the said Chappell appendant to the said Mannor as other Lords of the same had beene whose Epitaph because it is replenished with many particulars touching the antiquity and ensignes of this familie I haue beene more exact in the full delineation thereof in the figure following ANTIQVA INSIGNIA FAMI\LIAE DES EWES DYNASTARVM DE KESSEL INSIGNIA GESTA AB EORVM POSTERIS Ad memoriam aeternam Geerardt D'Ewes Filij Primogeniti Adriani D'Ewes ex Illustri perantiqua Familia Des
Brudnell of Stouton as followeth Margaret daughter of Richard Vere of Addington magna in Com. Northampton Esq. by his wife Isabell sister and heire of Sir Henry Greene of Drayton in the said County which Margaret was sister to Sir Henry Vere whose eldest daughter and coheire Elisabeth was wife of Iohn first Lord Mordant lieth here buried with her husband Iohn Barners Iohn Barners of Writle in Essex Esquire Lord of a place there called Turges or Cassus was gentleman Vsher to Princesse Elizabeth eldest daughter to King Edward the fourth after Sewer to King Edward the fifth as appeareth by his Monument in Writle where he lieth buried Constance daughter of Sir Robert Pakenham of Streetham in Surrey was his second wife she is likewise buried by her husband at Writle ob 1522. Finchingfeeld Iohn Barners of Peches in Finchingfeeld Parish Esq died Ann. Dom. 1500. and there lieth buried by him his first wife Elisabeth daughter of Symon Wiseman .... Debden or Depondon Here lieth buried Nicholas Barners with his wife Margaret one of the daughters and coheires of Iohn Swyndon Esquire who died ... 1441 ..... Of this name thus much as followeth Sir Iames Barners or Berners for it is written both wayes saith Mils was so great in fauour with Richard the second that it cost him his head though he were restord in bloud by Act of Parliament the one and twentieth yeare of the said King Richard was the onely off-spring of so many knights of the Berners of Berners Roding in Essex This Sir Iames Berners had three sonnes Sir Richard Berners of Westhorsley in Surry whose daughter and heire Margerie was married to Iohn Bourchier created Lord Berners From whom Sir Tho. Knyvet of Ashulthorp in Norfolke knight Tho. whose Grandchild Iohn Berners Esquire Sewer to Prince Edward the fifth was great Grandfather of William Berners of Tharfield in Hartfordshire And William of whom are come the Berners of Finchingfield in Essex Great Thorndon Hic .... here 's Iohannis Eton Ar .... que quidem Isabella sedere matrimoniali nupsit Roberto Tyrell Armig. vni filiorum ..... Voluitur in terra magne virtutis alumpna Elisbet que Tyrell generoso sanguine clara ............. vxor veneranda marito ................. amica deo ........ oro vobis dignetur vt miserere Vt gratiamque Dei sic famuletur ei Hic iacet humata Alicia filia Willelmi Cogeshale militis Antiochie consortis sue quondam vxor Iohannis Tyrell militis qui quidem Iohannes Alicia habuerunt inter se exitum filios filias quorum nomina sunt scripta ex viraque parte istius lapidis .... M. cccc xxii Filii 1. Walterus 2. Thomas 3. Willelmus senior 4. Iohannes 5. Willelmus iunior 6. Iohannes Tyrell Clericus Filie 1. Alicia 2. Elizabetha 3. Alionora 4. Another whose name is worne out of the Tombestone Here lyeth Thomas Tyrell sonne and heire of Iohn Tyrell knyht and Dame Anne his wyff doughter to Syr William Marney knyght which Thomas deceysyd the xxii of March in the yeare of ..... In the glasse of the East window .... Tyrell knyth and Dame ...... and for al the soulys schuld be preyd for Prey for the welfar of the seyd Thomas Tyrell knyth of Iohn Tyrell knyth Alyce hys wyffe and for al christen souls .... The wellfar of the seyd dame Anne ... ter of William Marney knyth and .... and .... bet hys wyffe and for all christen souls There be other funerall Monuments in this Church erected to the honour of this familie but their Inscriptions are all torne or worne out and their Sepulchers like all the rest foulie defaced These Tirells me thinks hauing beene gentlemen for so many reuolutions of yeares of exemplarie note and principall regard in this Countrey might haue preserued these houses of rest for their Ancestors from such violation But the Monuments are answerable to the Church both ruinous This Surname hath euer beene as remarkable as ancient since Walter Tirrell the French knight slue his cosin king William Rufus Of whom thus much out of the Norman History Gualter Tirrell a knight of Normandy cosin to William Rufus and the killer of the said William after the vnfortunate death of the said William departed into Normandy where he liued long in the Castle of Chawmont and there deceased The place where he swomme the water vpon the sudden death of his Soueraigne is called Tirrells Foard to this day Willingale Hic iacet Domina Catherina filia Domini Rogeri Beauchamp militis de Com. Bedsord nuper vxor Thome Torell Armig. que obiit vi die Nouemb. Ann. Dom. 1436. et Ann. Regni R. Hen. vi post conquest ...... Stanbridge Edward Mackwilliams Esq. and Henry his Sonne with Anne Spelman wife of the said Henry lye here buried in the Chancell vnder a faire Tombe whereupon this Epitaph following is engrauen or inlaid in brasse Remember all yee that by this toune be to pass And groundly revolue in yowr rememberance Both the world is frayle and britle as glass The end is death of euerye mans chance All worldly peple must lerne to foot his dance As Edward Mackwilliham that lith vndre this stonn Out of this transytorye liff is past and gonn Harry Mackwilliham his sonn lith here also with Ann Mackwilliham his lovyng wiff and dere Thes thre persons togidder and no mo Vndre this Tombe interred they be here Prey for their souls I prey yow with harte inteere A Pater Noster an Ave and a Creede And iii hundryd deyes of pardon yow have for yowr meede This Anne is figured on the Tombe kneeling with the Spelmans Armes of plates all ouer her gowne and so in the great East-window of the Chancell Ashdon In the south Isle of this Church and in the south window thereof there are seene three seuerall Cloptons kneeling in their compleat Armour with their seuerall Escurchions of Armes vpon their breasts being S. a bend Or betweene 2 cotizes dauncitee Or of which three the first is sir William Clopton Knight there mentioned to haue died in the fifth yeare of King Edward the third The second Sir Thomas Clopton Knight mentioned to haue died the second yeare of the raigne of King Richard the second and the third Edmund Clopton the yeare of whose decease is there set downe to haue beene the thirteenth yeare of the said King Richard And it is very likely the said Edmund lieth there buried vnder the Window for Sir William de Clopton of Clopton the father of these three and of other brethren buying the Mannor of Newenham lying for the most part in this parish of Iohn de Lacy the brother and heire of Sir Henry de Lacy Knight in anno 2. E. 3. of which I haue seene the originall deed left to the said Edmund his second sonne by Iuetta the daughter of William de Gray his first wife his said Mannor from whom
hauing the libertie of refusall thereupon redemanded the foresaid summes by his said procuratours Next to him Sir Thomas Wriothesley created in the time of Henry the seuenth This Sir Tho. Wriothesley in the 19. of H. 8. was ioyned Embassadour with Viscount Lisle the naturall sonne to King Edward the fourth and others which carried the Garter to the French King Francis the first He that succeeded him was Sir Thomas Wall Knight created Ann. 26. Hen. 8. Sir Christopher Baker Knight of the Bathe created Garter Ann. 28. Hen. 8. 1536. Sir Gilbert Dethick Knight was preferred to the Office of Garter the fourth of Edward the sixth He died in the yeare 1584. This Sir Gilbert Dethick was ioyned Embassadour with the Marquesse of Northampton to carry the Garter to the French King Henry the second Ann. 5. E. 6. And the like for the same purpose to the Prince of Pymont with Edward Lord Clynton And also with the Lord Hunsden to the French King Charles the ninth and with the Earle of Sussex to the Emperour Maximilian and likewise with the Lord Willoughby to Fredericke King of Denmarke Sir William Dethick Knight was crowned Garter in the eight and twentieth yeare of Queene Elizabeth he was deposed the first yeare of King Iames. This Sir William Dethick lieth buried in Pauls neare vnto Sir Payne Roet vnder a large marble-stone Whereupon this Inscription following is engrauen Hic ..... in Domino Gulielmus Dethick Eques Auratus filius heres Gilberti Dethick Equitis aurati Qui ambo fuerunt Garterij Principales Reges Armorum Anglicorum Hic Anno 1584. aetat 84. Ille anno 1612. etat suae 70. in Domino obdormierunt And after his deposing Sir William Segar Knight now liuing Ann. 1631. was created Garter he hath written a learned booke called Honour Militarie and Ciuill A Succession of the Prouinciall Kings of Armes Prouinciall Kings of Armes are at this day onely two Clarentieux and Norrey Clarentieux was ordained by Edward the fourth for he obtaining the Dukedome of Clarence by the death of George his brother who was secretly murdered in the Tower of London made the Herauld which properly belonged to the Duke of Clarence a King at Armes and called him Clarentius or Clarentieux but in whose time or vpon what occasion this name and Office of Clarencieux began I do not finde saith Sir Henry Spelman Glosslit H. but certainly it was of greater Antiquitie then from Edward the fourth and might be called South-Roy of his Prouince of South as North-Roy or Norroy of the North parts His proper Office is to Marshall and dispose the Funeralls of all the lesser Nobilitie as Knights and Esquires thorow the Realme on the South side of Trent The office of Norrey the time nor the reason of his Creation and Title I do not know is the same on the North side of Trent that Clarentieux hath on this side as may well appeare by his name signifying the Northerne King or King of the North parts These two saith Milles haue by Charter power to visite the Noblemens Families to set downe their Pedegrees to distinguish their Armes and in the open Market place to reproue such as falsely take vpon them Nobilitie or Gentrie And to order euery mans Exequies and Funeralls according to their dignitie and to appoint vnto them their Armes or Ensignes The names surnames and seuerall adiuncts of these Kings of Armes according to the foresaid Catalogue beginning at Edward the first and continued to these times Iaques Hedingley in the time of King Ed. the first was King of Armes by the name of Guyon Sir Payne Rowet in the raigne of Edward the third was King of Armes by the name of Guyon Iohn March was King of Armes by the name of Norroy 2. pars pat An. 9. R. 2. Membr 21. Richard del Brugge otherwise called Lancaster was King of Armes for the North in the time of Henry the fourth and in the first of Henry the fifth William Tyndall in the time of the foresaid Henry the fourth was King of Armes by the name of Lancaster ..... in the time of Henry the fifth was King of Armes by the name of Agincourt William Horsley alias Clarentieux Iohn Kiteby alias Ireland Iohn Wrexworth Guyon Iohn Ashwell Lancaster Thomas More Guyonne Roger Leigh Clarentieux Iohn Wrythe Norroy Thomas Collyer Ireland Iohn Mowbrey Clarentieux William Hawkeslow Guyonne Sir Thomas Holme knight Clarencieux Iohn Ferrant March Iohn Moore Norroy Officio Heraldi Regis Armorum partium Borialium Regni Anglie perresignationem Iohannis Wrythe alias dicti Gartere vacante Rex constituit Iohannem More ac dictum Windesore Heraldum Regem que Armorum partium Borialium Regni Anglie imponit ei nomen vulgare Norrey pro termino vite sue Teste Rege apud W. 9. Iulii 2. pars pat Ann. 18. E. 4. Membr 4. Richard Ashwell Ireland William Ballare March In Edward the fifths time no Officers were Created Richard Champney Gloucester 1. Ric. 3. Walter Belling Ireland Roger Macado Clarencieux Thomas Tonge Norroy William Carlile Norroy Iohn Young Norroy Thomas Tong Clarencieux Thomas Beuolt Norroy Thomas Wall Norroy Thomas Beuolt Clarenciuex who in the fourteenth of Henry the eight was imployed to defie the French King And in the 19. of Henry the eight to defie the Emperor Charles the fifth which he performed with great grace as may appeare in the Spanish Story and receiued liberall gifts Iohn Ioyner Norroy Thomas Hawley Norroy Thomas Hawley Clarencieux Christopher Barker Norroy William Fellow Norroy Gilbert Dethick Norroy William Haruey Norroy Bartholomew Butler Vlster William Haruey Clarencieux 1556. obijt 1566. Laurence Dalton Norroy 1556. obijt 1561. William Flower Norroy 1561. obijt 1588. Nicholas Narboone Vlster Robert Cooke Clarencieux 1566. Hee was imployed with the Earle of Darby for carrying of the Garter to the French King Henry the third an 1584. obâ—jt anno 1592. Edmund Knight Norroy 1592. obijt 1593. Richard Legh Clarencieux 1594. obiit 1597. Sept. 23. William Camden Clarencieux 39. Queene Elizabeth 1597. who died the 9. of Nouember 1623. aged 74. as appeares by this Inscription following vpon his Funerall Monument in the Abbey of Westminster where he lieth buried Qui fide Antiqua et opera assidua Britannicam Antiquitatem indagauit Simplicitatem innatam honestis studijs excoluit Animi solertiam candore illustrauit Gulielmus Camdenus ab Elizabetha R ad Regis Armorum Clarentij titulo dignitatem euocatus Hic spe certa resurgendi in Christo S E Obijt Anno Domini 1623. 9 Nouembris Etatis suae 74. I haue read this Ogdoasticon following penned but by whom I know not to the honour of our Antiquarie Camden in the praise of his Book Londinum Camdene tibi dedit aethera et auram Ingenij cultum praebuit Oxonium Historicum Occidiui delubra monastica templa Reddunt materies terra Britanna fuit Londinum Oxonium delubra et terra Britannae Camdeni
pulchro nobilitata libro Postque magisque ergo delubra terra Britannae Claret Londinum claret Oxonium This learned reuiuer of Antiquities writ a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes of England Scotland Ireland the Ilands adioyning out of the depth of Antiquitie As also the famous history of Queene Elizabeth the mirrour of all Princes of the world There is likewise another booke said to be of his penning called Remaines concerning Britaine but especially England and the inhabitants thereof Sir Richard Saint George Knight Norroy Sir Richard Saint George Knight Clarencieux a Gentleman euer ready to giue me his best furtherance in this worke Created the 23. of December 1623 and now liuing 1631. Sir Iohn Borough Knight a learned Gentleman created Norroy the foresaid 23. of December 1623. Heralds of Armes their Names Sirnames and Additions from former times to this present yeare 1631. These Heralds at this day are onely sixe which by the names of their additions Lancaster Richmond Chester Somerset Yorke Windesor These are created to attend Dukes in Marshall executions and in all things endeauour themselues for the defence of their societie First I finde a Herald by his addition called Wales 15. Iulij 2 pars pat an 17. R. 2. m. 13. And afterwards he was called Percy Herald 6. Augusti Anno 2. Hen. 4. As also one Bardolfe Herald of Armes anno 22. R. 2. And Windsore Herald confirmed an 3. Rich. 2. Heralds in the raigne of King Henry the Fift William Brugges alias Chester afterwards Garter William Horsley alias Leopard afterwards Ireland Iohn Wrexworth alias Exceter afterwards Guyon Nicholas Serby alias Leopard Iohn Hoswell alias Clarence William Boys alias Exceter Giles Waster alias Mowbray Iohn Ashwell alias Leopard afterward Lancaster King of Armes Heralds in the raigne of King Henry the sixt Thomas More alias Windesore afterward Guyonne Roger Legh Chester afterwards Clarencieux Iohn Wrythe or Wriothesley Leopard Herald and afterward Garter as aforesaid Thomas Collier Clarence afterward Ireland Iohn Mowbray Exceter afterward Clarencieux Robert Ashwell Windesore William Hawkeslow Leopard afterward Guyonne Iohn Horsley Mowbray Iames Billet Chester Iohn Millet Clarence Richard Stanton Chester Robert Dunham Exceter Heralds in the time of Edward the Fourth Iames Collier Lancaster Iohn Ferrant Windsore afterward March Iohn More Chester afterward Norroy Roger Mallet Falcon. Richard Ashwell Lancaster afterward Ireland Thomas Tonge Richmond afterward Norroy Henry Franke Yorke William Carlile Richmond afterward Norroy Richard Champney Faulcon afterward Glocester Roger Stamford Chester Richard Slaske Windsore In the time of Edward the fift murdered in the Tower whose raigne was but ten weekes and foure daies no officers of Armes were created In the time of Richard the Third Roger Bromley Chester 1 R. 3 Iohn Waters Yorke 1 R. 3. In the raigne of Henry the 7. these Heralds following Iohn Young Windsore alias Norroy Thomas Beuolt Lancaster afterward Norroy and lastly Clarencieux Thomas Waters Carlyle Rowland Playnford Yorke Robert Browne Richmond Thomas Wall Richmond afterward VVindsore then Norroy VVilliam Iennyngs Lancaster VVilliam Tyndall Lancaster Raph Lagysse Yorke Iohn Ioyner Richmond afterward Norroy In the time of Henry the eight created as followeth Thomas Hawley Carlile afterward Norroy Thomas Wall Windsore afterward Norroy as before Christopher Barker Richmond and next Garter Iohn Ponde Somerset William Fellow Lancaster after that Norroy Thomas Byseley Yorke William Hastings Somerset Allen Dagnall Yorke Randolfe Iackson Chester Richard Crooke Windsore Leonard VVarcopp Carlile Charles VVriothesley VVindesore Thomas Mylner Lancaster Iohn Narboone Richmond Thomas Traheyron Somerset Bartholmew Butler Yorke afterwards Vlster Fulk ap Howell Lancaster Richard Radclyffe Somerset Gilbert Dethick Richmond afterward Norroy then Garter VVilliam Haruey Somerset afterwards Clarentieux VVilliam Flower Chester afterwards Norroy This Chester attended the Embassage sent by the Marquesse of Northhampton when he carried the Garter to the French King Henry the second Anno 5. Edwardi sexti In the time of Edward the Sixt. Lawrence Dalton Richmond afterward Norroy Edmond Atkinson Somerset In Queene Maries raigne Martin Marolfe Yorke 1. of her raigne obijt 1563. the 5. of Elizabeth Nicholas Tubman Lancaster Nicholas Narboone Richmond afterward Vlster Heralds created in the happy Raigne of Queene Elizabeth Iohn Cocke Lancaster 1. Eliz. 1558. imployed to attend the Earle of Leycester Lieutenant and Gouernour generall of Queene Elizabeths forces in the Lowe Countries Robert Cooke Chester 4. Eliz. 1562. and next Clarentieux Richard Turpyne Windsore 7. Eliz. 1564 William Colborne Yorke 7. Eliz. 1564. Hugh Cotgraue Richmond 9. Eliz. 1566. Iohn Hart Chester Herald 9. Eliz. who writ a booke of the Reformation of the English Orthographie imprinted Ann. Dom. 15. Raph Langman Yorke 10. Eliz. 1567 William Dethick Yorke 12. Eliz. 1569. and next of all Garâ—er 28. Eliz. 1586. In the time of his being Yorke Herauld he was imployed to attend the Embassage sent by the Earle of Sussex to carry the Garter to the Emperour Maximilian And afterwards was ioyned Embassadour with the Earle of Shrewsbury to carry the Garter to the French King Henry Robert Glouer Somerset 14. Eliz. 1571. A man he was of infinite industrie and incredible paines a man of an excellent wit and learning witnesse that Catalogue of Honour begun by himselfe in Latine and finished by his kinsman Thomas Milles in which he vndertooke to cleare the Dâ—sâ—cents and Royall pedegrees of our Kings and Nobilitie he attended the Embassage sent by the Earle of Darby which carried the Garter to the French King Henry the third And was Princely rewarded He died 10 of Aprill 1588. aged 45. yeares and lieth buried in S. Giles Church Criâ—plegate to whose memory a Monument is there erected whose inscription you may reade in Stowes Suruay Edmund Knight Chester 17. Eliz. 1574 afterwards Norroy Ann. 34. Eliz. 1592. as before Nicholas Dethicke Windsore 26. Eliz. 1583. obijt Ianuar. 1596. Richard Lee Richmond 27. Eliz. 1584. afterwards Clarentieux Nicholas Paddy Lancaster 31. Eliz. 1588. Humphrey Hales Yorke 30. Eliz. 1587. obijt Ianuar. 16. 1591. William Segar Somerset 31. Eliz. 1588. afterwards Norroy then Garter vt supra Iames Thomas Chester 34. Eliz. 1592. March 26. Raph Brooke Yorke 34. Eliz. 1592. March 16. William Camden Richmond afterward Clarencieux vt supra Iohn Rauen Richmond Thomas Lant Windsor Robert Treswell Somerset was imployed to attend vpon the embassage sent by the Earle of Nottingham to Philip the third King of Spaine to receiue his Oath for the Peace in anno 1604. Richard St. George Windsor then Norroy and now Clarentieux Francis Thinne Lancaster a Gentleman painfull and well deseruing in his office whilest he liued William Penson Chester 1. Iacobi 1602 Samuell Thompson Windsor Ingenious Nicholas Charles as Milles calls him whose iudicious knowledge in Pedegrees and Armes shewed learning to liue in Herauldrie William Penson Lancaster 10. Decemb. 1613. Thomas Knight Chester Sir Henry St. George Richmond was sent ioynt Embassadour with the Lord Spence and Sir Peter
Berwike obijt Henry Fellow Guynes obijt Pursuiuants created in the time of Edward the Sixt. Robert Fayery Portcullis obijt Simond Newbald Rougecroix obijt Martin Marolfe Rougedragon Yorke Nicholas Tubman Rougecroix Lancaster Richard Withers Portcullis Nicholas Narboone Blewmantle Richmond Vlster In the raigne of Queene Mary these Phelip Butler Attelon obijt Hugh Cotgraue Rougecroix Richmond Iohn Cocke Portcullis William Colborne Rouge Dragon Yorke Iohn Hollinsworth Risebanke Blewmantle obijt Pursuiuant created in the raigne of Queene Elizabeth of famous memory at whose Coronation these Pursuiuants Heraulds and Kings were Officers Hugh Cotgraue Rougecroix Pursuiuants Iohn Cock Portcullis Pursuiuants William Colborne Rougedragon Pursuiuants Iohn Hollinsworth Blewmantle Pursuiuants Charles Wriothesley Windsor Heralds William Flower Chester Heralds Edmund Atkinson Somerset Heralds Martin Marolfe Yorke Heralds Nicholas Tubman Lancaster Heralds Nicholas Narboone Richmond Heralds Sir William Dethick Garter Kings William Haruey Clarentieux Kings Laurence Dalton Norroy Kings Bartholomew Butler Vlster Kings Edward Merlin Portcullis obijt Richard Turpin first Blewmantle secondly Windsor Raph Langman Portcullis Yorke Robert Cooke Rose blanch Chester Clarencieux Iohn Hart Chester Nicholas Dethicke Blewmantle Windsore obijt Ian. 1596. Edmund Knight Rouge Dragon Chester Norroy William Dethick Rougecroix Yorke Garter Robert Glouer Portcullis Somerset Thomas Dawes Rougecroix obijt Richard Lee Portcullis Richmond Clarencieux Nicholas Paddy Rougedragon Lancaster Rafe Brooke Rougecroix Yorke Humfrey Hales Blewmantle Yorke William Segar Portcullis Somerset Norroy Garter and Knight This Sir William Segar being Portcullis Pursuiuant of Armes in the yeare 1586. was imployed by Queene Elizabeth to attend the Earle of Leicester being her Lieuetenant and gouernour Generall of her forces in the Low Countries And being Somerset Herald was imploied to attend the Embassage sent by the Earle of Shrewesbury to the French King Henry the Fourth to receiue his Oath and to inuest him with the order of the Garter And afterwards being Norroy was ioynd Embassador with Roger Earle of Rutland to carry the Garter to Christian the fourth King of Denmarke As also being Garter he was imploied in the like seruice to Morice the last Prince of Orenge deceased And lately ioynd Embassadour with the now Viscount Dorchester to carry the Garter to Henry Prince of Orenge In all which seruices he hath worthily demeaned himselfe Iames Thomas Blewmantle Chester Iohn Rauen Rouge Dragon Richmond Thomas Lant Portcullis Windsor Robert Treswell Blewmantle Somerset Thomas Knight Rougecroix Chester William Smith Rougedragon Samuel Thompson Portcullis Windsor Mercury Patten Blewmantle Philip Holland Rose extraordinary Portcullis Pursuiuants of Armes created in the raigne of our late dread Soueraigne Lord King Iames viz. Philip Holland Portcullis Iohn Guillam Portesmouth extr Secondly Rougecroix This man is best knowne by an excellent Booke which he writ called The Display of Heraldrie Henry Saint George Rougerose ext Blewmantle Richmond Sampson Leonard Rougecroix Blewmantle Iohn Philpot Blanchlion extr Rougedragon Somerset Augustine Vincent Rougerose Extr. Rougedragon Windsore Iohn Bradshawe Rougerose Extr. Rougecroix Windsore Iohn Hamlâ—ne Blanchlion extr Thomas Thompson Rougedragon In the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord and King now liuing these Thomas Preston Portcullis Who in the yeare 1630. vpon the birth of the right excellent Prince Charles was by his Maiestie imployed to the Lords Iustices of the kingdome of Ireland with his Maiesties most gracious letters according to the ancient custome signifying to that Realme that most happy newes Vpon whose arriuall the State there made great and large expressions of their ioyfull hearts for such welcome tidings worthily receiuing and bountifully rewarding the said Officer of Armes George Owen Rougecroix William Ryley Rouge-Rose extr Created 31. Iulij 1630. Noblemen and Peeres of this Land in ancient time had their Heralds peculiar vnto themselues saith Milles. For Chester the Herauld and Falco the Pursuiuant liued at the command of the Prince of Wales and serued him Humfrey Duke of Glocester and Earle of Penbroke had the Herald Penbrooke his domesticall Seruant Richard also Duke of Glocester hauing now obtained the kingdome would needs haue his Herauld Glocester to be called King of Armes for all Wales Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke retained Suffolke Herauld and Marleon Pursuiuant The Marquesse of Dorcester kept Groby Herauld The Earle of Northumberland Northumberland Herauld and Esperance Pursuiuant Arthur Plantaginet Viscount Lisle tooke vnto himselfe Lisle Pursuiuant and Baron Hastings Hasting Pursuiuant But the condition of the Seruant is made better by the dignitie of his Lord and Master so these forenamed Heraulds liued not with like authoritie or priuiledges with the Kings And here now giue me leaue to speake a little more of the Aetymologie Antiquitie and dignitie of Heraulds in generall Herald Herold or Herault dicitur quasi Herus altus a high Maister For this Officer was of great authoritie amongst the Romanes who plurally called them Feciales a faciendo quod belli pacisque faciendae penes cos ius erat or Fediales a faedere faciendo And so with vs the word signifieth an Officer at Armes whose function is to denounce warre to proclaime peace or otherwise to be employed by the King in martiall messages or other businesse and so they are called Internuncij vel pacis vel belli ferendi Messengers to carrie and offer either warre or peace Heralt saith Verstegan in the Title of Honours and Offices is meerely a Teutonic or Duytch word and in that tongue and no other the true Aetymologie thereof is onely to be found To begin then with the first syllable thereof which is Here though in composition abridged to Her it is the true and ancient Teutonic word for an Armie the same that Exercitus is in Latine and in that sence it is yet vsed in Germany And whereas the Germanes doe now vse Here also for Lord yet anciently they so vsed it not And although the Teutonic be more mixed with other strange languages yet this word Here as they vse it for Lord or master hath crept into their language from Herus in Latine after that the Latine tongue became knowne vnto them A Healt in the Teutonick is a most couragious person a champion or an especiall challenger to a fight or combat of the weapon that such sometime most vsed called a Healtbard because it was borne by a Healt we yet though corruptly retaine the name of Holbard and the Netherlands make it Heilbard Here-healt by abbreuiation Heralt as also Herald doth rightly signifie the Champion of the armie And growing to be a name of Office he that hath in the armie the especiall charge to challenge vnto battell or combat in which sense our name of Herald doth nearest approach vnto Fecialis in Latine as I haue touched before The Feciales amongst the Romanes saith one were Priests For Numa Pompilius who flourished circa ann mundi 3283. the second King of the Romanes diuided the institution of diuine honour into eight parts and so instituted and ordained eight seuerall orders of Priests and
filiabus suis qui Nicolaus obijt v. die mens Nouembris An. Dom. M. cccc.vii quorum animabus .... Pray for the soul of Roger Hunning Fishmonger somtime porueyor of Seafish to our Soueraigne Lord King Henry the eight and Margaret his wyff the which Roger decessyd the third day of May An. Dom. M. ccccc xli whos soul Iesu pardon Amen Orate pro anima I home Paynard alias dict Thome Aylwood quondam Secretarii cum Radulpho â—uper Domino Cromwell ac nuper Secretarij cum Willelmo Domino Beaumont et postea Secretarii cum Willelmo Domino Hastyngs qui quidem Thomas obijt xxii die Nouembris Anno Dom. M. cccc.lxxiii Raph Lord Cromwell here mentioned was Lord Treasurer of England Anno 1444. William Lord Beaumont was the sonne and heire of Iohn Lord Viscount Beaumont the first Viscount that we certainly know to haue beene in England howsoeuer it is said that Iohn Robsert Captaine of Saint Samers in France sonne of Sir Lewis Robsert knight of the Garter was Viscount Robsert in king Henry the fifts time William Lord Hastings created by king Edward the fourth to whom he was Lord Chamberlaine Hic iacet Ioanna Coppinger vidua quondam vxor Willelmi Coppinger Armigeri postea nupt Richardo Darland gen qui quidem Ioanna obijt xviii die Martij ... Mcccclxxxxii Saint Michaels Pater Noster in the old Royall Hic iacet Thomas Wandesford ciuis et Aldermannus London Idonea vxor eius qui quidem Thomas obijt xiii die Octobris An. Dom. M. ccccxlviii Quorum animabus Gulielmo Bayly militi ciui et Pannario London fide integritate vite insigni qui huius vrbis Preturam tanta ingenij dexteritate tanta animi promptitudine verborum comitate gessit vt omnium Senatorum et populi merito nuncupetur delitie Lites mire perosus Pauperum Patronus delictorum corrector omnibus ordinibus iuxta charus et numerosa sobole beatus fuit Cantariam vt vocant in hoc templo perpetuo stabiliuit ..... Domina Katherina vnica coniux coniugi charissimo et bene merenti et Robertus Leessis Executores fidelissimi posuere 5. Kalend. Nouemb. 1532. He had by his wife Catherin sixteene children as did sometime appeare by their pourtraitures on the Tombe-stone He was the sonne of Iohn Bayly of Thacksted in Essex Glanvile sub glebe tegit hic lapis ossa Iohannis Obsequio Regis subijt se plurimis annis Sci ..... quos viuens ... moriens suos ad vos .............. Spiritus aspiret ferte iunamen ei Prey of yowr cherete for the souls of Agnes Cheyney wydow late wyff vnto William Cheyney somtym Esquyr for the Body vnto kyng Harry the seuenth Whyche Agnes dyed the fyfteenth day of Iuly in the yere of our Lord God on thowsand four hundryd eyghty and seuen And for the souls of William Cheyney Robart Molyneux and Robert Sheryngton her husbands and all Cristen souls Hic iacet Iohannes Rayning generosus qui obijt 22. die Iunij Ann. Domini 1469. Cuius anime propitietur Deus Of yowr charite pray for the soul of William Porter late Clarke of the Crowne and Elisabeth his wife the which departyd the 4 of March 1521. on whose souls .... Clarke of the Crowne is a Clarke or Officer in the Kings Bench whose function is to frame reade and record all Indictments against Traitors Felons and other offenders there arraigned vpon any publike crime He is otherwise called Clarke of the Crowne office And Ann. 2. Hen. 4. cap. 10. he is called Clarke of the Crowne of the Kings Bench. The reason of his denomination is because he reads and records Indictments against Traitors Felons c. which are against the Kings Crowne and dignitie Saint Nicholas Olaue Here lyeth the body of William Fyloll sonn and heyr apparaunt to William Fyloll of Woodlond in the county of Dorset knyght and to Dame Dorothy hys wyff dawter and heyr to Iohn Ifeyld of Stondon in the Shyre of Hertford Esquyr Whych William the sonn dyed in the lyff of his fadeâ— wythowt yssue the iiii day of Septembyr in the yere of owr redemption M. cccccix and in the yere of his age the syxteenth Who 's soul God pardon Amen Orate pro animabus Iohannis Westcliff Ioanne vxoris sue qui quidem Iohannes quondam fuit Maior ville Sandwici obijt 19. Decemb. 1473. quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Ici gist William Newport iadis Citizen pessamere de Londre Massie sa femme leur enfens de ens engendre Dieu de lour alues eit pitye Amen Amen This Newport was one of the Sheriffes of London in the yeare 1375. Hic iacet Willelmus Read Ciuis Piscenarius London qui obiit .... Margeria vxor eius que obiit sexto die Iunij Anno Domini Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo septimo Vpon the same marble stone as followeth Who that passyth by this way Qui pro alijs orat pro se laborat For mercy of God behold and pray Qui pro alijs orat pro se laborat For all souls cristen and for vs Qui pro alijs orat pro se laborat On Pater Noster and an Ave. Qui pro alijs orat pro se laborat To the blessyd Saynts and owr blessyd Lady Qui pro alijs orat pro se laborat Saynt Mary to pray for vs. Qui pro alijs orat pro se laborat Many Monuments of the Dead in Churches in and about this Citie of London as also in some places of the countrey are couered with seates or pewes made high and easie for the Parishioners to sit or sleepe in a fashion of no long continuance and worthy of reformation Of the Diocesse of London the Battels therein fought and of the Burialls of the Dead slaine in those terrible conflicts NOw as I haue before spoken somewhat of the Bishoprickes of Cant. and Rochester so let me here speake a little of this Diocesse of London which extendeth so farre in circuit as the Site of the East or Middle Saxons kingdome anciently comprised which was bounded on the East with the Ocean on the South with the Thames on the West with the Colne and on the North with the Riuer Stowre within the limits whereof Midlesex Essex and a part of Hertfordshire are contained The glory of which Diocesse is principally Midlesex in regard of the far-famed City of London the Metropolis of England of which I haue spoken before and the chiefe seat of her sacred Bishops as also in regard of the Riuer of Thames the king of all our Riuers Of whom and of the rare prospects he views in his passage betweene Windsore and London Bridge a late Poet thus versifies But now this mighty Flood vpon his voiage prest That found how with his strength his beauties still increast From where braue Windsore stood on tiptoe to behold The faire
ground to build it larger These personages following I finde to haue beene registred in the Martirologe of this house The Lord Roger Bigot Earle Marshall Sir Iohn Sutton Knight Lady Margaret Plays Sir Richard Plays Sir Robert Vfford Earle of Suffolke Wolsey Colledge Cardinall Wolsey borne in this towne whose vast minde alwaies reached at things began here to build a most magnificent and sumptuous Colledge in the place where sometime stood a small monastery of blacke Canons founded by Thomas de Lacy and Alice his wife and dedicated to the honour of Saint Peter and Saint Paul Woodbridge Hic iacet Iohannes Albred quondam Tweleweuer istius ville .... ob primo die Maij ... 1400. et Agnes vxor cius This Tweleweuer with Agnes his wife were at the charges people of all degrees being as then forward to beautifie the house of God to cut gild and paint a Rood Loft or a partition betwixt the body of the Church and the Quire whereupon the pictures of the Crosse and Crucifixe the Virgin Mary of Angels Archangels Saints and Martyrs are figured to the life which how glorious it was when it was all standing may be discerned by that which remaineth This their worke of pietie was depensild vpon the fabricke of which so much as is left Orate ..... Iohannis Albrede et Agnetis ......... soluerunt pro pictura totius huius operis superne ... videlicet crucis crucifixi Marie Archangelorum et totius candelab ....... The names of some of the Saints portraied vpon the worke and yet remaining are these S. Paul S. Edward S. Kenelme S. Oswald S. Cuthbert S. Blase S. Quintin S. Leodegare S. Barnaby S. Iherome Orate ... Iohannis Kempe qui obijt 3 Iulij 1459. et pro animabus Margarete ac Iohanne Margarete vxorum ... Pray for ... of Robert Partrich Botcher ... who dyed on Midsommer day M. cccccxxxiii Mariory and Alis his wyffs ... Mariory the vi of Henry the viii Alis ... on their souls their children souls and all cristen souls almighty Iesu hane mercy Here in this Towne was sometime a monastery consecrated to the honour of the blessed Virgin Mary founded by Sir Hugh Rous Knight valued at fiftie pounds three shillings fiue pence halfe penny per annum The bodies buried in this Priorie Church were these which follow Sir Hugh Rous or Rufus the Founder and Dame Alice his wife Sir William Rous and Dame Isabell his wife Sir Arnold Rous and Dame Elisabeth his wife Sir Giles Rous. Sir Arnold Rous and Dame Isabell his wife Sir Richard Brews and Dame Alice his wife Sir Iohn Brews and Dame Eue his wife Sir Iohn Brews and Dame Agnes his wife Sir Richard Brews Lord of Stradbroke Sir Giles Brews Sir Robert Brews and Dame Ela his wife Sir Thomas Brews and Dame Ione and Elizabeth his wiues Sir Nicholas Weyland and Dame Beatrix his wife Sir Thomas Weyland Sir Robert Weyland Sir Herbert Weyland William Brews Esquire William Melton Richard Feningle Muriell Gouncill Seuall Woodbridge Edmond Woodbridge Sir Iohn Shandlow and Dame Elizabeth his wife The names of certaine persons registred in this Monastery in a Table for whose soules the Prior and Couent were bound to pray and say Masse Sir Hugh Rous or Red the Founder and sixe other Knights of the same sirname Sir Richard Brews knight Lord of Stradburgh or Stradbrooke Patron of the Church with seuen other Knights of the same sirname and their wiues Sir Robert de Vfford and Dame Cecily his wife Robert de Vfford Earle of Suffolke and Dame Margaret his wife This Robert who was also Knight of the Garter Lord of Eay and Framlingham He and William Montague Earle of Salisbury were Generals of King Edward the thirds Army in Flanders when he went to make his claime to the Crowne of France He serued vnder the blacke Prince at the battaile of Poictow where Iohn the French king was taken prisoner He died in the fortieth and third yeare of the raigne of King Edward the third on the sunday after All Saints Sir William Vfford second Earle of Suffolke of that sirname and Isabell his wife This Earle built the Church at Parham in this County he died sodainly in the Parliament house at Westminster speaking for the Commons the 15. day of February 1382. and in the fift yeare of the raigne of Richard the second Dame Maud Henand Countesse of .... Sir William de Londham knight Robert Rendlesham Austin Philip. Ione saint Philbert daughter of the Earle of Suffolke Isabell de Braham and Edward the sonne of sir Thomas of Braderton Vfford This is the most neatly polisht little Church that I haue looked into within this Diocesse The roofe whereof and other parts of the Quire being curiously engrauen with sundry kindes of workes and pictures all burnisht and gilt with gold The Organ case whereupon these words Soli Deo Honor Gloria are carued and gilt ouer is garnished and adorned in most costly manner The Font and the Couer of the same is without compare being of a great height cut and gloriously depicted with many Imageries consonant to the representation of the holy Sacrament of Baptisme as also with the Armes of the Vffords Earles of Suffolke whose principall habitation was in this Towne It is said by the Inhabitants the foresaid Earles of Suffolke lie here interred but I finde no shew of it in the Church as also the bowels of Raph de Vfford Lord chiefe Iustice of Ireland of whom the Annales of Ireland speake thus as followeth Vpon the 13. day of Iuly 1343 the Lord Ralph Vfford with his wife the Countesse of Vlster came Lord chiefe Iustice of Ireland vpon whose entring the faire weather changed sodainly into a distemperature of the aire and from that time there ensued great store of raine with much abundance of tempestuous stormes vntill his dying day None of this Predecessors in the times past was with griefe be it spoken comparable vnto him For this Iusticer bearing the Office of Iusticeship became an oppressor of the people of Ireland a robber of the goods both of the Clergie and Laitie of rich and poore alike a defrauder of many vnder the colour of doing good not obseruing the rights of the Church nor keeping the law of the Kingdome offering wrongs to the naturall inhabitants ministring iustice to few or none and altogether distrusting some few onely excepted the inborne dwellers in the land These things did he still and attempted the like misled by the counsell and perswasion of his wife Thus he continued his rigorous gouernement for the space almost of three yeares and vpon Palme sunday 1346. which fell out to be the ninth day of Aprill went the way of all flesh For whose departure his owne dependants together with his wife sorrowed not a little for whose death also the loyall subiects of Ireland reioyce no lesse the Clergy and people both of the Land
for ioy of his departure out of this life with merry hearts doe leape and celebrate a solemne feast at Easter At whose death the flouds ceased and the distemperature of the aire had an end and in one word the common sort truely and heartily praise the onely sonne of God Well when this Iustice now dead was once fast folded within a sheet and Coffin of lead the foresaid Countesse with his treasure not worthy to be bestowed among such holy reliques in horrible griefe of heart conueied him ouer into England there to be enterred Orate pro ... Roberti Lambe Alicie Lambe ...... ..... Lambe ...... These Lambes haue beene speciall benefactors to this Church being sometimes men of faire possessions in this parish as I was told their names with the pictures of Lambes are depensild in many places of the woodworke and feeling of the Church Hic iacent Symon Brooke et Emota Margareta et Alicia vxores eius qui quidem Symon obijt 12. octob 1488. An ancient Familie these Brookes were in this parish now extinct as I haue it by relation Orate pro bono statu Christopheri Willoughby Armigeri Margerie vxoris eius this is in a glasse window of the Church Campsey or Camesey This was a Nunnery not farre from Vfford founded by one Theobald and consecrated to the honour of the Virgin Mary which was valued at the suppression to be yearely worth in Lands one hundred eighty and two pounds nine shillings fiue pence These Nunnes were of the order of S. Clare and called Minoresses Maud who was first married to William Lord Burgh Earle of Vlster and after to Raph de Vfford chiefe Iustice of Ireland repenting her selfe belike of her own and her last husbands delinquences committed in Ireland of which I haue spoken before obtained licence of King Edward the third by the procuration of her brother Henry Earle of Lancaster to found a Chantrie in this monastery of fiue Chaplaines secular Priests to pray and sing Masse for the soules of the said William de Burgh and Raph de Vfford whose body was here interred such is the Charter of the Foundation Edwardus c. Sciatis quod 16 die Octobris Anno regni nostri 21. ad requisitionem dilecti consanguinei et fidelis nostri Hen. Com. Lancastrie nec non Matildis comitisse Vltonie consanguinee sororis eiusdem comitis c. dederimus et consesserimus prefate comitisse quod ipsa quondam cantariam quinque capellanorum quorum vnum custodem eiusdem cantarie duxerit nominand in capella virginis gloriose infra Ecclesiam Monasterij siue prioratus monialium de campese diuina celebrar ad laudem Dei dicte virginis matris eius pro salute que Willelmi de Burgh quondam comitis Vltonie primi ac Radulphi de Vfford secundi et virorum suorum Cuius quidem Radulphi corpus in eadem capella quiescit humatum c. Test. meipso apud West c. Letheringham In the parish Church and in the Church of the little Priory adioyning are diuers Tombes and grauestones to the memory of that noble and ancient Family of the Wingfields all of which are fouly defaced This Priory was founded by sir Iohn Boynet of the dedication order or time I am altogether ignorant it was valued at twenty sixe pounds eighteene shillings fiue pence of yearely commings in The Wingfelds here buried were these Sir Robert Wingfeld Lord of Letheringham Sir Robert Wingfeld and Elizabeth Gousall his wife Sir Iohn Wingfeld and Elisabeth his wife Sir Thomas Wingfeld Sir Robert Wingfeld and Elisabeth Russell his wife obijt Robertus 1409. Thomas Wingfeld and Margaret his wife Richard Wingfeld Anne and Mary Inscriptions vpon the monuments of the Wingfelds partly remaining are these which follow Hic iacet tumulatus Dominus Willelmus Wingfeld Miles Dominus istius ville patronus istius Ecclesie qui ob primo die Iulij 1398. Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Hic iacet Willelmus VVingfeld Armig. et Katherina vxor eius .... Dominus et patronus Quorum ... Hic iacet Dominus Robertus VVingfeld miles et Elisabetha vxor eius qui quidem Robertus obijt 3. die Maij 1409. Quorum animabus .... Amen Hic iacet Dominus ...... Wingfild miles quondam Dominus de Letheringham Here is also an ancient faire Tombe very fouly defaced whereupon this fragment of an Inscription following is onely remaining ..... Elizabethe Arundel Ducisse Norfol. Iohannis Paulet militis qui quidem Iohannes obijt x Maij M. cccclxxxi ...... ac Domina Elizabetha Wingfeld vxor predicti Iohannis filia ..... Sir Antony Wingfield of Letheringham Knight sonne and heire of Sir Iohn liued in the raignes of King Henry the eight and Edward the sixth in the 31. of Hen. the 8. he was Captaine of the Guard He was Controller of Edward the sixth his House and of the priuie Councell to King Henry the eight and Edward the sixth and Knight of the Garter Hee died ..... he married Elisabeth daughter and coheire of Sir George Veere Knight and of Margaret his wife the daughter of Sir William Stafford Hee was Vice-chamberlaine to King Henry the eight and together with the Earles of Arundell and Essex and others appointed to be ayding and assisting with his aduise and counsell the Executours of the said Kings last Will and Testament A copie whereof I haue in my custody By which his will he giues to the said Sir Antony two hundred pounds In the Priorie Church here at Letheringham diuers of the ancient familie of the Nantons lie buried Of whom out of their pedegree I haue these notes following Master William Smart affirmeth that he hath seene â—n ancient Euidence dated before the Conquest of England wherein the Nantons are named who saith they were written by the name of Nawnton Roger Awston reporteth that Nawnton came in with the Conquerour and that he hath seene Records of the same who for seruice done had then giuen him in marriage a great inheritrix It is reported that Nawntons lands were at that time 700. markes per annum These Nauntons are Patrons of the Church of Alderton in this County as appeares by this Epitaph there Here lieth Henry Naunton Esquire late Patron of this Church and Tristram Naunton both sonnes of William Naunton Esquire and of Elisabeth his wife and Elisabeth wife to the said Henry daughter of Euerard Asheby Esquire and Elisabeth daughter to the said Henry Naunton and Elisabeth Asheby Patruus ignotus Genetrix vix nota sororque Occumbunt sequeris tu mihi sancte Pater Chara Domus terras fugitis neque sic me fugitis Vos sequar in caelos ..... Patri Patruo Matri Sororulae charissimis Posui fleuique Robertus Naunton 1600. Now Sir Robert Naunton knight one of his Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell and master of the Court of Wardes and Liueries Of which
regard of their former seruices done to his Father Swenus King of Denmarke Snape A Priory of blacke Monkes and a Cell to Colchester founded in the yeare 1099. the twelfth of William Rufus by William Martill and Albreda his wife and Geffrey Martill their sonne and heire dedicated to the Virgin Mary and valued in the Kings bookes to be yearely worth ninety nine pounds one shilling eleuen pence halfe penny Hoxon In times past called Hegilsdon and much ennobled by reason of the Martyrdome in this place of Edmund King of the East Angles enshrined sometimes in the Abbey of Bury as I haue spoken before honoured by his name to whose holinesse a Monasterie was erected in this place Wykes This was a Monastery of Nuns dedicated to the Virgin Mary founded by King Henry the third or at least wise by him confirmed as it is in the Records in the Tower valued at fourescore and twelue pounds twelue shillings three pence halfe penny of yearely commings in Neyland The manufacture of Clothing in this County hath bin much greater and those of that trade farre richer I perswade my selfe heretofore then in these times or else the heires and executors of the deceased were more carefull that the Testators dead corps should bee interred in more decent manner then they are now a daies otherwise I should not finde so many marbles richly inlaid with brasse to the memory of Clothiers in foregoing ages and not one in these latter seasons All the monuments in this Church which beare any face of comelinesse or antiquity are erected to the memorie of Clothiers and such as belong to the mystery Hic iacet Iohannes Ewel quondam Fuller istius ville et Agnes vxor eius qui quidem Iohannes obijt vi Octobris anno Dom. M. cccc.xxxvi litera Dominicalis G. Orate .... Georgij Hamund Textoris de Barby qui obiit anno Domini M.D.xxx I beseche you as to say oon Pater Noster and an Aue for the soul of Dame Thomasin Hamund .... worker .... M.D.xlviii One Abell a Cloth worker built the Porche of this Church which is a very faire one in the wall whereof he hath a funerall monument and to signifie his name as also to make vp his cote Armour is the letter A. and the picture of a Bell cast vpon the Monument Stoke iuxta Neyland This Church is highly honoured by the Sepulture of diuers of the illustrious Familie of the Howards PASSIO ΞΡῙ CONFORTA NOS IESV MISERERE NOBIS In the East Window of the South part in the Church are these portraitures of Sir Iohn Howard Knight and Dame Alice his wife daughter and heire of Sir William Tendring Knight with the subscription following Orate pro animabus Domini Iohannis Howard Dominae Aliciae vxo ris eius Vpon a faire marble though much defaced in the Quire Orate pro animabus Iohannis Howard militis qui obijt ... 1400. et Alicie vxoris eius que obijt in festo Sancte Luce Euangeliste 1426. Vpon the Pauement before the high Aultar lyeth an auncient Grauestone hauing thereon the figure of a Knight in compleat Armour resting his Head vpon his Gauntlet with this circumscription Hic iacent Tumulati Dominus Willelmus Tendring miles Katherina Clapton vxor eiusdem obierunt anno Domini 1408. ..... Domina Iohanna Redmeld quondam sponsa Willelmi Redmeld militis ac filia recolende memorie Domine Margarete Howard Ducisse Norfolcie hic superius tumulate obijt .... xx Febr. M.D. Neare vnto the same vpon the pauement is also another Monument with the circumscription as here vnder appeareth the Brasses of the Figures and some of the Armes thereof are most impiously stolne away and so is the Brasse of the Inscriptions Armes and Images of three other faire stones lying there neare Orate pro animabus Iohannis Howard Militis qui obiit Ann. 14. et Allicie vxoris eius que obiit in festo Sancti Luce Evangeliste Ann. 1426. quorum animabus proprietur Deus HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Under this Stone is buried the body of the right honorable woman and Ladie sometime wife vnto the right high and mighty Prince Lord Iohn Howard Duke of Norfolke and mother vnto the right noble and puissant Prince Lord Thomas Howard Duke also of Norfolke Which Lady departed this present life Ann. Dom. 1452. In the South part of the said Church betweene the high Altar and the Quier is a monument with this similitude and subscription aforementioned of the right honourable Lady Katherine daughter of William Lord Molins the first wife of Iohn Howard Duke of Norfolke who was the sonne of Sir Robert Howard and of Margaret his wife daughter and co-heire of Tho. Mowbray Duke of Norfolke sonne of Iohn Lord Mowbray and Elisabeth his wife daughter and heire of Iohn Lord Segraue and Margaret Dutchesse of Norfolke the daughter and heire of Tho. of Brotherton the fifth sonne of King Edward the first the which he had by Margaret his second wife the daughter of the French King Phelip the Third Tendringhall Chappell in the Parish of Stoke iuxta Neyland In the East window of the priuate Chappell of Tendring Hall in the said Parish of Stoke iuxta Neyland is the effigies aboue shewed which is supposed by reason of the quarterings in his Coate of Armes to be made for Iohn Lord Howard after created Duke of Norfolke In which and in the foresaid Monument is to be obserued that according to the auncient rule the Coate Armour of the Bloud-Royall is placed in the first quarter before the Paternall Coate Hic .... Katerina de Tenderyng quondam vxor Thome Clopton que obijt die Veneris ante festum Pentecostes M. ccccii ... Lady Windsore .... doughter of Sir William Walgraue At the vpper end in the North side of this Church next to the Chancell Iohn de Peyton the sonne of Reginald lieth interred vnder a marble stone About the verge whereof these few French words following are onely remayning .... Iena de Peytona .... Mercye ... lame Crist .... Vnder another marble stone adioyning his sonne Sir Iohn Peyton knight lieth inhumed with this French Inscription Vous qe par ici passet Pur l'ame Sire Iehan de Peytona priet Le cours de oi ici gist L'ame receyue Ihu crist Amen These Peytons had their mansion at Peyton Hall in Boxford not farre hence Of which and of them Camden Wicken came to the familie of the Peytons saith he by a daughter and coheire of the Gernons about Edward the thirds time as afterward Isleham descended to them by a coheire of Bernard in Henry the sixth his time which knightly familie of Peytons flowred out of the same male-stocke whence the Vffords Earles of Suffolke descended as appeareth by their coat-armour albeit they assumed the surname of Peyton according to the vse of that age from their Mannour of Peyton Hall in Boxford in
and Edyth his wife which Thomas died M. cccc.xlvii Anne wife of Iohn Terell of Gepynge Esquier of the doughters of Sir Iohn Sulyarde knight dysceased the xxiii of February M.D.lviii Elisabeth wife to Iohn Sulyard Esquier doughter to Sir Iohn Ierningeham knight dysceased xix of Ianuary an M.D. xviii Margaret wife to Iohn Sulyard Esquier dysceased laste of August M.D.xxi. Margaret wife of Andro Sulyard Esquire dysceased 1 of April an M.D. xxi Andro Sulyard Esquire dysceased xxi of October M. cccc.xliii Iohn Sulyard Esquire dysceased the viii of Merche anno Dom. M.D.xxxviii Dame Anne first married to Sir Iohn Sulyard Knight and aftyr to Sir Thomas Bansher knight who dyed the xxv of Iuly anno Dom. M.D.xx. Sir Iohn Sulyard Iustice of the Kings Benche first husband of the foresaid Anne dyed in an M.D. vi William Sulyard the sonne of Iohn Sulyard Knight .... Iohn Copynger Esquire Lord and Patron Anne and Iane his wiues who had vii children and dysceased an M.D.xvii Nycholas Tymperley Esquire who dysceased the xx of May. M. cccc.lxxxix Water Copynger gent. which died the x. of Merche an M.D.xxxii and Beatryx his wife the second of February M.D.xii Robart Roydon Gentylman dyed the xxiii of Aprill an M.D.v. Symon Powley gent. and Margery his wife the doughter of Edmond Alcokes which dyed the xiii of October M. cccc.lxxx.v Edmond Alcock gent. Lord of the towne of Badley Beatrix and Izabell his wiues which Edmond dyed the v. of February Mcccc lxxxxi Edward Powley gent. which dyed the xxv of Ianuary M.D.iiii and Iane his wife Elizabeth Garnes wedow late wife of Iohn Garnes Esquire of Kenton which died the second of April an M.D.xxxix Robart Hamond Esquire and Alyce his wife who had iiii sons and ix doughters Iohn Sulyard the son of Iohn Sulyard Esquire and Ales his wife the doughter of Iohn Barington Esquire of Essex which Ales dyed the xxi of December an M. cccc.lxviii Iohn Batysford Esquire and Margery his wife which Iohn dyed the vi of February in an M. cccc.vi and Margaret in an M. cccc .... Iohn Yaxley otherwise called Iohn Herberd of Melles Sergeant at Law which died the xix of Iuly M.D.v and in the xx yeare of Henry the vij and also Elizabeth Yaxley doughter of Richard Brome Esquire being late wife of the foresaid Iohn Yaxley which dyed M.D. Rychard Floyde Esquire which died the xvi of Ianuary M.D.xxi. Robert Bucton Esquire Lord and Patron of the towne of Ockley which died the xvii of December M. cccc.viii William Cornwalleys and Elizabeth his wife which William died M.D.xx. Elizabeth wife to William Cornwalleyes Esquire who died the first of Aprill M.D.xxxvij Robart Southwell Esquire Sergeant at Law and Iustyce of peace and Cecyll his wife doughter of Thomas Sherington Esquire which died the xxvii of September M.D.xiiii Catheren Bouth late wife of Rychard Bouth of Suss. Esquire which dyed the xiii of Iuly M. cccc.xlvi Edmond Iermy Esquire which died the last of September an M.D.vi. Thomas Barnaby a Priest that bare Armes dyed the iii. of Aprill M. cccc.lxxxix Thomas Sackford Esquire Elizabeth and Margaret his wiues which Thomas dyed xxiii of Nouemb. 〈◊〉 an M.D.v. Thomas Sampson Esquire dyed the v. of February M.D.vii Iohn Walworth gent. dyed the x. of Aprill an M. cccc.lxxxviij Clemencia Walworth wedow dyed in an M. cccc.lxxxvij Margaret late wife of William Walworth late of Ipsewich gent. which dyed the first of April M. cccclx Augustine Stratton and Margaret his wife Margaret late wife of Iohn Goldyngham Knight died in an M. ccccxiii Iohn Goldingham Esquire Ione and Thomasyn his wiues which Iohn dyed in an M.D.xviii Iohn Goldingham Esquire son to Iohn dyed in an M. cccc.xx Elyzabeth late wife of Iohn Goldingham Esquire died in anno M. cccc.xxix Iohn Broke of Eston dyed in anno M. cccc.xxvi Robart Wyngfelde Knight and Elizabeth his wife which Robart dyed the first of May M. cccc.ix Sir William Boyvile Lord of Letheringham and Patron of the cherche ...... Lady Anne Russell late wyef to Sir Iohn Russell of Woostershyr .... Margaret Wyngefelde sometyme wyef to Sir Iohn Wyngefelde knight ... Sir Iohn Wyngefelde knight late Lord of Letheringham Thomas Wyngefelde knight Rychard Wyngefelde and William Wyngefelde Esquyers sons of Sir Robart Wyngefelde knight and Elysabeth his wyef syster to the Duke of Norfolke ..... William VVyngefelde Esquyer sometyme Sewer to our Souereigne Lord Henry the eight and the son of Sir Iohn VVyngefelde knight and Dame Elizabeth his wyef which VVilliam dyed the iiii day of December M. cccclxxxi Nicholas Fastalff late son to Thomas Fastalff esquyer which dyed in â—â—o M. cccclxxix â—â—chard Fastalff late son to Thomas Fastalff Esquyer dyed Anno M. â—â—â—â—lxxix Iohn â—lemham esquyer Anne and Elenor his wyves the which Iohn dyed in anno M. cccc Anne in anno M. cccclxvi and Lady Elenor M. cccc.iiij VVilliam VVyngefelde knight Lord of the Towne of Donyngton and â—on of the cherche died in Anno M.ccclxxxviii William Wyngfelde and Kateren his wyef Lord and Patron of the said Towne William Wyngfelde and Ione his wyef Raynold Rowsse son and heyre of Robart Rowsse and Elizabeth Denston his wyef which dyed in Anno M. cccclxiiii Henry de Bello monte son and heyre of Iohn Viscount Beaumont and Elizabeth his wyef doughter and heyre of William Phelippe Lord Bardolff and heyre to the third parte of Orpingham Whych dyed M. ccccxlii William Phelippe esquyer dyed M. ccccvii and Iulyan his wyef in anno M. ccccxiiii Robart Dowe and Elizabeth his wyef doughter of Iohn Fremyngham esquyer Iohn Shelton the son of Raff Shelton esquyer dyed in anno M. cccclxv Mabell Bellamy late wyef of Rychard Bellamy of London gent. and one of the doughters and heyres of Thomas Boyse of Harrow of the hyll in the â—ouâ—â—y of Medelsex which Mabell dyed in anno M.D.xxxiiii Iohn Iermy and Izabell his wyef one of the doughters of Iohn Hapton Esquyer which Iohn dyed the xii of Ianuary M.D iiii Iohn Wyngfeld and Margaret his wyef in the glase wyndoo Iohn Rowsse and Iane his wyef Robart Rowsse and Kateren his wyef and for Iohn and Iohn Robart Rychard and Iohn Agnes and Iane chyldren to the said Robart Pray for the souls Ioh. Fremyngham dyed the xii of Iune anno Dom. M. ccccxxv Robart Cheke and Rose his wyef Iohn Cheke gent. which dyed M. ccccxl Iohn Neuell and Agnes his wyef Iohn Hervy and Margaret his wyef the doughter of Robart Deladowne esquyer late the wyef of Raffe Cheke Iohn Garneis Esquyer and Elizabeth the doughter of Iohn Sulyard his wyef which Iohn dyed the xi of Iune M.D.xxiiii who had issue vi sons and ix doughters Robart Garneis esquyer and Margaret his wyef which dyed the xxiiii of Marche M. ccccxlviii Iohn Falstaff and Elenor
twelue shillings The Austine Friers founded by one Remigius or by the King but by what King or to what Saint dedicated or to what value it amounted I do not know Others say it was founded by one Roger Mynyoth The bodies which I finde to haue beene herein buried are these which follow Elizabeth daughter of Sir Tirru Rosabart Elisabeth wife of William Garueys ..... sonne of Sir Raphe Pigott Sir Edmond Hengrane and Dame Alyce his wife daughter of Iohn Lile Margaret Howard 1416. Sir Iohn â—owell Knight Sir Robert Vfford Sir Iohn Geney and Dame Alice his wife obijt 1454. Dame Margery wife of Sir Edward Hastings and of Sir Iohn Wyndham daughter of Robert Clyfton 1456. Dame Katherin Ferris wife of Sir Iohn Radclyffe 1452. Iohn Bacun sonne of Sir Roger 1461. and Maude his wife 1456. Iohn sonne of Iohn Bacun obijt 1462. and Margaret his wife Ione wife of Robert Boys daughter of .... Wychingham 1400 Edmond Wychingham Esquier who died 1472. Sir Thomas Lord Morley obijt in Calleis Sir Robert Morley and Dame Anne his wife Iohn Morley Esquire Sir Thomas Soterley Esquire and Elisabeth his wife obieerunt 1477. Thomas Wedderby Alderman Amongst many other of this Fraternitie I finde that one Benedictus Icenus or Benet of Norfolke a Brother of this House and of this Order of Saint Augustine was likewise here buried in the Chapter house who died in the yeare of our saluation 1340. Vir pius prudens facundus omni serentiarum genere nobiliter instructus et cum primis sui temporis Theologis meritò conferendus A man godly wise fluent of speech in all kindes of Sciences nobly instructed and right deseruingly to be compared with the prime Diuines of his dayes For his singular grace in preaching and his able power in perswading he was so beloued of Antony Becke the Bishop of this Diocesse as that he made him Suffragane or as it were Copartner with him in his Episcopall function The Grey Friers was founded by one Iohn Heslynford and of this Foundation I finde no further Some say that the Blacke Friers was founded by King Edward the second which I confesse I cannot contradict For I finde no otherwise neither of the Foundation the time dedication order nor value onely my Notes from Master Le Neue tell me that these persons following were in the same interred William Manteley Iohn Debenham Margaret Harpington Ione wife of Richard Wychingham daughter of Fastolfe obijt 1459. Thomas Yugham obijt 1455. Sir Simond Felbrigge obiit 1442. and Dame Katherin his wife obiit 1449. Dame Margaret first wedded to Sir Gilber Talbot afterward to Constantyne Clyfton obijt 1434. Dame Alice wife of Sir Roger Hâ—rsik 1458. Iohn Pagraue Esquire 1467. Iohn Berney Esquire and Ione his wâ—â—e Iohn Howldiche 1487. Iohn â—illys 1490. Edmond sonne of Iohn Hastings 1487 and Eleanor his wife daughter of Sir Edward Woodhowse Knight The religious Monastery of the white Friers or Carmelites was founded by Philip Cowgate a rich Merchant and Maior of this Citie Ann. Dom. 1268. who when he had made an end of the Fabricke thereof which he endowed with faire possessions tooke vpon him the habite and order of a Carmelite and entred the house wherein he ended his dayes In the Church of this religious structure was buried Sir Oliuer Ingham Knight obijt 1292. Dame Lo .... Argentein Dame Eleanor Boteler Dame Alice Boyland Sir Bartholomew Somerton knight and Dame Katherin his wife Sir Will. Crongthorp and Dame Alice his wife Sir Oliuer Gros Knight Iohn father of Sir Raph Benhall Dame Ione wife of Sir Thomas Morley Robert Banyard Esquire Sir Oliuer Wigth Sir Peter Tye Knights Marg. Pulham Dame Elizabeth Hetersete Dame Katherin wife of Sir Nich. Borne Ione wife of Iohn Fastolphe Thomas Crunthorp and Alice his wife Dame Alice Euerard 1321. Dame Alice Withe 1361. Sir Walter Cotet Sir Thomas Gerbrigge 1430. Dame Eliz. his third wife first married to Sir Iohn Berry and daughter of Sir Robert Wachesham obijt 1402. Sir Edmond Berry 1433. And Dame Alice his wife daughter of Sir Thomas Gerbrigge Elizabeth first wife of William Calthorpe daughter of Sir Reignold Lord Hastings Waysford and Ruthin which died 1437. Haukin fil .... de Com. Lanc. Clement Paston obijt 14 .... Richard 1479. children of Sir William Calthorp George 1479. children of Sir William Calthorp Cecily children of Sir William Calthorp Iohn 1400. children of Sir William Calthorp Thomas 1400. children of Sir William Calthorp Iohn Deugayne gent. obiit 1488. Robert Smart Esquire abijt 1488. Sir William Calthorp obijt 1494. Dame Margery wife of Sir Iohn Paston daughter of Sir Thomas Brews 1495. Iohn sonne of Sir William Stoarer 1495. Margaret wife of Sir Thomas Pigott 1498. In the Manuscript of this Religious Order before remembred written by Iohn Bale these Carmelites following are registred to haue beene buried in this Monastery I will vse his Latine Hiâ— sunt viri illustres qui sepeliuntur in Conventu Carmelitarum Norwici Frater Gilbertus de Norwico Episcopus Hamensis obijt Anno Dom. 1287. 9. die Octobris Frater Iohannes Leycester Archiepiscopus Smirnanensis obijt Anno Domini 1424. 6. Nouembris Frater Vmfridus Necton obijt 1303. This Necton was Doctor of Diuinitie in Cambridge and Professour Erat viâ— solidè doctus disputator subtilis Concionator vehemens He was a man solidly learned a subtle disputant a very earnest Preacher saith Pitseus Of whom Leland hath left this Distichon Laudibus Humfredum meritis super astra feramus Cui data Grantenae laurea prima scholae He writ diuers bookes mentioned by Bale as also by Pitseus Frater Andreas Felmingham Frater Robertus Walsingham obijt 1310. This Walsingham saith Pitseus was Vir acuti ingenij solidi iudicij bonae vitae magnae doctrinae A man of an acute wit a sound iudgement a good life of great learning And Bale speaking of him saith He was a man of great repute in the Vniuersitie of Oxford for his Quodlibets ordinary questions and his Interpretations of the sacred Scriptures which he made manifest to the world Frater Galfridus Stalham Frater Galfridus Mylsam obijt anno Dom. 1346. 5. Ianuar. Frater Adam Saxlingham Frater Iohannes Folsham Prior Prouincialis Anglie obijt 1348. April 8. This Folsham proceeded Doctor of Diuinity in Cambridge Pitseus giues him his praise in a graue stile Bale ironically saith that indeed he was a Doctor and none of the meanest for by his chopping of Logicke hee could turne blacke into white men into Asses and Schoole-diuinitie into naturall Philosophie He writ many learned workes Frater Ricardus Euges ob 4. die Iulij 1361. Frater Willelmus de Sancta fide ob 25. April 1372. Frater Thomas Ziburgh obijt 24. Iulij 1382. Frater Robertus Pulham Frater Walterus Disse Legatus Apostolicus ob 22. Aug. 1404. Frater Adam Hawling ob 25. Feb. 1408. Frater Thomas Keming obijt 26 Aug.
