Tombes, Monuments, 
 
 And Sepulchral Infcriptions, 
 
 Lately Vilible in 
 
 St. Pauls Cathedral^ 
 
 And St. FAITH'S under it. 
 
 Compleatly Rendred 
 In LATIN and ENGLISH, 
 With Several Hiftorical Difcourfes, 
 On Sundry Perfons Intombed therein. < 
 
 A W O R K 
 
 Never yet Performed by any Author 
 OLD or NEW. 
 
 By P. F. Student in Antiquities, Batchelor qf Arts, and heretofore 
 One of His late Majefties Majors of Foot, 
 To the late Honorable Sir Patricius Curwen, c. Cumb. Baronet. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for the Author, 
 
 And properly Prefented to the kind Encouragers, 
 Of fo Worthy a Work. 
 [1684] 
 
THE 
 
 Tombs, Monuments, &c., 
 
 Vifible in 
 
 . 33aur0 Catf)etsral 
 
 (ANB S. FAITH'S BENEATH IT) 
 Previous to its Deftruction by Fire 
 
 By 
 
 Major PAYNE FISHER, B.A., Magdalen College, Cambridge. 
 
 POET LAUREATE to OLIVER CROMWELL, and Author of 
 ' Marjlon Moor ; five de obfidione pr<clioque Eborancenfc, Carmen'' (1650), '' Irenodia Gratulatoria,' &c. (1652), 
 ' Oratio Anniverfaria ' Sic. (1655), ' Threnodia Triumphaits,'' &c. (1658), ' Synopfis of Heraldry,^ &c. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 G. BLACKER MORGAN. 
 
 LONDON 
 Printed 1684. 
 Privately re-printed, 18S5. 
 
<15enealos;(ca Cunossa. 
 
 VOL. I. 
 
 Ci)e Comt)0 of Paur0 Catbenral, 
 
 This edition is limited to thirty large-paper copies [demy quarto) on 
 Whatman's hand-made paper, and one hundred and fifty small- 
 paper copies [crown quarto) on antique paper. 
 
 This cojiy is numbered 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The compiler of this work — Payne Fiflier — or as he figned his Latin poems, Paganus Ftfcator, 
 was the fon of Payne Fifher, of Chilton-Candaver, co. Southampton, (Captain of a company of 
 Life Guards at Oxford) who married Mary, the eldefl daughter of Sir Thomas Neale, of Warnford, 
 near Southampton, where the poet was born in 1616. 
 
 In 1634 Payne Fifher entered Hart-Hall (now Hertford College) Oxford, and remained 
 there for three years, when he removed to Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he graduated 
 as B.A. After leaving Cambridge he entered the army and ' trailed a pike ' in the Netherlands, 
 afterwards on his return to England, he obtained a commiffion as enfign in the army raifed by 
 Charles I againfl the Scots. On the difbanding of this army he took fervice in Ireland, where 
 he obtained the rank of Captain, ond on his return that of Major. 
 
 During the Civil War, in July 1644, Major Fifher ferved at the fiege of York, when he led 
 three hundred men by the command of Prince Rupert. He was alfo prefent at the battle of 
 Marflon-Moor, celebrated in his firfl publifhed poem. On the decline of the fuccefs of the 
 Royalifls he joined the triumphant party, and retiring from the army, moved to London, where 
 he employed his pen with the bitternefs of an apoflate, againfl the caufe in which he had 
 previoufly wielded his sword. He confequently rofe in high favour with Oliver Cromwell, 
 under whofe protectorate he held the office of Poet Laureate, or as he called it ' Scribbler' ! 
 
 At the Refloration Major Fifher endeavoured to atone for his defertion and hoflility, by 
 the fulfome flattery of great men in power ; but this fervility was of no avail. He publiflred 
 feveral Latin poems, and his mufe was employed inter alia to fing the praifes of Louis XIV., 
 and to lament the death of Oliver Cromwell. 
 
 As a poet he appears to have poffeffed confiderable talent, and — from his rapid promotion 
 in the army — he was doubtlefs a good foldier. But as a ' Student in Antiquities ' he was 
 unfuccefsful, being inaccurate and flovenly in his work. His life is faid to have been very 
 irregular, and he died in advanced years, and poverty, at a Coffee houfe in the Old Bailey, 
 April 2. 1693. 
 
 The regifler of S. Sepulchre, Holborn, records the burial of : — 
 
 ' Payne ffiJJierfroni BiJIiofs Court. 5 Aprik j6gj.^ 
 
 He was Author of feveral works, of which Wood has given a detailed account in the 
 ' Athena Oxonienfis! His projected ' Great Hijlory of the Tombs of London ' which is fo 
 frequently mentioned in the ' Tombes of S. Paul's,' never faw the light. 
 
 S. Paul's Cathedral has been burnt five times : thrice by fire from heaven. The earliefl 
 conflagration — according to Stow — took place A.D. 1087. The latefl, and probably the mofl 
 deflructive, in 1666. 
 
 During the, Civil War the Cathedral was fadly profaned. Soldiers were quartered within 
 its venerable walls : the Portico was converted into fhops, and many monuments, and other 
 objects of antiquity were ruthleffly deftroyed. 
 
 Sir William Dugdale's Work deals with the hiflory of this grand old cathedral ; but anyone 
 really interefled in its every-day life, as illuflrated by the ballads and broadfides of the time — 
 recalling the affociations that endeared it to the citizens of London — fhould confult a fmall 
 volume by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpfon, D.D., publifhed in 1880 by the '■Camden Society,' 
 entitled ' Documents illuflrative of the Hiflory of S. Paul's.' The mofl fuperficial reader cannot 
 fail to obferve and appreciate, the loving care and labour that have been beflowed upon this 
 work : the delightfully interefting and fympathetic manner in which it is written : and the high 
 degree of interefl with which each article is invelled. 
 
 The monumental infcriptions of S. Paul's Cathedral have been publifhed feveral times, 
 each work poffeffmg a different degree of merit. They were firfl publiflied in 16 14 by Hugh 
 Holland, under the title of ' Monvnienta Sepulchraria Sancii Pauli Loud.' in quarto ; and a 
 
iv 
 
 INTRODUCTION, 
 
 fecond edition of this work appeared in 1633 3-S ' -Ecclefia Sancti Pauli illvjlrata, alfo in 
 
 quarto, and dedicated to Archbifliop Laud. 
 
 In 1631 John Weever publifhed the infcriptions of S. Paul's in his valuable work entitled 
 ' Ancient Fvneral Monvments in Great Britain, of which fucceffive editions were iffaed in 
 
 1661 and in 1751. 
 
 In 1658 Sir William Dugdale— Garter King at Arms — publiflied ' 77/^? Hijlory of S. Paul's 
 Cathedral,' in which the whole of the infcriptions theti vifible are faithfully recorded, with 
 engravings of fome of the tombs. A fecond edition of this work was pnbhflied in 17 16 by the 
 Rev. Dr. Maynard ; and a third edition, edited by Sir Henry Ellis, in 18 18. 
 
 Major Fifher's edition of the ' Tombes of S. Paul's' is without date, but the title page of a 
 copy in the library of the Britifh Mufeum is endorfed E. B. j§° die Sept. An°. J684. Ex dono 
 Aiithoris,' which fixes the year as 1684 Portions of this work are transcribed — and not always 
 correctly — from Dugdale's hiflory ; but it contains fome infcriptions not recorded in that work, 
 and fome intereflingand valuable infcriptions found upon the coffins, difmterred when excavating 
 after the fire, of which there is no other record. A fecond copy of this work, in the library of 
 the Britifli Mufeum contains an autograph dedication, inferted to fome hoped for literary patron. 
 
 The work has been fubjected to a thorough revifion, on account of the many errors — both 
 clerical and cardinal — that have been difcovered when collating it with other and more reliable 
 works. It has therefore been impoffible to re-produce it in fac-fimile. The principal obje6l 
 has been to re-produce the infcriptions exactly as they appeared on the monuments, both with 
 regard to peculiarity of type, and quaintnefs of expreffion in the language ufed. 
 
 It has been found in numerous inflances, that Fiiher has altered and amended the text of 
 the infcriptions, efpecially where recorded in Latin. Thefe alterations and additions while 
 obtaining literal correctnefs in the infcriptions, render his work, in its original condition, not 
 only ufelefs but mifleading. 
 
 The majority of the infcriptions have therefore been re-written, and additions made, from 
 Weever's ^Ancient Fvneral Moiivments' (1631), Dugdale's '■Hiflory of S. Paul's (1658: 3rd 
 edition i8i8) and Stow's '■Survey of London' (1598 : 6th edition 1754). Preference has been 
 given to the infcriptions as recorded in Dugdale's work, from which they have been carefully 
 re-produced. The fpacing and arrangement of the lines has been adopted where given by 
 Dugdale in the engravings of the tombs : but where they are not fo given, Fifher's arrangement 
 has been followed. 
 
 The infcriptions omitted by Dugdale, which are given by Fifher, have been carefully 
 collated with fuch as are to be found in Weever's ' Ancient Fvneral Monvments.' The following 
 extract from the preface to this work is characteriflic of its Author's care in tranfcribing 
 infcriptions : — 
 
 ' I conclude the Epitaphs in this booke as I finde them engrauen, with a 
 ' cuius anime propitietur Deus ' : or with ' God pardon his foule ' ; which fome 
 fay might have beene as well left out of my booke, as they are in many 
 places fcraped out of the braffe : And I write the Latine in the fame 
 manner as I finde it either written or imprinted, as capud for caput, ttichii 
 for nihil, and the like ; as alfo E vocal), for E dipthong, dipthongs being but 
 lately come into vfe.' 
 
 The tranflitions of the Latin infcriptions (which are not given in any fimilar work) have 
 with a few trifling exceptions, been re-produced in their integrity. They are freely rendered, 
 but are on the whole fairly idiomatic. 
 
 The tranflations of the Latin infcriptions in S. Faith's Church are given by my Uncle the 
 Rev. Lewis Morgan, M.A., Vicar of Summerflown, S.W. 
 
 G. BLACKER MORGAN. 
 
 38, Lena Gardens, Lotidon, W. 
 S. Felers Day, 1885. 
 
THE 
 
 Tombes, Monuments, 
 
 And Sepulchral Infcriptions, 
 
 Lately Vifible in 
 
 St. Pauls Cathedral^ 
 
 And St. FAITH'S under it. 
 
 Compleatly Rendred 
 In LATIN and ENGLISH, 
 With Several Hiftorical Difcourfes, 
 On Sundry Perfons Intombed therein. 
 
 A WORK 
 
 Never yet Performed by any Author 
 OLD or NEW. 
 
 By P. F. Student in Antiquities, Batchelor of Arts, and heretofore 
 One of His late Majefties Majors of Foot, 
 To the late Honorable Sir Patricius Curwen^ c. Cumb. Baronet. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for the Author, 
 
 And properly Prefented to the kind Encouragers, 
 Of fo Worthy a Work. 
 [1684] 
 
To that High^ and Mighty Monarch ; 
 that Grand Example^ and true mirror 
 Of Magnanimity and Mercy 
 Charles by the Grace of God^ 
 Ki?tg of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, 
 with all nearer^ or Remoter 'Territories 
 thereto belonging, 
 
 Moft Dread Sovereign. 
 
 I Here proftrat with my moft unworthy felf, before your Feet, the 
 laft, and largeft account of the Memorials, Shrines, Tombs and 
 Monuments of feveral Saints, Soldiers, Citizens, and worthy Patriots, 
 buried in the Bowels of St. Paul's Great Cathedral. 
 
 The firft which prefents itself to your Gracious Eye, is the 
 Elegiaque-infcription, on that moft memorable man of his Age, that 
 fo Famous Sir PHILIP SIDNEY, written by your Moft Learned 
 Grand-father of bleffed Memory, King JAMES the Sixth of Scotland, 
 and Proto-monarch of Great Britairiy &c. 
 
 Befides your facred Majefties Patronage and Protection of these 
 Monumental Remains is indeared by a double inducement : Firft as 
 your Majefty is the Head of the Church, next as you are the 
 Defender of the Faith, &c. 
 
 Behold therefore (great Sir) St. Pauls, the Sovereign Head and 
 Chief of all the Churches of the World, humbly throwing herleif 
 
into your Arms, and proftratly with the Author of thefe lucubrations, 
 appealing to your Pious, and Princely Patronage. 
 
 Your Gracious Countenance, and encouragement, of which, will 
 excite, and animate him to give your Sacred Majefty, and the expectant 
 Kingdom an account, (in a very large Volume) of all the Tombs 
 and Monuments lately vifible, and ftill extant in the Churches, and 
 Chappels of your imperial City of London. 
 
 In the interim, may your Sacred Majefty be pleafed to patronize 
 this Peece, and gracioufly to pardon the bold, but yet pious 
 Ambition of 
 
 Dread Sovereign 
 your Majeflies moft proftratly fubmiffive Subject, 
 and inviolably Vaffal. 
 
 Payne FiJJier. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST, PAUL'S. 
 
 IN the North Ifle of the Quire of this Cathedral, fome times hung 
 a Tablet, on which in vellom were written thefe Verfes,^ in 
 memory of that much Learned, highly Valiant, and generoufly oblieging 
 Gentleman, Sir PHILIP SIDNET, Knight; which Verfes were 
 compofed by the Learnedeft of Kings, and wifeft of Monarchs, King 
 James the Sixth of Scotlandy and Proto-monarch of great Britain, 
 France i and Ireland, &c. 
 
 In PHILIPPI SIDNEI interitum 
 Illujirijjimi Scotorum Regis 
 Carmen. 
 
 ARmipotens cui ius in fortia pectore Mayors 
 Tu DE^y qus cerebrum perrumpere digna Honantis. 
 Tuque adeo bijug£ Proles Latonia rupis 
 Gloria, decidus cingunt Quam collibus artes. 
 Due tecum, & querula SIDNMI funera voce 
 Plangite, nam vefter fuerat SIDNMTJS alumnus. 
 Quid genus & Proavos, & fpem, floremque Juventas 
 Immaturo obitu raptum, fine fine, retexo ? 
 Heu ! fruftra queror, heu ! rapuit Mors omnia fecum, 
 Prasterquam decus, & nomen virtute paratum. 
 Doctaque Sidneas teftantia carmina laudes. 
 
 Another Coppy in Hexameter, and Pentameter 
 written by the fame King. 
 
 Vidit, et exanimem triftis Cytherjea PHILIPPUM, 
 Flevit, & hunc Martem credidit effe fuum. 
 Eripuit digitis gemmas, colloque Monile, 
 Marti iterum nunquam ceu placitura foret : 
 Mortuus, humana Qui lufit imagine Divam, 
 Quid faceret jam, fi Viveret Ille ? rogo. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale and Stow ; and Weever gives inscription as evident in Penjlurjl Church. See p. 167 
 for translation. — Ed. 
 
4 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 Englifht thus by an unknown Author. 
 
 When Venus faw the noble SIDNET Jlam, 
 
 She wepty fuppofng that Fie Mars had been. 
 
 From Fingers RingSy and from her Neck the Chaine 
 
 She pluckt awajy as if Mars ne're agen 
 
 She meant to pleafe; in that form He was in 
 
 Deady and yet could a Goddefs thus beguiky 
 
 What had he done if he had liifd the while ? 
 
 Another Copy more lately extant in the faid ife 
 in memory of this fo Renowned Sir PHILIP. 
 
 A brief Epitaph on that Noble and perfectly Honorable Gentleman 
 Sir Philip Sidney, late Governor of Flujhing in Zealand, who received 
 his deaths wound at Zutphen in Gelderlandy the Two and Twentieth 
 day of September 1586. and died thereof at Arnham the Tenth of 
 October following. Whofe Funerals were magnificently celebrated, 
 and his Body buried in this Cathedral the February following. 
 
 ENGLAND, NETHERLANDS, THE HEAVENS AND THE ARTS, 
 THE SOULDIERS AND THE WORLD, HAVE MADE SIX PARTS 
 OF NOBLE SIDNEY; FOR NONE WILL SUPPOSE 
 THAT A SMALL HEAPE OF STONES CAN SIDNEY ENCLOSE. 
 HIS BODIE HATH ENGLAND, FOR SHE IT BRED, 
 NETHERLANDS HIS BLOOD IN HER DEFENCE SHED, 
 
 THE HEAVENS HAVE HIS SOULE, THE ARTS HAVE HIS FAME 
 'ALL SOULDIERS THE GRIEF, THE WORLD HIS GOOD NAME. 
 
 This every way well accomplifht Gentleman, was generally well beloved 
 of all Perfons high and low, the greatnefs of his Parts correfponding 
 with the fplendour of his Extraction, which was both Honoral)le 
 and Ancient he duely defcending from that fo memorable Sir William 
 
rHE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 5 
 
 Sidney who (faith that Learned, Laborious, and moft Authentique 
 Antiquary Sir William Dugdaky Knight, and moft condignly King 
 at Arms) came out of Union with Henry the Second King of 
 England, to whofe Royal Houfhold he was Lord Chamberlain. 
 
 From this memorable Sir William Sidney (amongft other 
 brave men) defcended that moft Famous Sir William Sidney Knight, 
 Chamberlain and Steward of the Houfhold to King Henry 
 the 8th. 
 
 From this Sir William defcended his fbn that fo Famous Sir 
 Henry Sidney Knight, Embaffador to the Crown of France from 
 King Edward the Sixth, Cup-bearer for life to King Philip and 
 Queen Mary^ Vice-treafuror and General-governor of the King and 
 Queens Revenews, and alfo great Juftice of the Realm of Ireland^ 
 and in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth great Embaffador to France and 
 Scotland ; thrice Lord Deputy of Ireland ; and Privy Councellor to 
 Three Sovereigns ; and many Years Lord Prelident of Wales. From 
 this memorable Sir William and his Illuftrious Wife the Lady Mary, 
 Eldeft Daughter of the then "John Dudley Duke of Northumberlandy 
 came this fo memorable Sir Philip, with Sir Robert Sydney, and Sir 
 'Thomas Sidney, Knights : which Sir Robert Sydney, a brave Soldier, 
 was Governor of Flujhing, and the Caftle of Ramakyns in the Reign 
 of Queen Elizabeth ; and in the Reign of King "James was created 
 Baron Sidney of Penfhurfi, Vifcount Lijle, Earl of Leicejier, Chamber- 
 lain of the Houfhold to Queen Anne, one of the Lords of his then 
 Majefties Privy Council, and Knights of the moft Noble Order of 
 the Garter, &c. To whom fucceeded his Third Son the right 
 honorable the late Sir Robert Sidney Knight of the bath, Vifcount 
 LiJle, Baron Sidney of Penjhurji, Earl of Leicejier, one of the Lords 
 of his late, and prefent Majefties Privy Council, Sometimes Lord 
 Lievtenant, General ; and General- Governor of the kingdom of 
 Ireland, &c. Who by his wife, the Lady Dorothy, Daughter to the 
 late Henry Earl of Northumberland (amongft divers Children) had 
 
6 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Philip Sidney Vifcount Lijle^ Baron of Penjhurfi, prefent Earl of Leicejier^ 
 and fometimes General of the Horfe raifed by his late Majefty for 
 the Kingdom of Ireland^ which Philip by his Wife the late Lady 
 Mary, Daughter to William Earl of Sarijloury, having a fon, the much 
 accomplLft Robert Sidfiey prefent Vifcount Lijle, and He a young Son 
 by the Lady Elizabeth, Daughter of the right honorable, much 
 learned, and much Oblieging, "John Earl of Bridgwater, is in a fair 
 probability of lengthning, and ftrengthning the long line, and Noble 
 Genealogie of the Sidneys. 
 
