Survey of London (1633): The Remains

The Remaines. The Colledge of Gods-Gift, at Dulwich, in the County of Surry: founded, raised, and builded, at the cost and charges of Master EDWARD ALLEYNE, Esquire, in Anno Dom. 1614.

THe thirteenth day of September, How the Colledge was confirmed & established by the Founder himselfe. being Munday, Anno 1619. the Colledge of Gods-gift in Dulwich, consisting of one Master, one Warden, and foure Fellowes; three of which are persons Ecclesiasticall, and the fourth a skilfull Organist. Moreover, twelve aged poore people, and twelve poore children; Master Edward Aileyne, publikely and audibly, in the Chappell of the said College, did reade and publish one Writing Quadrupartite in Parchment, bearing date the day and yeere forementioned. Whereby he did make, create, erect, found, and establish the said Colledge, according to the power and liberty given him by his Majesties Letters Patents, under his great Seale, bearing date at Westminster the 21. of Iune, in the yeere abovesaid. When he had read and published the said Writing, he subscribed it with his name, and then fixed his Scale to every part of the Quadrupartite writing, in the presence and hearing of these witnesses:

Frances Lord Verulam, Lord Chancellour of England, and one of his Majesties Privy Councell.

Thomas Earle of Arundell, Knight of the Garter, Earle Marshall of England, and one of his Majesties Privy Councell.

Sir Edward Cecill, Knight, alias Generall Cecill, second Sonne to Thomas Excester.

Sir Iohn Howland, Knight, and high Sheriffe of the Counties of Sussex and Surry.

Sir Edmund Bowyer of Cammerwell, Knight.

Sir Tho. Grymes of Peckham, Knight.

Sir Iohn Bodly of Stretham, Knight.

Sir Iohn Tonstal of Cashaulten, Knight.

And divers other persons of great and worthy respect.The disposing of the foure Writings. The foure Quadrupartite Writings forenamed, were ordered to foure severall Parishes.

viz. Saint Betolphs without Bishopsgate. Saint Giles without Cripplegate. Saint Saviours in Southwarke. And the Parish of Cammerwell.

A briefe recitall of the particulars.

Recitall of King Iames his Letters Patents.

Recitall of the Founders deed Quadrupartite.

Ordination of the Master, Warden, &c.

Ordination of the assistant members, &c.

The Master and Warden to bee unmarried, &c.

The Master and Warden to bee one and twenty yeeres of age at the least.

Of what degrees the Fellowes ought to bee.

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The Remaines. Of what condition the poore Brothers and Sisters ought to be.

Of what condition the poore Schollers ought to be.

Of what Parishes ought the Assistants to be.

Of what Parishes the poore are to be taken, and members of the Colledge.

The forme of their election.

The Warden to supply, when the Masters place is void.

The election of the Warden.

The Warden to be bound by Recognizance.

The Warden to provide a dinner at his election of his owne charges.

The manner of investing the Fellowes.

The manner of electing the Schollers.

Election of the poore of Cammerwell.

The Master and Wardens Oath.

The Fellowes Oath.

The poore Brothers & Sisters Oath.

The Assistants Oath.

The pronunciation of admission.

The Masters Office.

The Wardens Office.

The Fellowes Office.

The poore Brothers & Sisters Office

The Matron of the poore Schollers.

The Porters Office.

The Office of the thirty members.

Of Residency.

Orders for the poore, and their goods

Of obedience.

Orders for the Chappell and buriall.

Orders for the Schoole and Schollers, and placing of poore Schollers forth.

Order of Diet.

The Schollers Surplices and Coats.

Time for viewing Expences.

Publike Audit, and private sitting dayes.

Audit and Treasure Chamber.

Of Lodgings.

Orders for the Lands and Woods.

The Master and Warden allowed diet for one man apiece; and what Servants for the Colledge, and their wages.

Disposition and division of the Revenues.

Disposition of the Rent of the blue house.

The poore to be taken out of any other Parish or County, in case none be found capable in the Parishes prescribed.

The disposition of forfeitures.

The Statutes to be read over foure severall times in the yeere.

The disposition of certaine Tenements in Saint Saviours Parish, and Southwarke.

A briefe Remembrance of such Noble and Charitable deeds, as have beene done by the late Right Honourable, Baptist Lord Hicks, Viscount Campden, as well in his life as at his death: Recorded to the glory of God, his owne honour, and good example of others.

Good deeds done to the Towne of Campden, in the County of Gloucester.

HE built an Almes-house or Hospitall for sixe poore men, and sixe poore women, which cost 1000. li.

Since the yeere of the foundation of the said Almes-house, to wit, 1612. he hath allowed the said twelve poore people weekely maintenance, to the value of 1300. li.

And at his death, he hath settled 140. li. per annum, (for ever) upon the said Almes-house, allowing to each of the said poore Pentioners three shillings foure pence weekely; and yeerely, a Gowne, a Hat, and a Tunne of Coales.

Hee built a commodious Market-house in the said Towne, which cost 90. li.

By his last Will, he gave to the said Towne, The Remaines. Towne, for the setting of the poore to worke, a Stocke of 500. li.

To the Church of Campden.

He gave a Bell which cost threescore and sixe pounds.

He caused a Pulpit to be made, and gave a Cloth and Cushion thereto, which cost two and twenty pounds.

He built a Gallery there, which cost eight pounds.

Hee made a Window, which cost thirteene pounds.

He gave a brasse Faulcon, which cost sixe and twenty pounds.

Hee gave two Communion Cups, which cost one and twenty pounds.

He built the Roofe of the Chancell, and new leaded it, which cost 200. li.

He repaired the Chappell by the said Chauncell, supplied and new cast the Leads, which cost 20. li.

He round walled the Church-yard, which cost 150. li.

Within the County of Middlesex.

He built a Sessions house for the Iustices of Middlesex, to keepe their Sessions in, which cost 600. li.

He repaired and adorned the Chappell of Hampsted, which cost threescore and sixteene pounds.

He caused a Window to be set up in the Chancell of Kensington, and beautified it, which cost 30. li.

He hath given by his last Will to the said Towne of Kensington, to be imployed for the benefit of the poore, the sum of 200. li.

In the City of London.

Hee hath given by his last Will to Saint Bartholmewes Hospitall, 100. li.

To Christs Church Hospitall, 50. li.

To Newgate, Ludgate, and the two other prisons of the Counters, 40. li.

He erected a Window in Saint Laurence Church in the Old Iewry, and gaue a Pulpit Cloth, and a Cushion also, which cost 30. li.

Impropriations purchased, and bestowed upon the Church.

One in Pembrokeshire, to be given to the Towne of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire; whereof one moity goeth to the Preacher, and the other moity to the poore, which cost 460. li.

Another in Northumberland; whereof one moity is to be given towards the maintenance of an able Preacher in Hampsted, the other moity to Saint Pauls Schoole in London, towards the maintenance of certaine Schollers in Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge, which cost 760. li.

One in the Bishopricke of Durham, to bee bestowed on such Churches as shall have most need thereof; according to the disposition of the Supervisers, which cost 366. li.

Another in Dorsetshire, to bee bestowed in the like manner, which cost 760. li.

Certaine Chauntry Lands also in Lincolneshiere, which cost 240. li.

He hath also given to two Ministers, to bee chosen out of Iesus Colledge in Oxenford, to serve in their severall places, 40. li. each man per annum, which cost 80. li.

He hath bequeathed Legacies to severall Ministers, the summe of 140. li.

Hee hath given to Master A. E. during his life, yeerely the summe of 100. li.

He hath given among his houshold servants the summe of 300. li.

An Epitaph made in his Memoriall. Reader, know, who-ere thou be, Here lies Faith, Hope, and Charity, Faith true, Hope firme, Charity free, Baptist, Lord Campden, was these three. Faith in God, Charity to Brother, Hope for himselfe, what ought he other? Faith is no more, Charity is crown’d, Tis onely Hope is under ground. Ttt2Vpon

The Remaines. Vpon a Tombe in the Temple Church in London.

Here lieth the body of Anne Littleton, Wife of Edward Littleton, of the Inner Temple, Esquire, sonne and heire of Sir Edward Littleton of Henley, in the County of Salop, Knight; daughter of Iohn Littleton of Franckley, in the County of Worcester, Esquire, by Meriel, the daughter of Sir Thomas Bomley, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England. She died the vj. day of February 1623. on whom was made this Epitaph:

Here she lies, whose spotlesse fame invites a stone to learne her name. The rigid Spartan, that deny’d an Epitaph to all that dy’d, Vnlesse for Warre or Chastity; would here vouchsafe an Elegy. Shee did a Wife, but yet her minde (beyond Virginity refinde) From lawlesse fire remain’d as free, as now from heat her aſhes be. Her husband (yet without a sinne) was not a stranger, but her kin, That her chaste Love might seeme no other, vnto a husband then a brother. Keepe well this pawne, thou marble chest, till it be cal’d for, let it rest: For while this Iewell here is set, The grave is but a Cabinet.

Vpon a Tombe in the Chancell in Saint Botolphs Aldersgate.

She died a Virgin on Whitsunday, Anno Domini 1622. about eighteene yeeres of age, and having at her death a spirituall combat with Satan about her Salvation, wherein shee prevailing most cheerefully, departed from Earth to Heaven, to bee married to Christ Jesus the Lord of both.

At the bottome.

The Monument of Mistres Iudeth Plat, the onely Daughter of Sir Hugh Plat, Knight, with the matches of her Ancestours, and neere Allies on her Father and Mothers side; as also her lineall Descent from the ancient Earles of Surry, Huntingdon, Arundell and Chester, and her spirituall conquest at her death against Satan.

This Tombe is in Saint Brides Church.

Here resteth the body of Sir George Curzon, of Croxall, in the County of Derby, descended from ancient Gentry, and of long continuance in that place; who, like the Race from whence he came, was a man of upright life, religious and hospitable; He tooke to Wife Mary, the daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, of Lelleshull, in the County of Salop, Knight, by whom he had Walter, who died young, and Mary, then his onely Daughter and Heire, who was married to Edward Sackvill, Earle of Dorset, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter; which Lady caused this Monument to be here infixed, to the sacred memory of her deare Father. He departed this life the 17. of November, 1622.

This Tombe stands in Saint Giles Cripplegate Church.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Here lieth the body of Matthew Palmer, Esquire, who died the 18. of May, 1605. together with Anne his Wife, who died the last day of Iune, 1630. by whom hee had foure Sons and one Daughter, viz. Thomas Palmer, his eldest Sonne, deceased the fifth of May, 1631. and here also buried: Elizabeth, Edward, Andrew, and Ralfe, who when as it so pleaseth God, The Remaines. God, desire this place for the custody of their bodies likewise, till their assured and glorious Resurrection.

This Monument stands in St. Andrewes Church in Holborne.

Antiquo Stemate Nobilis, avitis suis virtutibus clarius; hic jacet Iohannes Ashburnham, nuper de Ashburnham miles, qui obijt in festo Sancti Petri, 1620. Aetatis 49. Relictis conjuges charissimis Iohanne, Gulielmo; Elizabeth, Francisca, Anna, & Catherina.

Domina Eliz. Ashburnham.

Vidua F. Thomae Beamount de Staughton in Com. Leicestr. Milit. Hoc amori & officio consulens, meritissimo viri lugubris posuit, 1621.

This Tombe was made 1629. and stands in the Temple Church.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Here resteth the body of Clement Coke, of Langford, in the County of Derby, Esquire, youngest Sonne of Sir Edward Coke, Knight, late chiefe Justice of England; and of Bridget his Wife, Daughter and Co-heire of Iohn Paston of Paston, in the County of Norfolke, Esquire: this Clement married Sara, Daughter and Co-heire of Alexander Rediche of Rediche, in the County of Lancaster, Esquire, and of Katherine his Wife, sole daughter & Heire of Humphrey Dethick of Newal, in the County of Derby, Esquire, and had issue by the said Sara, living at his death, Edward Robert, Bridget, and Avise: hee in the Inner Temple being a Fellow of the same, Christianly and comfortably in his flourishing age, yeelded up his soule to the Almighty, the three and twentieth of May, Anno Dom. 1629.

This Monument stands in Christs Church, and was made 1627.

Neere unto this place lyeth buried the body of Nicholas Beamount, of Cole-Overton, in the County of Leicester, Esquire, and Anne his Wife, the Daughter of William Saunders, of Welfard, in the County of Northamton, Esquire, by whom he had issue foure Sonnes and two Daughters, viz. Henry, Francis, Thomas, and Hunting, Dorothy, and Katherine; the said Nicholas died the fourth of November, 1598. His Wife died the tenth of February, 1591. In remembrance of whom, this Monument was erected at the care and cost of Elizabeth Lady Ashburnham, Widdow, late Wife of Sir Iohn Ashburnham, Knight, Daughter to Sir Thomas Beamount of Staughton, in the County aforesaid; their third sonne, at the appointment of her Vnkle, Master Francis Beamount, Esquire, their second Sonne, to whom the Erector hereof was Executrix.

This Tombe was made 1631. and stands neere the South doore in Westminster.

Michael Draiton, Esquire, a memorable Poet of this age, exchanged his Laurell for a Crowne of glory, Anno Dom. 1631.

Doe pious Marble, let thy Readers know, What they, and what their children owe To Draitons name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust: Protect his Memory, and preserve his Story, Remaine a lasting Monument of his glory: And when thy Ruines shall disclaime, To be the Treasurer of his Name: His Name that cannot fade, shall be An everlasting Monument to thee. Ttt3The

The Remaines. The Foundation of the Armory of that remarkable Nurcery of Military Discipline, called the Artillery Garden London, was begun to be erected the first day of May, An. Dom. 1622. and was finished the last day of November then next following, Colonell Hugh Hammersley being then President, Edward Pierce Treasurer, Henry Petowe Marshall, and Iohn Bingham Esquire, Captaine, and one of the Councell of warre for this Kingdome.

Vpon which Monument these Lines following were composed.

Londons Honour, and her Citizens approved Love, exercising Armes in the Artillery Garden London. The Fabricke. THis Architecture, Phoenix of our age, (All Europe cannot shew her Equipage) Is Mars his Mistresse, which retaines the store Of Mars his Armes, being Mars his Paramore, This Fabricke was by Mars his Souldiers fram’d, And Mars his Armory’s this Building nam’d. The Souldiers Honuor. It holds five hundred Armes to furnish those, That love their Soveraigne, and will daunt His foes, They spend their time, and doe not spare for cost, To learne the use of Armes, there’s nothing lost; Both time and coyne to doe their Country good, They’l spend it freely, and will lose their blood. The Aldermans Love. Our City London is a Royall thing, For it is call’d the Chamber of our King; Whose worthy Senate we must not forget, Their Grant and our Request together met, They cherrish us, and wee doe honour them; Where Souldiers finde true love, they’l love agen. The The Remaines. The Ground. The Ground whereon this building now doth stand, The Teasell ground hath heretofore beene nam’d. The Donor of the ground. And William, Pryor of the Hospitall, Then of our blessed Lady, which wee call Saint Mary Spittle without Bishopsgate, Did passe it by Indeuture, bearing date, Ianuaries third day, in Henry’s time, The eighth of that name, the Covent did conjoyne. The Vse. Vnto the Guyle of all Artillery, Crosse-bowes, Hand-guns, and of Archery, The terme of yeeres. For full three hundred yeeres excepting three, The time remaining wee shall never see. The Councels confirmation. Now have the Noble Councell of our King, Confirm’d the same, and under Charles his wing, We now doe exercise, and of that little Teasell ground, we inlarg’d Saint Mary Spittle, Trees we cut down, and Gardens added to it, Thankes to the Lords that gave us leave to doe it. A loyall Subjects desire. Long may this worke endure, and ne’r decay, But be supported till the latest day. All loyall Subjects to the King and State, Will say Amen, mauger Spleene or Hate.

Mariscallus Petowe composuit.

The Remaines. On a Tombe in the South wall of Saint Botolphs Church without Aldersgate, London.

Neere to this place lyeth buried the body of Pierce Edgcombe, in the County of Devon, Gentleman, who deceased the 8. day of Iuly, 1628. in assured hope of a ioyfull Resurrection.

Behold the end of Dust and Clay, O thou which livest with living eye, Yet doth his soule for ever raigne With Christ, which he by faith did gaine: In Learning he his time did spend, And Vertue was the only end; So long before his glasse was runne, With World and Vanity he had done. A. E. Frater ejus.

In Saint Botolphs Church, on a Tombe there.

Here lyeth the body of Christopher Tamworth, of Grayes-Inne, in Holborne, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, third Sonne of Christopher Tamworth of Halsted, in the County of Leicester, Esquire, who died the 19 of September, 1624. being of the age of threescore and ten yeeres.

HE having dealt kindly and liberally with his Wife, and many of his kindred & friends, and to the poore of divers Parishes, hath also by his Will given xx. li. of currant money of England, to the Deane and Prebends of the Colledge of Saint Peters of the City of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, to bee imployed by them about the reparations of the said Colledge Church of Saint Peters.

And 400. markes, to the intent that with that mony, there should be twenty markes worth of Lands of inheritance of yeerely rent to be purchased, whereby there may be one in holy Orders maintained, to say Divine Service, such as the Church of England shall allow of, every worke day in the yeere, twice perpetually, viz. at or about nine of the clocke in the morning, and at or about three of the clocke in the afternoone, in the Parish Church of Saint Botolphs without Aldersgate, London.

And 400. li. to the end and intent that there should be 20. li. of lands of annuall Revenew, of inheritance by the yeere bought with it, to allow perpetually to sixe poore men, and foure poore Widdowes past labour, dwelling and inhabiting within the Parish of Saint Botolph aforesaid, 40. shillings a yeere apeece, to be paid quarterly, with this limitation, that the said poore people shall bee bound to repaire every worke day in the yeere twice a day, to heare Divine Service in the Parish Church aforesaid, at the houres and tearmes aforesaid.

And 200. markes more to purchase Lands of inheritance of the annuall value by the yeere of 6. li. 3. s. 4. d. for the maintenance of one within holy Orders, to say divine Service as aforesaid, every worke day in the weeke twice, thorow the whole yeere perpetually, in the Parish Church of Saint Martins in Leicester, in the County of Leicester aforesaid, at the hourses and times afore mentioned.

All which said summes of money he willed should be actually and really delivered into the hands and possession of the Deane and Prebends of Westminster aforesaid, within xx. dayes next immediatly after his death, for the performance and use afore mentioned, within the space and time of two yeeres at the vttermost, after his death.