he that is sufficiently mine Of two I haue the one is common to all my race yea and also to others There is a family at Paris and another at Montpellier called Montaigne another in Brittany and one in Zantoigne surnamed de la Montaigne The remouing of one only sillable may so confound our webbe as I shall haue a share in their glory and they perhaps a part of my shame And my Ancestors haue heretofore beene surnamed Heigham or Hyquem a surname which also belongs to a house well knowne in England Here is another Tombe on the South side of the Chancell vpon which is the pourtraiture of Sir VVilliam Butts in his complete armour kneeling his sword by his side his spurres his helmet at his feet His Lady by him kneeling hauing her coat-armour Here are the coats of Butts and Bacon quartered vpon the Tombe Arwerton saith Camden in Suffolke the house long since of the Family of the Bacoâ—s who held this Mannor and Brome by conducting all the footmen of Suffolke and Norfolke from S. Edmunds-dike in the warres of Wales These Bacons haue at this day their residence at Culfurth in Suffolke a goodly house erected by Sir Nicholas Bacon knight the first Baronet sonne vnto that Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England who for his singular wisedome and most sound iudgement was right worthily esteemed one of the two supporters of this kingdome in his time Who lieth entombed in S. Pauls with his two wiues Who died An. 1578. You may reade this Inscription vpon the said Monument Hic Nicolaum ne Baconem conditum Existima illum tam diu Britannici Regni secundum columen exitium Malis Bonis Asylum caeca quem non extulit Ad hunc honorem sors sed aequitas fides Doctrina pietas vnica prudentia Neu morte raptum crede quia vnica breui Vita perennes emerit duas agit Vitam secundam caelites inter animus Fama implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est Hac positum in Ara est corpus olim animi domus Ara dicata sempiternae Memoriae No lesse worthie of praise for his many excellent good parts was his sonne who followed the fathers steps I meane Sir Francis Bacon knight Lord Verulam Viscount Saint Alban and Lord Chancellour of England lately deceased Snoring Here vnder a faire Tombe lieth the daughter of Sir Iohn Heydon who married one of the Heninghams These Heydons are an ancient race of Knights degree Orate pro animabus Radulphi Shelton militis Domine Alicie vxoris eius filie Thome de Vnedal Militis qui quidem Radulphus obiit xxv die Aprilis Anno M. ccccxxiiii Blackney A famous religious house of Carmelite Friers in this late age aforegoing built and endowed by Sir Robert de Roos or Rosse Sir Robert Bacon and Sir Iohn Bret Knights about the yeare 1321. out of which came Iohn Baconthorpe of whom I haue spoken somewhat before And now here giue me leaue to speake a little more which I had omitted our of Camden A man saith he in that age of such varietie and depth withall of excellent learning that he was had in exceeding great admiration among the Italians and commonly called the Resolute Doctor Whence it is that Paulus Pansa thus writeth of him If thy minde stand to enter into the secret power of the Almighty and most mercifull God no man hath written of his Essence more exactly If any man desireth to learne the causes of things or the effects of Nature if he wish to know the sundrie motions of heauen and the contrary qualities of the Elements this man offereth himselfe as a storehouse to furnish him The armour of Christian Religion of better proofe and defence then those of Vulcans making against the Iewes this resolute Doctor alone hath deliuered Sculthorpe Orate pro anima Henrici Vnton qui obijt Anno Millesimo cccxx Statton Saint Michaels Orate pro anima Iohannis Cowal quondam Rectoris istius Ecclesie quiistam Cancellam de nouo fieri fecit Anno Domini M. cccclxxxvii pro quibus tenetur orare .... Stratton Saint Mary Orate pro animabus Iohannis Bocher Margarete vxoris eius quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Orate pro anima Thome Drake qui obijt Anno Domini 1490. Orate pro animabus Iohannis Waith Margerie vxoris eius qui Iohannes obijt xviii die mensis Februar Anno Domini M. cccclxxxx Quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen Bunwell Of your charity pray for the soul of Iohn Darosse and Margaret his wyffe on whos souls Ihesu haue mercy Amen Tybenham Orate pro anima Iohannis Avelyn quondam vicarij istius Ecclesie qui obijt xxviii die Decembris anno M. cccccvii Cuius ..... Orate pro anima Iacobi Glouer quondam Vicarii istius Ecclesie Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Orate pro animabus Roberti Buxton Cristiane Agnetis vxorum eius qui quidem Robertus obiit anno Domini M. cccccxxviii Quorum animabus propitietur altissimus Here lieth likewise vnder a faire Grauestone Iohn Buxton sonne and heire of Robert aforesaid who married Margaret Warner by whom he had issue two sonnes and two daughters Annos spirauit octoginta quatuor euen to our times Of whom more hereafter North Walsham Orate pro anima Willelmi Roys qui obiit x. die Kalend. Martii M. cccc Ashwelthorp Hic iacet Isabella que fuit vxor Philippi Tylney Armigeri vna filiarum heredum Edmundi Thorp Militis Domine Iohanne quondam Domine de Scales consortis sue que obiit decimo die mensis Nouembris anno Domini M. ccccxxxvi Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Iane Knyvet resteth here the only heire by right Of the Lord Berners that Sir Iohn Bourcher hight Twenty yeres and thre a wydoos life she ledd Alwayes keping howse where rich and pore were fedd Gentell iust quyet voyd of debate and stryfe Euer doying good Lo thus she ledd her life Euen to the Graue where Erth on Erth doth ly On whos soul God graunt of his abundant mercy The xvii of February M.D.lxi. Spikesworth or Spixford Orate pro animabus Iohannis Styward et Margarete vxoris eius Orate pro anima Georgii Linsted qui obiit in festo Assumptionis beate Marie anno Domini M.D.xvii Orate pro anima Willelmi Davy quondam Ciuis Norwic. Vinter et huins Ecclesie spiritualis benefactor Orate pro anima Margarete Thorne nuper vxoris Thome Thorne que obiit tertio die Septembris 1544. South-acre In the Chancell vnder the South wall lieth entombed Sir Roger Harsicke Knight the sonne and heire of Iohn who liued in the eight yeare of King Henry the fifth and in the twenty ninth of Henry the sixth in whom the issue male ended leauing his inheritance to his two daughters Sir Alexander Harsick
erexit ... Transit sicut Fulmerston gloria mundi Propitietur Deus animabus Mortuorum Saint Peters Hic iacet Willelmus Knighton ... M. cccc.lxix .... Peter Larke and Elisabeth his wyff on whos souls sweet Iesu haue pite Saint Cuthberts ...... Iohannes Bernard et Elis ..... M. ccccc.xi Here in this towne was a Religious house of Friers Preachers dedicated to the holy Trinitie and Saint Mary which Arfast Bishop of the East-Angles made his Episcopall chaire Afterwards Henry Duke of Lancaster made it a societie of Friers Preachers it was valued at thirty nine pounds sixe shillings nine pence Arfast who died circa annum 1092. was herein buried with this Epitaph vpon his monument Hic Arfaste pie pater optime et Arca Sophie Viuis per merita virtutum laude perita Vos qui transitis hic omnes atque reditis Dicite quod Christi pietas sit promptior isti 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ers Augustines in this I owne was founded by Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster and Blanch his wife others say by Henry Earle of Lancaster and Leicester It was valued at three hundred twelue pounds foureteene shillings foure pence Here lye buried Dame Margery Todenham Dame Elisabeth wife of Sir Thomas Hâ—ngraue daughter of Sir Iohn Harling with many other you may imagine whose names I haue not The blacke Friers here was founded by Sir Edmond Gonvile Lord of â—irâ—ingford in this County Parson of Terington and Steward with Iohn Eâ—â—e Warren and with Henry Duke of Lancaster It was dedicated to S. Sepulchre The value I haue not learned Buried in the Church of this monâ—sterâ— were Sir Iohn Bretâ— knight Dame Agnes Honell Dame Maud Talâ—â—e wife of Peter Lord of Rickinghill Dame Anastisia wife of Sir Richard Walsingham A Priory of blacke Canons dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint Iohn was here founded by one of the Bigods or Bigots Earle of Norfolke Valued at fourty nine pounds eighteene shillings and a penny Surrendred the 16. of February 31. Hen. 8. Here was a religious structure for blacke Nunnes consecrated to the honour of God and Saint Gregory but by whom sounded I do not know It was valued in the Exchequer at fifty pound nine shillings eight pence Here sometimes stood a Colledge or gild dedicated to the blessed Virgine Mary valued at the suppression to be yearely worth one hundred nine pounds seuen shillings Hugh Bigod or Bigot Steward of the House to King Henry the first built and endowed a religious House here for blacke Monkes Benedictines or Cluniacks These words following are in the Instrument of his Foundation I Hugh Bigod Steward to King Henry by his grant and by the aduice of Heâ—bert Bishop of Norwich haue ordained Monkes of the Order of Cluny in the Church of S. Mary which was the Episcopall seate of Thetford which I gaue vnto them and afterwards founded another more meet for their vse without the Towne This Monastery was found at the suppression to be in the Kings bookes foure hundred eighteene pounds sixe shillings three pence halfe penny of yearely reuenues This Hugh the Founder was created Earle of Norfolke by King Stephen in the first yeare of his raigne He died very aged in the 24. yeare of King Henry the second and was buried in this Priory of his owne foundation to whose memory this Inscription was engrauen vpon his Funerall Monument Orate pro anima religiosissimi viri Hugonis Bigod Fundatoris huius Monasterij Seneschalli Hospitij prepotentissimo Principi Henrico Conquestoris filio Anglie Regi et Comitis Norfolcie qui quidem Hugo obiit pridie Kalend. Martii anno milesimo centesimo septuagesimo octauo Propter miserecordiam Iesu requiescat in pace Anno 1107. Optimates Angliae Richardus de Radvarijs Rogerius cognomento Bigotus mortui sunt in Monasteriis Monachorum sepulti sunt quae in propriis possessionibus ipsi condiderunt Rogerius autem apud Thetfordum in Anglia Richardus vero tumulatus apud Montisburgum in Normannia Super Rogerium Cluniacenses Alonax di tale scripserunt Epitaphium Clauderis exiguo Rogere Bigote sepulchro Et rerum cedit portio parva tibi Diuitiae sanguis facundia gratia Regum Intereunt mortem fallere nemo potest Diuitiae mentes subuertunt erigat ergo Te pietas virtus consiliumque Dei Soli moerebat virgo ter noctibus octo Cùm soluis morti debita morte tua It should seeme by the premisses that this Roger Bigot who was Sewer to King Henry the first and Father of the foresaid Hugh was the first founder of this religious Edifice or at least wise of some other in this Towne for Monkes of the order of Cluny And Stow in his Annalls agrees with my Author Ordericus This yeare saith he Maurice Bishop of London Robert Fitzhamon Roger Bigot founder of the Monastery of Monkes at Thetford Richard Redvers Councellours to the King Milo Crispen and many other Noblemen of England deceased Roger Bigot the second of that surname Earle of the East Angles or Norfolke He died about the yeare 1218. and was here interred Hugh Bigot sonne of the foresaid Roger Earle of Norfolke lay here buried who died the ninth of Henry the third 1225 Roger Bigot sonne and heire of Hugh aforesaid Earle of Norfolke and first Marshall of England of that Family was here entombed if his last will and Testament was performed Of which so much as tends to that purpose In Nomine Patris et Filij et Spiritus Sancti Amen Ego Rogerus Bigot Comes Norfolcie et Mareschallus Anglie in bona prosperitate constitutus condo Testamentum meum sub hac forma Inprimis commendo animam meam Christo c. et corpus meum in Ecclesia beate Marie Thetfordie sepeliendum Postea lego c. Huius Testamenti Executores constituo Dominum Symonem de Monteforti Com. Lecestren Dominum Richardum de Clara Com. Glouern Hertford Dominum Willelmum Malberbe Dominum Thomam Denebanke Dominum Hugonem de Tudeham c. Dat. apud Cestreford die Mercurij proximo ante festum Sancti Barnabe Apostoli anno Domini M.cclviii He died about eleuen yeares after the making of his will without issue of a bruise running at Tilt anno 1269. Roger Bigot the last of that Familie Earle of Norfolke and Marshall of England was here buried together with his first wife Alina Alyva or Adeliza daughter of Philip Lord Basset and widow of Hugh de Spenser Iustice of England she died in Aprill in the ninth yeare of Edward the first and he in the 35. of the said Kings raigne Iohn Lord Mowbray Duke of Norfolke Earle Marshall of England Earle of Nottingham Lord and Baron of Segraue and of Gower sonne and successour of Iohn the first Duke of Norfolke in the dignities aforesaid was here entombed with his wife Elianor daughter of William Lord Bourchier and sister of Henry Bourchier Earle of
weapon with a nimble round And sends the Peasants arme to kisse the ground This done to Talbot he presents his blade And saith It is not hope of life hath made This my submission but my strength is spent And some perhaps of villaine blood will vent My wearie soule this fauour I demand That I may dye by your victorious hand Nay God forbid that any of my name Quoth Talbot should put out so bright a flame As burnes in thee braue youth where thou hast err'd It was thy fathers â—ault since he preferr'd A Tyrants Crowne before the iuster side The Earle still mindfull of his birth replide I Wonder Talbot that thy noble heart Insults on ruines of the vanquisht part Wee had the right if now to you it flow The fortune of your swords hath made it so I neuer will my lucklesse choyce repent Nor can it staine mine honour or descent Set Englands Royall wreath vpon a stake There will I fight and not the place forsake And if the will of God hath so dispos'd That Richmonds brow be with the Crowne inclos'd I shall to him or his giue doubtlesse signes That duty in my thoughts not faction shines Which he proued to be true in the whole course of his life which was depensild vpon a Table and fixed here to his funerall monument a copie whereof it was my hap to haue out of the originall of which so much as concernes the subiect I here speake of in the same Character FOr as moche as it is wryttyn in the Epitaphe aboute the Tombe here present of the high and myghty Prynce Thomas late Duke of Norffolk after his discent from his noble antecessours declared in the same in wrytyng whyche is also set out in armes about the same Tombe That who will se farther of the manner of his lyuyng and seruyce doon by hym to hys Pryncis And of hys honorable depertyng out of this world schall resorte and loke in thys Table Fyrst you schall know the seid Duke was in hys yong age after he had been a sufficient season at the gramer schole Hencheman to Kyng Edward the iiii and was than callyd Thomas Howard Son and heire to Sir Iohn Howard Knight after Lord Howard and after that Duke of Norffolke of right enheritance and the seid Thomas Howard whan he was at mannes age was wyth dyuers other Gentlemen of Englond sent to Charles Duke of Burgâ—n in the begynnyng of the warres betwixt Kynge Lewes of Fraunce and the seid Duke Charles and ther contynued vnto th ende of the seid warres to hys greate prayse and thankys As well of Kyng Edward hys own souerayn Lord as of the seid Duke Charles And after the warres doon betwyxt the seid Kynge Lewes and the seid Duke Charles Than the seid Thomas Howard returned in to Englond vn to Kynge Edward hys souerayn Lord And he made hym immedyatly Esquyer for his body And he was aboute hym at hys makynge redy bothe euenyng and mornyng And afterward he made hym Knyghte at the maryage of the Duke of Yorke Kynge Edward hys seconde son And so he was with the seid Kynge Edward in all hys busynes aswell at Lyncolne Shire feld at the tyme of Banberyfeld as at all other hys busynes And also at suche tyme as the same Kynge was takyn by the Erle of Warwyke at Warwyke befor hys escape and departynge in to Flaunders And after the Kyngys depertynge in to Flaunders for that the Coostis of Englond were so sett ffor depertynge of any other his seruauntis and frendis the seid Thomas Howard was dryuyn of fforce to take Sayntwary of Seynt Ioannes in Colchester for the true seruyce he bare vn to Kynge Edward and at the seid Kyngys retourne out of Flaunders the seid Sir Thomas Howard resortyd vn to hym and went wyth hym to Barnet Feld and ther was sore hurte And after whan Kyng Edward went into Fraunce wyth hys Army Ryall he sent thether before dyuers gentylmen And for that the seid Sir Thomas Howard had good experyence aswell in hys beynge wyth Charles Duke of Burgon as in dyuers Feldys and busynesses witthe seid Kynge Edward he had therfor Commaundement to go ouer wyth them For his aduyse and counsell tyll the seyd Kynge came ouer And whan Kyng Edward and Kyng Lewes mette at the Barriars vpon the Ryuer of Som the seid Sir Thomas Howard was wyth kynge Edward at the Barriars by the kyngis commaundement and no mo Men saue only the Chaunceller of Englond the Chaunceller of Fraunce and Sir Iohn Cheney And after the kyngis comyng home into Englond the seid Sir Thomas Howard obteyned lycence of the kynge to lye in Norffolk at an howsse which he had in the righte of my Lady hys wyffe called Asshewelthorpe and ther he laye and kepte an honorable howsse in the fauor of the hoole Shire duryng the lyffe of the seid kynge Edward and at that tyme and long after my Lord hys father was alyue And after kynge Edward was ded and kynge Edward the fyfte his Son than kyng Rychard was kyng And than the forseid Sir Thomas Howard was hys Subgette And for that the yonge Duches of Norffolk whiche was very heire therunto was ded withoute yssue And the Lord Howard Father to the seid Sir Thomas Howard was rightefull heire to the same off former discent was creatt Duke of Norffolk and he creatt Erle of Surrey And so they both serued the seid kynge Rychard truly as his Subgettis durynge his lyff lyeng at home in their owne Countries and kepyng honorable howsses And they went with hym to Bosworthe felde where the seid kynge Rychard was slayne and also the seid Duke of Norffolk And thafforseid Erle hurte and takyn vpon the Feld and put in the Tower of London by kynge Henry the vii and ther contynued thre yeerys and an halfe In whiche tyme of his beyng in the Tower the same kynge Henry had a felde wyth the Erle of Lyncolne in Notyngham Shire besydys Newarke and the leeffetenant of the Tower came to the seid Erle and proferred to hym the keyes to goo out at his plesure and he answered hym ageyne that he wolde not deperte thens vn to suche tyme as he that commaunded hym thether shuld commaunde hym out ageyn whiche was kynge Henry the vii but charged the leffetenant vpon hys alligeaunce yf the kynge war on lyue to bryng hym ther as the kynge was to theâ—tente he myght do his Grace seruyce and after that for the true and feithfull seruyce that the seid kynge Henry herd of him doon to his other Prynce and also that he sawe hymselfe he dide on Bosworth feld and for the grete preyse and truth that he herd of hym whills he was prisoner and that he wold nat thoughe he had liberty come out of the Tower at the Erle of Lyncolnes feld he toke hym out to his presence and to be aboute his own person And wythin x. wekes after hys comyng out of the Towre
ther was an Insurrection in the Northe by whom the Erle of Northombrelond was sleyne in the feld and also the Citee of Yorke wonâ—e with a sawâ—e by force And for the subduyng of those Rebells the kynge assembled a grete hoste of hys subgettis and toke his iourney towards them from the Castell of Hertford and the seid Erle of Surrey made chief captayn of his voward and apoynted vnder him in the seid voward the Erle of Shrewesbury the Lord Hastyngs Sir William Stanley than beyng the kyngs Chambrelayn Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir Thomas Bowser Sir Iohn Sauage Sir Iohn Ryseley and dyvers other And whan this Iorney was doon the Capiteynes of these Rebelles and many other of them were put to execucion And for the syngulâ—r truste that the kynge had to the seid Erle and the activyte that he saw in hym he lefte hym in the North and made hym hys Lyveâ—enaunt generall from Trent Northward and Warden of the Est and myddle Marches of Englond ageynst Scotlond and Iustice of the Forests from Trent Northward and there he contynued x yeres and kepte the countrey in peace with policy and many paynes takyng withoute which yt wold nat have been for that the countrey had ben so lately ponyssâ—ed and nat withoute desert And thus he dide the hoole tyme of x yere savyng in the second yere of his beyng ther was an Insurrexion in the West part of the countrey with whome the seid Erle with the helpe of the kyngs true subgetts fought in the feld and subdued them at Akworth besides Pomfrett And besides dyvers of them that were sâ—ayne in the feld he toke the Capytaynes and put them to execucion and the residue he sued to the kyngs highnes for ther Pardones whiche he obteyned and wanne therby the fauor of the countrey And in the same yere the kyng went ouer the see and laid seege to Bolayn the seid Erle than remaynyng ther not withstondyng that he was apoynted to have gone with the kyng and hâ—d gone but for the lightnes of the pepule ther wherfor he was left behynd both for the sauegard of the countrey and for defendyng of the Realme for the synguler truste that he had vnto hym And sone after ther was warre with the Scottis and for that the seid Erle wold be in a redynes to defende them he went to Annwyke and ther laye to the defence of the borders And in his own persone made a wynter Rood into Tyvydale and ther brent ther howsses and ther corne to the greatest losse and empouerysshement of the countrey that was doon ther in an hundreth yere before And after that the kyng of Scott's in his owne person and one Parâ—yn with hym invaded this Realme of Englond with a greatre power and laid seege to Northam Castell And assone as he â—erde that the seid Erle was comyng towardis hym he deperted and fled into Scotlond with all the spede he myght And in the same Somer after the seid Erle made another Rood in to Scotlond and laid seege to the Castell of Heyton and dide race and pull downe the seid Castell the kyng of Scottis with the puyssaunce of his Realme lokyng vpon it and the Erle had nat than past viii or ix thowsand men with hym And than the kyng of Scottis sent vnto the seid Erle Lyon his Herrold for to requyre batayle which was graunted by the seid Erle saying vnto the seid Herrold that forasmoche as he was an Officer of Armes sent from the kyng his Master to requyre bataile and he Lyvetenaunt to the kyng his Master graunted thervnto And said it was a contracte and a full bargayn whiche cowde not be brokyn but in the defawte of oon of them And promysed by the faith that he bare to God and to Seynt George and to the kyng his Master he wold fulfill his promesse And yf the kyng hys Master brake yt shuld be asmoche to his dishonor and reproche as euer had Prynce And whan the Harrold had herd this answere and sawe weall the said Erle was clerely determined to fight he said vnto hym Sir the kyng my master sendeth you word that for eschewyng of effusion of Gristen blode he wil be contented to fight with you hande to hande for the Towne of Berwike and the Fisshegarthis on the West marches yf he wynne you in bataile and yf ye wynne hym in bataile you to have a kyngis Raunsom Whervnto the said Erle made answere that he thanked his Grace that he wolde put hym to so moche honour that he beyng a kyng anoynted wold fight hande to hande with so poore a man as he how be yt he seid he wold nat dysceyve his Grace for he said though he wanne hym in in bataile he was neuer the nerer Berwike ner of Fisshegarthys for he had no suche comyssyon so to do his Comyssyon was to do the kyng of Scottis his Master all the harme he coude and so he had don and wold do c. And bad hym shewe vnto the kyng hys Master that whan the Iorney was don he wolde fyght wyth hym on Horsback or on fote at hys plesur at any place he wold indifferently appoynt yf the kyng hys Master wold gyff hym leue c. And whan the warre was doon and â—ended witthe Scottis and the North part of Englond in good reste and peace than the kyngs Highnes sent for the seid Erle to be agayn about his parson and made hym Tresourar of Englond and of his priuye Counsayll And after that the kyng sent hym into Scotland as chief Comâ—myssyoner withe Lady Margarett hys doughter to be maryed to the foresaid kyng of Scottis whiche kyng att the tyme of the seid Erlys beyng ther entreteyned hym as thankfully and fauourably as coude be thought Notwithstondyng anye dyspleasures doon to hym by the seid Erle in the warres before And also the seid kyng said than vn to hym that he loued hym the better for suche servyce as he had doon before to the kyng his father kyng of Englond thoughe the hurte war doon to hym and to his Realme and he gave to hym then at his depertyng greatt gyfts And at the comyng home agayn of the seid Erle for the truste that the kyng our souerayn Lord had to hym hys Grace made hym one of hys Executours And after the dethe of kyng Henry the vii kyng Henry theyght made hym lyke wyse of hys prevay counsayll and styll contynued Tresourer of Englond and made hym highe Marshall of the same And for the syngler truste that the kyng had aswell to his truthe as to hys wysdome and actyvytte at his goyng in to Fraunce with his puyssaunce havyng with hys hyghnes the moste parte of his Nobles of this Realme lefte the said Erle with a certeyn power in the Northe partys and made hym Lyvetenaunte generall from Trent Northward to defend the Realme agaynste the kyng of Scottys whom his hyghnes had no truste vnto for cause of the leeg betwyxt Fraunce
to be found amongst the said Lelands written Epigrams Ad illustrissimum Henricum Ducem Richmontanum Quo Romana modo maiuscula littera pingi Pingi quo possit littera parua modo Hic liber ecce tibi signis monstrabit apertis Princeps Aonij spâ—s et alumne gregis Qui tibi si placeat quod certe spero futurum Maxima proparuo munere dona dabis Now for that I haue here found such ample relation of the worthy atchieuements of the Howards I will goe forwards with that illustrious family as I finde them in this tract either intombed or otherwise remembred in Churches Middleton Although no Subscription now remaineth vnder this portraiture yet by the impalement of the Armes of Howard and Scales on the side thereof it is manifest that this was made for Robert Lord Scales whose daughter and Co-heire Margaret was married vnto Sir Robert Howard Knight eldest sonne of Sir Iohn Howard Knight who in the one and twentieth of Edward the Third was made Admirall ab ore Aquae Thamesis versus partes Boriales quamdiu Regi placuerit And this Sir Robert was great Grandfather to Iohn Howard Duke of Norfolke East Winch. On the South side of the Chancell of East-Winch Church is an ancient Chappell called Howards Chappell in which are these Monuments following In the South Wall of the said Chappell this enarched Monument as it is here set forth diuers of the Escocheons being decaied which are left blanke and onely this inscription now remaining thereon ..... animabus Domini Roberti Howard militis et Margerie vxoris sue ..... On the Pauement of the said Chappell be these two stones as they are here defigured whose inscriptions through time are decayed or rather stolne away by some sacrilegious persons a crime as I haue said elsewhere too frequent and too little punished but without doubt these Monuments were here placed for some of the Ancestors of this most honourable family this being their peculiar Chappell and place of Buriall In the East Window of the foresaid Chappell this ancient effigies of late was perfectly to be seene the portraiture of the same being exactly taken by the learned Gent. Sir Henry Spelman the memory thereof as of diuers other Monuments an by him preserued in relation to which this worthy Knight writ these verses Creditur has sacris candentem ardoribus aedes Quas dicat hic supplex instituisse Deo This ancient Chappell of the Howards hath of late yeeres beene most irreligiously defaced by vncouering the same taking off the Lead and committing it to sale whereby these ancient Monuments haue layne open to ruine But now in repairing by the order of the most Honourable preseruer of Antiquities as well in generall as in his owne particular Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surrey Earle Marshall of England and the Chiefe of that most Honourable family To this I also offer in obseruation both that the Posture fashion of the Armour and coate of Armes wherwith it is habited denotes great antiquitie and it should seeme by the Banner-fashiond Shield that this was the portraiture of some Banneret Ancestor of this Illustrious family for that Banners and the manner of this bearing of Armes was onely proper to Bannerets Knights of the Garter Barons and higher nobility In this Church of East Winch is a very faire Font of ancient times erected by some of this family as appeareth by their Armes being disposed in diuers places of the same the which for the curiosity of the work considering the antiquity giues me occasion here to present the true forme of one part thereof vnto your view Weeting In the South Window of the Church of Weeting S. Maries is this portraiture following the which by the Armes doth seeme to be the picture of Sir Iohn Howard Knight made in the time that he was married to Margaret the daughter and heire of Sir Iohn Plays Farsfield In the East Window of the South part of this Church is the resemblance of one of the most noble Family of the Howards as appeareth by his Coate of Armes but the subscription being wanting obscures the meanes to discouer which of them he was Framlingham Howsoeuer this Towne stands in Suffolke yet I hope it comes not in impertinently in this place Vnder a goodly rich Monument in this Parish Church lye interred the honourable remaines of Henry Howard Earle of Surrey and knight of the Garter the sonne of Thomas Duke of Norfolke as also of Frances his wife the daughter of Iohn Vere Earle of Oxford as appeares by the Inscription thereupon engrauen as followeth Henrico Howardo Thomae secundi Ducis Norfolciae filio primogenito Thomae tertij Patri Comiti Surriae et Georgiani ordinis Equiti â—urato immature anno salutis 1546. abrepto Et Franciscae vxori eius filâ—ae Iohannis Comitis Oxoniae Henricus Howardus Comes Northamptoniae filius secundo genitus hoc supremum pietatis in Parentes monumentum posuit A.D. 1614. This Henry Earle of Surrey saith Camden was the first of our English Nobilitie that did illustrate his high birth with the beauty of learning and his learning with the knowledge of diuers languages which hee attained vnto by his trauells into forraine Nations He was a man elegantis ingenij politaeque doctrinae saith Pitseus He writ diuers workes both diuine and humane he was exquisite as well in Latine as in English verse Of his English take this Essay being an Epitaph which he made to the memory of Sir Anthony Denny Knight a Gentleman whom King Henry the eight greatly affected Vpon the death of Sir Anthony Denny Death and the King did as it were contend Which of them two bare Denny greatest loue The King to shew his loue gan farre extend Did him aduance his betters farre aboue Nere place much wealth great honour eke him gaue To make it knowne what power great Princes haue But when death came with his triumphant gift From worldly carke he quit his wearied ghost Free from the corpes and straight to heauen it lift Now deme that can who did for Denny most The King gaue welth but fading and vnsure Death brought him blisse that euer shall endure Leland our English Antiquary speaking much in the praise of Sir Thomas Wiat the elder as well for his learning as other his excellent qualities meete for a man of his calling calls this Nobleman the conscript enrolled heire of the said Sir Thomas Wiat being one delighted in the like Studies with the said Sir Thomas Wiat. As it is in his Naeniae or Funerall Songs as followeth Bella suum meritò iactet Florentia Dantem Regia Petrarchae carmina Roma probet Hiâ— non inferior patrio sermone Viattus Eloquij secum qui decus omne tulit Transtulit in nostram Dauidis carmina linguam Et numeros magna reddidit arte pares Non morietur opus tersum spectabile sacrum Clarior hac fama parte Viattus â—rit Vna dies geminos Phaenices
the Monthaults and the Mowbrays which now after long languishing as it were by reason of old age hath giuen vp the ghost In the Porch of this Parish Church is a Grauestone vnder which say the inhabitants which I haue heard sworne by others Isabell Queene of England the wife of Edward the Second lieth interred vpon the Grauestone are two words onely remaining which make the country people so thinke of the matter which are .... Isabelle Regine .... now by these the case is made plaine to any than can distinguish between the Cases Nominatiue and Genitiue that this stone was laid to perpetuate the remembrance of some one of that Queenes seruants Flytham This was a Nunnery and a Cell to Walsingham of yearely value threescore and two pound ten shillings sixe pence halfe penny Yngham This was a Priory of blacke Monkes Benedictines a Cell to Saint Albans founded by the Ancestours of Sir Oliuer Yngham knight consecrated to the honour of the blessed Virgin Mary valued at seuenty foure pounds two shillings seuen pence halfe penny Herein lay buried Sir Miles Stapleton and Ione his wife the daughter and heire of Sir Oliuer Yngham Sir Miles sonne of the said Miles and Ela his wife the daughter of Vfford Sir Brian Stapleton sonne of the second sir Miles and his wife daughter of the Lord Bardolfe Sir Miles sonne of sir Brian and Dame Katherin his wife daughter of sir Pots and after married to sir Thomas Sackuile which are likewise here buried Dame Ione Plase daughter of sir Miles Stapleton Dame Ela Perpoint which had two husbands .... Edmond Stapleton and his wife daughter of Clyfton Sir Roger Boys and his wife Linne Linne saith Leland sometimes a famous Hauen there as the Church stands now was anciently without faile an Abbey for the graues of many religious persons as yet appeare in the Church and the lodgings of the Abbey are now conuerted into the Archdeacons house This Monastery I imagine to haue beene the house of the Carmelites founded by the Lord Bardolfe Lord Scales and Sir Iohn Wingenhall Anno 1269. the dedication nor the value thereof I doe not finde The blacke Friers was founded by Thomas Gedney and the white Friers by Thomas de Feltsham and thus much is the little of them which I haue learned Here was an Hospitall dedicated to Saint Iohn valued at seuen pounds sixe shillings and eleuen pence Here I haue no Inscriptions of antiquitie Loddon This Church was built by Iames Hobart knight one of the priuie Councell to King Henry the Seuenth who lieth here buried as I haue it by relation of whom and of the Familie will it please you reade what learned Camden writes The riuer Yare saith he receiueth a brooke which passeth by nothing memorable but Halles-hall and that onely memorable for his ancient owner Sir Iames Hobart Atturney generall and of the priâ—ie Councell to King Henry the seuenth by him dubbed knight at such time as he created Henry his sonne Prince of Wales who by building from the ground the faire Church at Loddon being his parish Church Saint Oliues bridge ouer Waueney that diuideth Norfolke and Suffolke the Cawsey thereby and other workes of piety deserued well of the Church his country and the common weale and planted three houses of his owne issue out of the second wherof Sir Henry Hobart likewise Atturney Generall to King Iames is lineally descended The foresaid Sir Henry Hobart knight and Baronet was aduanced by the said King the sixteenth of October in the eleuenth yeare of his raigne to be Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common pleas in which office hee died the twenty sixt day of December the first yeare of the raigne of our gracious Soueraigne King Charles magna Reipub. iactura a great losse to the weale publike as Sir Henry Spelman writes Here lieth Margaret the wife of Sir Iames Hobart who died Anno 1494. as I haue it out of certaine funerall Notes Yarmouth This Towne is beautified with a spatious faire Church hauing a wondrous high Spire Steeple built by Herbert the first Bishop of Norwich in the raigne of William Rufus All the funerall Monuments of antiquitie in this Church are vtterly defaced Inscription nor Epitaph now remaining except that this may passe current for one Elyn Benaker mercy dooth craue God on her Sowl mercy more haue In the three and twentieth yeare of King Edward the Third happened a most grieuous and lamentable Plague in this Towne which brought within the compasse of one yeare seauen thousand fiftie and two persons to their graues the which is witnessed by an ancient Latin Chronographicall Table hanging vp in the Church The Parsonage which was yearely worth before the sicknesse seuen hundred Markes was afterwards scarse worth forty pound by yeare The bodies of all the dead were buried in the Church and Church-yard and in such and such places of the same as the Townesmen can shew you at this day The Priory of Carmelites or white Friers Was Founded by King Edward the first Anno Domini 1278. herein lay buried Dame Maud wife of Sir Laurence Huntingdon who died 1300. Sir Iohn de Monte Acuto obijt 1392. Nicholas Castle Esquire who died 1309. and Elisabeth his wife these are all I finde here to haue beene buried and this is all that I can speake of this religious house The blacke Friers was founded by Godfrey Pelegren and Thomas Falstolfe The Grey Friers by William Gerbrigge Neare to this Towne was a Colledge of Saint Iohn Baptist first founded by Robert de Castre after by Iohn Falstolfe Esquire Father to Sir Iohn Falstolfe that Martiall Knight who had a faire seat at Caster and who was Knight of the Garter in the raigne of Henry the sixth Thomas Talbot sometimees keeper of the Records in the Tower did collect out of an old Calender in a Missale the names of certaine eminent persons for the soules of whom the Religious Votaries in and about Yarmouth were bound to pray the most of which number were buried in the Parish Church and in their Monasteries as followeth Margaret the wife of Sir Iohn Falstolfe daughter of Sir Iohn Holbroke knight Iohn Fastolfe and Ione his wife Richard Alexander William Thomas Robert Fastolfs Clarence Fastolfe the wife of Sir Robert Ilketishale Knight who dyed 1393. William Ilketishale their sonne Parson of Hesingham who dyed the Ides of December 1412. Iohn Falstolfe Doctor of Diuinitie a Frier Preacher Richard Falstolfe an Augustine Frier with many more of that ancient and noble Familie Godfrey Pelegren aforesaid and his wife Thomas the sonne of Sir Thomas Bowet Knight Ione the daughter of Iohn Wilshire wife to Robert Cromer Registred and buried in the Augustine Friers these William de Vfford Earle of Suffolke who dyed 15. Feb. 1382. Michaell and Michaell de la Pole Earles of Suffolke Sir Thomas Hengraue Knight of
Hengraue in Suffolke of which Familie and the owner of which Lordship was that renowned Lawyer Edmund de Hengraue who flourished in the raigne of Edward the first who died the 23. of May 1349. Sir Robert Bacon Richard Earle of Clare Roger Fitz. Osbert Lady Katherin his wife Sir Henry Bacon Sir Robert Bacon Knights Lady Sabina the wife of ... Bacon Iohn Bacon his sonne and nine other children Ione of Acris Countesse of Glocester William Woderow and Margaret his wife Founders of this Monasterie of Augustine Friers as I haue it in my notes from William Le Neue Sir Henry Bacon of Garleston or Garneston obiit 1335. Dame Alice Lunston obijt 1341. Dame Elianor wife of Sir Thomas Gerbrigge of Wickhampton obijt 1353. Dame Elianor .... Dame Ione Caxton obijt 1364. Dame Sibill Mortimer wife of Sir Raphe Pygott of Gelston obijt 1385. Sir Iohn Laune of Flixtonforth and Mary his wife Iohn Haukin Esquire obijt 1385. Iohn Belhowse Esquire obijt 1399. Alexander Falstolfe William March Esquire obijt 1412. Iohn Pulham gent. obijt 1481. Snoring Orate pro animabus Radulphi Shelton Militis Domine Alicie vxoris eius filie Thome de Vuedal militis qui quidem Radulphus obijt M. ccccxxiiii The Rector of this Church at this time as I am informed is that reuerend learned Diuine and bountifull house-keeper Robert Pearson Doctor of Diuinitie Archdeacon of Suffolke sometimes Fellow of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge To whom I am bound to acknowledge all thankfulnesse he being in the same Colledge my Tutor Shelton Pries pour l'ame du Mounsieur Rauf Shelton Maistres istius ville qui morust le 18. Nouemb. L'an de grace M.ccclxxiii ...... pour la femme fil du Mounsieur Plays ... Vnder a faire Grauestone lieth the body of Sir Iohn Shelton who married the daughter of Sir William Bullein this Inscription remaining Hic sum sepultus Iohannes de Shelton Miles Here is a Tombe vnfinished of Sir Iohn Shelton knight who married Margaret the daughter of the Lord Morley and had issue Sir Raph Shelton knight and three daughters Anne married to .... Sir Iohn Goosalue knight Alice married to the heire of Sir Thomas Ieselyn knight and Mary married to Sir Iames Skudamor knight Here is also another Tombe vnfinished of Sir Raphe Shelton knight who married to his first wife Mary the daughter of Sir William Woodhouse knight and had issue Thomas his sonne and heire who married the daughter of Baron Flowerdew Sir Iohn who married the daughter of the Lord Cromwell Raph vnmarried Edward who dyed young Audrie Shelton married to .... Walsingham in Kent By his second wife the daughter of Master Barrow he had issue Henry Shelton and two daughters .... How neare these times these come I doe not know for I haue no further instructions but from an imperfect Funerall Monument Neither had he I meane Master Howldich who first collected these Inscriptions Marham Here was a religious little house of white Nunnes valued at thirteene pounds sixe shillings pennie halfe penny The first Founder hereof was Isabell Countesse of Arundell in her widowhood the wife of Hugh de Albeney Earle of Arundell and Sussex as by these words following extracted out of the booke of Wauerley in Surrey will appeare Isabella Comitissa Arundell morum quidem grauitate non mediocriter adornata circa salutem anime sue diligens sollicita divina vt creditur inspiratione preuenita Abbatiam Monialium ordinis Cistercen Marham vocatam cum summa devotione hoc anno viz. 1252. construxit Cuius rei causa Abbatem nostrum duxit consulendum ac permissione Domini ipsius domum nostram intrauit societatem ordinis in capitulo nostro deuote petiit et obtinuit Quatuor Marcas vnum Dolium vini Conventui ad pitancias donauit And thus religious orders were enricht and made great feasts by the admittance of lay persons into their Fraternities and Sisterhoods as I haue touched before in my discourse cap. I finde that William Bishop of Norwich gaue vnto the Abbey of Nunnes in Marham the appropriation and patronage of the Parish Church of Saint Peter in Rockland within the Diocesse of Norwich Anno Christi 1349. Shouldham A Priory consecrated to the holy Crosse and the blessed Virgin replenished likewise with white Nunnes Gilbertines The valuation of whose endowments amounted to bee yearely worth an hundred seuenty and one pound six shillings 8. pence It may very well be that Robert de Monte alto or Monthault was the Founder for I finde in the Abbey booke of Langeley that he lieth here buried An honorable Familie anciently in this tract and in diuers other places of the kingdome Chappell in the field Founded by Iohn Brome or his Ancestours for a Deane and seuen Prebends in which lye buried besides the Founder Williom Rees Esquire and Margerie his wife Edmond Bokenham Esquire and Dionisia his wife Iohn Strange Elisabeth wiffe of Iohn Ienny daughter and heire of Io. Wedyrlye Raueningham Sir Iohn of Norwich knight founded a Colledge here at Raueningham the Kings licence and Antonyes Bishop of Norwich thereunto first obtained for a Master and eight brethren Priests Anno 24. Ed. 3. which will best appeare by his Charter which followes Vniuersis c. Iohannes de Norwico miles Salutem Illud Apostoli frequenter in animo revoluens Qualia seminaverit homo talia metet c. ad mei meriti et Margarete consortis mee c. ad honorem Dei Genetricisque sue Sancti Andree Apostoli omniumque sanctorum Collegium ex Magistro et octo confratribus Presbyteris in Ecclesia de Raueningham diuina perpetuis temporibus celebratur duxi peritorum consilio ordinand Quod Collegium domus Sancte Marie de Raveningham nominari dispono Dat. apud Thorpe iuxta Norwic. die xxv Iulij Anno Domini M.cccl Tomeston or Thonston Sir Thomas de Skardelow knight and Iohn his brother founded here a Chantrie of six Chapleines to pray for the soules of the said Thomas Iohn and Agnes his wife and their parents soules The donation beares date the 8. of Feb. 1349. the 23. of Ed. the third Valued it was at fiftie two pounds fifteene shillings seuen pence halfe penie Cockford Anno 1243. the Priory of blacke Canons Reguler at Cockford or Cokesford was founded by Sir Iohn de Canneto id est Cheney knight After him the Lord Say and after that the Lord Clinton were Patrons as I haue it out of a Manuscript Which Foundation was rated as others were at a low value to be of yearely reuenues one hundred fiftie three pounds seuen shillings and a pennie Tylney Smeeth So called of a smooth plaine or Common thereunto adioyning some two miles in extensure Pinguis adeo luxurians vt Paduana pascua videatur superasse So abundantly fertile that in fatnesse of soile it doth exceed the pastures about Padua in Italy For it serues
