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A14916	Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations. A worke reuiuing the dead memory of the royall progenie, the nobilitie, gentrie, and communaltie, of these his Maiesties dominions. Intermixed and illustrated with variety of historicall obseruations, annotations, and briefe notes, extracted out of approued authors ... Whereunto is prefixed a discourse of funerall monuments ... Composed by the studie and trauels of Iohn Weeuer.	Weever, John, 1576-1632.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 25223; ESTC S118104	831,351	907

capta primo fuit Acon in pede cuius Est mons Carmeli Syriamque Asyamque coacti Linquere sunt Fratres in Europam Lodouici Translati Regis Francorum sunt ope sancti Anglia bissenos illos tenuit tamen annos Qua Regione moram traxere ...... He speakes much in the honour of this religious Order of which hee was a member in the Monasterie of the Carmes within the Citie of Norwich and findes himselfe much aggrieued at a certaine Lollard as he calls him and a Frier mendicant who made an Oration and composed certaine virulent meeters against this and other of the Religious orders which hee caused to bee spread abroad throughout the most parte of England in the yeare 1388. and here will it please you reade these his cursing rimes Per decies binos Sathanas capiat Iacobinos Propter et errores Iesu confunde Minores Augustienses Pater inclite sterne per enses Et Carmelitas tanquam falsos Heremitas Sunt confessores Dominorum seu Dominarum Et seductores ipsarum sunt animarum I●● is destr●ctis et ab hinc cum Demone Ductis Fraus dolus ex bunt pax et bona vita redibunt Hij non seribantur cum iustis sed deleantur De libro vite quibus dicat Deus Ite These Sathanicall strong lines as the phrase is now did at the first gre●●ly distaste my ●●●●end Author Iohn Bale being one of the Fraternitie Sed 〈…〉 deformitatem suam videbat but afterwards when as he say his owne deformitie and blindnesse exuebat habitum sise professionis he put off the habite of his cloistered profession he rooted out erazed and defaced the maleuolent character of Antichrist as hee saith himselfe and consequently embraced the reformed Religion and writ many-most bitter Inuectiues against al sorts of our English Votaries This Bale flourished in the raigne of King Henry the eighth and was liuing in the second yeare of Edward the sixth about which time he writ his Centuries Thus much which is more then I determined to haue spoke touching the order of the Carmes The order of Grand Mont was instituted at Grand Mont in Limosin in France about the yeare of our redemption one thousand seuentie sixe vn●der the rule of Saint Benedict by Stephen a gentleman of Auuergne who being sent by his father to Molon Bishop of Be●uent to bee instructed by him he spent twelue yeares learning the institutions and rule of Saint Benedict Going from thence and hauing duely obserued the liues of many Hermites and Monkes and seene what was worthie of imita●i●n in the end he se●●ed himselfe vpon the top of an high hill in Limosin being at that time thirtie yeares old whereas hee built a little cottage Hee prescribed a rule of Saint Benedict to his disciples himselfe liuing with bread and water and died being eightie yeares old I finde very few Couents of this religious Order here in England one there was at Abberbury in Shropshire confirmed by the Bull of Gregorie the ninth Bishop of Rome as followeth Gregorius Episcopus Seruus sernorum Dei Dilectis filijs Priori Fratibus de Abberburi Grandimontensis ordinis Hereforde Dioc. Salut Apostolicam benedictionem Iustis petentium desiderijs dignum est nos facilem prebere consensum et vota que a rationis tramite non discordant effectu prosequente complere Ea propter dilecti in domino filij vestris iustis postularionibus grato concurrentes assensio possessiones redditus al●a bo● a vesira si●cue ea omnia iuste pacifice possidetis vobis per vos domui vestre auctoritate Apostolica confirmamus presentis scripti patrocinio communui●hus Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre confirmation is infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire Si quis autem hoc attemptare pres●mpserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei beatorum Petri Pauli Apostolorum eius se nouerit incursurum Dat. Avagnie Non. Febr. Pontificatus nostri Anno Sexto To speake nothing of their opinion being altogether vnprofitable who 〈…〉 Saint Peters disciple and Bishop of Rome was the first founder of this order It is receiued for more truth that one Cyriacus Patriarch of Ierusalem who shewed S. Helen the mother of Great Constantine where the Crosse was whereon our blessed Sauiour was crucified was th● first that instituted this Order in memoriall of the inuention of the Crosse and gaue ord●● that these Friers should euer afterwards carrie a Crosle in their hands but by reason of 〈◊〉 his martyrdome vnder the Apostata Iulian and the cruell persecutions of the Christians this order became almost quite extinguished vntill Pope Innocent the third gaue it new life since which time it ha●h euer flourished here and beyond Seas with some little reformation