And having made Audrey, one of the Daughters of Charles Allayne of the Mote, in the County of Kent, Esquire, Sonne and Heire of Sir Christopher Allayne, Knight, his deare and loving Wife, his full Executrix, she faithfully performed the same, according to the trust reposed on her by her Husbands Will: and in remembrance of him, hath at her owne cost and charges erected this Monument.

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The Remaines. The Gift of Sir Paul Pinder to Saint Pauls Church in London.

SIR Paul Pinder Knight, in the time of King Iames, his Majesties Embassadour many yeeres, resident at Constantinople with the great Turke, hath of sate, to the glory of God, to the delight and content of all good Protestants, and for the better expression of his love and zeale to true Religion, beautifully and bountifully with great costs and charges, repaired the old decayed stone worke of the Westfront of the Chancell in Saint Pauls Church in London, adorning the outside thereof with many faire polished pillers of blacke Marble, and with curious carved Statues of Kings and Bishops, the first Founders and Benefactors of the whole Fabricke, and also graced the inside thereof with divers Angels and other ornaments; he hath likewise amended and repaired all the decayes and defects of the Wainscot worke of the Quier, and hath further beautified the same with a faire rayle of Wainscot, and a great number of Cherubins artificially carved: all which work he hath caused to be sumptuously gilded and painted with rich colours in Oyle; hee hath also magnificently clothed the whole Quier, and the upper part of the Presbytery, with faire and chargeable Tapestry-Hangings: Whose godly and pious example, will (I hope) excite and stirre up other Religious and well-minde Gentlemen, and Citizens, to performe some acts of piety and bounty towards the reparation of the same Church.

Of the ancient Court of the Hustings.

I Finde it diversly written in Latine, Hustingum, Hustingus, Hustingia, and sometimes (but falsely) Hustangus. It is the ancientest and the highest Court of Justice, of the famous City of London. The name it takes from the place of keeping that Court (as Prytaneum did at Athens) for foreign (huſ) among the old Saxons, signified an house, and foreign dhing or thing, a Cause or Plea; so that foreign Husthing, signified the house of Causes or Pleadings: whereupon in the Saxon tongue foreign , Thingere, Thingarius, signified an Advocate or Lawyer: which others would perchance derive rather from foreign or foreign thung, or gedhung, which signified Honourable, for that the most honorable Magistrates of the City, held their Court there; like as the Lord Maior and Sheriffes, and in absence of the Sheriffes, sixe of the Aldermen at this day doe.

The Antiquity of this famous Court of Hustings, is much magnified by the Compiler of King Edwards Lawes, cap. 35. in these words: There ought alwayes in the City of London, which is the head City of the Kingdome and of the Lawes, to bee held upon every (a)(a) This is altered unto Tuesday, because of the Sheriffes intending of the Markets: which being kept upō Munday, would hinder their sitting in the Hustings. Munday weekely, a Court of our Soveraigne Lord the King, at the Huststings. This Court was founded and built of old, after the fashion and manner, yea and in the memory of the ancient City of Troy: and even unto this day containes it within it selfe the Lawes, and rights, and dignities, liberties, and customes Royall of that ancient and great Troy. There be handled the intricatest (b)(b) Compta perchance the word signifies Measures rather thā Accounts: for Compotus ager, is a field surveighed, whose quantities were set downe in the Land marke or Terrier: and here perchance was kept a generall surveigh of all the Lands of the Kingdome, as now in the Domes-day Booke in the Exchequer. The forme whereof, the Conquerour perchance tooke from the Hustings. accounts and the doubtfull Pleas of the Crowne, and of the Court of our Lord the King, of the whole Kingdome aforesaid: and this Court hath even to this day preserved her The Remaines. her owne ancient Customes most inviolably. Thus farre my Author, who (by his leave) smels too rankly of that Fabler, Geffery of Munmouth.

And yet something there is in the Hustings, which might give countenance to this comparison of old Troy, namely, that the well-knowne weight used for Gold and Silver, called Troy-weight, was in time of the Saxons called, The Hustings weight of London, and kept there in the Hustings. So an ancient Record in the booke of Ramsey, Sect. 32 and 127. I Aethelgina Countesse, &c. bequeath two silver Cups of twelve markes of the Hustings weight of London.

The former Law of the said King Edward the Confessor, commands the Hustings Court to be held every Munday, though at this day it be held upon the Tuesday: which that it may not be perceived by the Monuments and Rolls of the Court, to have differed too much from the first Institution, is yet said and written, to be holden upon the Munday. It is as it were distinguished into two Courts: for one weeke the Iudges sit upon Pleas meerely reall, and the next weeke upon Actions mixt, or of any other nature whatsoever.

Out of the same Booke of Ramsey Abbey, Sect. 268. will I here set down the ancient forme of purchasing and giving of possession used in the Hustings: which is farre different from the fashion used at this day. Be it knowne unto all the sonnes of holy Church, that Wlfnoth of Walebroc, London, have sold unto Reynold, Abbot of Ramsey, a certaine piece of land which hee had ** Super Walbroc. in Walebroc, whence he was called Wlfnoth of Walbroc. As also a certaine house of stone, and a Shop which hee had built upon that land, with doores of yron, and windowes above and beneath, &c. Which said Wlfnoth hath sold that Land unto the Abbot of Ramsey, and hath given him seisin of it, by delivery of a certaine staffe, and hath * * Et clamavit solam & quietam, & abs{que} omni calumpnia. quite claimed unto it to all encumbrance: quiet, and void of all encumbrance: both he, and Mahald his Wife and his first wives Daughter: and Mahald his second Wife, and Henry his sonne by his second wife, and Christine her daughter, before the whole Husting of London, in the house of Alfwine, sonne of Leofstan: to bee held from this day forth for ever by the Church of Ramsey, in consideration of ten pounds of pence, which hee gave unto him in presence of the whole Court of Hustings; of which ten pounds, he the said Wolfnoth gave forty shillings unto Maud his daughter for her ** Propter concessum suum. For giving up her right in it, perchance. good will, because he had the Land by her Mother. And the Abbot for his part gave her halfe a marke of silver; and unto Wlfnoths Wife, and other two children, for their good wills, he gave five shillings. Of this bargaine and sale, be on the part of the Hustings these witnesses, William of Einesford, Sheriffe of London, and Iohn his Vnder-Sheriffe, and Gervase his Clarke; Andrew Bucuint, and Ralfe his sonne, and Ralfe his cousin; Gilbert Proudfoot, William Bukerell, and many others.

This deed hath no date mentioned, but I finde this Reinold to have beene made Abbot of Ramsey, by King Henry the first as his Charter shewes, Sect. 214. The Successor to this Reinold was one Walter but what yeere he was made Abbot in, I finde not; but I finde that he flourished Anno, 1149. that is, the fourteenth yeere of King Stephen. By this may you judge of the antiquity of the deed, though the precise day be not dated.

By this passage it cleerely appeareth, that London was honoured with her Sheriffes Office, even in the age of King Henry the ** Which was above 500. yeers since. first, although our Chroniclers affirme the Sheriffes to be made first by King Richard * * Which was almost 100. yeeres after. the first, at his comming to the Crowne: from whose time our said Chroniclers begin to reckon the first Maior and Sheriffes, that is, from the yere of our Lord 1189. But that the Sheriffes were granted unto the City, together with the County of Middlesex, plainely appeares by the said Kings Charter concerning the liberties of London, given in the beginning of his Raigne: nor doe the Maior and Sheriffes much differ from those former Magistrates of the City, the Portreve, and Provost, as might bee proved.

The Remaines. Moreover, the Cities, of Yorke, Winchester, Lincolne, the Ile of Shepey, with other Burroughs and Cities, are also said to have had their Hustings. See Fleta. Lib. 2. cap. 55.

A briefe Collection how the Court of Request, commonly called the Court of Conscience, in London, hath beene established and continued for many yeeres past, for the reliefe of poore Debtors in London, and the Liberties thereof, viz.

FIrst,Anno 9. H. 8. I finde that primo February, Anno 9. H. 8. an Act of Common Councell was made,The first begining of the said Court. that the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the same City for the time being, should monethly assigne and appoint two Aldermen, and foure discreet Commoners to be Commissioners to sit in the same Court twice a weeke, viz. Wednesday, and Saterday, there to heare and determine all matters brought before them betweene party and party, (being Citizens and Freemen of London) in all cases where the due debt or damage did not exceed forty shillings.

This Act was to continue but for two yeeres then next ensuing: But being found charitable and profitable for the reliefe of such poore Debtors as were not able to make present payment of their debts;The reasons why the said Court hath had continuation. and to restraine malicious persons, from proceeding in their wilfull Suits: and also to bee a great ease and helpe to such poore persons as had small debts owing to them, and were not able to prosecute Suits in Law for the same elsewhere:Other Acts made since to the same purpose. The same Act hath sithence bin continued by divers other Acts of Common Councell: and hereby (besides the said two Aldermen monthly assigned) the number of Commissioners were increased, from foure to twelve. And so by that Authority, the same Court continued till the end of the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth, &c.

And then divers people, being Citizens and Freemen of London (contrary to their Oathes formerly taken) repining at the authority of the same court, and not regarding the expence of any charges how great soever, so they might have their desires upon their poore Debtors,The malicious proceeding of cruell Creditors against poore men that claimed the benefit of the Court. and being often animated thereunto by divers Attorneys and Solicitors (for their owne particular gaine) did dayly commence Suits, for such petty debts and causes against poore men (Citizens and Freemen of London) in the high Courts at Westminster, or else-where out of the said Court of Requests, to avoid the jurisdiction of the same Court, and to barre the said Commissioners from staying such Suits, and examining the said causes, and thereby caused the said poore men many times to pay sixe times as much charges as their principall debts or damage did amount unto, to the undoing of such poore men, their wives and children, and also to the filling of the Prisons with the poore so sued: where otherwise they might have got their Debts in the said Court of Requests, for very small charge and little trouble.

For remedy whereof, & for the strengthening & establishing the said Court, an Act of Parliament was then made in Anno primo Iacobi Regis, An. 1. Iac. An Act of Parliament for confirming the power of the Court. that every Citizen and Freeman of London, that had, or should have any Debts owing to him, not amounting to forty shillings, by any Debtors (Citizens and Free men of London) inhabiting in London or the liberties thereof, should or might cause such Debtors to be warned to appeare before the Commissioners of the said Court; and that the said Commissioner, or the greater number of them, should from time to time set downe such orders betweene such parties, Plantiffe and Defendant, Creditor and Debtor, touching such debts not exceeding forty shillings, as they should finde to stand with equity and good conscience.

But sithence the making of that Act, divers persons (intending to subvert the good and charitable intent of the same) have The Remaines. have taken hold of some doubtfull and ambiguous words therein, and have wrested the same for their owne lucre and gaine, to the avoiding the jurisdiction of the same Court, contrary to the godly meaning of the said Act.

For remedy whereof, and to the intent that some more full and ample provision might bee made for the further establishing and strengthening of the said Court, and for the better reliefe of such poore Debtors; another Act of Parliament was made,An. 3. Iac. Anno 3. Ias. whereby the authority of the said Commissioners were much inlarged, viz. that every Citizen and Freeman of London, An other Act of Parliament concerning all debts under the summe of forty shillings. [and every other person and persons inhabiting, or that shall inhabit within the City of London, or the liberties thereof, being a Tradesman, Victualer, or Labouring man,] which have or shall have any debts owing to him or them, not amounting to forty shillings, by any Citizen or Freeman [or by any other person or persons (being a Victualer, Tradesman, or Labouring man) inhabiting within the said City, or the Liberties thereof] should or might cause such Debtors to be warned to appeare before the said Commissioners of the said Court of Requests. And the said Commissioners, or any three, or more of them, shall have power to set downe such Orders betweene Plaintiffe and Defendant, Creditor and Debtor, touching such debts not amounting to forty shillings, as they shall finde to stand with equity and good conscience.Power of administring an Oath. Also the said Commissioners, or any three, or more of them, have power (by the said Act) to minister an Oath to the Creditor or Debtor, and to such Witnesses as shall bee produced on each part: And also to commit to prison in one of the Counters, such Creditor or Debtor, as shall not appeare upon lawfull Summons, or not performe such order as the said Commissioners, or any three, or more of them shall set downe. And by this last Act, the said Court of Requests is established & continued to this day; and God grant it may so long continue to the reliefe of the poore, &c.

Collected by Thomas Griffins, sometimes a Clarke of the same Court, &c.

This Tombe stands in St. Giles Cripplegate Church.

P. M. S.

Virtute, Prudentia, Generis Nobilitate Inclytus, Clarus, Illustris, Hic Iacet.

HENRICVS STAPLETONVS E. Dioecesi Eboracensi,

Acri Wighilnencis Olim Dominus, Aetatis Suae An. 56. ab Incarnato Verbo. 1630.

Decimo Sexto die menſis Feb. Vitam morte mortem Immortali gloria Commutavit, atque Stipante Amicorum Syrmate collacrymantis, Patriae Cerentium vices, in hac aede elatus D. Andreae Terrae mandatus est.

MARIA,

Iohannis Fosteri Equitis Aurati, mediorum Angliae finium borialium Custodis, Filia,

Moestissima hoc Junere vidua, tanti conjugij memor, Artemisianae pietatis aemula non magnificentia, hoc perpetuum tam meritorum ejus, quam Superstitis amoris sui, Monumentum Erigit, Consecrat, Dicat.

By his Honourer and Kinsman, Robert Stapleton.

There are thirteene Scutchions of Armes.

The Remaines. Vpon a Tombe in Grace Church, being at the corner as you goe into Fen-Church street, with this Inscription.

To the memory of Iames Bunce, Esquire, sometime Burgesse of the Parliament for this City, married Mary, daughter of George Holmeden of Kent, Gentleman, by whom hee had seven children, whereof living at the time of his decease, Iames his eldest son, who married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Gipps, Esquire, Mathew, and Mary, wife of Master Iohn Langham, of this City Merchant; he departed this life the 26. of Ianuary, Anno 1631. aged 68.

When death cuts off a branch from earths worne stem, Faith, hope, transports the soule to heavens Di’dem.

On a Grave-stone there.

Here lyeth Iames Bunce, Esquire, that departed this life the 26. of Ianuary, Anno 1631. and Mary his wife, that died the second of October, 1612.

Vpon a Gravestone in St. Fosters Church in Faringdon Ward within, with this Inscription on it.

Heere lyeth the bodyes of Lawrence Hawes, Citizen and Fishmonger of London, about 63. yeeres of age, and of Vrſula his Wife, the daughter of Iohn Hericke, of Leicester Esquire, 82. yeeres of age; they had issue together five Sonnes and two Daughters, Edward, George, Humfrey, Iohn, Dorothy, and Thomasin; he deceased the tenth of Aprill, 1588. and shee died the 24. of November, 1614.

This Monument stands in Saint Margarets Church in Westminster, and hath this Inscription.

Annae, vxori suae a mantissimae & optimae, Filiae Willielmi Barlowi, Episcopi Cicestrensis, & Agathae Welsborne, generosae conjugis ejus, diem suum quinto idus Decembris, Anno Domini 1597. obeunti Westmonasterij, quo virum ad Parliamentum comitabatur; Harbartus Westfalingus, Episcopus Herefordiensis, susceptis ex ipsa quin{que} liberis; Harbarto, qui duxit Franciscam Rudhall generosam; Anna quae Gulielmo Ieffereys Ar. Margareta, quae Richardo Eedes wigorniae Decano; Elizabetha, quae Roberto Walweyne generso; & Francisca, quae Francisco Ienkes generoso nupta est.

In memoriam virtutis, & amoris ipsius posuit.

In the same Church is a new Monument lately erected, in the North Ile, and this Inscription on it.

In expectation of a joyfull Resurrection, neere this place resteth the body of Robert Golding, Gentleman, borne in this City of Westminster, and sometime chiefe Burgesse thereof: His Honesty, and Charitable life, gained good esteeme; his Age, due and deserved respect of all. And in the house where he tooke beginning in his infancy, hee most peaceably and piously ended his dayes on the 22. of November, 1629. Being alwaies carefull of his wayes, charitable to the poore, and very judicious and ready in discharging of all Offices incident to the civill Governement of this City, wherein he fully Vuupro The Remaines. proceeded long before his death. He lived to see the change of foure Kings and Queenes, and yet in assured hope of never changing blisse, by the meritorious passion of his only Mediator, Christ Jesus: Hee never altered or changed from the now truly professed Religion, wherein he most constantly died in the 78. of his age▪ leaving behinde him two sons and three daughters.

To whose pious memory William Golding, his eldest sonne, and sole Executor, hath at his owne charge erected this Monument, Iune 1631.

This Monument stands in Westminster Abbey, and hath this Inscription.

Here lies expecting the second comming of our Lord Iesus Christ, the body of Edmond Spencer, the Prince of Poets in his time, whose divine Spirit needs no other witnesse, then the workes which hee left behind him: He was borne in London, in the yeere and died in the yeere 1596.

This Monument stands in Westminster Abbey with this Inscription. Deo Optim. Maxim. Hic in Domino requiescit Richardus Cox de Porters, eques Aurat: Filius Tertius Thomae Cox, de Beymonds Comit. Harford. Armigeri, In hospitio Regio per multos annos Oeconomicus, Fidelitate, Diligentia, Et Prudentia probatus, Reginae Eliz. à Dietis, Item & Regi Iacobo, cui tandem factus est Magister Hospitij Digniss. Vir Religionis Cultu, Morum Comitate, Corporis Castitate Affectuum temperantia, Imprimiss spectatus Erga Bene-meritos Amore, suos Beneficentia, Pauperes Caritate, omnes Aequitate, Clarus. Anno Aetatis 69. Coelebs, postquam se vitae Meliori, multâ vigilantiâ, & Devotione praepar âsset, Deo placidè Animam reddidit, 13. Decemb. 1623. Ioannes Cox de Beymonds Armiger, Frater secundus Fratri è Testamento Haeres, Amoris hoc Monumentum posuit. Deus non est Mortuorum sed viventium.