 Neither may it be forgotten that this famous Sir Philip Sidney 
 here interred having fo dexteroufly difpacht that great Negotiation 
 his Royal Miflrels Queen Elizabeth fent him about into Germany 
 He thereby, and his other accomplifhments arrived to fo high a pitch 
 of Reputation, as prefer him a very fair candidate to the Crown of 
 Poland, and queftionlefs had obtained it, had it pleafed the Queen to 
 enrich another Nation, by robbing her own of fo fair a jewel. Some 
 few days before his death, he grew very penfive, and repented of 
 nothing more than of that Innocent, harmlefs Peece of vanity his 
 ARCADIA, and for the preventing of the kindling of unlawful 
 Flames in others, would have committed it to the Flames himfelf 
 and upon his Death-bed left his farewell to his Friends, Love my 
 memory, Cherijh my Friends ; but withall govern your will and affections, 
 by the will and word of your CREATOR ; lo I in me behold the end 
 of this world, and all its vanities. 
 
 Near to this mentioned Table of Sir Philip Sidney, was fixed 
 another in memory of that moft memorable Statefman Sir Francis 
 Walfmgham, Father in law of that Sir Philip. Both which Noble 
 perfons having no Tombs but only fmall Tablets, occafioned a wit 
 of the late times, merily to defcant on the defect thereof, in this 
 Diftique. 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 7 
 
 Philip and Francis have here no Tomb, 
 
 Since great Sir CHRISTOPHER hath all the room.^ 
 
 Which was meant by that Memorable Man of his time the late Sir 
 Chrijiopher Hatton^ the Lord High Chancellor of England^ &c. To 
 whofe memory was erected the moft magnificent Monument in this 
 Cathedral. 
 
 The Inscription on Sir FRANCIS WALSINGHAM 
 thus /peaks him. 
 
 VIRTUTI ET HONORI SACRUM. 
 FRANC ISC US WALSINGHAMUS 
 ORTUS FAMILIA MULTIS SECULIS ILLUSTRI, 
 CLARITATEM GENERIS NOBILITATE, INGENIIQ; 
 PR^STANTIBUSQ; ANIMI DOTIBUS SUPERAVIT. 
 PUER, INGENUk DOMI EDUCATUS, 
 GENEROSIS MORIBUS ARTIBUSQ; 
 OPTIMIS ANIMUM EXCOLUIT. 
 ADOLESCENS, PEREGRINATUS IN EXT ERAS REGIONES, 
 EARUM INSTITUTA, LINGUAS, POLITIAM, 
 AD CIVILEM SCIENTIAM, REIQ; PUBLICS USUM 
 
 DIDICIT. 
 JUVENIS, 
 
 EXILIUM, MARIA REGNANTE, SUBIIT VOLUNTARIUM 
 ; RELIGIONIS ERGO. 
 SERENISSIM^ REGINJE: ELIZABETHS MATURA JAM ^TATE, 
 ORATOR FUIT APUD GALLUM, TURBULENTISSIMO TEMPORE, 
 . ANNIS COMPLURIBUS 
 RURSUM BIS IN GALLIAM, SEMEL IN SCOTIAM, 
 SEMEL IN BELGIAM, 
 
 Stow gives the following version : — 
 
 ' Philip and Francis have no Tomb, 
 For great Chrijiopher takes all the Room.'- 
 
 '—Ed. 
 
8 
 
 rn^ roMBEs of sr. pauus. 
 
 SUPER GRAVISSIMIS PRINCIPIS NEGOTIIS 
 LEGATIONE FUNCTUS EST; 
 EIQ; ANNIS SEDECIM 
 AB INTIMIS CONCILIIS ET SECRETIS FUIT, 
 AC TRIENNIUM CANCELLARIUS DUCATUS LANCASTRI^E: 
 
 QUIBUS IN MUNERIBUS, 
 TANTA CUM PRUDENTIA, ABSTINENTIA, MUNIFICENTIA, 
 MODERATIONE, PIETATE, INDUSTRIA, ET SOLLICITUDINE 
 
 VERSATUS EST, 
 UT A MULTIS PERICULIS PATRIAM LIBER ARIT, 
 SERVARIT REM-PUBLICAM ; CON FORM ARIT PACEM, 
 JUVARE CUNCTOS STUDERIT, 
 IMPRIMIS 
 
 QUOS DOCTRINA AUT BELLICA VIRTUS COMMEND ARIT; 
 SEIPSUM DENIQ; NEGLEXERIT, QUO PRODESSET ALUS, 
 EOSQ; VALETUDINIS ET FACULTATUM SUARUM DISPENDIO 
 
 SUBLEVARET 
 
 IN MATRIMONIO HABUIT LECTISSIMAM F(EMINAM URSULAM, 
 E STIRPE S. BARBORUM ANTIQUE NOBILITATIS, 
 k QUA UNICAM FILIAM SUSCEPIT. FRANCISCAM 
 PHILIPPO SYDNEIO PRIMUM NUPTAM, 
 DEINDE HONORATISSIMO COMITI ESSEXI^. 
 ^POSTREMO HONORTISS. RICHARDO COMITI CLANRICCARDI^ 
 
 OBIIT APRILIS 6. 1590. 
 1 ET HEIC CUM DOLORE, SEPULTUS EST. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Sacred to Vertue, and Honored 
 Sir FRANCIS WALS INGHAM 
 Defcending from a Family 
 Every way fplendidly confpicuous 
 
 ' Line omitted by Dugdale. — Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. Pjins. 
 
 9 
 
 Excell'd, and out-fhin'd the fplendor of his Family 
 
 By the Shining Lufter of his quaint wit. 
 And the beautiful embellifhments of a Noble Mind. 
 In his Childhood, 
 He was ingenioufly educated at home. 
 In his Youth 
 He travel'd into many forreign Countries ; 
 Whofe 'manners. Laws, Languages, and Policies 
 He accurately ftudied, and fo critically underftood. 
 As he practically improved the knowledge of them 
 Both to his own private advantage. 
 And indeed publique Emolument of the whole Realm. 
 In his virile Age 
 He voluntarily (during the Reign of Queen Mary) 
 Forfook his Country for the prefervation of his Religion. 
 
 In his riper years. 
 He was fent EmbafTador by Queen Elizabeth 
 Into France^ even in the moft turbulent times: 
 In which Imployment. He there continued many years. 
 
 After fome Interval 
 He was again fent Twice Embaffador to that Kingdom 
 
 Moreover, 
 
 Once into Scotland; and once into the Netherlands. 
 
 He was alfo 
 Of the Privy-Council to that Queen, 
 And her Principal Secretary of Eftate for 17 years together. 
 
 Befides all this ' 
 He was Three Years Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancajier. 
 In all which Offices he demeand himfelf 
 With fo much Prudence, Temperance, Generolity, 
 Moderation, Piety, Induftry, and Circumfpection, 
 That He hereby freed his Country from many apparent Perils, 
 
 2 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUUS. 
 
 Preferved the Republique, and ratified the peace of the Realm ; 
 
 And confequently 
 Still ftudied to be Beneficial, and Helpful to all, 
 Efpecially thofe 
 Who were eminent in the profeffion of Arts, or Arms. 
 And thus evermore regardlefs of Himfelf, 
 He was ever ready to help and aflift others. 
 Though to the confumption and much impairing 
 Of his own Purfe and Perfon. 
 He had a choice, and Vertuous Wife, named Vrfula 
 Of that Antient and Honorable Family of the Barbers ; 
 
 By whom 
 
 He had only one Daughter, named Frances, 
 Firft married to Sir Philip Sidney Knight. 
 Secondly to the right Honorable then Earl of EJfex. 
 And laftly to the Right Honorable Rich. Earl of Clanriccard 
 He died the 6th of April in the year of our Lord, 1590. 
 And was buried in a manner Privately. 
 
 Clofe by, on a Tablet hung this Acroftique on him. 
 Written by a Poet of thofe times. 
 
 S-hall Honour, Fame, and Titles of Renown, 
 
 I-n Clods of Clay be thus inclofed ftill ? 
 R-ather will I, though wifer Wits may frown, 
 
 F-or to enlarge his Fame, extend my Skill. 
 R-ight gentle Reader, be it known to thee, 
 
 A- famous Knight doth here interred lye; 
 N-oble by Birth, renown'd for Pollicie, 
 
 C-onfounding Foes who wrought the Jeopardie. 
 I-n Forreign Countreys their Intents he knew, 
 
 S-uch was his Zeal to do his Countrey good. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 W-hen dangers would by Enemies enfue, 
 
 A-s well as they themfelves, he underftood. 
 L-anch forth ye Mufes into Streams of Praife, 
 
 S-ing, and found forth Praife-worthy harmony ; 
 I-n England Death cut off his difmal days, 
 
 N-ot wrong'd by Death, but by falfe Treachery : 
 G-rudge not at this unperfect Epitaph, 
 
 H-erein I have expreft my fimple fkill, 
 A-s the Firft-fruits proceeding from a Graff, 
 
 M-ake then a better whofoever will. 
 
 Difce quid es, quid eris, memor ejio quod morieris. 
 
 E. W. 
 
 This Honorable Perfon (faith my Author) towards the latter end 
 of his Life grew very Melancholy, and Writ to the Lord Chancellor 
 Burleigh to this purpofe. 
 
 My Lord, we have lived enough to our Country, to our Fortunes, to our 
 Soveraign ; It is high time now that we begin to live to our Selves, and our 
 God. In the multitude of Affaires which have paji through our hands, 
 there muji needs be fome Mi/carriages, for which an whole Kingdom cannot 
 expiate, or make our Peace, &c., whereby fome Court-humorijis being fent 
 to Sir Francis to divert him from thefe fad thoughts. Ah ! faid he, whilfl 
 we laugh, all things are ferious about us. GOD is ferious, when He 
 preferreth us, and hath patience towards us. CHRIST is ferious, who 
 died for us. The Holy Ghoft is ferious, when he firiveth with us. The 
 Holy Scripture is ferious when fis read before us. Sacraments are ferious 
 when adminijiered to us. The whole Creation is ferious in ferving God and 
 us. They are ferious in Heaven, and Hell, and fhall a Man who hath one 
 Foot in the Grave, laugh and be merry ? 
 
 The remaining Branch of which flourilhing Family, was the 
 late Thomas Walfngham Efq. ; Son and Heir of the late Sir Thomas 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Waljinghamy fometimes of Scadbury in the County of Kent, Knight, 
 which goodly feat of Scadbury is now in the Poffeffion of Sir 
 RICHARD BETTISON Baronet, a Gentleman of a Fair Eftate, 
 and" Generous Extradlion. 
 
 In the South fide of the Quire were vifible long after the 
 Dreadful Fire, the Remaines of that moft Magnificent Monument, 
 Dedicated to the Memory of that moft Eminent, and Right Noble 
 States-man of his Time, Sir CHRISTOPHER HATTON, Knight, 
 &c. Lord High Chancellor of England, whofe further Character 
 is exhibited in His Epitaph. 
 
 SACRUM MEMORI^/ 
 
 D. CHR : HATTONI GVIL : FIL : lOH. NEPOTIS, ANTIQVISS : HATTONORVM GEN. 
 TE ORIVNDI; REGIME MAIESTATIS D: ELIZABETHE EX NOBILIBVS STIPA* 
 TORIBVS L: VICI : SACRATIORIS CAMERA GENEROSORVM VNIVS PR^TORI. 
 ANORVM MILITVM DUCIS; REGII PRO-CAMERARII, SANCTIORIS CONSI» 
 LII SENATORIS; SVMMI ANGLIC AC OXON : ACAD: CANCELLARII, OR= 
 DINIS NOBILISS: SAN: GEORGIANI DE PERISCELIDE EQVITIS, MAXI. 
 MO PRINCIPIS OMNIVMQ : BONORUM MCERORE (CUM LI ANNOS 
 CCELEBS VIXISSET) 20 NOVEMB : ANNO jsgj, IN iEDIBVS 
 
 SVIS HOLBVRNE, PIE FATO FVNCTI. | 
 GVIL. HATTONVS, EQVES AURATVS EIVS EX SORORE NEPOS, 
 ADOPTIONE FILIVS AC H^ERES MCESTISSIMVS, PIETATIS ERGO 
 
 POSVIT. 
 
 Englijht thus 
 
 Sacred to the Memory 
 Of Sir Chrijiopher Hatton Knight ^c. 
 Son of William, and Grandfon of yohn, 
 Defcending from that moft Antient ftock and ftemme 
 of the HATTONS. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of this tomb with inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 13 
 
 Amongft the Nobler Perfons 
 He was firft one of the Gentlemen-Penfioners. 
 Next one of the Gentlemen of her Majefties Privy- Chamber. 
 And then Captain of the Bands of Penfioners ; 
 
 Vice- Chamberlain of her Houfliold ; 
 And one of the Members of her Privy Council. 
 Lord Chancellor of England and the Univerfity of Oxford, 
 And one of the Noble Knights 
 Of that Illuftrious order of the Garter, &c. 
 Who dyed, and Religioufly expired 
 In his Houfe of Holburn 
 (When he had lived 5 1 years a Batchelor) 
 To the irreparable lofs of the Queen, 
 And grief of all good Men. 
 Obiit. 20 of November. 
 To M^hofe Memory 
 Sir William Hafton Knight his Sifters Son, 
 And his adopted Son and Heir. 
 Hath in Teftimony of this affectionate duty, and devotion 
 Erected this Monument. 
 
 On the South-fide of this Magnificent Pile 
 Were thefe Heroiques engraven in 
 Capital Letters. 
 
 verOi digna tuis virtutibus ( Heros ) 
 Conjiituent monumenta tui ? Ji qualia debet 
 PoJieritaSjJi quanta tibi prudentia ; jujii 
 ^lantus amor,Ji quanta fuit facundia Ungues , 
 Et Decus, et pulchro veniens de corpore virtus, 
 Illaq ; munifca femper tibi copia dextra : 
 Deniq ; quanta fuit magna tibi gratia quondam 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Principis ; eque tiiis quce cr ever at inclita factis 
 Gloria, tanta tibi jiatuant Monument a NepoteSy 
 Ipfa tuos caperet vix tota Britannia Manes. 
 
 Englifht thus 
 
 What Monument (great Sir) can we defign. 
 
 To your high Merits which deferve a Shrine ! 
 
 Could Bankrupt poor Pofterity half pay 
 
 Thofe Obligations which fhe owes ; and fay 
 
 How Prudent, Pious, Juft, you were ; and how 
 
 Your charming Tongue did Torrent-like o'reflow 
 
 With Eloquence ; and how your Bodily whole 
 
 Syjiemy concentred with your Beauteous Soul, 
 
 Next how Munificent, and brave you were 
 
 In your diffufive Bounty ; and how dear 
 
 In the Queens Eyes ; which did in Fine, Crown 
 
 Each Action with true Glory, and Renown. 
 
 To rear up fuch a Pile, we fhould want Room, 
 
 And this whole Realm, would fcarce contain your Tomb. 
 
 Contiguous to which Jiately Tomb on a Fair Table were written thefe 
 uerfes in Vellom in good plain Englijh according to the 
 tenor of thofe times in which they were 
 written. 
 
 Stay and behold the mirrour of a Dead-man's Houfe, 
 
 Whofe lively Perfon would have made thee ftay, and wonder ; 
 
 Look and withall learn how to live, and die renowned ; 
 
 For never can clean life, and famous Hearfes funder. 
 
 Hatton lies here, unto whofe name Hugh Lupus gave 
 
 {Lupus the Sifters fonne of William conquerour) 
 
 For Nigel his dear fervant's fake worfhip and land : 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 15 
 
 Lo there the fpring ; look here the honor of his Anc'eftry. 
 When nature molded him, her thoughts were mofl: on Mars, 
 And all the Heavens, to make him goodly, were agreeing : 
 Thence, was he Valiant, Active, Strong, and paffing Comely, 
 And GOD did grace his Mind and Spirit with gifts excelling. 
 Nature commends her workmanfhip to Fortunes charge. 
 Fortune prefents him to the Court and the ^een. 
 Queen Eliz., (O God's dear handmaid,) his moft Miracle ; 
 Now hearken Reader, raritie not heard or feen ; 
 This Bleffed Queen, Mirror of all that Albion rul'd. 
 Gave Favour to his Faith, and Precepts to his hopefuU time ; 
 ' Firft trained him in the ftately band of Penfioners, 
 Behold how humble hearts make eafie fteps to climb. 
 High courage^ honeft life ; heart ever loyall. 
 Diligence, delight in duty, God doth reward : 
 So did this worthy Queen in her juft thoughts of him. 
 And for her fafety made him Captain of her Guard. 
 Now doth {he prune this Vine, and from her facred breaft, 
 LelTons his Life, makes wife his heart for her great Councells, 
 And fo Vice-Chamberlein where forrein Princes eys 
 Might well admire her choyce, wherein fhe moft excells. 
 So Iweetly temp'red was his foul with vertuous balme. 
 Religious juft to God, and Csfar in everything ; 
 That he alpir'd to the higheft Subject's feat. 
 Lord Chancelour (meafure, and confcience of a holy King) 
 Robe, CoUer, Garter, dead figures of great Honour, 
 Alms-deeds with Faith, honeft in word ; franke in difpence. 
 The Poor's friend, not popular; the Churches pillar. 
 This Tombe fhews th'one ; the Heavens fhrine the other. 
 Francifcus Floras ad Memoriam Herifui defunctiy 
 huctufq ; fui folatium pofuit a.d. 1593. 
 
 Dugdale gives ' High carriage.' — Ed. 
 
i6 
 
 rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUL'S. 
 
 On the Coffin of this Honorable Perfon, lately taken up was found 
 a Brafs plate, on which the honors and offices of this great Knight are 
 Coucht more compendioufly in this following French Epigraph. 
 
 Du tres valeant Chevalier Chriftopher Hatton grande Chancelier 
 d' angle terre. Capitaine de la Garde pour la Royne, le Soveraign Chevalier 
 du tres noble ordre de la "Jarretierey ob. XX. Novemb. 1591. 
 