40. plough lands of grouÌ„d of the kings of Mercia and Kent to their Monasterie Vt in charta * Wido the 42. Hugh de Flori 4â— Guliel Spina in bib Cot. Hugh the second 44. Will. Thorne or Gul. Spina in bib Cott. Alexander surnamed Cementariâ—â— Theologus the 48. Hugh the third the 49. Abbot Robert de Bellâ— the 50. Roger the second 51. Thomas Findon 〈…〉 Raph de Borne the 54. Mssan bib Cot. Thomas Poucyn the 55. In bib Cot. William Drulege the â—6 Mâ—re Archbishop then Abbots by three Iulian Counâ—eâ—â—e of Hâ—ntington Catal. in Hunting Io. Speâ—d 〈…〉 Pâ—iory of Haâ—â—baldowne Lamb. peram in Harbaldowne Lora Countesse 〈◊〉 Leicâ—ster 〈…〉 Catal. Caâ—den in Kent Sir Iohn Gower and Sir Iohn Deâ—e Priests Sir Roger Manwoods Almes-house A pilgrimage◠〈◊〉 S. Stephens 〈◊〉 Ethelbert the second king of â—â—nt The end of the Kentish kingdome The found 〈…〉 the Abbey at Reculuer ... Sandwey 〈◊〉 his wife Sir Thomas a Priest â—dila Lady Thorne Thrâ—e vailed Nunnes The foundation of Minster Abbey Io. Caâ—graue in v. â—a Dom. Mssâ—a bib Cot A Maledicton The death of Domneua The buriall of Thunnor 〈◊〉 Dom. â— Mildred 〈◊〉 on of Mildred Hungar and Hubba the sonnes of a Beare Mâ—ssâ—in bib Câ—â—t Caygraue iâ—â—nia 〈◊〉 b. 〈◊〉 Eadburgh 〈◊〉 first English Nunne surnamed 〈◊〉 Camden in K. Speed Hist. The foundation of the white Friers and of the old Hospitall A Manuscript Tho. Legatt Tho. Hadlow William Beckleâ— Iohn Sandwich Denis Plumcooper The foundation â—f the free Schoole Richborow Claudius Contentus Caâ—nd Kenâ— Goshall Leuerick Septvau S. 〈◊〉 Harsletâ— Clitherow ... Oldâ—â—stell Ioane Keriell Stow. Annal. Harding 〈◊〉 Sir Iohn Philpot. knight Lord Maior of London Stow. Annal. Stow. Suruay Speed Hist. 22. Ric. 1 The Walsingham in vita Ric. 1. Sir Thomas Ba knight Wingham Colledge Lamb peramb. Blechendens 〈◊〉 Tho. S. 〈◊〉 and Ioane 〈◊〉 wife Albina the wife of 〈◊〉 Iohn Digge 〈◊〉 Ioane his wife Sir Iohn Digge knight and Ioane his wife Sir Robert Ashton knight Lord Warden Admirall of a 〈◊〉 Chiefe Iustice of Ireland Lord Treasurer Executor to K. Edward the third Foundation of the Castle Church Lamb. peramb. The Priory of S. Martins or Gods-house in Douer Regist. eccl 〈…〉 in bib Cot. S. 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Lond. Stow. 〈◊〉 William 〈◊〉 the sonne of Iudge Fineux Wilâ—iam Sir 〈…〉 the controuler of 〈◊〉 Sir William Scot knight Hollinshed Elisabeth Lady Poynings Camden in Kent Isâ—bell Ladie 〈◊〉 Ioane the wife of Io. Digges Dionisia Finch Vincent Harbard alias Fâ—nch in the genealogie of the 〈◊〉 of Nedde felâ—â— Sir Robert Gower knight Pashley Ioane Pashley in the window â—â—mmatiâ—n of the 〈◊〉 at â—olâ—â—ton â—â—o Godfraâ— Sir Iohn Culâ—peper kniâ—ht and Agnes his wiâ—â— â—â—den in Rut. The Pâ—ioâ—y of 〈◊〉 Iohn Maâ—sâ—â—â— pâ—efeâ—menâ—s Hollins An 1241. Paris â—hinne Anon. in bib Cott Mansels death in 〈◊〉 Ex Epitâ—m Râ—â—geri Houeden in bib Coâ— A Benefice for Dogges meaâ— * Earle of Leiâ—cester Mansel the cause of the warres betweene Henâ—y the third and his Barons Paris â—n 1252 Charge of soules 〈◊〉 Culkin and 〈◊〉 his wife 〈…〉 and Ioane his wife A free Sâ—â—â—ole 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 his sonne Sir 〈◊〉 knight and Dennis his wife Ric. Lâ—â—e to Cely â—enalâ— Deyre Foundation of the Colledge o◠〈◊〉 The Kempe and Beatrice his wife Lamb. peramb. Iohn Andrew a Pilgrime Foundation of the Colledge of Ashford Elisabeth Countesse of Atholl Semane Tong Baron of the fiue ports Io. 〈◊〉 and his wife Wil. Norton and Elisabeth his wife Will. Thorne Richard Norton and Ioane his wife Iohn â—â—st Thomas Read William Vpton Agnes Feuersham William Leedes Henry Hatcher and Ioane his wife Richard Colwell Camden Remaineâ— Foundation of Feuersâ—am Abbey Ex Arch Turris London The death and buriall of King Stephen Addition to Rob. Gloc. 〈◊〉 Paris An. 1154 Harding c. 12â— Rob. Glocest. S. Daniel No subsidies in K Stephens time 〈◊〉 â—omp 〈◊〉 in bib Cot. Spâ—â—d Maud the wife of K Stephen In bib Cot. Eustace King Stephens sonne 〈◊〉 Monkâ— of Chester 〈◊〉 Dâ—rob His death and buriall Rob. Gloc. Margaret Riâ— kill Io. Crowmer and Ioane his wife Will. Crowmer Sir Iames Fienes I.o. Treasurer Iohn Septvaus and Katherine his wife Elisabeth Poodd Iames Bourne Io. Gerard and Ioane his wife Laurence Gerard and Tho his sonne Apuldorfeild Clipeus honoris Glouer Somerset Herald Valentine Barret and Siciliâ— his wife â—â—ll Maries Smersoll Iul-laber Camd. in Kent Io. Frogenhall Will. Mareys Ioane and Ioane his wife Woodokes The Priory 〈◊〉 Horton Monâ—â—â— The order 〈…〉 Alex Clifford and 〈◊〉 his wife Visit of Kent Glouer Sir Arnold Sauage knighâ— and Ioane his wife Sir Arnold Saâ—uage knight Katherine Lady Sauage Foundation of Bradesoke Abâ—bey Eâ— Arch 〈…〉 Iohn and Iohn Norwood Visit. Kent Glouer Thomas Alefe and Margaret his wife Sir Iohn Norton knight and Ioane his wife Stow. Annal. Sir Edward Pâ—ynings Sir Iohn Norton Io. Fogge Iohn Scot Tho. Lynd knights of the field Inter Bundel Indent â—e guerra apud pelles Foundation of the Friary at Eastbridge Iudge Martyn and Anne his wife Visit. Kent Iohn Martyn Ioane Butler Ioane Feuersham Tho. Feuersham and Ioane his wife Found of the Abbey Io. Toke Margaret and Anne his wife Glouer alias Somerset Lancaster king of Armes Stephen Norton Foundation of Minster Nunnery Roger Norwood and Bena his wife Io. Soole and Margaret his wife Shurland Inter Bundellas Indent de guerra apud pel Maidston Found of the Colledge first an Hospitall William Courtney Archbishop of Canterbury * Sure he meanes Cardinall for I cannot finde him to be Chancellour Sir Iohn Wotton Priest the first Master of this Colledge Woodvill Chancery of Maidston Leedes Priory Eâ— Arch 〈◊〉 London Io. and William Bloor Iames Donet Io. Paynter Mssâ—n â—ib Cot. A quarrell betweene the Canons of Leedes and the Monkes of S. Albans The Religious House at Motinden Boxley Abbey Cart. Ant. in Arch. Turris London The Roode of Grace at Boxley Lamb. peramb. Camd. in Kent Hollins p. 1402. An. Reg Elis. 27 Nicholas Wotton Lord Maior of London Newenden Priory The first Carmelite Friars in England Lamb peramb. Lambard Combewell Abbey Iohn Elys Sir Nicholas Sandwich Priest Visit. Kent Will. Brent and Elisab his wife Sir W. Walkesley knight Tho. Elys and Thomasin his wiâ—â— William Bâ—rre Glouer alias Somerset The Colledge of Bradgare Dame Elisab Nâ—vill Camd in Cumberland So in this County Sutton Valence Horton Kirby and others haue like distinctiue surnames Richard Derâ—â— â—â—ow Annal. Iohn Dering An Eschurchion Io. Dering and Iulian his wife Nic Dering and 〈◊〉 his wife 〈◊〉 Dering Beneâ— his wife Hen. and Rich. Malemaines Brent the Mad-braine Rich. Dering Tho. his sonne Will. Goldwell and Avice his wife Goldwell Bishop of Norw a repairer of this Church The builders oâ— founders of this Church Bishop Goldwel the founder of the South Chappell Io. Tokâ— Marg. and Anne his wifes Tho. Twesden and Benedict his wife Will. Sharpe and his fiue wiues Margaret the wife
of Edward Barry Ioan Lady Barry Sir Iohn Barry knight Isabell â—â—dy Barry Sir â—ill Barry knight Humfrey Barry Robert Barry the first in 〈◊〉 land that broughthawke to hand Vide Vincent contra Brooke pag. 130. * M S. Tho Talbot clerici Rotulorum in um Lond. Mathew Paris pag 342 Selden in his Titles of Honour of Barons Plota 18. H 3. apud Westm. Bracton de Exceptionibus li. 5. cap. 9 pag. 5. Supersedeas de An. 8. Ed. 2. in dorso â— Austin Archbishop â—olidor the Popes collectour â— Honorius Archbishop Hist. Eccl. Ang. Sexâ— sar c. 8. S. Deodat Archbishop M Drayton Polyol 24 Song S. Theodore Archbishop â— Odo Archbishop S. Dunstane Archbishop * instant * holy Capgraue Song 1â— S. Elphege Arch. Martyr Rob. Glocest. S. Egelnoth Archbishop Godwin â— Eaâ—â—â—â—e Archbishop S. Lanfranke Archbishop S. Anselm Archbishop S. Thomas commonly called Thomas of Canterbury * honourd S. Edmund Archbishop Miss in bib Cott. 〈◊〉 Popes absolute power Hâ—s tyâ—â—nny The conclusion of this Diocesie The 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 Conuention for the 〈◊〉 The Archbishops 〈◊〉 the generall 〈◊〉 Lambard The end of the strife for the Primacie Hardinâ— ca. 88 Lamb. peramb. Paulinus Bishop of Rochester and first of Yorke Beda l. 2. c. â— Mss. in bib Cot. Bedal 〈◊〉 â— Camd. in Ricâ— Bâ—l. l. 2. c. 2 Hist. Archiepis Ebor. in bib Cot. Ex lib. Anon. in bib Cott. Ithamar Bishop of Rochester Cap. in vit S. Ithamari M. Draiâ—on Polyol 24. Song Tobias Bishop of Rochester Harps Hiâ—â— Eccles Angl octaâ—um Saecul c. â— Gundulph Bishop of Rochester Godwin de praeâ—ul Ang. Bulla Vrbani secundi in bib â—im D'ewes Equit aurat M ss in bib Cot. The Hospitall of Chetham Malling Abbey Lamb peramb. Gilbert de Glanvill Bishop of Rochester Godwin The Hospitall in Strowd Walterus Merâ—ton Bishop of Rochester Sir Hen. Sauill Haymo s. S. Barthol Hosp. in Hithe In bib Cott. Iohn de Shepey Bishop of Rochester Lord Treasurer Io. Lowe Bishop of Rochester Bale Cent. 4. Godwin Priory of Rochester Lib. Rossen in bib Cott. Lamb. per amb S. William of Rochester Neua Legenda Capgrauiâ— Lib. Rossen in bib Cot. Io. Beaufits and Isabel his wife Io. Beaufits and Alice his wife Rob. Beaufits Sara his wife Will. Beaufits Ioane Bamme Iohn Bamme her sonne The â—â—iery Com. in â—enâ— The Almes-house oâ— Hospitall Catigern and Horsa The battell of Ailesford Horsted Catigern his sepulchre Ric Charles Alice his wife Will Suayth Alice his wife Rob. Watton Will. Watton Benet and Alice his wiues Rob. Watton Alice his wife Io. Norwood The Mannor of Norwood Io. Constenton and Sara his wife Otteham Abbey In Archiâ—is Turris London Sixe pence for exceedings vpon S. Laurence day In Arch. Tur. London Begham Priory Ela de Sackvile and Sir Robert Turnham founders Rob. Glocest. The death of Sir Robert Turnham Rob. Gloâ— * haire Sir Tho. Sackvile knight In the prerogatiue office Sir Stephen Pensherst knight Ex Arch. Turrâ—â— London Sidney â—amd in Kenâ— Sir Philip Sidney knight The Epitaph for Mons. Boniuet Hugh Lord Staff and Tho. Bradlaine his Bow-bearer Camd in Kent Priory of Tunbridge Richard de Clare Earle of Gloucester Lib. Theoles Mss. Camd. Remaines Hugh de Audley Earle of Glocester and Margaret his wife Vincent Discouery of errors Raph Earle of Stafford and Margaret his wife Bagot Baron of Stafford Vincent Dis. errours The foundation of the free-Schoole at Tonbridge Edward Bourchier vulgo Bowser and Agnes his wife Haydok Haymund Robert Lawe Priest Tho. Brooke and Clemence his wife Tho. Gregby Robert Totleherst Iohn Yardly and Ioane his wife William Potkin and Alexandra his wife The foundation of the Schoole and Almeshouse in Sennock Lamb. Peramb Tho. Brenten Bishop of Rochester Godwin Catalogue of Bis. Sir Bruin knight Câ—md in Essex Stow. Annal. Reg. Stratton Parson Camd. in Camb Rich. Ieames a Blacksmith Tho. Gawge Iames Peckham and Margaret his wife Reynold Peckham and Ioice his wife * Cupbearer Will. Peckham and Katherine his wife Tho Peckham and Dorothie his wife Iames Peckham and Agnes his wife Martin PeckhaÌ„ and Margerie his wife Sir Thomas Willoughby and Bridget his wife Iohn Loft Priest Io. Alphegh and Isabel his wife Thinne Collect. Camd. in Lincol. Willoughby Earle of Vandosme Io. Wood. Edmund Read S. Katherines Chappell Sir Ric. Clement knight and Anne his wife Ric. Astall Hawte Glouer Somerset Ioane Lady Cobham Margery Lady Cobham Lib 〈◊〉 in hil Cot. Henry Lord Cobham Margaret Lady Cobham Ioane Lady Cobham Tho. Lord Cobham and Maud his wife Iohn Lord Cobham Cobham Colledge Sir Iohn Oldcastle knight Lord Cobham Ioane Baronesse Cobham Sir Reignold Braybroke knight Lord Cobham Reignold and Robert Braybroke Lamb. pâ—ramb Nicholas Hawberke Lord Cobham Io. Broke Lord Cobham and Lady Margaret his wife Tho. Lord Cobham and his three wiues Raph Cobham Io. Terrye Io Clauering in bib Cot. Henry Lord Cobham prime Iustice of England Stephen de Penchester or Peâ—shuâ—st Lord Warden Ioane Alice his daughters and heires Ioane maâ—ned to the said H. Lord Cobham Alice to Philip de Columbars Io. Smith and Margery his wife Tho. Sharpe The Nunnery at Heigham Robert Ereby Ioane and Ioane his wiues Tho. Ereby and â—sode his wife Almeshouse Tho. Buckland Alice Walleys Ric Downe and Margery his wife Io. Bederenden Tho. Petle and Isabell his wife In a window Iohn Donat and Alice his wife Eckisford William Alisander Io. Pole Palme Hic Daâ—â— master of the Iewell house Maryd Davy William Rikell and Katherine his wife Sâ—ow Annal. Sir Peter Lacy Priest Tho. Brendon and Ioane his wife Rich. Hunt and Ioane his wife 〈◊〉 Hesilt Baron of the Exchequer and Agnes his wife 〈◊〉 Martyn 〈◊〉 his wife S. Hildeferths Nicholas Boneuant and Agnes his wife Reignold Thomas Ric. Bonâ—uant Io. Sorewell Priest Sir Iohn Lumbard Priest Maud Laken and Ioane her daughter Sir Io. Dew Priest Roger Payname Will Banknot Anne his wife Sir Io. Wilshyre knight and Margaret his wife Stow. Annal. Sir Ric Wingseeld knight of the Garter Bridget his wife Io Hornley Katherine Burlton and Richard her husband The Priory of Dartford Burials in this Prioâ—y The birth and death of Bridget Plantagineâ— Rob. Woodford Ioane his wife Ro. Apleton and Agnes his wife Elisabeth CouÌ„tesse of Shrewsbury * Iohn dyed in his infancy Sir Ric. Walden knight and Dame Margery his wife Richard Walde Allin Atticor Sir Io. Stone Priest Iohn Crioll Roger Sentcler Mathew Paris Ric. de Lucie the founder Râ—g Heuâ—den An. 1179. Ex vet Mss. in â—o Cot. Godfrey Lucy Bishop of Winchester Io. Colin and Maud his wife Sir William Prâ—ne Priest Inser vpon the great Bell. Margery Roper Iohn Morton Tho. Pierle Foundation of Peckham Schoole Richard Bâ—shop of Rochester Walter Hench Parson George Hatteliffe The Priory of Lewsham Priors Aliens Their goods and lands consiscate King Edward surnamed Longshanks did the like An. Reg. â—3 vpon the like occasion Restitution of the 〈◊〉 Aliens
Raph Astry Iohn Grey Tho. Cornwallis Henry Gisors 〈◊〉 Lions The Foundation of Whittinâ—â—on Câ—lledge â—nd Hospitall Stow Suruey Richard Whitâ—ing thrice buried William Lichfield Doctor of Diuinity Io. Brickles and Isabell his wife In Chamberlaiâ—e Agnes and Ioan his wiues William Greene. Robert Chichley Lord Maior The Colledge of S. Michael founded by W. Walworth Io Loâ—ekin of Losken Lord Maior founder of this Church William Wray The foundation of Corpus Christi Colledge in Candlewickestreet Rob. Radcliffe and his sonne Henry Earles of Sussex Gilbert Melits and Christian his wife The fraternity of S. Katherine The foundation of our Ladies Chappell of Barking Sir Io. Arundell knight Vincent Catal. Simon Eyre Lord Maior The Foundation of Leaden Hall and the Chappell Stow Suruay Ric. Payne and Elisabeth his wife Sixteene children Ric. Nordell Margorie his wife * that * this * they * the holy Communion * thinke of this An Inscription vpon a table sometime chained in this Church Malmes lib 1. de Pont. 1. Selden Rob Glocest. 3 Cadar 4 Oâ—iâ—us 5 Conan 6 Palladius 7 Stephanus 8 Ilâ—ut 9 Dedwin 10 Thedred 11 Hillary 12 Restitutus Harpsfeeld Sex prim secul c. 16. 13 Gwitelin or Guitelnius Scots euer valiant Rob. Glocest. Fastidius Priscus 4. cent 1. Ternckine 15. Lib. in bib Cott. Mss. Vedinus 16. Godwin de praeful Ang. Theon the last Archbishop Robert Fabian Sheriffe Hugh Dauset Doctor of Diuinity Robert Barnes Iohn Bootes Henry Denne and Ioane his wife Tho. Pike Alsâ—rman Sir William Capell Lord Maior Water Knyght The foundation of Saint Anthonies Hospitall Io. Breux The foundation of the Augustine Friers Riâ—hard Earle of Aâ—undell Iohn Vere Earle of Oxford and Aubrey his sonne 〈…〉 his wife Mss. 〈…〉 Duke 〈…〉 Edward the eldest sonne of Edward the black Prince Cardina Shoder and Ioan her daughter Io. Redman Rector Nennius Helius Duke of Loegria â—lores Hist. aetal s. ca. 26. Cui nomen erat Crâ—â—â—a Mors quia nullâ—s ab eo vulneratus vinus eâ—adebaâ— Id. eod Rob. Glocest. Io. Harding c 44 Bale Câ—nt prima Will. Pratt The foundation of the Nunnery of S. Helen Sir Io. Crosby Maior of the Staple Mss. in bib Cot The Foundaâ—ion of a Brotherhood of 〈◊〉 Priests in â—eâ—den-Hall Chappell The foundation of the Priory of Christ-Church Aldgate Will. Payne Clement Towne The foundation of the Câ—oucâ—â—d Friers Ex quibusel Collect in sepe dict bib Cot. The Priore of Crouched Friers found in bed with hiâ— wench Foundation of S. Katherines Hospitall Iohn Holland Duke of Excester Caâ—al of honour â—tow Annal. Harding Anne the first wife of Iohn Duke of Exceter Anne the second wife of Iohn Duke of Exceter Constance Dutchesse of Norfolke Catal. of Hon. Vincent The foundation of East-minster to the honour of God and our Lady of Grace Stow Suruay The foundation of the Abbey of S. Clare Nunnes called the Minories The buriall place of sâ—me of the honourable family of the Darcies Stow. Annal. Cardinall Poole Io Clerke Bishop of Bath and Welles Godwin Catal. of Bishops The foundation of a Knightengild or Confrery without Aldgate The foundation of S. Mary Bethlem The foundation of S. Mary Spiâ—le Sir Io. Sordich Lord of Sordich Ex Mss. in â—ib Cott. Sir Humphrey Starky knight and Isabell his wife Sir Iohn Erlington and Margaret his wife The foundation of Holywell Sir Thomas Louelâ— Knight In â—ib Cott. Lib in lib. Câ—ll Isabell Sackvile Prioresse of S. Maries Clerkenwell Iordan Briset Muriell his wife Mss. in bib Cot. In bib Cott. Camd. in Aâ—dl Robertus Botill Prior Hospitaâ—u Sancti Iohanâ—â— Ierusalem in Anglia primus Baro regni Angliae consiliarius Rogâ—◠〈◊〉 Arch Turris London secundâ— parspat Aâ—â—o 10. Ed 4 â— 13. The foundation of â—he Charterhouse Stow Suruay Ex Mss. in bib Cot. The death of the Founder Margaret Lady Many and Duâ—chesse of Norfolke Suruay 〈◊〉 Vinâ—eâ—t Câ—tâ—l Norf. Philip Morgan Bishop of Ely Suttons Hospitall The foundation of great Saint Bartholomewes 〈◊〉 Arch Tuvrâ— London Caâ—t Ant. hier â— l. â—illiam Bolton the last Prior of S Bartholomewes Roger Walden Bishop of London Godwin de praesulibus Angl. Vpodigma Neustricae 2. Pars. Pat. An. 6 H. 4. M. 20. The foundation of Saint Bartl Hospital Sir Tho Malilant or Neufant Margaret his wiâ—e Sir Will. Knight Priest Sir Rob. Greuil Priest Philip Lewis Agnes his wife Io. Stafford 〈◊〉 Annal. â—â— Goodfâ—llowes 〈◊〉 Will. â—euer and Elizabeth his wife The foundation of the white Friers Carmelites Stow Sâ—â—â—uay Lamb peramb. Lamb. peramb. Rob Mascall Bishop of Hereford Will. Montagâ—â— Earle of Salisbury Ypodâ—g 〈◊〉 Penes 〈◊〉 Tâ—â—swell Stephen Patrington Bishop of S. Dauids Nich. Kenton Io. Miluerton Iohn Loney Pits de illust Aug. Scriptoribus Hubert de Burgo Earle of Kent Iohn Gyles Clerke of the petit Bagge Cowell lit c. Lawrence Bartelet Vnder the picture of Saint Michael The first Sanctuary The death and buriall of Muâ—muâ—â—us Donwallo The Foundation of the Temple Church Cant. in Midlesex London William Marshall Earle of Penbroke William Marshall the yonger Earle of Penbroke Gâ—lbeâ—â— Maâ—â—shall Earle of Penbroke Paris 1â—4â— Hastiludium Paris Sir Rob. Rosse knight Will. Plantaginet Iames Bayle Rob. Thorne Ric. Wye Will. Langham Master of the Temple Will. Burgh Harold king of England Stow Annal. Io. Arundel Bishop of Exceter Io. Booth Bishop of Exceter Sir Will. Booth knight Ed. Arnold Parson The foundation of the Hospitall of Sauoy Ex Mss. in bib Cot. The second foundation of Sauoy Hospitall Tho. Halsal Gowin Douglase Bishops Hist. of Scot. Ann. 1521. Humphrey Gosling Sir 〈…〉 Tho. 〈…〉 The Hospitall of Saint Mary Rounciuall Hospitall of Saint Iames. In Archiuis Turrâ—s London â—â—desâ—s Caâ—al Cancell per Franâ—iscum â—hin collect Iohn Yong Master of the Rolles The foundation of S. Stephens Chappell Charta Regis Ed. tetijs ex Record turrâ—s London The foundati 〈…〉 Westâ—inster Abbey In Arch. turris London Iohn Harding ca. 88. Rob. Glocest. Hist. Ecclesiast Angl. vndeâ— â—aecul ca. 16. Sebert king of the East SaxoÌ„s with his Queene Aethelgoda Edward king of England surnamed the Confessor 〈◊〉 â—arnâ—r â—lb Engl. Mss. in bib Cot. Rob. Glocest. The first â—oure of the â—iâ—gs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 king Edwards wife Rob. Glocest. Maud wife to king Henry the first Ex Mss. in bib Cot. The Courtiers speech The Queenes answer Mat. Paris ad Ann. 1118. King Henry the third Mat. West Rob. Glocest. Mss. in bib Cot King Edward the 〈◊〉 Sir Rob. 〈◊〉 Ex. Arch. Turr. Lond. King Ed. Coronation Chron. Compend Cant. Mss. in bib Cot. Fabian * Kept Caâ—ton Fabian S. Daniel The battaile of Dunbarre The battaile of Foukirke Munster Vniuers Cosm. lib. 2. Walsing Ypodig Hard. cap. 162. * Henry the third * Henry the third The fatall Marble The cruelty of the Scots Rich Southwell Hoâ—â—inshead â—ro May. Polychron l. 7. cap. 40. 〈◊〉 of â—aâ—singham Walsing The dead bodies of our English kings anciently preserued from corruption Ex Arch.
Turr. Lond. Fabians Ballad Royall * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Queen of England Edward the third King of England Remaines Fauine in the orders of England * Alluding to the â—eopardâ— in the 〈…〉 Cron. Compend Cant. in bib Col. His Character Sam. Daniel His Iustice. His regard of Order His loue to his people His Prouidence His works of Pietie His buildings Walsing in vit Ed. 3. Add. Rob. Glocest * Bohemia Philip Queene of England Richard the second King of England Ranulph Monke of Chester Lib. vltimo Folio 166. 〈…〉 * Bohemia * Anne Queene of England Stow. Annal. Henry the fift King of England Add to Robert of Glocester Katherine the wife of Henry the fifth Henry the seuenth king of England Elizabeth the wife of king Hen. the seuenth Margaret CouÌ„tesse of Richmond Margaret the daughter of King Ed. 4. Elizab. the daughter of king Hen. 7. Anne Queene of England Edmund Earle of Lancaster Harding c. 147. Mat. Paris Pageant of Popes Aueline Countesse of Lancaster William de Valence Earle of Penbroke Stow Annal. Harding ca. â—56 Simon Langham Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Waldby Archbishop of Yorke Ex Mss. in bib Cot. * Sodorensis B. of Man In bib Cot. Iohn Waltham Bishop of Salisbury Caâ—al of Bishops In vita R 2. Richard Wendouer Bishop of Râ—châ—ster Sir Humphrey Bourchier Lord Cromwell Sir Humphrey Bourchier * Cup. bearer Tho. Milling Bishop of Hereford Godwin Hugolin Chamberlaine to S. Edward king and Confessor Remaines William Bedell and Cicely his wife Rob. Haule 〈◊〉 vit R. 2 Tho. Ruthall Bishop of Durham Sir William Trussell knight Tho. dela More Lib. 7. cap. 43. Rich. de Ware Abbot Francis Thinne in Catal. Thes. Aug. Walter Wenlocke Abbot The Abbots of this house were Barons of the Parliament Ric. de Barking Abbot Gervaise de Bloys Abbot Vitalis Abbot Laurence the first mâ—â—erd Abbot of West Gislebert Crispin Abbot Edmund Kirton Abbot Iohn Islip Abbot Remaines In bib Cot. Raph Selby Io Windsore Geffrey Chaucer Ex Mss. in bib Cot. Iohn Bedel Walter Garden Ioan Pymichum Io. Den and Agnes his wife * Eijcitâ— Io. Skelton Poet Laureat Specul Brit. 2. King 1.14 Ioh. â— 2 Stow Suruay S. Giles Bowle The Bishop of Rochesterâ— letter to 〈◊〉 S. amongst the letters 〈…〉 In bib Cotton Cromwell principalâ— Secretary * â—il Warbam In part Anno 2â— Hen. 8. ca. 10. Ex lit in Bib. Cotton Robert Fisher. Ex Mss. in bib Cot. The Tenor of Bishop Fishers Indictment Ex Mss. in bib Cotton Eras. Vid. Bal. cent 5. Oputer opus Cronog orbis Vniuersi pag. 477. Sir Tho. Moore In parl Anno 26 Hen. 8. ca. 2. Ex lit in Bib. Cotton Scrip. Bâ—â—t Cent. 5. De Iâ—ust Angie Scriptoribus In Epist. ad Vldric Huttenum de vita Mori Io. Lelandi Moriades siue charitaea corâ—na Camd. Remaines in wise speeches Ex lit in bib Cott. Nich. Grudius Tho. Cromwell Earle of Essex Ex Mss. in bib Cotton M. Drayton in the Legend of great Cromwell M. Drayton M. Drayton Some say no such Act was deuised by him to cause his owne death Speed chap. 21. Iohn Fox M. Drayton Sir Tho. Moore to Master Cromwell Ex lit in bib Cot Stow. Annal. Queene Anne Bullein Speed cap. 21. George Bullein Lord Rochford Speed cap. 21. Sleidan com l. 10. Queene Katherine Howard Ed. and Iohn Dukes of Somerset and Northumberland Hen. Southworth Geff. Hewet Ioane his wife In Miâ—lesex Suruay in Bishopsgateward Sicilius king of Britaine Song 3. Cap 25. * a man decked in feâ—hers Voâ—tâ—mer king of Britaine Speed Hist. cap. 12. Sigibert I Speed Hist. ca. xi Rob Glocest. * men taken * they * commanded Ca. 68. Videsis Speed Hist. ca. 17. and Vincent Catal. Chestâ—r Mill. Catal. Yorke Speed Hist. â— â—â— * Vncle. The Continuer of Hardings Chronicle The guilty conscience of King Richard Pers. Sat. 3. trans by â—erten Holyday Sir Thomas Moore Lord Chancelor Sir Iohn More the father of Sir Thomas his death Ioan and Alice the wiues of Sir Tho. Morâ— in bib Cot. Edmund Lord Bray Mawd Berford Philip Meawtis Ric. Scardebrugh and Elis. his wife Adwin Lauerocke Tho. Essex The office of Remembrancers D. Cowell lic R. The Kings Remembrancer The Treasurers Remembrancer Remembrancer of the first-fruits Io. Fisher. Sir Raph Butâ— knight Iohn Long Katherin Alice his wiues Io. Sherburne Sir Sampson Norton and Elis. his wife Master of the Ordnance Io. Thorley Will. Harvey George Chauncy Mar. Suanden * Arcuarij the Kings Bowyer Anne Sturton Lora Blunt Mawde Lady Salueyne Will. Boydale Christopher Carhill king at Armes Hen. Redman Ione his wife Ric. Parker and Marg. his wife William Clauell The foundation of Sion Nuns and Priests Augustines Ex lit in Bib. S. Dewes Ecclesia omnium Angetorum Antony Sutton Henâ—y Archer Io Robinson Katherine and Ioane his wiues Clement Câ—lyns Io. Holt Margery and Elizabâ—th his wiues Audrie Aundesham Io. Sampoll Sir Io. Payne Priest The Friery of Hounslow George Windsore William Iacob Stanes Priory Ex Lib. Abbat de Croxden in Bib Cotton Iohn Lord Sâ—â—ange Camd. in Shrop. George Lord Strange Iames Lord Strange Io. Flambard Edmund Flambard and Elis. his wife Io. Birkhed Sir Thomas Cornwall Camden in Shropshire Io. Bird Priest Io. Brent Specul Brit. Fowke de Brent Mat Westminst Mat. Pariâ— Tho. Iacob and Ioan his wife Io. Downmeer Ioan his wife Peter Goldesbrough Tho. Sanny Sir Tho. Frowicke knight Tho. Frowicke Ioane his wife Tho. Aldenham Io. Goodyere Ioane his wife Remaines 〈◊〉 Lady 〈◊〉 Hist of Wales â— â—â—ord Specul Britan. Norden Io. Skeuington Peter Fabell the merâ—y deuil of Edmunton Tho. Carleton Elis. his wife 〈◊〉 and Anne his wife Io. Innocent oâ— Incent vnder Treasurer of England Nic. Borne and Elis. his wife Io. Daniel Ioan and Alice his wiues Mawd Ekington Tho. Heningham George Heningham Elis. Turnant Margaret Compton Tho. Billington Grand Seargeantâ—e Kilborne Nunnery Hen. Lord Percy Earle of Northumberland Camd. in Surfex Alexander a Sergeant at Law Ioan Only Alice Ryder a Milke-maid Heron the founder of Hackeney Tho Hert Vicar Ione Curteys Roger Ford. Io. Butterfield Tho. Symonds Io. Catcher Hen. Therket Will. Henneage D. Cowell lit â— Io. Iennings Io. Elrington Cowell lit F. Will. Lowthe Rob. Walsingham Chr. Vrswicke the K. Almoner of Amuer Io Fowler Alice Fowler Tho. Sauill 〈…〉 Robert Middleton and his wife Katherine Mistelbrooke .... Grey and his wife Suruay Lond. Rob. Eve and Laurence his sister Hosp. of S. Giles founded S. Giles Bowle Hen. Steward Lord Darle Io. Kitt or Kite Bishop of Carlell Sir Hen. Câ—lleâ— Lord Maâ—â—r Rich. Paâ—e Deaâ—e of Sâ— Pauls Stow Annal. Cent. â— Nic. Gibson Sheriffe of London Iohn â—â—â—le oâ— Hereford Sir Io Chappalaine Priest Isabell Newmarche Camd. in Somerset Lewis Bâ—ysbury Wiâ—l Waâ—e and Ioâ—ne his wife Iohn Preâ—st Alice 〈◊〉 Io. Chandry Io Ingleby Foundation of the Priory in Hert. Raph Lord Limsey here buâ—â—ed Robert Saddington Mat Paris Francis Thinne Sir
raigne of Hen. the seuenth Hen. the eight In the raigne of Ed. the sixt In the raigne of Q Mary In the raigne of Q Elizabeth In the raigne of King Iames. The Aetymologie Antiquity and Dignity of Heralds Heralds Priests Rosinus Ant. Rom. li. 3. c. 21. Heralds of France of noble descent Stow in the life of Brute The Armes of Brute Cold Harber the Heralds Colledge Eleanor Lady Wriothesley Ioan Wriothesley Io. Wriothesley Sir Hen. Grey Reginald Lord Grey Earle of Kent Sir Will. Cheyney and Margaret his wife The Heralds Office The body corporate of the Heralds Henry Spelman Gloss lit H. Iohn Leland the Antiquary Lelandi Strena â—â—lands New yeares gift The study of Antiquity in Hen. the eight The caâ—e King Hen had of Religion The workes of ancient Writers saued and conserued The Kings Libraries augmented The plaine â—â—le and forme of â—uncient Writers Britaine the Mother of worthy men and excellent wits This volume he called Antiphilachia written against the ambitious Empire or vsurped authoritie Reiall of the Bishop of Rome Albertus Pighius a Canon sometime in the Cathedrall Church of Vtrecht in the Low Countries Lelands affection toward his Country Four Bookes of illustrious men or of the British writers Learned Princes The wits of the British and English writers exercised in all kinds of good literature A wonderfull great number of Historiographers of British affaires Lelands laborious iourney throughout all England The description of all England in a quadrate table of siluer A Booke of the Topographie of England The names of seuerall nations Cities and great townes c. of Britaine in old time such as Cesar Tacitus Ptolimey other Authors haue made mention of restored together with the later and moderne names Of the Antiquitie of Britaine or of Ciuile History fiftie Bookes Sixe Bookes of the Islands adiacent to England Three bookes of the Nobility of Britaine His conclusion a delectabili vtili Commune voâ—â—â— Sir Rob. Cotton knight and Baronet Sir Tho. Bodley knights Pit Aetas 16. Io. Leland the Elder Elis. West Rog. Woodcocke and Ioane his wife Catherine Cauendish Alice Cavendish Marg Cavendish Lib. Esiens in bib Cott. Will. Burd Clarke of the Pipe Cowell lit C. Clarke of the Priuie Seale Io. Hartishorne Sergeant at Armes and Agnes his wife The office of Sergeant at Armes Cowell lit â— George Lord Maior Ioan and Marg. his wiues Iohn Kirkham and Elis. his wife Iohn Mynne The foundation of the Brotherhood in S. Botolpâ—s Edward Murell and Martha his wife William Campion and Anne his wife Henry Cantlow Sir William Cantlow knight Iohn Olney Lord Maior Tho. Muschampe Sir William Yerford Lord Maior and Elis. his wife Sir Roger Ree â—night and Rose his wife Tho. Bromflit Andrew Chyett Iohn Martin Lord Maior and â—atherine his wife * Eliae Reusneri Basil. Geneal Auctuarium edit Francosurt 1592 pag. 102. Historie generall of the Netherlands lib. 5 pag 227. impr an Dom. 1609. * Penes Simonds D' Ewes Equitem auratum abâ—epotem dicti Aâ—rini * In Registro Curiae Dum. Archidiaconi Lond. Libr. 4. sol 34. a b. * Escaety de a. 34. Eliz. parte 1. n. 11. Essex in Archiuis Tho. Pigot Richard Sutton W. Holland and Margaret his wife Rich Story and Ioan his wife Peter Fernefold Walter Turke Lord Maior Tho. Padington Marg. and Anne his wiues Will. Cogshall and Elis. his wife Nich. Wolbergh and Mar. his wife Rog. Hunning and Margaret his wife Tho. Paynard Vincent Catal. of Viscounts Ioan Coppinger Tho. Wandesford and Idonea his wife Will. â—oyliâ— Lord Maior and Catherine his wife Glanvile Agnes Cheyney Io. Rayning Will Porter and Elis. his wife Cowell lit C. Will. 〈◊〉 Io. Westcliffâ— Ioan his wife Will. Newport and Mossâ—s his wife Will Read and Maâ—g his wife M. Drayton Pol. 17. Song London lying like a halfe moone London Bridge the Crowne of Tames Camd. in Mid. Speed of Miâ— Gen 14.10 Hampton Court Camd in Mid. Câ—sar Commâ—nt lib. 5. Burials neere Stanes Spec. Brit. Lib. 1. cap. 2. Burials neere Brainford Burials of the dead slaine at Barnet field Camd. in Hert. The first battel of S. Albans Mss In bib Coâ— The second battell of S. Albans Camd. in Hert. Burials of the dead slaine in the battels at S. Albans Burials of the dead betwixt Stenenhaugh and Knebworth Camd. in Essex M. Drayton Song 19. Roman burials and the bones of Gyant-like found in Essex Burials neere Showbery Burials neere Barklow Ancient Tombes Danes-bloud Burials of the dead in and about Ashdown * â—â—â—inous * places * soules Battels and burialls of the dead â—â— and about â—he ancient Baâ—hg of Maldon 〈…〉 London Gâ—dwin Mss in lib. Sim. 〈…〉 aurat 〈◊〉 lib. 2 ca. 7. Mellituâ— quenched by his prayer the fire burning the Citie of Canterbury S. Ceada or Cedda 〈…〉 3. c. 2◠〈…〉 Tilbuâ—y Cities Sir Horace Vâ—â—e Baâ—on of Tilbury Sir Francis and siâ— Hoâ—ace Vere M. 〈…〉 Song 〈◊〉 S. Chad Bishop of Lichfield S. Erconwald Bed lib. 4 ca. 6. Cures by Saint Erconwald Horse-licter S. Theodred S. Egwulfe S. Richard Ex lib. Elien in bib Coâ— S. Roger. Mat. Paris an 1230. A strange Tempest M. D. Polyol Song 24. Felix the first Bishop of Dunwich or Dunmok Harding ca 91. Beda lib. 2. ca. 15 Hist. Eccl. Two and fifty religious stâ—â—ctures as many windmilâ— and as many toppe ships in Dunwich Recorda Dun. Camd. in Suss. The state of Dunwich since the foregoing time Six parish Churches Two houses of Friers One house of Templaâ—s Two Hospitals The couetouâ—nesse of the Masters and Officers The destruction of both Hospitals Three Chappelâ— The Cathedral Church vncertaine A strange and ancient buriall of a Bishop Bishops Seats anciently what they were A Mint in Dunwich Burials in the blacke Friers at Dunwich 〈◊〉 in the blacke Friers of Dunwich The foundation of the first Church in Bury The first foundation of the Abbey by the common people The second by K Canâ—â—e Ex Arch Turr. Lend * Bederics Court Farme or mansion house Camd. in Suss. Euersden Leland * Now but two The oath of the Alderman of Bury The broile betweene the Townesmen the Abbot and Couent of Bury Reliques in the Abbey Church out of a booke called Compend Com. pertorum in the treasurie of the Exchequer Aniles Fabulae S. Edmund King and Martyr Speed Hist ca. 11 * now Hoxon Ex lib. Abb. de Russ. in bib Col. S. Robert Martyr ex lib. Abb. de chateris in bib Cot. Alan Earle of Britaine and Kichmond Milles Catal. Rich. The building of Richmond Castle Tho. Plantaginet Earle of Norfolke Vincent Catal. Norf. Tho. Beauford Duke of Exceter Mary Queene of France Iohn Boon Abbot of Bury Out of a Lieger booke of the Abbey Cowell lit C. Conged'eslire Iohn Lidgate Monke * I know not * Promised * A dish made of marrow and grated bread * A Pancake * Couuremnet * Nappy Ale * Guâ—â—â— * Clocke * Verely * Nor Squire
Cherch of Ockley In the Cherch of Thâ—endeston In the Cherch of Battam In Codnam Cherche In the Cherch of Belyngs magna In S. â—aâ—â—ance Cherche as Ipsewyche Shotley Cherche In the Cherch of Belstede Eston Cherch In Mâ—tleâ—dâ— Cherch In Lackefelde Cherch In Debnam Cherch Kenton Cherch Playford Cherche Knotfall Cherch In the Cherche of Walderswyke In Beckelles Cherche More in Beckelles Coue Cherche Leystoâ—t Cherche Somerleton or Somorley Cherche Olton Cherch Soterley Chercheâ— The diuision of the Diocesse of the East-Angles Elmham the Bishops â—eate Baldwin the first Bishop Godwin Catal. Theâ—ford the Bishops seate Arfastus the first Bishop Godwin out of Maâ—msbury William the â—â—st Bishop of Thetford and the first of Norwich The foundation of the Bishops See at Norwich Herbert the first Bishop of Norwich Cart. Antiq. in Arch. Turris Lond. Godwin de 〈◊〉 Ang. Maâ—â—s de gest Regum Ang. lib. 4. â—â— vet Mss in bib Cot. Euerard Bishop of Norwich Will. Turbus Bishop of Norwich Io. Oxford Bishop of Norwich Pits aetat 13. Io. Grey Bishop of Norwich De praesul Angl. Walter de Sufield Bishop of Norw The foundation of Saint Giles Hospitall Si. de Wanton Bishop of Norw Rog. 〈…〉 Bishop of Norw Iohn Salmon Bishop of Norw Will. Ayremin Bishop of Norw Câ—p â—â—3 Tho. Piercy Bishop of 〈◊〉 Hen. Spenser Bishop of 〈◊〉 Tho. Walsing in vita R. 2. 〈◊〉 Arch. Turris 〈…〉 Alexander Bishop of Norwich 〈◊〉 Arch. Tur. 〈◊〉 Io. Wakering Bishop of Norwich Hollins A. 2. H. 5. Walter Lyghart Bishop of Norâ—wich Ia. Goldwel Bishop of Norwich Tho. Ian. Bishop of Norwich 〈…〉 of Norwich Richard Brome 〈◊〉 Boswell The â—amilie of Bosvile oâ— Boswell Clere and his wife Elis. Waters Beauchampâ— Chappell His buriall Simon Folkarde Baconthorpe Prior. Io. Baconthorpe the resolute little Doctor Pit Ann 1346. Baconthorpe a Dwarfe Mss. in custod And. Treswell Sir William Bolen knight of the Bath Tho. a Priest who paued a part of the Church Tho. Helby Io. Knapton S. Peters picture The bragge of the clocke Tho. Scot Philo. Anne Flint * thiâ— * them * that Osbornes Elis. Ellis Iohn Mers Tho. Ellis Maior of Norwich and Marg. his wife Henry Wilton and Mar. his wife Rich. Ailmer and Ioan his wife Judge Windam Ioan London Izod Read Sir Peter Read knighted by Charles the fift Emperour Tho. Sheffe and his wife Marion Iohn Prince Priest Margery Hore Verst in our english names of contempt Rob. Thorpe Tho. Warnys Priest Io. Asker oâ— Alger Maior The Gâ—ey Frieâ—s The Blâ—â—ke Friers The 〈…〉 Burialls in the whâ—te Friers Carmeliâ—â—s Vmphrey Necton Ro. â—alsyngham 〈◊〉 Folsham Rob. Rose Lady Emma 2 Recluse or Anchoresse and of this order Sir Hugo Vuedal knight Sir Will. Crongethorpe knight Philip Cowgate the Founder A grieuous great plague in Norwich A prayer for the deliueraÌ„ce of certaine Carmes out of Purgatory Ex Mss. Balei de Carmelitis The praise of Norwich Vide Camden The foundation of the Colledge of Attilborrough Burials at Attilborrough Sir Alex. Radcliffe of Ordsall now owner of Attilborroâ— Anu 1031. The foundation of the Priory of 〈◊〉 Ex 〈…〉 Lond. The Priory made an Abbey Io. Wheâ—onsseaâ— Mss. in bâ—b Câ—t Burials at 〈◊〉 Ex Annal. de Wauerley in bib Cot. Romaines â—pon 〈◊〉 None Io. Townsend Sir Rog Towneshead knight Bardolfe Anne Lady Higham Lib. 2. cap. 16. Lord Montaigne surnamed Higham Sir William Butts knight and his Lady Sir Nicholas Bacon knight and Baronet Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper Sir Francis Bacon Lord Chancellour Sir Raph Shelton and Alice his wife The foundation of Blackney Priory Camd in Norf. The Resolute Doctor Iohn Vnctâ—n Iohn Câ—â—â—ll Iohn Bocher and Marg. his wife Tho. Drake Io. Waith and Marg. his wife Io. Darosse and his wife Io Avelyn Vicar Io. Glouer Vicar Williâ—m Roys Isabell Tilney Iane Kneveâ—t Io. Styward Marg. his wife George Linsted Will. Davy Marg. Thorne Sir Roger Harsicke knight The foundation of the Abbey of Castle Acre 〈◊〉 Brâ—â—d and Agnes his wiâ—â— In a glâ—â—â—e Window Margaret White Alice Burnham Io. Bokenham George Bokenham Sir Oliuer Ingham knight Stow Annal. Hollins Spâ—ed cap. 1â— Sir Will. Woodhouse The foundation of Hickling Priory Rochfords Thomas Sutton Rob. Goddard Ric. Zorke Sir Fredericke Tâ—lney knight a man of high stature Sixteene knights of the Tilneys successiuely Tilneys inheritance deuolued to the Howards by marriage Io. Fincham Eliz. Fincham Io. Fincham The foundation of S Benets in the Holme An Abbot of Holme hanged Camd. in Norf. Iohn Clipesby Iohn Clipesby Catherine Clipesby Hen Spelman Hen. â—pelman and Ela his â—â—â—e Sir Iohn Spelman knight Elis. his wife Sir Hen. Spelman knight Io Spelman and Marg. his wife Will. Spelman Sir Will. Yeluerton knight and Iohn his sonne Hen. Nottingham and his wife * that made * Quire Hen. Le Strange Sir Roger Le Strange knight for the body to â—ing Henry the â—â—â—enth Camd. in Norf. Stow Annal. Ex Arch. Turris London The foundation of Penteney Abbey Ex. lib. Abb. de Langley Ric. Baxter cowardly slain Tho. Baxter Tho. Drake and Elis. his wife The foundation of Wendling Priory Shernburne Shernbâ—rn the second Christian Church of â—i is Country 〈◊〉 by 〈…〉 The foundation of the Monastery of Langley Out of 〈◊〉 of Annalâ— belonging to this Priory 〈…〉 Collâ—â—s Io. 〈◊〉 and Alice his wife Christopher Calthorpe Io. Symonds and Agnes his wife Symonds Anne and Margaret his wiues Io. â—â—umsted Ed. Braunche and Anne his wife Henry Berney and Alice his wife Io. Berney and his wiues Another Iohn Berney and his wiues Io Berney Io. Berney Sir Raphâ— Fulmerston and Alice his Lady Will. Knigton Peter Larke and his wife The foundation of the Friers Preachers Arfastus Bishop of Thetford Ex Mss Anâ—n in bib Cot. Iâ—â— Colledge 〈◊〉 Thetford The foundatioÌ„ of the 〈◊〉 Monastery at Thetford Caâ—â—d in Norf. Hugh Bigot Earle of Norf. Orderie Vital Vtic. Ecclesiast Hist. lib. 11. Roger Bigot Sewer to king Hen. the 〈◊〉 Stow 〈…〉 Roger Bigot Earle of Norf. Hugh Bigot Earle of Norf. Roger Bigot Earle of Norf. Marshall of England His Will out of Camdens collections in bib Ceâ—â— Roger Bigot Earle of Norf. and Marshall of England the last and Alina his wife Io Mowbray Duke of Norfolke and Eleanor his wife Iohn Lord Mowbray Duke of Norfolke Iohn Lord Howard Duke of Norfolke Ex Arch Turr. Lond. Hollins pa. 759. Sir Iohn Beaumont Baronet deceased in his Poeme of Bosworth field Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke Henry Fitz Roy Duke of Richmond Henry Howard Earle of Surrey and Frances his wife Camd. in Norf. Pit de illust Ang. scriptoribus pag. 923. Hen. How Poem Sir Anthony Denny Leâ—and â—n suis Nâ—ijâ— The death of Sir Tho. Wiat. Annal. Stow. Hollinâ— Hali. Speed Hâ—â—â— Alice 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Rob. Seman Will. Pyllis Kneuetâ— Camd. in Nors Tho. Browne â—uckenham â—riory Sir Iohn Erâ—â—â—â—ham Knight â—â—undation of the Nunnery Sir Will. Chamberlaine knight of the Garter The foundation of S. Andrewes at Bromholme 〈…〉 The holy Crosse of Bromholme Capgraue in the life of S. Edâ—â—â—d King and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 compertorum Camd. 〈…〉 â—aphe 〈◊〉 Robert 〈◊〉 Nâ—â—â— Io Deynes and Katherine his wife Io. Shildgate George Lord Audley The foundation of the Chappell and Priory at Walsingham out of a 〈…〉 increasing Librarie of Sir 〈…〉 Camd. in Norf. Erasmus of the pilgrimage to Wâ—lsingham Queene Isabels seruant Flytham Priory The Foundation of the Priory of Yngham Burials in the Priory Church Leland in his Commentaries The foundation of the Friers Carmelites The blacke and white Friers in Linne S. Iohns Hospitall Sir Iames Hobart knight the builder of this Church 〈◊〉 lit I. Margaret Laâ—â— Hobart Bishop Herbert the builder of the Church Elinâ—â—â—â—â—ker Stow Annal. ex lib. priorat de Tur. Burials of such as â—â—ed of the plague The white Friers The Blacke Friers The Grey Friers The Colledge of S. Iohn Baptist Sir Iohn Falstolfe knight of the Garter Burials and persons to be prayed for in religious houses in about Yarmouth Ed. de Hengraue a renowned Lawyer Sir Raph Shalton knight and Alice his wife 〈…〉 Lady 〈◊〉 Ioâ— Shelton 〈◊〉 Sir Raph Shelton 〈◊〉 â—unnery In bib Cott. Mss. in bib 〈◊〉 monds 〈◊〉 Eq. aurâ—t Shuldâ—◠〈◊〉 Priory of Nunnes The foundatioÌ„ of the Chappell in the Field The foundatioÌ„ of Raueningham Colledge Ex Arch. â—uâ—r Lond. Cart. Antâ—q The foundatioÌ„ of a Chantrie at Tomeston The foundatioÌ„ of the Priory of Cockford â—en Spâ—hmanni 〈◊〉 aurat â—â—nia â—he story of Hikifrick here 〈◊〉 The strange 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 Camâ— in Perth Hayâ—s Earles of Arrol or Eâ—tol Io. Ionston Heroes Scoâ— â—aâ—graâ—e in vi◠〈…〉 confessoria S. 〈◊〉 his 〈…〉 places Godwin de presul Aug.