like the rest of its fellowes This holy order came into England in the yeare of our saluation 1244. Their first C●oister was at Colchester their greatest Monasterie was neare vnto the Tower hill London as yet called by the name of Cruched Friers They did not of late as the first institution carry the Crosse in their 〈◊〉 but ware a crosse of red cloth or skarlet fixed to then habit on their breast About the yeare 13●7 the order of the Trinitarian Friers came into England an order whose chiefe charge was to go and gather money to redeeme Christians that were captiues vnder the ●●ranny of the 〈◊〉 and Infidels whereupon they were called Monachi de Redemptio●e 〈…〉 rum Monkes of the redemption of captiues This order was instituted by a Frier called Iohn Matta and Felix Anachorita who liued a solitarie life in France and were warned in their sleepe as the tale goes to repaire to Rome to the Pope and to seeke for a place of him to build them a cloister Which they did and their petition being to them granted they laid the foundation of the Monasterie now called Saint Thomas of the Mount in mount Celia Rome wherein Frier Iohn died and was buried as appeares by an Arch or ancient Sepulchre of marble in the little Church of the said Church on the which this Epitaph or Inscription is engrauen Anno Domini et incarnationis 1197. Pontificatus verò domini Innocentij Pape terij Anno primo 15 Kaldanuar institutus est nutu Dei Ordo Sanctissimae Trinitatis et captiuorum à Fratre Iohanne sub propria regula sibi ab Apostolica sede concessa sepultus est idem Frater Iohannes in hoc loci Ann. Dom. M. CC. XIII Mense Decembris vicesimo primo Yet for all this these Trinitarians say that the holy and blessed Trinitie and not Frier Iohn neither any of the Saints gaue them this their rule and order to which effect in all their Couents these Rimes are painted or engrauen Hic est ordo ordinatus Non à sancto fabricatus Sed a solo summo Deo This blessed Order first began By God and not by Saint nor man

was commanded by the Law De●em pondo auri Fisco inferre to bring ten pound weight of gold into the ●xchequer But the most execrable and hellish abuse of all other offered to the dead is effected by witchcraft incantation and Art-magicke an art saith Quin●●l●a●s Declam 15. which is said to disquiet the Gods to trouble and displace the starres to search into the graues and sepulchres of the dead to mutilate dismember and cut off certaine parts of the carcases therein inhumed and by those pairings and cuttings together with certaine horrid enchantments charmes and spels to bring to passe strange diabolicall conclusions The powerfull force of which coniurers witches or infernall Hags is thus exprest by the ancient Poets Skill'd in blacke Artes she makes streames backward 〈◊〉 The vertues knowes of weeds of laces spunne On wheeles and poyson of a lust-stung m●re Faire daies makes cloudy and the cloudy fa●● Starres to drop bloud the moone looke bloudily And plum'd aliue doth through nights shadows fly● The dead cals from their graues to further harmes And cleaues the solid earth with her long charmes She said her charmes could ease ones heart of paine Euen when she list and make him grieue againe S●op flouds bring backe the starres and with her breath Rouse the blacke fiends vntill the earth beneath Groand and the trees came marching from the ●ills These witches spels loues soft desires haue sent Into the hardest hearts gainst fates intent Seuere old men haue burnd in impious loue Which temp'red drinks and Philirums could not moue the dull world a● their Dire voice has been benum'd great Iupiter Vrging their course himselfe admir'd to see The poles not mou'd by their swift axle●tree Showres they haue made clouded the clearest skie And he auen●as thundred Ioue not knowing why But not to speake thus in generall of their power and come nearer to the purpose Sextus the sonne of great Pompey desirous to know the euent of the Pharsalian warres consults thereof with the witch Erictho who amongst many her powerfull charmes resolues to take vp the body of one lately buried which she by her Art-magicke would coniure to disclose the sad issue of his and his fathers fates as it is thus in the Argument of the said sixth booke To the dire witch Erictho Sextus goes This fatall warres sad issue to disclose She quickens a dead carcase which relates To Sextus eare his and his Fathers Fates And crauing then deaths freedome to obtaine Is by a magicke spell dissolu'd againe Now in the booke following Lucan makes young Sextus thus to woe and sollicite the old witch Erictho for the speedie knowledge of the warres euent thus Pompey's fearefull sonne best a●e Wisest of all Thessalians that canst make Foreknowne all things to come and turne a●ay The course of destiny to me I pray The certaine end of this warres chance relate ● am ●o meane part of the Romane state Great Pompey's sonne now either Lord of all ●r wofull heire of his great funerall My mind though ●ounded now with doubtfull feare ● well resolu'd any knowne woe to beare 〈…〉 from chance this power it may not fall 〈◊〉 and suddaine on me the Gods call Or spare the Gods and force the truth out from The ghosts below