 The which noble Perfonage was one of the long lin'd Anceftors of 
 that Right Honorable, and exemplarily Noble Peer, that Eminently 
 Learned, and moft Generoufly Obliger of Learned men, the late Chriftopher 
 Lord Hatton^ Baron of Kirby, Controuler of his late Majefties Houfhold; 
 one of the Lords of both their Majefties Privy Council ; Governor of 
 the IJland of Garnefey\ and in all his late Majefties Affairs, an Active 
 Servant, and paffive fufferer both in Purfe and Perfon ; who Dying in 
 the year of our Lord 1670, was buried amongft his Honorable Allies in 
 the Abby of wejiminjier. To whofe Hereditary Honors Succeeded his 
 Son and Heir, the Right Honorable Chrijiopher Lord Hatton, Baron of 
 Kirby, and Governor of Garnefey, &c. Who beareth the Paternal Coat 
 of his Honorable and right Ancient Family, defcending from that 
 Memorable Nigel, Baron of Halton, in the C. Pal. of Chefier of great 
 Antiquity, the which Coat of his is thus Emblazond. He beareth 
 Azure a Cheveron between Three Garbes Or. 
 
 The which prefent Lord having lately been Miraculoufly delivered 
 from fo delperate and unparalled a danger in the faid Ifle of Garnefey 
 (of which he is the Worthy Governor) gives us good hopes of his 
 longer Life, and confequently the continuation of that Noble Name, and 
 hereditary Vertues of His Moft Honorable Anceftors. 
 
 At the upper end of the Quire near the High Altar ftood the ftirine 
 of Erkenwald Bishop of London, who lies there buried under a ftately 
 Monument with this appendant infcription.^ 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the tomb. — Ed. 
 
"CHE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 17 
 
 Hoc in loco requiefcit in Domino ErkenwalduSy tertiuSy poji Anglo- 
 Saxonum in Britannia ingrejfuniy Epifcopus Londinenfis, cujus in Epifcopatu 
 et ante Epifcopatum vita et converfatio fuit fanctijjima ; ex nobili profapia 
 oriundus : Offce, Orientalium Saxonum Regis y erat jiliusy ad Jidem 
 Chriftianam a Mellito primo Londinenfi Epifcopo anno Domini DCXLII. 
 converjiis. i>, priufquam Epifcopus factus ejfety duo prceclara conjiruxit 
 Monajleriay fumptibus fuis, de bonis quce jure hcereditario Jibi obvenerunt ; 
 unum Jibi in jinibus Auftralium Saxonum, loco qui Certfey vocatuVy 
 alterum Edelburgce forori fucCy fcemince laudatijjimce y ad Berching inditione 
 Orientalium Saxonum. 
 
 In Epifcopatum verb anno falutis DCLXXV. a Theodoro Dorober- 
 nenfium, Cantuarice Archiepifcopo, facratus eft: Sebbam Orientalium 
 Saxonum Regemy ad Chrifti ftdem convertit, et falutari Baptifmatis unday 
 fuis manibus perfudit ; qui ftatim mundo renuncianSy fe totum DEO 
 addixity et in hac ipfa Ec cleft ay archa mar more a ( quce ad noftra ufq ; tem- 
 pora permanet) fepultus eft. Idem Erconwaldus celeberrinum hoc S. Fault 
 templum novis ediftciis auxity proventibus lacupletavity et eidem immunitates 
 nonnullas a Regibus impetravit : I'andemy circiter annum Domini 
 jyQl^'KXKV . fpiritum Deo reddidit y poftquam annis undecim in Pontiftcatu 
 fediffety et magniftco fepulchro hie conditus eft, quod noftra memoriay circiter 
 annum Domini MDXXXII. hoc loco vifebatur 
 
 Englifht thus. 
 
 Here refted in the Lord the Body of St. Erkenwald the third Bifhop 
 of London after the coming in of the Englifh- Saxons ; in which SeCy as 
 well before, as after his Confecration, he was of an holy life, and pious 
 Converlation. He was born of an Illuflrious Family being the Third 
 Son of Offa King of the Englifh Saxons. He was converted to the 
 Chriftian Faith by Mellitus firft Bifhop of Londony Anno D. 642. 
 
 This good Man before his Confecration to his faid Bifhoprick, built 
 Two Famous Monafteries at his own Coft and Charges, out of his own 
 
 3 
 
i8 
 
 ruE roMBEs OF sr. pauus. 
 
 Patrimony devolved to him by right of his Paternal inheritance. The 
 one of thefe Monafteries was fituate at Certefey (commonly call'd cherfy) 
 upon the confines of the South- Saxons. 
 
 The other dedicated to the name, and memory of his Sifter Edelburg 
 (a Woman highly worthy of all Commendations) was fcituate at Berching 
 (vulgarly Barking) under the jurifdiction of the Eaji-Saxons. He was 
 Confecrated to his Bifhoprick 675 by Theodorus Arch-bifhop of Canter- 
 bury in old times called Dorobernia. 
 
 He Converted Sebba King of the EaJi-Saxons to the Chriftian 
 Faith, and with his own hands Baptized him with Water ; whereupon 
 this good King renouncing the Pomp and Vanity of the World, 
 dedicated himfelf wholly to God in devotion towards him, totally 
 retired from fecular Affairs, and lies here buried in a Marble Coffin 
 vifible in our Memory. 
 
 This pious St. Erkenwald amongft his publique, and private works of 
 charity, amplified this ftately ftructure of St. Pauls with new Buildings, 
 and liberally endowed the fame, and procured from feveral Kings, divers 
 Immunities, Grants, and Priviledges. 
 
 At laft: about the Year of our Lord 685 He refigned his Soul 
 into the hands of his Creator who gave it, after he had fate Eleven 
 Years Bifhop of London^ and was here buried under a Magnificent 
 Monument, which was to be feen, in the Quire of this Cathedral 
 before the late dreadful Fire of London had confumed it, and many 
 more to Afhes. 
 
 In the fame Quire the aforementioned SEBBA King of the Eaji- 
 Saxonsy lay Interred (as was faid) in a Coffin of Gray Marble, over 
 whom hung an Old Tablet, on which you have this Infcription.^ 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of tomb, with inscription as given, — Ed. 
 
 I 
 
rHE roMBEs OF sr. PAuns. 
 
 '9 
 
 ipiC VaxxX 
 
 mum mtentu0 
 
 
 t)itam priuatam et 
 
 
 monasticam cucti0 
 
 cniauum 
 
 xzQxii i3iuitii0 et 
 
 ^ttjtonuin qui 
 
 lbonontJU0 pre* 
 
 conu0r0U0 tuit au 
 
 feren0, qui cum 
 
 uDClu P0C 'S'. (itC* 
 
 regna00et anno0 
 
 EtnaJaiiiuui iLonoi* 
 
 XXX. f)atiitum reUgi* 
 
 ncnis* (Jtputn anno 
 
 om0 accepit per 
 
 ViLynpU DCLXXVU 
 
 tenenictionem COal* 
 
 ult muuunt uco 
 
 tbzn iLonDmen0i0 
 
 ii^uuru^ ttCi- 
 
 0nti0titi0 qui prefato 
 
 
 Crkentoaino 0uce00it 
 
 trig predtiu0 et 
 
 tie quo toeneratii* 
 
 pii0 elemo0marum 
 
 li0 IBzna, in Wto-- 
 
 ftuctitiu0 pluri- 
 
 ria 0:enti0 anglorum. 
 
 'EngUJht thus. 
 
 Here lies Sebba King of the EaJi-SaxonSf who was Converted to the 
 Faith of Chrift by that Holy Man Erkenwald Bifhop of London, in the 
 year of our Lord, 677. This good King was a Perfon frequent in His 
 Dayly Duty and Devotion towards GOD, and ferioufly intentive on 
 Religious Exercifes, and continual Prayers, with the vifible Fruits of 
 Dayly Almes-deeds, he preferring a Monaftique and folitary retirement, 
 before all the Treafures and Pleafures of an whole Kingdom. The 
 which King, after he had Iwayed the Scepter for the Ipace of Thirty 
 years, put off the World, and put on a Religious Habit by the 
 Benediction of Walter then Bifhop of London, who fucceeded Erkenwald 
 in that Sacred Function. Of whom Venerable Bede Writes many 
 things in his Hiftory of the Englijh Nation. 
 
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 rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUL'S 
 
 Near to St. Erkenwald^s fhrine, was buried Richard Clifford Bifhop of 
 London, who is thus Reprefented in this following Epitaph.^ 
 
 Here lies the Body of Richard Clifford Arch- Deacon of Canterbury, 
 from whence he was preferred to the Bifhoprick of Worcejier, which he 
 enjoyed about Six years, and thence was Tranflated to the Bifhoprick of 
 London, which he laudibly managed Thirteen years and fome Months, 
 and dyed the 20 of Auguji 1421. 
 
 This Bifhop in the year 1414. Travelled to the Council of Conjiance, 
 and there Preached in Latin before the Emperor, and other States then 
 AfTembled. In that long Schifm, Martin the Fifth (called before Otho 
 Columna) Cardinal of St George, was chofen fole Pope, at which time 
 the Council thinking it meet, that Thirty Perfons more fhould be added 
 to the Number of the Cardinals, in this Election of theirs, our Famous 
 Richard Clifford was one of that Number, and fome there were which 
 did name him to the Papacy, fo Eminent were the Merits of this Clifford 
 Bifhop of London. 
 
 The Name, and Family of thefe Cliffords have been Memorable 
 in England long before the Norman Conqueft. And many Centuries 
 fince (by the accefHon and Concorporation of thefe Two great 
 Baronages of Vipont and Vefci) were the mofl Confiderablefl men 
 of Power and PuifTance in the Northern Climate. 
 
 From thefe Right Noble Cliffords, defcended that Memorable George 
 Clifford Third Earl of Cumberland, Knight of the Garter, and Lord 
 Admirall of England, whofe lately furviving fole Daughter, was that 
 Right Honorable, popular, and publick fpirited Lady, the Lady Anne 
 Countefs-Dowager of Dorfet, and Countefs Dowager of Pembrook and 
 Montgomery ; her great foul correfponding with her Titles ; fhe having 
 been the careful Repairer of her Anceftors Ruinous and decayed Caflles 
 and Pallaces ; the moft charitable Builder, Endower, and Repairer of 
 Churches, Almes-Houfes, High-ways and Hofpitals. The continual 
 
 • Omillcd by Dugdale and Stow, but given by Weever. — Ed. 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 21 
 
 Jmployer and Punctual Pay Miftress of many poor Artificers and 
 Laborers fo Imployed. The moft Chriftian Reliever of her own, 
 and feveral circumjacent Parifhes ; and the moft Holpitable Houfe- 
 keeper in all the Northern Climate. Whofe ample Benefactions in 
 her Life, and liberal Legacies at her Death, will ingage the gratitude 
 of the prefent Age, and ftand as a fair Example to the future. At 
 whofe Funeral Sermon (Preacht by that Right Reverend and Univerfally 
 Learned Prelate, Doctor EDWARD RAINBOW Lord Bifhop of 
 Carlile) were fo many Weeping Eyes, and Akeing Hearts, that half 
 the Poor of the Circumiacent Parifhes feemd to die, and be interred 
 with her. 
 
 The laft of which Earls of Cumberland was the late Right Honor- 
 able Henry Lord Clifford^ the Sixth and laft Earl thereof, by that Noble 
 and renowned Name of CLIFFORD ; whofe fole Daughter the Lady 
 ELIZABETH (by his Wife the Lady FRANCES fole Daughter of 
 ROBERT CECILL Earl of Sa/ijbury, and Lord High Treafurer of 
 England) is at this day Living, being the happy Confort of the Right 
 Honorable Richard Earl of Corck in Ireland^ and in reference to her 
 lUuftrious extraction. Earl of Burlington^ and Baron Clifford of Longf- 
 borrough in England. 
 
 Neither was that diffufive Family of the Clifford's confined only 
 to the Norths but diftended to feveral parts of the Kingdoms ; who 
 in, and after the Barons Wars, were forced to make their habitations 
 in Kenty SuffeXy Barkjhirey Wiltfhirey and Devon/hire. From which 
 two laft Counties defcended the late Right Honorable Sir THOMAS 
 CLTFFORD Baron Clyfford of Chudleigh Com. Devon, and Lord 
 High Treafuror of England &c. The which Lord Thomas was the 
 son of the late Hugh Clyfford of JJgbrooky C. Prasd. Efquire, 
 defcended from Anthony Clyfford of Bar/come Com. Wiltjhire Efquire. 
 The which Anthony by a Matrimonial alliance with that Illuftrious 
 Family of the COURTNETS (whereof feveral have been Antient 
 Earls of Devonjhirey and one of them Marquis of Exeter) I fay this 
 
22 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Anthony upon fo advantageous a Match with thofe renowned Courtneys, 
 relinquifht Barfcome C. Wilt/hire and the Antient Seat of his Anceftors, 
 and fetled himfelf at TJgbrooky in the County Prasd. of which Seat, with 
 other goodly defmeans the Son and Heir of the late Lx)rd Thomas 
 (a Perfon of Eminent parts, much Learning and Oblieging Candor) 
 is the prefent Hugh Clifford Baron of Chudleighy a young Gentleman 
 of good hopes and expectation who bears the paternal Coat of his 
 Noble Anceftors thofe CUffords of the North videl. he wears Checquy 
 Ory and Azure, a feffe Gules with a Crefcent for difference. 
 
 Near the fame place ftood another Memorial thus infcribed.^ 
 
 Heic jacet Michael de Northburg nuper Epifcopus Londiniy legavit 
 dona fuay in hunc modo. 
 
 Idem ego dono nummos ad faciendam unam cijiam ( Jiabit in 
 'Thefaurio Divi PauliJ & Milk marcas in eddem includendasy de quibus 
 pofft quilibet pauper Plebeius, fub bono ^ excedente Pignorey mutuo Jibi 
 recipere Decern Libras. 
 
 Confecratus eji Epifcopus Lond. Aftno Dom. 1355. Regnante Edvardo 
 Urtio & graffante pejiilentidy extinctus eji MCCCLXI. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Michael Northburgh Bifhop of Londony who 
 in his lifetime bequeathed in his laft will, and Teftament a Legacy after 
 this manner. 
 
 Itemy I give Monies for the making a Fair Cheft (to be kept in the 
 Treafury of St Paul's Cathedral) and a Thoufand Marks to be kept 
 therein ; out of which Monies, it fliall be Lawful for any Poor or 
 Ordinary Perfon to Borrow Ten Pounds upon a good and fufficient 
 pledge ; always, provided it be equivalent in value, or rather better than 
 the Monies by him fo Borrowed. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale and Stow, but given by Weever. — Ed. 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAULS. 
 
 23 
 
 He was Confecrated Bi£hop of this See, 1355. in the Reign of 
 King Edward the Third, and dyed by GOD's Vifitation with the 
 Peftilence, Anno Dom. 1361. and was Buried at the Entrance of the 
 Weft Door, under a Fair Marble Tomb, for which he ordered Twenty 
 pound in his Will,^ and ordered one Chaplain to pray for the Health 
 of his Soul, and provided that the Rent of feveral Houfes fcituate on 
 the Weft fide of his Pallace fhould be allowed for the faid Priefts 
 fupport. And for his Funeral, he gave directions that Twenty poor 
 men fhould be cloathed in New Garments, every one holding in his 
 hand over the Hearfe a Wax Torch of at leaft fix pound weight, and 
 that with Eight more Tapers about the Corps, his Obfequies in this 
 Church ftiould pafs for that day ; efpecially defiring (if poflible,) that 
 this ftiould be performed before his face was tainted with Corruption, 
 fo that it might be expofed to every mans view, with the Armes and 
 Enfigns of his Bifhoprick. 
 
 He gave Two hundred pound'^ towards the Founding, Building, and 
 Finifhing the Houfe of the Carthujians (now the Charter-houfe) the 
 which Lands he purchafed of Sir Walter de Manny Knight. He gave 
 likewife a large Bafon, and Utenfils of Silver to ferve at the Altar of 
 the fame place. He likewife gave (as it was faid before) a Fair Cheft 
 to be kept in the Treafury of this Church, out of which any neceffitous 
 perfon might borrow Ten pound upon a fufficient pledge. The Dean 
 and Principal Cannons, might borrow Twenty pound upon their 
 occafions. The Biftiop, Forty or near Fifty pound. And other Noble 
 Men and Citizens Twenty pound, for the Term of one whole year ; 
 and if that time expired, and no payment was made of any fum fo 
 borrowed, that then the Preacher at St Pauls Crofs ftiould in his 
 fermon, declare that the Pledge within Fourteen days would be fold, 
 if the Borrower did not forthwith Redeem it, and that the Surplufage 
 (if any) ftiould be returned to the Owner, or his Executors, for the 
 
 ■ Dated lo kal. Junii 1 361.— Ed. 
 
 * Dugdale and Weever give ;£'iooo. — Ed. 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 default of whom, it redounded to the Cheft for the good of his Soul ; 
 unlefs the Dean, and Warden of the whole Fabrique Ihould think fit 
 to imploy it to any other pious ufes. The one Key of which Cheft 
 was to be kept by the Dean ; another by the eldeft Canon refident, 
 and a third by the faid Warden. 
 
 In the South-fide of the Quire was a fair Memorial for that Famous 
 Prelate and Statesman, Eujiace Falconberg Biftiop of London and Lord 
 Treafuror of England, whofe infcription thus fpeaks him/ 
 
 aBu0tacf)ius flfauconfjerg 
 iR0gi0 3Iu0tiaanu,s una atq; 
 altera legatione petfunctig in 
 (Pallia 0uti 3loanne tt l^enrico lii 
 regitJU0 Quitjus at) intimi^ Con^ 
 %i\m et 0upremis, angUe Oesaura* 
 nu0 fmt ipo0t ce00ionem (^uil: 
 De 0ancta Q^ana \mx% Ccclegie 
 anti0titi0 electu0 z%t in (ZBpiscopu 
 iLonDmen0em anno tjertJi xncama* 
 ti j22j, con0ecratu0 a TBenetJicto 
 Eo00en0i (ZHpi0copo cum lam at)* 
 e00et arcf)iepi0copu0 Cantuarien0i0 
 Ciuumq; 0et)i00et anno0 7 men0e0 
 6 Diem obiit pnDie feal. 5l3ouet)ri0 
 anno ^aluti0 j228. 
 
 EngUJlit thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Eujiace Falconberg one of the King's Juftices, 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Treafurer of England ; Twice 
 Embafiador into France in the Reigns of King Johny and King Henry 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of tlie tomb, with inscription as given above. — Ed. 
 
rUE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 25 
 
 the Third ; and after the death of William de SanSid Marid Bifhop here, 
 was Elected Bifhop of Londoriy 1221. He being Confecrated (in the 
 abfence of the Arch-Bifhop of Canterbury) by Benedict Bifhop of 
 Rochelier-y who when he had Sate Bifhop feven Years and Six Months, 
 Died the day before the Calends of November^ 1228. 
 
 Then followed thefe Elegiacks.^ 
 
 Hie jacet Euftachius, redolens ut Aflyria nardus, 
 
 Virtutum multis Jloribus, & Meritis. 
 Vir fuit Hie Magnus^ & Epifcopus cequus ut Agnus, 
 
 Vitd confpicuusy Dogmate prcecipuus. 
 Pro SluOy ^i tranjis fupplex^ or are memor Jis, 
 
 Ut Jit Ei faties alma DEI fades. 
 