This Monument of Master Camden is in Westminster Abbey, where hee holds a Booke with Britannia on it. There followes this Inscription. Qui fide Antiqua, & opera assidita, Britanicam Antiquitatem Indagavit, Simplicitatem Innatam Honeſtis Studijs excoluit, Animi Solertiam Candore illustravit, Guliemus Camdenus, ab Elizabetha R. ad Regis Armorum (CLrentij Titulo) Dignitatem evucatus, Hic spe certa Resurgendi in Christo. S. E. Q. Obijt Anno Domini 1623. 9. Novembris. Aetatis suae, 74. IOHN

The Remaines. IOHN KING Bishop of London, descended from the Ancient KINGS of Devonshire by his Father, and from the CONQVESTS of Haughton Conqnest, in Bedfordshire, by his Mother, lyes buried in the South Ile of Saint Pauls, behind the Bishops Seat, having onely a plaine Marble over him, and RESVRGAM written on it for his Epitaph; as himselfe directed in his Will.

These Verses hang by in a Table.

IOANNIS KING Episcopi Londinensis, quicquid mortale est in hoc pulvere componitur. HIC IACET, nisi quis calumnietur, Mendax Transliberinus Ambulator, Transferri Cineres, Fidemque Romam. Et migrâsse semel, simulque utrumque; Praesul Catholicus, sed Orthodoxus. Non partis studiosus, evagari per divortia multa opinionum, Aut Sectas didicit novas creare: Quod si qui fuerint notae prioris, Quos vulgus facit & colit Magistros, His tantâ levitate non adhaesit, Vt persona fide magis placeret: Magna nomina, sed minora semper Isthaec omnia, Veritate duxit. Tantum-non fuit Ille de Locustis, Aut rasis Monachis, pijs que nequam, Vrbem qui gravidâre Septicollem: Qui circum Capitolium strepentes Romanum, velut Anseres sonori, Cygnaeas temerare cantilenas Audent, per modulamen inficetum: Et pro vocibus ultimis Oloris, Commendare suas, & Anserinas. Sed, quod nec Calami, nec Ora centum: Nec Perjuria mille de Duaco; Nec Satan Decumanus ille mendax; Nec tandem Legio Diabolorum, Extorquere suis strophis valebunt: Vnus si Deus est, Fides & vna▪ Huic vni immoriens, & Anglicanae. Quod si quis Logodaedalus profanus, Aut Famae Plagiarius Scelestus, Quicquam Sacrilego reponat ore: Si Vafer Fidei foreign , Qui vult de similâ Deum creare, Et Christum jubet innatare vino: Et sic Hereticos & Orthodoxos Confundit, facit utque symbolizent Plus quam Pythagorae foreign , Seductum crepat hunc Apostatâsse: Tam ventosa Fides videtur illis; Tam ventosus & Ille Christianus; Vt post tot, docilis Senex, aristas, Accessisse putetur imparatus, Infansque, ad Documenta Leſsiana. Non plures libet, Arbitros citare, Quam Conscire suum: quod apprecares Testem, Carnificamque, Iudicemque, Illi, quisquis erat Sacer Poeta; An plus crediderit suae Legendae, Quam vulgi pius ille fascinator, Autor plumbeus Aureae Legendae. Quin si jurat idem sat impudenter, Lingua peierat; at quid inde? Mentem Injuratus habet; Scioque habebit. Tis si credideris secus VIATOR, Nugis, Impliciti necessitate Assensus, bibulam fidem recludens, Si quis Ser aphicus propinet Autor; Veternum excutias: & absque tandem Susceptore, tuum pares Adultus Examen, tibi teque cognitorem Ponas, & sapias monente Amico. Sin sis Credulitatis obstinatae, Conclamatus es: ILICET. Deinceps Te Stultum jubeo libenter esse.

In Diem Obitus. Quem foreign Domini fecerat Sacriū Diem, Et Mors coronis integri Certaminis: Hunc aeque Amicum Numen indulsit diem. Desider ando, quod prope hic, Capiti, lacet, Quo solveretur Vita vitalis parum. Dolorum utrumque dixeris recte Virum; Hic Saxeam, Ille Ligneam sensit Crucem, Hic intus, Ille bajulans Extra suam: Dolorum, utri{que} Lux posuit una & modii. Quin ipsa Lux haec masculum robur dedit, Vt nil tremendum Mortis, incuteret metus; Sed Pascha verum, Transitus potius foret, Aeternitati Prodromus. Marmor loquax Vvv2Spirat The Remaines. Spirat RESVRGAM, Mysticis candës Notis: Nec ipse Sadducaeus apparet Lapis. Condit{que} tantum, non Premit Corpus: grave Spes ista superat pondus, & Summum petit; Nec detine bit mole Depositum suâ; Sed sponte ruptus Exitum tandem dabit. Cum Triduanum dormierit. Ipsus tulit Hanc, Christus Olim, Tertiae Lucis moram. (Nec mille Saecla Triduum excedunt Dei.) Sic tota demum, juncta Primitijs, Seges Egerminabit. Haec Via ad Patriam, Mori. Calcata Mors est; Surget ad Patriam vigil. Hanc spē fovebat Ille: quod sculptii hic legis, Sed Corde fixum fuerat, & Coeloratum.

Anagram: Nominis, & Chronogr: Aetatis 62. currentis. IOANNES KINGVS PRAELATVS. EN APERTVS IONAS ANGLIKVS.

Chronogramma Anni Domini 1621. ECCE CVPIO DISSOLVI, AC CHRISTO ADGLVTINARI.

Philip. 1. 23. Pauli hoc dissolvi, repeti non desiit, ante Quam, quae protulerat, Lingua soluta fuit.

EPITAPHIVM. Non hic Pyramides; non sculpta Panegyris ambit Hos Cineres; lapidum nec pretiosa strues. Quod frugale magis, Tibi Te cōmittimus unū: Si jaceas aliter, vilior Vmbra fores. Nam Tibi qui similis vivit, moritur{que}, Sepulcrū Ille sibi vivax, & sibi Marmor erit.

SE QVENTVR QVI NNONDVM PRAECESSERE.

Valentine Cary, sometimes Deane of Saint Pauls Church, and after Bishop of Excester, lyes buried on the South side of the Quire, vnder a plaine Stone, with this Inscription about it.

Hic jacet Valentinus Carey, Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, olim Decaenus hujus Ecclesiae, qui obijt Episcopus Exon: Cujus Monumentum, ibidem, erectum patet. 1626.

In the South side of the Quire of Saint Pauls Church stands a white Marble Statue on an Vrne, with this Inscription over it. Ioannes Donne Sac. Theol. profess. Post varia studia, Quibus ab Annis Tenerrimis Fideliter, nec infaeliciter incubuit, Instinctu, & Impulsu Spir. Sancti, Monitu, & Hortatu Regis Iacobi. Anno sui Iesu, 1614. & suae Aetat. 42. Decanatu hujus Eccles. indutus 27. Novemb. 1621. Exutus morte ultimo die Martii. An. 1631. Hic licet in Occiduo Cinere, Aspicit eum Cujus Nomen, est Oriens.

Vpon a faire Monument standing in the South Ile of Saint Pauls Church this is written.

W. S.

Gulielmus Cokaynus, Eques Auratus, Civis & Senator Londinenfis: Septemque abhine Annis, vrbis praefectus, Antiqua Cokaynorum Derbiensium Familia oriundus, Quia Bono publico vixit, & damno publico decessit, & Gaudio publico, Regem Iacobum, ad decorum hujus domus Dei, senescentis jam, & Corrugatae Restitudinem, solemnitèr, huc venientem, Consulatu suo, Magnificê excepit, id circo, in Templo publico, ad Aeternam Rei Memoriam,

Hîc situs est.

At verò, & Famae Celebritas, Quae viget in ore Hominum, & Gloria Beatitudinis, Quam Migrando adeptus est, & splendor Sobolis, quam Numerosam Genuit, atque Nobilem Reliquit, Iunctim Efficiunt omnia, ne dicatur,

Hîc situs est. Vna The Remaines.

Vnà cum illo, tot Homines mortui, quot in illo defunctae sunt virtutes; simul que & acies Ingenij, & popularis eloquij suada, & Morum gravitas, & probitas vitae, & Candor Mentis, & Animi Constantia, & prudentia singularis, & veri senatoris Insignia,

Hîc sepulta sunt.

Iam tuum est, Lector, Felicitatis ad Culmen Anhelare, per ista vestigia laudis, & venerandi imitatione Exempli, curare, ne unquam virtutis sic semina intereant, vt dicatur,

Hîc sepulta sunt.

Obijt 20. Octob Anno Dom. 1626. Et Aetatis suae 66.

Vpon another faire Monument standing by it is this Inscription. Memoriae S. Gulielmo Hewyr Armigero, Roberti Hewyt A. Killamarch in Agro Derbiensi, Filio secundo Genito, Qui, mortuo Fratre Natu Maiore, Paternam crevit Haereditatem, Posterisque Transmisit. Nobilem Mercaturam exercuit. Vita integerrima fuit, & Moribus suavissimis. Bonarum literarum studia promovit, Egenorum proventus Largiter Auxit, Liberalitate, Charitate, Insignis, Nec minor pietate. Religionem, cum Ministris sacris, & Coluit, & Fovit, Ita, per omnia, se ubique gessit, ut Probitatis, Comitatis, Candoris, Vivum Exemplar, Christum Redemptorem Cogitans Vitam ante Mortem Consummaverit. Filios Genuit Quatuor, Ioannem, Salomonem, Thomam, Gulielmum, Et Filias duas, Mariam, Elizabetham. Annum, Lxxvij. Agens, xij. Iunij. M.D.XCIX. ad patriam Coelestem evocatus, Magnum sui desiderium Reliquit Posteris, Qui Hoc pie ac Maeren. P. P.

The Monument upon which this Inscription is set, stands in our Ladies Chapell, in S. Pauls Church: at the foure corners of this faire Monument stand foure Iet Pillars, upon each the figure of an Angell, on the one side of it is the representation of Sir Iohn Wolley and his Lady; on the other, of their sonne Sir Francis, at the head and foot of it, all in blacke (as Mourners) the curious and artfull shadowes of his two Executors, Sir Arthur Mannering, and Master Iohn Minterne.

The Inscription. WOllei clarum nomen, natusque paterque, Ambo Equites, Natus Franciscus patre Ioanne, Clarus vt Haeredem virtutis, amoris, Honoris Praestaret, Monumenta sibi haec, & utrique Parenti Constituit, Generis qui nominis unicus Haeres, Tam cito, tam Claros, est defecisse dolendum. Ille Pator, Lumen, literarum Nobile sydus, Oxoniae ex Meritis, Reginae accitus Elizae, Vt qui a secret is cum scriberet illa Latine, Vuu3Atque The Remaines. Atque a consiliis cum consultaret in Aula, Atque Periscelidis, qui Cancellarius esset, Tantum ille ingenio valuit, tantum instar in illo. Non minus omnimoda virtute illa inclyta Mater, Nobilibus Patre & Fratre illustrissima moris, Clara domi per se: sed Elisam ascivit Elisa, Clarior ut fieret, Wollei ornata Marite. Quo viduata, vire quo non praeclarior alter Nubat Egertono, Repetat sed mortua primum. Franciscus tandem, at nimium cîto utrum{que} sequutus, Hic jacet ante pedes eques illustrissimus, illis Haecponi jussit, seque & tria nomina Poni: Sic voluit, placuit, superis pia grata voluntas. Discite mortales, Memores sic esse Parentum, Dicite qui legitis, sic sic petit Aethera virtus.

The Stone bearing this Inscription, is in the middle Ile of this Church, not farre from the steps to the Chancell. Spe Resurgendi Hic jacet Thomas Raymond Sacrae Theologiae Professor, Sancti Albani Archidiaconus, Hujusque Ecclesiae Canonicus.

Obijt 4. die Novembris.

Anno Aetatis 47. Salutis 1631.

Not farre from this, a Stone with these words about it.

Hic jacet Gulielmus Bonham, nuper Civis, & Vinitarius London, Filius Thomae Bonham de Stanway in Comitatu Essex Arm. Qui obijt duodecimo Februarij. Anno Dom. 1628.

Not farre from the other.

Over against the little North doore, in the same Ile, under a faire marble stone, without any Inscription upon it, lyeth buried the body of Doctor houson, late Bishop of Durham.

This Monument is in Saint Giles Cripplegate Church, on the South side the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

Piae Memoriae Charissimorum Parentum.

Iohannis Speed, Civis Londinensis, Mercatorum Scissorum Fratris, servi fidelissimi Regiarum Majestatum Eliz. Iacobi, & Caroli nunc superstitis.

Terrarum nostrarum Geographi acurati, & fidi antiquitatis Britannicae Historiographi, Genealogiae sacrae Elegantissimi delineatoris. Qui postquam Annos 77. superaverat, non tam morbo confectus, quam mortalitatis taedio lassatus, Corpore se levavit, Iulij 28. 1629. & jucundissimo Redemptoris sui desiderio sursū elatus, carnem hîc in custodiā posuit, denuò cum Christus venerit, Recepturus.

On the other side of him.

Susannae suae suavissimae, quae postquam duodecim illi Filios, & sex Filias peperat, quinquaginta septem junctis utriusque solatijs cum illo vixerat, Liberos, The Remaines. LIberos, gravi & frequenti Hortamine, ad Dei cultum sollicitaverat, pietatis, & Charitatis opere quotidiano praeluxerat, emori demum erudiit suo exemplo. Quae septuagenaria placidè in Christo obdormivit, & Fidei suae mercedem habuit, Martij vigessimo octavo, Anno domini Millessimo sexcentessimo vigessimo octavo.

Another Monument on the North side the Quire, with this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Hic jacet Robertus Cage Armiger, omnium literarum Homo, Vita integer, morte Christianus, nec dum mortuus, nam in memoria aeterna erit justus.

Solus Christus, Mihi sola salus.

Anno Domini 1625.

Another Monument neere to this last, with this Inscription on it.

Here lies the body of Matthew Palmer, Esquire, who died the 18. of May 1605. together with Anne his wife, who died the last day of Iune, 1630. by whom he had foure sons and one daughter, viz. Thomas Palmer, his eldest sonne, deceased the 5. of May, 1631. and is also buried. Elizabeth, Edward, Andrew, and Ralphe, who when it so pleaseth God, desire this place for the custody of theìr bodies likewise, till their assured and glorious Resutrection.

Another Monument on the South side of the Quire, with this Inscription.

To the Memory

Of Constance Whitney, eldest daughter to Sir Robert Whitney, of Whitney, the proper possession of him and his Ancestors, in Herefordshire, for above 500. yeeres past. Her Mother was the fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy. of Charlecoite in Warwickshire, by Constance Kingsmell, daughter and Heire of Richard Kingsmell, Surveyor of the Court of Wards. This Lady Lucy, her Grandmother, so bred her since she was eight yeeres old,

Thus farre written upon the figure or resemblance of a Coffin.

As she excel’d in all noble qualities, becomming a Virgin of so sweet propertion of beauty and harmony of parts, she had all sweetnesse of maners answerable:

A delightfull sharpnesse of wit;

An offencelesse modesty of conversation;

A singular respect and piety to her Parents; but Religious even to example.

She departed this life most Christianly, at seventeene; dying, the griefe of all; but to her Grandmother an unrecoverable losse, save in her expectation, shee shall not stay long after her, and the comfort of knowing whose she is, and where in the Resurrection to meet her.

This Table is on the South side of the Quire in Saint Sepulchers, with this Inscription.

To the living Memory of his deceased Friend, Captaine IOHN SMITH, who departed this mortall life on the 21. day of Iune, 1631. with his Armes, and this Motto,

Accordamus, vincere est vivere. HEre lies one conquer’d that hath conquer’d Kings, Subdu’d large Territories, and done things Which to the World impossible would see me, But that the truth is held in more esteeme. Shall I report his former service done In honour of his God and Christendome: How The Remaines. How that he did divide from Pagans three, Their Heads and Lives, Types of his Chivalry: For which great service in that Climate done, Brave Sigismundus (King of Hungarion) Did give him as a Coat of Armes to weare, Those conquer’d heads got by his Sword and Speare? Or shall I tell of his adventures since, Done in Virginia, that large Continence: How that he subdu’d Kings unto his yoke, And made those Heathen flie, as wind doth smoke; And made their Land, being of so large a Station, A habitation for our Christian Nation: Where God is glorifi’d, their wants suppli’d, Which else for necessaries might have di’d? But what availes his Conquest, now he lyes Inter’d in earth, a prey for Wormes and Flies? O may his soule in sweet Elizium sleepe, Vntill the Keeper that all soules doth keepe, Returne to Iudgement, and that after thence, With Angels he may have his recompence.

Captaine Iohn Smith, sometime Governour of Virginia, and Admirall of New England.

Coya Shawsware.

THis Monument, or that of which this is a shadow, with their Characters ingraven about it, stands in Petty France, at the West end of the lower Churchyard of Saint Botolphes Bishopsgate (not within, but without the walls, the bounds of our consecrated ground) and was erected to the memory The Remaines. memory of one Coya Shawsware, a Persian Merchant, and a principall servant and Secretary to the Persian Ambassadour, with whom he and his sonne came over. He was aged 44. and buried the tenth of August, 1626. The Ambassadour himselfe, young Shawsware his sonne, and many other Persians, (with many expressions of their infinite love and sorrow) following him to the ground betweene eight and nine of the clocke in the morning. The rites and ceremonies that (with them) are due to the dead, were chiefly performed by his sonne, who sitting crosselegged at the North end of the grave, (for his Tombe stands North and South) did one while Reade, another while Sing; his Reading and Singing intermixt with sighing and weeping. And this, with other things that were done in the Grave in private (to prevent with the sight the relation) continued about halfe an houre.

But this was but this dayes businesse: for, as this had not beene enough to performe to their friend departed, to this place and to this end (that is, Prayer, and other funerall devotions) some of them came every morning and evening at sixe and sixe, for the space of a moneth together. And had come (as it was then imagined) the whole time of their abode here in England, had not the rudenesse of our people disturbed and prevented their purpose.

Camera Dianae.

VPon Pauls wharfe Hill, within a great gate, and belonging to that gate next to the Doctors Commons, are many faire Tenements, which in their Leaſes made from the Deane and Chapter, goe by the name or title of Camera Dianae; so denominated from aspacious and specious building, that in the time of Henry the second, stood where they now are standing.

In this Camera, or arch’d and vaulted Structure (full of intricate wayes and windings) this H. the second (as sometime he did at Woodstocke) did keepe, or was supposed to have kept, that Iewell of his heart, faire Rosamond; she whom there he called Rosa Mundi; and here, by the name of Diana; and from hence had this house that title.