open Elysium ●all forth gr●m●●e death himselfe bid him relate Which of the two is giuen to him by fate T●is no meane taske but labour worthie thee To search what end of this great warre shall be The witch makes a replication with an expression as also a limitation of her magicke power in these words The ●mpious witch proud of a fame so spread Replies young man wouldst thou haue altered Some me●ner fate it had been easily done ● could haue forc●d to any action 〈◊〉 unwilling Gods I can preserue the breath Of him whom all the starres haue doomb'd to death And though the planets all conspire to make Him old the midst of his lifes course can breake But Fates and thu●der of great causes all Worke downeward from the worlds originall When all mankinde depend on one successe If there you would change ought our arts confesse ●ortune has greater power but if content ●o● be alone to know this warres euent Many and easie wayes for vs there be To finde out truth the earth the sea the sky T●e dead the Rodopeian rock and fields Shall speake 〈◊〉 But since late slaughter yeeld● Such choice of carcases in Thessaly 〈◊〉 vp one of those who easiest be That a warme new-slaine carcase with a cleare ●●●elligible voice may greet your eare 〈◊〉 by the sunne the organs parch'd and spill●d The dismall ghost vncertaine hissings yeild ●rictho hauing raised vp a dead carcase by her damnable incantations and possest his inward parts with some diabolicall spirit who by and thorow 〈…〉 gans might giue to her and young Sextus some satisfactory answers 〈◊〉 she goes forward with her demands Speake quoth Erictho what I aske and well Shalt thou rewarded be if truth thou tell 〈◊〉 our Hamonian art I le set thee free Throughout all ages and bestow on thee Such funeralls with charmes so burne thy bones Thy ghost shall heare no incantations Let this the fruit of thy reuiuall be No spels no herbs shall dare to take from thee Thy long safe rest when I haue made thee die The Gods and Prophets answer doubtfully But he that dares enquire of ghosts beneath And boldly go to th' oracles of death Is plainly told the truth spare not but name Plainly the things and places all and frame A speech wherein I may conferre with fate Adding a charme to make him know the state Of whatsoe're she askt thus presently The weeping carcase spake The deuill in his conference with the Sompner who to tell you by the way Is a renner vp and doun With maundements fornicatioun And is y beat at euery tounes end Amongst other his subtilties relates this for one by way of interrogation thus Yet tell me quoth this Sompner faithfully Make ye you new bodies thus alway Of elements the fiend answerd nay Sometime we faine and sometime we arise With dead bodies and that in sundry wise And speake as renably faire and well As the Phitonesse did to Samuel This violation or fearefull disturbance of the dead was punished with extreme tortures and afterwards by decollation Kelley otherwise called Talbot that famous English Alchymist of our times who flying out of his owne countrey after he had lost both his cares at Lancaster was entertained with Rodolph the second and last of that Christian name Emperour of Germany for whom Elizabeth of famous memory sent very secretly Captaine Peter Gwinne with some others to perswade him to returne backe to his owne natiue home which hee was willing to doe and thinking to escape away in the night by stealth as he was clammering ouer a wall in his owne house in Prague which beares his name to this day and which sometime was an old Sanctuary

laid his foundation 137● 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 depensi●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 plurimū 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

Robert the third thereof obtained full possession in right from whom our sacred soueraigne King Charles is lineally to the same Crowne descended And to her second sonne Bernard de Brus shee gaue this Lordship of Connington with other large possessions in England which after foure descents in that Stemme was by marriage of Anne the daughter and heire of Sir Iohn de Brus to Sir Hugh Welengham brought into that family who after three descents by the marriage of Mary the daughter and heire of the last of that surname it came to William second sonne of Sir Richard Cotton of Ridware in the County of Stafford From whom Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronet is lineally to that Lordship of Connyngton now descended Hereby appeareth the much mistaking of many who hold that the first King of the Norman race cancelled with his sword all claime of Inheritances before his entrance whereas in truth hee neither altered the fundamentall lawes or liberties of the Kingdome or fortunes of any but of those that sided with Harrold against him in his claime For the words of his owne great Charter vnder seale made the day of his Coronation are Deuicto Harraldo Rege cum suis complicibus in ore gladij ouer whom onely he declareth his conquest but his Tytle was beneficio concessionis beati regis Edwardi cognati sui And that he acknowledgeth as his right And we cannot passe ouer a dutifull and thankefull remembrance vnto God who in