 Concerning which Memorable Prelate, I find that Geoffry de Lucy 
 Dean of St. Paul's in the Reign of Henry the Third, gave to this 
 Church his Mannor-house and Lands at A£ton, referving an Hundred 
 {hillings per Annum to be paid to a Prieft for Celebrating Divine Service 
 for ever for the health of his Soul, together with the Soul of the faid 
 Eujiace, and alfo of Philip de Falconberg Deacon of Huntingdon. The 
 which Geoffry de Lucy was an underbranch of that once highly flourifh- 
 ing Family of the Luciesy Men of great power and puiffance in the 
 beginning of Henry the Firft, and Antiently great Barons of the Realm, 
 the Head of which Family now living, is the prefent RICHARD 
 LUCT of Charlecot Efq. ; a Member of the Honorable Houfe of 
 Commons, who bears the Antient Coat of his Noble Progenitors, 
 Defcendants from thofe Memorable Lucies amongft the Romans. 
 
 Not far off appeard the Skeliton of another old Monument, the 
 Infcription which thus reprefents the perfon there Interred/ 
 
 ' Dugdale gives 21st October, and Weever gives 31st October, 1228, — Ed. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, but given by Weever, — Ed. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the tomb with inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
 4 
 
26 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 ^enticu0 tie C^lengtam 
 Hegi J^enrico tertio a 0a- 
 txi% et Cancellarius tie= 
 canu0 De Cotenbale et 
 0ancti Martini lonDon 
 Camecariu0 (^a0conie VJir (ut 
 mquit flonlogu0) curiaUs 
 t)i0ccetu0 et drcum0pectu0 electus 
 anno CWti j2 59 caimtonlen0i0 
 
 (2Bpi0Copu0 con0entire noluit 
 CanDem po0t mortem fulconig 
 Ba00et f)uiu0 <2Bccle0ie pontificig 
 eoDem anno in (2Bpi0c. iLonDinen0em 
 con0ecratu0 fuit 0eD Dir tntJU0 
 anni0 0enit, otiiit anno 0a* 
 
 lUti0 j262. 
 
 He was a very Memorable Perfon in his time, having been 
 Chamberlain of Gafcoign, Dean of Tottenhak^ and St. Martin s. Twice 
 Embaffador into France, and alfo Lord Treafurer of England. He was 
 Confecrated Bifhop of London [in St. Mary Overy, Feb. 15] 1259, 
 which Dignity he not long enjoyed, he dying 1262. 
 
 There was in this Church a Chauntry Conftituted, confifting of 
 Two Priefts to Celebrate Divine Service for the Soul of this Henry, 
 and Allowance correlpondent to the Maintainance of the faid Prieft, 
 as the Learnedly Laborious Sir WILLIAM DUGDAIL King at Armes 
 hath more largely exprelTed in his Hiftory of St. PauPs. [^See p. .] 
 
 Another Memorial for Henry de Chattefden, whofe Infcription thus 
 Ipeaks him. 
 
 Orate pro animd Henrici de Chattefden Archi-Deaconi Leiceftrias, 
 quidem Henricus obiit Octavo Maij, MCC. [?] 
 
rHE "tOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 27 
 
 Englifht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Henry Chattefden Arch-Deacon of Leicejierf the 
 which Henry died the Eighth day of May, M.C.C. [?]. 
 
 This Henry had a Chauntry Founded for him, near the Altar of 
 St. Thomas the Martyr, before which he was interred. The which 
 Chauntry confifted of Two Priefts to Celebrate Service thereat, per- 
 petually for the good Eftate of King Henry'^ the Third, as alfo for the 
 Souls of Richard and Agnes his Parents, and Nicholas his Uncle. For 
 which he added an affignation of a certain Rent for the keeping his obit. 
 
 Here likewife was a fair plated Stone ^ in Memory of Sir "John 
 Northbury which thus ipeaks him. 
 
 Hie jacet Johannes Northbury milesy & cujlos Garderobii vejliarii 
 Purris apud Lond. ^i Johannes fuit Anglice Thefaurarius A7tno 
 prima y secundoy & tertio Henrici quarti [i 399-1402]. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Sir "John Northbury Knight and Keeper of the 
 King's Wardrobe in the Tower of London, who was alfo Treafurer of 
 England, the firft, fecond, and third year of Henry the Fourth. 
 
 This Name hath been Honorable and Antient in this Realm, and I 
 have read of one Sir yohn Northbury Knight, who with William Belknap 
 Efquire were Coulins, and Heirs to that famous Ralph Lord Butler, 
 Builder of that moft Beautiful Pile of Seudly-Cajile in the C. of 
 Glocejier. The which Sir yohn Northbury, who Florifht in the reign 
 of Henry the fixth, and Edward the Fourth, was (as 'tis probably con- 
 jectured) a defcendant from this Sir yohn Northbury here interred. 
 
 There likewife have been, and are flill extant fome worthy Perfons 
 of this Name in the County Pal. of Chejier, and the circumjacent parts 
 thereof, although not of that County, yet none hath contributed more 
 
 * Dugdale gives Edward III. — Ed. 
 
 ^ Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed. 
 
28 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 to the Honor of that Memorable Name than the prefent Sir John 
 Northbury the Famous Sea- Commander, whofe Actions and WarHke 
 Tranfactions in His Majefties Service at Argiers and elfwhere, are the 
 due Arguments rather of a copious Hiftory than of fo fhort a Com- 
 memoration. 
 
 In the fame Ifle lay a fair plated ftone with this infcription, or 
 rather marginal circumfcription about the edges of that Memorial ; 
 which thus fpeaks the Perfon there under interred. 
 
 Dvate pro anima Siagigtri aBiUielmi caiorslep Hegum Doctorig 
 \%X\m ecclesiae ^. PauU lonD. Decani Dum tJirit, qui obut 15 Die 
 xmm% 3[uffustu' anno Domini M.ccccixxxviij, cujus anime propicietur 
 
 Englifhf thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of William Worfeley Doctor of the Civil Laws, 
 and Dean of this Church of St. Paul till the day of his death, which 
 happened to be on the 15 day of Augujl 1488.^ On whofe Soul, ^c. 
 
 At the bottom of which I found this modeft diftique, a fufEcient 
 Antidote againft Pride, and Carnal Prefumption. 
 
 33ermitJU0 bic ponor et Cic oflenuere conor, 
 y^t tjeluti ponor, fic erit ortJis |)onor. 
 
 Engli/ht thus. 
 Here meat for Worms I am, fuch as you fee. 
 And as I am, fo fhall all Honor be. 
 
 This memorable Churchman was defcendant from that right Antient 
 Family of the WorfeleySy of Worfeley -Hall in the C. Pal. of Lancajier. 
 From which Hall were long agoe tranfplanted thofe Worfeleys of the 
 County of Southampton. The chief of which Family, is the prefent Sir 
 
 ' Dugdale gives the date in an engraving of the brass, from which the above inscription is taken, as 15 Aug. 
 1488, and in the letterpress as 14 Aug. 1499. The former date is correct (and see p. ). — Ed. 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAULS. 
 
 29 
 
 Robert Worfeley of Apkdorfcomb in the Ifle of Wight Baronet, great 
 Grand-child of the late Honorable Sir Richard Worfeley^ Eldeft Baronet 
 of the County of Southampton ; he is Grand-child to the Honorable the 
 late Sir Robert Worfeley C. Prsd. third Baronet of his Name by his 
 Wife, Daughter of the Honorable the late James Herbert, one of the 
 younger Sons to the right Honorable the late Philip Earl of Pembrook, 
 and Montgomery y Brother to the penultimate Philip, and Uncle to the 
 prefent the Right Honorable Philip Earl of Penbrook and Montgomery, &c. 
 
 The Uncle of this prefent young Baronet, being Sir James Worfeley 
 C. Praedidt Knight, who with a difference bears that Antient Coat of the 
 Worfeleys, Originally defcending from the laid County Pal. of Lancajier. 
 
 And having IlTue-male by his Lady, one of the Daughters of the 
 Honorable Sir Nicholas Stewart Com. Southampton Baronet, is in a fair 
 probability (together with his faid Nephew, as yet infra cetatem) to 
 continue the Name and Honor of that Honorable, and right Antient 
 Family of the Worfeleys. ' 
 
 In the Quire of this Cathedral, lay another Plated Stone, thus 
 infcribed.^ 
 
 ©rate pro anima Dommi IRogeri IBratia^on tie SDHetJ? m\% Canomci 
 Ooctorig et \mx% <^tt\t%m CatlbenraUs iRe0itientiarij qui otJijt tertio 
 tie men0i0 augusti anno Dommi Mccccxcviij, cams anime propitietur 
 neus» 
 
 iSunc Cl)rxste te petimug, miserere quesumus, 
 
 etui tjemgti retiimere perDitos noli Damnare reciempto0» 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Roger Brabanzon of Odney Doctor of the Civil 
 Laws, and Cannon- Refidentiary of this Cathedral, who dyed [3 Auguft] 
 in the year of our Lord 1498. On whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 And now Chrift we huriibly pray, and befeech thee to have Com- 
 
 ' Engraving of the brass with inscription, given by Dugdale, from which above is taken. — Ed. 
 
30 
 
 rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUUS. 
 
 paffion on us, and fince the end of thy coming into the World was to 
 fave finners, we humbly entreat thee not to be fo fevere as to damn 
 thofe poor fouls, which thou cameft to Redeem. 
 
 This Antient Name of Brabanzoriy or more Antiently Brabantfon 
 was fome Centuries fince derived from a Memorable Commander in the 
 Netherlands, who took this Name from the large Province of Brabant 
 there, at this day Famous ; where it hapning that this Commander in a 
 fiege of one of thofe great Cities having Iprang a Mine and oppofitely 
 encountering and killing a General, or fignal Officer in a Countermine, 
 did for this Noble exploit alTume that Provincial Name of Brabant ; 
 from whom. His Son deriving this Patronymick, was known to 
 Pofterity by no other Name, than the Son of Brabant or Brabant's 
 Son. Of which Name and ('tis probable) Family was that Famous 
 Sir Robert Brabantfon (or Brabazon) Knight, and one of the Juftices 
 in the Kings-Bench, in the Reign of Edward the Firft. From whom 
 defcended that Memorable Sir Edward Brabazon of Netherwhitacre in 
 the County of Warwick Knight, in the time of King Henry the Seventh. 
 From both which, defcended the Right Honorable the prefent Lord 
 Brabanzon Earl of Meath in the Kingdom of Ireland and of Great 
 Antiquity in the Realm of England. 
 
 Farther, I find this Chriftian Name to be worn by that Ingenious 
 and much oblieging Gentleman Brabanzon Ailmer of Mootonhall, in 
 the County of EJfex Efq; Of whom I fhall fay more, when I come 
 to fpeak of one of his Right Reverend Anceftors, Bifhop AILMER 
 Lord Bifhop of London , Interred in this Cathedral. 
 
 Not far from this lay another fair Marble plated, on which you have 
 this Infcription.i 
 
 Orate pro animd Martini de Patefliull hujus Ecclefi(B Decani, & 
 unius de Jujiiciariis Communiiim Rlacitoriun. ^i multa erogavit Huic 
 
 ' Inscription omitted by Dugdale, wlio gives date of death 14 Nov. 1229.— Ei>. 
 
1'HE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 31 
 
 Ecckjice & obiit die decimo fexto Decemb.^ MCCXXIX. Cujus Animcz 
 propitietur altijjimus. 
 
 EngHJht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Martin Patejhull Dean of this Church, and 
 one of the Juftices of the Common-Pleas, who was a good Benefactor 
 to this Church, who dyed on the Sixteenth day of December,^ 1229. 
 On whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 The character of this Memorable man, is farther Illuftrated by the 
 Pen of the Learned Florilegus in this enfuing Difcourfe. 
 
 Eodem Anno MCCXXIX Decemb. Decimo Sexto obiit Martinus de 
 PatefhuU vir mirce Prudentice, Et Legum peritijjimus ^ &c. 
 
 This year (faith he) vid: 1229. on the Sixteenth of December^ 
 dyed Martin Patejhull, a Perfon Memorable for his Approved Piety, 
 Prudence, and Knowledge in the Laws of this Realm, &c. 
 
 The which Martin had a Chauntry of Two Priefts to Celebrate the 
 Service for the Health of his Soul, at or near the Altar of the Apoftles, 
 whofe Graunt beares Date "July the Three and twentieth, in the Reign 
 of Henry the Third. 
 
 This Name of Patejhull is exceeding Antient both in the County of 
 Warwick and Northampton, of which Counties they have been SherifFes, 
 in the Reigns of Richard the firft, and of King yohn. 
 
 I have alfo read of Walter de Patejhull, and Simon de Patejhull, 
 SherifFes of Bedfordjhire in the Reigns of Henry the third. I find 
 likewife that in the year of our Lord 1 240. one Hugh de Patejhull was 
 Billiop of Coventry, and Lord Treafurer of England. And they that 
 defire to know more of this Noble Name and Family, are advif'd to 
 have recourfe to, and confult the Learned and Laborious Lucubrations 
 of that worthy Antiquary of this Age Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE 
 King at Armes, in his elaborate Hiftory of Warwickjhire, for which 
 weighty and right worthy work of his, the whole County ought in 
 right, to erect a ftatue to his Memory. 
 
 ' See note on previous page. 
 
32 
 
 <rHE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 In the North-fide of the New Quire, hung a fair Tablet richly guilt 
 in Memory of that moll valiant chieftain, and great Soldier of his time 
 Sir THOMAS BASKERVIL, Commander in chief of the Englifh 
 Forces fent from Queen Elizabeth into Piccardy, for the aid of the then 
 French King 1597. whofe Infcription thus reprefents him 
 
 Thefe are the Glories of a Worthy Praife 
 
 Which (Noble BASKERVIL) now here are read 
 In honour of thy life, and latter day's 
 
 To number thee among the BlefTed dead. 
 A pure regard to Thine Immortall Part, 
 
 A Spotlefs Mind, a Body prone to pain, 
 A giving hand, and an unvanquifht Heart, 
 
 And all thefe virtues void of all difdain. 
 And all thefe Vertues yet not fo unknown. 
 
 But Netherlands^ SeaSy India Spain and France 
 Can witnefs that thefe honours were thine own. 
 
 Which they referve Thy merit to advance. 
 That valour fhould not perilh void of Fame, 
 Nor Noble Deeds, but leave a Noble Name. 
 
 How Antient the Family of Bajkervil hath been, our old Records 
 do atteft, which make mention of one Bernardus de Bajkervily which 
 came out of France immediately after the firft ingrefs of the Normans ; 
 which Bernardus was a good Benefactor to St. Peters Abbey in 
 Glocejier: Of which Family (who have long Flourifht in the County 
 of Hereford) I may fpeak more in my great Hiftory of the Tombs and 
 Monuments of London, where I find Sir Humphrey Bajkervil fometimes 
 Sheriffe of London fairly interred in Mercers Chappel. 
 
 In the Quire of this great Cathedral near to the Sepulchre of King 
 Sehba, lay a grey Marble Coffin, in which was interred King Ethelredy 
 over whom hung a tablet written in old Saxon letters, which fince the 
 
rUE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 33 
 
 dreadful conflagration of that church and others, I have feen in the 
 hands of my moft ingenious Learned, and much oblieging Friend 
 Mr. William Smith, fometimes of Clare-hall^ and many years Mafter 
 of Arts, and the Free School of IJlington\ which Infcription thus 
 reprefents that King Efhelred} 
 
 ^ic lacet (ZBtbelDre- 
 xsm ^nglotum 
 
 n E0gi0 cui in Uie cS* 
 (ecrationis fjic pofl im* 
 pofita coronam fertur 
 ^. Dunflanus Cant : ar* 
 cf)iepifcopus Dira preUi- 
 ricre f)iJ0 t)er{)i0 Ciuoma 
 afpirdfit an regnu p mor'"" 
 fratri0 tui in cuius fangui'? 
 confpirauerunt ^ngli cu 
 ignommiofa matte tua, 
 non DeQciet glalitug De Do^ 
 mo tua Cenieng m te omni- 
 Ijus Uzhm tiitae mac mter* 
 ficien ne femme tuo quou0^ 
 que regnu tuum tranfferat 
 
 m regnu altenum, cm\ tU 
 tum et Ungua geng, cut prefix 
 Des non nouit nec erpiatJi- 
 tur nifi longa tJintiicta pec^ 
 catu tuum et pcccata mat- 
 m tue et peccata tiiror qui 
 interfuere concilio iWim 
 nequam: due ficut a tJirofa* 
 cto preoicta erant euenerut 
 nam €t{)elDreti' \^mi% preliis 
 per ^uanu Danor : regem fill* 
 uq ; fuu Canutu fatigatus et 
 fugatu0 ac tantiem lonnim 
 arcta otifiDione conclufU0 mi* 
 fere. Die otiiit Dominice in* 
 
 carnaciom0 Mxvij po{j= 
 quam anni0 xxxvj in mag* 
 
 na tritulatione regnaOet 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lieth the Body of King Ethelred King of England Son of King 
 Edgar ; to whom on the day of his Inauguration after the Crown was 
 placed on his head, St. Dunjian Arch-bi£hop of Canterbury is reported 
 prophetically to have pronounced this ominous imprecation. Becaufe 
 thou haft afpired to the Crown by the Blood of thy Brother, againft 
 
 • Dugdale gives engraving of tomb with inscription as above. — Ed. 
 
 5 
 
34 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 whofe life the People of England, together with thine Ignominious 
 Mother have Barbaroufly Combined; therefore, the Sword fhall not 
 depart from thine Houfe for ever, but fhall cruelly rage againft thee all 
 the days of thy life, deftroying dayly of thy feed fo long, till thy King- 
 dom fhall be totally alienate from Thee, and transferred to another 
 Nation, whofe Cuftoms and language neither Thou, nor thy People 
 fhall underftand. Neither fhall this Thy Sin be expiated but by a 
 very long punifhment ; nor yet the Sin of Thy Mother, nor the Sins 
 of all thofe Wicked men who had an hand in that mofl execrable, and 
 Pernicious Council. 
 
 The which things as they were ominoufly predicted by this Holy 
 Church-man, were exactly verified to a tittle ; For King Etheldred being 
 vanquifht, and put to Flight in feveral Battels by Swain, and Canutus his 
 Son ; and being at the lafl clofely befieged in the City of London, and 
 brought to great Extremity, in the clofe of all, ended his days in much 
 Tribulation and Trouble in the Year of our Lord, 1017. After he had 
 Reigned Six and Thirty Years in great Perplexity. 
 
 This Etheldred (faith a grave Author) was not greatly favor'd by the 
 Religious Men of that age, who in their Writings reprefent him a dull, 
 and flothful Perfon, little forward in action, or fortunate in Execution. 
 But that which is moft alledged againfl him (next the Murther of 
 his Brother) was his making War upon tbe Bifhop of Rochejier, and 
 admitting not the leafl reconciliation with him, without the Donative of 
 an Hundred pound in gold. Whereupon St. Dunjian fent him word, 
 that fince he made more account of Gold, than of GOD, and of 
 Money, than St. Andrew the Patron of that Church, and more of 
 Covetoufnefs than of Him the Arch-Bifhop, that the mifchief which 
 the Lord had threatned, fhould furely come to pafs. 
 