To this day are remaines, and some evident testifications of tedious turnings and windings; as also of a passage under ground, from this house to Caste-Baynard, which was no doubt the Kings way from thence to his Camera Dianae, or the Chamber of his brightest Diana.

Of the three Brethen appointed to preach at Saint Maires Spittle at Easter 1632.

HAving renued the memory of this, from a time so long before us, let us remember and endevour to maintaine to posterity, among many memorable things of our owne time, that of those three worthy Brethren, Doctor Samuel Wincope, Master Thomas Wincope, and Master Iohn Wincope, learned and reverend Divines, that upon Munday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, in Easter weeke, 1632. preached at Saint Maries Spittle. Three Brothers, such a thing (as but in these) is not knowne to any man living, nor recorded to any mans reading. Yet to this let me adde this more, being called to this place to prech, from places divided by many miles one from ano ther The Remaines. other, they met not so happily here to preach, as in the matter upon which they did preach: for though their Texts were severall, their subject was one and the same, this is worthy our observation; yet to make it worth admiration, and a perpetuall memory, wee are to take notice, how upon that one and the same subject, they did precede and succeed one the other like the linkes in a golden chaine, the second beginning where the first ended, and the third where the second ended; the last absolutely concluding what the two former had so absolutely induced to, with their admirable ends and uses.

A briefe relation of the six children drowned at the Ducking pond, Ianuary 19. 1633.

VPon Saterday the 19. of Ianuary, 1633. sixe pretty young Lads, going to sport themselves upon the frozen Ducking-pond, neere to Clearken well, the Ice too weake to support them, fell into the water, concluding their pastime with the lamentable losse of their lives: to the great griefe of many that saw them dying, many more that afterward saw them dead, with the in-expressible griefe of their Parents.

A briefe Relation of that lamentable Fire, that hapned on London Bridge, the 13. of February 1633.

FRom this let us turne, our eyes upon that lamentable Fire upon London bridge, that upon Monday the 13. of February, 1633. betweene eleven and twelve towards midnight gave us ashes in stead of Beauty: the ashes, into which the third part of the Bridge was consum’d, for the beautifull Frames so consumed.

The number of the houses then burnt on both sides the Bridge, from the Church called Saint Magnus, to the first open place, were two and forty; all which (with a great part of their wares, the goods, and rich furniture in them) were devoured to the ground (though many hands, much labour, with a great deale of feare and danger, were carefully employed to prevent it) before eight of the clocke the next morning. Thus suddenly they were burnt to the ground, all above ground quencht and extinguisht, but beneath in their Vaults and Cellars, the fire remained glowing and burning for the space of a whole weeke after.

The house in which it began was the house of one Master Brigs (at the hither end of the Bridge) a Needle-maker: but now it beganne, because divesly spoken by many, I would not set downe from any.

The losse was great and sudden, presenting (as a glasse) the length of a lease or of life, when such a sad chance shall betide us. Though getting a long lease of our lands, we presume of a lease of our lives, of a long and secure possession; like those in the 4. of Iames, that say, To day or to morrow we will goe into such a City, and continue there for a yeere, and buy, and sell, and get money. They will goe, they will stay, they will get, such losses as these never thought on; though the same Prophet (in the same place) tell them, They know not what the morrow may bring with it.

A PERAMBVLATION OR, CIRCVIT-VVALKE foure miles about LONDON: And what Memorable matters and Monuments wee have found and met withall in our Iourney. In the Church at Fulham are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

HIc situs est Gulielmus Biliesby,Fulham. Eques Auratus, Fisci Regij ostiarius, cum Anna vxore, è Familia Brogravia, quae illi peperit duas Filias, Franciscam, & Margaretam, totidemque Eilîos, qui infantes objerunt.

Obijt ille 25. Martij 1607. Illa 27. Maij 1608.

Francisca Filia primogenita, primum nupta Ioanni Madocks Armigero, postea Thomae Walker Armigero, Fisci Regij ostiario. Obijt die 6. Novembris 1607. & hic parentibus tumulatur. Margar. altera Flia enupta Hugoni Parlor, de Plumsted Armigero. Obijt & in Ecclesia Sanct. Margaretae Westmonasterij Requiescit.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.

D. O. M.

Thomae Smitho Equiti Aurato, Regij Majestati, à supplicum libellis, & ab Epistolis Latinis, viro doctrina, prudentiaque singulari, Francisca Guil. Baronis Chandos filia, optimo Marito Conjux Moestiss. plorans posuit. Obijt 28. die Novemb. 1609.

Another

The Remaines. Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription. Epitaphium D. Gulielmi Brutij Equitis Aurati, & Medici Regis Henrici octavi, qui obiis An. Dom. 1545. Novem. 17. Quid Medicina valet? quid Honos? quid Gratia Regum? Quid popularis Amor, Mors ubi saeva venit? Sola valet pietas, quae structa est, Auspice Christo Sola in morte valet, caetera cuncta fluunt. Ergo mihi in vita fuerit quando omnia Christus, Mors mihi nunc lucrum, vitaque Christus erit.

Epitaphium hoc primitus inscriptum pariete, & situ jam penè exesum, sic demum restituit Leonardus Butts Armiger Norfolciensis. Oct. 30. 1627. Amoris ergo.

Another Monument neere to this last, with this Inscription on it. At Earth in Cornwall was my first beginning, From Bonds and Corringtons, as it may appeare: Now to Earth in Fulham, God disposed my ending, In March the thousand and six hundred yeere Of Christ, in whom my body here doth rest, Till both in body and soule I shall be fully blest.

Thomas Bond. Obijt Anno Aetatis suae 68.

In the Church at Putney are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is in the Chancell on the North side, and hath this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

HEre lyeth the body of Richard Lusher of Putney, Putney. in the County of Surrey Esquire: who married Mary, the second Daughter of George Scot of Staplefoord Taune, in the County of Essex, Esquire. He departed this life the 27. of September, Anno 1615. Aetatis sua 30.

What tongue can speake the vertues of this creature, Whose Body faire, whose Soule of rarer feature? He liv’d a Saint, he di’d a holy Wight, In Heaven, on earth, a joyfull heavy sight. Body Soule united, agree’d in one, Like strings well tuned in an Vni-sone. No discord harsh this Navell could untie, ’Twas Heaven, the Earth, this Musicke did envy. Wherefore may well be said. He lived well; And being dead, the world his vertues tell. Though Richard Lusher sleepeth in the dust, He sleepes in hope, and hopes to live againe: His soule in Heaven is waking with the just, And wakes in joy, being free’d from sense of paine, Bones take your rest, your soule in Heaven attends, The blest re-union of two loving friends. Marito The Remaines.

Marito dilectissimo, Maria Lusher conjux Moestissima, in perpetuum Amoris Testimonium, hoc Monumentum plorans posuit.

Mary, by her first match, Lusher, daughter of George Scot, Esquire, descended from Iohn Scot, Lord chiefe Justice of England, in the raigne of King Edward the third, and after wife to Thomas Knivet, descended from Iohn Knivet Knight, Lord chiefe Justice in the same Kings raigne, and Lord Chancellour of England.

To Thomas Knivet. That you have laid my body here, By that first side I lov’d so deere, I thanke you Husband: That the poore Are still your care, I thanke you more. These last I charg’d you with alive, Being done, I rest, while you survive. But yet I have another Boone, When Fate shall come (as come full soone It will, and will not be deni’d) That you would close my other side. Y’ave thought it worthy to bee read You once were second to my bed; Why may you not like title have, To this my second bed, the Grave? This Stone will cover us all three, And under it we shall be free From Love, or Hate, or least distrust Of Jealousie to vexe our dust: For here our bodies doe but wait The summons for their glorious state.

On the same Monument is this Inscription. Quam Diu Domine. Siste Siste Hospes: Quod Reliqui est Lectissimae Foeminae Te Rogitat, Etiam ego, superstes Maritus, superstes ipse Funeri meo. Nam in Conjuge, Conjunx vixi, et cum illa Elatus sum. Maria, mea Maria, Dulcissima Maria

Hic sita est.

Cor Gratiarum, flos venustatis Merus, Sedes amorum, Castitatis exemplar Tanti erga me affectus Talisque. Morum ac vitae perpetuae Sanctimoniae, ut vivens, Moriensque, Singulari Praeluxerit Face omoibus

Vel ordinis sui, vel sexus.

Heu qualem amisi Ex puerperio Raptam? Et cum ea, spem Posteritatis. Sic me relinquis? Sic Terras deseris? O Christianae perfectionis Imago, Injuriarum contemptrix Facilis, Doloribus Ferendis Fortis: Omnes in te certabant virtutes

sed vicit Pieras.

Fulges etiam in ipsa mortis umbra, Divini amoris dum vixisti Flamma Et Postquam vixisti Astrum. Vale, Vale Maria: Nullum de te dolorem Nisi ex Acerbissima tua morte

Accepi.

At (Cara Conjunx) non ego te desinam Lugere, donec vi doloris obrutus Meis & ipse liquero luctum parem.

M. S.

Mariae Pientissimae Mariae Cui lucis ortum Staplefordia dedit, Genus{que} Scottorum Familia vetus, Georgiae Filiae & Cohaeredi: Primis Nuptijs Richardo Lushero junctae, Nicholai Equitis Aurati Filio; Proximis mihi Thomae Knivetto, Maritorum Moestissimo. Obijt xxvij. Aug. M. DC. xxiij. Aetatis 35. XxxIn

The Remaines. In the Church at Chelsey, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the South side of the North Ile is this inscription.

In obitum illustrissimi viri,Chelsey. Domini Arthuri Gorges, Equitis Aurati, Epicedium.

Transtulit Lucanum Te deflent Nati, Natae, Celeberima Conjux; Te dolet argutae, magna Caterva scholae; At Lucanus ait, se vivo, non Moriturum Arthurum Gorges, Transtulit ipse decus, Aethereas Cupiens Arthurus adire per Auras, Et nonus ex ejus Nomine Natus adest. Domin? Arth. Gorg. Equ. Aurat. Filius eius Natu Maximus.

In the same Ile on the South side is this inscription.

Here lieth the right Noble and Excellent Princesse, Lady Iane Guilford, late Dutchesse of Northumber land; Daughter and sole Heire unto the right Honourable, Sir Edward Guilford, Knight, Lord Warden of the five Ports. The which Sir Edward, was sonne to the right Honourable, Sir Richard Guilford, sometimes Knight, and Companion of the most Noble Order of the Garter. And the said Dutchesse was wife to the right High and Mighty Prince, Iohn Dudley, late Duke of Northumberland; by whom she had issue 13. children, that is to wit, eight sonnes and five daughters: and after shee had lived 46. yeeres, she departed this transitory world at her Mannor of Chelsey, the 22. day of January, in the second yeere of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lady, Q. Mary the first, An. 1555. on whose soule Jesus have mercy.

Another on the South side, thus inscribed. In obitum Nobilissimorum Conjugum Gregorij D. Dacres, & Annae uxoris. Quos ardens copulavit Amor, Iuvenilibus annis, Abstulit atra dies, mors inopina rapit; Ille prior Fatis, Dacrorum Nobile Germen Occidit, In Morbum, at incidit illa prius. Quae languescendo, Miserae praetedia vitae Senſit, tam dulci conjuga Caſſa ſuo. Vt teneri cordis concordia junxerat ambos, Sic idem Amborum contegit ossa locus. Quos jungit tumulus, conjungunt coelica Tecta, Vt teneant Coelum, qui tenuere fidem.

Nobilis iste Vir obijt, Septem. 25. 1594.

Nobilis ista Mulilier obijt, Maij 14. 1595.

Nobilis Anna Iaces, prudens Sackvillia proles Viva tui defles funera Moesta viri. Nil mortale placet, Coelum tua pectora spirant, Postquam Parca viri, conscidit Atra, diem Foeminei lux Clara chori, pia, casta, pudica, Aegris subsidium, Pauperibusque decus. Fida deo, perchara tuis, constansque diserta, Vt patiens Morbi, sic pietatis amans. O The Remaines. O quoties manibus passis, ad culmina Coeli, Hanc Animam dixti, suscipe quaeso Deus Menspia, Coelestis patriae pervenit ad Arcem, Hic tumulus corpus, mentis inane tenet.

Another Monument on the North side the Chancell, and hath this inscribed. O Lord, in thee have I trusted, Let me never be confounded.

Here lieth the body of Thomas Hungerford of Chilsey in the County of Middlesex Esquire; the second sonne of Robert Hungerford the elder, of Cadname in the County of Wilth Esquire; who hath served King Henry the 8. in the roomth of a Gentleman Pentioner, and was with his Majesty at the winning of Boloine; and King Edward the sixth at Mussleborough field; besides Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth, in their affaires, being of the age of 70. yeeres, who had to Wife Vrsula Matdenhead, the Daughter of the Lady Sands. Anno Domini 1581.

Another on the North side with this inscription. The yeeres wherein I liv’d were fifty foure, October twenty eight did end my life: Children five of eleven God left in store, Sole comfort to their mother, and my wife. The world can say what I have beene before, What I am now, examples still are rife: Thus Thomas Laurence speakes to times ensuing, That Death is sure, and Time is past renuing. Obijt. 1593.

On the South side

a Monument of Sir Thomas Moore, dated Anno Domini. 1532.

Another Monument in the same Church, with this inscription.

Sacrum Memoriae Gulielmi Plumbe Armigeri & Elizabethae Vxoris ejusdem.

Guilielmus Plumbe, Filius & Haeres Ioannis Plumbe, de Eltham Armigeri. Duas Vxores duxit; priorem Magaretam, Filiam, & unicam Haeredem Thomae Nevill Equitis, quam Robertus Southwell Eques viduam Reliquerat, Ex qua nullam prolem Genuit. Alteram Elizabetham, ex qua unicus filius natus est, Franciscus Plumbe. Elizabetha, unica Filia & Haeres Edvardi Dormer de Fulham Armigeri, Filij natu minimi Galfridi Dormer de Thame Armigeri. Priorem conjugem habuit Iohannem Gresham, de Mayfield, in Comitatu Sussexiae Armigerum, & secundum filium Iohannis Gresham Equitis (quondam Majoris London) cui tres peperit filios, Thomam, Guilielmum, & Edvardum Gresham, eo defuncto Guilielmum Plumbe praedictum conjugem accepit. Guilielmus Plumbe, obijt 9. die Febr. Anno 1593. Aetatis suae 60.

In the Church at Stepney are these ensuing Monuments.

On a Monument in the Chancell is this Inscription.

ONe ancient Monument of Sir Henry Collet, Stepney. Knight, twice Lord Maior of London, and free of the Mercers, and Father to Doctor Xxx2Iohn The Remaines. Iohn Collet sometimes Deane of Saint Pauls, refreshed by the Company of Mercers in the yeere 1605. on the North side.

In the upper end of the Chancell.

In the upper end is a faire Monument of Elizabeth Startute, erected by Captaine Michael Miriall, and Clare his Wife, sometime Daughter to the said Elizabeth Startute.

On the North side of the Chancell, as followeth.

Here resteth the body of Robert Clarke Esquire, sonne of Roger Clarke Esquire, late Alderman of the City of London, a man humble in prosperity, & a liberall distributer to the poore, courteous and affable to all, an upright and a just dealer in this world, and a most religious seeker of the world to come. Hee had to wife Margaretta, daughter to Iohn Langton Esquire, sometimes Governour of the English Company in Sprucia, under the King of Polonia, who lived together in great love and integrity almost sixe yeeres, he had by her one onely Daughter, named Frances, who lived one yeere three quarters, and here lies interred with her most deare and loving Father.

In whose memory the said Margaretta, to expresse her true love and affection, hath caused this Monument to be erected; he died the xxx. day of May, Anno Dom. 1610. having lived xxxvj. yeeres.

A little Monument on the South side in the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

Genero suo Guilielmo Dawtrey, quondam Lincolniensis Hospitij socio, Willielmi Dawtrey Sussexiae Armigeri, Filio & Haeredi, viro ingenij acumine, mentis acie, & non vulgari Municipalium Angliae legum scientia praecellenti, Richardus Stonley Armiger, hoc Amoris, & pietatis simbolum posuit. Obijt 16. Octobris 1589.

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

Sacrae Memoriae.

Ianae Nevillae Dominae Dethicke Matronae Religiosissimae, Modestissimae, omnibus qua corporis, qua Animi (dum vixit) dotibus ornatissimae: Iesu Christi servae devotissimae; conjugi suae fidelissimae, amantissimae. Quae cum viginti fere duos Annos felicissime transegerat. Alexander Nevillus Armiger, hoc nunquam intermorituri amoris sui Monumentum fieri Testamento curavit. Postquam Annos ferè sexaginta novem vixerat vicessimo nono Novembris 1606. placidissimè in Domino obdormivit.

Tobiah Worthington, Alexandro Nevillo, ex Testamento solus Executor, ipsius mandato, hoc Monumentum posuit.

On a little brasse Monument in the South side of the Chancell is thus written.

Here under lieth buried Nicholas Gibson, Citizen and Grocer of London, and Avis his wife, who were Founders of the Free-Schoole at Ratcliffe; and after she married with Sir Anthony Knevit, Knight, which lyeth here buried also. Which Nicholas died the xxiij. of September, Anno 1510. And the said Lady Avis died the third day of October, 1554. whose soules Jesu pardon.

The Remaines. In that Chancell likewise this is written.

D. O. M.

Here under was laid up the body of Sir Thomas Spert, Knight, sometime Controuler of the Navy to King Henry the eighth, and both the first Founder and Master of the worthy Society or Corporation of the Trinity-house. He lived enobled by his owne worth, and died the eighth of September, in the yeere 1541. To whose pious memory the said Corporation hath gratefully erected this Memoriall.

Not that he needed Monument of stone, For his well gotten fame to rest upon, But this was rear’d, to testifie that he Lives in their loves, that yet surviving be. For unto vertue, who first rais’d his name, He left the preservation of the same: And to postery remaine it shall, When Brasse and Marble Monuments doe fall. Learne for to die while thou hast breath, So shalt thou live after thy death.

Anno Domini 1622. by the Company of the Trinity-house, this Monument was erected 81. yeeres after the decease of their Founder.

Another Monument in the same Chancell.

Here lieth also in the same Chancell, under the Communion Table, the body of Henry Steward, Lord Darley, of the age of three quarters of a yere, Sonne and Heire of Matthew Steward Earle of Lenox, and Lady Margaret his Wife, which Henry, deceased the 28. day of November, in the yeere 1545. whose soule Iesu pardon.