and Crowne by the corruption of such as were imployed by her Father vpon the suppression of Abbeyes Chap. 16. fol. 127. The time of the institution of Religious Orders their seuerall Names and Authors and the infinite increase of their Fraternities and Sisterhoods Chap. 17. fol. 157. Of the sundry wayes and meanes by which Religious Votaries and others of the Clergie enriched themselues and other Churches of Pardons Pilgrimages and Romescot Chap. 18. fol. 176. Of Parishes Bishoprickes Sanctuaries and of the Ecclesiasticall estate of England and Wales Errata IN the Epistle to the Reader in the Elegie of Sir Robert Cotton reade Wigornia Page 16. line 33 reade of p. 20. l. 10. r. home p. 53. l. 26. r. of money ead l. 27. r. of any p. 62. l. 6. r. Chilperick p. 76. l. 20. r. laicis p. 128. l. 32 r. Mysteries p. 136. l. 34. r. Bernard p. 16. l. 23. r. read p. 163. l. 25. r. And. p. 172. l 18. r. leuti p. 180. l. 9. r. haue had omitted p. 235. l. 8. r. of p. 247. l. 17. r. vt p. 273. l. 4. 81. l. p. 273. l 16. r. Totehill p. 284. l. 24. the number of Constables mistaken p. 295. two halfelines transposed p. 301. l. 1. r. him omitted p. 336. l. 17. r. iuuate p. 418. l. 36. r. Tudenham p. 425. in omitted twice p. 429. l 30. r. obijt p. 496. l. 4. r. Edward pa. ead l. 25. r. Wesenham pa. 597. Essex before West Ham omitted A TABLE OR INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND OTHER OCCVRRENCES CONTAINED IN THIS BOOKE OF ANCIENT FVNERALL MONVMENTS A ABberbury 141 Abbot Archbishop 198 Abbot of S. Bennets hangd 819 Abell 771 Absolution anciently 341 Acres Ioan 734.737 740 Acton 611 Adrian Pope 152.175 578. Abbâ—t 251 Agalmare 301 Aylwood 699 â—ylâ—ffe 645 647 Aylmer 802.114 Ayremâ—n Bishop 791 Ayremin Priest 79 7â—2 Alâ—n Earle of Britain 725 Saint Albans exâ—mâ—ed from the Iurisdictâ—on of Lincolne 559 Alâ—eâ—y Earle of Arundell 809 8â—0 811 860 Albin 585 Albion 375.380 â—lbred 752 Albuger 290 â—lâ—ock 780 Alderham 533 Aldâ—rtâ—n 654 Alexander Bishop 794 Alexander 256 Alexander Sergeant at Law 536 Alefe 282 Alegh 33â— Alenâ— 603 Albrighton 381 Alford 680 Algar 550 Alisander 3â—1 Alkmond 724 Allen 401 Alerthorp 367 Allingtonâ— 546 Alphege 326 Alrick King 344 Altar portable 340 Alâ—wicke Bishop 869 Ampe 732 Amphibalus 552.585 Anna King of the East Angles his religions daughters 242.760.761.768 Anne Dutchesse of Bedford 371 Anne Bullen Queene beheaded 514 Anne Queene 473 477 Anne Dutchesse of Exceter 425 Annabull 552 Anco 570 Anchorites 150 Andrew 275 Anglesford 317 Ansered 762 Anselme Archbish. â—16 Sainted 302 Anstell 546 Aparre 109 Apulton 759 Apulderfield 27â— 280 Appleton 826.335 Aquila Richerius 570 571 Archbishops of Canterbury Sainted 298 Archbishops of London 414 Archer 528 Arderne 811 Arfastus Bishop 785. His ignorance ibid. His death and buriall 8â—7 Argentein 545.546 805 Arnold 445 Arsne 389 Athington 54 Arundell Steeple 2â—6 Arundell 411.635.647.756 Arundell Bishop 444 Arundell Archbishop 225 284 Aruiragus King 58 59 Aslake 763 Aske 103 Ashby 72.422.590 756 Ashwell 671 674. â—75 Ashbornham 138 Assheton 267.268 Aâ—ker 801.804 Aspall 779 Astall 327 Astley 435.695 60â— Astry 406 581 Athelstane King 181 Atholl Countesse 213 Atkinson 676.680 Atte 206 Atlea â—4â— Atte â—eese 274 Arte Capâ—ll 271 Atterbury 11â— Atticor 336 Attlee 731 Attewood 4â—â— Auditor whaâ— 53â— Audley Earle of Glocester 3â—â— Audley Lord Chancelor â—14 427 Audley Lord 859 Audley 8â—6 Audley End â—26 Auelyn 8â—4 Auelyn Countesse of Lancaster 17â— Augustus Caesar â—â—â— Aunâ—esham 5â—â— Austin Archbishop 242 29â— misnumbred 298 Austin â—ishop of Hippo 132. Hâ—s Eâ—pitaph ibid. Austin 721 Axenham 115 B BA 266 Babington 114 Babthorp 570 Bacon 476 583.812.813.804.82â— Baconthorp 7â—7 738.813 Badelesmere 238.617 â—88 Badewe 641 Bagot 323 Bayly 700 44â— Baynard Lord 631.632 Baysbury 542 Baysham 389 Bakewell 429 Ball a pseudoprophert 745. His wicked spirits 746 Baldocke Bishop 363 Baldwin King 278 Ballard 640 Balyoll K. 460 Balâ—oll 213 Bamme 316 Banknot 334 Banyard 805 Baynard Lord 631 Bansher 780 Babthorp Raph 579 Baptizing in Riuers 309 Barnes 89.432.416 Barre 290.291 Barloe 548 Barnet Bishop 72 Barret Lord Baton of Newburgh 447 Barret ibid. Barret 278 misnumbred for 280. Bartlet 104 Bartlot 440 Bartelote 423 Barry 296.297.190 Barking 486 Barkham 362 Barker 672.675.680 Barons slaine at Barnet field 419 Barton 379.439.293.501.516 Barington 605.631 Barentine 601 Barnake 651 Barners or Berners 656.657 Barney 784 Bardesley Lord 750. misnumbred Barmingham ibid. Batly 110 Bardolphes noble Barons 812.861 Barnardiston 733.734 Barnaby 781 Bassa 260 Basset Lord 542 Basset Bishop 363 Basset 356.830 Basing 421 Battayl 696 Battailes 317.344 345.704.705.706.707.708.458 Bateman Bishop 869 Batifford 780 Bauld sive Bawde a family of note 602 Baxter 823 Beauchampe 419.797.661.742.658 329 Beauchampe Lord 477.371 Beauchampe Earle of Warwick 372.380 Beaumont Lord 700.782 Beaumont 25.621.822.325.335 Beaufort Marquesse 211. Duke of Exeter 726 Beaufort 794. alibi Beaufiz or Beaufies 316 Beauueys Bishop 429.607.762 Beck Bishop 805.869 Becket Archbishop 87.199.303.307 344.548.744.789.400.204 Becket 378 Beckley â—64 Bedel 197 104.504.48â— Bedford 612 Bedingfield 784 Bederenden 331 Bee 807 Begebury 272 Belhouse 863 Bellamy 782 De Bello Rob. 256 Bellemont sirnamed Fitzpernell E. of Leicester 260 Bellingham 114 Bells 633.122 great Bell at Westminster 491. at Douer 268. Iesus Bells 378 Benhall 805.826 A Benefice for dogs meat 273 Benson 387 Benaker 682 Benolt king of Armes 33 516 72.675 679 BeneÌ„t of Norfolke 804 Boniuet 320 Berdefield 656 Berford 524 Bernard 138.827 Berney 827.826.859 Bernwell 581 Berry 543.805.680 Berkley Lo 213.214.335 Berkley Marquesle 419 Berta Queene 241 Bert 721 Berty Lord 327 Berton 807 Bettenham 2â—4 Best 274 Beulled 580 Beuill 157 Biggs 238 Biglon 641 Bigot Earle 752.766.828.829 830 Billing 493.498 Billington 535.824 Billet 674.679 Billingsworth 230 Bird 531 Birked ibid. Bishop what 178 Bishops canonized 298.710 â—68 Bishops seats anciently 720 A Bishop stangely buried ibid. Byseley 675 Byseworth 576 Bladud King 517.518 Bladwell 779 Blake 581 Blackmore 633 Black Will or Will Slaughter 520 Blanch Dutchesse of Lancaster 365 Blechenden 267 Blennerhasset 821 Blewet Bishop 70 Blund 734.816.766 Blount 526.427.805 Blount Charles Earle of Deuonshire Blount Mountloy Lord Mountloy Blount William Lord Mountloy Blount Walter 405 Bloys 486 Blomuill 596 Blooer 286 Blundeuill Bishop 869 Bockon 296 Bocham 633 Bocher 814 Boerell 751 Bodley 692.361 Bohuns Earles 210.418.638.541.388.626 Bokenham 817 865 Bokill 720 Bolton 434 Bolbeck 615.654 Boleyn Bolen or Bullen 398.798.799.864.606.514 Bomsted or Bumpsted 763.784 Boniface Archbishop 285 Boniface Bishop of Menâ—z 67 Bonefellow 824 Bonehard Laind 394 Bonvill 412 Boner 116 Bonevant 333 Borne 805.257 5â—5 Borrell 551.751 Borough king at armes 687 Borgeris 282 Borham 762 Boon Abbot 726 Booth Bishop 444 Booth 445.781 Bootes 416 Boswell 796.797 Botill 431 Boteler or Butler 282 747.751.400.401.7â—8.544.805.606 Bottold 750 Bourchler Earle 628.229 Bourchier 237.323.543.619.705.815.830 Bourchier Archbishop 229.324 Bowsers Bell 630 Bourne 279 Bowrman 395 Bowes 784.388 Bowles Bishop
309 Bowbell 402 Bowrd 607 Boydale 526 Boys 782.368.382.804.674.678 Boyland 805.368 Boyvile 782 Boxhull 380.484 Brabazon 368 Bradwardin Archbishop 222.223 Bradshaw 687 Bradlaine 322 Bray 468.429.450.523 Braybroke 640.328.329.429.381 Braybroke Bishop 360 Braham 753 Braâ— 429 Brampton 809.367 Bradene 579 Brands 318 Brandon Charles Duke of Suffolke 602.620.726.769 Braunch 826.815 Brember 410 Brews Lord 260. Brews 806.720.752.753 Brech K 459 Brereton 514 Brent 294.532.290 Bredon 332 Bret 8â—8 Breakespeare Pope 57â— 175.152.391 Brendward 329 Brenton Bishop 325 Brember 410 Bregwin Archbishop 249 Breux 418 Bryene or Bruin 325 Bryan 778.593.426 Bricot 369 Bâ—uget Nun 335 Briton 201.202 Briset Baron 428.429.430.431 Briggs 587 Bâ—igham 489 Brittingham 72 Brickles 408 Brithwald Archbishop 248.258 Brocas Ep. to the Reader Broke 754.114.591.324 Baron 328.329 Brockhall 238 Brome 796.865.790 Brockholl 294 Brokenbury 521 Brokitwell 393 Bromflet Lord 588 Bromeley 675.679 Brompton 367 Browne 134.235.807.238.675.579.636.795 856 Browne Bishop 869 Brond 816.817 Bâ—otherton E. Marshall 433.726 Brugge or Brugges the first king at armes named Garter 659 Brugge Lord Maior 412 Brun 479.655 Bruin 602.625 Bruno the first Carthusian 144.145 Brunham 791 Bruchelle 235 Bruâ— 496 Brudenell Lord 656 Brute King 374.375.396 Buckland 331 Bucks head borne in procession 603 Bucton 784.781 Budrices Yurthe 721 Bull 239.429 Bunbury 110 Burgese 319 Burgoine 325.326 Burley 367 Burd 693 Burleton 334 Burton 398 Burnell Lord 635 Burnham 817 Burford Baron 531 Burgh 740 7â—5.860.440.349.716 Burrow 390 Bury S. Edmonds burned 733 Bury 380 Burials of the dead slaine in battaile 344.345.704.705.706.707.708 777 Burials vide Discourse Cap. 2 3 4 5 Burwash 212 Burstall 448 Bushop 527 Busbrig 436 Butts 812.525 Butterfield 537 Butterwick 742 Butler vide Botâ—ler Buxton 814 C Cade 279.391.747 Cadwall King 386 Canies 370 Caly 598 Calthorp 825.796.859.805 Camden 673.677 Camoys 822 Campion 695 Candlin 238 Candish 742. vide Cauendish Cantlow 695 Canute or Knute King 721. his Charter to Bury S. Edmunds 819 Capell or Attecapell 272.417.742 Capgraue 263 Cary Baron Hunsdon Cary Lord Chamberlane cosin german to Queene Elizabeth 544 Cary Earle of Douer 606.544 Carey Lo. Falkland 592 Carew castle 731 Carew 114.426.731 Carbonell 744 Carlile 672 Carre 599 Cardinals 383.384 Carhill 526 Carleton vide Charleton Carrs 599 Carmelite namelesse 611 Carpenter 379 Carpenwald K. 62 Casy 395 Castle 863 Catcher 537 Catesby 327 Caue 114 Cawne 327 Cauz 448 Cauendish Earle of Newcastle â—30 Cauendâ—sh 112.528 69â— Cauâ—sini what 300 Caxion 864 Cecil William Earle of Salisbury 511 230 Cely 274 Cenotaphs vide Discourse cap 7. Challoner 430 Chareport 27â— Chardport 111 Chadwort 542 Chapman 333 Chapney 672 Chamberlain 409.547.857 Champion 417 Chancey 549 5â—6 Chamceux 6â—5 Charles King Dedication and 497 Charles Emperor 319 Chandry 543 Charleton 324.534.751 misnumbred 822 Charles 317.750.825.826 Chartsey 743 Chaucer 489 4â—1 Chaire of Marble 459 Cheake or Cheke 760 783 Chesterfield 72 Chency 776.700.835.865.866.686.330 284 599.550 Chickwell 371 Chicheley Archbishop 227 Chicheley Lord 409 Chint 625 Chyett 696 Chillenden 236 Chishull Bishop 363 Chirch 655 Chitting 687 Christianity in Wales euer since Lucius his reigne 414 Cholmundeley 499 Chute 294 Church Robbers 42 Churchyard 497 Clay 551 Clare Earle of Glocest. 589 322 323 632. 734. c. Clarembald 255 Claudine Contentus 265 Claydon 751 Clark 111 Clauell 527 Claudius Emperor 708 Clauering 825.329.826 Cley 483 Clere 797.783 Clement 327 Clerk of the Pipe 694. Of the priuy Scale 694. Of the Crowne 700 Clerk 732.598 Clerk Bishop 426 Clifton 270.804.811.805 Clinton Lo. 866 Clifford Bishop 364. Clifford 656 281.237.429 831 Cliâ—herow 265 Clock comparing with the Sunne Moone and the Dyall 800 Clopâ—â—n 659.660.609 747 776 742.743 Clot â—â—â— 770 Cobham 327.291 329 330.328 Câ—â—k 676.781.607 Cockame 381 Codum 72â— Câ—â— 622.623 Câ—slin 594 Coggesâ—â—ll 699.609.617.636 657 Coill Kâ—ng 612 Coke and Cooke 625.650.673.682 â—â—4 550.182.625 Coâ—aâ— 608 Colby 547 Cole 411 Colin 337 Colins 529 Colwell 259.276.277 Colâ—hester 611 Câ—liâ—t 140 761.368.369.540 Collyer 671.674.679.675 Câ—lvyle 751 〈◊〉 676.681 〈◊〉 274 Colpeper â—ide Culpeper Columbers 297.330 Combe 486 Compton 535.336 Constenton 317 Conge Dâ—sâ—â—ire its form and interpretation 726.727 Constable of Chester 811 Conyers 760 Coâ—â—gesbieâ— a familie 592 Constable 284 Conghurst 317 Contention betwixt the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for primacy 305.306 Coâ—stantin Emperor 612 Constance Dutchesse of Lancaster 365 Constance Dutchesse of Northfolke 425 Copeland 402 Copledike 114 Coppinger 54.700 780 Cornwalleys 764.765.406 Cornwall Baron 284.531 Corbevill 268 Cornelius Van Dun 499 Corineus 396.397 Cornburgh 648 Coronation of King Ed. first 456 Cordall 748.60 Corpus Christi play 405 Cotgraue 676.681 Cotton Rob. his death and Epitaph Epistle to the Reader and 496 Cotton 759.550.493 Cotet 805 Cote 732 Courtney 544.436 Courtney E. of Deuon 328 Courtney Archbishop 225.285.869 Couentry 402 Cowall 814 Cowgate 805.807 Cowâ—elit 263 Coway stakes 704 Crane 545.778 Crancumbe 448 Cranmer Archbishop 103.506 His wisdome 507 Cranuile 744 Creketot 734 Creke 766 Crew 820 Cresner 335 Cressenor 744 Cressacre 401 Creuequer 286 Cressy 376 645.551.39â— Crispe 267 Crispin and Crispinian 271 Crispin 487.829 Cryoll Lo. 322.336 Crymvill 606 Cromwell Lo. Tresurer 700 Cromwell 104.114.864.501.593.509 512 Crongethorpe 805.807 Dela Crois 209 Crosby 421 Crosses at Lincolne Granthan c. 464 Crooke 676 Croston 427 Crowland 649 Cromer 235.279 863 Cudden 859 Culpeper 272.281 326.327.338.796 Cunred 252 Cunebelin or Kimbalin King 608 Cure first of the Kings euill 453 Curteys 537.594 Cuthbert Archbishop 214.249.67 S. Cuthbert Bishop 151 S. Cuthberts feast 349 D DAcre 291.498 Dacres vide Fines Dayner 238 Dayres 682 Daker 291 Dalusse 406 Dalton 673 676.680.68 Dallington 3â—0 Damory Lord 44.544 Danyell 535.548 Dannet 629 Danset 416 Dondlyon 259 Danewott 707 Dance of Pauls 378 Dammary 628 Darosse 814 Darland 700 Darcies 534.371.426.609.640 Darell 294.235 Dauy 582.815.332.591 Dauid K 46 Debenham 80 Deynes or Dennis 764.859 Deyncourt 651 Deyre 274 Dey 718 De la Pole 759.863.744 328.758 Pole 231 De la Downe Denne 416 497 Dennys 859 Denneyes 784 Denny Ed. E. of Norwich 6â—6 Denny 645.852 Dengayn 805 Dentwell 592 Dene Archbishops 231. Dene 318 Denham 751 Denbank 829 Denston 781 Deodate Archbishop 299 Derik 89 Dernford 721 Dering 292.293.294.295 Derings Droff ibid. Derham 855 Dernford 721 Dethick 681.677.682.676.680.683.669 672 The Deuill a dancer 300. A merry Gentleman 534 Deuenish 250 Deus dedit Archbishop 247 Dew 333 D'Ewes 697.698.653.397.660.718.208.311 alibi Dialogue twixt a Secular Priest and a Fryer 734 Digge 238.134.367 270 Digon 259 Dighton 520.72 Dilcock 606 Dinham Lord 609 Diocesse of London 72 Distich in Guild Hall 399 Dissention betweene the Couent of Bury S. Edmonds and the Townsmen vide Quarrell Disse 806 Dominella 542 Domneua 261 Donations to religious houses with blessings and curssings 62 Donwalle King 181 Donet 331.286 Doreward 619 Douer Isab. Countesse of Assile 213 Douer Rose 337 Douglas Bishop 446.491 Downmeer 532 Dowe 782 Downe 331 Drake 814.823.610 Drayton 4.303.345 alibi Dreux Earle of Richmond 387 Drury 744.760.730.779.778 Dâ—â—lege the little Abbot
in you exciteth and serueth you till the vsurped poure of that man of Rome be clene abolished and put out of the hartes of the kyngs subiects And I shall with all my diligence applie my self to thaccomplishment of this his so godly commandement by Goddes grace And for as moche as I haue taken my leue of the Kyng and Quene and tarry for noothing now but only for the instrument called Custodias temporalium I eftsones beseche your mastirship to haue that in your remembraunce whan ye shall next repaire vnto the Court together with a discharge for takyng of any othe of the residentiaries of Sarum which suyrly they will exact of me oneles I bryng some thyng outher from the Kyng his highnes or elles from you his chefe Counsellor for to stopp their mouthes And as for seallyng of new obligacions if itt like you to commande your servaunt to send me them to morow by this brynger I shall seale them and send them to you without any tariaunce by the grace of God who preserue you and prosper you in all your godly purposes and interprises Murtelack the iiii daye of Iuin Yorn owne to comaunde Nic. Sarum But howsoeuer the honour of this act as also of the dissolution of Abbeys be principally attributed to Cromwell and his complotments yet at the same time there was others of the priuie Councell as forward and as able for their singular endowments to conclude a matter of that consequence as euer was Cromwell I meane Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury whose zeale and abilities are generally knowne to all that euer heard of the booke of Martyrs Sir Thomas Audley Knight speaker of the Parliament for his demerits created by Henry the eighth Baron Audley of Walden and also aduanced to the honour of the Chancellorship of England Sir William Pawlet Knight Comptroller of the Kings house who for his wisedome the said King created Lord S. Iohn of Basing and Knight of the Garter whom Edward the sixt made great Master of his houshold President of his Councell and Lord Treasurer of England whom he created Earle of Wiltshire and Marquesse of Winchester to whom Queene Elizabeth committed the keeping of the great Seale Who liued to see one hundred and three persons issue out of his loynes who died at Basing in Hampshire the tenth of March 1571. where hee was honourablie buried when he had liued eightie seuen yeares Another pillar of the State at that time was that wise and iudicious gentleman Sir Richard Rich Lord Chancellour of England vnder King Edward the sixth who in the first yeare of his raigne aduanced him to this office and created him Baron Rich of Leez in Essex These and other more of the Nobilitie had both their hands and heads in this businesse yet Cromwell Audley and Rich were thought to be the onely men who for their religious paines ranne into great obloquie with the common people insomuch that the Commons of Lincolnshire finding themselues fore troubled with this strange alteration and rising in rebellion presented diuers articles of aggrieuances to the Kings Maiestie Amongst the said Articles and demands of Robert Askâ— and his rebellious crew the Commons of Yorkeshire Cumberland Westmerland Northumberland and the countries adiacent at the conference holden at Doncaster betwixt Thomas Duke of Norfolke Generall of the Kings Armie and certaine Commissioners on the partie of the said Captaine Aske and his fellow rebels Thus it was propounded by their Speaker Sir Thomas Hylton Knight The fowrt that Thomas Cromwell nor any of his bande or secte be not at our metinge at Doncastre but abcent themselfe from the Councell Also to haue the Lord Cromwell the Lord Chancellor and Sir Ryc Rich to haue condigne punyshment as subuerters of the gud lawes of the â—eame and ouetemers of the slese secte of theys fals Heretykes first inuenters and brengers of them Likewise Doctor Leyton and Doctor Leâ— who had bene loyned in commission with Cromwell for the visitation of religious Foundations of which hereafter were maliciouslye detracted by this demand of the Commons in the foresaid conference Also that Doctor Lee and Doctor Leyton may haue condigne punyshment for theyr extortions in time of visitation in brybes of some religyous houses x. lib. xx lib. and for other summes besyde horsys vowsens leases vndre Couent Seallys by them taken and other abomynable acts by them committed and done I might haue occasion here to speake of the abrogation of the Popes authoritie of the subuersion of religious foundations of the suppression of religious Votaries and of the reformation of Religion in that neuer-conquered Nation of Scotland where at this time Religion is double refined pure and spotlesse without ceremonie and plaine as a pike staffe without a surplise But I will reserue this narration till I come to speake of the conuersion of Scotland to the Christian faith As also of the Funerall Monuments which are there to be found which will be but a few if Sir Robert Cottons Librarie do not helpe me for by my owne obseruation in the famous maiden-citie of Edenborough and in the Parish Churches of other Townes the Sepulchres of the dead are shamefully abused or quite taken away yea and the Churches themselues with religious houses and other holy places violated demolished or defaced CHAP. XV. The policie vsed by the King and his Councell for the dissolution and extirpation of Religious Foundations and Religious Orders within this Realme of England and Wales The reformation of Religion of Inscriptions in Churches The Kings warrant of the surrender of Religious Houses An information made to Queene Elizabeth of the seuerall abuses done vnto the State generall and Crowne by the corruption of such as were imployed by her Father vpon the suppression of Abbeyes HEnry the eighth hauing as ye haue heard thus setled the Supremacy where he would haue it either by the aduise of politick Cromwell or by the example of proud Wolsey or else of himselfe hee being nothing so scrupulous in conscience nor so stayed in sacred resolutions as was Henry the fourth vpon a greedie desire to enrich his coffers began now to lay plots deuises and proiects for the vtter subuersion of all Abbeyes Priories Nunneries and other religious foundations within this his kingdome of England and Wales and first for an induction to the businesse He put in Commission his seruant Cromwell Thomas Lee and Richard Laiton Doctors of the Ciuill Law Thomas Bedell Deane of Cornwall Thomas Bartlet publike Notarie and others to visit all the foresaid religious Houses and to make inquirie of their Orders Founders values debenters reliques pilgrimages and other Queres but most especially they were to make diligent scrutinie and to learne vijs modis omnibus by all manner of meanes the wicked abuses of those times practised amongst the Fraternitie and Sisterhood of each seuerall Couent Which with their Commission they returned making a shamefull discoueriâ— of the bestiall sensualitie of Monasticke profession This
requiescit Dominus Thomam Elham quondam Prior huius Ecclesâ— quicum Ann. 2. mens 11. et 4. dieb honorâ—fice vixisset 20. Febru 1440. obdormiuit in Domino Est nece substratus Ion Woodnesbergh tumulatus Huius erat gratus Prior Ecclesie aumeratus Quem colie ornatus hic tantus vhique nouatus Per loca plura datus fit sumptus testificatus Auctor erat morum probitatis laudis honorum Largus cunctorum cunctis dator ille laborum Quique Prioratum rexit sub schemate graium Annos hunc plenos per septenos quoque denos Quadringentenis Mil. eius bis quoque denis Annis septenis domini nondum sibi plenis ....... cum tibi Chrisle ... agone Quem precibus pane radiantis forte corone Hic iacet Dominus Thomas Chyllindene quondam Prior huius Ecclesie Decretorum Doctor egregius qui nauem islius Ecclesie ceteraque diuersa edisicia ..... qui post quam Prioratum huius Ecclesie 25. Sept .... et quinque diebus nobiliter rexisset tandem in die Assumptionis beate Marie virginis diem suum clausit extremum Ann. Dom. 1411. Cuius anime propiâ—ietur Deus Amen This man flourished vnder Archbishop Arundell who entirely affected him euen from the time that he deliuered him the Crosse at Westminster with all accustomed solemnitie in the presence of the King and most of the Nobilitie Preteriens flere discas et die miserere Et ne subsannes quia victus morte Iohannes Membris extensis iacet hic Sarisburiensis Sic non euades vindice morte cades Hic Prior Ecclesie Doctorque fuit Theorie Wulstam festo feria quarta memor esto Mille quater centum X. V. dant documentum Sint anime merces lux decor requies Amen Hic iacet reuerendus pater Wilhelmus Selling huius sacrosancte Ecclesie Prior ac sacre pagine Professor qui post quam hanc Ecclesiam per ann 22. mens 5 et 24. d. optime gubernasset migrauit ad Dominum Die viz. passionis Sancti Thome Martyris An. 1494. Doctor Theologie Selling Greca atque Latina Lingua predoctus hic Prior almus obit Omnis virtutis speculum exemplar Monachorum Religionis honor mitis imago Dei Hic requiescit in gratia miserecordia Dei Richardus Oxinden quondam Prior huius Ecclesie .... qui ob Aug. 4. 1338. Sub isto marmore requiescit corpus Magistri Richardi Willesford quondam Capellani Cantarie de Arundell cuius anime propitietur altissimus obijt 1520. Hic iacet Robertus Clifford Armiger frater recolende memorie Domini Richardi Clifford Episcopi Londoniarum quiob 9. die mens Martij Anno Dom. 1422. Cuius c. Hic iacet sub hoc marmore expectans miserecordiam Dei vonerabilis vir Magister Iohannes Bourchier Archidiaconus Cantuariensis qui quidem Iohannes migrauit ad Dominum 6. die mens Nouemb. 1495. Cuius anime de seta magna pietate propitietur Altissimus Heus tu sistito gradum qui obambulas Et quod scriptum est legito Gulielmi Gardneri Candidati Theologie Huius Ecclesie olim prebendarij Ossa hoc clauduntur sub marmore Obijt qui Sancti Michaelis .... luce Anno post milesimum quingentesimum Quadragesimo quarto Cui det Christus vitam tibi Lector perennem Holy crosse Church in Canterbury Hic .... Thomas Lynd primus Mayor Cant. Constantia vxor eius ... Feb. 12. Ann. Dom .... Hic iacet Clemens Harding Legum Baccalrius .... Clauditur hoc tumulo .... Multorum causas defendere quique solebat Hanc wortis causam euaderâ— non potuit Doctus indoctus moritur sic respice finem Vt. bene discedas quisquis es ista legens Saint Peters in Canterbury Thomas Ikham et Ione sa Femme 〈◊〉 Deiu de salmes eit mercy 〈◊〉 Hic iacet Wilhelmus Ikham quondam cit 〈…〉 qui obijt ... Iulij ... 1424. Orate pro anima Wilhelmi Septvaus 〈…〉 Orate pro bono slatu Iohaâ—â—is Biggs A 〈…〉 Cant .... Anno Dom. 1473. Saint Mildreds in Canterbury Orate pro animabus Thomâ— Wood 〈…〉 Hospitijre◠〈◊〉 patris in Christo Domini ... Maior is huius Cinitatis qui iâ— honore Iesu hanc capellam â—ieri fecit et 〈◊〉 garete vxoris eius filie Iohannis Moyle Armigeri Orate procis The white Friers obseruants This religious house was founded by one Sir Iohn Digges of this Countie Knight circa ann 1207. and valued at the suppression aâ— 39. l. 〈…〉 ob of yearely reuenue Herein were sometimes inteâ—â—ed 〈◊〉 Lord Badlesmere Steward of the houshold to King Eâ—ward the second who for his good seruice gaue to him and his heires the Castle of Leedes in this County which hee persidiously fortified against his Soueraigne Lord and Master and after that payed the due price of his disloyaltie vpon the gallowes Ann. 1321. Sir Giles Bâ—dilsmere or Badlesmere knight his sonne Dame Elisabeth Lady of Chilham Sir William Mauston knight Sir Roger Mauston his brother Sir Thomas Brockhall knight anâ— Lady Ioane his wife Sir Thomas Brockhall knight sonne to the said Sir Thomas and Lady Editha his wife Sir Falcon Payserer knight Sir Thomas Daynes knight Lady Alice of Maryms Lady Candlin Sir Alan Pemâ—ington of 〈◊〉 in the Countie of Lancaster knight who comming from the warres beyond Seas died in this Citie Lady Ladrie of Valence Sir William Trussell Sir William Baloyle Sir Bartholomew Ashburnham knights and Sir Iohn Montenden knight and a Frier of this house lie all here in terred The blacke Friers Minorites King Henry the third is said to bee the founder of this house in which were buried Robert and Bennet Browne Esquires Bennet daughter of Shelâ—ings and wife to Sir Edmund Hawte knight and after wife to Sir William Wendall knight The Hospitall of Saint Iames was erected by Elianor the wife of the said King Ed. 3. valued at the suppression to 32. l. 2. s. 1. d. ob Here sometime stood an house of blacke veyled Nunnes dedicated to S. 〈◊〉 founded by one of the Abbots of Saint Augustines esteemed to be worth vpon the suppression 38. l. 19. s. 7. d. ob per annum These Nuns were endowed with the Church of Redingate with other reuenues and were to pay twelue pence yearely to the Monkes of S. Augustine vpon his feast day on the high altar The Monastery of Saint Peter and Saint Paul commonly called Saint Austins Annis sexcentis preter tres Anglia mundi Christi nascentis micuit Baptismatis vnda The yeare of our redemption sixe hundred and three as these times do testifie Ethelbert king of Kent receiued the lauer of Baptisme in Saint Martins Church at the hands of Saint Augustine within two yeares after that he began the foundation of this Monasterie As I haue it out of this his Charter in the red booke of Canterbury In nomine Domini nostri Iesu Christi
and Crispinians Tombe whom they report to haue beene cast vpon this Shore by shipwracke and from hence called into the glorious company of Saints Looke Iacobus de voragine in the Legend of their liues and you may beleeue perhaps as much as is here spoken they were Shoomakers and suffered martyrdome the tenth of the Kalends of Nouember Which day is kept holiday to this day by all our Shoomakers in London and elsewhere Begebury Hic iacet Iohannes filius Iohannis Begebure qui obijt die Sancti Briâ—ij Ann. Dom. 1424. This Iohn was the last Begebury of this house whose daughter and heire was married to Culpepper Orate pro animabus Walteri Culpeper Ar. et Agnetis vxoris sue qui quidem Walterus erat filius Thome Culpeper militis et predicta Agnes erat filia Edmundi Robar iuxta Cantuar. et predicta Agnes obiit 2. die Decemb. Ann. Dom. 1457. et predictus Walt. obiit 24. Nouemb. 1462. quorum animabus Orate ... Iohannis Culpeper militis et Agnes vxor eius qui quidem Iohannes obiit 22. Decemb. 1480. quorum Sir Thomas Culpeper is remembred in our English Chronicles for siding with Thomas the great Earle of Lancaster against his Soueraigne Lord King Edward the second and Thomas Culpeper a gentlemen of the priuie-Chamber is not forgotten for being ouer familiar with his Lord and Master King Henry the eighth the one hanged drawne and quartered at Winchelsey the other beheaded at Tyborne The place fatall to both was Pontefract a familie of exemplarie note both here and sometime in the County of Rutland by the marriage of Sir Tho. Colepeper knight to Eleanor daughter and heire of Nicholas Greene of Rutlandshire The Church of Hedâ—orne sounded by one of the Culpepers â—uechurch Orate pro anima Henrici Atte Capella militis et Iacobi Atte Capella militis in fenestra Now Capells an ancient name and familie in old Latine records written De Capella The Priory neare Rumney The Priory of Regular Canons neare Rumney was founded by Iohn Mansell Prouost of Beuerley in the yeare that God tooke vpon him the forme of a Seruant 1257. the 41. of king Henry the third of the which foundation as also of the Founder reade if you please these words out of Mathew Paris In the same yeare saith he Sir Iohn Mansell Prouost of Beuerley the Kings Chaplaine and of his especiall Councell a man prudent circumspect and rich wisely considering that the fauour of a king is not hereditarie nor the prosperitie of the world alwayes permanent founded a Religious house of Regular Canons neare by Rumney two miles from the sea and endowed it with very ample reuenues which he replenished with Canons by the example of Peter Chareport who as hee was enformed not many dayes before had piously and prosperously founded an house of the same order that so passing by temporall goods they might not loose eternall Bilsington A Priory likewise built by the said Iohn Maunsell for King Henry the third and Eleanor his wife and dedicated to the blessed Virgine Mary wherein he placed blacke Canons which was valued amongst the rest of the suppressed houses at 8. l. 1. s. 6. d. of yearely commings in This house was surrendred 19. Ianuar. 36. Hâ—n 8. But to proceed a little further with this Iohn Maunsell his Ecclesiasticall and Temporall dignities who besides being Prouost of Beuerley was Treasurer of Yorke Parson of Maidstone in this County and Parson of Wigan in Lanchishire to whom king Henry the third did grant that his Towne of Wigan should be a Burrow Hee was chiefe Iustice of England one of the priuie Councell to the said King his Chaplaine his Embassador into Spaine a worthy Souldier In armis strenuus animo imperterritus who with his owne hands in a battell betwixt the English and the French neare to Tailborge in France tooke Prisoner one Peter Orige a gentleman of eminent place and qualitie He was crossed to go to Ierusalem He feasted at his house in Tole-hill field at one time two kings two Queenes with their dependances 700. messe of meate scarce seruing for the first dinner About the 31. yeare of King Henry the third at the instance of the said king he was first made keeper of the great Seale as Vicechancellour For saith Paris Custodiam Sigilli regij accepit Cancellarij vices acturus et officium and afterwards Lord keeper in plenarie office and authoritie yet for all this glorious pompe and great promotions I finde his end to be poore wretched and miserable beyond Seas but I finde no place of his death nor buriall of all which may it please you to reade thus much out of an old Manuscript in the fame language it was to me deliuered Ann. 1268. obijt Iohannes Mansel in partibus transmarinis in paupertate et dolore maximo Hic miser tot obtentus Ecclesiasticos habuit vt annuatim ex illis XVIII millia Marcarum poterat expendere vnde maiores Episco Anglie recusauit tum quia in pluralitate permultarum preditissimarum EcclesiaruÌ„ habundauit tum quia lubricus erat Hic ait de vna Ecclesia modici census scilicet 20. librarum Ad canes nostros valet ista Ecclesia innuens per hoc quod surfures et farina et alia canibus necessaria ex prouentu istius Ecclesie deberent comparari Hic autem cum esset Simonis aduersarius scilicet Mounteforti et consiliarius precipuus suaset Regi vt iuramentum quod fecerat cum Baronibus pro fidelitate Anglie seruanda omnino dimitteret factumque est ita Mittitur igitur ad curiam summi Pontificis pro absolutione petenda ne Rex teneretur prestito Baronibus iuramento obtinuitque mox regia supplicatio absolutionem petitam vnde bellum de quo dictum est accepit post illius absolutionis obtentum c. Of this man so many times double beneficed Mathew Paris doth thus descant Admirabantur autem cum stupore qui ea quae Dei sunt sapiunt hominem tam circumspectum tot animarum curam suscepisse non formidare cum de omnibus coram summo Iudice vt reddat rationem sihi se constiterit obligatum sed vt verificetur Multi multa sciunt seipsos penitus nescientes I haue seene a pedigree of the Mansels from Philip de Mansel who came in with the Conquerour vntill these our times Of this name and familie is that orthodoxall sound Diuine and worthy Master of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge Iohn Mansel Doctor of Diuinitie and a generall Scholler in all good literature Boughton vnder Bleane Orate pro anima Iohannis Colkin Ar obijt 18. April 1405. Orate pro anima Willelmi Colkin de Colkin et pro anima Agnetis vxoris eius qui obierunt 1460. Pray for the soule of Iohn Best and Ioane his wife who deceased the 20. day of Iuly 1408. Swynfeeld
fashion in former times fetched from the French which they call rebus or name-deuises examples of the same are frequent Neare to this Church sometime stood that goodly Abbey founded by Stephen king of England grandchilde to the Conquerour dedicated to Saint Sauiour replenished with blacke Monkes of Cluni valued at the suppression to be well worth according to the fauourable rate of such endowments in those dayes 286. l. 12. s. 6. d. ob yearely such was the charter of his donation Stephanus Rex c. Archiepiscopis Episcopis c. salutem Sciatis me pro salute anime mee Matildis Regine vxoris mee Eustachij filij mei aliorum puerorum meorum antecessorum Regum Anglie dedisse c. Manerium meum de Fauresham ad fundand Abbatiam vnam ibidem ae ordine Monachorum Cluniacensium c. Sciatis etiam quod dedimus ego et Matildis Regina mea Willelmo de Ipra in Escambium pro eodem Manerio de Fauresham Lillechire cum pertinencijs suis de hereditate Regine Teste H. Episcopo Winton fratre meo Rogero Episcopo de London Richardo de Lucy Hen. de Essex c. This king died at Douer of an Iliack passion mixed with his old disease the Emrods Octob. 25. 1154. hauing raigned 18. yeares ten moneths and odde dayes and was buried in this Church of his owne foundation Of which heare these ancient rimes Aftur king Harry euyn Then regnyd king Stevyn The Erlys son Bloys he was truly He wedded Mold the doghter of Mary A good man he was bedeme I trow king Harry was his Eme He regnyd here XUIII yere And to Feuersham in Kent men him bere He deyed without issue truly Then regnyd his cosin Harry Stephen was a most worthy Souldier saith one and wanted nothing to haue made him an excellent king but a iust title but that was wanting The whiche he found whyles he was liuing so And reigned here in much trouble and wo. And had this Realme without any ryght Fro th'emprise Maude that faire Lady bryght And this was the cause that he was driuen perforce to defend his vsurâ—ped authoritie by the sword which must needs procure him the hatred of many who thus speake of him in old English King Stephen his luthenesse withdrew yers a fewe But er Uyer were goo he ganne to wex a shrewe For he wende aboute and robbyd the lond and to grownd broght Then the toune of Wyrcester he brent all to noght But to conclude with the words of a late writer This Stephen was a man so continually in motion saith he that we cannot take his dimension but onely in passing and that but on one side which was warre on the other we neuer saw but a glaunce on him which yet for the most part was such as shewed him to be a very worthy Prince for the gouernment Hee kept his word with the State concerning the relieuement of Tributes and neuer had Subsidy that we finde But which is more remarkable hauing his sword continually out and so many defections and rebellions against him hee neuer put any great man to death Besides it is noted that notwithstanding all these miseries of war there were more Abbeyes built in his raigne then in an 100. yeares before which shewes though the times were bad they were not impious the king himselfe being mente piissimus as he was miles egregius His body rested here in quietnesse vntill the dissolution when for the gaine of the lead wherein it was encoffined it was taken vp and throwne into the next water So vncertaine is man yea greatest Princes of any rest in this world euen after buriall Here sometime likewise lay interred Maud his wife the daughter of Eustace Earle of Bulloigne the brother of Godfrey and Baldwin of Bulloigne kings of Ierusalem by her mother Mary sister to Maud Queene of England wife of Henry her predecessour who dyed at Heueningham Castle in Essex the third of May 1151. Whose Epitaph I found in a namelesse Manuscript Anno milleno C. quinquagenoque primo Quo sua non minuit sed sibi nostra tulit Mâ—thildis selix coniux Stephani quoque Regis Occidit insignis moribus et titulis Cultrix vera Dei cultrix et pauperiei Hic subnixa Deo quo frueretur eo Femina si qua Polos conscendere queque meretur Angelicis manibus diua hec Regina tenetur Eustace the sonne and heire apparant of Stephen and Queene Maud liued not long after his mother for being highly displeased with the agreement betwixt his father and Henry Fitzempresse afterwards king of England by which he was made hopelesse euer to haue the Crowne as his fathers Successour in a fury he departed the Court purposing to raise himselfe by his owne meanes and so marched along destroying the countrey alwayes as he went vntill he came to Saint Edmundsbury where he was honourably receiued of the Monkes of that Monastery But hee came not for meat but money and thereupon vngratefully vrged them for a great summe to set forward his heady designes yet the wiser amongst them vnwilling to be wagers of new warres which though ill for all sorts yet proued euer worst for the Clargie mens possessions denyed his request Wherewith eâ—raged be commanded his owne men to carry their corne and other prouision into his owne Castle situated hard by But being set at dinner the very first morsell he put into his mouth draue him into a Frensie whereof shortly after he dyed His body was brought to this Abbey and here interred by his mother His death happened the tenth day of August 1152. He was married to Constance sister of Lewis the seuenth king of France daughter of king Lewis the Grosse by whom he had no issue In this Abbey saith Robert of Glocester is a pece of ye hely croys which Godfrey Boylon forkyndred had sent to king Stephene Tunstall Hic iacet Margareta filia Iacobi Cromer militis vxor Iohannis Rycils heredis de Elsingham .... qui obiit ... 1496. Sittingborne Here lyeth Iohn Crowmer Esquire and Ione his wife who died Ann. Dom. 1539 .... on whose soules A family of knightly descent and ample reuenues one of which house called William Crowmer Esquire sonne of Sir William Lord Maior of London high Shiriffe of Kent in the fury of Iack Cade and the Kentish and Essex rebells was sacrificed at Mile-end and cut shorter by the head like as the day before they had serued Sir Iames Fienes Lord Say and Sele and Treasurer of England in Cheape-side whose onely daughter this Crowmer had married Whose heads giue me leaue to go a little further pitched vpon high poles were carried by the villaines through the Citie of London who caused their trunklesse faces in spight and mockerie to kisse one the other at euery street-corner as they marched along in this their damnable triumph and
Pope as you haue heard from a poore Baker to a blessed Martyr Here as they say he shewed miracles very plentifully which made people of all sorts offer vnto him wondrous liberally euen vntill these latter times insomuch that with two yeares oblations at his Shrine one William de Hoo a Sacrist or keeper of the holy treasures of this Church built the whole Quire as it now stands Richard Walden a Monke and sacrist built the South Isle Richard East-gate a Monke and Sacrist began the North Isle of the new worke towards Saint Williams gate which Frier William de Axenham almost finished Geffery de Hadenham Prior payed thirteene hundred pounds in one day to certaine creditours to whom this Church stood indebted since the time of her troubles the same man bought certaine lands in Banerkin and Darent which he gaue to this House and bequeathed to the same 300. l. in money vpon his decease He built the Dorter in the Priory and the Altar of Saint Edmund in the Church To which or rather to the high Altar Haymo Bishop of this Diocesse offered vp a pretious Miter which sometime belonged to Archbishop Becket and which hee bought of the Executours of Iohn Bishop of Norwich Thus by the gaines of William the Bakers Shrine and by the pious endeauours and bounteous donations of diuers well disposed persons this Monastery was in short time reedified adorned and aduanced to her former height glory wealth and estimation So that it was valued by the Commissioners of the late suppression at foure hundred eightie sixe pounds eleuen shillings fiue pence by yeare Gillingham In this Church are diuers faire Monuments fairely kept of the Beaufits an ancient family whose chiefe seate was at Grauch-court within this Parish as I was enformed Ici gist Iehan Beaufits qi morust 25 iour Nouemb. l'an de dieu 1427. et Isabella sa feme que morust la 30. iour de Decemb. 1419. Iesu noster saueor de la grand pite De lor almes eit mercie Amen Hic iacet Iohannes Beaufits filius Iohannis Beaufits Ar. et Alicia vxor eius qui quidem Iohannes obiit 25. Nouemb. Ann. Dom. 1433. quorum c. Hic iacet Robertus Beaufits qui ob 1381. et Sara vxor eius que obiit 1395 Cur nunc in puluere dormio Hic iacet Willelmus Beaufits qui ob 19. Marcii 1433. Cuius Here lyeth Ioane Bamme sometime the wife of Master Richard Bamme Esquire daughter of Iohn Marten sometime chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas and mother of Iohn Bamme who lyeth on the North side of this Chappell Which said Ioane deceased in the yeare of grace 1431. Here was a pilgrimage to our Lady of Gillingham Ailesford Richard Lord Grey of Codnor in Darbishire in the yeare 1240. founded here a religious house of white Friers Carmelites where now is seene saith Camden the faire habitation of Sir William Sidley a learned knight painefully and expensfully studious of the common good of his countrey as both his endowed house for the poore and the bridge here with the common voice dotestifie Not farre from this Towne of Ailesford lye interred the bodies of Catigern and Horsa who hand to hand killed one the other in a set battell Catigern was the brother of Vortimer king of the Britaines and Horsa brother of Hengist the Saxon. But this battell as also their buriall are the best set downe by Camden out of Lambards perambulation This Towne saith hee was named in the British tongue Saissenaeg haibail of the Saxons there vanquished like as others in the very same sense tearmed it Anglesford For Guortimer the Britaine Guortigerus sonne did here set vpon Hengist and the English Saxons whom being disrayed and not able to abide a second charge he put all to flight so as they had beene vtterly defeited for euer but that Hengist skilfull and prouident to preuent and diuert danger withdrew himselfe into the Isle of Tenet vntill that the inuincible vigour and heate of the Britanes was allayed and fresh supplies came to his succour out of Germany In this battell were slaine the Generalls of both sides Catigern the Britaine and Horsa the Saxon of whom the one buried at Horsted not farre from hence gaue name to the place and Catigern honoured with a stately and solemne funerall is thought to haue beene interred neare vnto Ailisford where vnder the side of an hill I saw foure huge rude hard stones erected two for the sides one transuersall in the middest betweene them and the hugest of all piled and layed ouer them in manner of the British Monument which is called Stonehenge but not so artificially with Mortis and tenents Verily the vnskilfull common people call it at this day of the same Catigern Keiths or Kits Coty house The like Monument was of Horsa at Horsted which stormes and time haue now deuoured This battell was smitten in the yeare of Grace 457. Addington Hic iacent Richardus Charles et Alicia vxor qui quidem Ric. obiit An. Dom. 1370. facile contemnit omnia ...... Hic iacet Willelmus Suayth Ar. dominus de Addington ac vicecomes Cantie et Alicia vxor eius ob Marcii Ann. 1464. Bonis et mors et vita dulcis Hic iacet Robertus Watton Dominus et Patronus istius Ecclesie qui obiit die Ascentionis Anno 1444. Hic iacent Willelmus Watton Ar. Dominus istius ville Benedicta et Anna vxores eius qui Willelmus obiit 29. Decemb. 1464. Hic iacet Robertus Watton Ar. filius et heres Willelmi Watton Armigeri et Alicia vxor eius filia Iohannis Clark vnius Baronum Scaccarii Regis qui Robertus istius ville Dominus et Ecclesie verus Patronus ob 4. Nouemb. anno 1470. Hic iacet Iohannes Northwood Arm. filius et heres ..... Northwood ..... obiit 30. April 1416. Of this man and of his Mannor of Northwood or Norwood thus much out of Lambard In the dayes of King Edward the Confessour saith hee one hundred Burgesses of the Citie of Canterbury ought their suite to the Mannor of Norwood the buildings are now demolished but the Mannor was long time in the possession of certaine gentlemen of the same name of which race one was buried in the body of the Church at Addington in the yeare 1416. Otteham Hic iacet Iohannes Constenton Ar. qui ob 2. April 1426. et Sara Conghurst vxor eius I finde by ancient deedes sans Date that one Raph de Dene was the founder of a Religious house here at Otteham of Canons regular confirmed in these words by the gifts of certaine lands from one Raph de Iclesham and some little rent William de Marci and Ela his wife Sciant c. quod ego Radulphus de Iclesham dedi et confirmaui Deo Ecclesie Sancti Laurencij de Oteham terram in Oteham c. pro
great Commander in the warres which by some English wit was happily imitated and ingeniously applyed to the honour of this our worthy chiefetaine Sir Philip written vpon a Tablet and fastened to a pillar in S. Pauls Church London the place of his buriall as the sequele will more plainly shew La France et le Piemont les cieux et les Arts Les Soldats et le Mondeont fait comme six parts De ce grand Bonniuet cor vne si grand chose Dedant vn seul tombeau ne pouuoit estre enclose La France en a le corps que elle aurit esleue Le Piemont a le ceur qu'il auoit esprouue Les cieux en ont l'esprit et les Arts la memoire Les Soldats le regret et le monde la gloire In English as followeth France and Piemont the Heauens and the Arts The Souldiers and the world haue made sixe parts Of Great Bonniuet for who will suppose That onely one Tombe can this man enclose France hath his body which she bred and well loued Piemont his heart which his valour had proued The Heauens haue his soule the Arts haue his Fame The Souldiers the griefe the world his good name A briefe Epitaph vpon the death of that most valiant and perfect honorable Gentleman Sir Philip Sidney knight late Gouernour of Flushing in Zealand who receiued his deaths wound at a battell neare Zutphen in Gelderland the 22. day of September and dyed at Arnhem the 16. day of October 86. Whose Funeralls were performed and his body interred within this Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul in London the 16. day of February next following in the yeare of our Lord God 1586. England Netherland the Heauens and the Arts The Souldiers and the world haue made sixe parts Of noble Sidney For who will suppose That a small heape of stones can Sidney enclose England hath his body for she it fed Netherland his bloud in her defence shed The Heauens haue his soule the Arts haue his Fame The Souldiers the griefe the world his good Name These Elegies also following penned in the praise of the said Philip by our late Soueraigne Lord King Iames that sole Monarch of many Nations giue a glorious lustre to his Heroicke actions In Philippi Sidnaei interitum Illustrissimi Scotorum Regis Carmen Armipotens cui ius in fortia pectora Mauors Tu Dea quae cerebrum perrumpere digna Tonantis Tuque adeo biiugae proles Latonia râ—pis Gloria deciduae cingunt quam collibus artes Duc tecum et querula Sidnai funera voce Plangite nam vester fuerat Sidnaeus alumnus Quid genus et proauos et spem floremque iuuentae Immaturo obitu raptum sine fine retexo Heu frustra queror heu rapuit Mors omnia secum Et nihil ex tanto nunc est Heroe superstes Praeterquam decus et nomen virtute paratum Doctaque Sidneas testantia Carmina laudes The same translated by the said King Thou mighty Mars the Lord of Souldiers braue And thou Minerve that dois in wit excell And thou Apollo who dois knowledge haue Of euery art that from Parnassus fell With all your Sisters that th aire on do dwell Lament for him who duely seru'd you all Whome in you wisely all your arts did mell Bewaile I say his vnexpected fall I neede not in remembrance for to call His race his youth the hope had of him ay Since that in him doth cruell Death appall Both manhood wit and learning euery way But yet he doth in bed of Honor rest And euermore of him shall liue the best Eiusdem Regis in Eundem Hexasticon Vidit et exanimem tristis Cytheraea Philippum Fleuit et hunc Martem credidit esse suum Eripuit digitis gemmas colloque monile Mars iterum nunquam ceu placitura foret Mortuus humana qui lusit imagine Diuam Quid faceret iam si viueret ille rogo In English When Venus sad saw Philip Sidney slaine She wept supposing Mars that he had bin From fingers Rings and from her necke the chaine She pluckt away as if Mars nere againe She ment to please In that forme he was in Dead and yet could a Goddesse thus beguile What had he done if he had liu'd this while Tunbridge In this ruinous Church which like the Caâ—tle carries with it a shew of venerable antiquitie I finde no funerall Monument of elder times remarkable in the north window onely are depicted the pourtraitures of the Lord Hugh Stafford kneeling in his coate-armour and his Bow-bearer Thomas Bradlaine by him with this inscription Orate pro animabus Domini Hugonis Stafford et Thome Bradlaine Arcuar .... This Hugh Lord Stafford afterwards Earle of Buckingham was Lord of this Mannor of Tunbridge by his grandmother Margaret the onely daughter and heire of Sir Hugh Audley Earle of Glocester of whom hereafter when I come to Stone in Staffordshire the place of his buriall Neare to the ruinous walls of the Castâ—â—â—stood a Priory pleasantly seated which in the shipwracke of such religious structures was dasht all a peeces founded by Richard de Clare Earle of Gloucester about the yeare 1241. for Canons of Saint Augustines order and consecrated to S. Mary Magdalen Which Priory was valued by the Commissioners at the suppression to be yearely worth 169. l. 10. s. 3. d. This Richard the founder dyed at Emmersfield in the Mannor-house of Iohn Lord Crioil here in Kent 14. Iulij Ann. 1262. his bowels were buried at Canterbury his body at Tewxbury and his heart here in his owne Church at Tunbridge Hee was Vir nobilis et omni laude dignus To whose euerlasting praise this Epitaph was composed Hic pudor Hippoliti Paridis gena sensus Vlissis Aeneae pietas Hectoris ira iacet Chaste Hippolite and Paris faire Vlisses wise and slie Aeneas kinde fierce Hector here ioyntly entombed lye Here sometime lay entombed the bodies of Hugh de Audley second sonne of Nicholas Lord Audley of Hâ—leigh Castle in the County of Stafford who was created Earle of Gloucester by king Edward the third and by the marriage of Margaret second daughter of Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester surnamed the red and sister and coheire to Gilbert the last Earle of that surname Lord of Tunbridge This Hugh dyed the tenth of Nouember 1347. Ann. 21. Ed. 3. I finde little of him remarkable saue his good fortunes being a younger brother to marry so great an inheritrix and to be exalted to such titles of honour His wife Margaret first married to Pierce Gaueston Earle of Cornwall dyed before him in the yeare of our Lord 1342. the 13. day of Aprill They were both together sumptuously entombed by Margaret their daughter the onely heire of her parents wife to Raph de Stafford Earle of Stafford The said Raph de Stafford and Margaret his wife were here likewise entombed at the feet of their father and
Credo quod redemptor meus viuit et ..... Orate pro anima Iohannis Burgoine filij Iohannis Burgoine de Impington in Com. Cantab. ... Cuius These Burgoines were â—ometime Lords of Caxton in Cambridgeshire by whom it came to the Iermins Orate pro anima Richardi Ieames ... huic Ecclesie Benefac .... qui obiit 15. Sept. 1501. Cuius This man say the Inhabitants was a speciall Benefactor to this Church a Tradesman and a Smith as appeares by the picture of a paire of Pinsers vpon his Monument Marmoreo lapide Thomas Gawge subtumulatur Qui vero dum vixit residens Doctor Thelogie Sistebat etiam tum Cancellarius ille Prenobilis Ducisse fuit pariter Eboraci Quem Deus euexit nuper ad agamatha regni Octobris mensis X. bina dieque secunda M. Domini quater hiis addito septuagena Hic iacet Iacobus Peckham Ar. et Margareta vxor eius filia Thome Burgoine de Impington in Com. Cant. Ar. qui ob 28. Febr. 1500. et Margareta ob die quorum Of yowr cherity pray for the sowls of Reynald Peckham the elder Squire for the body of the most excellent Prince king Henry the eight who decesed 27 Feb. 1525. and for the sowl of Ioice Colepeper his wife which decesed 20. March 1523. Hic iacet Willelmus Peckham Ar. Cironomon Tho. Bourchier Episcopi Cant. et Cardinalis qui obiit 28. Iunij 1491. et Katherina vxor que obiit 23. Aug. 1491. Quorum animabus Hic iacet Thomas Peckham et Dorothea qui ob .... die .... An. Dom ..... et Dorothea ob 19. Decemb. 1512. quorum c. Of yowr .... of Iames Peckham Esquire and Agnes his wife the which Iames decesed 5. Aug. 1532. on whos soule and al Christian souls Iesu haue mercy Here are two tombes in the Church-yard and neare to the Church-doore the one of which saith Francis Thinne Lancaster Herald was erected to the memory of Martin Peckham Esquire the other to Margerie Peckham his wife by the marriage of which Margerie ample reuenues came to the family of the Peckhams she being daughter and heire to Yaldham Lord of the Mannor of Yaldham Glouer Somerset Herald in his Collections saith that Iohn Peckham did hold the Mannor of West-Peckham in the first of Henry the third But certaine it is that Iohn Peckham Archbishop of Canterbury in the raigne of Edward the first was the first man that aduanced his name to those great possessions which his posteritie enioyed euen till these our times Chidingston Orate pro animabus Thome Willughby militis vnius Iusticiar domini Regis de Banco filij Christoferi Willughby militis ac etiam Domini Willughby in Com. Suffolk et domine Brigitte vxoris Thome Willughby predicti vnius filiarum heredum Roberti Read militis ac primatis de communi loco Iusticiar qui quidem Thomas obijt 28. die Sept. Ann. 1545. Pray for the sowle of Iohn Lofte Master of Arts Preest for my Lord Read the .... of Aug. 1500. on whos sowl and all Christian sowls Iesu haue mercy Amen Hic iacet Iohannes Alphegh .... Isabella filia .... qui quidem Iohannes obijt An. 1489. predicta Isabella obijt 23. Sept. 1479. quorum animaâ—â—â— This Iohn Alphegh built Bore place here in Chidingston which 〈◊〉 Robert Read enlarged and after that it was enlarged by Sir Thomas Willoughby knight and then by Thomas Willoughby now liuing 1575. Among the Willoughbeis saith learned Clarentieux one excelled all the rest in the reigne of Henry the fifth named Sir Robert Willoughbey who for his martiall prowesse was created Earle of Vandosme in France and from these by the mothers side descended Peregrine Berti Baron Willoughby of Ere 's by a man for his generous minde and militarie valour renowned both in France and the Low-countreys whos 's Robert Berti Lord Willoughby of Eresby Earle of Lindsey and Lord great Chamberlaine of England Orate pro anima Iohannis Wood Decretorum Baccalarij nuper Rectoris huius Ecclesie ac Prebendarii de Hastings qui ob 7. Maii 1487. Orate pro anima Edmundi Read filii Roberti Read militis ac vnius Iusticiar Domini Regis de Banco qui quidem Edmundus obiit 10. Iunii 1501. Sir Robert Read built the North Chappell of this Church Ann. 1516. in honorem Dei et Sancte Katherine he was made chiefe Iustice 22. of Henry the seuenth and dyed about the tenth of Henry the eight Itham or Igtham Of your charity .... of Sir Richard Clement knight and Anne his wife daughter of Sir William Catesby of Northamptonshire knight which Anne decesed 3. Nouemb. 1528. and the said Sir Richard decesed day of Ann. Dom. on whos sowls ... Of your cherite prey for the sowl of Richard Astall Master of Arte of Camb. and late Parson of Itame and Cheuening and Prebendarie of Wingham The which Richard decesed 21. Aug. 1546. on whos Here is a Tombe of Marble which is supposed by most of the neare Inhabitants to be made for Sir Richard Hawte sometime owner and founder of the Mote and Lieutenant of the Tower of London Some say to Sir Nicholas some one knight of that name some another for an ancient family they were of knights degree and Lords of many faire Mannors all which by the marriage of Iane and Elizabeth daughters and coheires of Sir William Hawte knight by Mary his wife the daughter of Sir Richard Guilfora knight came to be the inheritance of Sir Thomas Wiat and Sir Tho. Culpepper yet some more iudicious say that this Monument was erected for one Cawne who was likewise owner of the Mote who married with Morrant Lord of Morrants Court Cobham In this Church are many faire Monuments fouly defaced vnder which the Cobhams and Brookes Lords and Barons of this Towne of Cobham with many of their kindred Allies and progenie lie interred who for many descents did flourish in honourable reputation euen vntill these our times Vousque passericy .... pries pur l'alme le curteis ..... Iohan de Cobham auat a nom dieux luy fari verray Pardon qe trespassa lendemayne de Seynt Mathy le passent oustre a demorer one lay en l'an de Grace 1354. Icy gist Margerie de Cobham iadis Femme a tresnoble cheualier ....... Regni .... ordre .... que morust le IIII iour de Sept. l'an de Grace 1375. de .... dieu et mercy To make this maymed inscription more perfectly to bee vnderstood let me tell you that this Margerie or Margaret for I can hardly discerne whether by the engrauement was the wife of that braue warriour Reynold Baron Cobham Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports knight of the Garter and Admirall of the Sea coasts from Thames mouth Westward who dyed of the second Pestilence in theraigne of king Edward the third An. Dom. 1361. Vous q par icy