 This Etheldred (commonly called the unready) was the Second Son 
 to King Edgar, whofe Queen was called Alfrida, a Woman of Beautiful 
 Embellifhments, and Daughter and Heir to Ordgar then Earl of 
 Devon/hire. Of whofe Beauty King Edgar hearing fo great a Report, 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 35 
 
 fent Ethelwolfe a great Courtier, and Bofom Confident of his, to fee if 
 fhe were fo beautiful, as common Fame had reprefented her. Ethelwolfe 
 arriving at her Father's Houfe in Devon-Jhire and beholding Her, he was 
 fo Ravifht with the Excellency of her Beauty, that he thought of 
 nothing more, but how to obtain her in Marriage to himfelf and fo 
 delude the King, whofe commands he conceal'd. Whereupon addreffing 
 himfelf to the Earl her Father, he found him very inclinable to give 
 his Daughter in Marriage to him, provided he could obtain leave and 
 Licenfe from the King ; and that which occafion'd his fo ready affent to 
 this hiotion, was the confideration of his Old Age, and prevailing infir- 
 mities, and chiefly becaufe he faw Ethelwolfe a Gallant young Nobleman, 
 well verft in Military Affairs, and of fo great favor with the King, that 
 he might very well defend the Eftate, and Dignity of this his Daughter. 
 
 Ethelwolfe having made fo fair a Footing in the affection of the Old 
 Earl, and his Young Daughter ; upon his firft Arrival, repaires to the 
 King, and told him that indeed the Lady Alfrida was of a Fair, and 
 Beautiful Complexion, but very much Crooked, and Deformed in Body. 
 Which report fo cooled the King's courage, that he caft off all farther 
 thoughts of her, whereupon replied Ethelwolfe, though that her Perfon 
 was unbefeeming the Bed of a King, yet if he pleafed to give him leave, 
 he would Marry her, and by the greatnefs of her Eftate aggrandize his 
 own. To which the King readily confenting, he foon after Marries this 
 Fair Alfrida, by whom having a Young Son, he farther prefum'd to 
 requeft the King to be his God-father, which he did by Proxy. And 
 thus having made all fure to pofterity (as he imagined) being one day in 
 a pleafant humor, he told his Lady how neatly he had beguil'd the 
 King, who intended to have Married her, had he not reprefented her to 
 be of a Crooked and Deformed Body. Which Story fo merrily told, 
 afterwards much abated the fervor of her wonted affection towards 
 him. And as the aggravation of his future misfortune, it was told 
 the King how beautiful a Perfon £he was, and how fraudulently Earl 
 Ethelwolfe had proceeded herein. For the more full information of 
 
36 
 
 THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 which Truth, the King himfelf fpeedily hafted down into Devon/hire, 
 and under colour of Hunting in thofe parts, returned not till he had 
 feen this Fair Lady ; at the firft fight of whom, he became fo highly 
 inamour'd, that he caufed a place of Entertainment for her, and her 
 Hufband, near the Wood where he was to Hunt. Unto which place, 
 he was no fooner returned from his fport, but he beheld her more 
 perfectly with his God-fon, whom Ethelwolfe had prefented. The King 
 Embracing, and kindly kiffing her, was fo ftrangely tranfported, that he 
 could admit of no reft, till fuch time as he had enjoy 'd her in Wed- 
 lock. For this purpofe within Eight days after, he calls a Parliament at 
 Salijburyy wherein all his nobles being met, he propofed to their con- 
 Uderation the fafe keeping of Northumberland againft the Incurlions of 
 the Danes. Whereupon this Ethelwolfe Earl of the Eaji- Angles and a 
 perfon of great power, was appointed to the cuftody of the City of 
 Torky and the circumjacent parts thereof. Towards which place making 
 preparations, and upon occalion of taking his leave of fome Friends in 
 Hant-Jhire, was by men in Difguize fuddenly fet upon, and Barbaroufly 
 affaffinated in the Forreft of Werrel in the faid County. Upon the firft 
 News whereof. King Edgar Marries this Fair Alfriday by whom he had 
 Edmondy and this Etheldred who (as 'tis reported) Pift in his Font ; 
 touching whom, that Holy Man Dunjian Prophecyed, that in him the 
 Scepter of the Englifh fhould have its period. Of which he was not 
 much wide as our Hiftorians do agree. He ending his Days and 
 Dominions both together. 
 
 This Queen Alfriday to expiate the Murther of her Hufband 
 Ethelwolfy Founded a Monaftry of Nuns in the faid Forreft of Werrel 
 in the County predicted. 
 
 Here was alfo the Memorial of Sir John Poultnejy who built a 
 Chappel at his own Coft, whofe Character you have in this his enfuing 
 Epitaph. 1 
 
 ' Inscription oniiitcd by Dngdale, Stow, and Wecvcr.— Ed. 
 
THE "TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 37 
 
 Here lieth the Body of Sir JOHN POULTNET Knight, Four 
 times Mayor of London. In the year 1337^ He Builded a Fair Chappel 
 in the North fide of this Church, in which he hes interred. He 
 Founded a CoUedge, and that Parifh-Church in Candlewick-Jireet called 
 St. Laurence-Poultney. He Builded the Parifh Church of the Car- 
 melites in Coventry. He gave relief to the Prifoners of Newgate, and 
 the Fleet ; and Monies annually to the Hofpital of St. Gile's in Holburny 
 with other Legacies, too long here to be recited, to whofe particulars 
 I refer the Reader to that Learned and Laborious Sir WLLLIAM 
 DTJGDALES Hiftory of St. Pauls Cathedral, where (among others) 
 He makes mention of this moft Memorable Patriot, and of Adam de 
 Poultney his Father Buried under mural Monument in St. Laurence 
 Poultney London. 
 
 Thefe PoultneySy 'tis apparant, defcended from that Antient Family 
 of the Poultney s of Mijierton in the County of Leicejier; whence 
 defcended the late Lady Brownlow Wife of the ftill living the Honor- 
 able Sir JOHN BROWNLOW the Elder, Knight and Baronet; and 
 alfo that Learned and worthily obliging Gentleman Sir WILLIAM 
 POULTNET of St. James in the County of Middle/ex Knight, fome 
 years fince Reader and fergeant of Law of the Inner Temple and many 
 years Juftice of the Peace and Quorum for the County of Middlefex, 
 and a member of Two Parliaments ; ^c. with his Kinfmen Mr. James, 
 and Mr. Thomas Poultney, and feveral others which I may mention in 
 my great Hiftory of all the Tombs and Monuments in the Renowned 
 City of London, when I come to fpeak of Adam de Poultney, Buried in 
 St. Laurence Poultneys Church in Candlewick-Jireet aforefaid. 
 
 In the South Ille of the Quire ftood a ftately Tomb of Alabafter 
 richly guilt, and beautifully embellifht with fundry figures, dedicated to 
 the Memory of that worthy Patriot of his time WILLIAM HEWIT 
 Efquire, who lies upon a Stack of Alabafter in the habiliments of a 
 
 ' Stow gives 1348. — Ed. 
 
38 
 
 rUE rOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 Senator, and his Lady by him. In the Concave of which Arched- 
 Monument, you have this Epitaph in Capitals.^ 
 
 MEMORISE 
 S. 
 
 GULIELMO HEWYT ARMIGERO, 
 ROBERTI HEWYT 
 A KILLAMARCH, IN AGRO DERBIENSI, 
 
 FILIO SECVNDO GENITO: 
 QVI MORTVO FRATRE NATV-MAIORE, 
 PATERNAM CREVIT HiEREDITATEM, 
 
 POSTERISQ"^ TRANSMISIT. 
 NOBILEM MERCATVRAM EXERCVIT: 
 VITA INTEGERRIMA FVIT ET MORIB : SVAVISSIMIS: 
 BONARUM LITERARVM STVDIA PROMOVIT: 
 EGENORVM PROVENTVS LARGITER AVXIT. 
 LIBERALITATE, CHARITATE, 
 INSIGNIS; 
 NEC MINOR PIETATE. 
 RELIGIONEM, CVM MINISTRIS SACRIS ET 
 COLVIT ET FOVIT: 
 ITA PER OMNIA SE VBIQ^;^ lESSIT, VT 
 PROBITATIS, 
 COMITATIS, 
 CANDORIS, 
 VIVUM EXEMPLAR; 
 CHRISTVM REDEMPTOREM COGITANS, 
 VITAM ANTE MORTEM CONSVMMAVERIT. 
 FILIOS GENVIT QVATVOR, 
 lOHANNEM, SALOMONEM, 
 THOMAM, GVLIELMVM. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of Ihe tomb with inscription as above. — Ed. 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUL'S. 
 
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 ET FILIAS DVAS, 
 MARIAM, ELIZABETHAM. 
 ANNVM LXXVii. AGENS, 
 XII. IVNI. CID.D.XCIX. AD PATRIAM CCELESTEM, 
 EVOCATVS 
 MAGNVM SVI DESIDERIVM RELIQVIT 
 POSTERIS, 
 QVI HOC PIE AC INEREN: 
 P. P. 
 
 EngHJht thus. 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of WILLIAM HEWIT Efquire 
 
 Second Son. 
 
 Of Rob. Hewif de Killamarch in the C. of Derby Efquire ; 
 Who by the death of his Elder Brother 
 Gained the whole inheritance. 
 And fucceffively devolved it to his Pofterity. 
 He exercifed the Generous Profeffion of a Merchant." 
 He being in all his dealings a Perfon of lingular Integrity, 
 And of no lefs obliging Candor. 
 He was a generous Promoter of Learning 
 And the Lucubrations of the Ingenious. 
 He much augmented and improved the ftock of the Poor, 
 Being exemplarily eminent 
 For his Charity and Bounty. 
 Neither was he lefs conlpicuous for his fincere Piety, 
 And did not only highly Honor, but Revere 
 Religious Men, and the Minifters of the Golpel. 
 And to fay truth He fo laudily deported himfelf 
 ' In all the Affairs of his whole Life. 
 That He was lookt upon as an unparalleled Pattern 
 Of Charity, Affability, and Candor. 
 Having Chrift his Redeemer ftill in his mind. 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 He ever lived fo preparedly 
 As if before death He had antedated his Eternity. 
 He had Four Sons. 
 yohny Solomony Thomas ^ and William. 
 And Two Daughters, Mary, and Elizabeth. 
 He was called, and incorporated 
 Into the Blefled Society of the Angels [ 1 2 June] 
 In the JJth year of his Age, and of our Lord 1599. 
 He left the World, and his furviving Iffue 
 To lament the lofs of fo indeared a Parent 
 Who in remembrance of Him with much forrow 
 Have Set up this Monument 
 
 Then at the Foot of this is fixed 
 
 COMMVNIS EST QVA ASPICIS ^J^J^^^^ MORTALITATIS FACIES 
 
 That wholfome Monitory- Antidote againft the 
 Approach of Death. 
 Be not afraid. 
 
 For this Grim Face of Death which thou beholdeft is alike Common 
 
 to all. 
 
 How Antient this Right Worthy and diffufively fpreading Family 
 of the Hewits is, I fhall fay more in my great Hiftory of the Tombs 
 and Monuments of the Renowned City of London, when I there come 
 to fpeak of that Memorable Citizen and Senator Sir Thomas Heivit, 
 buried under a fair Monument in the Church of St. Olave-Jury in 
 London. 
 
 In the fame Range flood a Magnificent Monument, Erected to the 
 Memory of that publick Spirited Patriot of his Time Sir William Cokayn 
 Knight, whofe Elegant, and well coucht Epitaph^ thus fpeaks him. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the tomb with inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUL'S. 
 
 41 
 
 M, S. 
 
 GVLIELMUS COKAYNIVS EQVES AVR : 
 CIVIS & SENATOR LONDINENSIS, SEPTEMQ. AB» 
 HINC ANNIS VRBIS PREFECTVS : ANTIQVA COKAYNORV 
 DERBIENSTV FAMILIA ORIVNDVS : QVIA BONO PVBLICO VIXIT ET 
 DAMPNO PVBLICO DECESSIT; & GAVDIO PVBLICO REGE JACOBVM 
 AD DECORE HVIVS DOMVS DEI SENESCETIS lA ET CORRVGATE RESTITVEDV, 
 SOLENNITER HVC VENIETE, CONSVLATV SVO MAGNIFICE EXCEPIT: ID CIRCO IN 
 TEMPLO PVBLICO, AD iETERNA REI MEMORIA, HIC SITVS EST. 
 AT VERO ET FAM^ CELEBRITAS QVE VIGET IN ORE HOMINV & GLO. 
 RIA BEATITVDINIS QVA MIGRADO ADEPTVS EST, & SPLENDOR SOBOLIS QVA 
 NVMEROSA GEN VIT, ATQ. NOBILE RELIQVIT, IVNCTI EFFICI VT, OMNIA, NE DICATVR 
 HIC SITVS EST. VNA CV ILLO TOT HOMINES MORTVI QVOT IN ILLO DEFVNCT| 
 SVNT VIRTVTES; SIMVLQ. & ACIES INGENII & POPVLARIS ELOQVII SVADA & MORV 
 GRAVITAS, & PROBITAS VITE, & CANDOR MENTIS, & ANIMI COSTANTIA, & PRV* 
 
 DENTIA SINGVLARIS, & VERI SENATORIS INSIGNIA HIC SEPVLTA SVNT. 
 JAM TVVM EST, LECTOR, FELICITATIS AD CVLMEN ANHELARE PER ISTA VES* 
 TIGIA LAVDIS & VENERANDI IMITATIONE EXEMPLI CVRARE, NE UNQVA VIR,- 
 TVTIS SIC SEMINA INTEREAT VT DICATVR. HIC SEPVLTA SVNT. 
 
 OBIIT XX. OCTOB, A? DNI. M.DC.XXVI ET ^TATIS SV-iE LXVI. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Sacred to the Memory 
 Of Sir William Cokayn Knight 
 Citizen, and Senator of London 
 And feven years before Lord Mayor thereof ; 
 Defcending from that antient Family of 
 The Cokaynes in the County of Derby : 
 "Who hved to the Publique good, and died to the 
 PubUque lofs of all that knew him. 
 And to the Publique joy of all 
 Magnificently received King "James (in his Majoralty) 
 Coming with a fplendid retinue 
 To take order for the reparation of this Sacred ftructure. 
 Ready to fink and be buried in her own ruines. 
 In perpetual Memory whereof. 
 He chofe here to be interred. 
 
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 Neverthelefs 
 The celebrity of his Name, and Fame, 
 The general fubject of every mans difcourfe. 
 And the fplendor of that felicity 
 Which he hath fo induftrioufly acquired in the world. 
 With the happinefs of a glittering OfF-fpring 
 Which he left numerous, and yet all nobly provided for. 
 All v^^hich being put together forbid us to fay 
 He lies here folely interred : 
 For look how many vertues, fo many men 
 May be faid to have dyed with him. 
 And moreover 
 The keen edge of a quick and acute Intellect, 
 The charming language of a volubile, and fluent Tongue, 
 
 The gravity of his mean, and integrity of life. 
 With the candour and conftancy of his mind and actions. 
 And alfo his Angular difcretion, and 
 All the fignal marks of a worthy Senator 
 Forbid us to tell Pofterity 
 That all thefe graces are here totally interred. 
 And now Reader it muft be thy part 
 Pantingly to climb up and afpire 
 To the inacceflive Hill of fo many vertues 
 And tread in the fame Footfteps, 
 And by the imitation of fo venerable an example 
 So to provide 
 
 That it may not be faid the feeds of vertues do here wither. 
 And confequently may be thought here 
 To die, and be buried with him. 
 He dyed 20 th October 
 in the year of our Lord 1626, 
 in the 66 of his own Age. 
 
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 The which Memorable Patriot (whofe Blood at this day runs in 
 the veines in fome of the beft Families of this Kingdom) was a younger 
 Branch of that old florifhing Family of the COKATNES in Derby- 
 Jhire J where they ftill remain in a prolperous condition. The which 
 Sir William upon his tranfplanting to Landon (the nurfery of many noble 
 Families) thrived fo well on his removal, that his Ipreading Boughs, and 
 fair Branches, have given both fhade and fhelter to fome of the goodlieft 
 Families of England. The Grandchild of which Sir William is the 
 prefent right Honorable and much obliging Lord Charles Cokayne, 
 Vifcount Cullen ; and other worthy Perfons ftill living in the County of 
 Derby ; where (coming firft out of France') they have florifht in a 
 Knightly equipage ftnce the beginning of Edward the Third. 
 
 From which Cokaynes in the faid County of Derby defcended that 
 Famous Man of Law and Learning, the Lord Chief Juftice Cokayne, 
 who fome Centuries fince removing from Derby-jhire fetled himfelf, and 
 Progeny at Cokayn-Hatley in the County of Bedford, fo denominated 
 from himfelf the proprietor thereof. From which Lord Chief Juftice 
 (among many others of great Antiquity) defcended more lately the 
 prefent John Cokayne of Cokayne-Hatley, c. pr^d. Efq. ; with Mr. George 
 \Cokayne long fince Batchelor of Divinity, and Rector of St. Pancras 
 Church Soaper lane ; with his well accomplifht Kinfman Mr. SCIPIO 
 COKATNE Gentleman of the Horfe to the right Honor^ihlQ Heneage 
 Baron of Deintry, Lord High Chancellor of England &c. with Mr. 
 Thomas Cokayne of Aftirick in the faid Country and feveral others in the 
 Counties of Derby and Bedford ; of whom, I fhall fpeak more largely in 
 my great Hiftory of the Tombs and Monuments in the renowned City 
 of London, when I there come to the Church of St. Peters the Poor in 
 Broad-Jireet, in which Church under a fair Monument lies interred a 
 Gentleman of that Name and Family, and indeed a Perfon Memorable 
 in his Generation the late Mr. WILLIAM COKATNE one of the 
 eminenteft Merchants of his time, and Governor of the Eaji Indie- 
 Company, whofe Son Mr. William Cokayne 2. Worthy Merchant is at 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 this day living. He, with his faid right worthy Father being both 
 defcendants from thofe Cokaynes of Derby-JhirCy and that Lord Chief 
 Juftice Cokayne of Cokayne-Hatky in the faid County of Bedford. 
 
 In the North fide of this Cathedral ftood a magnificent Monument 
 for that great Soldier and Peer 'John of Gaunt lying on his Tomb in his 
 Warlike habiliments, with a Launce in his hand, and Two of his Ladies 
 lying by him. Whofe enfuing Epitaph thus fpeaketh him.^ 
 
 Hie in Domino Obdormivit 
 JOANNES GANDAVENSIS, njulgo de Gaunt, 
 A Gandavo Flandrice urbe loco natali 
 
 It a denominatus ; 
 Edvardi tertii Regis Anglice Filius ; 
 A Patre, Comitis Richmondi^ titulo ordinatus, 
 T res Jibi uxores in Matrimonio duxit ; 
 Primam, BLANCHEAM, 
 Filiam G? Hceredem Henrici Ducis Lancaftrije, 
 > Per ^luam 
 
 Amplijjimam adiit Hcereditatem. 
 Nec Soltim Dux Lancaftris, 
 Sed etiam Leiceftrise, Lincolnias, & Derbiae 
 Comes effect us eji : 
 e Cujus fobole 
 ImperatoreSf Reges, Principes, ac Proceres 
 Propagati funt plurimi. 
 Alteram habuit uxorem Conftantiam 
 {^^ce hie contumulatur) 
 Filiamy & Hceredem, Petri Regis Caftilliae & Legionis ; 
 Cujus jfure optimOy 
 Titulo Regis Caftillias, & Legionis ufus ejl. 
 