In Stratford-Bow, and Bromley, are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is in the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Abrahamus Iacob Armiger, Maria Conjux Superst, maestis. Obijt 6. Maij. A. D. 1629. Aetatis suae 56.

Hic tumulus

PArentes optimi cum prole numerosâ,Stratford-Bow and Bromley. non vestrae virtutis, sed Doloris mei Monumentum esto. Quam uterque erga Deum Pius, quam Regi suo obsequens, & commodus; quam amicis Fidus, quam Patriae utilis, quam pauperibus benignus, aliorum esto effari, meum imitari, pij Lectoris supplere, quod Filialis modestia Retinuit.

Valete Posteri.

Sic in Christo & vivite, & morimini. Ioh. Iacob. F. Parentibus maerens merentibus P.

As Nurses strive their Babes in bed to hie, When they too liberally the wantons play: So to prevent his future grievous crimes, Nature his Nurse got him to bed betimes.

On another Monument in the same Church is thus written.

Here lies the body of William Ferrars, the onely Sonne and Heire of William Ferrars Esquire, late Citizen and Xxx3Mercer The Remaines. Mercer of London, who tooke to wife Iane, one of the Daughters of Sir Peter Van-lore of London, Knight, by whom he had one Childe, his Wife and Childe died both before him, and he departed this life a moneth before his Father. He was a Gentle-man of a religious soule towards God, and a sweet behaviour towards men, and his death was by his Kindred, and generally by all much lamented. Hee died the 25. of August, 1625. and left his Vnkle Thomas Ferrars his Executor, who to the memory of him hath erected this small Monument.

In this most pure and blessed shade, (Such by the sacred ashes made, That here inhabit must) do’s lye The man, whose vertues cannot dye. His Almes, his Prayers, his Piety, Have sent his soule above the skie. Nature full well had taught his Wife, To summe her hourses in plous life; To God, to Friend, to poore, to all, She was as good as we dare call Fraile flesh; good passenger give praise To them who liv’d such happy dayes. Anno Domini 1625.

In the same Church this is written.

This Bread is given to the poore for the honour of God, and to the memory of William Ferrars the younger, by Thomas Ferrars his Executor.

In the Church at Lambeth are these insuing Monuments.

On the North side on a Marble Tombe as followeth.

HEre under this Tombe lyeth buried the body of Thomas Clere Esquire,Lambeth. sonne of Robert Clerc in the County of Norfolke, Knight, which Thomas deceased the 14. day of April, Anno Domini 1545. on whose soule, and all Christian soules, Jesus have mercy.

In the Chancell on the North side is an old Tombe of Marble, thus written on.

Sub pedibus ubi statis, jacet corpus Magistri Hugonis Peyntwin, Legum Doctoris, nuper Archi. Cant. Reveredissimorum Patrum Dō. Ioannis Morton Cardinalis, Henrici Dene, & William Warham Cant. Archiepiscop. Audien. Causar. Auditoris. Qui obijt vj. die Augusti, Anno Dom. M. D. iiij. cujus Animae Propicietur Deus. Amen.

On a flat Stone there is thus written.

Volente Deo.

Hic jacet Richardus Bancroft, S. Theologiae Professor, Episcopus Londinensis Primo, deinde Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus, & Regi Iacobo à Secretioribus Consiliis. Obiit secundo Novembris, Anno Dom. 1610. aetatis suae 67.

Volente Deo.

On another flat Stone thus is written.

Here Lieth the Lady Elizabeth Howard, sometimes Countesse of Wiltshire.

On the South side

Lieth the body of Sir Nowell Caroone, Ledger Ambassadour for the States of Holland, with his Armes and Hatchments, as namely his Crest, Helmet, Armes, Sword, Gantlet, and Spurres.

In the South Chapell is a faire Monument of Marble, ingraven as followeth.

Here lieth Sir Iohn Legh Knight of the Bath, sonne of Ralph Legh Esquire, Lord The Remaines. Lord of the Mannors of Stockwell and Levehurst, and Dame Isabel his wife, Daughter of Otwell Worsley, which Sir Iohn deceased the 17. day of August, Anno Dom. M. D. xxiij. and the same dame Isabel deceased the 18. day of Aprill.

On the upper end on the wall, a Monument as followeth.

Here lieth the body of Iohn Arundell of Gwarnicke, in the County of Cornwall, Esquire, Sonne and Heire of Roger Arundell, of the said County, Esquire, of an Ancient, Honourable, and faire descended Family, who died the 25. of May, 1613. without issue, and in the 56. yeere of his age.

Sape & praevale.

On the North side of the Quire is this Inscription.

Neere to this place, lyeth interred, the body of Robert Scot Esquire, descended of the ancient Barons of Bawery in Scotland. Hee bent himselfe to travell, and study much, &c. And amongst many other things, he einvented the Leather Ordinance, and carried to the King of Sweden 200. men; who after two yeeres service, for his worth and valour, was preferred to the office of Quarter Master generall of his Majesties Army; which he possessed three yeeres. Frō thence, with his favour, he went into Denmarke (where he was advanced to be Generall of that Kings Artillery.) There being advised to render his service to his owne Prince, which hee doing, his Majesty willingly accepted and prefer’d him to be one of the Gentlemen of his most Honourable Privy Chamber, and rewarded him with a Pension of 600. li. per annum.

This deserving Spirit, adorn’d with all Indowments befiting a Gentleman; in the prime of his flourishing age, surrendred his soule to his Redeemer, 1631.

Of his great worth to knew who seeketh more, Must mount to Heaven, where he is gone before.

In France hee tooke to wife Anne Scot, for whose remembrance she lovingly erected this Memoriall.

This Monument is neere unto the other, and hath this Inscription.

Epitaphium Thomae Clarear, qui fato functus est, 1545. Auctore Henrico Howard, Comite Surrey, in cujus foelicis ingenij specimen, & singularis Facundiae argumentum, appensa fuit haec Tabula per W. Howard Filium Tho. nuper Ducis Norff. Filij ejusdem Henrici Comitis.

Norfolke sprung thee, Lambeth holds thee dead: Clere, of the Count of Cleremont thou hight: Within the wombe of Ormonds race thou bred, And sawest thy Cosin crowned in thy sight. Shelton for love, Surrey for Lord thou chase; Aye me, while life did last, that league was tender, Tracing whose steps, thou sawest Kelsall blase, Laundersey burnt, and batter’d Bulleyn’s render, At Muttrell gates, hopelesse of all recure, Thine Earle halfe dead, gave in thy hand his will, Which cause did thee this pining death procure, Ere Summers foure times seven thou couldst fulfill. Aye Clere, if love had booted, care or cost, Heaven had not wonne. nor Earth so timely lost. Againſt

The Remaines. Over against the other in the same Ile, lieth the body of Elizabeth Bayly, late wife of Iohn Bayly. Obijt 24. of Iune, Aetatis suae 25. Reader tread soft, under thy foot doth lye, A mother buried with her progeny: Two Females and a Male, the last a sonne, Who with his life, his Mothers thred hath spun; His breath her death procur’d (unhappy sinne, That thus our joy with sorrow vshers in.) Yet he being loth to leaue so kinde a Mother, Changes this life to meet her in another. The daughters first were rob’d of vitall breath, The Mother next in strength of yeeres met death, The Fathers onely joy, a hopefull Sonne, Did lose his life when life was scarce begun. If harmlesse Innocence, if loyall truth, Found in a constant wife combin’d with youth, If a kind Husbands prayers, or Fathers teares Could have prevail’d, they had liv’d many yeeres. But these all fayling, here rak’d up in dust, They wait the resurrection of the just. A Husbands love, a Fathers piety, Dedicates this unto their memory: And when he hath his debt to Nature pai’d, In the same Grave himselfe will then be lai’d, That altogether, when the Trumpe shall sound, Husband, Wife, Children, may in Christ be found.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.

Here lieth foure foot distant from this wall, the body of William Suthes, Gent. a man adorned with the gifts of Grace, Art, and Nature: by Grace hee was Religious and Charitable; by Art he was in Masonry exquisite; and by Nature he was humane and affable. He, by Gods appointment, changed his mortall life of misery for glorious immortality on the fifth of October 1625. His sorrowfull and gratefull Wife, Mistresse Anne Suthes, as a loyall Testimony of her love to her deceased Husband, caused this Monument to be erected for an exemplary of his worthinesse, and her affection. He was Master Mason of Windsor Castle; he was a Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and an Assistant of the said Worshipfull Company. He left three sonnes towardly and hopefull, to bee each of them the imitators of their Fathers vertues, Iohn, Iames, and Matthew. And herein the Reader may see exprest the goodnesse of the deceased Husband, and the thankfulnesse of a surviving Wife.

He now sings praise amongst the heavenly Host, To God the Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost.

In the Church at Newington, on the North side, is this Monument.

Deo viventium. Pietati sacrum.

SIr Hugh Brawne, Newington. Knight, the Founder and Adorner of this Ile, and for the space of 22. yeeres, the whole ornament of this Parish; Religious towards God, and respectfull of the The Remaines. the poore, determining to provide for the day of his death, desires here to repose his body, in a happy hope of a glorious Resurrection.

Reader it pleas’d th’Almighty to infuse, Sense of his goodnesse in my blessed heart, Faith quickned Loue, and did this Churchworke choose, Both ioyntly here doe shew themselves in part: His be the glory, Peace, (soule saving) mine, Prayer, Thanksgiving use, example thine.

1614. Vivens posui. Anno Aetatis 77.

In Saint Georges Church in Southwarke, on the North side are these Monuments thus written on. LOe,S. Georges. Master William Evans, he whose body lieth here, Bequeathed hath by his last will, for ever by the yeere Ten pound eight shillings to the poore, which is a blessed stay, And must be given them in bread, on every Sabbath day: One halfe to Creekens poore, his native soile so deare, The other moity to the poore of this our Parish here. See now all ye that love the poore, how God did guide his wayes; Tenscore & eight are serv’d with bread, in two and fifty dayes, More then money would have done, to yeelded any share: Praise God, ye poore, who gave to him so provident a care.

Hee was of the Right Worshipfull Company of the Merchant-Taylors, and deceased the 29. of Iuly, Anno 1590. in the 32. yeere of the most prosperous raigne of our Soveraigne Lady, Queene Elizabeth. Aetatis suae 67.

Another Monument on the North side, having this Inscription. Behold, Iames Savage, graciously Hath done a godly deed; To the poore of this Parish, For to releeve their need, Five pounds a yeere for evermore, By will he hath bequeath’d, Which must out of the Angell rents Quarterly be received, By the Churchwardens of this Church Whom he hath put in trust, As Fathers in the poores behalfe, To be vpright and just. Which men, I doubt not, but our God Who seeth all things shall finde, True in dispensing of the same According to his minde. Ye poore, thanke Christ for Savage still, Extoll Gods Name with praise, That he, to follow his good Act, In time may many raise.

Anno 1588.

In the Church at Wansworth, are these insuing Monuments.

In the North side of the Chancell is thus written. Vnder a Stone,Wansworth. within this place, doth lie Iohn Powel, who for the space Of thirty yeeres before Her death, did serve the Queene Elizabeth: And to King Iames of worthy fame, for nine yeres more he did the same: And when the yeeres of seventy foure, were now come to an end, Into the hands of God above, his soule he did commend.

Obijt 26. die Iunij.

Anno Dom. 1611.

The Remaines. At the upper end of that Chancell, is thus written.

Here lyeth the body of Henry Smith, Esquire, sometime Citizen and Alderman of London, who departed this life the 30. day of Ianuary, An. Dom. 1627. being then neere the age of 79. yeeres, who while he lived, gave unto these severall Townes in Surry following, one thousand pounds a piece, to buy Lands for perpetuity for the reliefe and setting the poore people on worke in the said Townes, viz. To the towne of Croydon, one thousand pounds; To the towne of Kingstone, one thousand pounds; To the towne of Guilford, one thousand pounds; To the towne of Darkin, one thousand pounds; To the towne of Farneham, one thousand pounds. And by his last Will and Testament did further give and devise, to buy lands for perpetuity for the reliefe and setting their poore on worke, unto the towne of Rigate one thousand pounds. And unto this towne of Wandsworth, wherein he was borne, the summe of 500. pounds, for the same uses as before. And did further will and bequeath one thousand pounds to buy land for perpetuity, to redeem poore Captives and Prisoners from the Turkish tyranny. And not here stinting his charity and bounty, did also give and bequeath the most part of his estate, being to a great value, for the purchasing lands of inheritance for ever for the reliefe of the poore, and setting them on worke.

A patterne worthy the imitation of those whom God hath blessed with the abundance of the goods of this life to follow him herein.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.

Here lieth the body of Edward Snow of Chicksands, in the County of Bedford, Esquire: in memory of whom, Em his Wife, daughter to William Byne, in the County of Sussex, Esquire, erected this Monument; he had issue Elizabeth, Alice, and Sarah. He deceased at the Mannor of Alfarthing, Anno Dom. 1587.

At the upper end of this Chancell is this Inscription.

Susanna Powell, late of Wandsworth Widow, Daughter of Thomas Hayward of Wandsworth, Yeoman of the Guard unto King Henry the 8. King Edward the 6. to Queene Mary, and to Queene Elizabeth (of ever precious memory) and wife unto Iohn Powell of Wandsworth, Gentleman, who was servant to Queene Elizabeth. This Susanna Powell was a gracious Benefactor unto this Towne of Wandsworth. She lived a Window the space (almost) of twenty yeeres, deceased the 19. day of February, 1630. & at her death bequeathed by her Will unto 24. poore Widowes of this Towne of Wandsworth for ever, foure pence in bread and foure pence in mony, to be distributed every Lords day, 12. on one Sabbath, and 12. another for ever, at the North doore of the Church at Wandsworth.

She also bequeathed 40. shillings every yeere for ever, to put forth a poore man child an Apprentice, with divers other loving Remembrances unto her good friends and neighbours. These foresaid Donations are to issue out of the benefits and profits of the Rectory of Wandsworth.

This was desired to be recorded, that God might be glorified, the memoriall of the Iust might bee blessed, and the living stirred up to such like good workes of Piety and Compassion.

More,

To this Church, for the Communion Table, two Flagon pots of Silver, price xx. li. and upwards.

To release poore Prisoners out of prison, on the day of her buriall, xx. li.

The Remaines. To the poore of the parish of Putney, long before she deceased, 50. li.

To the poore Housholders of Wandsworth, for many yeeres before her death, toward payment of their Rent, per annum, 5. li.

In the Church at Battersey, are these ensuing Monuments.

On the North side of the Quire is this Inscription.

Deo Trino & Vni Sacrum.Bauerſey.

OLivero, Nicolai Sanct. Iohn de Lydeard, Filio secundo, Equiti Aurato, Antiquissimis, & illustribus de Belle Campo, de Blestoe Grandisonis, & Tregoziae Familiis oriundo. Terra Marique, Domi Forisque, Belli pacisque, Artibus egregio, Diu Elizabethae è Nobilissima Pensionariorum cohorte, suis inde meritis, & singulari Divi lacobi gratia, in Hibernia instrumentis Bellicis praefecto, Conaciae propraeside questori summo, & Regis Vicario, procomiti de Grandisonis, & Trigoziae de Hyworth in Anglia Baroni, Eidem divo Iacobo, & Filio ejus pijssimo à secretioribus & Sanctioribus Consiliis, Postquam is Annos Honoribus Aequaverat, & Tranquillissimè senuerat somnienti similiter extincto, Iohannes de Sanct. Iohn, Eques & Baronettus, ex Fratre Nepos & Haeres Auunculo Moerentissime. Moestissimus P. in Ecclesia de Battersey. Vixit Annos 70. Mor. 29. Decembris 1630.

This Monument is in the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Elizabethae, Filiae Christophori Toldervey Armigeri, quae vivens moriensque fuit conjux dilecta Danielis Caldwall, Filij Laurentij Caldwall Armigeri, per quatuor annos, Filiorum par Enixa ac vnicam Filiolam, ipsa Mater, virgo prius Casta, Vxor dein fida, Morum suavitate vitae integritate, Religionis Conscientia insignis, fideliter obijt, & in domino foeliciter obdormivit die Iunij 20. Aetatis suae Anno 23. 1620.

Moerens ejus Maritus, hoc Qualecunque Monumentum, Epitaphium, Amoris verè conjugalis ergo, posuit, composuit.

D. G. This stone doth tell, the Children and the Mother, That liu’d and dy’d all in one yeere together: The children first Death did deprive of life, Yet stai’d not there, but tooke away the Wife. Insatiate Death, not with the Fruit content▪ But thy last malice on the Tree hast spent. Her vertuous life it needlesse were to praise, That’s still the glosse to cover vicious wayes: Ile say but this, that all who knew her well, For life, for death, will say she did excell.

Another Monument in the same Chancell with this Inscription.

To Henry Hussy Esquire, his loving Wife Iudeth Paget hath erected this Monument: He was borne at Slinkfold in Sussex, he was Clarke of the Spicery to Queene Elizabeth and King Iames, and lived in the Court 35. yeeres. He delivered his soule to God the 23. of May 1611. in the 64. yeere of his age, his body lyeth buried here, waiting for a joyfull esurrection.

The Remaines. In the Church at Hackney are these ensuing Monuments.

A Monument made for Sir Henry Row, with this Inscription. HEre under sime of Adams first defection,Hackney. Rests in the hope of happy Resurrection, Sir Henry Row (Sonne of Sir Thomas Row) And of Dame Mary his deare yoke-fellow) Knight, and right worthy (as his Father late) Lord Maior of London with his vertuous Mate. Dame Susan his (twice fifteene yeeres & seven) Their issue five (surviving of eleven) Foure named here in these foure names forepast, The fifth is found, if Eccho sound the last: Sad Orphanes all, but most their Heire (most debtor) Who built them this, but in his heart a better.

Quam pie obijt, Anno ſalutis 1612. die Novemb. 12. Ætatis 68.

This Monument is neere unto the other, and hath this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum. What needs an Epitaph to found our praise, Our wealth, our greatnes forth, or length of dayes; When briefly on this Marble we may reade, The glory of the living and the dead. A modest, chaste, religious loving Wife Lies here at rest, patient in death and life; Even all the graces which ’mongst many were Divided, sweetly flow’d and met in her. And though death did his worst, thinking in rage, To leave no patterne for succeeding age, Yet lives her vertues, and this memory Tells what she was, and what her Sex should be.

Erected by Iohn Bennet, in memory of Elizabeth his beloved wife, who departed this life the 18. of November, 1625.