are curiously engrauen these words Credo quod redemptor meus viuit And vpon the basis of the same Crosse these obsolete Latine rimes Es test is Christe quod non iacet hic lapis iste Corpus vt ornetur sed Spiritus vt memoretur Hem tu qui transis magnus medius puer an sis Pro me funde preces quia sic mihi fit venie spes Hic iacet Matilda nuper vxer Willelmi Laken Seruiens ad Legem qui ob 2. die Decemb. 1408. iuxta eam ex parte australi Iohanna filia sepelitur que obijt 3. die Octob. anno supradicto O mercifull Iesew Haue mercy on the sowl of Sir Iohn Dew Here lye interred diuers of the Chapmans who were sometime owners of Stone-castle Hic Christi versus Payname iacet ecce Rogerus Pauperibus multum dedit hic pecunia cultum ........ M. C. quater deca ...... In Maij vicena rapit hunc mors .... Here lies William Banknot and Anne his wyff Swete Iesew grant to them and vs euerlastyng lyff Pray yow hertely for cheritie Say a Pater Noster and an Aue. 1400. Here lyeth the bodyes of Sir Iohn Wilshyre knight and of Dame Margaret his wife Which Sir Iohn dyed 28. Decemb. 1526. And Margaret dyed ... of .... This knight is entombed in a faire Chappell of his owne foundation he was Controller of the Towne and Marches of Calleis Ann. 21. Hen. 7. 1506. He had onely one daughter and heire named Bridget married to Sir Richard Wingfield As I haue it in these words out of the Visitation booke of Huntingtonshire by Nicholas Charles Lancaster Herald Sir Richard Wingfield knight of the Garter Chancellour of the Duchie of Lancaster and of the Bed-chamber to King Henry the eight by his wife Bridget who was daughter and heire to Sir Iohn Wilshyre knight had Stone house or Stone-castle in Kent neare Grauesend To whom the king gaue Kimboulton Castle he was of the priuie Councell and died Embassadour in Spaine and was buried at Toledo Dartford Hic iacet Iohannes Hornley Theologie Baccal qui obijt 1477. Si fterent Artes Hornley tacuisse Iohannem Non possent ista qui tumulatur humo In septem fuerat liberalibus ille magister Prudens castus maximus atque fide Doctrine sacre tunc Baccalareus ingens Oxonie cunctis semper amandus erat Consilio valuit sermones pandere sacros Nouerat et doctos semper amare viros Pauperibus largus fuerat quos nouerat aptos In studijs patiens sobrius atque fuit Moribus insignis cunctis virtute refulgens Pro tantis meritis spiritus astra petit O pytefull Creater concerning erthly sepulter Of Katryn Burlton at x day wythin Iun. Thousand IIII C. LXXXXVI yer Occurrent wyth Rychard Burlton Iantlman Spows to the Katryn ..... Expired thousand ..... Throu the prayor of thes twein Sal he be savyd fro endlysse pein King Edward the third founded here a goodly faire Monastery about the yeare of his raigne of England the thirtieth and of France the seuenteenth In which he placed women religious Votaries or white Nunnes Which Nunnery at the generall dissolution was found to bee well worth three hundred and eightie pounds by yeare This Priory for so it was called by the Founder was taken as all the rest into the hands of king Henry the eight of which he made a fit dwelling place for himselfe and his Successours which remaines to this day howsoeuer somewhat ruinous But will it please you peruse this Memorandum not impertinent to this matter in the visitation of Kent and Sussex made by Clarentieux Beuolt the 21. yeare of king Henry the eight Dame Elizabeth Cresner being Lady Prioresse of Dartford at that time Memorand that the said Lady doth witnesse that king Edward the third was first Founder of the said place and the second Founder was king Richard the second And in the said place lieth buried the Lady Bridget daughter to king Edward the fourth a religious women in the same place Also Dame Ioane daughter to the Lord Scrope of Bolton and Prioresse of the same place and Dame Margaret daughter of the Lord Beaumont also sometime Prioresse of the same place And also there lyeth daughter and wife to Sir Maurice Berkeley This Lady Bridget here interred was the fourth daughter of Edward the fourth by his wife Queene Elizabeth she was borne at Eltham here by the tenth of Nouember 1480. She tooke the habite of Religion when she was young and so spent her life in contemplation vnto the day of her death which happened about the yeare 1517. the eight of King Henry the eight Crayford Orate pro animabus Roberti Woodford Iohanne vxoris eius qui Robertus obijt .... 1489. Hic iacent Rogerus Apleton vnus Auditorum serenissimorum Regum Hen. quinti Hen. sexti ac Iohanne vxoris Hen. quarti Katherine vxoris Hen. sexti Reginarum Anglie Principatus totius Wallie Ducatus Cornubie Com. Cestrie qui ob .... 1400. Agnes vxor eius Domina de Holbury que ob 1437. Cum venerit dies Domini in miserecordia eius egrediemur Hic iacet Henricus Elham vnus Auditorum .... et Elisabetha vxor eius filia Rogeri Apleton ... ob ... 1479. Hic iacet Iohannes Elham vnus Auditorum ... 1481. Vite probitas mortis despectio Erith In the vpper end of the South Isle of this Church stands a faire tombe with this Inscription left at the first imperfect Elisabeth second wife to George late Earle of Shrewsbury Lord Steward to king Henry the seuenth and to king Henry the eight his Houshold by whom she had issue Iohn and Lady Anne wife to William Earle of Penbroke Lord Steward of Queene Elizabeths Houshold which Lady Anne had beene married before to M. Peter Compton Esquire by whom she had issue Sir Henry Compton knight now liuing This Elizabeth Countesse of Shrewsbury was daughter and one of the heires of Sir Richard Walden knight Lord of the Towne of Erith whose body lyeth here likewise entombed Pray for the sowl of Syr Richard Walden knight and Lady Margerie his wife which Syr Richard decessyd 25 of March 1536. And Margery decessyd the sixth of May 1528. whos sowls god pardon Orate pro anima Richardi Walden Armig. Elisabethe vxoris eius que ob 25. Octob. 1496. et Richardus obiit ... die ... mens ... Ann. miles quorum animabus Ellin Atticor gist icy Dieu de sa alme eit mercy Orate pro anima Domini Iohannis Stone quondam vicarij Ecclesie parochialis de Lesnes alias Erith qui ob 13. April 1475. O vos omnes qui hic transitis prome orate Precibus vestris qui fratres estis meque iurate Hic iacet Radulphus Criel Ar. qui obiit 6. Decemb. 1447. Cuius anime propitietur altissimus Hic iacet Rogerus Sentcler quondam
did vse sometimes to steale away circumcise crowne with thornes whip torture and crucifie some one of their neighbours male children in mockery despite scorne and derision of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ crucified by the Iewes in Ierusalem In the yeare 1235. the 19. of Hen. the third seuen Iewes were brought before the king at Westminster which at Norwich had stolne a boy and kept him from the sight of Christian people for the space of one whole yeare and had circumcised him minding also to haue crucified him at the solemnitie of Easter as themselues confessed before the king whereof they were conuicted their bodies and goods remaining at the kings pleasure In the 39. of the said kings raigne vpon the 22. day of Nouember one hundred and two Iewes were brought from Lincolne to Westminster and there accused for the crucifying of a child of eight yeares old named Hugh these Iewes were vpon examination sent to the Tower the murther came out by the diligent search made by the mother of the childe eighteene of them were hanged the other remained long in prison In the seuenth of Ed. the first the Iewes at Northampton crucified a Christian boy vpon Goodfriday but did not throughly kill him For the which fact many Iewes at London after Easter were drawne at horse tailes and hanged Not long after this to wit in the eighteenth yeare of this kings raigne all the Iewes were banished out of England the number of which so expulsed was fifteene thousand and threescore persons to whom was giuen no more money but onely to beare their charges vntill they were out of the kingdome The rest both goods and lands was seised vpon for the Kings vse But to returne backe againe to the story of the martyred boy in derogation and despite of Christian Religion Vpon the day of the Kalends of August 1223. Ann. Reg. Hen. 3 the body of a young boy in the Church-yard of S. Benet at Paules-wharfe was found buried vnder whose paps certaine Hebrew letters were inscribed vpon his body diuers prints markes cuts and rents caused by rods and whip-cords besides many other signes of various torments by the said boy sustained were easie to be discerned The name of the boy was found out by those Characters and withall how that hee was sold by his Christian parents but by whom or to which of the Iewes hee was sold or to what end could neuer be knowne Howsoeuer it was concluded that the buyers of the boy intended to haue had him crucified Yet crucified he was not in regard no print of the nailes either in his hands or feet or any wound in his side appeared Many miracles were said to be wrought at the graue and by the reliques of this young innocent Martyr Whereupon the Canons of Saint Pauls Church tooke forcibly away the sacred remaines of this holy Martyr out of the said Church-yard and solemnly enshrined them in their owne Church not farre from the high Altar On the North side of this Church was sometime a great Cloyster inuironing a plot of ground called Pardon Church-yard whereof Thomas More Deane of Pauls was either the first builder or an especiall benefactor and was therein buried In this Cloyster were buried many persons some of worship and some of honour The Monuments of whom saith Stow in his suruay of London in number and curious workmanship passed all other that were in the great Church About the Cloyster was artificially and richly painted the dance of Death commonly called the dance of Pauls the Picture of death leading all estates In the midst of this Pardon Church-yard was a faire Chappell first founded by Gilbert Becket Portgraue and principall Magistrate as now the Lord Maior is of this Citie father of Tho. Becket the Martyr Archbishop of Canterbury who was therein buried in the raigne of King Stephen Thomas More Deane of Pauls before mentioned reedified or new builded this Chappell and founded three Chaplaines there in the raigne of Henry the fifth In the yeare 1549. on the tenth of Aprill the said Chappell by commandement of Edward Duke of Somerset Lord Protector was begun to be pulled downe with the whole Cloyster the Tombes and Monuments so that nothing of them was left but the bare plot of ground which is since conuerted into a garden for the Petty Canons There was a Chappell at the North doore of Pauls founded by Walter Sherington Chancellour of the Duchie of Lancaster by licence of King Henry the sixth for two three or foure Chaplaines indowed with fourty pound by the yeare This Chappell was also pulled downe in the raigne of Edward the sixth at the commandement of the said Protector and in place thereof an house builded There was on the North side of Pauls Churchyard a large charnell-house for the bones of the dead and ouer it a Chappell founded vpon this occasion as followeth In the yeare 1282. the tenth of Edward the first it was agreed that Henry Walleis Maior and the Citizens for the cause of Shops by them builded without the wall of the Church-yard should assigne to God and to the Church of Saint Paul ten Markes of rent by the yeare for euer towards the new building of a Chappell of the blessed Virgine Mary and also to assigne fiue Markes of yearely rent to a Chaplaine to celebrate there And in the yeare 1430. the 8. of Henry the sixth licence was granted to Ienken Carpenter Towne-clerke of London Executour to Richard Whittington to establish vpon the said Charnell a Chaplaine to haue eight Markes by the yeare There was also in this Chappell two Brotherhoods Sir Henry Barton knight the sonne of Henry Barton of Mildenhall in Suffolcke Lord Maior of London in the yeare 1427. Robert Barton and Sir Thomas Mirfin knight sonne to George Mirfin of Ely in Cambridgeshire Lord Maior of this Citie the yeare 1518. were entombed with their pourtraitures of Alabaster ouer them grated or coped about with iron before the said Chappell all which with many other Tombes ann Monuments of the dead were pulled downe together with the said Chappell at the commandement likewise of the forenamed Duke of Somerset The bones of the dead couched vp in the Charnell-house vnder the Chappell were conuayed from thence into Finsbery field amounting to more then a thousand cart load saith Stow and there laid on a moorish ground in short space after raised by soilage of the Citie vpon them to beare three Mills The Chappell and charnell-house were conuerted to dwelling houses warehouses and sheds before them for Stationers in place of the Tombes Neare vnto this Chappell was a bell house with foure Bells the greatest in London they were called Iesus Bells and belonged to Iesus Chappell the same had a great spire of timber couered with lead with the image of Saint Paul on the top which was pulled downe by Sir Miles Partridge knight in the raigne of Henry the eight The common speech
lieth buried He died Ann. Dom. 1450. Here lieth Giles Dewes who sometime was seruant to king Henry the 7. and king Hen. the 8. Clerke of their Libraries and Schoolemaster for the French tongue to Prince Arthur and to the Lady Mary Who died 1535. Saint Michael Bassishaw or Bassingshall Iohn Burton lyeth vnder here Sometimes of London Citizen and Mercer And Ienet his wife with their progeny Been turned to erth as ye may see Frends free what so yee bee Prey for vs we you prey As you see vs in this degree So shall you be another dey He deceased in the yeere 1460. he was a great benefactor to the building of this Church as appeareth by his marke placed throughout the whole roofe of the Quire and middle Isle of the Church Huc ades atque tuis metire viator ocellis Quam breuis inclusos illigat vrna duos Vt modo tu vir fuit hic hec femina quondam Nunc gelidi pars est huius vterque soli Nomen Abel More erat cognomen Exoniensum Cesarij Doctor iuris in vrbe fuit Agnes alterius nomen coniuxque Iohannis More fuit huius Abel qui modo frater erat Vt cupis ergo tibi faciant post funera viui Has modo tute breues quisquis es ede preces Hic Abel primo hic Agnes releuetur ab Agno Qui prius agnino sanguine lauit oues Obijt Abel 1486. Agnes 1499. quorum animabus Saint Lawrence in the Iewrie Hic incineratur corpus quondam Gaulfridi Bulleyn ciuis merceri Maioris London qui ab hac luce migrauit An. Dom. 1463. cuius anime pax sit perpetua This Sir Geffray or Godfrey Bullen Lord Maior of London was the Sonne of Geffrey Bullen of Salle or Saull in Norfolke Esquire Hee married Anne the eldest daughter and coheire of Thomas Lord Hoo and Hastings by whom he had issue Sir William Bullen of Blickling in Norfolke Knight fâ—ther to Thomas Bullen Viscount Rochford Earle of Wilshire who was father to Anne Bullen Marchionesse of Penbroke the second wife of King Henry the eight and the happy mother of our late Soueraigne Elizabeth Queene of England with all thankefulnesse euer to bee remembred This Lord Maior gaue to poore house holders in London 1000 l and 200 l to the like vse in Norfolke besides many liberall gifts to Prisons Hospitals and lazar houses Hic iacet Thomas Bulleyn de comitatu Norfolcie Armiger qui obijt vltimo die mensis Aprilis An. Dom. 147â— cuius The honorable Merchant Ion Pickering And Elisabyth lie vndyr this ston Of the English merchant Venturers vndyr the kyng In the Martis beyond See gouernor was this Ion Thirty yeere and more that roome he did manteyn To his honor and worschip and died in Nouembyr The xxix day Mcccc fourty and eyght certeyn Who 's soul and al Christians for cherite remembyr Hic Thomas Cressey London mercerus humatur Et Agnes Coniux sua postea suppeditatur M. Domini C quater his x. annoque secundo Sexta luce Iunij iâ—it hic de .... mundo Guild Hall Chappell This Chappell or Colledge of our Lady Mary Magdalen and of all Saints was founded about the yeere 1299. by Peter Fanclore saith Stow Adam Francis and Henry Frowike whose reuenew was much augmented by K. Richard the second K. Henry the sixt and diuers citizens of London so that at the suppression it was endowed with sufficient maintenance for a Custos seauen Chaplaines three Clarkes and foure Quiristers at which time it was valued at xii l xviij s ix d per an Here haue beene many Tombes and marble stones inlaid with brasse whose inscriptions and portraitures are all either worne out with time torne out or quite defaced onely this Epitaph remaining En Thomas Frances pius hic qui lustra per octo Custos extiterat iacet semper requiescat ob Mar. 4. 1488. Ouer the doore of the Councell Chamber in Guild hall was and yet is as I thinke this Distich Carolus Henricus Viuant Defensor vterque Henricus Fidei Carolus Ecclesie Long prosperity To Charles and Henry Princes most puissant The one of the Faith The other of the Church Chosen defendant These verses were depicted here and in other places about this Citie the yeare 1514. when Charles the fift Emperour was here in England to shew in what golden bands of loue these two potent Monarches were enlinked for that amongst other couenants then concluded and confirmed betwixt them by corporall Oathes one was that the Emperour promised to stay for and take to wife the young Princesse Lady Mary King Henries then onely daughter afterwards Queene of England Why the Titles defender of the Church and Faith were attributed vnto these two Princes is vulgarlie knowne because Charles chosen Emperour to purchase the Popes fauour directed forth a solemne Writ of Outlawry against Martin Luther who then had giuen a great blow to the Papall Crowne And King Henry likewise was renowned in Rome for writing a booke against the said Luther vnderpropping the tottering or downe-cast countenance of the Popes Pardons which Luther shrewdly had shaken The Pope therefore to shew himselfe a kinde Father vnto these his sonnes gaue them these Titles which were in truth none other then the same which they sware vnto when the Crownes of their Empires were first set vpon their heads The Hospitall of Saint Tho. of Acars or Mercers Chappell This Hospitall was founded by Thomas Fitz-theobald de Heili and Agnes his wife Sister to Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury in the raigne of Henry the second and dedicated to Saint Thomas of Acon or Acars in the holy land They gaue to the Master and Brethren of this house the lands with the appurtenances that sometimes were Gilbert Beckets father to the said Thomas in the which he was born there to make a Church This Hospitall was valued at the suppression to dispend yeerely 277 l. 3 s. 4 d. it was surrendred the 30 of Henry the 8. the 21 of October and was since purchased by the Mercers by meanes of Sir Richard Gresham Here lyeth entombed Iames Butler Earle of Ormond and Dame Ioane his wife he died Anno Dom. 1428. and she 1430. Hic iacet Thomas filius Iacobi comitis Ormundie ac fratris Iacobi comitis Wilts Ormundie qui quidem Thomas obijt secundo die 1515 anno regni Regis Henrici Octaui 37. cuius The Ancestors of these Earles saith learned Camden were in old time the Butlers an honourable office in Ireland and from thence came this Surname Le Boteler or Butler imposed vpon them and certaine it is that they were linked in most neere alliance vnto Saint Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury as who deriue their descent from his sister which was a great motiue to make them choose this place for their buriall and that after he was murdered they were
prey yee For owr soulys Pater Noster and Aue The sooner of owr peyne lessid to be Grant vs thy holy Trinite Amen Here vndyr rests this marble ston Ione Spenser both flesh and bon Wyff to Ion Spenser certen Taylor of London and Citizen Dawter she was whylst she was here Vnto Richard Wetiuen Squier And to Elisabeth his wyf Whych Ione departyd this lif The tweluth dey of September As many one do yet remember In the yere of owr Lord God ful euen A thowsand four hundryd and seuen Vnder this black marbl ston lyth the body of Master Walter Lempster Doctor of Phisick and also Phisition to the high and mighty Prince Hen. the vii whych Master Lempster gayve vnto this Chyrch too cheynes of fyne gold weying xiiii ounces and a quarter for to make a certeyn ornament to put on the blessyd body of our Sauiour Iesu. He died the ix of March M. cccc.lxxx.vii Who 's soul god pardon Such as I am such sall ye be Grocer of London somtym was I The kings Weigher mor then yeres twenty Simon Street callyd in my plas And good Fellowshyp fayn wold tras Therfor in heuen euerlastyng lif Iesu send me and Agnes my wyf Kerli Merli my words were tho And Deo gratias I added therto I passyd to God in the yere of Grase A thousand four hundryd iust hit was ................. Here lyth vndyr this litle spas The body of William Goldhirst who somtym was Skinner of London and citinure Worshcipful til his endure And his wyf Margaret also God haue mercy on theyr sowlys both two And departyd fro hence the xxv day Of the Month of Septembyr withoutyn nay The yere of our Lord Iesu On thowsand fyue hundryd eleuen ful true Vpon whos sowlys Iesu haue mercy That for vs say a Pater Noster and an Aue. Saint Michaels at Queene-Hithe The Monuments in this Church are all defaced onely I finde that Stephen Spilman or Spelman as appeareth by his Will was here buried directly against the high Altar vnder a faire Monument no Inscription thereupon now remaining This Stephens Armes are amongst the Maiors and Sheriffes of London vpon a field sables six besants 2.1.1.2 betweene two slayks argent Sometimes Mercer Chamberlaine of London then one of the Sheriffes and Alderman of the said Citie in the yeare 1404. He deceased without issue gaue his lands to his Familie the Spilmans and his goods to the making or repairing of Bridges and other like godly vses He repaired this Church and therein founded a Chantry He died about the last yeare of the raigne of king Henry the fifth Richard Grey Iron-monger one of the Sheriffes likewise of this Citie in the yeare 1515. lieth here buried He gaue 40. pound to the repairing of this Church Orate pro animabus Richardi Marloi quondam venerabilis Maioris Ciuitatis London Agnetis consortis sue Qui ....... ob ..... This Marlow was Lord Maior in the yeare 1409. in whose Maioraltie there was a Play at Skinners Hall which lasted eight dayes saith Stow to heare which most of the greatest Estates of England were present The Subiect of the play was the sacred Scriptures from the creation of the world They call this Corpus Christi Play in my countrey which I haue seene acted at Preston and Lancaster and last of all at Kendall in the beginning of the raigne of King Iames for which the Townesmen were sore troubled and vpon good reasons the play finally supprest not onely there but in all other Townes of the kingdome Richardo Hill potentissimi Regis Henrici octaui celle vinarie Prefectus Elisabetha coniux mestissima facta iam vndecimorum liberorum mater Marito optimo immatura tandem morte sublato Quod solum potuit posteritati commendaturum cupiens hoc Monumentum posuit Obijt An. Dom. 1539. die mens Maij 12. Saint Mary Aldermary Here lieth buried Sir Charles Blount or Blunt Baron Mountioy who died 1544. With this Epitaph made by himselfe a little before his death Wilingly haue I sought and willingly haue I found The fatall end that wrought thither as dutie bound Discharg'd I am of that I ought to my countrey by honest wound My soule departyd Christ hath bought the end of man is ground This familie of the Blunts is noble and ancient surnamed so at the first of the yellow haire of their head Blunt signifying so in the Norman language they greatly flourished at Kinlet in Shropshire and by Elwaston in Darbishire where Sir Raph Mountioy had lands in the time of Edward the first from whence came Sir Walter Blunt whom King Edward the fourth aduanced to the honour of Baron Mountioy with a pension Whose posteritie haue equalled the Nobilitie of their birth with the ornaments of learning and principally amongst them Charles late Earle of Deuonshire deceased Baron Mountioy Lord Lieutenant generall of Ireland and knight of the honourable order of the Garter whose sonne Mountioy Blunt enioyeth his lands who by the speciall fauour of our late Soueraigne King Iames was created Baron of Montioy in the North of Ireland Here also lieth buried William Blunt Lord Mountioy who died but of later times Saint Martius Vintrie Many faire marble stones inlaid with brasse and well preserued are in this Church most of their inscriptions being perfectly to bee read And the most of which are set downe in the Suruay of this Citie I will onely touch some few of them As flowers in feeld thus passyth lif Nakyd then clothyd feble in the end If sheweth by Robart Daluss and Alyson his wyf Chryst yem saue fro the power of the Fiend ob 1469. Hic .... Micolt quondam ciuis vinitarius London Ioanna vxor eius ac pueri eorundem qui quidem Iohannes obijt 17. die Aprilis Ann. Dom. 1424. Quorum anime per Dei immensam miserecordiam in pace perpetua permaneant ac requiem possideant Es testis Christe quod non iacet hic lapis iste Corpus vt ornetur sed spiritus vt memoretur Heus tu qui transis magnus medius puer an sis Pro me funde preces quia sic mihi fit venie spes ...... honorabilis viri Radulphi Astry militis nuper Maioris ac Aldermanni Piscenarij Ciuitatis London et preclarissimarum Domine Margarie ac Margarete vxorum eius Qui quidem Radulphus obijt 18. die Nouembris Ann. Dom. 1494. predicta Margeria obijt .... die dicta Margarita ab hoc seculo migrauit 10. die Marcij Ann. Dom. 1492. Quorum animabus Hic iacet Radulphus Astry generosus vnus filiorum Radulphi Astri militis quondam maioris Ciuitatis London Qui quidem Radulphus filius in sua florida iuuentute ab hoc seculo migrauit Ann. Dom. 1501. 19. die mens Septemb. This Raph Astrie Maior was sonne to Geffery Astrie or Ostrich of Hitchin in the County of Hertford He new roofed this
Iordan Briset hauing first founded the Priory of Nunnes here by Clerkenwell as aforesaid bought of the said Nunnes ten Acres of ground giuing them for the said ten Acres twenty Acres of land in his Lordship of Willinghale or Wellinghall in Kent Vpon which ground lying neare vnto the said Priory hee laid the foundation of a religious structure for the knights Hospitalers of S. Iohn of Ierusalem These following are the words out of the Register booke of the Deedes of the said house written by one Iohn Stilling-fleete a brother of the house circa ann 1434. to the end that their benefactors names being knowne they may be daily remembred in their prayers Iordanus Briset Baro tempore regis Hen. primi circa an Dom. 110. fundauit domum ac Hospitale S. Iohns de Clerkenwel Hic etiam erat Fundator domus Monialium de Clerkenwel ac ab eis emit decem acras terre super quas dictum Hospitale ac domum fundauit pro illis decem acris terre dedit illis Monialibus viginti acras terre in Dominico suo de Willinghale in com Cant. c. In ye yere of Criste as I haue the words out of an old Mss 1185. ye vj. Ides of Merche ye dominical lettre being F ye Chyrche of ye Hospitall of S Iohns Ierusalem was dedicatyd to ye honor of S. Iohn Baptiste by ye worschypfull fader Araclius Patriarke of ye resurrection of Christe ye sam dey was dedycatyd ye hygh Altrâ— and ye Altre of S. Iohn Euangelist by ye sam Patryarke The said Heraclius in the same yeare dedicated the Church of the new Temple as hereafter is spoken Within a short time this Hospitall began to flourish for infinite were the donations of all sorts of people to this Fraternitie as in the Beadroul of their benefactors is specified but aboue all their Benefactors they held themselues most bound to Roger de Mowbray whose liberalitie to their order was so great that by a common consent in their chapiter they made a decree that himselfe might remit and pardon any of the Brotherhood whomsoeuer in case he had trespassed against any of the statutes and ordinances of their order confessing and acknowledging withall his offence and errour And also the knights of this order granted in token of thankefulnesse to Iohn de Mowbray Lord of the Isle of Axholme the successour of the foresaid Roger that himselfe and his successours in euery of their couents assemblies as well in England as beyond seas should be receiued entertained alwaies in the second place next to the King Thus through the bounty both of Princes priuate persons they rose to so high an estate and great riches that after a sort saith Camden they wallowed in wealth for they had about the yeere of our Lord 1240. within christendome nineteene thousand Lordships or Manours like as the Templars nine thousand the reuenewes and rents whereof fell afterwards also to these Hospitallers And this estate of theirs growne to so great an height made way for them to as great honours so as the Priore of this house was reputed the prime Baron of the land being able with fulnesse abundance of all things to maintaine an honourable port And thus they flourished for many yeeres in Lordly pompe vntill a Parliament begun the 18. of April 1540. Anno 32. Henry 8. their corporation was vtterly dissolued the King allowing to euery one of them onely a certaine annuall pension during their liues as you may reade in the Annals of England The value of this foundation in the Kings bookes was 3385 l. 19 s. 8 d. of ancient yeerely rent This Priory Church and house was preserued from spoile or downe pulling so long as Henry the 8 raigned but in the 3 of King Ed. the sixt the Church for the most part with the great Bell-tower a most curious piece of workemanship grauen gilt and enameld to the great beautifying of the Citie saith Stow was vndermined and blowne vp with Gun-powder the stone whereof was imployed in building of the Lord Protectors house in in the Strand The Charter-house Sir Walter Manny Knight of the Garter Lord of the towne of Manny in the Dioces of Cambrey beyond the seas in that raging pestilence in the 23 of King Ed. the 3. when Churches Church-yards in London might not suffice to bury the dead purchased a piece of ground in this place called Spitle croft containing 13 acres and a Rodd and caused the same to bee enclosed for burials and dedicated by Raph Stratford Bishop of London in which place and in the same yeere more then 50000 persons were buried in regard of such a multitude here interred he caused a Chappell here to be builded wherein Offerings were made and Masses said for the soules of so many Christians departed And afterwards about the yeere 1371. he caused here to be founded an house of Carthusian Monkes which he called the Salutation which house at the dissolution was valued to be yeerely worth sixe hundred forty two pounds foure pence halfe penny Iohn Stow saith that he had read this Inscription following fixed on a stone crosse sometime standing in the Charter-house Church yard Anno Domini M. ccc.xl.ix Regnante magna pestilentia consecratum fuit hoc Cemiterium in quo infra septa presentis Monasterij sepulta fuerunt mortuorum Corpora plusquam quinquaginta millia preter alia multa abhinc vsque ad presens quorum animabus propitietur Deus Amen This inscription vpon the foresaid Stone Crosse as also the relation before was taken out from the words of his charter the substance whereof followeth Walterus Dns. de Many c. cum nuper pestilentia esset tam grandis viâ—lenta in ciuitate London quod Cemiteria Ecclesiae ciuitatis non possunt sufficere pro sepultura a personarum in eadem pestilentia discedentia nos moti pietate habentes respectum c. Purchased 13. acres of land without Smithfield Barres in a place called Spitle croft and now called new Church-Haw for the buriall of the persons aforesaid and haue caused the place to be blessed by Raph then Bishop of London in which place plus quam Quinquaginta millia personarum de dicta pestilentia morientium sepulti fuere And there for our Ladies sake wee founded a Chappel of the holy order of the Cartusians made there a Monastery by consent of the Prior or Cartuse Maior in Sauoy c. for the health of King Edward the third and Dame Margaret his wife Hijs Testibus Iohn Hastings of Penbroke Humfrey Bohun of Hereford Edmund Mortymer of Marâ—h and William de Monteacuto of Sarum Earles Iohn de Barnes Maior of London William de Walworth and Robert de Gayton Sheriffes Dat apud London 20 Martij Anno Regni Reg. Ed. 3.45 Sir Walter Manny or de Manie the foresaid Founder was buried here in his owne Church who deceased in the same yeere that he
laid his foundation 137â— His death was much lamented by the King the Nobilitie and commons of all England for with singular commendations hee had for a long time serued vnder Edward the third in the French warres and was employed by him vpon seuerall Embasies and his truth and good councell was euer much auailable to the whole state of the kingdome His obsequies were performed with great solemnity King Edward the third and all his children with the greatest Prelates and Lord Barons of the kingdome being there present His wife Margaret was here entombed with him by whom he had issue Thomas Manye who in his youth was drowned in a Well at Detford in Kent and Anne then his onely daughter and heire married to Iohn Lord Hastings Earle of Penbroke Margaret Lady Manye saith Iohn Stow here interred yet the Catalogue of Honour will haue her to be buried in the Minories died the 24. of March 1399. she was the onely daughter of Thomas of Brotherton Earle of Norfolke and Marshall of England second sonne of King Edward the first and her fathers onely heire after the death of her brother Edward which happened in the same yeare that his father departed the world She was for the greatnesse of her birth her large reuenewes and wealth created Dutchesse of Norfolke for terme of life she had beene first married to Iohn Lord Segraue and her last husband was the foresaid Sir Walter Manny Here sometime was interred the body of Philip Morgan Doctor of Law Chancelour of Normandy and Bishop of Ely a very wise man who with great commendations gouerned that See nine yeeres sixe moneths and foure daies and departed this life at Bishops-Hatfield October 25. 1434. Many funerall monuments were in this Church as you may finde them mentioned in the Suruay of London This religious house is now turned into an Hospitall consisting of a Master a Preacher a Free-Schoole with a Master and an Vsher fourescore decaied gentlemen Souldiers and forty schollers maintained with sufficient cloathing meate drinke lodging and wages besides Officers and Ministers to attend vpon them all so that the whole number now in the house with the attendants is one hundred and fourescore The greatest gift that euer at any time in England no Abbey at the first foundation thereof excepted or therewith to bee compared being the gift of one man onely whose name was Thomas Sutton of Castle Campes in the County of Cambridge Esquire borne at Knaith in the County of Lincolne who liued to the age of 79 yeares and deceased the 12. day of December 1611. somewhat before this his famous Foundation was fully accomplished Great Saint Bartholomewes This Priorie was founded by one Rahere a pleasant conceited wittie gentleman and a Courtier in the raigne of King Henry the first which he dedicated to the honour of God and Saint Bartholomew and placed therein blacke Canons or Canons regular himselfe became their first Prior his foundation was confirmed in these words Henricus Rex c. Sciatis me concessisse presenti carta me confirmasse Ecclesie beati Bartholomei London que est Dominica Capella mea et canonicis dominicis in ea Domino seruientibus quod sint ab omni subiectione terrena seruitute liberi vt sic aliqua Ecclesia in tota Anglia magis libera c. dat per manum nostram apud Winton 15 Iunij Anno reg 37. Here he died and was here buried in a faire monument renewed by Prior Bolton which Bolton was the last Prior of this house a great builder and repairer of the Priorie and the Parish Church and of diuers lodgings belonging to the same as also of new he builded the Mannor of Canonbury now called Canbury at Islington which belonged to the Canons of this house This Bolton and the rest of his brethren were portraied vpon a Table sometimes hanging in this Church now it is in Sir Robert Cottons Librarie holding vp their hands to the Crucifixe vnder whom these verses were depensiâ—d Gulielmo Bolton precibus succurrite vestris Qualis erat pater hic Domus hec cetera monstrant He died at his Parsonage house at Harrow vpon the hill as I haue it by relation the fourth of Edward the sixt and was there interred He surrendred vp this his Priorie the 30 of Henry the 8. which was then valued at 757 l. 8 s. 4 d. ob q. by yeere Here sometime lay entombed the body of Roger Walden Bishop of London Neuer had any man better experience of the variable vncertaintie of worldly felicity then he for from the estate of a very poore man he was suddenly raised to be Treasurer of England hauing beene first Secretarie to the King Deane of Yorke and Treasurer of the towne of Calis and then made Archbishop of Canterbury which honour he enioyed not past two yeares but was remoued from the same and forced to leade a priuate life a long time At last being once more lift vp to the honour of this Bishopricke of London he left this present life within the compasse of the yeere following Of this man thus writeth Thomas Walsingham who liued in those times and much what to the same effect I will vse his owne language Anno 1406. Dominus Rogerus de Waldene debitum Naturae soluit qui varia fortuna vectus expertus est sub breui tempore Quam sit inconstans incerta volubilis ipsa Errans instabilis vaga quae dum stare putatur Occidit et falso mutatur gaudia vultu Nempe ex pauperculo factus est Regni Thesaurarius and so proceeds on forwards with his story Vpon his monument this Epitaph was inlayd in brasse Hic iacet Rogerus de Walden Episcopus Londinens qui cum in vtraque fortuna plurimuÌ„ laborauit ex hac vita migrauit 2 die Nouem an dom 1406 Vir cultor verus Domini iacet intra Rogerus Walden Fortuna cus nunquam steterat vna Nunc requiem tumuli Deus omnipotens dedit illi Gaudet et in celis plaudet vbi quisque fidelis He denied his preferment to the Bishoppricke of London being preferred vnto him by the Pope saying that he would not accept of it from any but from the king As I finde thus recorded in the Tower Cum summus Pontifex nuper prouidisset Rogero Walden de Ecclesia Cathedral London prefatus tamen Rogerus dominicum beneficium sine Regis assensu et licentia acceptare noluit nec vult ni presenti Rex concedit eidem Rogero licentiam quod ipse tanquam verus Pastor et Episcopus dicte Ecclesie Cathedralis eandem ecclesiam capere valeat et acceptare T. R. apud W. 24. Iunij Little Saint Bartholomewes This Hospitall for the poore and diseased was founded by the forenamed Rahere Prior of great Saint Bartholomewes to be gouerned by a Master and eight Brethren being Priests for the Church and foure Sisters to see the poore
serued It was valued at the suppression to 305. l. 6. s. 7. d. yearely The Church remaineth a Parish to the Tenants dwelling in the precinct of the Hospitall in which are many faire Funerall Monuments Whose Inscriptions or the most of them are set downe in the Suruay of London these following onely omitted Hic iacent Thomas Malefant Miles Baro de Winwore et Dominus de S. George in Com. de Clamorgan et Dominus de Okneton et Pile in Com. de Penbroke in Wallia qui obijt 8. die Maij 1438. et Domina Margareta vxor eius filia Thome Asteley Ar. Nep. de Domino de Asteley et Henricus â—ilius â—orundem Tho. et Margarete Quorum animabus propitietur Altissimus Amen The xiiiic yere of our Lord seventy and three Passyd Sir William Knyght to God Almightie The fiftenth dey of Iuil Master of this place Iesu for his mercy reioyce hym with his grace The xiiiic yere of our Lord and eight Passyd Sir Robart Greuil to God Almight The xii dey of April Broder of this place Iesu for his mercy reioice him with his grace Philip Lewis restyth vnder yis ston Yat in Iun deseisyd the dey six and twenty Wyth Agnes hys wyf yat were both on The xiiiic yere of our Lord and seuen and fifty Subiacet ecce pede Iohn Stafford mortis in ede Iustus deuotus discretus et ad pia motus Qui bona plura loco dum vixit contulit isti Mille quater centum quater et sexto quoque Christi Luce Nouemberis deca ter .......... Vt sit propitius anime Christus precor Amen Saint Sepulchers In this Church lyeth buried the body of that vnfortunate Lord Thomas Fiâ—es Baron Dacres of the South Who was executed at Tiborne the 29. of Iune 1541. for that hee with others going to hunt in Master Pelhams Parke at Laughton in Sussex and meeting with some companie casually by the way with whom and his confederates ensued a quarrell in which a priuate man one Iohn Busbrig was slaine by the said Lord or some of his associates which were Io. Mantell Io. Frouds and George all three executed for the same fact at Saint Thomas Waterings The death of this Lord was generally lamented being an hopefull gentleman of 24. yeares of age This happened in that bloudie yeare when Henry the eight vnsheathed his sword vpon the neckes of the Nobilitie Here lieth the heart of Iohn Goodfellow for his sowl and al yat died wyth hym and al Christen sowls I prey yow for cherite sey a Pater Noster and an Ave Mary Saint Bridgets or Brides Vndyr this ston William Weuer doth ly Cityzon and Elisabeth his wyf hym by He died the viii and she the vii dey of September Leuing Geffrey Mary and Ellin thar children as I remember Who 's sowls God receyve to fauor and pease Wyth Ioyes to lyve that neuyr sal cease 1409. The White Friers These Friers were called Fratres beatae Mariae de monte Carmeli first founded by Sir Richard Grey knight ancestor to the Lord Grey of Codnor in the yeare 1241. King Edward the first gaue to the Prior and brethren of that house a plot of ground here in Fleetstreet whereupon to build their house which was afterwards new builded by Hugh Courtney the third of that Christian name Earle of Deuonshire the yeare before he died which was Aun 1350. Sir Robert Knolles knight was a great builder here also in the raigne of Richard the second and of Henry the fourth who being borne but of meane parentage in the County of Chester was by his valiant behauiour aduanced from a common Souldier in the French warres vnder Edward the third to a great Commander and being sent Generall of an Armie into France in despite of their power he draue their people before him like Sheepe destroying Townes Castles and Cities in such a manner and number that long after in memory of this act the sharpe points and gable ends of ouerthrowne houses and Minsters were called Knolles Miters After which minding to make himselfe as welbeloued of his countrey as he was feared of forraine nations hee built the goodly faire Bridge at Rochester ouer the Riuer of Medway with a Chappell and a Chantrie at the East end thereof He founded a Colledge with an Hospitall adioyning thereunto in the Towne of Pontefract in Yorkeshire of which hereafter He founded also an Hospitall in the Citie of Rome for entertainment of English trauellers or pilgrimes to that Citie in place where Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury had builded a Chappell of the holy Trinity which to this day retaines the name and is a Seminarie for our English Fugitiues He deceased at his Mannor of Scone Thorpe in Norfolke was brought to London and honourably buried by the Lady Constance his wife in the body of this Church which he had newly builded Ann. 1407. the 15. of August Of whom in his life saith Stow were made verses in Latine thus by him put into English O Robert Knowles most worthy of Fame By thy Prowesse France was made tame Thy manhood made the French to yeeld By dint of sword in towne and feeld Here sometime lay entombed in a goodly Monument of Alabaster the body of Robert Mascall Bishop of Hereford a man for his good learning and good life admired and beloued of all men He was often employed by Henry the fourth to whom he was Confessor vpon Embasies to forraine Princes and in the yeare 1415. sent with two other Bishops to the Councell of Constance Hee built the Quier Presbytery and Steeple of this Church and gaue many rich ornaments to this religious house wherein he died 22. Decemb. 1416. William Lord Montacute Earle of Salisbury and king of the Isle of Man was here entombed Whose noble Acts saith Walsingham to write worthily were a commendable matter He founded the Abbey of Bisham Montague in Barkshire and died at a Iusts and Turney at Windsore in the yeare 1343. For the rest here interred I referre my Reader to the Suruay of London This house was valued at 26. l. 7. s. 3. d. and was surrendred the tenth of Nouember the 30. of king Hen. the eight Since the writing of the premisses I chanced to haue the perusall of a Manuscript penned in the praise of this religious Order out of which I collected diuers Epitaphs which in times past had beene engrauen vpon the Sepulchers of certaine Carmelites here in the Church of this Priory interred And first I finde that Stephen Patrington vir omnibus praestantioribus animi dotibus omnibus virtutibus preditus et multiplici doctrinae varietate instructus was here buried in the body of the Quire He was borne in the County of Yorke and brought vp in the Vniuersitie of Oxford where he proceeded Doctor of Diuinitie He writ many learned bookes and was an admirable Preacher to whose Sermons alwayes
in health And as our Lord knoweth I haue nothing left vnto me for to prouyde any better but as my Brother of his owne purse layeth out for me to his great hynderance Wherfore gode Master Secretary estsones I byseche yow to haue som pittie vpon me and latt me haue such thyngs as are necessary for mee in myn age and especially for my health And also that itt may please yow by yowr high wysdom to moue the Kings highnesse to take me vnto his gracious fauor againe and to restor me vnto my liberty out of this cold and painfull imprisonment wherby ye shall bynd me to be yowr pore beadsman for euer vnto almighty God who euer haue yow in his protection and custody Other twayne things I must also desyer vpon yow first oon is that itt may please yow that I may take som Preest within the Tower by th' assignment of master Liuetenant to hear my confession against this hooly tym That other is that I may borrow some bookes to stir my deuocion mor effectually theis hooly dayes for the comfortte of my sowl This I byseche yow to grant me of yowr charite And thus our Lord send yow a mery Christenmas and a comfortable to yowr hearts desyer Att the Tower this xxii day of December Your poore Beadsman Iohn Roffe Thus he lay imprisoned in great misery hungrie cold and comfortlesse as the prisoners dittie in Newgate runs vntill the time of his arraignment during which time as also before being diuers times examined by the Lords of the priuie Councell as also examined and sworne in verbo Sacer docij by Thomas Bedyll and Richard Layton Clerkes of the Kings Councell in the presence of Sir Edmond Walfingham knight Lieuetenant of the Tower and others to many Interrogatories his answeres were euer agreeable in effect with his letters He was arraigned onely for denying of the Supremacie howsoeuer he was before attainted by Parliament of misprision of Treason for the matter of the holy Maid of Kent as by this his Indictment appeares of which so much as is materiall Quidem tamen Iohannes Fyssher nuper de ciuitate Roffen in Com. Kanc. Clericus alias dictus Iohannes Fyssher nuper de Rofen Episcopus deum pre oculis non habens sed instigatione diabolica seductus false maliciose et proditorie optans volens et desiderans ac arte imaginans inuentans practitans et attemptans serenissimum dominum nostrum Henricum octauum dei gratia Angl. et Franc. Regem fidei defensorem dominum Hibernie atque in terra supremum caput Ecclesie Anglicane de dignitate titulo nomine status sui Regalis videlicet de dignitate titulo et nomine eius in terra supremi capitis Anglicane Ecclesie dicte imperiali corone sue vt premittit annexis vnitis depriuare Septimo die Maij Anno regni eiusdem domini Regis vicessimo septimo apud Tarrim London in Com. Mid. contra legiancie sue debitum hec verba Anglicana sequent diuersis dicti domini Regis veris subditis false maliciose proditorie loquebatur et propalabat videlicet The Kyng owre Soueraigne Lord is not supreme hedd yn erthe of the Cherche of England In dicti domini Regis immund despect et vilipendium manifest ac in dictorum dignitatis tituli et nominis status sui Regalis derogationem et preiudic non modicum et contra formam dicti alterius Actus perdicti Anno xxvi edit ac contra pacem prefati domini Regis c. Of this Indictment being found guilty he had iudgement whereupon execution presently followed which the more was hastened as also his arraignement in regard of the rumour that a Cardinals hat was comming towards him from the Pope because he had stood so stoutly in his defence which newes was so vnwelcome vnto him that vpon the first report thereof comming to his eares he said in the presence of some of the Lieuetenants seruants that if the Cardinals hat were laid at his feet he would not stoupe to take it vp so little did he set by it but let vs leaue him to his eternall rest onely thus much out of the writers of his time who say that hee was omnium Episcopalium Virtutum genere suffarcinatissimus et singulari linguae gratia praeditus He was of many sore lamented being a man of a very good life and great learning as his writings in diuers bookes did testifie The common people had such a reuerend opinion of his holinesse that they beleeued certaine miracles to be wrought by his head put vpon a Pole and set vp vpon London Bridge Adrianus Iunius and Cornelius Musius two German writers of Fisher thus in opposition Iunius Te niuei mores celebrem et conscia virtus Eâ—exit coelo et relligionis amor Sed dum Romuleo nimium tibicine fultus Perstas nec causam Regis amare potes Mors properatatibi est ceruice cruenta rescissa Munus vbi inselix purpura missa venit Musius Non ego purpureos ambiâ—i indignus honores Nec potui humanis fidere praesidijs Vnica cura fidem intrepide veramque tueri Commissoque ouium pro grege cuncta pati Si quaeras ceruix igitur cur ense re scissa est Improba displicuit Regia caussa mihi Another Dum mihi martyrij donat Diadema securis Quaeso meum teneas o bone trunce caput Another Vim sine vi patior qualis qui carcere rupto Cogitur e vinclis liber abire suis. The sixt day of Iuly following the decollation of Bishop Fisher Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England was likewise beheaded on the Tower hill for the like deniall of the Kings Supremacie he was first buried in this Chappell and the body of his deare friend Fisher was remoued out of Barking Church-yard and buried with him in the same graue for agreeing so vnanimously in their opinions liuing it was be like thought vnfitting to part them being dead but how long they lay together in this their house of rest I certainly know not yet this is certaine that Margaret the wife of Master Roper and daughter of the said Sir Thomas More remoted her fathers corps not long after to Chelsey and whether she honouued the Bishop by another remoue to the place of her fathers buriall or not I know not yet she might by all probabilitie They were both accused to be of the adherents to Elizabeth Barton in her counterfeite holinesse hypocrisie and traiterous intents but their innocencie and their often writing to the King and Cromwell in their owne excuse acquitted them of that imputation In the Act for the surety of the succession of the Crowne of England an oath was deuised for the maintenance and defence of the said Act which was to be taken by all the Kings subiects this oath being tendered to these two they were content to bee sworne to the maine point but not to the
preamble of the said Oath which I haue touched before of which Cranmer Archbishop of Canterburie thus deliuers his opinion by his letter to Secretarie Cromwell if I now digresse I craue a fauourable construction Right worshipfull Maister Cromwell after most harty commendations c. I doubte not but you do right well remembre that my Lord of Rochester and master More were contented to bee sworne to the Actt of the Kings succession but not to the preamble of the same what was the cause of thair refusall thereof I am vncertaine and they wolde by no meanes expresse the same Neuerthelesse it must nedis be either the diminution of the authoritie of the Bishop of Rome or ells the reprobation of the Kings first pretensed matrimony But if they doe obstinately persiste in thair opinions of the preamble yet me semeth it scholde not be refused if thay will be sworne to the veray acte of succession so that thay will be sworne to mayntene the same against all powers and Potentates For hereby shall be a great occasion to satisfie the Princesse Dowager and the Lady Mary which doe thinke that they sholde dampne thair sowles if thay sholde abandon and relinquish thair astats And not only it sholde stop the mouthes of thaym but also of th'emperour and other thaâ—r friends if thay giue as much credence to my Lord of Rochester and master More spekyng or doinge against thaym as they hitherto haue done and thought that all other sholde haue done whan they spake and did with thaym And peraduenture it sholde be a good quietation to many other within this Realme if such men sholde say that the succession comprised within the said acte is good and according to Gods lawes For than I thinke there is not one within this Reaulme that wolde ones reclaime against it And where as diuers persones either of a wilfulnesse will not or of an indurate and inuertible conscience can not altre from thair opinions of the Kings first pretensed marriage wherein they haue ones said their minds and percase haue a perswasion in their heads that if they sholde now vary therfrome their fame and estimation were distained for euer or else of the authoritie of the Busschope of Rome yet if all the Reaulme with one accord wolde apprehend the said succession in my iudgement it is a thing to be amplected and imbraced which thing although I trust surely in God that it shall bee brought to passe yet hereunto might not a little auaile the consent and othes of theis two persones the Busshope of Rochester and Maister More with thair adherents or rather confederats And if the Kings pleasure so were thair sayd othes myght be suppressed but whan and where his highnes might take some commoditie by the publyshinge of the same Thus our Lord haue you euer in his conseruation From my Maner at Croydon the xvii day of Aprill Your own assured euer Thomas Cantuar. Here in this letter is to be seene the wisedome and policie of this prudent Archbishop who could make such auaileable vse to the state of the strong opinion which most men conceiued of the profound iudgement of these two persons This Sir Thomas More was pregnant of wit eloquent wise and learned as by his bookes still extant doth appeare and besides those mentioned by Bale which we haue in print During the time of his imprisonment which was foureteene moneths saith Pitseus he writ an historicall exposition of the Passion of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ according to the foure Euangelists Which I can hardly beleeue for I finde that when he was in prison his bookes and all his papers were taken away from him Whereupon he shut vp his Chamber-windowes saying When the wares are gone and the tooles taken away we must shut vp shop Thus would he lose his light before he would lose his iest for that he would neuer lose nor leaue off vpon the least occasion offered vntill he had lost his head He was twice married first saith Erasmus his intimate deare friend Virginem daxit admodum puellam claro genere natam He married a Maide very young borne of a noble Familie whom he tooke care to haue instructed in all good literature and to be expert in all sorts of Musicke by her he had foure children one Sonne named Iohn and three daughters Margaret Alice or Aloysia and Cicely God saith Leland that reuerend Antiquarie that liued in his dayes extraordinarily blessed these his children and namely his three daughters to whom he had giuen an admirable dexteritie in the science of Songs and Arts which he noteth in this his learned Epigram Desine facundas nimium laudare diserti Natas Hortensi maxima Roma tui Candida tres charites nam Mori cura politi Obscurant multis nomina vestra modis Non illis studium Milesia vellera dextra Carpere non facili ducere fila manu Sed innat eloquij crebro monumenta latini Versare doctis pingere verba notis Nec minus authores Graecos euoluere Homerum Et quem dicendi gloria prima manet Vt nec Aristotelis dicam quo pectore libros Scrutentur sophiae mystica dona deae Turpe viris posthac erit ignorare Mineruae Artes grex adeo quas muliebris amet His second wife was a widow of whom he was wont to say that she was nec bella nec puella Who as she was a good huswife so was she not voide of the fault that often followeth that vertue somewhat shrewd to her seruants Vpon a time Sir Thomas found fault with her continuall chiding saying If that nothing would reclaime her yet the consideration of the time for it was Lent should restraine her Tush tush my Lord said she looke here is one steppe to heauen-ward shewing him a Friers girdle I feare me said he this one steppe will not bring you vp a steppe higher One day when she came from shrift she said merrily to her husband Be merry Sir Thomas for this day was I well shriuen I thanke God and purpose now therefore to leaue off all my old shrewdnesse Yea quoth he and to begin afresh This man thus much giuen to a certaine pleasure in harmlesse mirth facetious iests and present wittie answers was wonderfull zealous in Religion and deuout in so much that diuers times in his Chancellourship he would put on a Surplise and helpe the Priest to say and sing diuine Seruice for which being reprehended by Thomas Duke of Norfolke who told him that it was a dishonour to the King that the Lord Chancellor of England should be a Parish Clerke Hee thus answered Now truly my Lord I thinke and verily beleeue that when the King shall heare of the care I haue both to serue his Master and mine he will accept and take me for a faithfull Seruant Which he might well say for vpon his first comming to his seruice the King gaue him this godly lesson First looke vnto
sic mecum vixit sic altera viuit Charior incertum est hec sit an hec fuerit O simul O iuncti poteramus viuere nos tros Quam bene si factum Religioque sinant Et societ tumulus societ nos obsecro celum Sic mors non potuit quod dare vita dabit The Character of this ingenious and learned Lord Chancellour is deliuered at large by all our late English Historiographers as also by many forraine writers To whom and to that which I haue spoken of him before I referre my Reader Of your charitie pray for the soul of Edward Bray knight Lord Bray cosin and heire to Sir Reignold Bray knight of the Garter ...... His brother Reignold Bray Esquire lieth buried by him but their Monuments are so defaced that I can finde no further remembrance neither of their liues nor of the time of their death Kensington Maud de Berford gist icy Deiu de sâ—alme eit mercy Amen Here vndyr lyeth Phelip Meawtis the sonn and heir of Iohn Meawtis oone of ye Secretaryes to the kyngs Hen. the seuenth and Hen. the eight Clerk of hys Counsel and oone of the knyghts of Wyndsor Whych Phelip decessyd the eight of Nouembre M. D. X. on whoe 's soul Iesu have mercy Amen Hic iacent Robertus Rote Elisab ........ Richardus Scardebrugh Elisabetha vxor eius ac Robertus Scardebrugh filius eorundem Richardi et Elisabethe qui quidem Richardus obiji xi die Decemb. M. CCCC.liij quorum animabus propitietur Altissimus Here lyes Adwin Lauerocke of Calis Cosin to Iohn Mewtas of Kensington and the French Secretary to Kyng Henry the seuenth Which decessyd on Seynt Stephens dey M. CCCC.lxxxxiii on whos soul God have mercy Amen In the worschip of God and our Ladie Say for al Cristen souls a Pater Noster and an Avie Hic iacet Thomas Essex Armiger filius heres Gulielmi Essex Armigeri Rememoratoris Domini Regis Edwardi quarti in Scaccario ac Vice thesarar Anglie qui obijt 10. Nouemb. 1500. Que sola virgineo nata laudamus honore Me protegens Nato fundito vota tuo Of the Office of Remembrancers whereof William the father of this Thomas Essex here entombed was one and the chiefe giue mee leaue to speake a little out of the Interpreter Remembrancers of the Exchequer Rememoratores bee three Officers or Clerks One called the Kings Remembrancer Ann. 35. Eli. cap. 5. The other the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer Vpon whose charge it seemeth to lye that they put all Iustices of that Court as the Lord Treasurer and the rest in remembrance of such things as are to be called on and dealt in for the Princes behoofe The third is called the Remembrancer of the first-fruits Of these you may reade something Ann. 5. Ric. 2. Stat. 1. cap. 14. and 15. to the effect aboue specified These An 37. Ed. 3. cap. 4. be called Clerkes of the Remembrance It seemeth that the name of the Officer is borrowed from the Civilians who haue their Memoriales qui sunt notarij Cancellariae in regno subiecti officio Quaestoris Lucas de Penna C. lib. 10 tit 12. num 7. The Kings Remembrancer entreth into his Office all Recognisances taken before the Barons for any the Kings debts for apparences or for obseruing of orders He taketh all bonds for any of the Kings debts or for appearance or for obseruing of orders and maketh proces vpon them for the breach of them He writeth proces against the Collectours of Customes Subsedies and Fiueteenths for their accounts All informations vpon penall Statutes are entred in his Office And all matters vpon English Bills in the Exchequer Chamber are remaining in his Office Hee maketh the Bills of compositions vpon penall Lawes taketh the stalments debts maketh a Record of a Certificate deliuered to him by the Clerkes of the Starre-Chamber of the Fines there set and sendeth them to the Pipe Hee hath deliuered to his Office all manner of Indentures fines and other Euidences whatsoeuer that concerne the assuring of any lands to the Crowne He yearely in Crastino Animarum readeth in open Court the Statute for election of Sheriffes and giueth those that choose them their oath He readeth in open Court the oath of all the Officers of the Court when they are admitted The Treasurers Remembrancer maketh Proces against all Sheriffes Escheators Receiuers and Bayliffes for their accounts He maketh Proces of Fieri Facias and extent for any debts due to the King either in the Pipe or with the Auditors He maketh Proces for all such reuenue as is due to the King by reason of his tenures He maketh a Record whereby it appeareth whether Sheriffes and other accountants keepe their dayes of prefixion All extreats of fines issues and amerciaments set in any Courts of Westminster or at the Assises or Sessions are certified into his Office and are by him deliuered to the Clerke of Extreats to write Proces vpon them He hath also brought into his Office all the accounts of Customers Controullers and other accomptants to make thereof an entrie of Record The Remembrancer of the first-fruits taketh all Compositions for first-fruits and Tenths and maketh Proces against such as pay not the same Now to returne these Essexes were Lords of this Towne as I haue it by relation which Towne at this day is much honoured by the Lord thereof that noble Gentleman Sir Henry Rich Captaine of his Maiesties Gaurd and knight of the Garter Baron Kensington of Kensington Earle of Holland and one of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsell Fulham Hic iacet Iohannes Fischer quondam Thesaurarius Domini Cardinalis Sancte Balbine et postea Hostiensis et Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi qui obijt 27. Aug. 1463. Here lyeth buryed the body of Syr Raufe Buts knight and Phisitian to our Soueraigne Lord Henry the viii Who decessyd 1545. on whos sowl Quid Medicina valet quid honos quid gratia Regum Quid popularis amor mors vbi seua venit Sola valet Pietas que structa est auspice Christo Sola in morte valet cetera cuncta fluunt Ergo mihi in vita fuerit quando omnia Christus Mors mihi nunc lucrum vitaque Christus erit Pray for the sowls of Iohn Long gentylman Katherin and Alice his wyfs Who died the x. of March on thowsand fyve hundryd and three On whos sowls and all Christen sowls Iesu haue mercy Fili redemptor mundi Deus miserere nobis Sancta Trinitas vnus Deus miserere nobis Spiritus Sanctus Deus miserere nobis Hic iacet Iohannes Sherburne Bachalaureus vtriusque Legis quondam Archidiaconus Essex qui ob 1434. Of yowr cherite pray for the soul of Sir Sampson Norton knyght late Master of the Ordinance of warre with kyng Henry the eyght and for the soul of Dame Elysabyth hys wyff Whyche Syr Sampson decessyd the eyght day of February on