 Dugdale gives an engraving of Ihe tomb, — Ed. 
 
i:he roMBEs of sr. pauus. 
 
 45 
 
 Hcec unicam illi peperit jiliam Catharinam, 
 "Ex qua ab Henrico^ Reges Hifpanice funt propagatt. 
 'Tertiam vero Uxorem duxit Catharinam, 
 Ex equejiri Familidy & eximia pulchritudine Fcemimm ; 
 Ex qua, numerofam ; fufcepit Prolem, 
 Unde, Genus fuum ex Matre 
 Duxit Henricus feptimus. Rex Anglice prudentijjimus ; 
 Cujus fcelicijjimo conjugio cum Elizabetha Edvardi ^arti Regis Filid, 
 
 e Jiirpe Eboracenli, 
 Regies Il/ce Lancaftrienfium, & Eboracenfium Fami/it^ 
 Ad exoptatijjimam Anglice pacem coaluerunt 
 Illujirijfimus hie Princeps Johannes cognomento, Plantaginet ; Rex 
 Caftilliae, ^ Legionis ; Dux Lancaftrias ; comes Richmondias ; Leiceftrice ; 
 Lincolnise, & Derbi^. Locum tenens Aquitanias ; magnus Senefchallus 
 Anglic, obiit Anno xxii. Regni Regis Richardi Secundiy Annoq; Domini, 
 MCCCXCIX, 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here Refteth in the Lord, the Body of 
 JOHN of GAUNT, fo denominated 
 From that City of Gaunt in Flanders where he was Born. 
 He was by his Royal Extradion a PLANTAGENET, 
 And One of the Sons to King Edward the Third ; 
 And confequently by his Royal Father, was Created 
 Earl of Richmond. 
 He had Three Wives, 
 the Firft whereof was the Lady BLANCH, 
 Daughter and Heir of Henry Duke of Lancajier ; 
 By whom he had a vaft Inheritance ; 
 And not only the Dukedom of Lancajier, 
 But alfo the Earldoms of Lincoln, Leicejier, and Derby : 
 From whofe Loynes, 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Emperors,. Kings, Princes, and Peers, 
 Were propagated, to a great number. 
 
 His other Wife here Buried by him. 
 Was the Lady CONSTANCE, 
 Daughter and Heir of Peter King of Cajiile and Lyons ; 
 In whofe Right 
 He had a juft claim and Title 
 To the Kingdoms of Cajiile, and Lyons. 
 
 His Third Lady was the Lady Catherine 
 A Lady of a Knightly Family and of Beautiful Embellifhments 
 From whom defcended a Royal, Noble, and numerous Oif-fpring. 
 For from her by the Maternal Line, 
 Defcended that moft Prudent, and PuilTant Prince King Henry the yth. 
 Who by his happy Match with the Daughter of King Edward the 4th 
 (A Lineal Defcendant from the Houfe of TorK) 
 Thofe Two Royal Lines of Lancajier and York 
 Were happily twifted, and concorporated into one. 
 
 The Titles of this mighty Peer were thefe. 
 
 The Moft Illuftrious Prince JOHN of Gaunt, Sir-named 
 PLANTAGENET King of Cajiile and Lyons, Duke of Lancajier, 
 Earl of Richmond, Leicejier, Lincoln, and Derby ; Lord Lieutenant of 
 Aquitain, and Great Lord High Steward of the Realm of England &c., 
 who put oif the Robes of Mortality in 'the year of our Lord 1399. in 
 the Two and twentieth year of the reign of King Richard the Second. 
 
 His fecond Wife the Lady Conjiance buried by him, was a Woman 
 (faith Walji?ighani) Mulier Jupra fceminas innocens, & devota, a Lady 
 above her fex harmlefs, and fervently affected towards good works. 
 
 His laft Lady the Lady Catherine Swineford Widdow of Sir Oates 
 Swinford, and eldeft Daughter of Sir Payne Roet, was buried in this 
 Beautiful Cathedral of Lincoln ; of which fairly diftufive Diocefs the 
 right Reverend, univerfally Learned, and generally obliging Dr. 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
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 THOMAS BARLOW many years the moft beloved Provoft of Queen's 
 Colledge Oxford, likewife Margaret ProfelTor of Divinity and Archdeacon 
 of Oxford, is now the prefent Incumbent and moft defervedly beloved 
 Lord Bifhop. 
 
 Near to the Monument of the faid fohn of Gaunt was fometimes 
 fixed a fair Tablet in remembrance of that famous, but unfortunate 
 'Thomas Earl of Lane after, Leicefter, and Derby ; Lord Conftable of 
 England; for whom, the Vulgar had fo great veneration that each 
 Perfon accounted himfelf fufficiently Bleft for the enfuing year, that 
 could but kifs his Picture here appendant ; which fuperftitious obfer- 
 vance by fo many People, was the occafion of its hence removal. The 
 Earl Thomas himfelf was beheaded on the Green of Pomfrakt Caftle in 
 the 1 5 year of King Edward the 2d ; and in the place of his decollation 
 was afterwards a Beautiful Church erected to his Memory. 
 
 Not far off was the Memorial of Robert Hare, in thefe words. 
 
 Heic jacet Robertus Hare quondam Clericus Thefaurarius, & Scrip for 
 Rotulorunde receptis, & exitibus, Thefaurariis Scaccarii, Obiit fenex^ 
 die fecundo Novembris Anno 1 6 1 1 . 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Robert Hare Treafurer and Regifter of the 
 Records relating to the Roles, and alfo Treafurer of the Exchequer, 
 who died in a good Old Age, in the year of our Lord 161 1. The 
 which Robert Hare appears to be a Branch of that Flourifhing Family 
 deduced from France, and of great antiquity in England, whence was 
 that Right Worfhipful Family of the Hares in Norfolk, the Chief of 
 which is the Honorable Sir Thomas Hare Baronet, Son of the late Sir 
 Ralph Hare Barorfet. And in Middlefex, of the Right Honorable the 
 late Sir Hugh Hare Baron of Colrain, whofe Son and Heir the Right 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Honorable, Critically, and thoroughly-well learned, Schollar, long 
 Travell'd and moft humanely obligeing Gentleman HENRT HARE 
 Hereditary Baron of Colrain and Proprietor of that fair pile of Langford 
 Houfe in the C. of WiltSy is now living. Of which diffulive Family 
 of the HARES I fhall fpeak more when I come to fpeak of that 
 Memorable Nicholas Hare Esq ; buried under a fair monument in St. 
 Dunjians Church, in the Weft, which Monument upon the new 
 modulizing that Church was injurioufly removed, whofe broken remains 
 I found (upon difquilition) packt up at the bottom of the Belfry in an 
 old cheft ; an Inquiry for which the Church Wardens then in being 
 may be very legally queftioned. 
 
 Near which ftood another fmall Memorial with thefe words. 
 
 Heic jacet Magijier Reymundus Pelegrim Canonicus hujus Ecclefia & 
 capellanus commijfalis Domini Papee ; qui obiit XI. die menfis^ Augujii ; 
 Cujus Animce propitietur Deus, Amen. 
 
 EngliJJit thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Raymond Pelegrim Cannon of this Church of 
 St. Pauls and Chaplain-Commiffionate from the Pope, who died on the 
 Eleventh day of Augufty on whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 Near to the ftairs of the Confiftory, lay another Memorial with 
 thefe words. 
 
 Hoc faxo tegitur corpus Thomas Creke L. Doctoris, et alms curias 
 Cantuarienfi« de Arcubus Londini, Advocatorum unius ; viri utriufque 
 Juris, tam Canonici quam Civilis fcientia, non modo peritiffimi, fed et 
 eorundem ufu et praxi longo tempore exerctiatiffimi : Cujus in Clien- 
 tem caufas defendendo, induftria quanta fuit, quanta integritas, quanta 
 
 • Year omitted by Dugdale, who states that he succeeded to Prebendary of Caddington Major in 1337, and 
 that he was the Pope s Nuncio 28 Jan. 1352— Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS, 
 
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 fides, quanta denique, fi quid contra votum, et (ut fibi videbatur) asqui- 
 tatem, accidebat folicitudo, et ii, qui ejus ufi funt patrocinio op time 
 praedicare poffunt, et Celebris illius fam^e memoria, nunquam moritura, 
 veriffime prasdicavit. 
 
 Honefte vixit. 
 
 Meminem Mt. Obiit An. Domini 1616, Mt. fuae, 82. 
 Suum cuique tribuit. 
 
 Englifht thus. 
 
 Under this Marble lies interred the Body of Thomas Creeke Doctor 
 in the Civil Laws, and one of the Proctors of the Arches in the Arch- 
 biihop of Canterburies Court. He was a Perfon exceedingly knowing 
 of the Civil and Cannon Laws, and converfantly well acquainted in the 
 Theoretique, and Practique part of both. His induftry was wonderful 
 in defending the caufes of his clients ; and his integrity, and confidence 
 in thofe caufes he undertook, was alike admirable. In fhort how great 
 was his anxiety and vexation if anything was tryed contrary (as his 
 confcience told him) to the real Truth, and Equity ! The which, all 
 ean well witnefs who have retained him their Advocate in feveral caufes 
 fuccefsfuUy managed, and impleaded by him. And alfo his credit, and 
 reputation which he hath acquired in the world can witnefs the fame ; 
 forafmuch as he lived uprightly : wronging no man, and ever careful to 
 give every man his own. He died in the year of our Lord 1616 in the 
 82 year of his Age. 
 
 Here ftood the Monument Dedicated to the Memory of the late 
 Sir William Dethicky which in this Epitaph Reprefents that Memorable 
 Perfon. 
 
 Hie requiefcit in Domino Gulielmus Dethick Eques auratus, JiliuSy 
 & Hcsres Gulielmi Dethick Equitis aurati ; ^i ambo fuerunt Garterii 
 Reges Armor um Anglia. Hicy Anno. MCCCCCLXXXIV. iEtatis fuae 
 
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THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 XLVIII. Ille Anno MCQCCCCXII. statis fu£ LXX, in Domino 
 obdormierunt y expectantes Refurrectionem per Jefum Chriftum Salvatorem 
 nojirum. 
 
 Domina Thomafina fuperjies XL. annos uxor prcedicti Willielmi ; 
 Filii Georgius, Gilbertus, & Henricus, Pietatis ergo pofuerunt. 
 
 EngliJJit thus. 
 
 Here refteth the Body of Sir William Dethick Knight, Son and heir 
 of Sir William Dethick Knight, and both of them honored with the Title 
 and dignity of Garter, being both of them Principal Kings at Arms. 
 Sir William the Father dyed in the 48 year of his Age 1584. Sir 
 William his Son dyed in the year of our Lord 1 6 1 2 in the joth year of 
 his Age. And both fleep here under this Marble, in expectation of the 
 Refurrection, and reappearance of their Lord and Saviour. 
 
 Dame 'Thomajin Dethick furviving, and having been Wife to the Sir 
 William predicted 40 years ; together with their furviving fons George ^ 
 Gilbert y and Henry Dethick^ have as the laft teftimonial of their pious 
 refpects erected this Monument to his remembrance. 
 
 This right worthy family of the Dethicks have been of great 
 antiquity in the County of Derby, of which family was the late Sir 
 John Dethick Lord Mayor, and Alderman of London ; and thofe now 
 living worthy Gentlemen, Mr. William and Mr. Henry Dethick Great 
 Grand- Children to the above-named Elder Sir William Dethick Knight 
 King at Armes, who bear the felf-fame Coat of their Knightly 
 Anceftors, vid. Argent a fejfe Varee Or^ and Gules, inter Three Water- 
 budgets Sable. 
 
 A Fairer accompt of which diffufively fpreading Family, I fhall give 
 in my great Hiftory of all the Tombes and Monuments of London^ and 
 the circumjacent parts thereof, when I come to fpeak of the Lady 'Jane 
 Dethick Buried on the South-fide of the Communion Table in Stepney 
 Church under a Fair Mural Monument. 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAULS.. 
 
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 About the middle of this great Cathedral towards the Eaft-End, 
 flood the Monument of William Sir-named the Norman^ a moft memor- 
 able Bifliop of Londoriy whofe Epitaph thus fpeaks him. 
 
 GuLiELMO, viro fapientia et vifce fanctitate claro, qui primum divo 
 Edwardo Regi et Confejfori familiar is ^ nuper in Epifcopum Londinenfem 
 erectus ; nec multo poji apud invictijjtmum Principem Gulielmum Anglice 
 Regem, ejus nomine primiimy ob prudentiam, jidemque Jingularem^ in con- 
 cilium adhibitus ; amplijjima huic urbi cekberrimce privilegia impetravit : 
 Senatus populufque Londinenfis bene merenti pofuit^ Sedit Epifcopus annos 
 XX. DeceJJit anno a Chrijio nato MLXX.^ 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Sacred to the Memory 
 WILLIAM, Sir-named the NORMAN, 
 Very confpicuous for his Wifdom, and Sanctity of Life, who being a 
 Familiar Intimate with St. Edward the King and ConfelTor, was by 
 Him firft of all prefer'd to the Bifhoprick of London ; and not long after 
 for his prudence and approved fidelity elected into the Privy- Council, or 
 that invincible Monarch William, of his Name the firft King of England. 
 From which King he obtained ample priviledges and immunities, which 
 He frankly and freely gave to the City of London Who in a grateful 
 Commemoration of his great Beneficence, and Bounty towards, them 
 have erected this Monument to his Remembrance. 
 
 He fate Bifhop of London Eleven years, and died in the year of our 
 Lord, 1070. 
 
 At the requeft of this good Bifhop, the King granted to the Citizens 
 of London their Charter fealed with green Wax, the form and fafhion 
 of which grant, I thought it not impertinent here to recite. 
 
 I William King, greeteth William Bifhop and Godfrey Portgrave, 
 
 ' Dugdale gives in a footnote : — 
 
 Error hie eji ( procul dubio ) maxinms ; nam per Conjlitutiones Lanfranci, ArcMepifcopi in Appendice, n. IJ, 
 exaratas, patet eum ftiperjiitem fiiijjfe in An. MLXXV, — Ed. 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PJUL'S. 
 
 and all the Burgeffes that in London be French, and Englijh, friendly. 
 And I do you, to wit, that you enjoy all the laws that you did in the 
 days of Edward the King. And I will that each Child be his Father's 
 Inheritor after his Father's days, and I will not fuffer that any man you 
 wrong after. GOD you keep. 
 
 In a grateful agnition of this good Bifhops Beneficence, the Citizens 
 of London did not only (as was faid) erect a Monument to his Memory, 
 but did ufually once a year walk about it with the Mayor and Aldermen 
 in their Habits, and fang an Hymne fuitable to the time, and occafion. 
 
 Upon a Tablet appendant to his Tomb were fixed thefe Verfes in 
 Hexameter and Pentameter. 
 
 Hcec tibi (dare Pater J pofuerunt marmora Gives 
 
 Prcemia non meritis cequiparanda tuis : 
 Namque Jibi populus te Londonienfis amicum 
 
 Senjity et huic urbi non leve prcejidium : 
 Reddifa Libertas, duce te donataque multisy 
 
 Te Duce, res fuerat publica muneribus. 
 Divitias, gejius, et for mam brevis opprimat hora 
 
 Hcec tua, fed pietas et benefacta manent. 
 
 This was tranflated by a Poet of the later times. 
 
 Thefe Marble Monuments to thee thy Citizens affign. 
 Rewards (O Father) far unfit to thefe deferts of thine. 
 Thee unto them a faithful friend thy London People found. 
 And to this Town of no fmall weight a ftay both fure, and found. 
 Their liberties reftor'd to them by means of thee have been ; 
 Their Public wealth by means of thy large gifts have felt and feen 
 Thy Riches, ftore, and beauty crave one hour hath thus fuppreft 
 Yet thefe thy vertues and good deeds with us for ever reft. 
 
 - After the difi!blution of this Monument erected to the Memory of 
 this pious, and publick-fpirited Prelate ; there was of later times fixed a 
 
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 53 
 
 Tablet on a Pillar, by the command and care of that memorable and 
 right worthy Patriot of his time Sir EDWARD B A RKH AM Knight, 
 Alderman, and Lord Mayor of London, An. D. 1622. Of whom, and 
 his worjQiipful Family (florifhing ftill in a Knightly equipage) I may 
 fpeak more when I come to St. yames Church in Dukes place, to which 
 he was a kind Benefactor. 
 
 The Verfes fixed to the Tomb of this good Bifhop were thefe. 
 
 COalfeersi toibocoere pou tie ! 
 31f it protje pou cftancc to fee 
 
 (Upon a folemne Scarlet 2:)ap, 
 
 Cf)e Citp Senate paf0 XW toap, 
 Cfteic grateful memorp for to Qjoto, 
 WiW^ tf)ep i\^z retierenD aOies otoe 
 
 £Df 1BiQ]op NORMAN f)ere intum'ti, 
 
 15p tofjom tbis Citp aflum'ti 
 Large PritiileDgeg : Cf)Ofe otitam'D 
 IBp ^im ttifjen Conquerour william reign 5 
 
 Wm tJeing bp barkham's tbankfull mino reneto'D, 
 
 Call it tbe Monument of 0ratituDe. 
 
 Here ftood another Monument^ erected to the Memory of that 
 right Reverend Prelate Fulk Bajfet, which thus reprefents him. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Fulk BaJJet Bifhop of London, and formerly 
 Deane of Tork (a gentleman of a very Antient and Noble Family) fecond 
 Brother to Sir Gilbert Bajfet, who being kill'd by a fall from his Horfe, 
 and his only fon dying a month after, that Lordly inheritance of the 
 Bajfet s fell to this Fulco Bajfet, who was confecrated in the year 1 244, 
 and dyed Anno 1258.^ After he had laudably governed this fee of 
 London eleven years. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale and Stow. — Ed. ^ Stow gives 1259. — Ed. 
 
 » 
 
54 
 
 rHE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 This Fulk BaJJet (faith by my Author) was a Perfon of an high and 
 haughty fpirit, which appear'd in his fo couragioufly refifting Reflandus 
 the Popes Legate, fent over hither by his Mailer to demaund Monies 
 from the Clergy, in fo publickly repulfing whom, it was a crime in that 
 age httle lefs than piacular. 
 