An ancient plaine Monument in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Christopher Vrswyke, Rector.

Misericordiam.

Another Monument there also, with this Inscription.

Here under lyeth the body of Henry Thoresby, of Thoresby, in the County of Yorke, Esquire, late Councellor in the Law, Bencher and Reader of Lincolnes Inne, Iustice of Peace, and of the Quorum, one of the Masters of the most Honourable Court of Chancery, and one of the sixteene Governours of King Iames Hospitall, elected at the first foundation thereof by Iohn Sutton Esquire the only Founder: which Henry Thoresby passed his pilgrimage in this life, in all The Remaines. all godlinesse and Christian piety, and so constantly did continue unto his last breath, which hee yeelded up to the Almighty in this Towne of Hackney, on the eleventh day of May, 1615.

Heere under lyeth the body of Iane, late wife to the said Henry Thoresby Esquire, Daughter to Iohn Palmer of Clarkenwell, in the County of Midalesex, Esquire, and Paulina his wife, daughter to Anthony Sands of Throwly in the County of Kent, Esquire, which Iane lived with the said Henry in wedlocke 30. yeeres and more, and had issue by him two Daughters, viz. Iane, who died in her infancy about six yeeres of age, and Elinor Lady Hardresse, the now wife of Sir Thomas Hardresse, of great Hardresse, in the County of Kent, Knight, by whom she had issue foure Sonnes and one Daughter. Which said Iane overlived her said husband, Henry Thoresby, and died in all Christian piety on the 18. day of August, 1616.

An Epitaph upon the death of the vertuous & worthy Gentleman, Edward Saunders Esquire, Obijt vltimo die Novembris Anno 1599. His name, his place, the gentry of his birth, And credit held unto his dying dayes, Were things that gave him favour here on earth, But gave him not the greatest of his praise. His greatest glory was his godly life, The bounty of his house and open doore, His Countries love, his kindnesse to his wife, Faith to his friend, and pitty to the poore. His vertue, valour, and all good desires, His zeale and life agreeing to the same, And last the death that such a life requires, These be the true records of lasting fame. These wright him blessed in the Heavens above, And leave him in the world good will and love.

On the North side of the Chancell, as followeth.

A memory of the right Honourable, the Lady Lucy Latimer. Such as shee is, such surely shall ye be, Such as she was, such if ye be, be glad; Faire in her youth, though fat in age she grew, Vertuous in both, whose glosse did neuer fade, Though long alone she lead a widowes life, Yet never Lady liv’d a truer wife. From Wales she sprang, a branch of Worsers race, Graft in a stocke of Brownes her mother side; In Court she held a maid of Honors place, Whilst youth in her, and she in Court did bide: To Iohn Lord Latimer then became she wife, Foure Daughters had they breathing yet in life. Earle of Northumberland tooke the first to wife, The next the heire of Baron Burleigh chose, Cornwallis hap the third for terme of life; And Sir Iohn Davers pluckt the youngest Rose. YyyTheir The Remaines. Their Fathers heires, mothers all she saw, Pray or praise her, make your list the Law.

Made by Sir Will. Cornewallis, Knight, this Ladies sonne in law.

A Monument of Sir Thomas Rowe, who lieth buried in this Church, and hath this Inscription. Anno Domini 1570. September 2. day. Sir Thomas Rowe lies buried here, Of London Knight and Alderman Who late was Maior, & rule did beare, To right the cause of every man: A Merchant venturer was he, Of Merchant-Taylors Company: A Citizen by birth also, And eke his Wife dame Mary Rowe. In wedlocke one and thirty yeere, They did continue man and wife, Eleven children she did beare, But five of them have left this life, And sixe alive doe yet remaine, Foure of them sons, & daughters twain, His soule with God we hope is blest, And doth remaine in Abrahams brest.

In the Church at Islington, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the South side of the Chancell is this inscription. Vnder the hope of the Resurrection.

HEre lyeth the body of Alice Owen Widow,Islington. the Daughter of Thomas Wilkes, she was first married to Henry Robinson, by whom she had sixe sonnes, Iohn, William, Henry, Iohn, Thomas, and Henry, which said Henry the younger, was married unto Mary, the daughter of Sir William Glover, Knight, Alderman of London; and five Daughters, Margaret married to Sir Iohn Bret of Edmonton, in the County of Middlesex Knight, Susan, Anne, and Anne the younger maried Sir Robert Rich, of Horndon on the Hill, in the County of Essex Esquire; and Alice married to Iohn Washborne of Withingfoord in the County of Worcester, Esquire. The second Husband was William Elkin Esquire, Alderman of the City of London, by whom she had issue, only Vrsula Elkin, married to Sir Roger Owen of Condover, in the County of Salop, Knight. The third Husband was Thomas Owen, one of the Iudges of the Court of Common Pleas to Queene Elizabeth.

On a faire Stone in the Chancell is this Inscription. Hinc Sperat Resurrectionem (Filius Harbottelli Grimeston, Militis & Baronetti Natu Tertius.)

Henricus Grimeston. Anagramma. En Christi Regno sum. Qui moritur, vivit, Christo, huic, Mors semita, Ductor Angelus, ad vitam Ianua Christus erit. Hac itur ad superos, calcane vestigia Lethi, Intrabam Christi Regia, Templa Dei.

12. die Mensis Iulij. An. Dom. 1627.

In the North side of the Chancell is thus written.

Here lieth buried the body of Sir Nicholas Kempe, Knight, one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace, and an Honourable Member of the high Commission Court, &c. who had to The Remaines. to his first wife Cicely, with whom he lived in blessed amity neere forty yeeres, together with Sarah his second wife sixe yeeres: and having past, with much Prosperity, Love, and Credit, the reverend yeeres of 72. he changed this terrestriall condition for that everlasting state of blessednesse, the third of September 1624.

Wife, Loving Liberall, Religious, lust; Those graces fil’d the soule of him, whose dust Lies here in Tombe; all that praise can bring forth, There are not words enough to expresse his worth: For his good workes, this stone cannot comprise Half the particulars of his Pieties: What goodnesse ever was, is, and to come, In mortall man, that makes up his just summe.

Another Monument on the North side the Chancell, and hath this inscribed.

Vivit post funera virtus.

Here lyeth the body of William Riethorne, late of Canonbury Esquire, which William married with Anne, the Daughter of Iohn Quarles of London, Merchant, and died without issue, the 18. day of November. In the yeere of our Lord God 1582. and in the 54. yeere of his age.

A Monument in the South Ile, with this inscription.

To the sacred Memory of

Anne late wife of Henry Chitting, Esquire, Chester Herauld at Armes, eldest Daughter of William Bennet, Gentleman, by Ioice, widow of Richard Ioselin, of Newhall Ioselins in Essex, Esquire, and Daughter of Robert Atkinson of Stowell, in the County of Glocester, Esquire, shee had foure children, whereof three are living, Thomas, Ioyce, and Henry, of which last she died in Child-bed, the 8. of May 1632. in the 27. of her age, and 4. yeere of her marriage.

Mors mihi vita. Life is Deaths roade, and Death Heavens gate must be, Heaven is Christs Throne, and Christ is life to me. The Angels of the Lord protect All those that are his owne Elect.

Vivit post funera virtus.

In the Church at Kenzington, is this ensuing Monumeat.

An Epitaph in memory of Sir William Blake, Knight, who deceased the 30. day of Oct. An. Dom. 1630. STay Reader,Kenzington. gaze, admire, and passe not sleightly ore, The Casket of his corpes imbalmed in this flore: Let his industrious hand, patterne of patternes be, And blazon forth his worth to all posterity. Let his ost foot-steps vnto this sacred place, Be pious. Clues to guide thee to like holy trace. Let him in peace rest here in peace, Till God of Peace returne, And give him peace that loued peace, And call him from his Vrne. Yyy2Vnto The Remaines. Vnto the worldly wise, Death doth Apologize. Suspend thy by-thoughts, his thoughts did ever aime at good, Had I forborne, they had at full beene better understood.

The figure of Death lying under these lines.

In Saint Giles Church in the Fields, are these ensuing Monuments.

On the North side of the Quire is this Inscription.

M. S.

CHarissimae Matris Alliciae,Saint Giles▪ vxoris venerabilis olim viri Alexandri Sheppard, Legum Doctoris, Nec non suavissimae nuper conjugis Annae, ex Antiquâ Daunteseyorum Familia in Agro Wilton oriundae,

Pietatis, & Amoris ergô posuit, Thomas Sheppard hic loci, juxta quem (si Deo videbitur) mortales suas exuvias Humandas designavit, providus. Anno Dom. 1631.

Another Monument on the North side, having this Inscription.

Here before lyeth buried the body of William Styddulfe, third Sonne of Iohn Styddulfe, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey, Esquire; hee had issue by his wife Elizabeth, Daughter of Iohn Fox, of Saint Iohns in London, Gentleman, William, Iane, Mary, Thomas, and Elizabeth. Hee departed this life at the age of 55. being the last of December, Anno Domini 1600. Here also before resteth the body of the aboue named Elizabeth, who departed this life at the age of 60. yeeres. 10. of February 1623.

In Saint Martins Church in the Fields, are these ensuing Monuments.

On the South side is a faire Monument, with this Inscription.

Arthur Gregory married Christian.

HEre lyes buried William Downes, S. Martins. whom God hath taken to his mercy, who beleeved that he should rise at the last day, and see the glorious Majesty of God, and receive life everlasting. Who while he lived here had two Wives, Margaret Ward & Elizabeth Rolfe; who had by his first wife one Son and one Daughter, and by his second wife two Sons and foure Daughters, who died the 26. of September 1589.

Otho Maudit married Elizabeth.

Iohn Thorpe married Margaret.

William Bret married Mary.

Another Monument there also, with this Inscription.

Here lieth the body of Thomas Fouler, Esquire, borne in Wicam, in the County of Lancaster, who was Controuler and Pay-master of the works to Queene Mary, and to our Soveraigne Lady, Queene Elizabeth, by the space of ten yeeres. He was very charitable to the poore in his life time, and at his death hee gave by Will out of his dwelling house, a perpe The Remaines. perpetuall annuity of 40. s. by the yeere, to be given to 20. poore hous-holders of this Parish at Christmas for ever. He had in marriage three wives, Ellen, Margaret, and Elizabeth, which also lyeth here intombed. He surviving them, having no childe at his death, made three of his old servants, namely Henry Bludder, Matthew Switzer, and William Humphrey, his Executors, who in remembrance of him, have caused this Monument to be made.

Another on the South side, thus inscribed.

Expectans Gloriam.

Iuxta hoc requiescit Iohn Bembow, Arm. deputatus clerici Coronae in curia Cancellaria D. Regis. In quo officio, per spacium 40. An. Industriam praestitit, —expiravit die Veneris 7. Octob. An. 1625. Termino sexaginta Anno. Aetatis suae finito. Tres habuit vxores, Dorotheam Prowde, & Katherinam Sparkes, eodem tumulo sepultas, Per quas genuit liberos etiam perfunctos, Et Elizabetham Hodges modo extantem, quae sibi duos peperit filios, Gulielmum Bembowe, Aetatis 4. & 6. mens: & Iohannem Bembowe posthumum, Tres tantum Hebdomadas viventem, cum patre humatum.

This Monument is neere unto the other, and hath this Inscription.

Here lieth the Corpes of Iohn Worsley, Gentleman, who was Messenger to Queene Elizabeth, by 20. yeeres space. Hee died the 25. of March, 1595. in the 37. yeere of her raigne, being aged 40. yeeres. He gave to be paid yeerely vpon each Christmas day, during the space of 21. yeeres, as well 15. shillings to the poore of Saint Martins Parish in the Fields, where he was a Parishoner, as also 10. shillings to the poore of the Parish of Whichurch, in Salop.

In the same Ile on the South side is this inscription.

To the memory of Sir Carew Keynell, Knight, late Gentleman Pentioner to Queene Elizabeth, and Gentleman Vsher of the Privy-Chamber to King Iames. Hee died the 7. of December 1624. in the 61. yeere of his age.

Another Monument on the same side, with this Inscription.

Hic jacet Thomas Heron Armiger, Filius Thomae Heronis de Edgecombe, in proviciae Surrey Armigeri scaccarij Mareschallus. Vxorem cepit olivam, Thomae Britton generosi de Felmingham Norfolciae filiam. Cum qua viginti novem annos vixit; atque ex ea unico dotatus Filio Edoardo. Diem obijt martij 1590. Marito plurimum dilecto, praedicta conjux Amantissima, Moerore, & lachrimis perfusa, Monumentum hoc Amoris & Fidei Conjugalis ergo, Posuit & sacravit.

On the same side is another Monument, with this Inscription.

Hic jacet Maria, vxor Thomae Clopton Armig. filia Domini Willi. Waldgrave Militis, vtrisque tam Mariti, quam patris illustrata Familiis. Obijt 19. Decemb. 1599. de qua sunt superstites 4. Liberi, Willielmus, Gualterus, Elizabetha & Maria.

Cloptoni jacet hic Conjux, Waldgravia proles, Vxor digna viro, Filia digna Patre: Alter in alterius splendet virtutibus, vt lux Sitque viro, & Patri, virque pater{que} sibi. Yyy3This

The Remaines. This Monument is in the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Hic sita est Eliza. Dutton filia primogenita Thomae Egerton, equitis aurati filij primogeniti Tho. Egerton, Equit. Aurat. Dom. magnis sigilli Angliae custodis, qui nunc honorem summi Angliae Cancellarij & Baronis de Elesmere gerit. Nupta fuit Iohan. Dutton ex antiquissima familia Duttonorum in Comitatu Cestriae, sed vxorem viduam & Virginem ab avo pie educatam, venustate pietate & modestia prestantissimā praematura mors ad loca excelsa & beatissima (quo omnes tendimus) non ſine meltorum lacrimis praemisit. Obijt die secundo Octobris 1611 vixit annos 16. M. iiij D. XXI.

Idem nobilissimus baro de Elesmere, Angliae Concellarius avus indulgentissimus moestissimusque nepoti charissimae amoris ergo posuit.

Another Monument in the same Church, with this inscription.

To the worthy, learned, and godly Gentleman, William Cooke, Esquire, her deare Husband, Sonne to the Right Worshipfull, Sir Anth. Cooke, Knight, Frances his most loving wife, Daughter to that most noble Gentleman, the Lord Iohn Gray, brother to the sometime high and mighty Prince, Henry Gray, the last Duke of Suffolke, hath dedicated this Monument in memory of his vertue and her love, died the 14. day of May, and in the yeere of his age 56.

This Tombe for her deare Spouse, hath noble Frances placed, Lamenting much, with greater gifts this Tombe should not be graced, And grives as much companion-like, this Tombe should not containe Their wills in earth, since both on earth one will they did retaine.

On the North side of the Chancell is this Inscription.

Honoratissimo patri Dauncio Pouleto equiti aurato, insulae Ierseae praefecto, apud Christianissimum regem quondam legato, nobilissimi ordinis Garterij Cancelario & serenissimae principis Elizabethae Consiliario, Antonius Pouletus filius, hoc pietatis Monumentum Moerens posuit.

Gardez la foy. Quod verbo servare fidem (Poulete) solebas, Quam bene conveniunt haec tria verba tibi: Quod gladio servare fidem Poulete solebas, Quam bene conveniunt haec tria signa tibi. Patria te sensit, sensit Regina fidelem, Sic fidus Civis, sicque senator eras. Te fidum Christus, te fidum Ecclesia sensit, Sic servat inter multa pericla fidem, Ergo quod servo princeps, Ecclesia nato, Patria quod fide cive sit orba dolet, Interea Christus defuncti facta coronat, A quo servatam viderat esse fidem.

Margareta Poulet hoc Epitaphium moetoris simul & amoris sui perpetuum testem amicio conjugi suo charissimo clarissimoque dicavit.

Conjugis est (testante Deo) pars altera conjunx, Vir caput est, vnum corpus uterque refert, Vna caro, mens una, thoro sociata jugali, Solamen vitae praesidiumque suae: Ergo meo luctus quis par queat esse dolori Cui vitae pars est altera dempta meae. Sed The Remaines. Sed quid flere juvat, non sic revocabere conjux, Namque tibi pietas stravit ad astra viam: Haec spes sola juvat: qui nos conjunxit in vnum, Hunc sibi postremo jungere velle die.

Another Monument in the same Church, with this Inscription.

Hic jacet Maria Da. Cheake, filia R. Hill Armig. foemina pia & prudens, & quae fuit vsque ad obitum una dominarum in privata Camera Reginae Elizabethae (quae fuit tunc dignitas in praecipuo honore) nupta fuit primo Iohanni Cheake, Magist. principali Secretario Regis Edwardi 6. viro-optimo & eruditissimo, cui peperit Henricum haeredem paternae virtutis, & Regiae Majestatis à Secretis in Consilio Eboracensi, Iohan. Cheake virum egregium & magnanimum, Edwardum Cheake.

Vixit circa 84. Anno obijt Novemb. 30. 1616.

Secundo nupta Henrico Mackwillims Arm. viro ex Nobilis. Familia Hibernorum cui peperit Henricum qui sine prole obijt, & Margaretam seniorem filiam nuptam viro honor. Iohanni Domino Stanhop, Baroni de Harrington, Vicecamerario Reginae Eliza. & R. Iacobi thesaurario camerae & Magistro cursarum Rigiō. Susannam nuptam Edwardo Sandeys Arm. deinde Gothardo Pemberton Mil. & vltimo Thomae Ireland Mil. Ambrosiam nuptam Willielmo Kingswell Mil. Cassandra Georgio Cotton Mil. & Ceciliam nuptam Thomae Dom. Ridgway, Dom. thesaurario Regio in Hibernia.

On a flat Stone in the Chancell, is this written.

Hem viator, Infans te paucis vult

Carolus Blownt, Honoratis. Dom. Mountjoy, Comitis de Newport, & lectiss.

Dom. Annae è nobili Bottelorum in agro Herfordiensi familia oriundae.

Filius natu secundus bimulus hic praematurae posuit mortalitatis exuvias: tantum est.

Vivus nil poteram fari, quin mortuus infans, Ecce loquar mortis sis memor atque vale.

In the Church at Greenewich, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the Chancell, on the South side, this is written.