imports was seruant to Katherine Swinford the third wife of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Hic iacet Iohannes de Chandry quondam Nolettus Domini Ducis Lankastrie .... This mans office vnder the Duke of Lancaster was to ring as I take it the Sance or sacring Bell. Hic iacet Richardus Pynere quondam Botelere cum Regina Anglie qui obitt xxii Ianuar. M. cccc xix A Flagon and a cuppe cut in brasse vpon his graue stone Hic iacet venerabilis Armiger Iohannes Ingylby qui obiit festo Mathei Apostoli et Euangeliste 1457. This Iohn was in especiall fauour and did wonderfully flourish in the seruice of King Henry the sixt A familie of great antiquity in the Countie of Yorke By these Funerall Monuments it appeares that diuers Princes of this Land haue often made their residence in this Towne by which meanes it hath beene in former times of great state estimation and beautie but now for want of that generall conuention the Castle built before the Conquest by Edward the Elder is greatly decayed these Parish Churches much ruined and the Towne neither greatly inhabited nor much frequented Here in this Towne was a Priory of blacke Monkes valued in the Exchequer to be yeerely worth fourescore and sixe pounds fourteene shillings eight pence A Cell it was to Saint Albans founded by Raph Limsey a Nobleman and dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the raigne of the Conquerour I haue my authority out of the Collections of Thomas Talbot sometime keeper of the Records in the Tower a great Genealogist these are his words Raph Lord Limsey buried in the Priorie of Hertford which he founded he came into England with the Conquerour and was his sisters sonne as the Monkes of the same house report Port Or three Eagles heads gules One Robert Sotingdon or Sadington a man in great fauour with Henry the third and vnder him in honourable office fell sicke in his iourney being Iustice Itinerant in this towne in the yeare 1257. and was here interred One Sir Robert Sadington Knight was Lord Chancelour of England Anno 1345. and Sir Richard Sadinton Lord Treasurer much what about the same time as in the Catalogue of both you may read Ware Hic iacet Thomas Bourchier miles filius Henrici comitis Essex ac Isabella vxor eius nuper comitissa Deuon filia et heres Iohannis Barry militis qui obijt .... 1491 .... et Isabella ob 1 die Marcij 1488. quorum animabus This Thomas Bourchier was the first sonne saith Vincent of Henry Bourchier the first of that surname Earle of Essex and this Isabell the daughter and heire of Sir Iohn Barry Knight was when the said Thomas married her the widow of Humfrey Lord Stafford of Southwike sonne of William Stafford of Hooke Esquire created Earle of Deuon by King Edward the fourth to whom the said King gaue all the Honours Mannors Castles c. which were Thomas Courtneys the fourteenth Earle of Deuon who neuerthelesse grew ingratefull to King Edward his aduancer in reuolting from him at the battaile of Banbury for which cowardise hee being apprehended was without processe executed at Bridgewater the seuenteenth of August anno 1469. hauing beene Earle but three moneths Hic iacent Rogerus Damory Baro tempore Edwardi secundi et Elizabetha tertia silia Gilberti Clare comitis Glocestrie et Iohanne vxoris eius filie Edwardi primi v. cate Iohann de Acris ..... This Roger Damory was Baron of Armoye in Ireland and Elizabeth his wife the Founder of Clare Hall in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge of which more hereafter Iean Lucas gist icy Dieu de salme eit mercy This is an ancient monument so is the familie At the north end of this Towne was a Frierie whose ruines not altogether beaten downe are to be seene at this day founded by Baron Wake Lord of this Towne about the raigne of King Iohn dedicated to Saint Francis and surrendred the 9 of May 26 Henry 8. Here lieth Thomas Heton Ione his wife which Thomas died xix Aug. M. cccc.ix and Ioyce ... ... Will. Litlebury and Elizabeth his wife he died xxii of Iuly M. cccc Watton Hic iacet corpus domini Philippi Butler militis quondam Domini de Woodhall et hutus Ecclesie Patroni qui obijt in festo Sancti Leonardi Anno Domini M. cccc.xxi et Regis Henrici quinti post conquestum vltimo Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Camden saith that these Butlers are branched from Sir Raph Butler Baron of Wem in Shropshire and his wife heire to William Pantulfe Lord of Wem soone after the first entrie of the Normans Hunsdon In this Church are the right ancient and honourable familie of the Caryes enterred to whose memory I finde no monument saue one vnder which Iohn Cary Baron of Hunsdon lieth entombed father to the right honourable Lord Henry Cary Lord Hunsdon Viscount Rochford and Earle of Douer now liuing Grandchild to Henry Baron of Hunsdon Lord Chamberlaine and Cosin german to Queene Elizabeth and descended from the royall familie of the Dukes of Somerset Francisco Poyno Equiti literis prudentia armis fauore sui Principis et pietate insigni Domina Iohanna pia et amans vxor Charo marito posuit 1520. This name is ancient and honourable Sir Hugh Poynes being one of the ranke of Parliamentarie Barons in the raigne of King Edward the first Eppalets or Hippolites vulgarly Pallets This Church was dedicated saith Norden in his description of Hertfordshire to a supposed Saint called Eppalet whose reliques lie buried about the high Altar This man in his life time was a good tamer of Colts and as good a Horse-leach And for these qualities so deuoutly honoured after his death that all passengers by that way on Horse-backe thought themselues bound to bring their Steedes into the Church euen vp to the high Altar where this holy Horseman was shrined and where a Priest continually attended to bestow such fragments of Eppalets miracles as would either tame yong horses cure lame iades or refresh old wearied and forworne Hackneyes which did auaile so much the more or lesse as the passengers were bountifull or hard-handed Baldock Here is an ancient Monument and an old Inscription which I often meete with Farwel my frendys the tydabidyth no man I am departed hens and so sal ye But in this pasage the best song I can Is Requiem Eternam now Iesu grant it me When I haue ended all myn aduersity Grant me in Paradys to hav a mansion That shedst thy bloud for my redemption Prey for the sowlys of William Crane Ioane and Margaret his wyffs ... which William died ... 1483. ... on whos Orate pro ... Wilielmi Vynter generosi et Margarete consortis sue qui quidem Wilielmus obijâ— 2 Iunii 1416. et Margareta ob ... Octob. 1411. eorum animabus parentum amicorum bene factorum
die mensis Iunii Ann. M. ccccc xxii Here lyth Robert Newport Esqwyr founder of this Chapel and Mary his wyff Whych Robert dyed xvii of Nouember M. ccccc.xviii Orate pro anima Georgii Newport Ar. et Margarete vxoris eius que Margareta obiit xx lanurii M. cccc.lxvii et Georgius obiit xxviii Octob. M. cccc lxxxiiii These Newports here very faire entombed were gentlemen as I was enformed of ample reuenues in these parts whose inheritance came by marriage to the Parkers the Ancestors of the Lord Morley .... Iohannes de Lee et Iohanna vxor .... The armes and date gone .... Sir Waltar at Lea alias Sir Walter at clay ... His wife lieth by him the Monument is ancient but fouly defaced Hic iacent Iohannes Barloe et Iohanna vxor eius qui quidem Iohannes obiit .... M. cccc.xx et predicta Ioanna obiit xv Februar M. cccc xix Hic iacent Henricus Barloe Ar. qui obiit v. die Ianuarii M. cccc lxxv et Katherina vxor eius que ob .... M. cccc lxiiii An ancient and well allied familie one of which house namely William was in especiall fauour and trust with King Henry the seuenth Burnt Pelham In the wall of this Church lieth a most ancient Monument A stone wherein is figured a man and about him an Eagle a Lion and a Bull hauing all wings and a fourth of the shape of an Angell as if they should represent the foure Euangelists vnder the feet of the man is a crosse Flourie and vnder the Crosse a Serpent He is thought to haue beene sometime the Lord of an ancient decaied House well moated not farre from this place called O Piers Shoonkes He flourished Ann. Ã conquestu vicesimo primo Sabridgworth vulgarly Sabsworth Hic iacent Iohannes Leuenthorp Ar. qui obijt xxvii mens Maij M. cccc.xxxiii Katherina vx eius que obiit v. die Octob. M. cccc.xxxi quorum ... This Iohn was one of the Executours of the last Will and Testament of King Henry the fifth Hic iacent Iohannes Leuenthorp Ar. qui obiit vltimo die mensis Maij M. cccc.lxxxiiii Ioanna vxor eius que obiit xxix Augusti M. cccc.xl viii En iacet hic puluis putredo vermis et esca Et Famulus mortis nam vita iam caret ista Hic nil scit nil habet nec virtus inde relucet Cerne luto vilius horror terror fetor orbis Opprobrium cunctis ac est abiectio plebis Hic frater aspice te spira suffragia pro me Hic iacet Isabella vxor Iohannis Leuenthorp de Sabridgworth in Com. Hart. quondam vxor Roberti Southwel de Thachint in eodem Com. et filia Iohannis Boys .... in Com. Lincolne que obiit xx Iulij M. cccc.lxxxi Cuius Hic iacet Agnes soror Iohannis Leuenthorp Ar. que obiit x die Decemb. M. cccc.xliiii In this Church are diuers other Monuments of later times to the memorie of the Leuenthorps whose habitation is neare at Shingle-hall which is honoured by her owners being of such worth and ancient gentrie Hic iacent Iohannes Chancy Ar. filius et heres Iohannis Chancy Ar. filii heredis Willelmi Chancy militis quondam Baronis de Shorpenbek in Com. Ebor. et Anna vxor eius vna filiarum Iohannis Leuenthorp Ar. qui quidem Iohannes obiit vii Maii M. cccc.lxxix et Anna ii Decembris M cccc lxxvii quorum animabus Of yowr cherite sey a Pater Noster and an Ave For the sowl of William Chancy On whos sowl Iesu hav mercy Hic iacent Galfredus Ioslyne Katherina ac Ioanna vxor eius qui obiit ii Ianuar. M. cccc lxx Orate pro anima Radulphi Ioslyne quondam militis et bis Maioratus Ciuitatis London qui obiit xxv Octob. M. cccc.lxxviii This Sir Raph Ioslyne or Iosceline was the sonne of the foresaid Geffrey Iosceline here interred He was inuested knight of the Bath with Sir Thomas Cooke Sir Mathew Philip and Sir Henry Weeuer Citizens at the Coronation of Queene Elizabeth the wife of King Edward the fourth in the yeare 1465. The first time of his Maioraltie was in the yeare 1464. the other not long before his death He was a carefull corrector of the abuses vsed by Bakers and Victuallers of the Citie of London and by his diligence the walls of the said Citie were repaired This name as I was told doth still flourish in this tract Bishops Stortford So called because it belongs to the See of London giuen vnto it by William the Conquerour in the time of Mauritius Bishop of this Diocesse Hic iacent Thomas Fleming .... 1436. Hic iacet Ioanna Fleming vx Tho. Fleming .... 1411. A familie whose numerous branches haue spread themselues through England Scotland and Wales euer since the time of Sir Iohn le Fleming knight who flourished in the raigne of king William Rufus Hic iacent Iohannes Algar Matilda vxor eius qui quidem Iohannes obiit Ann. M. cccc lxxxiiii ... Matilda M. cccc lxxx Brawghing Orate pro anima Nicholai Coton filii et heredis Iohannis Coton quondma de Pantfeeld in Com. Essex qui ob 25. Aug. 1500. For whos sowl I pray yow of yowr cheritie say a Pater Noster and an Ave. Here lyeth Thomas Greene the soonne of Nicholas Greene who dyed 2. March 1484. Here lyth Ioan lat wyff of Thomas Rustwyne and dawter of Nicholas Greene who dyed .... 1400. Here are many Monuments of the Greenes quite defaced Saint Margarets by Hodsden Hic .... Iohannes de Goldington Ar. filius Iohannis de Goldington Ar. filii Iohannis de Goldington militis filii .... M. cccc xix Here are many other funerall Monuments in this little Church which haue beene inlayd and inscribed in brasse with the pourtraitures armes and Epitaphs of this ancient familie of the Goldingtons now all defaced and gone Brocksbourne Here lyth Dame Elisabyth somtym wyff to Syr Iohn Say knyght dawter to Lawrence Cheyne Esqwyr of Cambridg Shyre A woman of nobyl blode and most nobyl in grace and mannors She dyed xxv Septem M. cccc.lxxiii and was enterryd in this parysh Church abyding the body of her said Husband whos sowls God bring to euerlastyng lyff Of yowr cheritie prey for the sowl of Sir William Say knight deceased late Lord of the Mannour of Base his fader and moder Geneuese and Elisabyth his wyffs who died iiii Decemb. M. ccccc.xxix.xxi Hen. oclaui This Sir William Say built the north Isle of this Church as by an inscription in the glasse window may be gathered This familie flourished here for many descents euen vntill the death of this Sir William whose inheritance for want of heires male was diuided amongst his daughters of which hereafter Here lyeth Iohn Borrell Sergeant at Armes to Henry the eight and Elizabyth his wyff who
and Maud his wife Which Tho. died the third of December 1536. 38. Hen. 8. De Sudeley Domina natus Iohn Lind que vocatus Morte ruit stratus hic Armiger intumulatus Aula Mareschallum quem regia nobilitauit Egra lues rapuit raptum cineri sociauit Supplico qui graderes seu in marmore lumina figes Ora cum superis sit sibi pausa pijs ob 3. Septemb. Ann. 1464. Hic iacet Iohannes Bernwel de villa Sancti Albani in Com. Hert. gen qui obiit .... 1400. Dummodo vixisti quia spemque fidem tenuisti Fulâ—or Ecclesie cultor fuerasque Marie Vita salus requies tibi cum deitate Iohannes Sit Bernwel prima mors et tua vita secunda Hic iacet Symon Bernwel qui ob 28. Ian. Ann. 1455. Hic iacet Reginaldus Bernwell qui ob 12. April 1477. Here lyeth Brian Lockley who died .... 1507 ...... and Alice Lockley who died .... 1546. Here lyeth Richard Lockley Elisabeth and Agnes his wyfs Whych Richard dyed Ann. 1544. for their sowls and al Christian sowls of yowr cherite say a Pater Noster and an Ave. Vnder a marble stone in the Quire a religious man lieth interred whose name is worne or stolne out with the brasse onely the forme of a Rose remaineth and in the turnings of the leaues this Inscription Lo al that ere I spent somtym had I. Al that I gav to good intent that now hav I. That which I nether gav nor lent that now aby I. That I kept til I went that lost I. An old translation from these Latine couplets following Quod expendi habui Quod donani habeo Quod negaui punior Quod servaui perdidi Hic iacet Dominus Edwardus Hill miles ordinis Sancti Iohannis Baptiste qui obiit ..... Ann ... M. cccccxxxvi This knight was one of the Fraternitie of that religious order of S. Iohns Ierusalem an Hospitall Of which I haue spoken in another place Saint Michaels within Saint Albans Iohn Pecock et Mawd sa â—emme gisoâ—â—icy E Dieu de sont almes eit mercy Amen Hic iacet Thomas Woluey or Woluen Latomus in Arte nec non Armiger illustrissimi Principis Ric. secundi quondam Regis Anglie qui obijt Anno Dom. M. ccccxxx in vigilia Sancti Thome Martyris Cuius anime propitiâ—tur Deus Amen This man as farre as I vnderstand by this Inscription was the master Mason or Surueior of the kings stone-works as also Esquire to the Kings person Hic iacet Richardus Wolven or Woluey Lathonius filius Iohannis Woluen cum vx 〈…〉 Agneâ—e Agnete cum octo â—iliis decem filiabus suis qui Richardus ob ..... Ann. 1490. quorum animabus Vertitur in cineres isto sub marmore corpus Willelmi Lili spiritus astra petit Quisquis es hoc facies supplex pia numina poscas Vt sibi concedat regna beata poli Saint Stephens within Saint Albans Hic iacent Willelmus Robins Armiger nuper Clericus Signeti Edwardi quarti nuper Regis Anglie Katherina vxor eiusdem Willelmi qui quidem VVillielmus obijt iiij die Mensis Nouembris Ann. Dom. M. cccclxxxij 〈◊〉 animabus ..... Clericus Signeti or Signetti Clarke of the Signet is an officer continually 〈◊〉 attendant on his Maiesties Secretarie who alwayes hath the custodie of the priuie Signet as well for sealing his Maiesties priuie letters as also 〈◊〉 grants as passe his Maiesties hands by Bill assigned Of these there be 〈◊〉 that attend in their course and were vsed to haue their diet at the 〈◊〉 table More largely you may reade of their Office in the Statute 〈◊〉 Ann. 27. Hen. 8. ca. 11. Here lyeth Robert Turbervile Esquire and Dorothy his wife whych Robert died 26. Feb. 1529. and Dorothy 7. Octob. 1521. Sancta Trinitas vnus Deus miserere nobis Here lyeth Sir Iohn Turbervile Vicar of this Church who died ..... 1536 ..... Quos tegit hec petra iunxit thorus domus vna Iam puluis factus William Dauy nomine dictus Cum Margareta sponsali fedore iuncta Cum prece deuota qui transis sta precor ora Hic iacet Iohannes Gril quondam Magister Sancti Iuliani Vicarius istius Ecclesie qui ob ..... 6. die Decemb. 1449. Cuius Anime propitietur altissimus Saint Germans About the yeare of the worlds redemption 429. when as the Pelagian heresie budded forth afresh in this Island and so polluted the British Churches as that to auerre and maintaine the truth they sent for German Bishop of Auxerre the place of his birth a man of moche noble lygnage taught and enformed wel in the Artes liberalle lerned in the scyence of the Decretees droytes and lawe saith his Legend and Lupus Bishop of Troies out of France who by refuting this heresie gained vnto themselues a reuerent account among the Britains but chiefly German who hath at this day thorowout all this Island many Churches dedicated to his memorie Now vnderstand that neere to the walls of the old Citie Verulam was as then a plot of consecrated ground wherein the bodies of such as had professed Christianitie and suffered martyrdome vnder the persecution of the Romane Emperours were interred In which the said German openly out of the pulpit preached Gods word to the people where afterwards the beleeuing Christians built this Chappell and dedicated it to his honour for that by his doctrine and other good meanes hee had conuerted many thousands to the true profession of Christian Religion This German commanded the Sepulchre of Saint Alban to be opened and therein bestowed certaine reliques of Saints that those whom one heauen had receiued should also be in one Sepulchre together lodged Thus much saith Camden I note by the way that ye may obserue and consider the fashions of that age This Chappell or rather the ruines of it are remaining at this day and put to a prophane and beastly vse The foundations of Sopwell S. Iulians and Saint Mary Pree About this Towne of Saint Albons the Abbots of the Monasterie in a pious and deuout intent erected a little Nunnery at Sopwell valued but at threescore and eight pound eight shillings per annum Saint Iulians Spittle for Lepers and another named Saint Mary de Pree or Saint Mary in the Medow for diseased weemen Neere vnto which they had a great Mannour named Gorombery where Sir Nicholas Bacon knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England a man of rare wit and deepe experience father of Sir Francis Bacon knight Lord Verulam Viscount Saint Alâ—an Lord Chancellour of England lately deceased one that might iustly challenge as his due all the best attributes of learning built an house beseeming his place and calling and ouer the entrance into the Hall caused these verses to be engrauen Haec cum perfecit Nicholaus tecta Baconus Elisabeth regni lustra fuere
in hys lusty age Owr Lord list cal to hys mercy and grase Benign and curteys free withoutyn rage And Sqwire with the Duc of Clarence he was The eyghtenth dey of Iun deth did him embrase The yer from Crists incarnatioon A thowsand fowr hundryd seuenty and oon Hic iacent Iohannes Dentwel .... Christiana vxor ... 1388. Here lyeth William Warner and Ioan his wyf Whych William dyed .... 1531. and Ioan 1588. on whos sowls Here vndyr this marble ston Lyeth Lucas Goodyer departyd and gon It pleasyd the Lord God in Octobre the tenth day She being in chyldbed decessyd withoutyn nay And Edmond her liffe sonne lyeth her by On whos sowlys Iesu have mercy 1547. Here lyeth Raph Stepney Esquyre the first Lord of the Lordshyp of this Towne of Aldenham and Patron of this Church Who dyed 3. Decemb. 1544. on whos sowl Iesu haue mercy Amen In the South wall of this Church the proportion of two weemen lye cut in stone who as I haue it by relation were two Sisters here entombed the builders of this Church and coheires to this Lordship which at their deaths gaue the said Lordship to the Abbey and Couent of Westminster Here is now the seate of that right honourable Lord Sir Edward Carey knight Baron of Falkland lately Lord Deputie of Ireland Some of which familie lie here fairely entombed South Mimmes A seat of a worshipfull familie of the Coningesbies saith Camden descended to them by Frowick from the Knolles ancient possessors thereof In the Belfrey of this Church is a goodly marble stone inlay'd all ouer with brasse vnder which one of the Frowicks lieth interred A gentleman who made his recreations for the good of his neighbours as appeares by his Epitaph composed by Iohn Wethamsted Abbot of S. Albans aforesaid Hic iacet Thomas Frowick Armig. qui obiit 17. Mens Februar 1448. Elisabetha vxor eius que ob 1400 ac pueri eorundem quorum animabus propitietur altissimus Amen Qui iacet hic stratus Thomas Frowick vocitatus Moribus et natu victu gestu moderatu Vir generosus erat generosaque gesta colebat Nam quod amare solent generosi plusque frequentant Aucupium volucrum venaticumque serarum Mâ—ltum dilexit vulpes foueis spoliauit Ax Taxos caueis breuiter quecunque propinquis Intulerant dampâ—a pro posse fugauerat ipsa Inter eos etiam si litis cerneret vnquam Accendi faculas medians extinxâ—rat ipsas Fecerat et pacem Cur nunc pacis sibi pausam Det Deus et requiem que semper permanet Amen Standon In the Quire of this Church lieth entombed the body of Sir Raph Sadleir the last knight Banneret of England priuye Counsellor to three Princes A man so aduanced saith Camden for his great Seruices and stayed wisdome Hee was brought vp vnder politicke great Cromwell Earle of Essex as appeares by the prose and verse engrauen vpon his Monument who when he came to mans estate employed him as his Secretary But Henry the eight conceiued so good an opinion of his discreet comportement and ingenious pregnancie that he tooke him from the seruice of the sayd Cromwell about the twentie and sixt yeare of his raigne made him his principall Secretary and vsed his aduice in matters of greatest trust and importance especially in the affaires and passages betwixt the two Realmes of England and Scotland He continued his loue towards him to the end of his life and for the speciall trust and confidence hee had in his approued wisedome and fidelitie together with the Earle of Arundell the Earle of Essex and others he made choise of him for the ayding and assisting of the Executors of his last Will and Testament by which his last Will the copie whereof I haue in my custody he gaue him two hundred pounds as a Legacie In the first of Edward the sixt hee was chosen Treasurer for the Armie sent into Scotland vnder the conduct of Edward Duke of Somerset Protector and Iohn Earle of Warwicke where in the battell of Musselborrow he shewed great manhood and prowesse His great diligence saith Hollinshead in bringing the scattered troopes into order and ready forwardnesse in the fray did worthily merit no small commendacions After which Battle he with Sir Francis Brian Captaine of the light horsemen and Sir Raph Vane Captaine of all the horsemen were honoured for their valiant good seruice with the dignitie of Knights Bannerets In the tenth yeare of the raigne of Queene Elisabeth hee was preferred and aduanced by her to the Chancellourship of the Dutchie of Lancaster But his honours and offices are most succinctly engrauen vpon his goodly Tombe in these Hexameters Radulphus Sadlier titulum sortitus Equestrem Principibus tribus arcanis a sensibus vnus Auspiciis sum Cromwelli deductus in Aulam Henrici octaui quem Secretarius omni Officio colui Regique gregique fidelis Vexillarum Equitem me Musselburgia vidit Edwardus sextus Scotiam cum frangeret armis Ducatu Lancastrensi sublime Tribunal Cancellarius ascendi quod pondus honoris Elisabetha meae posuit diadema senectae Explesset Natura suas gloria partes Maturus facili decerpor ab arbore fructus Obijt Ann. Dom. 1587. 29. Elis. aetatis 80. His Motto Servire Deo sapere His sonne and heire Sir Thomas Sadleir knight lieth interred by him of whom in another place for I haue already come nearer to these times then I determined the father of Raph Sadleir Esquire that bountifull good House-keeper now liuing Ann. 1630. Neare vnto the faire builded mansion house of the said Raph Sadleir some time stood a little religious fabricke of Austine Friers but by whom founded or how endowed I doe not finde It was a cell to the Priory of Clare in Suffolke some part of which cell is standing at this day Here lyeth Syr William Coffyn knyght somtym of the privy Chamber to king Henry the eight and master of the Horse to Quene hygh Steward of the liberty and Mannour of Stondon Who dyed viii of December M. cccccxxxviii Here lyeth Iohn Iseley somtym Alderman of London Who dyed .... M. cccclxxiiii and Iohn his sonn who dyed the same yere Here lyeth Iohn Curteys Stockfishmonger of London Who dyed the the xxiiii of September M. cccclxv Here lyeth Phillep Astley Esquyre who dyed the xiiii of Iuly in the yere M. cccc .... He had foure wiues Lettis Margaret Elisab and Alice Digswell Hic iacent Iohannes Perient Armiger pro corpore Regis Richardi secundi et Penerarius eiusdem Regis Et Armiger Regis Henrici quarti Et Armiger etiam Regis Henrici quinti Et Magister Equitum Iohanne filie Regis Nauarr et Regine Anglie qui obiit ........ et Iohanna vxor eius quondam capitalis Domicilla ...... que obijt xxiiij Aprilis Ann. Domini M ccccxv ...... This Inscription here engrauen to the memory of such a remarkeable man being Squire for the Body
imperious wicked persons wondrous much offensiue and malicious to the Abbey tooke vp their priuie lodgings saying that they were the Kings faithfull seruants and keepers of the peace of the countrie when as to the contrary they rather ouerthrew and disquieted all peaceable gouernment and the whole countrey Here end the Monuments in the Countie of Hartford Essex West Ham. QVeene Mawd wife to king Henry the first passing ouer the riuer of Ley at Ouldford hardly escaped danger of drowning after which shee gaue order that a little beneath at Stretford there should be a bridge made ouer the water going ouer which towards West Ham I saw the remaines of a Monasterie pleasantly watered about with seuerall streames which William Montfichet a Lord of great name of the Norman race built in the yeare of our Lord 1140. The reuenues of this house were much augmented and confirmed by king Richard the second in the tenth yeare of his raigne as by his charter amongst the Records in the Tower appeareth Dedicated it was to the honour of Christ and Mary his blessed mother replenished with blacke Monkes And valued at the suppression to be worth 573. l. 15. s. 6 d. ob q. Diuers other beside the founder endowed this religious Structure Some of whose donations I finde to be confirmed by the said William Montfichet in this manner Willelmus de Montefixo omnibus prepositis ministris hominibus suis tam Francis quam Anglis Salutem Sciatis quod ego concedo et confirmo donationem quam fecerunt Ecclesie Sancte Marie de Ham Matheus Geron de tota terra sua de Cambridg cum pertinenciis absque omni servicio Geraldus de Hamma de vno prato per concessum Martini filia sui aliorum siliorum suorum Donationem etiam quam fecit ergo Capellanus meus â—ecime Dominii mei c. Quod si quis hominum meorum Elemosinam de terra facere voluerit quod de feodo meo sit non concedo vt alibi det nisi ad Abbatiam meam de Ham. Et insuper si quis hominum meorum quicquam beneficii deinceps eidem Ecclesie facere voluerit in terra prato vel quacanque re libere donet hec omnia que et ego concedo confirmo Abbatic Monachis de Ham â—â—perpetuum Precor igitur omnes homines meos vt islam meam Elemosinam manuteneant et conseruant Hiis testibus Margareta vxore mea Richardo de Poylei Humfrido filio Eustachii Willelmo filio Richardi Willelmo de Byron The Seale of this deed is in blouddy waxe The Baronie or habitation of this familie de Monte Fixo or Montfichet was Stansted in this County from whom the Towne is called Stansted Montfichet to this day They were reputed men of very great Nobilitie vntill that their ample inheritance was diuided among three Sisters One of which progenie namely Richard was in the raignes of king Iohn and Henry the third famous for his high prowesse and chiualrie Three the most forcible and valiant knights of England saith Stow in those dayes were Robert Fitz-water Robert Fitz Roger and Rich. Mont-Fichet Here lieth Iohn Hamerton Esquvr Sergeant at Armes to kyng Henry the eyght and of Edith his wife and Richard Hamerton his brother of the Parysh of Fedston in the County of Yorke Which Iohn and Richard fell both sicke in an houre and died both in one houre Ann. Dom. M. ccccc.xii on whose Sowles Iesu haue mercy Amen Hic iacet Henricus Ketleby quondam Serviens illustrissimi Principis Henrici filii metuendissimi Regis Hen. septimi qui obiit 8. die Augusti 1508. Hic sub pede iacet Margareta quondam vxor Iohannis Ketleby de Com. Wigorn. Armig. que obiit 10. die Iunii .... Of your cheritie prey for the sowles of Io. Eglesfeeld who died 13. of August 1504. and for the sowl of Edith his wyf Who died 22. of Iune 1533. Of your cherite prey for the soul of Walter Froste of West Ham Esquyr and Sewar to kyng Harry the eyght and of Anne his wyff doughter of ..... and widow of Richard Caly Merchant of the Staple of Calis Which Anne died the xxiii of October 1527. For the word Sewar saith Minshew I haue heard of an old French book containing the Officers of the king of Englands Court as it was anciently gouerned that he whom in Court we now call Sewar was called Asseour which commeth from the French Asseoir to set setle or place wherein his Office in setting downe the meate is well expressed Or Sewar saith he is deriued perhaps from the French word Esquire id est a Squire because he goeth before the meat as a Squire or Gentleman Vsher. The Fees allowed to this Officer in the raigne of Queene Elizabeth as I haue it out of a generall collection of all the Offices of England in her dayes was thirtie and three pounds thirteene shillings foure pence Orate pro anima Valentini Clerke Elisabethe vxoris eius qui quidem Valentinus obiit 6. die Iunii 1533. et dicta Elisabetha .... Waltham Stow. Here lyeth Sir Georg Monox knight somtym Lord Maior of London and Dame Ann his wyfe whych Sir Georg dyed ..... 1543. and Dame Ann 1500. This Lord Maior reedified the decayed Steeple of this Church and added thereunto the side Isle with the Chappell wherein he lieth entombed He founded here a faire Almeshouse in the Churchyard for an Almesse Priest and thirteene poore Almesse people which he endowed with competent reuenues He also made a cawsey of timber for foot Trauellers ouer the marshes from this Towne to Lock-bridge Ilford Hic iacet Thomas Heron filius heres Iohannis Heron militis Thesaurar Camere Domini Regis qui obiit in Alderbroke 18. Martii 1517. et Ann. Reg. Regis Henrici 8. nono The valiant Familie of the Herons or Heiruns in foregoing ages were the warlike possessors of very large reuenues in the County of Northumberland parcels of whose Baronie was Chipches Tower Swinborne and Foard Castles belonging now to the houses of the Woderingtons and Carrs Raynam Hic iacet Richardus Pasmer generosus quondam Scriba communis Thesauri pro Magistro et conventu Rhodi in Prioratu Sancti Iohannis Ierusalem in Anglia nec non Seneschallus Hospitii Sancti Iohannis tempore reuerendi Patris fratris Willelmi Tournay Prioris ac etiam Superuisoris omnium Maneriorum terrarum et tenementorum infra regnum Anglie ad Priorem dicti Prioratus pertinentium tempore presati Prioris ac tempore reuerendorum Patrum fratrum Io. Longstrother Io. Weston Io. Kendall .... obiit vii die Octob. Ann. Dom. M. ccccc Barking Here lyeth Rychard Cheyney and Ioane his wyf Whych Rychard dyed 1514. on whos ... Iohn Scot and Ioane his wyf ... 1519. Vnder the picture of a Ship sailing in the haven this Inscription Desiderata porta Inveni Portum spes et
are quite defaced I read in an old Manuscript thus much of the Baudes there buried and in other places sometimes Lords of the Towne and Patrons of the Church Anno Domini 1174. Sir Symon de Baud or Bauld Knight died in the holy land Anno 1189. Nich. Bauld Knight died in Gallicia in Spaine Anno 1216. Sir Walter Bauld died at Coringham Anno 1270. Sir William Bauld died at Coringham Anno 1310. Sir Walter Bauld died at Coringham Anno 1343. Sir William Bauld died at Coringham Anno 1346. Sir Iohn le Bauld died in Gascoigne Anno 1375. Sir William Bauld died at Hadham Parua Anno 1420. on the feast of Saint Bartholomew died Thomas Bauld or Bawde the first Esquire at little Hadham Anno 1449. Tho. Bawde the second Esquier died at little Hadham Anno 1500. Mens Iunij obijt Dominus Thomas Bawd miles obijt apud London cuius anime propitietur deus Anno 1550. obijt Iohannes Baud Ar. apud Coringham This ancient familie of the Bawdes Stow saith as he had read out of an ancient deed gaue vnto the Deane and Chapter of Pauls vpon the day of the conuersion of Saint Paul a good Doe and vpon the feast of the commemoration of Saint Paul a fat Bucke in consideration of twenty two Acres of land by them granted within their Mannor of Westley in Essex to be inclosed into their Parke of Coringham Sir William Baud about the third of Edward the first was the first that granted this deed which was confirmed by his sonne Walter and others of his line This Bucke and Doe were brought vpon the said festiuall daies at the houres of Procession and thorow the Procession to the high Altar the manner of it is reported by Stow who partly as he saith saw it thus On the feast day of the commemoration of Saint Paul the Bucke being brought vp to the steps of the high Altar in Pauls Church at the houre of Procession the Deane and Chapter being apparelled in Coapes and Vestments with Garlands of Roses on their heads they sent the body of the Bucke to baking and had the head fixed on a Pole borne before the Crosse in their Procession vntill they issued out of the West dore where the Keeper that brought it blowed the death of the Bucke and then the Horners that were about the Citie presently answered him in like manner For the which paines they had each man of the Deane and Chapter foure pence in money and their dinner and the Keeper that brought it was allowed during his abode there for that seruice meate drinke and lodging at the Deane and Chapters charges and fiue shillings in money at his going away together with a loafe of bread hauing the picture of Saint Paul vpon it c. There was belonging to the Church of Saint Paul for both the daies two speciall Sutes of Vestments the one embrodered with Buckes the other with Does both giuen by the said Bauds Baud is the surname saith Verstegan of a worshipfull familie in England and of a Marquesse in Germany anciently written Bade and the letter D vsed of our Ancestors in composition as th so the right name is Bathe and so this family might be tooke the name of some office belonging to the Bathe at the time of the Coronation of some King when as the Knights of the Bathe are wont to be made Ralegh Here is a monument in this Church which makes a shew of great antiquity but who should be therein entombed I could not certainly learne some of the Inhabitants say that one of the ancient house of the Alens other say that it was made for one of the familie of the Essexes who were Lords of this towne and noble Barons of England both before and since the Conquest Swein de Essex the sonne of Robert who was the sonne of Winmarke Baron of Ralegh built the ruined Castle in this towne in the raigne of Edward the Confessor whom the King calleth Brother in this his Charter to Ranulph Peperking Iche Edward Koning Haue geuen of my Forest the keping Of the hundred of Chelmer and Dancing To Randolph Peperking and to his kindling Wyth Heorte and Hynde Doe and Bocke Hare and Foxe Catt and Brocke Wylde fowel with his flocke Partrich Fesant hen and Fesant cocke With greene and wylde stob and stocke To kepen and to yemen by al her might Both by day and eke by night And hounds for to hold Good and swift and bolde Foure Greyhounds and sixe Racches For Hare and Foxe and wilde Cattes And therefore iche made him my booke Witnes the Bishop Wolston And booke ylered many on And Swein of Essex our brother And teken him many other And owr steward Howelin That by sought me for him This forme of Grants was vsed both before and after this Kings time for example I King Aâ—helstane geues to Paullane Odhiam and Rodhiam Al 's guid and al 's faire Al 's euyr yay myne waire And yarto witnes Mawd my wyff And William the Conquerour gaue certaine lands by the like deede to one Pauline Roydon the coppie whereof was found in the Registers Office at Glocester which I had from my deare deceased friend Aug. Vincent which is almost all one with that to the Norman Hunter collected by Iohn Stow out of an old Chronicle in the Librarie at Richmond I William Kyng the thurd yere of my reigne Geue to the Paulyn Roydon Hope and Hopetowne With all the bounds both vp and downe From heuen to yerth from yerth to hel For the and thyn ther to dwel As truly as this Kyng right is myn For a crossebow and an arrow When I sal com to hunt on Yarrow And in teken that this thing is sooth I bit the whyt wax with my tooth Befor Megg Mawd and Margery And my thurd Sonne Herry Such was the good meaning of great men in those daies that a few words did make a firme bargaine but to returne from whence I haue digressed Orate pro anima Wilielmi Talburgh quondam Rectoris istius Ecclesie qui obijt apud London in Parochia Sancti Petri apud Cornhil 5. Decemb. 1420. Es testis Christe quod non iacet hic lapis iste Corpus vt ornetur sed spiritus vt memoretur Hinc tu qui transis magnus medius puer an sis Pro me sunde preces quia sic mihi fit venie spes Orate pro anima venerabilis viri Richardi Lincolne Theologie professor is buius Ecclesie Rectoris qui obiit 29. Iulii 1492. Talis eris qui calce teris mea busta pedestris Qualis ego iaceo vermiculosus homo Orate pro anima Willelmi Sutton nuper Valecti corone domini Regis Iohanne vxoris eius qui ob 1428. Valetti saith learned Selden was vsed for young heires or young gentlemen or attendants And Valectus or Valettus to tell you once for all saith Camden was in those daies viz.
tempore Ed. 3. an honourable title as well in France as in England but afterward applied vnto Seruants and Groomes whereupon when the Gentrie reiected it by changing the name they began to be called Gentlemen of the Bedchamber Orate pro animabus Iohannis Barrington et l homasine vxoris eius qui quidem Iohannes obiit 8. die mens Nouemb. 1416. et Thomasina obiit 15. Septemb. 1420. Quorum animabus Ryding from Ralegh towards Rochford I happened to haue the good companie of a gentleman of this countrey who by the way shewed me a little hill which he called the Kings Hill and told me of a strange customarie Court of long continuance there yearely kept the next Wednesday after Michaelmas day in the night vpon the first cockcrowing without any kinde of light saue such as the heauens will affoard The Steward of the Court writes onely with coales and calleth all such as are bound to appeare with as low a voice as possiblie he may giuing no notice when he goeth to execute his office Howsoeuer he that giues not an answer is deeply amerced which seruile attendance said he was imposed at the first vpon certaine Tenants of diuers Mannors hereabouts for conspiring in this place at such an vnseasonable time to raise a commotion The title of the Entrie of the Court hee had in memory and writ it downe for me when we came to Rochford Thus it runnes in obscure barbarous rimes Curia de Domino Rege dicta sine Lege Tenta est ibidem per eiusdem consâ—etudinem Anteortum solis luceat nisi polus Seneschallus solus scribit nisi colis Clamat clam pro Rege in Curia sine lege Et qui non cito venerit citius penitebit Si venerit cum lumine errat in regimine Et dum sunt sine lumine capti sunt in crimine Curia sine cura iurata de iniuria Tenta die Mercurij prox post festum Sancti Michaelis Thus much haue I spoken of a Lawlesse Court for which I haue neither law nor reason For I am sure that this discourse is impertinent and quite from the subiect to which I haue tied my selfe to treat of Yet I hope these lines will not seeme much vnpleasing for my Reader to peruse when his minde is ouercharged with dull heauie and vncomfortable Epitaphs Rochford I am looking for some Monument or other in this Church to the memorie of some one of the Lords of ancient Nobilitie to which this Towne gaue the Surname of Rochford as now it giues the title of Viscount Rochford to that truly honourable and right worthie gentleman Henry Cary Lord Hunsden and Earle of Douer Pris pur Anne Snokeshall fille Iohn filol de Landmare qe gist ici Dieu de salme eit pite et mercy qe ob iour de Seynt Valentin â—an Iâ—su crist M. ccc.lxxxxvi Of your cherite prey for the sowl of Rose Crymvill wyf of Richard Crymvill Which Rose desesyd viii April M. cccccxxiiii on her sowl Iesu haue mercy Hic iacet Maria Dilcock que obiit xiiii die Decembris Ann. Dom. M. Vc. Cuius anime .... The Tower and the Steeple of this Church was built from the ground as the inhabitants by tradition affirme by Richard Lord Rich Baron of Leez and Chancellour of England A most prudent and iudicious Statesman a singular treasure and supporter of the kingdome who for his great good deserts receiued the office of Chancellour of England at the hands of King Edward the sixth Howsoeuer the Armes of the Butlers Earles of Ormond whose inheritance this Towne was in times past are cut in some places on the stone Robert Lord Rich and Earle of Warwicke lately deceased founded here sixe Almes houses for fiue poore impotent men and an aged woman But here let me conclude what I haue spoken of this towne with the words of Camden More inward saith he is Rochford placed that hath giuen name to this Hundred now it belongeth to the now Earles of Warwicke Barons Rich and in old time it had Lords of great nobility surnamed thereof whose inheritance came at length to Butler Earle of Ormond and Wiltshire and from them to Sir Thomas Bullen whom King Henry the eight created Viscount Rochford and afterward Earle of Wiltshire out of whose progenie sprung that most gratious Queene Elizabeth and the Barons of Hunsdon Pritlewell Swein de Essex before remembred built here a Priory for blacke Monkes which he dedicated to the blessed Virgine Mary Which was much augmented by others and holden to be a cell to the Priory of Lewes vntill the yeare 1518. when as a great contention arose betweene the two Houses insomuch that Iohn Prior de Pritlewel noluit soluere vnam Marcam Priori de Lewes nomine subiectionis This house was valued at the suppression to be worth 194 l. 14. s. 3. d. ob yearely Hic iacet Magister Iohannes Lucas Theologie Bacchalaureus quondam vicarius istius Ecclesie Parochialis qui ob 16. Ian. 1477. Cuius anime Prey for the sowl of Iohn Cock the younger and Margaret his wyff Whych Io. dyed ...... 1522. Her vndyr this Grauston lyth beryed Richard Bowrd ... Marchant of Callys .... dyed ... 1432. Vnder this inscription these words are engrauen in a trewe Loues knot Quod servaui perdidi quod expendi habui Quod donaui habui quod negaui perdidi Stangate Here sometime stood a small Priory built by the Predecessours of the Prior of Lewes about what time I cannot learne valued to bee yearely worth 43. l. 8. s. 6. d. Saint Osithes Whose ancient name was Chich now growne out of vse by reason of Osith the virgine of royall parentage who being wholly deuoted to the seruice of God was here stabbed to death by the Danish pyrates in the yeare 653 in the moneth of October And being by our Ancestours honoured for a Saint Richard de Beaveyes Bishop of London in her memoriall built here a religious house of Regular Chanons about the yeare 1120. in the raigne of King Henry the first His grant I haue read in the Records of the Tower beginning thus Richardus Dei gratia London Episcopus c. Salutem Sciatis quod ego dedi Ecclesie Sancte Osithe virginis de Ciz ecclesias de Sudemenestra et de Clachentona cum omnibus que ad illas pertinent c. King Henry confirmes and augments this donation by his Charter dated at Roan in the nineteenth yeare of his raigne And many others so added to the reuenues of this Monastery that at the time of the suppression it was valued at 758. pound fiue shillings eight pence This Bishop the founder was diuers times about to resigne his Bishopricke that he might become a regular Canon in this his owne new built Monasterie and that the rather because being taken with an irrecouerable Palsie he well knew his time to be
discourse in that exquisite History of Henry the seuenth penned by that learned and iudicious Statesman Sir Francis Bacon Viscount Saint Alban lately deceased The last Earle that I finde to be here entombed of ancient times is Iohn de Vere the fourth of that christian name Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbeck Samford and Scales Lord great Chamberlaine of England and Knight of the Garter he was commonly called little Iohn of Campes Castle Campes in Cambridgeshire being the ancient seate of the Veres where this Earle vsed much to reside He married Anne daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke and died without issue the 14 of July 1526. I finde in a booke of Dunmow in bib Cot. that Maud the wife of Iohn de Vere the seuenth Earle of Oxford lyeth here intombed shee was the daughter of Bartholomew Lord Badelismere Baron of Leedes in Kent and one of the heires of Giles Lord Badelismere her brother She was first married to Robert sonne of Robert Fitz-Paine She outliued her later husband some few yeares and died the 24. of May 1365. ... Coggeshall ....... Coggeshale ...... mil. .... M. ccc ..... For which of the name this broken inscription should be engrauen I cannot learne but I finde that these Coggeshals in foregoing ages were Gentlemen of exemplarie regard and knightly degree whose ancient habitation was in this Towne one of which familie was knighted by King Edward the third the same day that hee created Edward his eldest sonne Earle of Chester and Duke of Cornwall Anno 1336. Hic iacet Thomas Paycocke quondam Carnifex de Coggeshal qui obijt 21 Maij 1461. et Christiana vxor eius quorum animabus Prey for the sowl of Robert Paycock of Coggeshale cloth-maker for Elizabeth and Ioan his wyfs who died 21. Octob. 1520. on whos soul. Here lyeth Thomas Paycock cloth-worker Margaret and Ann his wyfs which Tho. died the 4. of September 1518. Orate pro anima Iohannis Paycock et Iohanne vxoris eius qui quidem Iohannes obijt 2 Aprilis 1533. The Creede in Latine is all curiously inlaid with brasse round about the Tombestone Credo in Deum patrem c. Orate pro animabus Iohannis Kebulet Isabelle et Iohanne vx eius Quorum c. About the verge of the stone in brasse a Pater noster inlaid Pater Noster qui es in celis sanctificetur nomen tuum and so to the end of the praier Vpon the middest of the marble this Aue Maria. Aue Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum Benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus sit fructus ventris tui Iesus Amen I haue not seene such rich monuments for so meane persons Orate pro anima Gulielmi Goldwyre et Isabelle et Christiane vxorum qui quidem Gulielmus obijt ... 1514. Mary Moder mayden clere Prey for me William Goldwyre And for me Isabel his wyf Lady for thy Ioyes fyf Hav mercy on Christian his second wyf Swete Iesu for thy wowndys fyf Here in this towne of Cogshal was sometime an Abbey built and endowed by King Stephen and Maud his Queene in the yeare 1140. the fift of his raigne according to the booke of Saint Austins in Canterbury Anno M. c. xl facta est Abbathia de Cogeshal a Rege Stephano et Matilde Regina qui primo fundauerunt Abbathiam de Furnesse Abbatiam de Longeleyrs et postea Abbathiam de Feuersham c. this house was dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary wherein were placed white Monkes â—luniackes the reuenues of which were valued to be yearely worth 298. l. 8. s. it was surrendred the 18. of March 29. Hen. 8. Adioyning to the Rode called Coccill-way which to this towne leadeth was lately found an arched Vault of bricke and therein a burning lampe of glasse couered with a Romane Tyle some 14 inches square and one Vrne with ashes and bones besides two sacrificing dishes of smooth and pollished red earth hauing the bottome of one of them with faire Romane letters inscribed COCCILLI M I may probably coniecture this to haue beene the sepulchrall monument of the Lord of this towne who liued about the time of Antoninus Pius as by the coyne there likewise found appeareth the affinitie betweene his and the now townes name being almost one and the same These remaine in the custody of that iudicious great Statesman Sir Richard Weston Knight Baron Weston of Nealand Lord Treasurer of England and of the most honourable Order of the Garter companion Who for his approued vertues and industrie both vnder father and sonne doth to the publique good fully answere the place and dignity Before these times in a place called Westfield three quarters of a mile distant from this towne and belonging to the Abbey there was found by touching of a plough a great brasen pot The ploughmen supposing to haue beene hid treasure sent for the Abbot of Cogeshall to see the taking vp of it and he going thither met with Sir Clement Harleston and desired him also to accompany him thither The mouth of the pot was closed with a white substance like past or clay as hard as burned bricke when that by force was remoued there was found within it another pot but that was of earth that being opened there was found in it a lesser pot of earth of the quantity of a gallon couered with a matter like Veluet and fastened at the mouth with a silke lace in it they found some whole bones and many pieces of small bones wrapped vp in fine silke of fresh colour which the Abbot tooke for the reliques of some Saints and laid vp in his Vestuary Bocking Dorewards So denominated of the Dorewardes sometimes Lords of this towne and Patrons of this fat Parsonage which is xxxv l x. s. in the Kings bookes as I am perswaded by relation and these Inscriptions vpon ancient Tombes Hic iacet Iohannes Doreward Armig. filius Willelmi Doreward mil .... qui obijt .... 1420. et Isabella vxor eius .... Hic iacet Iohannes Doreward Armiger qui obiit xxx die Ianuar. Anno Dom. Mil. cccc lxv et Blancha vxor eius que obiit ... die mens .... An Dom. Mil. cccc lx quorum animabus propitietur dens Amen Clauiger Ethereus nobis sis Ianitor almus Haulsteed The Lordship of Stansteed within this Parish was the ancient inheritance of the noble family of the Bourchiers in which they had a mansion house many of which surname lie here entombed to continue whose remembrance in the south side of the Quire is a Chappell which to this day is called Bowsers Chappell wherein they lie interred the inscriptions which were vpon their monuments are quite gone this one following excepted Hic iacet Bartholomeus quondam Dominus de Bourgchier qui obiit viii die mens Maii Anno Dom. M. cccc.ix et Margereta Sutton ac Idonea Louey vxores eius Quorum animabus propitietur Deu S. Amen Vnder another of these monuments lieth the
vestimentorum asperitate disciplinarum que assiduitate corpus suum extenuauit vt fere simul cum Iob sanctissimo pelli sue consumptis carnibus os suum adhereret Et hec talis tantaque sublata est et hec omnia simul Migrauit autem ad illum qui sibi fructuum decimas persolui voluit qui etiam Decalogum constituit mandatorum Miseremini igitur nostri miseremini nostri saltem vos amici nostri et vobis miseris compatiamini fluentes lacrimas per orationum suffragia desiccantes quia pium est saluberrimum pro defunctis exorare vt à peccatis solvantur Subuenite igitur benigni Monachi subuenite venerabiles Canonici vos sancte virgines in conspectu Altissimi preces bostias offerentes vt ipsius pie misercatur qui abstergit omnem lacrimam ab oculis Sanctorum quatenus que ei macule de terrenis contagijs adheserunt remissionis eius remedio deleantur Amen To this Supplication the religious of all houses answer in this forme Titulus Ecclesie Apostolorum Petri Pauli sancte Osithe Virginis Matris de Chich. Anima Domine Lucie Priorisse de Hengeham et anime omnium sidelium defunctorum per Dei miserecordiam requiescant in pace Amen Concedimus ei commune beneficium Ecclesie nostre Oranimus pro vestris orate pro nostris Some againe do answer thus Preter autem commune beneficium et orationes communes Ecclesie nostre concedimus ei ab vnoquoque Sacerdote vnam Missam inferioris ordinis vnum Psalterium et diem ipsius obitus in Martyrilogio nostro annotari fecimus All concluding euer with Oranimus pro vestris orate pro nostris Vnder the picture of the Crucifix the blessed Virgine and vpon her portraiture drawne vpon her Tombe these nicking nice allusiue verses were cut and engrauen Crux bona crux digna lignum super omnia ligna Me tibi consigna redimens a peste maligna Stella Maris candoris ebur speculum Paradysi Fons venie vite ianua Virgo vale Hec Virgo vite mitis super astra locatur Et sic Lucie lux sine fine datur Transijt ad superos venerabilis hec Monialis Vix succedit ei virtutum munere talis Luci lucie prece lux mediente Marie Luceat eterna quia floruit vt rosa verna Ad lucem Lucia venit sine fine manentem Et sic quem coluit patrem videt omnipotentem Tres tibi gemmate lucent Lucia coronâ— Insuper aurate dic lector qua rationâ— Mater virgo tamen Martir fuit ergo inu Amen Cernat ad examen districti Iudicis Amen Subueniant anime Lucie celica queque Ad quorum laudes dapsilis vrna fâ—it Sible Heueningham In this Parish Church sometime stood a Tombe arched ouer and engrauen to the likenesse of Hawkes flying in a wood which was raised to the remembrance of Sir Iohn Hawkewood knight borne in this village the sonne of Gilbert Hawkewood Tanner bound an apprentice to a Tailor in the Citie of London from whence he was prest in the seruice of King Edward the third in the warres of France Of whom for his admired valour he was honoured with the order of knighthood and in the like regard of his notable demerits Barnabie the warlicke brother of Galeasius Lord of Millaine father to Iohn the first Duke of Millaine gaue him his daughter Domnia in marriage by whom he had a sonne named Iohn borne in Italie made knight and naturalized in the seuenth yeare of King Hon. the fourth as I haue it out of a Manuscript in these words Iohannes silius Iohannis Haukewood Miles natus in partibus Italie factus indigena Ann. viii Hen. iiij mater eius nata in partibus transmarinis The Florentines in testimony of his surpassing valour and singular faithfull seruice to their state adorned him with the statue of a man of armes and a sumptuous Monument wherein his ashes remaine honoured at this present day The Italian writers both Historians and Poets resound his worthie acts with full mouth But for my part to vse M. Camdens words it may suffice to adde vnto the rest these foure verses of Iulius Feroldus Hawkwood Anglorum decus et decus addite genti Italicae Italico praesidiumque solo Vt tumuli quondam Florentia sic simulacri Virtutem Iouius donat honore tuam The glorie prime of Englishmen then of Italians bold O Hawkwood and to Italie a sure defensiue hold Thy vertue Florence honored sometime with costly Graue And Iouius adornes the same now with a Statue braue He died an aged man in the yeare of our redemption 1394. and in the eighteenth of King Richard the second His friends here in England who erected for him the foresaid Monument in this Church which were Robert Rokeden senior Robert Rokeden iunior and Iohn Coe founded here also for him a Chantrie and another in the Priorie of Heningham Castle to pray for his soule and the soules of Iohn Oliuer and Thomas Newenton Esquires his militarie companions Chesterford Here ly the bodyes of William Holden and Agnes his wyf whych William dyed ... 1532. on whos sowlys and al Christian sowlys ... Here ly William Holden and Katherin his wyf ...... 1524. This familie as I was told is now extinct here is an old ruinous house still remaining called Holdens Saffron Walden So called of the great plentie of Saffron growing in the fields round about the Towne a commoditie brought into England in the time of King Edward the third But I digresse and am quite off my Subiect being out of the Parish Church wherein Sir Thomas Audley knight of the Garter Baron Audley of this Towne sometime Sergeant at Law Attourney of the Duchie of Lancaster and Lord Chancellour of England lieth entombed with this seeli Epitaph The stroke of deaths ineuitable dart Hath now alas of life bereft the hart Of Sir Thomas Audley of the Garter knight Later Chancellor of England vnder our Prince of might Henry the eight worthie of high renowne And made by him Lord Audley of this Towne Obijt vltimo Aprilu Ann. Dom. 1544. Henrici 36. Cancelleriatus sui 13. aetatis 56. Haue mercy good Lord on the soul of Thomas Holden That hit may rest wyth God good neyghbors say Amen He gave the new Organs wheron hys name is set For bycause only yee shold not hym forget In yowr good preyers to God he took hys wey On thowsand fyve hundryd and eleuin in Nouembyr the fourth dey Hic iacet his stratus West Matheus tumulatus Qui fuit hic gratus vicarius ciueque natus M. Dominiter C .... terris sit remeatus Huic ...... existit propiciatus Of yowr cherite prey for the soulys of Ion Nichols Alys Ione Alys and Ione his wyfs Iohannes Pater Noster miserere nobis Alisia Fili redemptor mundi miserere nobis Ioanna Spiritus sancte miserere nobis Alisia Sancta