 Concerning this Fulk Bajfety I find that Hugo de Baljham Bifhop of 
 £/k, did grant an Indulgence to fuch as fhould before the Altar of St. 
 Chaddcy St. Nicholas^ and St. Ethelbert the King, pray for (amongft 
 others) the Soul of this Fulk Bajfet. For the health alfo of whofe Soul 
 did Sir Philip Bajfet of Hedington C. Oxfordy give his Mannor of Boyton 
 to the Dean and Chapter of this Church, to maintain Three Priefts 
 continually to officiate in the fame Chappels, allowing to each of thofe 
 Priefts 30. 1. annually, adding moreover 50. 1. of yearly rent iffuing out 
 of his lands in Fairjledy and Borham in the County of EJfeXy for the 
 keeping of the faid Fulk his Anniverfary. 
 
 Of how grand Antiquity the Family of Bajfets have been, I refer 
 the Reader to our own annals, and publick records of the Tower, they 
 deriving themfelves from that Memorable Perfon Ofmond de Bajfet, a 
 great Man in Normandy long before the ingrefs of the Conqueror, and 
 an ample Benefactor to the Abby of St. Ebrulf in Normandy ; the which 
 Ofmond defcended from the lUuftrious line of the old Francksy and 
 antient Britains. 
 
 Under that above faid infcription was fixed thefe two old Verfes.^ 
 
 PrudenSy & Fortis facet hac en I Epifcopus Area 
 Baffetis ortuSy cui parcas fumme Hierarcha. 
 
 Here lies a Bifhop ftout, and wife, whofe race 
 
 From Baffefs fprang ; Heaven fhield him with thy Grace. 
 
 In the North-fide of the Quire was a fmall Monument^ of a great 
 man, thus reprefenting him. 
 
 • Omitted by Dugdale aiid Stow. — Ed. 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
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 Here lieth Jo/in de Chijhul late Arch-deacon and Dean of St. Paul's, 
 and Bifhop of London, Treafurer of England, and twice Lord Keeper of 
 the great Seal. He was confecrated April the 29 1274, and dyed the 
 tenth of April, 1 279.^ 
 
 I find that this John de Chijhul had a Chauntry ordain'd for him, 
 confident of one Prieft, perpetually to fing Divine Service for him, at 
 the Altar of the Bleffed Virgin oppofite to the Door of the Chapter- 
 houfe. 
 
 Here was another fmall Memorial for William Bonham, thus repre- 
 fenting him. 
 
 Heic jacet Gulielmus Bonham, nuper Civis, & Vinetarius London, 
 Filius Thorns Bonham de Stanway in comitatu EJfexice armigeri, S>ui obiit 
 duodecimo Februarii Anno Domini MCCCCCC XXVIII, 
 
 Engli/ht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of William Bonham late Citizen, and Vintner of 
 London, who was the fon of Thomas Bonhafn of Stanway in the County 
 of EJex Efq. ; which William departed this life the 1 2th day of 
 February in the year of our Lord, 1628. 
 
 This 'Thomas Bonham Efq. ; (Father of the faid William) was the fon 
 of Thomas Bonham Efq. ; and Sheriff of the fame County in the Reign 
 of Henry the 8th. In which County this Family (as I am informed) is 
 ftill extant. And here have been men of his Name of good remark in 
 the Counties of Buckingham, Warwick, Wilts, and Hants, in which laft 
 County is there a Perfon of both Name and Sirname living in good 
 eftate and Paralel efteem, vide Mr. Thomas Bonham of Wejimean C. 
 Southampton Gentleman, who bears the fame Coat as was borne by thofe 
 antient Bonhams. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives February 1280. — Ed. i 
 
56 
 
 rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUL'S. 
 
 Which coat was borne by Thomas Bonham Sheriff of Wilts temp. 
 Richard the 2d. And Thomas Bonham Sheriff of Wilts temp. Hen. 4th. 
 Walter Bonham Sheriff of Wilts in the time of Edward the 4th. Thomas 
 Bonham Sheriff of Wilts in the time of Hen. 8th. and yohn Bonham 
 Sheriff of Wilts in the time of Edward the 6 th. 
 
 Not far from Bonham lay a fair grave Stone/ in Memory of that 
 learned Prelate Doctor Houfon Bifhop of Durhamy who was there buried. 
 
 Upon a Pillar near the Stairs of the Confiftory ftood a fmall Monu- 
 ment dedicated to the much Ingenious Mr. yohn Owen, the facetious 
 Epigrammatift of that age, whofe Epitaph thus fpeaks him. 
 
 lucundijjimce memorice Johannis Owen Cambro-Britanni, Poetce 
 
 celeberrimi. 
 
 Parva tibi Jiatua eji, quia parva Jiatura, fupellex 
 Parva, volat parvus magna per or a Liber: 
 
 Sed non parvus honos, non parva eji gloria, quippe 
 Ingenio haud quicquam eJi majus in orbe tuo. 
 
 Parva Domus texit, Templum fed grande ; Poetce 
 Tunc vere vitam, quiim moriuntur, agunt, 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Thy Corps, Tomb, goods are fmall ; but thy Book flies 
 Through the great world, though of the leffer fize. 
 Hence fame, and popular praife in Council fit. 
 To Crown the Merits of th' admired Wit. 
 Thou in fmall room, yet ample Church dofl lye, 
 Poets begin to Live, when firfl they Dye. 
 
 Of how great Antiquity the Family of the Owens have been in 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale.— Ed. 
 
 # 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 57 
 
 Wales and Shropjhire. I fhall fay more in my Great Hiftory of the 
 Tombes in London and Wejiminjier, where that great Luminary of the 
 Law Thomas Owen Efq ; Judge of the Common Pleas, lies Interred 
 under a Fair Monument of Alabafter Erected to his Memory, From 
 whofe Loynes are there defcended and at this day living feveral Perfons 
 of Honor, and Worfhip. 
 
 About the Body of this Cathedral lay a Fair Gravefton, thus 
 infcribed.i 
 
 D. GVLIELMO GRENE THE[OLOGIiE] ICO VIRO AC DOCTO, 
 
 PII H^REDES POSVERE ANNO [SALUTIS] QVA PIETATE 
 
 FVIT POTERA[NT] 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 Sacred to the Memory 
 Of Doctor William Grene, Doctor in Divinity 
 And Eminent for his Piety, and Great Learning 
 His Survivant forrowful Friends 
 Have placed this Marble in remembrance of Him. 
 
 In the fouth-lide of the Quire, flood a very Fair polifht Monument 
 of White Marble, reprefenting to the Life, the Perfon of that moft 
 Memorable Divine, Univerfally Learned, and Generally oblidging Doctor 
 yohn Donne appearing in his Winding-fheet, curioully carved out of 
 White Marble, whofe Epitaph made by Himfelf (as 'tis faid) thus 
 modeftly reprefents the Merits of that Incomparable Perfon, both the 
 Wonder and Envy of that Age. 
 
 lOHANNI DONNE 
 SAC: THEOL: PROFESS: 
 POST VARIA STVDIA, QVIBVS 
 AB ANNIS TENERIBVS FIDELL- 
 TER, NEC INFCELICITER INCVBIT, 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the brass, with inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
 8 
 
58 
 
 rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUUS. 
 
 INSTINCTV ET IMPVLSV SPIR: SCTI : 
 MONITV ET HORTATV REGIS lACOBI, 
 
 ORDINES SACROS AMPLEXVS. 
 ANNO SVI lESV j6j4 ET SVE ^TAT: 42. 
 DECANATVS HVIVS ECCLES : INDVTVS 
 2f NOVEMB : j62j. 
 EXVTVS MORTE VLTIMO DIE 
 MARTII A? j63j. 
 HIC lACET IN OCCIDVO CINERE 
 ASPICIT EVM 
 CVIVS NOMEN EST ORIENS. 
 
 Englifht thus 
 
 JOHN DONNE a Profeffor and Doctor of Divinity, 
 After feveral Studies from his Child-hood, 
 Which He purfued with no lefs induftry, than good Succefs, 
 By the inflinct and impulfive motion of the Holy Ghoft, 
 And by the Counfail, and Perfwafion of King yames. 
 Was in the year of grace 16 14 and of his Age 42. 
 Dignified with the Deanry of St. Pau/sy 
 The Seventh and twentieth of November, 1621. 
 And was at length devefted of that Dignity 
 The laft of March 1631. 
 Who though now Benighted, and fetting in the We/}, 
 Yet doth He ftedfaftly behold 
 The Sun of Righteoufhefs Glorioufly arifing out of the Ea^. 
 
 This Reverend Divine, and every way worthily accomplillit Gentle- 
 man, defcended by his paternal line, from a very good Family in Wales ; 
 and by his Mother, from the Famous Sir Thomas Moore, and the 
 Laborious Judge Rejial, thofe Two great Columns of Law, and 
 Learning. 
 
 He was, but when a tender fprout, Tranfplanted from Oxford to 
 Cambridge, where He Flourifht and took his Degree of Doctor. Before 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 S9 
 
 which Degree, He was firft Trained up in the Innes of Court, viz. the 
 Honorable Society of hincolri s-Inn. Whence he went with the old 
 Earl of ^[[ex to CaleSy Italy , and Spain ; whofe Language He attaining 
 to a Perfection, He returned home laden with ufeful Obfervations of 
 their Laws, Policies, and Governments. 
 
 He was for the Excellency of His Parts, Invited and admitted Chief 
 Secretary to the Lord Ellefmerey Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and 
 afterwards Lord Chancellor of England. But by the advice of King 
 Jamesy He apply ed himfelf to the Studies of Theology, and was confe- 
 quently admitted one of his Chaplains in Ordinary. Waiting on whom 
 in his Progrefs to Cambridge ^ He was by the Univerfal Suffrage, and 
 unanimous confent of the whole Univerfity, Created Doctor of Divinity; 
 And after his Return to England with the then Earl of Carlile (fent 
 AmbafTador from King "James to Germany, about feeling the Affairs of 
 Frederick the Palgrave, and his Lady Elizabeth) He was preferred to the 
 Deanary of St. Pauls, which He retained till the lafl day of his Death. 
 
 He Sickened at a Daughters Houfe of his in EJfex, neverthelefs, the 
 Firft Friday in Lent approaching. He was refolved to Preach before the 
 King, which he did on this Text, T<? GOD the Lord belong the IJfues of 
 Life and Death ; where many that faw his Tears and heard his hollow 
 voice, profef 'd they thought the Text Prophetically chozen, and that 
 Doctor DONNE had Preacht his own Funeral Sermon. 
 
 And indeed it was his defire, that if GOD fhould fo pleafe, that He 
 might Dye in the Pulpit, if not, yet that He might take his Death from the 
 Pulpit, that is, to dye the fooner by the fpending himfelf and Spirits in 
 the Pious difcharge of that Sacred Function. And it was rationally 
 believed GOD granted his Requefl, for after his faid fermon was over, 
 tie haflened to his Houfe, whence afterwards He never came forth till 
 he was carried in his Cofiin. 
 
 He lay fifteen days earneftly expecting his DifTolution, retaining his 
 Speech firm till the kit ; and ready to expire, as his Body melted away 
 and vapour'd into Spirit, his Soul having fome Revelation of the 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Beatifical Vifion ; He faid, I were miferable if I might not Dye ; and 
 after fome Periods of his fainting Breath, with thefe words, THY 
 KINGDOM COME, THT WILL BE DONE, rendred up his Soul to 
 Him that gave it. 
 
 He was buried in this Cathedral, attended with many Perfons of the 
 beft Quality in the ICingdom, to whofe Memory this Monument was 
 EKected by a Perfon of Great Honor, fome fmall time after. 
 
 Thofe that would know more of this moft Memorable Man, let 
 them read over his own Lucubrations, and next that Book of his Life, 
 accurately and Faithfully Written by the Pen of the Worthy Mr Ifaac 
 Walton. He Married Mrs. Anne Moor a Lady of good accomplifhments, 
 and Daughter of that Famous Sir GEORGE MOOR of Lofeley, in the 
 County of Surrey Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, and Chancellor of 
 the moft Honorable Order of the Garter. By which Lady he had 
 feveral Children. Of whom I may make farther mention in my great 
 Hiftory of the Tombs of London, where in St. Clements Danes Church 
 his Lady Lies In tombed. 
 
 In the fame Range flood a Fair Monument, Dedicated to the 
 Memory of that Famous Divine Alexander Nowell Dean of St. Pauls, 
 and a Worthy one too, as appears by this his enfuing Epitaph.^ 
 
 Alexandro Nowello, Lancaftrenfi, prifca Nowellorum gente oriundo, 
 Theologi^ Doctori, sdis S. Pauli Decano, ad exemplum hofpitali, 
 Rob, Nowelli cuius hie cum fuis mifcentur cineres, fratri & opum qujE 
 fibi iure Teftamentario cefTerunt, diribitori pientiffimo. Marianis tem- 
 porib. propter Chriflu exulanti : Reducum i. uere Religionis, contra 
 Anglo-papiftas duobus libris alTertori primas & vltimas Quadragefimalis 
 Concionis per annos XXX. P.M. continues ad S. Elizabetham fumma 
 libertate Prasconi Schole Midletonianas patrono : Collegii iEnei-nafi 
 Oxonij, ubi ab anno astatis 13 annos 13 fhuduit, 13 ftudiofis, et 200 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the tomb with inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
•THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUU^>. 
 
 6i 
 
 libris annuis opera & impenfis fuis ampliati-Prasfidi Schol^ PaulinsE 
 plurimorum Bonorum auctori : pietatis frequcntiffimis Concionib' & 
 triplici Catechifmo propagatori : qui publicu in fe utriufq ; AcademiEB 
 & Ecclefiarum exterarum teftimonium atq ; aternorum Principum 
 Edwardi 6 & Elizabeths iudicium procerumq ; prouocauit. Pauperum 
 (literatorum precipue) nutritori. Afflictorum morbis corporis vel animi 
 confolatori. Hoc Sepulchrum, ob munificentiam, & merita erga Remp. 
 et optimum ftatum Ecclefias fus ab eo peruigili adminiftrate redditum. 
 
 Exec. O.D.S.M. pofuit. 
 
 Under [Above] which was this piece of Scripture etc. 
 
 Quam fpeciofa veftigia 
 
 Euangelizantium pacem. 
 
 Exul quas amifit primzeuo flore Nowellus, 
 Foenore Centeno repperit aucta redux : 
 Dat Chrifbus, reddit danti longsevus honores, 
 Reddenti aeternos gratia dantis habet : 
 Prasco, Auctor, condus, Chrifto, colit, ampliat, ornat. 
 Voce Hbris, opibus, Sabbatha, Templa, Scholas ; 
 Dans, meditans, orans, Chrilli expirauit in ulnis; 
 Sic oritur, floret demoriturq ; Deo. 
 
 Sedit B. R. P. & Ecclesise P.M. 42 Nonagenarius, cum 
 Nec animi, nec corporis oculi caligarent. 
 Obijt Anno Dom. J60J. Feb. 13. 
 
 Engil/ht thus. 
 
 To the Memory of Alexander Nowell 
 Originally, and very antiently of Lancqfktre 
 And thence a defcendant from a goodly Family 
 He was Doctor of Divinity, and Dean of St. Pauls, 
 And a Perfon very Holpitable. 
 In imitation of this Brother Robert Nowel 
 
62 
 
 ruE roMBEs OF sr. pauls. 
 
 (Whofe Duft lies here mingled with His.) 
 He was a rnofl: Faithful difpenfer of that Inheritance 
 Which was left by his Friends. 
 In the Reign of Queen Mary 
 He voluntarily forfook his Country upon the account of Religion 
 Upon his return he was a ftrenuous 
 AfTertor of Protejiantifm 
 Againft the Power of the EngliJJi Papifts 
 And that, in two Volumes. 
 For the fpace of xxx years together 
 He was the firft and laft conftant Preacher of the Sermon in Lent 
 In his appointed courfe, before Queen Elizabeth ; 
 And that with all imaginable freedom and boldnefs. 
 He was the Patron of the Free School of Middleton. 
 To the CoUedge of Brazenofe in Oxford 
 (Where from his admiffion at the years of 1 3 he ftudied 1 3 years) 
 He gave 200 1. to 13 Students of that Colledge, 
 Of which himfelf was the liberal Principle. 
 He was the Author and procurer of many Benefits, 
 And did feveral good offices to St. Paul's- School, 
 And by the means of frequent Sermons 
 And a Three-fold Catechifm 
 He much propagated Piety, and Religion. 
 He did by his great merits not only invite, but provoke 
 All univerfaries at home and abroad, and forreign Churches 
 Together with the renowned K. Ed. 6th Q. Elizabeth and the Peerage 
 Unanimoufly to concur in his jufl acclamations. 
 He was a fuccoror, and reliever of all forts of men, 
 Efpecially the learned, whether fick in Soul or Body. 
 In remembrance of whofe munificence, and fuperabundant meedes 
 Together with his full and flowing Bounty 
 Towards the Republique, and florifhing ftate of the Church 
 
THE rOMBES OF sr. PAUUS. 63 
 
 (Much advanced in her Revenews by his vigilant adminiftration) 
 His Exequutors O. D. and S. M. 
 Have erected this Monument to his remembrance. 
 He died in the 90th year of his age Fe^. 13. 1601 being at great age 
 
 Neither dimm in his eyes, or intellectuals. 
 How beautiful are the ways of thofe who preach the Gofpel of Peace. 
 
 This Learned Dean bred up in Brazenofe CoUedge (of which the 
 worthily honored, learned and much obliging Doctor THOMAS 
 GATES is the prefent Principal) was much delighted with that 
 melancholly, but innocent recreation of Angling, and fometimes flood 
 pictured in that pofture in his Colledge of Brazenofe with his Lines 
 and Hooks about him. His Name and Family is of great Antiquity 
 in Lancalhire, who was a Branch of thofe Noells very Memorable in 
 the Reign of Henry the 2d, the Builders of that fair Monaftry of Ranton 
 near Ellen-hall, C. Staff. The prefent head of which highly honorable 
 and hugely antient Family is that innately and practically noble Peer, 
 and no lefs learned, than generoufly oblidger of Learned men, and 
 Faithful Royalifts, the Lord BAPTIST NOELL Vifcount Cambden, 
 Baron Noell of Ridlington and Almington, Lord Lieutenant of the 
 County, and Mafter of many worthy qualifications who bears that 
 right antient Coat of his Anceftors. 
 
 In this Church flood likewife the Memorial of the Famous, but 
 unfortunate Sir Symon Burley whofe Epitaph thus reprefents him.^ 
 
 Eicatno fecunDo aitJ intixai^ 
 Conalijs! Diem ofiijt 
 anno falutis 
 J^ic xtmzitit ^imon TBurlge 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the tomb with inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
64 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 IBanerettus, quinq; Portuum 
 Praefectu0, SDrninls <^mtn) 
 Smiles, $ iRicarno fecunno ConfiUarius; 
 longe cbariflimus. ConnutJio fitJi coniunctas 
 f)at)uit er ampUflimis famiUj0, nuajs t)rotc0} 
 alteram ^taffbrniae, alteram TBaronis tie Eoogi 
 fiUam: tjerum nifidlUmo iUo tempore, ctim 
 
 inter angUae proceres omnia i\xh inuene 
 Principe fimultantitius agitarentur, in tantu 
 non nullorum oDium incurrit, ut Parlamen* 
 taria autf)oritate capite plecteretur, ^xm 
 2Dom. 1388. poGeri autem, eanem 
 poflea autboritate, fut) iRege I&enrico 
 quarto funt reHituti. 
 