Dilectissimae Conjugi sacrae Hettonae Franciscus Hettonus viduus Moestus, non sine Lachrimis, posuit

OMea sacra oculis multo mihi Charior ipsis,Greenewich▪ Deseris (Heu) viduum cur ita sacra virum? Tu secura manes, portu requiescis Amoeno Non tibifraus, Moribus nec mala obesse valent. Tu pace Aeterna frueris, tu vivis ovasque, Quippe tibi est Terris, gratior Aula Dei, Conjux ipse tuus mance vivoque superfles, Moestificis plenus solicitudinibus, Spero tamen tempusque brevi, (mea sacra) futurum est Cum te visurus sim, vel in Arce poli. Cuncta tibi scio salva manent, vereque Beata es, Cui mors vita fuit, vitaque morte viret. Eheu quam nostrae est evanida gloria vitae, Certa dies nobis nulla, nec hora datur: Stare The Remaines. Stare decet vigiles ergo, semper que paratos, Ne mors incautos nos inopina premat. Ecce rei testis, sacra hic Blomera, jugali Francisco Hettono Consociate Thoro. Annos octodecim, placuitque Marita Marito, Nulla magis potuit, nec placuisse magis. Filiolos illi peperit, ter quinque utriusque Pignora: & ex illis, octo fuere Mares. Quadraginta Hyemes, binos si dempseris annos Vixit, & octodecim, suasilis vxor erat.

Obijt 13. Iul. Anno Dom. 1600.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription. D. O. M. Et salvatori. I. C. S. In Memoriam.

Gulielmi Hattecliffe, ex Antiqua Hatteclifforum, de Hattecliffe, in Agro Lincolniensi Familia oriundi. Qui cum summa in Deum Pietate, In pauperes Benignitate, in amicos humanitate, in omnes bonitate, Annos plus minus quinquaginta septem Coelebs in terris vitam egisset tranquillam, Tandem 17. nempe die Maij, Anno 1620. Deo Animam Reddidit Grenovici, & hic situs in pace quiescit.

On a Monument on the North side of the Chancell is this Inscription. In piam Memoriam Dilectissimae suae conjugis.

Dorotheae Lok Filiae Iacobi Brampton, de Brampto, in Comitatu Norfolciae Generosi, & Mariae vxoris ejus, Filiae Claclarissimi viri Edwardi Bulein militis, & Annae Tempestiae vxoris ejus, &c. Quae post Annos triginta sex, in hac peregrinatione terrena peractos (Annosque pene Trinos, in fideli, Castissimoque Matrimonio perimpletos) in vera Fidei Christianae confessione, & Ardentissima Dei omnipotentis invocatione, pie ex hac vita decessit 24. die Februarij 1596.

Cujus corpus juxta inhumatur, in medio hujus Chori, Adjacente à sinistra corpore Henrici Lok filii sui. Zacharias Lok Amoris & officii ergo Monumentum hoc poni fecit 24. die Octobris 1597.

In an Ile on the North side is this Inscription.

Egregio viro, Roberto Adams, operum Regiarum Supervisori, Architecturae peritissimo; Religione, & moribus Integerrimo. Qui piè obiit Anno suae Aetatis 1595.

Simon Basil operationum Regiarum Controtultor hoc posuit Monumentum 1601.

Next to the other is this Inscription. Spiritus in Caelis, fax hic Clementis Adami, Cui ex tredecim, septem pignora viva Manent, Regius ille diu vixit, Moriturque scholarca, Tumque ubi bis septem lustra peregit, obit Anno Dom. 1586. Ian. 9. Et lateri conjuncta jacet suavissima conjux, Quindenis Annis qua fuit ille minor.

Anno Dom. 1588. Maîj 11.

Next to the other is this Inscription.

Neere to this place lyeth interred, the body of Mistresse Mary Ward, late wife The Remaines. wife of Richard Ward, Esquire, Serjeant at Armes vnto King Iames, and King Charles, Father and Mother of Captaine Caesar Ward, who died in the service of his King and Country in October 1627. She died in February following, in the foresaid yeere.

Which three moneths time with sighs Her grieved life did spend, Her Sonnes untimely death Hastned her end.

In the Church at Detford, or West Greenwich, are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancell, and hath this Inscription. M. S.

H. S. E. Rogerus Boyle,Detford. Richardi Comitis Corcagiensis Filius Primogentius, qui in Hibernia natus, in Cantio solo Patris Natali denatus, Dum hic ingenij cultum capessit. Puer eximiae indolis, praecocitatem ingenij funere luit immaturo. Sic luculenti, sed terreni Patrimonij factus exhaeres, coelestem crevit Haereditatem. Decessit A. D. 1615. iv. eid. viii. Bris.

Death. Richardus, praenobilis Comes Corcagiensis Vxoris suae Patruo. B. M. P.

Memoriae perenni Edwardi Fenton, Reginae Elizabethae, olim pro corpore Armigeri, Iano O-Neal, ac post eum, Comite Desmoniae, in Hibernia Turbantibus, Fortissimi Taxiarchi, qui post lustratum improbo ausu, septentrionalis Plagae Apochryphum Mare, & excussas variis Peregrinationibus inertis Naturae latebras, Anno 1588. in celebri contrae Hispanos Naumachia, meruit Navis Praetoriae Navarchus.

Obijt Anno Domini 1603.

Cognatos Cineres, & Amicam Manibus umbram, O Fentone, tuis, excipias Tumulo. Vsuram Tumuli victure Marmore Pensat, Et reddit gratus, pro Tumulo Titulum.

At the upper end of that Chancell, on the North side, is thus written. Sacrae perpetuae{que} Memoriae Gulielmi Haukyns, de Plimouth Armigeri.

Qui verae Religionis verus cultor, Pauperibus praecipuè Navicularijs Munificus, Rerum Nauticarum studiossissimus, longinquas instituit saepè Navigationes; Arbiter in causis difficilimis Aequissimus, Fide, Probitate & Prudentia singulari. Duas duxit Vxores, è quarum una 4. ex altera 7. suscepit liberos.

Iohannes Haukyns Eques Auratus, Classis Regiae Quaestor, Frater Moestissimus posuit.

Obijt specerta Resurgendi 7. die mensis Octobris, An. Dom. 1589.

In the upper end of the Chancell.

There lyeth buried neere this place the body of Iane Edisbury, Widow, Mother of Kenrick Edisbury, Gentleman, Pay-master of the Kings Majesties Navy, under Sir William Russell, Knight, Treasurer. She died on the 16. day of March, 1618.

On the North side of this Quire, a worthy Memoriall of Sir Sackevile Crow, for Seeling and beautifying of that North Ile.

The Remaines. In the Church at Roderith, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the South Ile, on the wall, is this written.

Post tenebras, spero Lucem.

NExt without this Wall,Roderith. are buried Brian, Richard, and Marke, Alize, and Elizabeth, the three Sons and two Daughters of Nicholas Reynolds, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and of Elizabeth his wife. The forenamed Elizabeth, their younger Daughter, was married to Robert Wheatley, Salter, the 20. day of August, 1593. and died the 18. of September, in the same yeere.

These Blossomes yong and tender, loe, Blowne downe by deadly wind, May vrge the riper sort to know, Like blast shall them out find. For Flesh, as grasse, away doth wither, No age can it eschew, The young and old decay together, When death shall them pursue. No Parents, Friends, or Advocate, Can him intreat to spare, The Faire, the Fine, or Delicate, For threats he doth not care. Let that most certaine Statute made, By God our heavenly King, All men assure, and eke perswade, Death shall them equall bring.

Post Mortem, Vitam Aeternam.

In the middle Ile of this Church is thus written.

Trinitas in vnitate.

Here lies buried the body of Richard Hills, Mariner, one of the eldest Brothers and Assistants of the Company of the Trinity, and his two wives; who while hee lived in this place, gave liberally to the poore, and spent bountifully in his house: and after many great troubles, being of the age of 80. yeeres and upward, departed this life without issue, upon the 16. of February, 1614.

This was made at the charge of Robert Bell. Though Hills be dead, Hills Will and Act survives, His Free-Schoole, and his Pension for the poore; Thought on by him, performed by his Heire, For eight poore Sea-mens children, and no more.

1627.

On the outside of the North Wall is a Monument, bearing the figure of a Ship at Sea; under it the portraiture of him for whom it was erected, with his Wife, six Sons, and foure Daughters; the living and the dead distinguished by Deaths-heads, which the buried seeme to beare in their hands, and under them this Inscription.

Here beneath lyeth interred, the body of Captaine Anthony Wood, who departed this life the 24. of August, 1625. being the 40. yeere of his age, and had issue by his wife Martha Wood, sixe Sonnes and foure Daughters.

The Remaines. In Saint Margarets Church at Westminster, are these ensuing Monuments.

On a very ancient Monument in Brasse, at the upper end of the North Ile, is thus written.

Sacrum doloris. SHall teares,S. Margarets at Westminster. the silent Messengers of death, Dissolve their streames into a Sea of moane? No, no, in vaine you sacrifice reliefe, Over his Tombe, with eyes, with voyce, with groane, For Cole assign’d by God, the poore to pity, The widowes comfort, and eke the Orphans Sire, Who tun’d each string of hate to loves sweet ditty, Is dead: aye me, will death the best desire? Remorselesse death, thy wrath in him is ended, Maugre thy darts, his praises cannot dye, Thou hast his body, but his soule ascended Into the place of joyes eternity, And though his corps inter’d lye dead in grave, Yet still his vertues life and being have.

An. Dom. 1597.

In Parliament, a Burgesse, Cole was placed, In Westminster the like for many yeeres, But now with Saints above his soule is graced, And lives a Burgesse with Heavens royall Peeres. Oblessed change, from earth, where Death is King, To be united there where Angels sing.

Ejusdem in eundem. Terra tegit Corpus, mens scandit ad Aethera Coeli, Fama virens floret, Caetera mors rapuit.

Thus in English. The Grave my body, Heaven my soule doth keepe, The World my fame, the rest in death doth sleepe.

Margaretta Cole posuit. In another columne of the same Table. This Monument unites two constant Lovers, He that is dead, and her that lives in death: His Body she, his Spouse, in honour covers, Wishing her dayes were shortned with his death. But she must live, yet living shall be mated, With him in death, while death her life hath dated. Full twenty yeeres and odde their league was firme, Witnesse the world, their children, and their love, Nothing but death, by death should give the tearme Of farewell to their faith, by false remove. Of breach of concord no tongue can accuse them, Vnlesse base envy by her Saints abuse them. O envy not the dead, but die to sinne, Expect the harvest of this dead mans blisse, Desire the Crowne which envy cannot winne, Amend in you, not others, what’s amisse. Sad death shall be your Herauld to procure Rest to your soules with Christ for to endure. Marget in woe, distill those teares to comfort, And in thy childrens love addresse thy anguish: Three The Remaines. Three live with thee, then love their living consort, No longer in thy Husbands sorrow languish. But imitate thy Cole in Vertues lawes, That thou maist live where Vertue pleads his cause.

This Monument is in the North Ile, and hath this Inscription.

Here lyeth the Lady Dorothy Stafford, Wife and Widdow to Sir William Stafford, Knight, Daughter to Henry Lord Stafford, the onely Sonne of Edward, the last Duke of Buckingham: her Mother was Vrsula, Daughter to the Countesse of Salisbury, the onely Daughter to George Duke of Clarence, Brother to King Edward the fourth. Shee continued a true Widdow, from the age of 27. till her death. She served Queene Elizabeth 40. yeeres, lying in the Bedchamber, esteemed of her, loved of all, doing good all she could to every body, never hurted any; a continuall remembrancer of the suites of the poore. As shee lived a religious life, in great reputation of honour and vertue in the world, so she ended in continuall fervent meditation and hearty prayer to God. At which instant (as all her life) so after her death shee gave liberally to the poore, and died aged 78. the 22. of September 1604. In whose remembrance, Sir Edward Stafford her Sonne hath caused this memoriall of her to be, in the same forme and place as she her selfe long since required him.

On a Monument on the North side of the Chancell is this Inscription.

To the memory of Rob. Peeter, Esquire, Auditor of the Receipt, her first Husband, who gave to the use of the poore of this Parish one hundred pound: and of Edward English, her second Husband, a Gentleman, kinde, courteous, and of great Hospitality, who gave twelve pounds in Annuity for ever to the same use.

Margaret their loving wife, Daughter of Sir Iohn Tyrill of Gipping, Knight, who likewike hath bequeathed one hundred pounds for the purchasing of one yeerely Annuity of twenty nobles for ever to the foresaid poore, Lamenting their death, and for testification of her dutifull love hath erected this Monument.

Another Monument in the same Ile, with this Inscription.

Here lyeth the body of Thomas Arneway, buried the 8. of September, Anno Dom. 1603. And Margaret Arneway his Wife, who was buried the 9. of August, Anno Dom. 1596.

Neere unto the other, in a faire Plate, is this following Epitaph.

A memoriall on the death of Iohn Varnam Gardiner, who deceased the xj. of December, 1586. Aetatis suae 46.

O mortall man that lives on earth, consider well thy end, Remember that thou must depart, when God for thee doth send. This life is but a pilgrimage, so soone it doth decay, And all the riches of this world shall fade and passe away: As by example daily shew’d, before our eyes we see, That rich & poore to earth are brought for their iniquity. Let us that live on earth behind, to God for mercy call, With wofull heart & wringing hands, and he will blesse us all. And The Remaines. And now to speake of this good man, Iohn Varnam cal’d by name, Who in his life he lived well, by labour, travaile, and paine, In helping of the fatherlesse, and widowes very poore, And setting ever them on worke which went from doore to doore. A Gardiner by Art he was, great skill he had therein, And prosper’d well in all his life, with every living thing That he at all times tooke in hand: To God be given all praise, That did increase this honest man with riches many wayes. The poore they had great work of him, by weeding of his ground, And he to them was well content, to leave aſſurance found, Of land and living to releeve the fatherlesse in need, So he confirmed this his minde, by will it was decree’d. Agnes Varnam left behind, his loving wife most sure, By her he had foure sonnes, likewise foure daughters, Virgins pure: Who all being dead, and none alive, but Elizabeth by name, And in remembrance of his life, they have set up this same. He willingly did yeeld himselfe, in God was all his trust, And in the last houre of his death, he shew’d his faith most just, To leave this world most cheerefully, desirous to depart, Asking forgivenesse of the world, and forgiving with his heart To those which he at any time in deed or word offended: Most joyfully his soule was then vnto the Lord commended. And thus he left his life, in briefe to tell you plaine, Hoping in Heaven to be receiv’d, for ever to remaine.

In the same Ile, in the body of the Church, is this Inscription.

Cornelius Vandun lieth here, borne at Breda in Brabant, Souldier with King Henry at Turney, Yeoman of the Guard, and Vsher to King Henry, King Edward, Queene Mary, and Queene Elizabeth: of honest and vertuous life, a carefull man for poore folke, who in the end of this towne did build for poore widowes twenty houses of his owne cost.

Round about his figure wrought as in his Guards Coat, these words.

Obijt Anno Dom. 1577. buried the 4. of September. Aetatis suae 94.

At the upper end of the South Ile in the Chancell, as followeth. Frances Haughton, in token of her love to her Husband, caused this Monument to be erected.

Here resteth in assured hope to rise in Christ, the body of Hugh Haughton, the fourth sonne of Thomas Haughton of Haughton, in the County of Chester, Gentleman, who married Frances, Daughter of William Coothe of Sherbourne, in the County of Dorset, Gentleman, and by her had issue two Daughters, Elizabeth and Frances: He departed this life the 17. day of October, 1616. aged 50. yeeres, and Elizabeth departed this life the 28. of August, 1615. aged seven yeeres, and lieth here also interred.

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The Remaines. On an ancient brasse Monument close by the other, is thus written.

Give thankes to God for Edward Courtney Esquire, Sonne and Heire to Sir Peter Courtney of Devonshire, Knight, who living a life agreeable to his estate and stocke, ended the same like a fithfull Christian, the 27. day of November 1566. and is buried before this stone.

On another neere to that is thus written.

Here lyeth the body of Alexander Tomkins, the fifth sonne to Richard Tomkins of Momington upon Wye, in the County of Hereford, Esquire, who was buried in August, in the yeere of our Lord God 1615.

On another neere to that is thus written.

Vnderneath lieth the body of Iames Tomkins, second sonne to Iames Tomkins, of Momington upon Wye, in the County of Hereford, Esquire, buried in December, in the yeere of our Lord God 1613.

Close to this a very faire Monument in the South wall of the Chancell, thus written on.

Here under is intombed Blanch Parry, Daughter to Henry Parry of New-Court, within the County of Hereford, Esquire, chiefe Gentlewoman of Queene Elizabeths most honourable privy Chamber, and Keeper of her Majesties Jewels, whom she faithfully served from her Highnesse birth; beneficiall to her Kinsfolke and Countrimen, charitable to the poore, insomuch that shee gave to the poore of Bacton and Newton in Herefordshire, sevenscore bushels of Wheat and Rye yeerely for ever, with divers summes of money to Westminster and other places for good uses. She died a Maid in the 82. yeere of her age, the 12. of February 1589.

Another faire Monument in the fame Ile, in the Chancell, thus written on.

Here under resteth in expectation of a glorious Resurrection, the body of Thomas Bond Gentleman, sometimes a Burgesse of this City of Westminster; and also the bodies of Ellin his wife, of Thomas Bond their Sonne, and of Ellen their Daughter.

To the memory of whose Christian vertues, their dutifull Sonne, and loving Brother Iohn Bond, hath erected this Monument.

A Father, Mother, Sonne, and Daughter deere, Cover’d with earth, their corps be buried here; Two aged died, and two in prime of strength; To teach that death will conquer all at length: A vertuous life they liv’d, made Christian ends, And now a Crowne of glory them attends.

At the foure corners of this Monument are these inscriptions.

Thomas Bond the Father died the 7. of Aprill 1616.

Ellin Bond the Mother died the 31. of May 1628.

Thomas Bond the Sonne died the 26. of May 1627.

Ellin Butts the Daughter died the 12. of August 1625.

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The Remaines. On a faire Stone in the middle of the Chancell is this written.

Here resteth in God the body of Anna Ebbis, borne in Denmarke, who served our gracious Queene Anna, in her Bed-chamber, was married to Master Thomas Seringe, her Majesties Chaplaine, the 28. of Aprill, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1598. and died at Westminster the 26. of February 1608. unto whom God Almighty give a joyfull Resurrection.

Moerentis musa Mariti. Astra tuam foveant Animam, bona fama sepultae Restet in his terris, capiat tandem omnia Coelum. Iohannes Seringius, Thuringius.

A faire Monument at the lower end of the North Ile in the wall, thus written on.