this Monasterie to which Hugh Nevill aforesaid gaue by his deed the Mannor of Thorndon in these words Omnibus ad quos c. Hugo de Nevil salutem Noveritis quod ego pro salute anime mee et Iohanne uxoris mee per consensum bonam voluntatem Iohannis filij mei et heredis concessi Ecclesie de Waltham in liberam Eleâ—mosinam totum manerium meum de Thorndon c. Robert Passelew before remembred was here likewise interred who was one of the Kings instruments for gathering vp money in which his office be vsed such rigor as multitudes of people were vtterlie vndone so vnsafe are priuate mens estates where Princes fall into great wants He was Archdeacon of Lewes and for his good seruice in this businesse Kings haue euer such seruants to expresse their pleasures in what course soeuer they take he should haue bin preferred to the Bishoprick of Chichester but the Bishops withstanding the King therein his election was disanuld in the yeare 1234. being with other called to a strict account for the Kings Treasure ill spent or worse employed he was constrained to take Sanctuarie and seeke odde corners for his safety yet afterwards an argument of the Kings lenitie he was receiued into grace and fauour at the length leauing the troubles which attend the Court hee liued priuately at his parsonage of Derham in Norfolke but died at his house here in Waltham vpon the sixt day of Iune in the yeare 1252. of whom will it please you heare Mathew Paris speake in his owne language Archidiaconus Lewensis Robertus Passeleue eodem quoque anno octauo Idus Iunij obijt apud Waltham de quo multa praescribuntur Hic Robertus Clericus et praelatus non est veritus Regi adhaerendo multos multiformiter depauperare vt Regem impinguaret Opera autem sua sequuntur eum In the Sun-shine of his fortune hee was flattered as all Kings Fauorites are by this allusion to his name Pass-le-eau as surpassing the pure water the most excellent element of all if you beleeue Pindar whereupon these verses were written not the worst in that age if you pardon a little improprietie Out of the collections of Camden Mss. in Bib. Cot. Robertus transgressor aquae nec enim quia transit Sed precellit aquam cognomine credo notari Est aqua lenis est aqua dulcis et est aqua clara Mulcens albiciens emundans omnia lenis Languenti dulcis gustanti clara videnti Tu praecellis aquam nam leni lenior es tu Dulci dulcior es tu clara clarior estu Mente quidem lenis re dulcis sanguine clarus In tribus his excellis aquam nam murmure lenis Est aqua tu mente gustu dulciflua tu re Limpiditate nitens tu sanguine quodlibet horum Est magis intensum procul in te quam sit in ipsa Here lyeth Ion and Ione Cressy On whos sowlys Iesu hav mercy Amen Of yowr cherite for vs and al Christian sowlys Say a Pater Noster and an Aue. On lyue when we wer God sent vs spase To yink on hym and of his grete grase For as we be both body and fase So both mor and less must be in lik case In piteous aray as now yow see It is no nay so sal ye be Your self mak mon or ye bin gon and prey for vs Wythout deley past is the dey we may not prey for yow it s thus Whylst yat yow mey both nyght and dey look yat yow prey Iesu of grase When ye bin gon help is ther non wherfor yink on Whylye hav spase Here stands a faire monument to the memory of Sir Edward Denny sonne of the right honourable Sir Antony Denny Counsellor of Estate and one of the executors of King Henry the eight and of Ioane Champernoun his wife of whom more hereafter This Monasterie is now one of the mansion houses of that honourable Lord Sir Edward Denny Knight Baron Denny of Waltham and Earle of Norwich I found since I writ the premisses that Edward the Confessour was the prime cause of this religious foundation for that he gaue to Harold certaine Lands here conditionally that hee should thereupon build a Monasterie and furnish it with all necessaries as appeares by his Charter of that donation amongst the Records in the Tower Ego Edwardus Dei dono Anglorum Rex c. Haraldo Comiti meo quandam terram antiquitus ab incolis istius loci Waltham nuncupatam cum omnibus ad se pertinentijs â—ampis pratis sylvis aquis c. sub conditione quod in prescripto loco Monasterium edificet in memoriam mei et conjugis mee Eadithe Et insuper ornet diversis Sanctorum martyrum et reliquijs et libris Anglicisque vestibus et alijs ornamentis congruentibus Ibique Catervulam quorundam Fratrum Canonice Regule subjectam constituet Plurimeque terre ut donentur in Monasterij illius extruendi usum et alimentum ipsius etiam Haraldi cure et fidei commisi c. Here he names the lands in particular which are many Et hec omnia saith he ad diluenda mea et Antecessorum meorum peccata collata sunt Quod si quis meorum successorum aliquam partem illius terre subtrahat vel subtrahi proinde requisitus emendare noluerit Ei Dominus justus judex Regnum pariter ac Coronam auferat c. Preterea volo et promitto quod omnia in Monasterij illius opem data vel danda sint semper libera et a Sherifs et a hundredis et extra Curiam sancte Crucis omnibus placitis Geldis c. Scriptum est autem istud privilegium Ann. Dominice incarnationis M.lxii Indictionibus terquinis Epactis Septembris concurrentibus Hijs testibus Ego Edwardus Anglorum Basileus confirmo et corrobero Ego Editha divini numine Christi Regina hec eadem confirmando testimonium do Ego Stigandus Archiepiscopus Dorobernens eadem affirmo Ego Ealdredus Ebor Archiepiscopus hec consollido cum multis alijs Episcopis et Abbatibus Horne-Church Named in times past saith M. Camden Cornutum Monasterium the Horned Minster for that there shoot out at the end of the Church certaine points of Lead fashioned like hotnes To the brethren de monte Iovis or Mountioy or Priory de cornuto by Hauering at the Bower saith Stow the house of Savoy in the Strand did sometime belong which Eleanor wife to King Henry the third purchased of the said Fraternitie or Brotherhood for her sonne Edmond Earle of Lancaster The inhabitants of this parish say by tradition that this Church was built by a female conuertite to expiate and make satisfaction for her former sinnes and that it was called Hore-Church at the first vntill by a certaine King but by what King they are vncertaine which came riding that way it was called The Horned-Church who caused those Hornes to be
put out at the East end of the same in remembrance of so remarkable a Foundation But to leaue these coniectures and returne to the Grauestones which I finde thus inscribed Hic iacet Henricus filius Domini Richardi Arundel militis qui obiit ..... 1412 anno etatis primo Cuius anime propitietur Deus I will borrow an Epitaph for this Infant which I reade in Rome in the Church bearing the title of S. Maria in Aracaeli Blandidulus nitidus dulcissimas vnicus Infans Matris delitia delitiaeque patris Hic tegitur raptus teneris Henricus in annis Vt Rosa quae subitis imbribus icta cadit Of yowr cheritie a Pater Noster and an Ave for the sowl of William Ailiff gentlman owner of the Mannowr of Bret-Howse who died 1517. Here lyeth Iulian Roche wyf of Sir William Roche Alderman of London who died .... 1526. and Elisabeth Roche wyf to Sir Iohn Roche sonne of William and dawghter of Sir William Forman knyght and Alderman ..... Sir William Roche here mentioned the sonne of Iohn Roche of Wixley in Yorkshire was Lord Maior of London in the yeare 1540. In which yeare saith Stow the Bible was openly read in English Here lyeth Katherin the dawghter of Sir William Powlet knyght wyf of William Fermor Clarke of the Crown Who died 26 May the second of Henry the eight Orate pro anima Tho. Seargile Armig. ... 1475. et pro anima Elisabethe vxoris eius Romford In the East window of the South Isle of this Church I finde these words vnder the pictures of Edward the Confessour and two pilgrims Iohannes per peregrinos misit Regi Edwardo ... the rest broken out with the glasse Vpon which words hangs an old Tale that at Hauering hereunto adioyning certaine Pilgrims came to King Edward the Confessour from Ierusalem and gaue him a ring which ring he had secretly before giuen to a poore man that asked his charitie in the name of God and Saint Iohn the Euanglist and that these Pilgrims gaue the said Edward notice of his owne death according to these old rimes Seynt Edward wiste of his dethe ex he hennes wende For Seynt Iohn the Euangeliste tokne to hym sende As men may in his Legend see els war And than to pour he delte his goode and made hymself y ar This Story is likewise wrought in the Hangings in the Quire of Westminster Abbey explayned by these verses following vnder the pourtraitures of Saint Iohn Euangelist and king Edward Vilibus in pannis mendicat ymago Iohannis Rex dat ei munus Donum fuit annulus vnus Annulus iste datus mittente Iohanne relatus Regi scire moram vite dat mortis et horam But enough of this and more perhaps then will be beleeued Now to the Funerall Monuments The mortall corses buryed here behold Of Avery Cornburgh and Beatrice his wyff Sqwire for the body in worschip manyfold With Henry and Edward kings in this lyff And vndertreasurer with king Henry the seuenth full blyff Till deth him raft the world as yow may se And of Master Iohn Crowland Doctor of Diuinitie Within this Church to sing perpetuell They stablysh a Doctor or Bacheler of Diuinitie Or a Master of Art for nede continuell Ten pound for his Salerie and chamber fee And thre pound more there as yow may se Yerlie xxs. the liuelode to repare For euery yere an Obit the residue is fare Of Preests xii and Clerks vi alsoo Six pens the Preest and fowr pens euery Clerk For brede chese and Ale in mony there must goo To poor folk xl.d. fulfilling this werk The Baylie and Wardens of this Church must herk To levy the lyvelode dispose and employ And ech of them yerly for their labour shall xl.d. enioy Moreouer this call to yowr remembrance anon That in the beadroll of vsage euery Sonday redd The sowls of this Avery Beatrice and Iohn Be prayed for in speciall se that owr will be spedd And that the Curate of this Church curtesly be ledd And for his labor have in reding of that Roll Forty pens to prey for them and euery Christian sowl The Chantrie Preest in this Church shall bynd him preching And in other when he is disposyd Soul helth to avans Namely at South Okendon Hornchurch Dagenham and Barking At euery of them twise a yere or moo to Goddys pleasans And at two times seuerall this is sufficians Forty days in the yere he shall haue to disport If his disposition require such comfort The Baylie and Wardens of the same town This chantre Preest shall puruay and prouyd Within six wekes by ther own election But aftyr such seyson if it shall betyd To stand lenger vacant thei shall it not hyd The Bishop of London and the Archdekon As is owr will for that on tym shall haue ther election But aftyr six wekes a moneth of vacation Not elet by them twein depriuyth ther liberte For then shall the King ha gift and nomination Namely for that on tym we will that so it be A chest in the Church with euidenses se Concerning the liuelode with Indenture tripartite Remeyning with the Bishop and Herres of Auery The third with the Wardens trowth to Annuity Now Iesu for thy bitter passion Reward the sowls with euerlasting blis Of them which caused this Foundation And of thy mercy let them neuer mis. And Virgin Mary shew thy grace in this Eternally that they may liue with the Amen Amen Amen for cherite It seemeth that this Tombe was made by himselfe in his life time and that he trusted to his Executors to set downe the yeare and day of his departure his wiues and Doctor Crowlands For the verge of the monument is thus inscribed making one date for all ...... yere of owr Lord 1480 .... and Beatrice his wyf which decessid the day of the yere of owr Lord God 1480 and of Maister Iohn Crowland .... who decessid the day of the yere of owr Lord God 1480. on whos souls Iesu haue mercy Vpon the same monument this Epitaph following is inlaid with brasse Her lyeth Elisabyth Hannys sister to Master Auery Cornburgh Sqwire Farwel my frendys the Tyde abydeth no man I am departyd fro hens and so sall ye But in my pasage the best song I can Is Requiem eternam now Iesu grant it me When I haue endyd all my auersite Grant me in Paradys to haue a mansion That shed thy blood for my redemption Isto sub lapide ...... Christâ— Taleworth .... qui migrauid ad dominum .... I know not what to make of this broken Inscription onely I finde that one Nicholas Taleworth held a Tenement in Hauering hereby by Seargeantie to giue the King a paire of Hare-skin gloues euery Christmas day pat 31. Ed. 3. Most glorious Trinity on God and persons thre Haue mercy on the sowlys of Richard Ballard and his wyf Margery Who 's
Ewes Dynastarum ditionis de Kessel in ducatu Gelriae oriundi Aliciae Rauenscroft coniugis suae viri singularis sub hoc marmore tumulati qui obiit die xii Aprilis Anno Domini CIâ—DXCI Vnico relicto sui ipsius Graciae Hind primae suae coniugis Filio haeredae Paulo D'Ewes Armigero qui duxit in vxorem Sissiliam Filiam vnicam Haeredem Richardi Simonds de Coxden in Pago Dorsetensi Armigeri vnicâ filiâ Aliciâ nupta Gulielmo Lathum de Vpmenster in Comitatu Essex Armigero Egregiâ natus Geerardt de stirpe propinquûm Gueldrorum hic foelix ossa regenda tegit Sciliceâ— invidia fatorum ipse ante sepultus Quam vitâ orbatus mors ita sacra quies Stémata namque Deus modo deprimit et modo Ne nobis coeli gaudia terra ferat Fundamenta tamen proli struxisse regaudec ditat PrimaevuÌ„ ut poterint coÌ„memorare DECVS Hinc proavos superans claros virtute ferendi Non fit ONVS sed erit posteritatis HONOS Arkesden Here lieth Anne the daughter and heire of Richard Fox and the wife of Thamas Langley Esquire ..... 1467. Orate pro anima Willi Cook generosi filij Thome Cook militis Elizabethe uxoris ejus qui obijt 1500. et Elizabetha 1503. Pray for the sowls of Thomas Alderton Stockfishmonger of London and Alis his wyff which Alis decessyd on Saint George his Eue 1513. This Inscription following is vpon the North Wall of this Church Thomas Alderton was a goodd benefactor to this Chirch as by his last Wil and Testament remeyning in this Chirch mor pleynly it doth appere He gave certeyne lands towards the sustentatyon of a Chantre Prest to sing at the Awter and to help devyn Servis at the sam on the Holiday He built this Isle from the north dor hitherto on whos sowl Iesu haue mercy Amen Stansted Mont-fichet The habitation in times past of the familie de Monte Fixo commonly Mont-fitchet whereupon the towne had that denomination In the Church lieth buried Roger of Lancaster who married Philip daughter and heire of Hugh de Bulbeck the second saith Norden and lieth crosse legged in an ancient tombe of white stone vpon which no inscription remaineth He was in her right Lord of Stansted the said mannor afterward came vnto Hugo de Playze by marriage of the yongest daughter of Richard Mont-fitchet of whom came Elizabeth Countesse of Oxford who was daughter to Iohn Howard knight by whom the land came to the Earle of Oxford South Church In this Church are some old Monuments of the Bruins which haue beene old inhabitants there and descended saith Norden as hee thinks from Iordan le Brune a knight Lord of Hacwell in Henry the thirds time Here is an old mannor wherein the old knights which surnamed themselues of the towne Chirche inhabited whereof one Sir Richard in Henry the thirds time was one of the kings Iustices for Gaole deliuery He gaue the greatest part of his land to Christs Church in Canterbury mooued thereunto for want of heires males Shopland In Shopland is an ancient mannor called Butlers of a race of knights and gentlemen that dwelt there and gaue three couered Cups as appeareth in the Church window there is one most beautifull Monument in the Church made to the memory of one Staple a Sergeant at Armes to King Ed. the third which gaue in his Shield a Salter mixt with Staples which in colours with other Scutcheons remaine in the North windowes His tombe is thus inscribed Tho. Stapel iadis Seriant d'armes nostre Seigneus le Roi qi morust le secunde iour de Mars l'an de Gras Mil. ccclxxi gist ici Dieu de s'alme eit mercy Amen Canewdon A great parish so called from King Canutus the Dane who kept his Court here unde Canuti domus The Mannor house hath beene double trenched and fensed after the oldest fashion In the same are other Mannors exceeding ancient as that of Clarendon Hall the old seat of the Chanceux many of them were knights as Sir Giles Chanceux in Edward the first his time many of them lie buryed in the Church with their Pictures Scutcheons and French Poesies all defaced Another Mannor called Breamstons or rather Beanstons honoured by knights descended of Bartholomew a yonger sonne to the Earle of Ewe in Normandy it hath beene inhabited by a knight or more of the name of Scot. Another Mannor called Apton Hall and another called Piuersey Hall whereof Sir Iohn Greyton was Lord in Edward the first his time One of the best called Lamberne Hall whereof one Lamberne vnder Swaine was Lord in the Conquest time and so continued till Richard the second at which time his daughter Thamasin carried all to Toteham and from thence to Barington and from thence to Lumsford a Squire of Sussex that being better planted in his natiue Country vseth this for a Farme as I thinke it was in Lambernes time So many Lordships in the parish haue caused so many of their owners to honour this Church with their Sepultures but to whose memory in particular any one of these monuments were erected cannot bee discerned they are all so shamefully abused Great Stanbridge Here was the inheritance and sepulture of a wariike crew of Knights called Tanye or Thanye one of which named Lucas Tanye a knight and an expert warriour at the taking of the Isle of Anglesey and Castle of Oxe in Wales was with Sir William Lindsey William de Audley Roger Clifford and twelue other of the Kings chiefest Captaines and Knights besides seuenteene young Gentlemen and two hundred common souldiers slaine by Dauid Lord of Denbigh brother to Lhewelin Prince of Wales and his band of fierce Welshmen in the tenth yeare of the raigne of King Edward the first This famous knight was Steward of Gascoyn Writle Hic iacet Thomasia filia et heres Tho. Heueningham iunioris Ar. filij heredis Tho. Heueningham senioris Ar. Tomasie consortis sue que quidem Thomasia dicta filia heres primo nupta suit Tho. Berdefield secundo Iohanni Bedel vltimo Waltero Thomas gen et obiit die Martis 21. Iunij 1513 et qui Tho. Heueningham senior Thomasia Consors eius ac Tho. Heueningham iunior iacent partem sub isto lapide partem magis directe coram imagine S. Trinitatis Quorum animabus propitietur Altissimus Here lieth Thomas Fige and Margaret his wife one of the two daughters and heires of Raffe Toppesfeld Esquire He deceased in April 1513. and had issue one sonne and two daughters Here lieth Iohane somtym wyff of William Wyborne daughter and heire of Thomas Hyde Who died .... 1487. Here lieth Iohn Pinchon Esquire who died .... with Ione his wyff daughter to Sir Richard Empson beheaded Of whom I haue spoken before Out of the collections of the right honourable Thomas Lord
iustly preuaile against the winde and easily cease these temporall flames and obtaine that they should neuer hurt him nor his See more of him before in Canterbury After the death of Mellitus the Church of London was long without a Pastor euen vntill that Segebert the sonne of Segebert surnamed the little obtaining the Kingdome of the East Saxons by the perswasion of Oswin King of Northumberland became a Christian and procured Ceada a vertuous and godly Priest to be consecrate Bishop of his country which was done in the holy Iland neere to Barwicke by Finan Bishop of Durham from whence he returned to this his Diocesse and began with more authoritie to perfect the worke hee had already begun erecting in diuers places Churches making Priests and Deacons who in preaching baptising might assist him especially in the Cities of Ithancester Tileburg the one standing vpon the Thames the other vpon a branch thereof called Pant in which two places diuers newly assembling together christened he instructed them after the rules of religious persons as farre as their tender capacity could then conceiue And hereby way of digression let me speake somewhat of this small hamlet of Tilbury in ancient time the seat of the Bishops of London and no question in those daies when as Bishop Cedda by baptisme ingraâ—ted the East Saxons in the Church of Christ a prettie faire citie howsoeuer it consisteth now onely of a few cottages much honoured by that famous religious and fortunate great Commander in the warres Sir Horace Vere Knight Lord Vere of Tilbury Of whom and of his elder brother Sir Francis Vere Knight deceased and honourably buried like as hee was an expert and valiant warriour in the Abbey of Westminster a late Poet hath thus written Then liu'd those valiant Veres both men of great command In our imployments long whose either Marshall hand Reacht at the highest wreath it from the top to get Which on the proudest head Fame yet had euer set But to returne this man of God Cedda hauing at first and last continued a long time in these countries preaching the word of life by which hee made a great haruest vnto Christ went downe into his owne countrie of Northumberland which he oftentimes vsed to visite where he builded a Monasterie at Lestinghen wherein he died and was buried of whom no more vntill I come to speake of that Foundation saue onely these verses following ....... Now London place doth take Which had those of whom time Saints worthily did make As Cedda Brother to that reuerend Bishop Chad At Lichfield in those times his famous seat that had Is Sainted for that See amongst our reuerend men From London though at length remoou'd to Lestingen A Monastery which then richly he had begun Erconwald the sonne of Offa King of the East Saxons and the fourth Bishop of this Diocesse was likewise as I haue already spoken canonized of whom venerable Bede thus writes At that time saith he when Sebba and Sigher ruled the East Saxons the Archbishop which was Theodore appointed ouer them Erconwald to be their Bishop in the Citie of London the life and conuersation of which man both before he was Bishop and after was reported and taken for most holy as also euen yet the signes and tokens of heauenly vertues and miracles doe well declare For vntill this day his Horse-licter being kept and reserued by his Schollers wherein he was wont to be carried when hee was sicke and weake doth daily cure such as haue agues or are diseased any otherwise And not onely the sicke persons that are put vnder or laid by the Horse-licter to be so healed but also the chippes and pieces that are cut off from it and brought to sicke folkes are wont to bring them speedie remedie This and many other the miracles wrought by him if wee may beleeue Capgraue was the cause of his canonization questionlesse he was a deuout and vertuous man and bestowed his patrimony in the building of two Monasteries one for Monkes at Chertsey in Surrey another for Nunnes at Barking in Essex of which before Thus much then here for a conclusion as followeth Him Erkenwald ensues th' East English Offa's sonne His Fathers Kingly Court who for a Crosiar fled Whose workes such fame him wonne for holinesse that dead Time him enshrin'd in Pauls the mother of that See Which with reuenues large and priuiledges he Had wondrously endow'd to goodnesse so affected That he those Abbeyes great from his owne power erected At Chertsey neere to Thames and Barking famous long Theodred Bishop of the Diocesse may challenge a place in this my Kalender for that he was sirnamed the Good pro praerogatiua virtutum for the preheminence of his vertues saith Malmesbury lib. 2. de Pontif. Anglor he flourished about the yeare 900. he was buried vnder a high tombe by the window of the vault going downe into S. Faiths Church Of Egwulfe and his Shrine I haue already written all that I know Richard Fitz-neale had his Shrine in S. Pauls Church but vpon what ground or for what reason he was thus much honoured I doe not learne He was the sonne of Nigellus or Neale Bishop of Ely and was made Treasurer of England by the purchase of his father the foresaid Nigellus Richardus filius Nigelli Episcopi Eliens pro quo Nigellus pater emit officium Thesaurij a Rege auaro pro Quadragint Marcis pro quibus pecunijs Nigellus pater spoliauit Ecclesiam Eliens Thesauro suo et ornamentis This purchase was made when as the King Henry the second went to the wars of Tolous It is further written in the booke of Ely that this Richard Fitz-neale after the buriall of Nigellus his father being also an enemy to the Church of Ely as his father had beene before made hast to passe ouer the Seas to King Henry the second fearing that some euill would be prepared against him if the Church should haue sent any thither before him At whose comming to the King he accused the Monkes of Ely of many things and did therewith so edge the King against them that the King sending into England charged by Wunnecus one of his Chaplaines that the Prior of Ely should be deposed and the Monkes with all their goods to be proscribed and banished This man being Treasurer to King Henry the second the treasure of the said Henry the second at his death came vnto one hundred thousand markes notwithstanding the excessiue charges of the King many waies This Richard being Bishop of London by the name of Richard the third and the Kings Treasurer was chosen for the gouernement of this See in the yeare of our redemption one thousand one hundred eighty and nine being the first yeare of King Richard the first and was consecrated Bishop at Lambeth by Baldwine Archbishop of Canterbury in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred ninety he died the
ville Quorum animabus obijt ille ...... Hic iacet Dominus Robertus Wingfeeld miles et Elisabetha vxor eius qui quidem Robertus obijt tertio die Maij 1409. Quorum animabus propitietur Altissimus Waldingfield magna ...... Iohn Appulton of Waldingfeeld magna ..... ob anno 14. of Hen. 4. 1416. Three Aples Gules leaues and stalkes vert Orate pro animabus Iohannis Appulton et Margarete vnxoris eius quidem Iohannes obijt 9. die Aprilis Anno Domini 1481. et predicta Margareta obijt 4. die Iulij Anno Dom. 1468. quorum ..... Orate pro anima Thome Appulton de Waldingfeeld magna qui Thomas ab hoc luce migrauit 4. die Octob. ann Dom. 1507. Orate pro anima Margerie Appulton que obijt 4. die Nouemb anno Dom. 1504. Cuius anime propitietur altissimus Amen Orate pro animabus Roberti Appulton generosi et Marie vxoris eius qui quidem Robertus obiit 27. Augusti 1526. Quorum ..... Amen Barton magna Hic iacet corpus Alicie Harpley quondam vxoris Ricardi Harpley ...... que quidem Alicia .... Hic .... Cotton ..... Of these Cottons I haue read as followeth The ancient seat of the Cottons in Cambridgeshire is Lanwade Hall many descents were higher and before the father to the elder Sir Iohn Cotton knight who died neare the beginning of Queene Elisabeth This Sir Iohn being the elder had three brothers whereof Edmund Cotton was the third from Sir Iohn aforesaid and sisters they had c. This elder Sir Iohn Cotton had one sonne called by his fathers name sir Iohn Cotton Knight who dying in the time of King Iames left to inherite his estate one onely Sonne begotten of his wife Anne eldest daughter of sir Richard Hoghton of Hoghton Tower in the county of Lancaster Knight and Baronet now in being whose name is likewise Iohn Edmund Cotton the third brother aforesaid married Ela Coniers the daughter and heyre of Iohn Coaniers the onely sonne of Robert Coniers Knight of neere allyance to the Lord Coniers of Hornby Castell in Richmondshire who liued in the seuerall raignes of Ed. 2. and Ed. 3. A sister of the forenamed Robert Coniers Knight was married in that time to Sir Richard Harpley knight now lieth interred in the Chancell of Barton magna vnder a monument inscribed as before Hic iacet corpus Alicie c. Edmund Cotton aforesaid by Ela his wife had diuers children George was his eldest sonne and Audery a daughter of his vailed her selfe a Nunne George had issue many children and Edmund was his eldest sonne and heire Edmund Cotton in like manner had issue diuers sonnes and daughters and his eldest sonne and heire is Edmund Cotton now in being The ancient seat left vnto him amongst other lands was called by the name of Coniers alias Necton Hall in Bramble Barton alias Barton magna iuxta Bury S. Edmonds Debenham Here lyeth Iohn Farmingham who died .... 1424. and Margaret his wife Robert Cheake and Rose his wife George Neuill and ... his wife Iohn Neuill Iohn Cheake who died 1490. Babewell Here sometimes stood a Monasterie of Grey Friers first founded by master Adam de Lincolne who gaue the Foundership to the honour of Clare Here lay buried Sir Walter Trumpinton and Dame Anne his wife Nicholas Drury and Iane his wife which died the seuenth of MArch in the seuenth yeare of King Richard the second Margaret Peyton Blithborrow This little Towne is memorable for that Anna King of the East Angles together with his eldest sonne and heire apparent Ferminus were here buried both slaine in a bloudie fierce battaile by Penda the Mercian King a Pagan of which my old Manuscript Penda anone his hoste withe hym he led And on Anna came fyrst with mykle pryde Kynge of Este Englonde whos dowter Egfryde wed And slew him Anna was a man of great vertue and the father of a blessed issue saith Bede which were many and those of great holinesse and sanctitie of life First Ferminus slaine in the same battaile with his father as I haue said before here buried but afterwards remoued to S. Edmundsbury His other sonne was Erkenwald Abbot of Chertseie and Bishop of London of whom before His daughters were these Etheldred the eldest was first married vnto a Noble man whom Bede nameth Tombert Gouernour of the Fenny Countries of Norfolke Huntington Lincolne and Cambridge shires And after his death remaining a virgin she was married to Egfrid King of Northumberland with whom likewise she liued in perfect virginitie the space of twelue yeares notwithstanding his entreaty and allurements to the contrary From whom lastly she was released and had licence to depart his Court vnto the Abbey of Coldingham where first shee was vailed a Nunne vnder Abbesse Ebba and thence departing she liued at Ely and became her selfe Abbesse thereof wherein lastly she died and was interred remembred vnto posterities by the name of S. Audrie of whom more hereafter His second daughter was Sexburgh who married Ercombert King of Kent vnto whom she bare two sons and two daughters after whose death she tooke the habit of a Nunne and succeeded her Sister Etheldrid Abbesse of Ely wherein she died and was interred And their yongest sister Withgith was likewise a Menchion with them in the same monastery and all of them canonized for Saints Ethilburghe his third daughter was made Abbesse of Berking in Essex built by her brother Bishop Erkinwald wherein she liued and lastly died as I haue said before A naturall daughter likewise he had whose name was Edelburgh that with Sedrido the daughter of his wife were both of them professed Nuns and succeeded each other Abbesses in the Monastery of S. Brigges in France Such a reputed holinesse was it held in those daies not onely to be separated from the accompanying with men but also to abandon the countrie of their natiuity and as strangers in forraine lands to spend the continuance of their liues Orate pro anima VVillelmi Colet quâ—ndam Mercatoris de Blyburgh siue istius ville qui obijt 16 die Ianuar. An. Domini 1503. Cuius anima per gratiam Dei requiescat in pace Amen Orate pro anima Iohanne Baret nuper vxoris Iohannis Baret qui obijt xiiii die Ianuarij anno M.D.xx. ... Orate pro anima Iohanne Ranyngham quondam vxoris Iohannis Ranyngham qui obijt quarto die mensis Maii anno M.D ..... cuius anime propitietur Deus Orate pro anima Iohannis Ranyngham alias Loman qui obiit xi die mensis Decembris anno Domini M. cccc lxxxxiiii Orate pro animabus Simonis Todyng et Iohanne vxoris eius qui quidem Iohannes obiit xx die Decemb. anno Domini M. cccc.lxxxxii Quorum .... In gratia et miserecordia Dei hic iacet Rogerus Boreham qui obiit xxvii die Nouembris anno Domini M.
set to ouersee And to appease to guide and to agree All difference in that place and whatsoere He setteth downe from iustice cannot erre This my ingenious Author doth vayle vnder the Clocke the teaching part of the militant Church which consists of the Clergie Vnder the Diall the written word and vnder the Weathercocke the Pope of Rome Saint Peters in Norwich Of mistrys Ann Flints soul Iesu mercy haue Whych was the Dowter of Willyam London Who 's body died and was beryed her in yis graue The xi dey of Iun by recourse and computatyon XV.C. and xxix yer of our Lordys incarnatyon And to al yem yat for her thus do pray Iesus grant yem Heuyn at ther dethys day Here be diuers Funerall Monuments of the Osbornes for whom I haue not any Inscription Elisabeth sponsa Willelmi Elys generosi In qua forma decor virtus floruit isto Marmore clausa iacet et eam lux septima Marci E medio tulit anno Christi mil. quater et C I simul V. ter et X requies cui sit fine fine Orate pro anima Iohannis Mers Auditoris Episcopi Lincoln et pro quibus idem Iohannes nece tenetur orare ..... anno Domini M. ccccc.vii Prudens Mercator et nobilis istius vrbis Ter Maior Thomas Elys hic iacet et sua sponsa Margareta simul .... viginti Coniugio soboles et sic in honore per annos Quatuor et quinquagenos vixere salutis Anno Milleno Quadringeno decas octo Septeno quinta Septembris luce sic ipse Decessit requies et lux sit vtrique perhennis Here lieth Henry Wylton sumtym Alderman of this Citte And Margaret my wyff whech leuid in this ward in felicite And now lyue here vndyr thir marbyll ston in mortalite Wherfor we prey you of your Cherite That yow will prey for vs that we may Cum to liue in ward celestiall with a Pater noster and an Aue. obijt Henricus xii Decemb .... M. ccccc.vij Margareta ... M. ccccc Aylmer Ricardus procerum de stipite natus Is quondam Maior vrbis iacet hic tumulatus Natis ... suis ... consorte Iohanna Moribus ornatus bonis omnibus atque benignus Anno milleno D. bino cum duodeno Idus Septembris trino migrauit ab orbe O bone Criste Iesu fons vite spes medicine Votis inclina te quesumus aure benigna Vt sibi sit requies celo viuat sine fine Here is a stately Funerall Monument erected to the memory of Francis Windham from his middle in his Iudges robes with a blacke cap on his head his right hand leaning on a deaths head and in the left hand a booke within an Arche supported vp with pillers or pillasters ouer his head his cote and Crest on the top of the Arch. I finde no Inscription Orate pro anima Iohanne London filie Willelmi London Armigeri .... cuius anime ... Of your cherite pray for the soul of Izod Read late wyffe of Edward Read Alderman of this Citty of Norwich which died the xiii of September in the yere of our Lord M. ccccc xxiiii on whos soul Iesus haue mercy In the south I le of this Church is a monument for the continuall remembrance of that valiant Souldier and Commander Peter Read who was knighted by Charles the fift Emperour at the winning of Tunis in the yeare of our Lord God 1538. as appeares by this Inscription following vpon his Tombe Here vnder lieth the corps of Peter Read Esquire who hath worthily serued not onely his Prince and Country but also the Emperour Charles the fift both at the conquest of Barbary and at the siege of Tunis as also in other places who had giuen him by the said Emperour for his valiant deeds the Order of Barbary who died the 29 day of December 1566. Saint George Norwich Her arr buryed vndyr this ston Thomas Sheff and his wyff Marion Somtym wee warr as yee now bee And as wee arr so be schall yee Wherfore of your cherite Prey for vs to the Trinite ... obijt M. ccc.lxxxxiij Saint Michael of Gosney Norwich Non princeps pacis Ion Pryns sed presbiteratus Approbat hoc satis quia nunc iacet hic tumulatus Hunc clausit terna lux prima menseque dena Anno milleno C quater totque ad et X quoque bino Altari summo tabulam prebet ex Alabastro De precio magno cupiens laus hinc fore Christo. Occidui parte fenestram fecit honeste Ordinis Angelici nec non ter nomine trini As I am so sall yee all be Prey for Margery Hore of cherite Now heare a word or two of the name Hore I finde saith Verstegan this anciently written Hure and I finde Hure to bee also vsed and written for the word hire and because that such incontinent women doe commonly let their bodies to hire this name was therefore aptly applied vnto them It is in the Netherlands written Hoer but pronounced Hoor as wee yet pronounce it though in our later English Ortography I know not with reason some write it Whore I finde many of this sirname of good note and speciall regard in many places of this kingdome Pray for the Sowl of Robart Thorp gentilman Citezen and Alderman of Norwich founder of this Chappyll and I le with a Chantrie Prest hee to sing perpetually for the Sowl of Robart Thorp the Sowls of Elyzabeth Emme and Agnes Sowls his wyffs the Sowl of Iohn Thorp his kindryd Sowls frends Sowls and al cristen Sowls The which Robart ... th ... yer M. cccc ... Good Frendys pray for Thomas Warnys here the second Chantry Prest who departed this world on Saint Michaels Euyn M. ccccc.viii Saint Lawrence Norwich Sis testis criste quod non iacet hic lapis iste Corpus vt ornetur sed spiritus vt memoretur Queris quisiacet hic Iohn Asker marmore strictus Sit precor hic illic vbi semper sit benedictus Quondam Brugensis fuerat mercator onustus Post Norwicensis Maior moderamine iustus Hunc â—ulit a â—erris Febru penultima mensis Anno milleno C. quater ter x. quoque seno 〈◊〉 his vpon the same marble inlaid with brasse Qui me conspicitis pro certo scire potestis Quod sum vos critis olim fueram velut estis Vt metear veniam precibus me queso iuuetis Ad vos non veniam sed vos ad me vinietis Parce meis Domine delictis vel miserere Ne possim flere sed letari sine fine Da requiem cunctis Deus vbicunque sepultis Vt sinâ— in requie propter tua vulnera quinque Here lieth buried also Robert Asker Merchant who died Anno 1420. Religious Houses in and about the Citie of Norwich 〈◊〉 Hospitall dedicated to Saint Giles valued at the suppression at foure 〈◊〉 and ten pounds
1421. Frater Robertus Rose obijt 16. Decemb. 1420. This Carmelite was Doctor of Diuinitie in Oxford of whom that Vniuersitie had such an opinion for his learning that they honoured him with the title of supreme Master He writ much yet neuer offended the VVickleuists he liued long and enricht his Monastery many as well in estate as with diuers kindes of Sciences Frater Iohannes Thorpe Doctor ingeniosus obijt 12 Augusti 1440. This Thorpe writ many bookes as well Diuine as humane but for one he was most remarkable which he entituled The Laborinth of Logicke wherein he shewed so exquisitely the subtle Elenchs of that Art that thereby he gained the surname of Ingenious Doctor Which with his Epitaph was engrauen vpon his Tombe Frater Henricus Wychingham obijt 14. Marcij 1447. Frater Iohannes Kynynghale Prior Prouincialis Anglie obijt 28. Aprilis 1451. Frater Iohannes Tauerham obiit 19. Septemb. 1451. Frater Petrus de Sancta fide 8. die Nouemb. 1452. Frater Nicolaus Grey obiit 7. Aprilis 1458. Frater Adam Berton Frater Galfridus Bee obiit 13. Octobris 1492. Frater Thomas Martirxet obiit 18. Iunii 1508. Frater Robertus Loue Prior Prouincialis Anglie 1517. Frater Willelmus Wroxham obiit in Conventu Calisie 23. Augusti 1383. Frater Willelmus Raymund obiit 1. Augusti 1386. Frater Henricus Mylebam Frater Ricardus Water obiit 5. Marcii 1485. Frater Willelmus Worsted obiit 11 Septemb. 1494. Frater Thomas Penyman Frater Iohannes VVhytyng obiit 24. Iunii 1524 Frater Symon Pykerynge obiit 24. Februar 1525. Frater Robertus Browne 1525. Domina Emma Carmelita reclusa Soror in Religione obijt 2. Decemb. 1422. Frater Hugo de Vuedale miles ante ingressum ordinis obijt 10. Aprilis 1390. Frater Willelmus Crongethorpe miles ante ingressum ordinis obijt 12. Aprilis 1332. Frater Philippus Cowgate magnus Mercator primus Fundator Conventus ante ingressum ordinis obijt 23. Aprilis 1283. In the yeares 1348. from the first of Ianuary to theÌ„ first of Iuly there died in this Citie of Norwich fifty seuen thousand one hundred and foure persons besides religious Votaries Whereupon the Prior and Couent of this house deuised a Prayer for the deliuerance of certaine Carmelites out of Purgatory which died in that contagious sicknesse as followeth Deus immense bonitatis ac sempiterne clementie pietatis affectu pro alijs rogare cogimar qui pro nostris peccatis nequaquam sufficimus confisi tamen de tua gratuita benignitate humiliter deprecamur vt per meritum passionis vnigenitiatque dilecti filij tui Iesu Christi per merita piissime matris eius ac omnium Sanctorum atque Sanctarum animas Fratrum nostrorum omnium fidelium defunctorum a penis liberare digneris qui liberasti tres pueros de Camino ignis ardentis et de manu Regis iniqui Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Now here to make an end of the Funerall Monuments which I finde in this famous Citie as also to take my leaue of the same may it please you runne ouer these verses of Iohn Ionston a Scottish Britan penned in the praise of the foresaid Citie of Norwich Vrbs speciosa situ nitidis pulcherrima tectis Grata peregrinis delitiosa suis. Bellorum sedes trepido turbante tumultu Tristia Neustriaco sub duce damna tulit Victis dissidijs postquam caput ardua coelo Extulit immensis creuit opima opibus Cultus vincit opes et cultum gratia rerum Quam benè si luxus non comitetur opes Omnia sic adeò sola haec sibi sufficit vt si Fo rs regno desit haec caput esse queat Thus translated by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke A Citie seated daintily most faire built she is knowne Pleasing and kinde to strangers all delightfull to her owne The seat of war whiles ciuill stirs and tumults yet remaind In William the Normans daies she grieuous losse sustaind These broiles and iars once past her head aloft againe She bare in richnesse infinite and wealth she grew amaine Her port exceeds that wealth and things all superfine this port How happy were it if excesse with such wealth did not sort So alsufficient in her selfe and so compleate is she That if neede were of all the Realme the Mistresse she might be Attilborrough The Booke of Woodbridge saith that Sir William Mortimer Knight Lord of this Mannor here founded a Chappell of the holy Crosse who died on Tuesday the 12 of Nouember 1297. and was buried in this his owne Chappell others say that Sir Robert Mortimer and Margery his wife were the founders of a Colledge here which they likewise consecrated to the honour of the holy Crosse valued in the Kings bookes at twenty one pounds sixteene shillings halfe pennie Burials in the Chappell of this Colledge were as followeth Sir William Mortimer as before Sir Robert Mortimer who died at Attilburgh the 25 of September 1387. Sir Thomas Mortimer Mary Falstalph who was wife to Sir Thomas Mortimer who died the second of May 1406. Sibill Mortimer died the 9 of Nouember 1334. Margery Falstalphe daughter of ... died 24. of October 1341. Constantine Mortimer Father to Constantine who died 12 Nouember 1334. Sir Iohn Radcliffe knight of the Garter in the raigne of Henry the sixt Roger his brother and Philip his wife Thomas Brampton Robert Wetnall Alice Warner Elisabeth wife of Thomas Garret Esquire Of this Village and the foundation of the Colledge thus Camden writes Attilborrough saith he the seat of the Mortimers an ancient family who being different from those of Wigmore bare for their Armes a shield Or Seme de floures de Lyz Sables and founded here a Collegiat Church where there is little now to be seene the Inheritance of these Mortimâ—rs hath by marriage long since accrued to the Radcliffes now Earles of Sussex to the Familie of Fitz-Ralph and to Sir Ralph Bigot it is the inheritance at this day of Sir Alexander Radcliffe of Ordsall in the County of Lancaster knight of the Bath Windham William d Albiny Butler to King Henry the first founded here a Priory of which thus much out of his Charter as followeth Notum sit c. quod Ego Willelmus de Albenâ—yo Pincerna Domini Regis Henrici primido concedo c. Priori et conuentui de Wymundeham in liberam puram et perpetuam eleemosinam pro salute anime mee et vxoris mee patris mei matris mee et omnium parentum meorum totam Ecclesiam de Wymundeham cum omnibus pertinencijs c. Test. Rog. Bygoth et filij eius c. He endowed this his religious edifice with faire possessions consecrated it to the blessed Virgin Mary placed blacke Monkes therein and gaue it to the Abbey of Saint Albans for a Cell it was valued in the Exchequer to be yearely worth seuentie two pounds fiue shillings foure pence
released to the Monkes of Castell-acre the lands granted by his Ancestours in the three and thirtieth of King Henry the third and of his owne good will to the increasing of it he gaue the Sand pits and for the confirmation of the same grant he put to the Seale of his armes hanging at the parchment by a silke string which manner of sealing was vsuall in those dayes Castell-acre In the raigne of King William Rufus William Warren the second Earle of Surrey founded here a Monastery of blacke Monkes Cluniakes to the honour of God and our blessed Lady Saint Mary of Acre and the holy Apostles Peter and Paul and for the Monkes of Saint Pancrace there seruing Which Abbey afterwards his sonne and his sonnes sonne both named Williams and Earles of Surrey confirmed ratified and augmented Witnesses to the first Charter Will. Braunch Waukelin de Rosew Robert de Mortuo mare or Mortimer c. To the second Charter Raph de Pauliaco c. To the third William Bishop of Norwich who dedicated the Church and many others Of which Charters take a little touch out of authenticall Records 〈…〉 am presentibus quam futuris quod ego Willelmus comes de 〈…〉 pro salute anime mee et patris mei et matris mee et heredum meâ—â—â— dedi et presenti Charta confirmaui deo et Sancte Marie de Acra et Moâ—â—â—â—is ibidem Deo seruientibus Ecclesiam de Acra Nouerint c. concedo Deo et sancte Marie de Acra et sanctis Apostolis Peâ—â—o et Paulo et Monachis de sancto Pancratio ibidem deo seruientibus in ipsa Accra duas carucatas terre quas eidem Ecclesie pater meus et mater mea dederunt c. Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Willelmus c. quando feci dedicare Ecclesiam Sancte Marie de Acra dedi Monachis ibidem c. omnes donatioâ—es quas antecessores mei scilicet Auus meus et pater meus et Barones sui eidem Ecclesie dederunt c. et duas solidatas terre c. Hijs Tesâ—ibus Will. Norwicen Episcopo qui eandem Ecclesiam dedicauit c. This foundation was valued at the suppression at three hundred twenty foure pounds seuenteene shillings fiue pence halfe penny qua surrendred the 2â— of Nouember 29 Hen. 8. West-acre Radulphe de Torneio founded the Monastery of Canons in Westacre which did professe to lead a godly life after the example of the Apostles as 〈◊〉 mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles where it is said that the number of â—heâ—â—hat did beleeue were all of one heart and one minde and none of them said that any thing which he had was his owne but they had all things in common and because as in the Charter of his gift he declareth that the holy Fathers did call this the canonicall rule affirming that whosoeuer did leade such a life was thereby made a companion and Citizen with the Apostles Therefore hee pronounceth in his said Charter that whosoeuer did infringe this his donation or alter or change it into Monkes or into any other Order or Rule should be held accursed c. Oliuet Sacerdos de Acra Galterusque suus filius cum magna sanctitate 〈◊〉 Wâ—slacram huic canonice norme cum omnibus â—uis rebus se tradiderunt 〈◊〉 territorio Radulphi de Torneio Ego Radulphus de Torneio cum vxore mea Aclit omnibus que meis pueris Rogerio Radulpho pro nobis et animabus anâ—â—cessorum nostrorum concedimus et confirmamus Ecclesie omnium Sanctorum de Acra et Oliueti Sacerdoti et Gualterio suo filio omnibus canonicis ibi manenâ—ibus suisque posteris deo ibidem seruientibus Feodum quod Oliuet Saceâ—dos sub me tenuit c. Huius confirmationis sunt testes Gislebertus Blondus Willel de Portis Willel de Lira Rogerus Gros. Galterus Capellanus c. The valuation of this religious structure at the suppression was three hundred eight pounds nineteene shillings eleuen pence halfe penny qua Catton Pray for the soul of Iohn Bronde and Agnes his wyffe which Iohn dyeâ— 26 Ianuary 1542. Orate pro anima Agnet is Wrongey .... Reuerendus in Christo Pater Robertus Bronde Prior Norwicen Ecclesie me vitriari fecit anno Christi 1538. Frettenham or Frekenham Hic iacet Margareta filia Iohannes White filij secundi Iohannis White militis vxor Egidij Seyntlowe aâ—mig domini de Mayston filij Alicie filie et heredis Roberti Burnham de Lynne et vxoris Iohannis White secundi predicti Que obijt in vigilia Natalis Domini anno Dom. M.D.xxxii O Crist Iesu pity and mercy haue On Alis Burnham that whylom was the wyff Of Gyles Thorndon which lyeth here in graue And her defend from wars of Fendish stryff Make her pertaker of eternall lyff By the merits of thy passioun Whych with thy blood madest our redemptioun Snitterton or Snisterton Orate pro anima Iohannis Bokenham Armigeri nuper filij Hugonis Bokenham de Lyuermer magna nec non Nepotis et heredis Edmundi Bokenham de Snisterton qui obijt xv die Mensis octobris anno Domini M. cccc.lxxxiiii et pro animabus Anne et Iohanne .... quorum animabus .... Orate pro anima Georgij Bokenham armigeri de Snisterton filii et heredis Iohannis Bokenham qui obiit xxi die octobris anno M.D.xxiii Cuius anime ... Ingham or Hyngham Vnder a faire Tombe of free-stone very curiously wrought lieth the body of Sir Oliuer Ingham with his resemblance in his coate Armour his belt gilt spurs and the blew Garter about his leg his Creast the Owle out of the Iuie bush with a crowne on the head thereof He being a great trauailer lyeth vpon a Rocke beholding the Sunne and Moone and starres all very siueâ—y set forth in mettall beholding the face of the earth about the Tombe twenty and foure mourneâ—s Sir Oliuer Ingham knight whom the yong Duke Edward had made keeper of Aquitaine gathered a great army and inuaded the Prince of Aniou which the French King contrary to couenants did with hold and brought it wholly to the dominion of England anno Reg. Regis Ed. secundi 19. Burdeaux the capitall citie of Aquitaine and then English gaue an excellent testimony of her loyalty nor lesse of martiall wit and valour For the French Army comming before her she to abuse their hope set open her gates and displayed vpon her Powers the golden Lillies as if shee were theirs but the French which securely entred found little good hospitality Sir Oliuer de Ingham was Captaine and Lord Warden there for King Edward who with his Garrison-Souldiers and aide of the Inhabitants slew of them great multitudes and preserued Burdeaux anno Reg. Regis Ed. 3.13 Hickeling The buriall place of the worthy familie of the Woodhouses wherein a monument remaineth to the memory of Sir William Woodhouse knight Here sometime
was a Priory dedicated to the honour of Saint Austin the first Archbishop of Canterbury founded by one Theobald de Vallencia as some say others by William de Albeny the second of that name Earle of Arundell valued at one hundred thirty seuen pounds pennie halfe penny qua Wallpoole ... Radulphus Rochford miles .... Willelmus filius Domini Iohannis de Rochford Constabularii castri de VVisbiche .... Tirrington Hic iacet Thomas Sutton filius Thome Sutton nuper de Milton filii Domini Iohannis Sutton Domini de Dudley ..... Hic iacet Elizabeth Sutton filia Roberti Goddard ..... que obiit ..... Hic iacet Robertus Goddard armiger qui obiit anno Dom. M. cccc.xlviii Hic iacet Ricardus Zorke quondam Burgeni ville Berwic super Tweed ...... I reade in Hackluits first volume of Voyages that Sir Fredericke Tilney a great Commander in the holy warres was interred in this Church of Tirrington take it as he sets it downe A note out of a Booke in the hands of Thomas Tilney Esquire touching Sir Fredericke Tilney his ancestor knighted at Acon in the Holy Land by King Richard the first Pertinuit iste liber prius Frederico Tylney de Boston in Com. Lincoln militi facto apud Acon in terra sancta anno Regis Richardi primi tertio Vir erat iste magnae staturae et potens corpore qui cum patribus suis dormit apud Tirrington iuxta villam sui nominis Tylney in Mershland cuius altitudo in salua custodia permanet ibidem vsque in hunc diem Et post eius obitum sexdecem Militibus eius nominis Tylney haereditas illa successiue obuenit quorum vnus post alium semper habitabat apud Boston praedict dum fratris senioris haereditas haeredi generali deuoluta est quae nupta est Thome Duci Norsolciae Eorum miles vltimus suit Philippus Tylney nuper de Shelleigh in Com. Suff pater et genitor Thomae Tylney de Hadleigh in Com. praedict Armigeri cui modo attinet iste liber anno aetatis 64.1556 Fincham S. Martins Orate pro anima Iohannis filii et heredis Iohannis Fincham filii Symonis Fincham qui obiit vltimo die Aprilis M. cccc lxxxxix Orate pro anima Elizabethe quondam vxoris Symonis Fincham Armigeri et vnius filiarum et heredum Iohannis Tendering de Brokedyn in Com. Suff. Ar. que quidem Elizabetha obiit ... M. cccc.lxiiii Orate pro anima Iohannis Fincham filii et heredis Symonis Fincham de Fincham Ar. qui obiit vi die Septembris anno Domini M. cccc.lxxxxvi Saint Benets in the Holme The foundation of this religious structure is thus set downe by learned Camden in his chorographicall description of this County Then passeth the riuer Thirn saith hee neere the great decayed Abbey called Saint Benet in the Holme which Knute the Dane built the Monks afterward so strengthened with most strong wals and bulwarkes that it seemed rather a castell then a Cloister In so much that William the Conquerour could not winne it by assault vntill a Monke betraied it into his hands vpon this condition that himselfe might be made Abbot thereof which was done accordingly but forth with this new Abbot for being a traitour as the inhabitants make report was hanged vp by the Kings commandement and so iustly punished for his treason After the first foundation of this Abbey by King Knute her reuenues were greatly augmented and her building enlarged by Edward the Confessor and Editha his Queene with the consent of fiue Dukes and of all or the most of the Lords spirituall and temporall within his kingdome as it appeares by his Charter in Arch Turris Lond. Cart. Ant. It was dedicated to the honour of Christ and Saint Benedict replenished with blacke Monkes Benedictines and valued in the Exchequer at sixe hundred seuenty seuen pounds nine shillings eight pence qua Clipesby Not farre from the foresaid Abbey is the Parish and Lordship of Clipesby which gaue name saith Camden to a familie of ancient note in this tract whereof there hath beene diuers Knights where after it had passed in the names of Algar Elfled and Odberd all sirnamed de Clipesby as appeareth by many vndated Deedes which I haue seene it came about the first of King Iohn to Iohn de Clipesby and from him lineally to the last Iohn heire male of that line On whose Monument in this Church of Clipesby are empaled the Armes of Ierningham Woodhouse Spelman Paston all Knightly families of that countrey with whom the Clipesbies had formerly matched By Iulian a daughter and coheire of this last Iohn married to Sir Randall Crewe of Crewe in the County of Chester Knight after Lord chiefe Iustice of England the old surname of the Lord of this Mannor was changed but not the bloud For she left besides a daughter two sonnes the eldest her heire christened with the name of her paternall familie Clipesby now Sir Clipesby Crew Knight She the said Iulian died at Kewe in the County of Surrey in the yeare 1603. and was in the Chancell of the Church of Richmond decently interred with this Inscription vpon her Monument Antiqua fuit orta domo pia viuit iniuit Virgo pudica Thorum Sponsa pudica polum In this Church are diuers other Funerall Monuments for the Clipesbies but so defaced as neither Inscription nor coate-armes are remaining vpon them to giue me any further light Oby Orate pro anima Katerine filie Iohannis Spelman Armigeri quondam vxoris Clipesby Armigeri postea vxoris Edmundi Paston Armigeri que obijt xviii die Aprilis anno Domini M. cccclxxxxi Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Elingham Orate pro anima Henrici Spelman Armigeri filij et heredis Thome Spelman Armigeri qui obiit primo die mensis Martii anno Dom M. cccccxxv Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen The Armes of Spelman and Mortimer of Attilborough Narborough Orate pro animabus Henrici Spelman Legis periti ac Recordatoris ciuitatis Norw Ele vxoris eius qui quidem Henricus obiit xxiii die Septembris anno Domini M. cccclxxxxvi Vpon this Monument are his Armes and his two wiues Christian daughter and coheire of Thomas Manning Esquire and of Elisabeth his wife daughter and coheire of Sir Thomas Ienny Knight The second Ela daughter and coheire of William Narburgh of Narburgh Esquire a family of great antiquitie that bare gules a chiefe Ermin Here vndre lieth buried the body of Sir Iohn Spelman knyght and Secundary Iustice of the Kyngs Bench and Dame Elis. his wyffe whych had xiii sonnes and vii doughters of theire bodyes betwene them begottyn The which Sir Iohn decessed the xxvi day of February in the yere of our Lord God M. cccccxliv and the said Dame Elizabeth decessed the v day of Nouembre the yere of our Lord M. ccccclvi on whos
or late Of your cheriry say a Pater Noster for the soul of Tho. Drake Wendling Here was a Priory of Augustine Friers founded by Sir William de Wendling Priest valued at fiftie fiue pounds eighteene shillings foure pence halfe pennie qua Elingham neere Bungay Orate pro anima Willelmi Ellingham .... et consortis sue ... Orate pro anima Ricardi Billington ... Petrus Lyng Rector istius Ecclesie .... Orate pro anima Roberti Bonefelow ... These Inscriptions aboue written are depensild in the glasse windowes Here lyeth buried one More of Norwich to whose memory some wit of those times but the time of his death I doe not know playing and making dalliance with his name made this Epitaph following More had I once More would I haue More is not to be had The first I .... the next is vaine The third is too too bad If I had vsâ—d with More regard The More that I did giue I might haue made more vse and fruit Of More while he did liue But time will be recald no more More since are gone in briefe Too late repentance yeelds no more Saue onely paine and griefe My comfort is that God hath More Such Mores to send at will In hope whereof I sigh no more But rest vpon him still Hempton A Priory of blacke Canons founded by one Richard Ward who tooke vpon him holy Orders and liued in this house of his owne foundation which he consecrated to the honour of God our blessed Lady and Saint Stephen it was valued at the suppression at thirty nine pounds nine shillings Shornborn Here is an ancient monument in this Church to the memory of one of the Shornborns or Shernburns but so fouly defaced as nothing remaines to know the man who lies vnder it sauing a Vulture splaid which is the Crest of the Shernborns Many other Crests and Coate Armes are there also which I meddle little withall yet to vse Camdens words I doe not see how this Church could haue bin omitted for that Foelix the Burgundian Bishop of this Diocesse who first brought the East-Englishmen to the Christian faith and state of perpetuall felicitie built in this place the second Church of Christians in this Country for the first he founded at Babingley where he landed Langley The Booke of the Carmelites in Couentrie saith that Sir Roger Helke Baron who married Elianor daughter to the Earle of Oxford of whom came Robert Clauering father to Iohn father to Robert that married the daughter of the Lord Alan Zouch was the first founder of this Monastery The Catalogue of Religious houses which is very imperfect saith that the Ancestor of the wife of Sir Francis Bigot Knight together with her sisters were the Founders Another tels me that Sir Roger Kell Knight was the first founder and that the Patronage thereof came to the Vffords and Dacres by marriage but of this name there is a Religious house in Lecestershire another in the County of Hertford and so there may be a mistake A Nunnery it was valued at one hundred twenty eight pounds nineteene shillings nine pence halfe penny The persons of remarkable account interred in this Abbey Church were these Sir Roger Kell the Founder Sir Robert sonne of Sir Roger Sir Iohn sonne of Sir Robert Sir Roger sonne of sir Robert Sir Robert sonne of Kell knights Sir Iohn Clauering Anno Domini 1332. obijt Iohannes de Clauering aâ—pud Heyno aduocatus Ecclesie de Langeley in octabis die Epiphanie et sepelitur in presbiterio in conuentuali eiusdem Ecclesie ex parte aquilonari eodem anno obijt Domina Iohanna de Burgh et hic sepeliri meruit Sir Robert Thurkeby Sir Thomas Roscelyn Sir Peter Roscelyn Sir Hugh Gurnage Sir Geffrey Saye Sir Henry Lymesey Sir Fulco Cardeston or Kerdeston Sir William Kerdeston Sir Roger Kerdeston knights Anno Domini 1328. obijt Margareta quondam vxor Domini Willelmi filii Rogeri de Kerdeston militis et iacet in Ecclesia Abbathie Langeley ante Altare Crucis iuxta Dominum Thomam de Kerdeston Archidiaconum Norf. ex parte aquilonari Qui Thomas obiit anno 1270. Anno Domini 1337. obiit Dominus Rogerus de Kerdeston miles et sepelitur in Ecclesia Abbathie de Langeley iuxta matrem suam ex parte Australi Sir Peter Egfend sir Iohn Lodnes sir Iohn Dunham sir Charles Charleton sir Ely Norfolke sir Charles de Ierninta sir Robert de Grys sir Robert Helington sir Iohn Vfford sir Robert Vfford sir Thomas Vfford sir Hugh Gurney sir William Redham sir Philip Weston sir Robert de Vallibus sir Iohn Saye Symond Grys sir Iames Awdley sir William de Poole knights Dame Marian de Zouche Mother of sir Robert sonne of sir Roger Zouche knights Dame Ione wife of Robert Benhale Dame Agnes wife of Fulc Dame Ione wife of Iohn Dunham Dame Agnes Clauering Dame Margaret Benhall Dame Eue Audeley Dame Agnes wife of sir Simond Grys Dame Ione daughter of sir Robert Vfford vxor Willelmi Bowet Dame Denys Ynglos wife of sir Henry Ynglos Dame Alice wife of Thomas Charles Ladies Stiskey In the north side of this Church lie entombed Iohn Calthorpe Esquire and Alice Ermingland his wife the monument defaced vpon which is their portraicts in coate Armor Cockthorpe In the Chancell vnder a faire Tombe lieth the body of Christopher Calthorpe Esquire no inscription is remaining a familie sometime of great account in these parts saith Camden Cley iuxta mare In this Church are some defaced monuments to the memory of the Symonds Iohn Symonds and Agnes his wife lye buried in the south Chappell Another of the Symonds with his two wiues Anne and Margaret Plumsted Here vnder a faire Grauestone lieth buried Iohn Plumsted Esquire Receiuer generall of the Dutchie of Lancaster Hunworth Vnder a faire Grauestone here in the Chancell lie buried Edmund Braunche and Anne Calthorpe his wife with their coates impaled Burrughmagna In the south Chappell of the Chancell Henry Berney Esquire lieth buried which Henry married the daughter of .... Appleton of Essex named Alice by whom he had issue Thomas Henry Iohn Edward and Richard and three daughters as appeareth by the pictures vpon the defaced Tombe Vnder another Tombe lieth Iohn Berney Esquire who married first the daughter of Read and afterwards the daughter of Sydnor Here lieth Iohn Berney grandfather to Henry Berney who had to his first wife ... the daughter of Southwell to his second the daughter of Wentworth Vnder a faire Grauestone lieth inhumed the body of Iohn Berney Esquire the great Grandfather of Henry who married the daughter of Henningham Another Iohn Berney Esquire lieth here also vnder a large stone the inscription whereof is altogether almost erazed Thetford In the parish Church of Saint Maries a faire monument thus inscribed In memoriam Radulphi Fulmerston Equitis aurati Dominiceque Alicie vxoris eius ... Edwardus Clere Armiger hunc Tumulum