his diuine iustice after the course of little more then 500. yeares hath restored againe in the sacred person of King Iames of happy memory the lyneall Royall race and bloud of the Saxon Monarchie In him vniting the Briton Saxon Norman and Scottish Regall bloud and by him restoring not onely the name but the ancient dignity of the Britaine Empire fulfilling that old presage of Aquila recorded many hundred yeares agoe Regnabunt Britones Albani Gentis amici Antiquum nomen Insula tota feret Vt profert Aquila veteri de turre Loquta Cum Scotis Britones regna paterna regent Regnabunt pariter in prosperitate quieta Hostibus expulsis Iudicis vsque diem Of which we haue a most happy assurance by the now blessed issue of our most gratious and dread Soueraigne King Charles who hath crowned thereby this state with an eternall peace Vnder this stone lyeth here Iohn Bedel Tallow Chandlere Who departyd the nynth day Of this present month of May On thowsand fyue hundryd and fifteen As is here playn to be seen Such as thou art such haue I bin somtym Such as I am such salt thou be in tym Therfor of thy cherite remembyr me Euen as in like case thou wouldst remembryd be I bese●h on God in Trinite On my soul to haue mercy Here lyeth Walter Garden come out of the west God geeu to the soul of hym good rest I prey you negbors euerich on Prey for me for I am gon who died 26 April 1523. Sancta Maria virgo virginum Prey for the soul of Ione Pymichum Here lyes vndyr this ston Iohn Den Barbor Surgeon And Agnes his wyf who to heuyn went M. ccccc and x. that is verament For whos soul of your cherite Sey a Pater Noster and an Aue Marie Iohannes Skeltonus vates Pierius hic situs est animam egit 21 Iunij 1529. This Iohn Skelton was that pleasant merry Poet as his rimes yet extant doe testifie who stiled himselfe Iohannes Skeltonus Orator regius Poeta laureatus He flourished in the raignes of Henry the seuenth and Henry the eight by whom in the Quire Thomas Churchyard that old Court-Poet lieth interred and not in the Church-Porch as these rimes following would approue Come Alecto and lend me thy Torch To fynde a Church yard in a Church porch Pouertie and Poetrie this Tombe doth enclose Therefore Gentlemen be merry in Prose I finde in the collections of Master Camden that there was some vnkinde passages betwixt this Poet laureat Skelton and Lily our sole authenticke allowed Gramarian in so much that Skelton carping against the verses of the said Lily is bitterly by him thus answered Lilij endecasillaba in Skeltonum Eius carmina calumniantem Quid me Skeltone fronte sic aperta Carpis vipereo potens veneno Quid versus trutina meos iniqua Libras dicere vera num licebit Doctrinae tibi dum parare famam Et doctus fieri studes Poeta Doctrinam nec habes nec es Poeta Almes-houses of Henry the 7. On the South side of the Gate-house King Henry the 7. founded an Almes-house for thirteene poore men one of them to be a Priest aged fiue and forty yeares a good Gramarian the other 12 to be aged fiftie yeares without wiues euery Saturday the Priest to receiue of the Abbot or Prior foure pence by the day and each other two pence halfe penny by the day for euer for their sustenance and euery yeare to each one a Gowne and a hood ready made And to three women that dressed their meat and kept them in their sicknesse each to haue euery Saturday sixteene pence and euery yeare a Gowne ready made More to the thirteene poore men yeerely fourescore quarters of Coales and one thousand of good Fagots to their vse In the Hall and Kitchin of their mansion a discreet Monke to be ouerseer of them and he to haue forty shillings by the yeare c. and hereunto was euery Abbot and Prior sworne An Almes-house founded by Margaret Countesse of Richmond Westward from the Gate house was an old Chappell of Saint Anne ouer against the which the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond and Derby and mother to King Henry the seuenth erected an Almes-house for poore women which was afterwards turned into lodgings for the Singing men of the Colledge the place wherein this Chappell and Almes-house stood was called the Eleemosinary or Almory now corruptly the Ambry for that the almes of the Abbey was there distributed to the poore An Hospitall founded by Lady Anne Dacre At the entry into Totehill field was sometimes an old building called Stourton house which Giles Lord Dacre of the South purchased and built new whose Lady and wife Anne Sister to Thomas Lord Buckhurst the first of that Familie Earle of Dorset left money to her Executours to build an Hospitall there for twenty poore women and so many children to bee brought vp vnder them For whose maintenance she assigned Lands to the value of one hundred pounds by the yeare Almes-houses founded by Cornelius Van Dun. In the same field vpon Saint Hermits hill and neare vnto a Chappell of Saint Mary Magdelen now wholly ruinated Cornelius van Dun borne at Breda in Brabant a Souldier with King Henry the eight at Turney yeoman of the Guard and Vsher to the said King Henry Edward Mary and Elizabeth Kings and Queenes of famous memory built certaine Almes-houses for twenty poore widowes to dwell in rent free He died in September An. 1577.