Here lieth interred the body of Edward Reynolds, Esquire, late Clearke of his Majesties privy Seale, and Register of the Court of Requests, who departed this life the 18. day of December Anno Dom. 1623. by him also lieth the body of his Brother, Master Owen Reynolds, who deceased the 16. of Aprill 1610. To whose memories Edward and Launcelet Reynolds, Gentlemen, have here placed these ensuing Verses, made by the said Edward Reynolds in his life time.

Gloria, Vita, Decor, Thesaurus, Fanta, Voluptas Vana, brevis, fragilis, fluxus, temeraria, mollis, Fumus, Bulla, Iris, Fax Viatus, Dulce venenū, Vaneſcit, perit, areſcit, liqueſit, fugit, angit.

Orbe nihil toto stabile est, citò corruet orbis, Et vasti in nihilum vanescet fabrica Mundi. Sola fides firmam parit, aesern amque Coronam, Sola fides Christi meritis, sunt cætera Nugæ.

Haec vixi, hac morior side, mihi Christus in vitae, & morte lucrum.

In the middle of the same Ile, in the wall, is a faire Monument, thus written on.

M. S.

Hîc sepultus jacet Iohannes Corbettus de Sprowslon, in Com. Norf. Baroncttus, qui vxorem duxit piissimam Annam, filiam Arthuri Capel de Hadham, in Com. Hareford Militis, ex qua suscepit Filios ties, totiden que Filiae, Vitam vixit integerrimam, Rei assertor publicae, Christianae columen, Mecaenas literariae, hinc migrans, Anno Dom. Millesimo, sexcentesimo vigesimo septimo (Aetatis trigesimo septimo) die decimo nono Ianuarij. Abunde illud supplevit, in quo Marmor deficit, famam & memoriam indeptus terris diutius, at Caele in aeternum victuram.

Iohannes Corbettus miles. Sanctusue is homo & liber? Et sanctus isle homo liber.

Sir Iohn Corbett Baronet.

Another in the same wall, thus inscribed.

D. M. M. S. Ioannes Makeulio de Merton D N. Scoto-Britannus, Magni Hetruriae ducis Archiater quondam, Nec non In sapientia illustris, Pisis Cathedrae Doctor, Dein Magnae Britanniae Regis Medicus, Medicorum sui seculi Aesculapius, Therapeutices; promus-condus, conditumque prodigium, Zzz2Mor The Remaines. Mortales, huic Cippo, in spem Resurrectionis, vitaeque melioris Reliquit exuvias Reparatae salutis 1622. Aetatis suae 46. Mense. Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.

On the same Wall, in a Table, is this Epitaph.

In memory of the late deceased Virgin, Mistris Elizabeth Hereicke.

Sweet Virgin, that I doe not set Thy Grave-verse up in mournfinll Jet Or dapl’d Marble, let thy shade Not wrathful seeme, or fright the maid, Who hither at her weeping howres, Shall come to strew thy earth with flowres: No, know blest soule, when there’s not one Remainder left of brasse or stone, Thy living Epitaph shall be Though lost in them yet found in me: Deare, in thy bed of Roses then, Till this world shall dissolve (as men) Sleepe, while we hide thee from the light, Drawing thy Curtains round— Good night.

On a Table hanging at the upper end of the South Ile is this written.

In memory of the right vertuous and beautifull Gentlewoman, Mistris Margaret Radcliffe, Daughter to Sir Iohn Radcliffe Knight, one of the Maids of Honour to Queene Elizabeth, who deceased at Richmond the 10. of November, and was here buried with solemnity the 22. of the same, Anno Dom. 1599. An. Reg. Eliz. 41.

Tell thou my wailing verse, and mourning show, What beauteous frame lies here interr’d below. Here underneath entomb’d a Dazie lies, The pride of nature, with perfection fil’d; O woe, whom Zephyres blasts can ne’r make rise, Being by Deaths blacke storms untimely kild. Ratcliffe’s thy name, the glory of the Court, Vertue and Beauty strove t’adorne thee most, Though here inclos’d, yet fame shall still report Thy Vertues praise, thy graces time shall boast, Thou di’dst a Virgin pure, and spotlesse liver, Griefe caus’d thy death, death makes thee live for ever. If any aske, who sigh’d this sad complaint, Say one that liv’d, that lov’d, that ioyed, now faint.

Another faire Monument at the vpper end of the Chancell, thus inscribed.

Epitaphium Religiosissimi, spectatissimique viri, Francisci Egioke, de Egioke in Comitatu Vigorniae Equitis Aurati, vitae Famaeque integerrimae, Musarum, Militum, Pauperumque Fautoris Meritissimi, Qui à Londino, Vigorniam versia proficiscens, in Vxbrigia vita defunctus est 21. die Novemb. 1622. Hic vero repositus habet Cineres.

Dilectißima

The Remaines. Dilectissima, Moessissimaque vxor ejus Elinor, Filia Fra. Dingley Armigeri, in eodem Vigorniæ Comitatu, Lugubre Hoc, Pij Amoris & obsequii, Monumentum posuit.

Ad Tumulum niflere libet, discedito Lector, Qui legis haec, Fletu, prodigus esto pio. Cum Musis omnes flerent, inopumque Catervis, Illis Patronus, His Benefactor erat. Arma virumque canit, Mors imperiosa, triumphans, Quod miles strenuus sic spoliatus obit. Vana quid insultas? te jam tua praedafefellit; Artes, arma, preces, hunc periisse vetant. Hunc (Mors) insequeris frustra, cui militat aether, Nec tibi, sed superis, praeda beata jacet. Quid quoditer carpens Cecidit? Moriturque viator? Quae supra terram est noverat; hîc Patriam. Quo tendens, proprios Lares, Terrasque relinquit, Et Coelum media possidet ille via.

This Monument is neere unto the other, having this Inscription.

Here lyeth entombed Mary Lady Dudley, Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham, in his time Lord high Admirall of ENGLAND, Lord Chamberlaine, and Lord Privy Seale. Shee was Grand-childe to Thomas Duke of Norfolke, the second of that Sir-name, and Sister to Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham, Lord High Admirall of England, by whose prosperous direction, through the goodnesse of God, in defending his Handmaid, Queen Elizabeth, the whole Fleet of Spaine was defeated and discomfited.

She was first married to Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley, and after to Richard Mountpesson Esquire, who in the Memory of her Vertues, and laſt Testimony of his love, erected this Monument. Shee slept in Christ Iesus, in the yeere of our Lord 1600. the 21. of August, attending the joyfull day of her Resurrection.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the North Ile, with this inscription.

Here in peace resteth the body of Thomas Seymour, second sonne to the Right Honourable, Edward Earle of Hartford, and Isabel his VVife, eldest Daughter to Edward Meley of Katesby, in the County of Northampton, Esquire, which said Thomas departed this life the 3. day of August, 1600. And the said Isabel the 20. day of August 1619. in the true faith of Iesus Christ, and in the blessed hope of a joyfull Resurrection.

On a faire Marble in the Chancell is thus written.

Depositum

Mariæ Filiae unicæ Thomæ Egerton Militis Baronis de Elleſmere Cancellarij Angliæ. Francisci Leigh Militis fidelissimæ, optime meritæ, ac unice dilectæ conjugis, quæ tertio die Aprilis, An. Dom. M. DCXII. Ætatis suæ 36. post partum Filliorum 4. Filiarum 5. inpuerperio Filiae 6. Spiritum Deo, Corpus sepulchro liquit, in Christo obdormiens, Cui fide, spe & Charitate, Constantissimè vixit. Pudicitiæ, Pietatis, & Venustatis Rarissimum decus.

Non obijt sed abijt.

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The Remaines. In Westminster Abbey are these ensuing Monuments.

In Obitum Serenissimae

Principis & omnium virtutum genere Cumulatissimae Annae Dei gratia Magnae Britaniae, Franciae & Hiberniae Reginae, Dominaeque suae longè gratiosissimae, carmen funebre.

Ad Potentissimum Serenissimae Annae Maritum Iacobum, Dei gratia, Magnae Britanniae Regem fidei defensorem &c.

Annus & Anna in se redit,Westminster Abbey. hic novus, illa perennis: Cujus vir pater & frater Rex, Regia proles, In Coelo Aeternos Regina est Anna per Annos. Floreat illa suis in prole aeterna Britannis, Inque suo vigeat feliciter Anna Iacobo. Inclite Rex Britonum, veniam da vera loquenti. Iacobus caret Anna, & non caret Anna Iacobo: Maxime Rex Regum, Regem solare Iacobum.

Ad Invictissimum Christianum Quartum Dei Gratia Daniae, Norwegiae, Gothorum, Vandolorumque Regem, &c.

Pondere pressa, suo sub pondere, Palma Resurgit: Marmore pressa soror tua, Fertur ad Aethera victrix. Sanguinolenta olim, inter Danos atque Britannos, Pugna, nihil potuit, nostro conjuncta Iacobo, Absque cruore, omnes vicit Dana Anna Britannos, Aeterneque suis conjunxit Foedere Danis. Orbis, Danorum Pacis, Britonumque sit idem Terminus, & Reges Rex protegat orbis utrosque.

Ad Foelicissimam Iacobi & Annae prolem Carolum Walliae Principem, Elizabetham, Frederici Electoris Comitis Palatini Vxorem, Regalemque eorum Progeniem quae nunc est, vel Dei gratia erit in Posterum.

Indiae Phoenix, volucris per annos Vna sexcentos deciesque senos, Dicitur foelix superesse, dirae Nescia Mortis. Quod tibi Parcae dederant sorores Fila correptae breviora vitae, Anna, dicaris Mulier, sed esto Caetera Phoenix. Igne solari, moriens Crematur Mortuo-Vivos Cineres in albos, Sic, ut ex illis rediviva surgat Altera Phoenix. Anna, eui nunquā similem videbit Phoebus, expiras? moriare sic, ut In tua semper vigennt Beati Prole Britanni. Hinc, The Remaines.

Hinc, illinc, ubicunque, cadem est, & ubique Beata.

Obijt in Domino Anno Domini 1618. quarto Nonarum Martij, Annos nata 44. Menses 4. & dies 18.

Ad sereuissimae Reginae familiam Moerore obrutam.

Vos canite, O socij, funebria Carmina mecum; Nos relevet Dominus, perdidimus Dominam.

Responsio Familiae. Non sunt canendo, talibus pressi malis, Sed nec loquendo, quos habet talis dolor: Nostris adhaerent fiucibus linguae graves. Loquantur alij, dum luctus nostri stupent.

Edidit Serenissimae Reginae Moestissimus Capellanus, Guliclmus Swadonus, Collegij Wickamici Alumnus, Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, & Archidiaconus Wigorniae.

Vpon

The Remaines. Vpon a very rich and stately Monument in the same Church is thus written.

Depositum Illustrissimi & Excellentissimi Principis Ludovici Stuarti Esmei Leviniae Ducis Filij Ioannis Propatrui Seren: Regis, acobi Nepotis, Richmondiae & Leviniae Dacis, Novi Castelli ad Tinam & Darnliae Comitis, &c. Magni Scotiae Camerarij & Thalassiarchae Hereditariè. Sacri Palatij Iacobi Regis Seneschalli, Cubiculariorumque principalium primi, Regi à Sanctitribus Consilijs. San-Georgiani ordinis Eq. Scoticorumque per Gallias Cataphractorum praefecti.

Viri excelsi ad omnia Magna & bona nati, ad meliora defuncti, vixit Annos 49. Menses 4. Dies 17.

2 Sam. 3. 38. Chronog:

AN IGNORATIS, QVIA PRINCEPS ET VIR MAGNVS OBIIT HODIE.

16. Febr. primo generalium Regni Comitiorum designato.

On the other side of the same Monument is thus written.

Illustrissima & Excellentissima Princeps, Francisca Richmondiae & Leviniae Ducissa, Domini Thomae Howardi Dindoniae Filia, Thomae Howardi Norfolciae Ducis, ex Elizabethâ Edovardi Ducis Buckinghamiae Filiâ Neptis, Lodovici Stuarti Richmondiae & Leviniae Ducis Vxor,

Charissiavi conjugij nunquam non memor, conjugi optimè merito sibique posuit hoc Monumentum.

Obijt Die mensis An. Dom.

On a Table in the same Quire, is this following Inscription.

P. M. S.

Vanae multitudinis Improperium hic jacet cuius tamen

Hispania Prudentiam. Gallia Fortitudinem. Belgia Industriam.

Toto Europa Mirata est Magnanimitatem.

Quem Daniae & Reges Integerrimum. Sweciae Germaniae Transilvaniae & Princip. Ingenuum. Nassauviae Veneta Respublica Philobasilia. Subaudiae & Lotharingiae Duces Politicum. Palatinus Comes Fidelem. Imperator Pacificum. Turca Christianum. Papa Protestantem. Experti sunt.

Quem Anglia Archithalassum Cantabrigia Cancellarium Buckinghamia Ducem habuit.

Verum siste viator, & quid ipsa Invidia sugillare nequit audi.

Hic est Ille Calamitosae virtutis Buckinghamius. Maritus redamatus, Pater amans, Filius obsequens. Frater amicissimus, Affinis Beneficus, Amicus perpetuus, Dominus Beniguus & Optimus omnium servus. Quem

The Remaines. Quem Reges adamarunt, optimates honorarunt, Ecclesia deflevit, Vulgus oderunt.

Quem Iacobus & Carolus Regum perspicacissimi, intimum habuerunt. A quibus Honoribus auctus, & Negotijs onustus, Fato succubuit Antequam par animo periculum Invenit. Quid jam Peregrine? Aenigma mundi moritur; Omnia fuit, nec quidquam habuit, Patriae Parens & Hostis audiit. Deliciae idem & querela Parlamenti. Qui dum Papistis Bellum infert, insimulatur Papista, Dum Protestantium partibus consulit, occiditur à Protestante. Tesseram specta Rerum Humanarum, At non est quod serio triumphet malitia, Interimere potuit, laedere non potuit. Scilicet has Preces fundens expiravit. Tuo ego sanguine Potiar (mi Iesu) dum mali pascuntur meo.

This Monument is in a Chappell on the North side of the high Altar.

Georgio Holles

Eq. Anglo-Brit. Clariss. Penatib. oriundo, rerum Militar. sic à pueritia dedito ut Castror. Alumnus nasci videretur, Qui postquam cuncta quae decerent Nobilem, stipendia in Belgia Fecerat ordin. Ductor suae gentis, supremus vulgo Sergiant Major Generalis,

Declaratus est.

Augustaeq. Trinobantum Pacifice excessurus hic propter Franc. Verum Imper. suum & Consanguin. Cui tamen Periculis quam sanguine Conjunctior, Ambitu Honestiss. Componi voluit.

Ioannes FN. Comes de Clare FR. Merentissimo Moerentissimus P. vixit A. L. M. iij. D. iiij. ob xiiii. Kal. Iun. Anno Dom. M. DC. XXVI.

This Monument is in a Chappell on the South side of the high Altar. What so thou hast of Nature or of Arts, Youth, Beauty, Strength, or what excelling parts Of Mind and Body, Letters, Armes, and worth, His eighteene yeeres, beyond his yeeres, brought forth, Then stand and reade thy selfe within this glasse, How soone these perish, and thy selfe may passe. Mans life is measur’d by the worke, not dayes, No aged sloth, but active youth hath praise.

Francisco Holles juveni fortissimo qui ab exercitu è Belgia aeger regreſsus obiit Prid. Id. Auguſti Anno Dominicae Aetatis M. DC. XXII. suae XVIII. Iohannes Comes de Clare, Filio natis 3. & merentissimo moerentissimus pater posuit.

This Monument is in another Chappell on the South side the high Altar.

Bonae Memoriae

Georgio Villerio Equiti Aurato Marito B. M. Iuxta se P. Clarissima conjux Maria Cometissa Buckingamiae.

S. P. I. T.

D. O. M. OSSA

Mariae de Bello Monte Cometissae Buckingamiae E quinque Potentissimorum totius Europiae Regnorum regibus, Id que per totidem Immediatos

Descensus oriunde

Vix Ann. Lxij. M. xj. D. xix. Hoc Mon. V. I. C.

The Remaines. On a Pillar on the North side of the high Altar is this Inscription.

Iuliana Crem

Virgo Pientissima Charissima & vnica filia Ranulphi de Creme, Equitis Aurati, Regii Tribunalis capitalis Iusticiarij, ex Iuliana de Cleppesby conjuge, vetustae familiae de Cleppesby in agro Norfolciensi Cohaerede suscepta,

Redemptoris adventum hic expectat, vernante Aetate, in patriam abijt xxij. April. M. DC. XXI.

In the Abbey, in the North Ile, about the middle of the Ile, is thus written. Mors mihi Solus Christus Lucrum mihi sola salus.

Spe Resurgendi▪

Hic jacet Iana Stotevill, Filia Thomae Stotevill de Brinckley, in Comitatu Cantabrig. Armigeri, uxor primo Edvardi Ellis de Chesterton, in Comitatu Cantabrig. Armigeri, Cui peperit 6. Filios, & 3. Filias, vxor deinde Othewelli Hill Doctoris in Iare Civil, & Cancellarij Dioces. Lincoln. Cujus Relicta obijt 27. die Aprilis Anno Dom. 1631. Aetatis suae 78.

Vivit post funera virtus.

In another Chappell on the South side the high Altar, is this Inscription.

Hic jacet Anna Garrard Filia (& Cohaeres cum Fransisca) Georgio Garrard, & Margaretae Dacris, Parentibus, Nobilium, & antiquorum stemmatum, Vxor Dudleio Baroni Carleton de Imbercourt. Cui cum Filium vnicum pepererit in infantia expirantem, eique legationibus ad Remp. Venetam, Subaudiam, & unitas Belgiae Provincias per Sedecem annorum spatium indivisa comes adhaeserit, dum iter illuc demo meditatur, rapta est morbo Apoplectico è molestis hujus Aevi laboribus in requiem aeternam 18. Aprilis, Anno Dom. 1627. Aetatis suae 42. à conjugio 20.

Memoriam Posteritati faciens probae, & Religiosae Foeminae, Vxoris conjunctissimae, oculatae Matrisfam: cui hoc Monumentum sacravit Gemibundus conjux, Testimonium Amoris integri, ob eamque amissam intimi cruciatus, dum visum fuerit Deo Op. Ma. & illum etiam deducere in hoc idem Dormitorium, cui ipse vivens se mortuum designavit.