and them in case the sâ—â—d kyng wold invade thys hys Realme whiche he dide in deede contrary to hys oth and promyse with the hoole power of the Realme of Scotlond Whiche when the seid Erle hard of he made as greatt haste towardis hym as he coude with the kyngs power of the North partys And toke hys lodgyng in the Campe or playn caâ—â—yd Wollar haugh in the Countie of Northumbrelond which was in the â—ight of the kyng of Scottis and of all hys army then â—ying on Floddon hyll a ground more lyke a campe or forteres than any meete ground to gyve batayle on contrary to hys promes made to Rogeâ—ras Purseuaunte at armys before sent vnto hym from the seid Erle with message that the said Erle with the Lord Howard then Admerall of Englond hys Son And the no 〈◊〉 men of the North partis with other the kyngs Subgettis of the same North partis was come thedir to represse and resiste hys Invasyons of hys souerayn Lordis Realme desyryng the said kyng of Scottis to gyve hym bataile which his message the same kyng of Scottis toke very thankfully and ioyusly promysyng hym to abide ther on the same grounde wher he than was whiche hys promys he brake as is aforesaid and tooke Floddon hilâ—ys a ground unprengnable and shot at hym hys great Ordenaunce where as he lay like one mynded to kepe it like a forteres And whan the said Erle dide perceyve that he had brokyn hys promys and takyn so stronge â— grounde as Floddon hillys he than the said Erle remoued all his Batail vnto a playn besydis Barmer wood to thentente to get betwene hym and hys owne Realme of Scotlond and ther leygeed but one nyght and on the next mornyng toâ—e hys passage ouer the water of at Twyfull forthe and than he marched the said kyng and hys oste in suche maner as he gat betwene hym and hys aune reame of Scotlond be force wherof the said kyng was fayn to leue his Campe and to prepare hymself to bataile witthe seid Erle on a hyll besydis Bramston in Northumbrelond very neer vnto Sandyford Wher the said Erle witthe good assistauns of the Nobull men and the power of the said North partys fought witthe said kyng and hym â—anquâ—sshed and slewe in playn bataile derectely before his owne Standard In which bataile ware slayne on the Scottysshe parte ii Bysshoppes xi Eâ—lys xvii Barons CCCC knyghtis besydys other Gentilmen with xvii M in nombre which ware nombred asweel by Scottysshe men as by them that dyd bury the moste parte of them And of trouth dyvers Gentylmen and others aswell of the said Erlys servantys as of the North partyes and of Chesshir and Lankasshir war ther slayne for hard it ys and half impossible in suche a conflicte and bataile to be wonne without losse of men whoys deth may be ioyed among ther frendis to dye in so hygh a servys doon to ther Prynce And this noble acte was don by the helpe of almyghty God to the highe honour of the kyngis hyghnes Honor and prays to the said Erle and to all other Noble men and otheres the kyngs Subgettis that war ther with hym at the bataile the ix daye of Septembir in the v yeer of our souerayn Lord kyng Henry the viii And this doon the said Erle went to Barwyke to establysshe all thyngys well and in good order And sent for the dede body of the kyng of Scottis to Barwyke And whan the Ordenaunce of the kyng of Scottis was brouth of the feld and put in good suertie and all other thyngys in good order Than the seid Erle toke hys Iorney toward Yorke and ther abode duryng the kyngis pleasur and caryed with hym the dede body of thafforesaid kyng of Scottis And ther laye vnto suche tyme as the kyngis hyghâ—es cam from beyond the See after his wynnyng of Tyrwyn and Tomey And than hys highnes sent for the seid Erle to mete hym at Rychemond and so he dide and ther delyvered vnto his highnes the dede body of the kyng of Scottis whiche deâ—â— bodye was delyuered in to the Charter hous ther and ther to abide duryng the kyngs plesur And for the servyce that the seid Erle dide he was honorably restored vnto his right name of Duke of Norffolk and also had geuen vnto hym greatt possessyons by the kyngis highnes And whan the warre betwixt the kyng our souerayn Lord and the Frenche Kyng was eended than the said Duke was sent into Fraunce as chieff Commyssyoner with Lady Marye the Kyngis Suster to be maryed vnto the Frenche Kyng Lewes And after when the kyng and the Quene were both out of the Reame to mete witthe Frenche kyng Frauncys at Guynes and the Prynces remaynyng in the Reame beyng a childe the said Duke was left behynde as protector and defender to mynyster Iustice and to see good Rule and Gouernaunce in the Reame in the absence of the kyngis highnes and so contynued aboute the kyng and of his preuye Counsayle tyll he wâ—s of age of fourescore yeeris and then the kyngis highnes was content that the said Duke shulde go home in to hys owne countrey vnto the Castell of Framlyngham wher he contynued and kepte an honorable howse vnto the houre of his deth And ther he dyed lyke a good Cristen Prynce I now to wytnes Whose sowle Iesu pardon And at his depertyng out of Framlyngham Castell toward hys buryall he coude nat be asked one grote for his dette nor for restitucion to any person and so was had to this present Abbay of Thetford with moche honor Accompanyed with many greatt Lordis and the Noble men of both Schires of Norffolk and Suffolk Leuyng then lyuyng these his children herafter named that is to seye his son and heyre the Lord Thomas Duke of Norffolk the Lord Edmond Howard the Lord Willyam Howard and the Lord Thomas Howard witthe Ladye Elysabeth wiffe to the Uicount Rocheford the Lady Agnes Countes of Oxenford the Lady Kateryne espoused to the heyre of Sir Rice app Thomas of Walys the Lady Elysabeth espoused vnto the Uicount Fitzwaters son and heyr And the Lady Dorathie then beyng not maryed but lefte for hir Right good substance to marry hyrwyth Henry Fitz-Roy the naturall sonne of King Henry the eight begotten of the Lady Talboys daughter of Sir Iohn Blount knight Duke of Richmond was here interred as Graston Stow Hollinshed and other writers affirme howsoeuer some will haue him to bee buried at Framingham in Suffolke Hee married Mary daughter of the foreremembred Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke Earle Marshall and Lord high Treasurer of England with whom he liued not long but dyed at Saint Iames by Westminster the 22. of Iuly in the yeare of Christ Iesus 1536. He was a Prince very forward in Martiall actiuities of good literature and knowledge in the tongues vnto whom the learned Antiquarie Leland dedicated a booke as appeareth by this Hexastichon following which is
non dedit orbi Mors erit vnius vita sed alterius Rara auis in terris confectus morte Viattus Houerdum baeredem scripserat ante suum Dicere nemo potest recte perijsse Viattum Ingenij cuius tot monimenta vigent In another place to the said Lord Henry Howard thus Accipe Regnorum Comes illustrissime carmen Quo mea Musa tuum laudavit maesta Viattum Againe Perge Houerde tuum virtute referre Viattum Dicerisque tuae clarissima gloria stirpis This Sir Thomas Wiat the Translatour of Dauids Psalmes into English died of the pestilence in the West countrey being on his iourney into Spaine whither he was sent Embassadour from the King vnto the Emperour in the yeare 1541. But to returne this Earle had together with his learning wisedome fortitude munificence and affabilitie yet all these good and excellent parts were no protections against the Kings displeasure For vpon the twelfth of December the last of King Henry the eight he with his Father Thomas Duke of Norfolke vpon certaine surmises of Treason were committed to the Tower of London the one by water the other by land so that the one knew not of the others apprehension The fifteenth day of Ianuary next following hee was arraigned at Guild Hall London where the greatest matter alledged against him was for bearing certaine Armes that were said belonged to the King and Prince the bearing whereof hee iustified To be short for so they were with him hee was found guilty by twelue common Iuriars had iudgement of death and vpon the nineteenth day of the same moneth nine dayes before the death of the said King Henry the eight was beheaded at Tower Hill He was first interred in the Chappell of the Tower and afterwards viz. in the raigne of our late drad Soueraigne King Iames of famous memory his remainders of ashes and bones were remoued to this place by his second sonne Henry Earle of Northampton as appeares by the foresaid Inscription Many more goodly Tombes and Grauestones but without Inscriptions are in this Church made for the remembrance of this Heroicall Progenie of the Howards and their Matches who haue here a faire and beautifull Castle fortified with a banke ditch and walls of great thicknesse wherein are thirteene Towers inwardly furnished with buildings right commodious and necessarie the resemblances and figures whereof had been cut and delineâ—ted if the hastinesse of the Presse would haue permitted Of this surname of Howard thus Verstegan writes in his treatise Of our ancient English Titles of Honour Dignities and Offices And of the word Holdward This ancient and honourable name of Office saith he hath receiued the inâ—ury of time which hath worne it out of vse and memory The l and d being for easinesse of sound omitted in the pronunciation as in sundrie other words the like is seene it became of Holdward which signifieth the gouernour or keeper of a Castle fort or hold of warre to be Howard Which name of Office albeit we haue long since lost yet retaineth our Realme to the high honour and illustrious ornament thereof the great and â—â—ghâ— noble familie vnto whom it is now the surname and it is like that at first it so became to be vpon the bearing of such a warlike honourable Office and charge Orate pro animabus Iohannis Plomer et Margerie vxoris eius qui istum fontâ—â— fâ—ciebant Keteringham Here lyeth Henry Grey the Son of Syr Thomas Grey knyght of Heton and Ione hys wyffe that was Syster to the Duc of Norffolk who dyed at Venys and Emme the wyffe of thaforseyd Henry Grey the doughter of Willyam Apleyard of the seyd County of Norffolk Esquyer .... Orate pro anima Thome Heueningham Armigeri filij et heredis Iohannis Heueningham militis et Baronetti Qui obijt vltimo die Ianuarij â—nno Domini M. cccclxxxxix Orate pro anima Anne nuper vxoris Thome Heueningham Armigeri filie heredis Thome Yard Armigeri que obijt anno Domini M. cccccviii The Tombe for Thomas her husband is arched whereupon the pictures of himselfe and his wife are grauen in brasse himselfe hauing fyve sonnes likewise engrauen in brasse behynd him and she six doughters There is another Tombe erected to the memory of Sir Anthony Heveningham knight without Inscription This Towne is now the place of residence of the most ancient Familie of the Heueninghams which hath beene very honourably matched and with whom few families in England doth parallel for a Knightly descent Of which I haue read this note out of certaine Antiquities collected by Master Howldiche Ann Dom 1020. in the raigne of King Canutus Gualfride de Heueningham was Lord of Heueningham in the County of Suffolke of which house hath beene 25. Knights with Sir Io. Heueningham now liuing An. 1610. Their originall indeed is from that Towne of Heueningham in Suffolk which is possessed by them to this day Where in a particular Chappell adioyning vnto the Parish Church lie three statues cut out of the heart of Oke of their Ancestours of great antiquitie in their full postures Two of them representing men the other a woman which doth appeare to haue beene very curiously painted and gilt West Dereham or Derham Hubert Deane of Yorke afterwards Bishop of Salisbury and from thence translated to Canterbury was Founded of a Monastery in this Towne where he was borne in the raigne of King Henry the second for his owne soules health and for the soules health of his Father and Mother and of Ranulph de Glanvile and Bertha his wife who brought him vp He bought the land whereupon this Monastery was built of one Geffrey Fitz. Geffrey of Derham He placed therein Regular Canons of the order of Premontre vpon the dedication thereof to God and the most glorious virgine Mary but the particulars of the Foundation will best appeare by his Charter thus recorded Omnibus sancte Matris Ecclesie filijs presentibus et futuris Hubertus dei gracia Eboracensis Ecclesie Decanâ—s eternam in domino salutem Prudentis est hijs que saluti anime proficiunt dum potest intendere transitorijs eterna commutare Quod quidem intelligentes in Honore Dei et gloriose Virginis Marie Matris eius quoddam Cenobium Premonstratensis ordinis in feudo nostro apud Dereham fundauimus pro salute anime nostre et patris et matris nostre et Domini Ranulph de Glanvile et Domine Berte vxoris eius qui nos nutrierunt et pro salute fratrum sororum consanguineorum Familiarium et omnium amicorum nostrorum et preâ—ate Domui et Canonicis dedimus et concessimus et presenti charta nostra confirmavimus totum tenementum in eadem villa cum pertinentijs quod de Galfrido filio Galfridi emeramus c. Witnesses to this his Foundation were Iohn Bishop of Norwich Ranulph de Glanvile Lord chiefe Iustice of England Walter Fitz. -Robert Geffrey Fitz-Peter
Richard de Derham Parson of the Church Nicholas de Derham and Elias de Derham brethren Which Elias was one of the Executors of the last Will and Testament of the said Archbishop Hubert Ann. 7. Iohannis Regis from which Nicholas de Derham descended Tho. Derham of Crimplesham Esquire Ann. 3. H. 5. that married Elisabeth daughter and heire of Baldwin de Vere of Denuere in this County Esquire yonger brother to Robert de Vere of Addington Esquire from whom Sir Thomas Derham knight now Lord of West Derham aforesaid is descended Buckenham New Hic iacet Alicia quondam vxor Willelmi Knyvet Armigeri Que erat filia Iohannis Grey filij Reginaldi Grey Domini de Rythyn que obiit quarto die mensis Aprilis Anno Domini M. cccclxxiiii ..... Hic iacet Thomas Ivy Capellanus qui obijt xix diâ— mensis Septembris ann Domini M. cccclxxxiii Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Hic iacet Robertus Seman Capellanus qui obijt nono die Iunij ann Dom. M. cccclxv Cuius anime ... Orate pro anima Willelmi Pyllys qui obijt xxv die Decembris Anno Domini M. cccccxxxi Cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Here are many old Monuments all without Inscriptions vnder which diuers of the Familie of the Knevets lie buried An ancient house and renowned saith Camden euer since Sir Iohn Kneuet was Lord Chancellour of England vnder King Edward the third and also honourably allied by great marriages For ouer and besides these of Buckenham now Baronets from hence sprang those right worshipfull Knights Sir Thomas Kneuet Lord Kneuet Sir Henry Kneuet of Wiltshire and Sir Thomas Kneuet of Aâ—hewell Thorp and others Buckenham old Vpon a Grauestone in the south side of the Church ouer which stone there now are Pewes built there is in brasse portraied a Crane from whose heke is a scrowle with these two words Deo gratias and vpon a piece of brasse ouerthwart this inscription Orate pro anima Thome Browne cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Here was a religious Foundation of blacke Canons dedicated to Saint Iames valued at one hundred one and thirty pounds eleuen shillings of yearely commings in Erpingham Vnder a goodly faire Grauestone lieth the body Sir Iohn Erpingham knight he is figured vpon the stone in complete armour and the monument is bordered with this inscription Hic iacet Iohannes de Erpingham miles quis multa bona fecit tempore vite sue ... At each corner of the marble a Doue siluer crowned holding a Mase or Scepter in her pounce Sir Thomas Erpingham was knight of the Garter in the raigne of Henry the fourth Cromer Here lyeth the body of Sir Simon Felbrigge or Felbridge knight of the Garter in the raigne of Henry the fift He lieth in complete Armour on both his Emerases the Crosse of Saint George holding in his right hand a Penon of Armes his Belt bossed and gilt his Hanger by his side his Spurs gilt the blew Garter about his right legge his feet resting on a Lyon all ingrauen in brasse his wife by his side on like manner in brasse very sumptuously garnished with bracelets Iewels and her attire according to those times I haue no inscription to know any further Carow A religious house of blacke Nunnes consecrated to the holinesse and honour of the blessed Virgin Mary founded by King Stephen the founder of many such sacred Edifices valued in the Kings bookes to be yearely worth fourescore and foure pounds twelue shillings penny halfe penny qua Gregory the tenth as I take it granted by his Bull this priuiledge inhibition following to the Nunnes of this Priory Gregorious Episcopus Seruus Seruorum Dei dilectis in Christo filiâ—bus Priorisse et conuentui de Carrone Norwicen Dioc. Salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem Exposita nobis ex parte vestra petitio ... quod vos ad iâ—stantiam precum quorundam Nobilium Anglie quibus propter suam potentiam resistere non valeatis tot iam recepisti in Monasterio vestro Moniales quod vix potestis domus redditibus congrue sustentari Quare auctoritâ—â—â— presentium vobis inhibemus vt nullam recipiatis in grauamen Monasterij vestri de cetero in Monacham vel Sororem Dat. Perusii xij Kalend. Septembris Pontificatus nostri anno tertio East Harling I find by certaine notes of burials sent vnto me from my friend master Taylor of Fleetstreete London these persons following to haue beene interred in this parish Church Sir William Chamberleyn Knight of the Garter and Dame Anne his wife daughter of Sir Robert Harling Knight He was graced with this high Order in the raigne of Edward the fourth Sir Robert Harling Knight Elisabeth Trussell sister of sir William Chamberleyn Sir Iohn Harling knight Debenham Here by the foresaid Notes lie buried Iohn Farmingham qui obijt anno M. cccc.xxiiij and Margaret his wife Robert Cheak and Rose his wife George Neuill and his wife Iohn Neuill Iohn Cheake qui obiit M. cccc.lxxxx Suffield Here lyeth buried vnder a faire Tombe the bodies of Iohn Symonds gentleman and Margaret his wife daughter of Francis Moundeford Esquire ... Bromholme William Glanuile founded the Church of Saint Andrew at Bromholme in the Diocesse of Norwich in the yeare 1113. saith an old Anonimall Mss. which I haue In the Pedegree of the right honourable Edward Earle of Dorset I finde this note following Beatrix daughter and coheire of William Sakeuile Lord of Bracksted Nayland and mount Bures in Essex and brother to Iordan Sakeuile married to William de Glaunuile Lord of Bromholme and founder of the Church of Bromholme anno 17. Hen. primi a house it was of Benedictines valued to be yearely worth an hundred pounds fiue shillings fiue pence Here was also sometime a Priorie of blacke Monkes Cluniacks dedicated to Saint Sepulchre founded by G. Glanuile and valued at one hundred forty foure pounds nineteene shillings halfe penny qua Bromholme sometime a Priory saith Camden founded and enriched by G. Glanuill and seated on the sharpe top of an hill the crosse whereof our ancestors had in holy reuerence I know not for what miracles Thomas Rudhorne Bishop of S. Dauids who flourished in the raigne of Henry the fourth hath in his history these words to the same effect Capulanus quidam portauit quandam crucem ligneam in Angliam quam affirmauit esse de ligno in quo pependit Christus et Monachis de Bromholme obâ—ulit et postea locus coruscabat miraculis A certaine Priest brought ouer with him saith he a woodden Crosse into England which he affirmed to be the Crosse whereupon our Sauiour Christ was crucified which he deliuered to the Monkes of Bromholme after which the place did shine gloriously with miracles But the story of this holy Crosse is more fully deliuered by Capgraue on this manner Saint Helene saith he hauing found the Crosse did diuide
Hen. Bourchier Knight Discouery of Brookes Errours 〈◊〉 Lord Damory and Elizâ—bâ—th his wif◠〈…〉 Essex 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 his wife 〈…〉 and Eliz. his wife 〈◊〉 Philip 〈◊〉 Knight Camd. in Hâ—râ— Camd. in Herâ— Sir Francis 〈◊〉 knight Camd. in Somers S. Eppalet Will Crane Ioan and Marg. his wiues Will. Vynter and Margaret his wife Camd. in Hert. Priory of Hitching Elizabeth Anstell Raph Howell Io Hinxworth and Martine his wife Io the sonne of Henry or Io. Harison Tho. Colby Walter Sumner Pettie Sergeantie Abstract Reliuorin Scaccario Io. Lambard Anne his wife Simon Ward and Ellin his wife In a glasse window Sâ—ow Suruay Edward Chamberlaine Will Warham Parson of Barley Inscription vpon a Bâ—ll in the sâ—eeple The foundation of the Crosse the Monasterie and Towne of Roiston Rot chart an 18 E. 2.12.7 The Hospitall Io. Dâ—niell and Marg. his wife Io. Newport Rob. Newport Mary his wife Georg. Newport and Marg. his wife Io. Lee and Ioâ—ne his wife Sir Walter at lâ—â— knight Io. Barloe and Ioane his wife Hen Barloe and Kaâ—herine his wife Sâ—ow Annal. Io. Leuenthorp and Katherine his wife Stow Annal. Io. Leuenthorp and Ioane his wife Isabell Leuenthorp Agnes Leuenthorp Camd. in Hert. Io. Chancy and Anne his wife Will. Chancy Geffrey Ioslyne Sir Raph Ioslyne knight Lord Maior Stow Annal and Suâ—vay Tho. Fleming Io. the wife of Tho Fleming Hist. of Wales Io. Algar and Maud his wife Nich. Coton Tho. Greene. Ioane Rustwin Io. Goldington Elisabeth Lady Say Sir William Say Knight Io. Borrell and Eliâ— his wiâ—e Radcliffe Ioan Clay Foundation of Cheston Nunnery Speed Des. of Hert. Will. Seabrooke and Ioan his wife Mat. Cressy Ioan and Anne his wiues Will Anabull and Isabell his wife Hardin cap. â—7 Iacobus de â—â—ragine translated * Iupiter and Apollo * A Palmers Weed Bed lib. 1. c. â— Vid Camd. in Hert. The foundation of S. Albans Abbey Vmâ—hrey Duke of Glocester Milles Catal. Speed Stow. Annal. Io. Stoke Abbot Mss. in bib Cott Vpon a Prior of this house * a reward Michael Abbot Thâ—mas Abbot In bib Cott. â—illigod the first Abbot S. Albans exempre from the 〈◊〉 of Lincoln Epit. Iohannis Wheâ—hamsâ—ede Roger and one Sâ—gare two Hermits Tho. Rutland Sub-prioâ— Rich Sâ—ondon Priest Sir Iohn Mandeuill knight Will. Smith and Elis his wife Raph Rowlat and Ioane his wife Egfrid king of the Mercians Ex Reg deaâ—r S. Albani in saepe dict bib Cott. Rob. Mowbray Earle of Northumberland a Monke â—ill Gemmet Simon Daniel Mat. Paris Speed ca â— Hou in vit Will. Rufi Ypodig Neust. Ex lib. Ab. de Newburgh in bib Cott. Gemmelicensis lib. 7 ca 8. Ordorus vitatis lib. 7. pa. 649. Lib. 8. pa. 703. Ex vet M ss Anon. in saepe dict bib Cott. Alex. Necham Cent. 2. Camd. in Hert. 〈◊〉 Glocest. Annales de 〈◊〉 M ss 〈◊〉 bib Cott. 〈◊〉 Drayton Polyâ—â— Song 16 Edmund Duke of Somerset Hard. ca. 234. Henry Earle of Northumberland * Alan Strayler * Raphe Babthorpe and Raphe his soone Rich. Skipwith Tho. Astry and Elis. his wife Rich. Raynshaw Sergeant at Armes Tho. â—lake Io. Lind Marshall of the Kings Hall Io. Bernwell Simon Bernwel Reinold Bernwel Brian Lockley Alice Lockley Rich. Lockley Elis. and Agnes his wiues Sir Ed. Hill knight 〈◊〉 Priest 〈…〉 his wife Camd. in 〈◊〉 Iac. de voragine in vit S. Ger. S. Germans thâ— buriaâ—l 〈…〉 many 〈…〉 Camd. in 〈◊〉 Gerâ—mbery Inscriptions Amphibalus Bale Cent Cent. 1. Io. Oundeley Ro. Albin and Marg. his wife Ric. Torington and Marg. his wife Io. Waterhouse and Marg. his wife Ric. Westbrooâ—â— Katherin 〈◊〉 Robert 〈◊〉 Ed. Hay Marg. Briggs Io. Rauen. Foundation 〈…〉 Edmund Planginet Duke of Yorke Isabell his wife Cup 182 18.4 Pierce Gaueston Fade of Cornwall Rob. Glocest. * other * called * Lincolne * Guy * earle or chuâ—le Pierce Gaueston described 〈◊〉 Turr. 〈◊〉 S. Danâ—â—ll Anne Ashby The 〈◊〉 Alice and Ioane his wiues Sir â—ugh 〈◊〉 â—night and Margaret his wife Iâ—hn Heydon Wâ—llâ— Heâ—don and 〈◊〉 his mother Io. de Hâ—kom and Aâ— aud his wife Io. Long Alderman and â—ady Margaret his wife Ed. Brooke Io. Penne. 〈◊〉 Dentwell Christian his wife Will. Warner Ioan his wife Raph Stepney The Frowick Elis. his wiâ—e Sir Raph Sadleir knight Banneret Sir Will. Coffin knight Io. Iseley and 〈…〉 Iohn Curteys Philip Asteley his wiâ—es Io. Perient and Ioane his wife Cart. Ranul Com. cestrie Flesa lib. 1. ca. 27. Tit. of Honor. Par. 2. ca. 10. Io. Cowell Dec. l. C. lit E. Fiue sorts of Esquires Glossar lit â— * Cowell 〈…〉 â— Polter The â—rierie Mss in bib cou Foundation of the Abbey of West Ham. Cart. Antiq. Litera â— In bib Coâ—t â—amd in Essex Io Hamerton Edub his wife and Rich. his brother Hâ—n Ketleby Marg. Ketleby Io. Eglesfeeld Edithâ— his wife Walter Frost Anne his wife Val. Clark and Elis. his wife Sir George Monox Lord Maâ—or Tho. Heron. Camd. in Northumb Rich. Pasmer Rich Cheney Ioane his wife Io. Scot and Ioane his wife Sub pictura Naâ—is in portu naviganâ—â—s Io. Caâ—graue in vit Erken S. Ethelburgh s. Hildetha Lib. 4 caâ— cum suâ—â—â— punâ—iâ—us The charter of Erkenwild to the Nunnes of Baâ—king Ex lib. Abb de â—arking in bib Coâ—s Richard Treswel Anne Lady Barentine Sir Tho. Vrswick Knight Stow. Annal. Elis. Lady Fitz-Lewis Camd. in Essex Gildersâ—urgh Raph Knâ—uinton 〈…〉 Knight 〈◊〉 â—ssex In bib Coâ— The worthy 〈…〉 he 〈◊〉 Sâ—ruâ—y in Farâ—â—g ward 〈◊〉 A Bucks head borne before the Procession at Pauls In our nameâ— of contempt The forme of an old deed of Gift Camd. in Essex out of the Treasurie of the Exchequer Hollins in the History of Scotland pag. 248. Will. Taâ—burgh Rich. Lincolnâ— Will. Sutton Ioane his wife Titles of Honour â— p. â—â— ca. 9. Camden in Yorkeshire Ioh. and Tho. 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Court Anne Snokeshall Rose Crymvill Camden Hospitall at Rochford Camd. in Essex Foundation of the Priory Lib. Mon. de Lewes Io. Lucas Io. Cocke and Margaret his wife Rich. Bowrd Foundation of the Priory of Stansgate Foundation of Saint oâ—â—â—bes Io. Capâ—raue Cart. Antiq lit Godwin de Prefisl Angl. Rich. Beauueis Bishop of London Mss. in bib Cott. Camd in Essex Iâ—â—n Cokar and Câ—â—istian his 〈◊〉 Kimbaline King of Britaine Camd. in Essex Speed Hist. Flâ—â—es Histor. Stow Annal Kimb the son of Tâ—â—omanâ—ius 〈◊〉 Britaine Richard Coggeshalâ— Tho. Darcy and Margaret his wife Ro Darcy and Elizabeth his wife In bib Cot. Sir Robert Darcies Wilâ— Ex Regist Episcopi Lonâ—â— Tho. Kem◠〈◊〉 King a Butcher Rich. Wood and Ioane his wife Tho. â—rakes and â—lis his wife Riâ— Lion and Katherine his wife Foundation of the white â—â—iers Thâ— Maldon Bale de Carme melâ—t◠〈◊〉 Robert Colchester Wiliam Horkesley Richard Acton Tho. Hatfield Hen. Bedford and Alice his wife Geo. Willoughby and Anastacia his wife Rob. Rockwood Speed in Essex 〈◊〉 Annal. Rob. Glocest. The foundation of S.
which onely these words are remaining Hic ..... Ba miles And in the window vnder his armes in an old character written Thomas de Ba. Of which short surname I finde nothing related in writing nor deliuered by word of mouth either short or long Chiselherst Here is the buriall place of the Walsinghams Monkton in the Isle of Tenet At the West end of this Church are these verses to be read Insula rotunda Thanatos quam circuit vnda Fertilis munda nulli est in orbe secunda The Isle of Thanet which is round and watered round about Doth passe the Isles in fruitfulnesse that be the world throughout Wingham Here sometime stood a Collegiate Church founded by Iohn Peckham Archbishop of Canterbury about the yeare 1287. wherein hee placed Canons regular valued at the time of suppression at fourescore and foure pounds of yearely reuenues Knowlton In this Church are buried some of Ringleis one of them kneeling in compleate armour his armes fixed on the Monument It seemeth the Langleys who liued here a long time did either found or reedifie this Church their armes being fixed ouer the doore vpon the fount and in the windowes Monkton In this Church are buried the Blechendens and Crisps families of good respect in this County Saint Laurence Church Here lieth Tho. S. Nicholas who married Ioane Manston .... dyed .... had issue Tho. S. Nicholas here entombed Roger Manston Iulian sa Femme gisoinct icy Dieu de salmes eyt mercy Amen These Manstons dwelt at Manston neare to this Parish and seeme to be the founders of this Chappell wherein many of the name lie entombed Barham Church Albina la Femme Rogeri Digge gist icy Dieu de salme eit mercy Amen In cineres stratus iacet hic Iohn Digge vocitatus Coniuge ..... grata Iohanna consociata Milicie nata de stirpe suit memorata Spiritibus quorum faueat Deus ipse Deorum .... pax solamen reminiscunt verius Amen Iohannes humilis pius prudens tumulatus Marmore tantillo qui solet esse potens Qui quinquagenos tres perdit simul annos Nonis Decembris vt cadit iste bonus Post anno quinto sequitur sua sponsa Iohanna In festo magni Martyris alta petens Coniugium faciens iunxisti corpora quondam Christe suas animas sac tibi celicolas This family for many descents euen to these our dayes hath beene of exemplarie note and great respect in this countrey Douer In the Church within the Castle lyeth a knight whose pourtraiture is inlaid with brasse vpon a marble stone with this Inscription Hic iacet Robertus Asheton myles quondam Constabularius Castri Douorie et custos quinque Portuum qui obijt nono die Ianuar. Anno Domini millesimo CCC octogesimo quarto cuius anime propitietur Deus Amen Such was his patent for his office of Constable and Lord Warden of the fiue ports Rex omnibus c. Salutem Concessimus post sursum reddicionem Sol mundi comitis Cantabr dilecto et fideli nostro Roberto de Ashton Constabulariam Castri Douor ac custodiam quinque Portuum habend et custodiend cum omnibus et singulis ad easdem Constabulariam et custodiam qualitercunque spectantibus siue pertinentibus ad totam vitam ipsius Roberti adeo plene et integre sicut aliqui alij Constabularij et custodes portuum eorundem Constabul et custod illas ante hec tempora ex concessione nostra habuerunt seu tenuerunt Percipiâ—nd pro Constabular et custodia predictis pro sustentacione sua nec non Capellanorum seruientium et vigilium ac vnius Carpentarij in dicto Castro Commorantium CCC l. per annum iuxta ratam temporis videlicet de Wardis T. R. apud Westm. 1. Feb. Ann. 4. R. Re. Ric. 2. pat 2. Memb. 28. The rest of his offices and honours heaped vpon him at seuerall times are likewise recorded in the Tower Of which so much as tends to the purpose I meane to the time and place of his preferments First Robertus de Assheton constituitur Admirallus Flote nauium ab ore aque Thamasis versus partes occidentales quamdiu Regi placuerit c. Teste R. apud Westm. 28. April 1. par Pat. Ann. 43. Ed. 3. m. 15. Againe Robertus de Assheton constituitur Iusticiarius Hibernie quandiu c. T. R. apud W. 13. Aug. 2. P. pat Ann. 46. Ed. 3. M. 16. Robertus de Assheton habet officium Thesaurarij Scaccarij quamdiu c. T. R. apud W. 26. Sept. 2. P. pat Ann. 49. Ed. 3 m. 23. He was also one of the Executours to the last Will and Testament of king Edward the third as appeares in the Office He was descended from the Asshetons of Assheton vnderline in the County of Lancaster as I finde it in the pedegree of Sir Ralph Assheton of Whalley Baronet descended from the same familie He gaue the great Bell of the Church within Douer Dastle as appeares by this Inscription cast in the mettall about the circumference of the same Dominus Robertus de Ashetone miles me fecit fieri Anno quarto Richardi secundi Lucius the first christened king of the Britaines built this Church to the name and seruice of Christ endowing it with the Toll or custome of Douer Eadbald the sonne of Ethelbert king of Kent to expiate his foule sinnes of incest and infidelity amongst other his pious actions erected a Colledge within the walls of this Castle which Wightred a successour of his remoued into the Towne stored it with two and twenty Chanons and dedicated it to the name of Saint Martine Ann. 725. Which house was afterward new builded by king Henry the first or rather by William Corbeil Archbishop as I coniecture by these words Nouum opus Sancti Martini incipitur à Wilhelmo Corbuil Ann. 1132. wherein Theobald the successour of Corbeil placed Benedictine Monks and called it the new Worke at Douer and was surrendred 16. Nouemb. 27. Hen. 8. the value of this foundation was yearely 232. l. 10. s. 5. d. ob and was surrendred 26. Nouemb 27. H. 8. Henry the third king of England here founded an Hospitall for the Knights Templers which he called Maison de Dieu or Gods house Valued at 159. l. 18. s. 6. d. ob q. per annum at the dissolution Not farre from this Towne was a little Monastery called St. Radegunds on the hill valued at 98. l. by yeare founded by Hugh the first Abbot of Saint Austins Herne Hic iacet Anto. Louerick Armig. et Constantia vxor eius qui obijt 10 Octob. 1511. Hic iacet corpus Christiane dudum vxoris Mathei Philips Aurisabâ—â— ac Maioris Londinensis que obijt .... 1470. pro cuius anime salute veluis Deum orare This Lord Maior was made knight of the Bath at the coronation of Elizabeth wife of king Edward the fourth together
with Sir Raph Ioccline and Sir Henry Weeuer and after that with other Aldermen was knighted in the field Ann. 1471. Hic iacet Wilhelmus Fineux sil et heres Iohannis Fineux militis qui obijt Regis Henrici 7. Others of that name lye here entombed but without any inscription to preserue their memorie Braborne Hic iacet Wilhelmus Scot de Braborne Aâ— qui obijt 5. Febr. 1433. cuius anime Sis testis Christe quod non tacet hic Lapis iste Corpus vt ornetur sed spiritus vt memoretur Quisquis eris qui transieris sic perlege plora Sum quod eris sucramque quod es pro me precor ora Hic iacet magnificus ac insignis miles Iohannes Scot quondam Regis domus inuictissimi Principis Edwardi quarti Controll et nobilissima integerrimaque Agnes vxor eius Qui quidem Iohannes obijt Ann. 1485. die mens Octob. 17. This Sir Iohn Scot was also of the priuy Councell and knight Marshall of Caleis who with others was sent vpon an Embasie Ann. Reg. Ed. 4.12 to the Dukes of Burgundy and Britaine to bring backe againe the Earles of Pembroke and Richmund whose escape did much perplexe their kings suspitious thoughts Iohannes Scot miles cum CC. soldariis ex mandato Domini Regis apud Sandwicum pro salua custodia eiusdem inter Bund Indent de Guerra apud pelles West Hic ... Wilhelmus Scot myles ob 1350. I take this man to be that William Scot who with others of eminent degree and qualitie was knighted by Edward the third the tenth of his raigne vpon the creation of Edward his sonne Earle of Chester and Duke of Cornwall Of your ... Dame Elisabeth Poynings late wife of Sir Edward Poynings which Dame Elisabeth deceased Aug. 12. 1524. This Elisabeth was the daughter of Sir Iohn Scot of Scots Hall where the family of these Scots haue so long flourished in worshipfull estimation Hac necis in cella iacet hic prudens Isabella Que nulli nocuit sed Domino placuit Sponsa fuit fata venerabilis et peramata Clifton Geruasij militis egregij Ante fuit dicta Wilhelmi Scotti relicta Harbard vocata vel Fynche certe scies Dicitur hic alias .... mille quater centum Petit L. cum septem ... monumentum Nouembris deca bis hijs numerando dabis Geruasium Clifton istam genuisse Iohannam Sta lege cui Iohn Digge sociatus erat Morte .... cadit corpus sequitur cito mater Filia preuenit hanc cui solet esse sequax Christetuas famulas fac post te scandere celos Et post coniugia regna tenere tua Subiacet hac Petra Dionisia nunc caro tetra Que fuerat nata Fynche aut Harbard vocitata Vincent Armigeri cui parce Iesu mulieri Dormit non moritur licet hic terra sepelitur Qui bene pensetur qui credit non morietur Anno milleno C. quater .... cape pleno Bis quater appone .... celi iunge corone .......... Cui sit saluamen Deus omnipotens precor Amen Hic iacet expertus sub marmore miles opertus Gower Robertus anime sis Christe misertus From this familie Iohn Gower the Poet was descended One of the Pasheleis lyeth here interred the Lord of Halle and Mote in Sussex From whom the Scots deriue a descent Iohanna Pashlee filia Iohannis de sole secunda vxor Edmundi Pashlee Folkston A Towne famous in times past and much frequented by the English Saxons for religion sake by reason of a Monastery which Eauswide the daughter of Eadbald king of Kent erected for religious women of which she became the first Prioresse She dedicated her Church to the honour of Saint Peter and replenished her house with blacke Nunnes she continued herein Abbesse a long time and so dyed a vailed Virgin about the yeare 673. This foundation was long ago swallowed vp with the sea and another built by Iohn Segraue and Iulian his wife the daughter and heire of Iohn Sandwich who was Lord of this Towne together with Iohn Clinton in the raigne of king Henry the third who consecrated this their holy fabricke to the honour of Saint Peter and S. Eauswid Whose reliques they translated into their new built Church there they were gloriously enâ—â—â—rined and she honoured for a Saint Of whom the credulous common people did report many strange wonders As that shee lengthened a beanâ—â— of this her religious building three foot when the Carpenters missing their measure had made it so much too short That shee haled and drew water ouer the hills against nature That shee forbad certaine rauenous birds the countrey which before did much hurt thereabouts That she restored the blinde cast out the deuill and healed innumerable folkes of their infirmities And therefore after her death she was by the policie of the Church of Rome and the Popish Priests canonized and by the folly of the common people saith Lambard honoured for a Saint And no maruell at all saith hee for it was vsuall amongst the Clergie-men in those dayes not onely to magnifie their Benefactours of all sorts but to deifie also so many of them at the least as were of noble parentage knowing that thereby triple commoditie ensued the first for as much as by that meanes they assured many great Personages vnto them secondly they drew by the awe of their example infinite numbers of the common people after them and lastly they aduentured the more boldly vnder those honourable and glorious names and titles to publish their fained miracles And this surely was the cause that Sexburga in Shepie Mildred in Tanet Etheldred at Elye Edith at Wilton and sundrie other such women of royall bloud in each quarter were canonized Saints for generally the Religious of those times were as thankfull to their Benefactours as euer were the heathen nations to their first Kings and Founders The one for sanctifying such as did either build them houses or deuise them Orders and the other deifying such as had made them Cities or prescribed them lawes and gouernment This was it that made Saturne Hercules Romulus and others moe to haue place in common opinion with the Gods aboue the starres and this caused Dunstan Edgar Ethelwold and others first to bee shrined here in earth and then to sit amongst the Saints in heauen This Nunnery was valued at the fatall ouerthrow of all such edifices at 63. l. 7. s. per annum It was surrendred 15. Nouemb. 27. H. 8. Lidde In this Church are the pictures of a man and his wife inlayed in brasse vpon a goodly Monument thus inscribed Hic iacet Thomas Godfray quondam de veteri Rumney qui obijt 5. dic mens Aug. Ann. Dom. 1430. a familie of knights not farre from Iâ—dde and neare vnto Stonend In the beach is to bee seene an heape of great stones which the neighbour inhabitants call S. Crispins
in whose commendations Nicholas Harpsfeld sometime Archdeacon of Canterbury thus writeth I will vse his owne language Tobias a Brithwaldo Archiepiscopo consecratus vir ampliore honoratiore sede si locus hominem et homo locum non commendaret dignissimus qui Theodori Adriani discipulus fuit Quantum vero sub his praeceptoribus profecerit luculenter ostendit Beda qui cum omnium humanarum diuinarumque rerum scientissimum fuisse Latinam Graecamque linguam tam accurate atque maternam calluisse affirmat Hee dyed about the yeare 726. Here lyeth interred Gundulphus a Norman by birth the thirtieth Bishop of Rochester a man not greatly learned but very wise and industrious for he handled the matter so as hee procured not onely his Church to be new built but also the reuenues to be encreased He recouered diuers lands and possessions encroched vpon and taken away in former times by Odo Earle of Kent And besides diuers summes of money which hee contributed he bought a certaine Mannor called Heddre and gaue it to this his owne Church In all these matters hee was much helped by Lanfranke Archbishop of Canterbury who caused him to take into his Church not secular Priests as before had beene accustomed but Monkes Benedictines Gundulph himselfe being a Monke of that order vpon his first admittance to this See he found onely sixe secular Priests in the Church who were endowed scarcely with sufficient meanes to liue according to their place and callings Before his death he encreased his Church-reuenues to that height that it did and was able to maintaine fifty Monkes some say threescore The yearely value of this Monastery at the suppression amounted to 486. l. 5. s. The donations to this Monastery were confirmed by Pope Vrban the second in these words following Vrbanus Episcopus seruus seruorum Dei. Dilectis filijs Priori capitulo Ecclesie Roffen Ordinis sancti Benedicti Salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem Cum à nobis petitur quod iustum est et honestum tam vigor equitatis quam etiam ordo exigit rationis vt id per solicitudinem officij nostri ad debitum perducatur effectum Ea propter dilecti in Domino filij vestris iust is postulationibus grato concurrentes assensu personas vestras et Ecclesiam Roffen in qua diuino est is obsequio mancipati cum omnibus bonis que impresentiarum rationabiliter possidetis aut in futurum iust is modis prestante domino poteritis adipisci sub beati Petri protectione suscipimus at que nostra Specialiter autem terras decimas domus possessiones vineas prata et alta bona vestra sicut ea iuste et pacifice obtinetis vobis et per vos eidem Ecclesie auctoritate Apostolica confirmamus et presentis scripti patrocinio communuimus Salua in predictis decimis moderatione Concilij generalis Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre confirmationis infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire Si quis autem hoc attemptare presumpserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei et beatorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum eius se nouerit incursurum Dat. Ianu. III. Id. Ianuar. Pontificatus nostri Anno octauo When as William the Conquerour built the great white square Tower of London hee appointed this Bishop to bee principall Surueyor of that worke who was for that time lodged in the house of one Edmere a Burgesse of London as it is in the booke of the Bishops of Rochester in these words Gundulphus Episcopus mandato Willelmi Regis magni presuit operi magne Turris London quo tempore hospitatus est apud quendam Edmerum Bargensem London This Bishop built a great part of the Castle of Rochester namely the great Tower which yet standeth Hee founded an Hospitall in Chetham which hee dedicated to the honour of Saint Bartholomew for the reliefe of such people as were infected with the foule disease of the Leprosie hee endowed it with sufficient reuenues which grant was confirmed by king Henry the third and discharged of all taxes and tallages by King Ed. the third He founded the Abbey at Malling which he consecrated to the blessed Virgine and placed therein blacke Nunnes Which Nunnery he gouerned himselfe during all his life time And lying at the point of death hee commended it to the charge of one Auice to whom notwithstanding he would not deliuer the Pastorall staffe before shee had promised canonicall obedience fidelitie and subiection to the See of Rochester and protested by oath that there should neither Abbesse nor Nunne bee from thenceforth receiued into the house without the consent and priuitie of him and his Successours This Nunnery was valued at the suppression at two hundred fourty fiue pounds ten shillings two pence halfepeny of yearely reuenue Ouer the Abbey gate yet standing is the likenesse of a Pastorall staffe This good Bishop dyed the seuenth of March 1107. and was buried where you see the pourtraitures of certaine Bishops sometimes artificially cut in stone and Alabaster but now cut almost all in peeces dismembred and shamefully abused as all other Monuments in this Church are of any antiquity so that neither reading nor tradition can giue vs any true notice of their names Gilbert de Glanuil before mentioned a gentleman of an ancient family was consecrated to this Bishopricke September 29. Ann. 1185. Betweene this man and his Monkes of Rochester was long and continuall debate by occasion whereof hee tooke away from them all their moueable goods all the ornaments of their Church their writings and euidences yea and a great part of their lands possessions and priuiledges wanting money to follow their suites against him they were forced to coyne the siluer of Saint Paulinus Shryne into money These controuersies were ended no otherwise then by his death which happened Iune 24. 1214. hauing ruled his contentious charge 29. yeares But the hatred of these Monkes against him was so dying with him as they would afford him no manner of Obsequies but buried him most obscurely or rather basely without either ringing singing or any other solemnitie and furthermore abused him with such like rime-doggerell Glanvill Gilbert us nulla bonitate refertus Hic iacet immitis amator maxime litis Et quia sic litem dum vixit solet amare Nunc vbi pax nulla est est aptior inhabitare These blacke Monkes whom I thinke if the matter were well examined would proue to be in the fouler fault were too malitious to remember that this Bishop founded S. Maries Hospitall at Strowd neare adioyning to this Citie called the New worke and endowed it witha liuelihood of 52. l. of yearely profits which it now enioyeth Here lyeth entombed the body of Walter de Merton so surnamed of Merton a village in Surrey where he was borne sometimes Lord Chancellour of England Bishop of this See and Founder of Merton Colledge in Oxford
To whose memory Sir Henry Savill that rare Grecian and exact reuiuer of Antiquities now deceased late Warden of the said Colledge and Prouost of Eaton with the fellowes of the same taking downe an old marble Tombe haue erected another Monument ouer him of Touch and Alabaster bearing this Inscription Waltero de Merton Cancellario Angliae sub Henrico tertio Episcopo Roffensi sub Edwardo primo Rege vnius exemplo omnium quotquot extant Collegiorum Fundatori maximorum Europae totius ingeniorum faelicissimo parenti Custos Scholares domus Scholarium de Merton in Vniuersitate de Oxon. communibus Collegij impensis debitum pietatis Monumentum posuere Ann. Dom. 1598. Henrico Savile Custode Obijt in vigilia Simonis Iudae Ann. Dom. 1277. Edwardi primi quinto Inchoauerat Collegium Maldoniae in agro Surr. Ann. Dom. 1264. Hen. tertij 48. cui dein salubri consilio Oxonium Anno 1270. trans extrema manus faelicissimis vt credi par est auspicijs accessit anno 1274. ipsis Cal. Aug. anno Regni Regis Edwardi primi secundo Magne senex titulis Musarum sede sacrata Maior Mertonidum maxime progenie Haec tibi gratantes post saecula sera nepotes En votiua locant marmora sancte parens Haymo de Heath or Hythe so named of Hithe a Towne in this tract where he was borne lyeth buried by the North wall he was Confessour to King Edward the second This man built much at his Mannor houses of Troscliffe and Hawling In the Towne of Hithe before named he founded the Hospitall of Saint Bartholomew for reliefe of ten poore people endowing the same with twenty Markes of yearely reuenue He resigned his Bishopricke into the Popes hands of whom he had receiued consecration in the Court at Rome Ann. 1352. and liued about some six yeares after that a priuate life with the Monkes in this Priory This Bishop saith the booke of Rochester bought a precious Miter which was Thomas Beckets of the Executours of the Bishop of Norwich which hee offered at the high Altar on S. Pauls day 1327. Iohn de Shepey so likewise surnamed from the place of his birth vpon Haymo his resignation was by the Pope elected to this Bishoprick hee was Lord Treasurer of England in the two and thirtieth yeere of King Edward the third in which office he continued about three yeeres euen vntill his death which happened the nineteenth of October 1360. His portraiture is in the wall ouer his place of Buriall Here ouer against Bishop Merton lieth buried vnder a faire Marble Tombe the body of Iohn Lowe Bishop of this Diocesse borne in Worcestershire and brought vp in Oxford where he proceeded Doctor of Diuinitie He liued for a time in the Abbey of the Friers Augustines in Worcester of which order he was Prouinciall Vir aetate sua ab omni parte doctus So that in regard of his great learning and painfulnes in preaching he was preferred first to the Bishoprick of Saint Asaph by King Henry the sixt and after that translated to this of Rochester hee writ diuers learned works and was a carefull searcher after good bookes so as diuers copies of some ancient Fathers had vtterly perished but for his diligence Hee died the yeere 1467. hauing gouerned the See of Saint Asaph foure yeeres and and this of Rochester foure and twenty The inscription vpon his Tombe is almost all gone only these words remayning ...... Iohannis Low Epis ...... ...... miserere mei Domine Credo videre Dominum in terra viventium O quam breve spatium huius mundi sicomp ..... Sic mundi gloria transit Sancte Andree Augustine orate prop nobis I doe not finde the certainty of any other of the Bishops of this Diocesse to haue bin buried in this Cathedrall Church for most commonly in ancient times as now they departed from this place before they departed from the world this Ecclesiasticall preferment being but a step to some higher aduancement A word therefore or two of Saint William here enshrined and the like of the Priory and so I will take my leaue of this most ancient and no lesse reuerend Episcopall Chaire and goe to Gillingham for the rest of the funerall Monuments in this Church are of later times which I reserue for another Volume This Priory erected by Gundulph and the number of her religious Votaries encreased by him from sixe secular Priests to threescore blacke Canons or Monkes with ample reuenues for their maintenance was within the compasse of one hundred yeares what by casuall fire what by the falling out of the Monkes and Bishop Glanvill and what by the calamities it sustained in the warres of King Iohn brought to that ruine and pouerty that the beauty of all her goodly buildings was altogether defaced her Church burned her sacred Vtensiles by robbery and suites in law embezelled mispent and consumed and the whole Couent greatly indebted Anno 1179.3 Id. Aprilis Rofensis Ecclesia cum omnibus officinis cum tota vrbe infra extra muros combusta est anno 97. ex quo Monachi in eadem Ecclesia instituti sunt It was now therefore high time saith Master Lambard to deuise some way whereby this Priory and Church of Rochester might be if not altogether restored to the ancient wealth and estimation yet at the least somewhat relieued from this penury nakednesse and abiection Therefore Laurence of Saint Martins Bishop of this Church and Councellour of King Henry the third perceiuing the common people to bee somewhat drawne by the fraud of the Monkes to thinke reuerently of one William that lay buried in the Church and knowing well that there was no one way so compendious to gaine as the aduancement of a Pilgramage procured at the Popes Court the canonization of the said William with Indulgence to all such as would offer at his Tombe vnderpropping by meanes of this new Saint some manner of reuerend opinion of the Church which before through the defacing of the old Bishop Paulinus his Shrine was declined to naught This Saint William was by birth a Scot of Perthe by trade of life a Baker of bread in charitie so abundant that hee gaue to the poore the tenth loafe of his workmanship in zeale so feruent that in vow he promised and in deed attempted to visit the holy Land and the places where Christ was conuersant on earth In which iourney as he passed through Kent he made Rochester his way where after that he had rested two or three dayes he departed toward Canterbury but ere he had gone farre from the Citie his seruant that waited on him led him of purpose out of the high-way and spoyled him both of his money and life This done the seruant escaped and the Master because he dyed in so holy a purpose of minde was by the Monkes conueyed hither to Saint Andrewes laid in the Quire and promoted by the
souls Iesu haue mercy Amen This Elisabeth was the daughter and coheire of Sir Henry Frowick of Gonwelsbury in the County of Midlesex Knight who lieth entombed in Eling Church in the said County Grandmother to that learned Gentleman and iudicious Antiquarie Sir Henry Spelman Knight now lining Anno 1631. and great Grandmother to Sir Clement Spelman Knight deceased who succeeded in that inheritance Here lyeth Iohn Spelman Esquyre sonne and heire apparent to Sir Iohn Spelman Knyghte one of the Iustyces at the Pleas before the kyng to bee holden and Dame Elisabeth his wyffe which Iohn married Margaret one of the doughters to Sir Thomas Blennerhasset knyght and Dame Margaret his wyffe and had issue by the said Margaret too sonnes and too doughters liuing at the day of his death and decessed the xxvii day of December in the yere of our Lord God M. cccccxlv on whos soul Iesu have mercy Amen Stow. William Spelman Esquire who died in the raigne of Henry the seuenth lay buried vnder a faire Tombe in this Church of Stow by Watton and the Vicar and Churchwardens here about eight yeares agoe making a Raile about the Communion table pulled downe the Tombe to make roome for the Raile and Communicants Others of the ancient Family of the Spelmans lie interred here and at Narborrow whose names I will onely set downe being so neare these times As Iohn Spelman Esquire who married Iudeth one of the daughters of Sir Clement Higham knight who died 28 April anno 1581. Sir Clement Spelman knight high Sheriffe of this County anno 1599. who died 24. Septemb. 1607. Ierome Spelman Esquire the twelfth sonne of Sir Iohn Spelman Rougham Here is a Tombe of Sir William Yeluerton Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench in the time of King Henry the sixth and a Monument of his sonne who is mentioned vpon it to bee Esquire to King Edward the fourth Orate pro animabus Willelmi Yeluerton Militis et quondum Iustic Domini Regis de suo banco et Dominae Agnetis vx sue qui quidem Willelmus obijt 27 die Martis c. ......... Yeluerton miserere Consortis que sue Yeluerton olim Katherine .................. Armiger Edwardi quondam pro corpore quarti 9 Iulij Anno Nat. Christ. 1481. Another stone in the Chancell with two portraitures inscribed Obijt Io. Yeluerton 1505. Obijt Rogerus Yeluerton 1510. Orate pro anima Domini Io. Swaffham quondam Vicar huius Ecclesie qui obijt Anno Domini 1409. cuius Anime propitietur Deus Sandringham Prey pur le alme Du Richard Fitz Iean Iadis Patron De ceste Maison Holme iuxta mare Herry Notynham and hys wyfe lyne her Yat madden thys Chyrche Stepull and Quer Too Vestyments and Bells yei madden alsoo Crist hem sav therfor fro woo And to bryng her souls to blis of hevyn Seyth Pater and Ave wyth myld Stephyn Hunstanton Here the noble ancient familie of Le Strange lie buried vnder faire Monuments Orate pro anima Henrici Le Strange Armigeri Katherine vxoris eius pro benefactoribus .... pro fidelibus defunctis Qui quidem Henricus obijt vicesimo quinto die mensis Nouembris An. Domini M. cccclxxv quorum animabus propitietur Deus Vpon the side of a Tombe the names of Roger Le Strange and others of the name about the Verge of the said Tombe being inlaid with brasse this Genealogicall Inscription is to be read Orate pro anima prenominati Rogeri le Strange Militis pro corpore illustrissimi nuper Regis Anglie Henrici septimi ac fil et hered prefati Henrici le Strange Armigeri Fratris et heredis Iohannis le Strange filij heredis tam Iohannis le Strange quam Alicie Beamont consanguinee et heredis Iohannis Pike et Iohannis Rushbroke Et dictus Iohannes le Strange fuit filius et heres tam Iohannis le Strange militis quam Elianore fil et hered tam Richardi Walkefare Militis quam consanguinee et heredis Thome Morieux Militis Et dictus Iohannes le Strange miles fuit fil et her Hamonis le Strange Armigeri et Katherine fil Domini Iohannis de Camois et dictus Hamo le Strange fuit fil et heres Hamonis le Strange Militis et Margarite Vernon de Motton consanguinee et hered Magistri Richardi Vernon et dictus Hamo le Strange miles fuit frater Domini Iohannis le Strange de Knocking et Mohun Qui quidem Rogerus le Strange miles obiit xxvii die Octobris anno Domini M. cccccvi et nuper Regis dicti vice simo primo Cuius anime ac animabus antecessorum benefactorum suorum nec non anime Iohannis le Strange de Masingham parua Armigeri fratris et executoris prerecitati Rogeri le Strange Militis Deus propitietur Amen Hunstanton saith Camden is to bee remembred in this regard if there were nothing else for that it hath beene the habitation of the Familie of Le Strange Knights by degree euer since that in the raigne of Edward the second Iohn Baron Le Strange of Knocking gaue the same vnto Hamon his younger brother Hamon Le Strange the elder performed great and good seruice for his Lord and Soueraigne Henry the third against Simond de Montford Earle of Leicester and his complices the 48. yeare of the said Kings raigne Hee tooke vpon him a voiage to the holy Land as I finde it thus recorded Hamo extraneus diu antequam iter arripuit versus terram sanctam Feosauit Rogerum Extraneum fratrem suum de Manerijs de Colouere et Henton que idem Hamo tenuit de Petro de Monteforti Fines Anno 2. Ed. 1. Memb. 26. Penteney A Monastery founded by Reginald de Warren brother of William de Warren the second Earle of Surrey in which he placed blacke Canons it was dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene and valued vpon the dissolution thereof at two hundred and fifteene pounds eight shillings eight pence This Abbey saith Camden was the ordinary buriall place in ancient time of the Noblemen and Gentlemen in this tract Anno Domini 1326. obijt Domina Petronilla de Neirford iacet apud Penteney Dominus Iohannes de Neirford obijt .... et iacet in Ecclesia Prioratus de Penteney These are all I haue as yet found to haue beene here interred Fornset Saint Peters Hic iacet Richardus Baxter qui per Isabellam vxorem eius habuit duos filios et duas filias et postea ignaue vulneratus inde obijt vltimo die Maij anno Domini M. cccclxxxiiii Cuius anime propitietur Deus Orate pro anima Thome Baxter qui duxit Margaretam filiam Willelmi Drake generosi et habuit exitum quatuor filios et vnam filiam et obijt 27. Aprilis 1535. Orate pro animabus Thome Drake et Elisabethe vxoris eius .... All cristian peple that walk by thys Tomb erly