 %\ plura t)eli0, jFrofarnum ct 
 3ngliae ^iftoriam confulas. 
 
 Englifht thus. 
 Here lies the Body of Sir Symon Burley 
 Knight Banneret, and warden of the Cinqueports ; 
 Alfo Knight of the Garter, Juftice of South-Wales ; 
 Conftable of Wind/or y and Dover Cajiles. 
 Vice- Chamberlain to the Houfhold, 
 And Bofom-Counfellor to K. Rich, the Second 
 He had in Wedlock Two Wives 
 Both defcended from very noble Families, 
 The one from the Lordly race of the Staffords. 
 The other from the Lordly Family of Kods 
 
 But it fo hapned 
 In thofe moft difficult, and dangerous times 
 All things in the Realm (during the minority of the young King) 
 Being violently carried on by the potent 
 Feuds and factious combinations of the Nobility, 
 
fHE TOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 65 
 
 That he fo incur'd the hatred of the chief of them. 
 That he was by the Power of a then fitting ParHament 
 Beheaded in the year of our Lord 1388. 
 Neverthelefs by the Power of the fame Parliament 
 His Pofterity was reftored, and refetled in the Reign of Henry the Fourth. 
 Reader, if thou wouldeft receive a farther information 
 Confult Froifart, and our EngHfht Annals. 
 
 About the middle of this Church in the Northern Ille, ftood a 
 ftately Monument^ fuitable to the grandieur of the Perfon it reprefented, 
 which thus fpeaks him. 
 
 Under this fair Monument lieth Buried the Body of Sir JOHN 
 BEAUCHAMP Knight, Conftable of the Caftles of Dover, and London ; 
 Warden of the Cinqueports ; Son of Giiido de Beauchamp Earl of 
 Warwick and was there buried in the 34 year of King Edward the 3d. 
 [1360]. This famous Sir John, Son of great Guy Earl of Warwick, 
 was befides his Conftablefhip of Dover, and London, and Wardenfhip of 
 the Cinqueports, Admiral of England, Privy- Counfellor and Knight of 
 the Garter. 
 
 His Mother was Alice daughter of Ralph de Toney, Sifter and Heir 
 of Robert de Toney Baron of Flafnjiead. 
 
 The Monument of this Sir John Beauchamp hath formerly been 
 miftaken, and by the credulity of the Vulgar believed to be the Tomb 
 of Duke Humphrey that good Duke of Glocejier, in adoration of which 
 Duke, the Vulgar in old times ufed on St. Andrews day before Chrijimas 
 to flock, and prefent themfelves proftrately before this Monument and 
 have a feaft prepared for that purpofe, in which they ftyled themfelves 
 fcveral Officers appertaining to the faid Duke. 
 
 Moreover on May-day a certain rabble of Tankard-bearers, and 
 mean Mechanicks ufing to come early in the Morning fi:rewed Flowers, 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed. 
 
 9 
 
66 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 and fprinkled Water on the faid Monument, terming themfelves the 
 fervants to the faid Duke in feveral Offices ; till within our memory the 
 Bell-ringers, and Door-keepers have debar'd them of their Superftitious 
 addrelTes, telling them that if they would vifit Duke Humphries Tomb 
 they fhould go to St. Albans, where indeed he was Buried, whofe 
 Monument there, I my felf have obferved. 
 
 Farther, I find that Sir John de Beauchamp of Powick in the County 
 of Worcejler Knight, and Exequutor to this Famous Sir 'John de 
 Beauchamp, did by his deed demife and fettle lo Marks of yearly Rent 
 ilTuing out of his Lands, to the Dean and Canons, perpetually to main- 
 tain one Prieft to celebrate fervice for the Soul of the faid Sir John, at 
 the little Altar contiguous to his Tomb, and alfo Five pound annually 
 for his Anniverfary, to be kept on the Third of December. 
 
 Near to this Tomb was the Memorial for Sir Paganus Roet, whofe 
 Effigies was fairly Portray 'd in Brafs, at whofe Feet you might have 
 read this broken infcription. 
 
 Hie jacet Paganus Roet miles Guinne, Pex Armorum & Pater 
 Catherine Ducijp^ Lancaftriae, ^i ohiit temporibus Pegnantis Edvardi 
 Tertii. Cujus Animce propitietur altijjimus} 
 
 This is all could be pickt out of this broken Infcription, in Englijh 
 thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Sir Payne Poet of Guinne Knight, Principal 
 King at Armes, and Father of Catharine Dutchefs of Lancajier, who 
 Dyed in the time of King Edward the Third. On whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 This Sir Payne had Iffiie Catharine, Married Firft to Sir Oates 
 Swmford, afterwards to John of Gaunt Duke of Lane after ; from whofe 
 loynes defcended a numerous and Right Noble IlTue,* viz. Eight Kings, 
 Four Queens, and Five Princes of England ; Six Kings, and Three 
 
 ' Inscription omitted by Dugdale. Weever gives Hie iacet Paganus Rod miles Guyenne Rex Armorum Pater 
 Catherine Ditciffe Lancajlie . . . — Eu. 
 ^ Weever, p. 66 1. — Ed. 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUL'S. 
 
 67 
 
 Queens of Scotland; Two Cardinals, and above Twenty Dukes, and 
 almoft as many Dutchefles of the Realm of England^ with divers Dukes 
 of Scotland^ and almoft all the Antient Nobility of both Kingdoms. 
 
 His Second Daughter was Anne Roet, who was Married to Sir 
 Geoffrey Chaucer our famous Old Englijh Poet, by whom He had 
 that moft Beautiful Daughter AlicCy the lovely Countefs of the then 
 THOMAS MONTECUTE Earl of Saliflury, who as the Common 
 Story goes. Dancing at Wind/or Caftle with King Edward the Third. 
 Her Garter accidentally falling off, was catcht up and worn upon the 
 Arm of that Couragious King, which the Common opinion is, was 
 confequently the caufe of the Firft Inftitution of that Illuftrious Order. 
 But that truly Learned, Laborious, and general oblidging Gentleman 
 ELIAS ARMOLE [Afhmole] Efq; an Antient Barifter of the Laws 
 of the Middle Temple, long time ^/;2<^r-Herauld, and the prefent 
 Chief Controuler of His Majefties Office of Excife, hath in his 
 Laborious Lucubrations and Difquifitions relating to the Foundation 
 of that Royal Order fufficiently confuted his Fabulous and vulgar 
 opinion, deducing this Royal Inftitution from a far Nobler Original. 
 
 Thefe Two Ladies were the Daughters (as was faid) of this Sir 
 Payne, in Latin Paganus Roet; which Antient Chriftian Name, is by a 
 Catechrejis ftrangely abufed by fome conceited Sciolijisy whofe ignorance 
 indeed is to be rather pittyed, than pardoned, thus having, it feems 
 never Confulted that Common but moft Authentick Peece, called 
 Cambdens Remaines. Where, in his Explanation of Names, He truly 
 tells us that Paganus fignifies a Country Villager, derived from Pagus 
 a little Village, and Pagus deducing its Etemology, from ireyr] a 
 Fountainel, or little Well, or rivulet, about which little Springs, thofe 
 Villagers or Pagani ufing to build their Huts or little Habitations, doth 
 clearly evince, that the word Paganus derived from thofe little Springs 
 hath had it's firft Source, or Emanation. 
 
 Furthermore, I have been informed of an Honorable and very 
 Antient Family of the Pagani, ftill extant in Italy. And I have read in 
 
68 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Antient Records, of Paganus de Peverel^ Standard-bearer to Robert 
 Curthofe Duke of Normandyy in his Expedition into the Holy Land. 
 And Ukewife of Paganus, or Pain Fitz "John a Memorable Soldier, and 
 Privy Counfailor to King Henry the Firft. Likewife of Paganus de 
 Tiptoft Great Warden of the Caftles and Marfhes of Wales, flain at the 
 Battel of Striveling in Scotland, in the time of Edward the Second. 
 Likewife, of Paganus de Beauchamp, Heir and Kinfman to that Memo- 
 rable Milo de Be-auchamp, Younger Son of Hugo de Beauchamp, who 
 came into England with the Norman Conqueror. Likewife of Paganus 
 de Chaworth, who fucceeded Patrick de Chaworth a Baron of England, 
 in the time of the Conqueoror, and one of the Great Anceftors to 
 that Right Honorable and Right Noble Perfon, the prefent Vifcount 
 Chaworth now living. Likewife I have read of Paganus de Kemeys a 
 great Soldier, and General againft the Gothes, from which Family is 
 defcended that Honorable and Generoufly oblidging Gentleman, Sir 
 Charles Kemeys of Kevenmably in the County of Glamorgan, an Heredi- 
 tary Baronet of England, being Son of Sir Charles, and Grand-Child 
 of that highly Loyal and equally courageous Sir Nicholas Kemeys, whofe 
 near allies (among many others) Nicholas Kemeys Efq ; Juftice of the 
 Peace in the C. of Wexford, and the no lefs eminent for his Learning, 
 then obliging for his Candor Mr. David Kemeys (fometimes of Arundel 
 Houfe) are now living. And laftly, I have read of Paganus, or Payne 
 de Turbervile a Baron of an Antient ftanding. 
 
 In the midft of the old Quire near the place where the Old Pulpit 
 ftood, was an old monument with this appendant Infcription.^ 
 
 Hie requiefcit in Domino ROGERUS cognomento NIGER. 
 ^onda?n Canonicus hujus Ecclefice S. Pauli ; ac deinde in Londinenfem 
 Epifcopalium confecratus anno falutis MCCXXVIH. Vir in Liter aturd 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an enfjraving of the tomb. — Eu. 
 
rUE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 69 
 
 profundus y moribus honejius ; ac per ojnnia laudabilis Chrijiiance 'ReUgionis 
 Amatory ac defenfor Jirenuus. ^i, cum Pajiorale fuum oficium vigilanter 
 et jiudiofe rexijfet annis XIV. diem fuum clauft extremum apud Manerium 
 fuum de Stebenheth III. Cal. Octob. Anno; Chrifti MCCXLI Regnante 
 rege Henrico tertio. 
 
 Configit hiis diebuSy dum Epifcopus ifle ROGERUS in hdc Ecclefd 
 ante majus Altare ftaret infulatus ad celebrandum Divinay quod tanta in 
 acre facta eft nubium denfttasy ut vix alter alterum difcernere pojjit. 
 ^uam confeftim fequuta eft Tonitrui horribilis concuftioy cum tantd fulminis 
 corufcatione ac fcetore intolerabiliy ut omnes qui aderant rapide fugtenteSy 
 nihil verius quam mortem expect arent ; Solus Epifcopus cum uno Dtacono 
 remanfit intrepidus. Aere tandem purgatOy Epifcopus Reftduum Rei Divince 
 implevit. 
 
 Epitaphium fupra tumulum. 
 
 Ccclefiae Quonnam Pmeful praefentig, in anno 
 
 C.Quater ^mtt Ut W€><imu^ fjumatus: 
 ^nm erat manitiu0 Domino locus ifle Dicatus ; 
 Cijnfle im% precitius; tiemam Des, tollc reatus. 
 
 So that he dyed according to the Cronogrammical computation of thofe 
 Numerical Letters in the year of our Lord 1240. 
 
 The preceeding Memorial of this pious Prelate, is thus Englifht, 
 Here refteth in the Lord 
 ROGER Sir-named the BLACK 
 Sometimes one of the Canons of this Church of St. Pauly and con- 
 fequently advanced and Elected into the Biflioprick of London 1228. 
 He was a man deeply Learned, and of a fincerely Religious Life and 
 Converfation ; and above all, a cordial Lover and couragious defender 
 of the Chriftian Faith. Who v^hen he had executed his Paftoral 
 Function with all diligence and devotion, departed this Life, at his 
 Manor-houfe of Steben-heath (contractedly Stepney) the ift year of 
 K. Hen. 3d. It came to pafs that in thofe days whileft the faid Bifhop 
 
70 
 
 THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Roger ftood in his habit at the high Altar, and there officiating Divine 
 Service, that the Air on a fudden was fo confufedly Clouded, and over- 
 caft, that one man could hardly difcern another. The which darknes 
 was immediately attended with fuch a fulphurous ftench, that all the 
 People there ran head-long out of the Church, verily believing that 
 they were all dead men ; only the Bifhop and one Deacon remained 
 fteadfaft and unappal'd. And at laft the Air beginning to clear again 
 he fini£hed the reft of the Divine Service. 
 
 This Roger (faith a grave Author) for fanctity of Life, great Learn- 
 ing, and powerful Preaching was Canoniz'd according to thefe Rhyms 
 found in an old Manufcript. 
 
 Thus Roger hath a Room 
 
 In this our painted throng. 
 Who by his words, and powerful works 
 
 So taught the way to Heaven ; 
 As that great name was not to him 
 
 In vain, but juftly given. 
 
 This ROGER NIGER (faith Matthew Paris) was of an haughty 
 fpirit who ftoutly withftood the Pope's Nuntio coming into England to 
 gather Monies for his Mafter, and alfo excommunicated the Curjini 
 the popes Merchants, who were etymologically thence denominated 
 capientes TJrJiy Ravenous and Devouring Bears. 
 
 There was alfo a Memorial for Thomas de Eure, whofe Infcription 
 thus reprefents him.^ 
 
 ^ic infra lacet corpus ^mM Cftomae tie OBtire, iLegum Doctorig, 
 iftius ecclefiae W PauU. quonnam Decani, qui Die nono menfis SDctotirig, 
 anno nomini ^illefimo quauragenteftmo, et fui Decanatus anno Duo^ 
 Decimo Diem clauCit ertremum ; Cuius animae propitietur ^tm, amen. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the brass with inscription as given. — Eu. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 7^ 
 
 ^ EngliJJit thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Mr. Thomas Eure Doctor of the Civil Laws, 
 and Dean of this Church of St Pauls. Who departed this life on the 
 9th day of October in the year of our Lord 1400 and in the 12th year 
 of his Dean-fhip, on whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 I find that this Thomas de Eure had a Chauntry founded by his 
 Executors to celebrate Divine Service for him in the Chappel of St. 
 Thomas the Martyr for ever, and for the keeping his obiit there, 
 
 Alfo I find that this worthy Churchman by his Teftament, be- 
 queathed an Hundred Pounds for the Building of Houfes in Knight- 
 riders ftreet, to the end that the Revenew of them fhould be imploy'd 
 upon the reparation and beautifying St Erkenwalds Shrine, and for the 
 maintenance of lights burning about it on the 2 Feaft-days of the 
 faid Saint, and alfo for the fupport of a Chaplain celebrating for the 
 fraternity of that Blefi^ed Confefibr. 
 
 Of what great honor and Antiquity the Family of Eure hath been 
 I refer the Reader to antient Records. I have read of Hugh de Eure 
 Memorable in the Reign of Henry the third, and alfo of Ralph de Eure 
 in the Reign of Richard the fecond, who was then Conftable of the 
 Caftle of Tork, and Sheriff of that great County ; a truft in thofe tur- 
 bulent and ticklifh times impof'd only on perfons of the greateft place 
 and Power in their reipective Counties. And alfo I have read of Sir 
 William de Eure Knight, great Captain of the Town and Caftle of 
 Berwick, Warden of the Eaft Marches towards Scotland, and in the 
 Reign of Hen. the 8th. created a Baron of this Realm. And alfo of 
 Ralph Eure Conftable of Sc arbor ough-Q,2S(\jt and Commander in Chief of 
 K. Henry the 8ths Forces, for the guarding the Marches towards Scotland, 
 which he defended many years with great Honor and Reputation. 
 
 Of which right honorable and right Antient Family, I may fay 
 more in my great Hiftory of the Tombs of London, when I come to 
 fpeak of the penultimate Baron of that Name George Lord E'^er Buried 
 in Covent-Garden Church. 
 
72 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Near the midft of the Quire behind the High Altar was a fair 
 Monument erected to the Memory of Sir JOHN COLLET Knight, 
 and of his Son Sir FRANCIS WOLLET Knight, whofe Epitaphs thus 
 reprefent them.^ 
 
 Deo Optimo, maximo 
 JOHANNES WOLLEIUS 
 Eques auratus, Regince Eliz : a Secretioribus ConfiUis ; 
 Secretarius Lingua Latince ; 
 Cancel/arms ordinis Perifcelidis. 
 DoBrina Pietate, Fide^ Probitate^ Gravitate, 
 ClariJJimus. 
 Obiit Anno Domini MDLXXXXV. 
 
 EngliJJ:>t thus. 
 
 Sacred to the mod Merciful, and Mighty God, 
 Sir JOHN JVOLLET Knight, 
 Privy- Counfellor to Queen Elizabeth ; 
 Secretary of the Latin Tongue, 
 And Chancellor of the Garter, 
 A Perfon eminently confpicuous 
 For his Learning, Piety, Integrity, Goodnefs, and Gravity, 
 died in the year of our Lord 1595. 
 
 With this venerable Sir JOHN WOLLET, was likewife buried his 
 only Son Sir Francis Wolley Knight, buried in Anno one thoufand fix 
 Hundred and Eleven. The Bodies of both which were fince their 
 interment occafionly removed, and lie now betwixt St. Georges Chappel 
 and our Ladies Chappel, under a ftately Monument of marble with an 
 Epitaph, on them written in thefe Heroiques. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the tomb with inscription as given. — En, 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAULS. 
 
 73 
 
 WOLLEI clarum nomen, natufq ; Paterq ; 
 Ambo equites ; natus Fraticifcus Patre Johanne: 
 Clarus, ut Hceredetn virtutis, Amoris, Honoris 
 Praflaret, monumenta fibi hac, et utriq ; parenti 
 Confliiuit generis, qui nominis Unicus Hceres. 
 Tam citb, tarn claros eft defeciffe, dolendum. 
 Ille Pater, lumen literarum nobile, fydus 
 Oxonice, ex meritis Regince accitus ELIZ^, 
 Vt Qui a fecretis, cu7n fcriberet ille Latini. 
 Atq ; d confdiis quum confultaret in aula 
 Atq ; Perifcelidis qui Cancellarius effet ; 
 Tantum ille ingenio valuit, tantum inflar in illo. 
 
 Non miiihs omnimodA virttite Ilia Inclyta Mater 
 Nobilibus Patre fratre illuflriffima Moris ; 
 Clara dotni per fe ; fed Elizam afcivit Eliza, 
 Clarior ut fieret Wolleio ornata marito. 
 Quo, viduata, viro quo non prceclarior alter, 
 Nubat Egertono, repetat fed mortua primum. 
 
 Francifcus tandem, ac anivium citb utrumq ; fequutus 
 Hie jacst ante pedes Eques, illuftrifjlmus , illis, 
 Hac poni jujfit , feq ; &• tria nomina poni, 
 Sic vohttt, placuit fuperis pia, grata voluntas. 
 Difcite Mortales, memores fic effe paretitum ; 
 Difcite, qui legitis ; fu petit athera virtus. 
 
 The which Two laft lines give good advice, and upbraid the in- 
 gratitude of many niggards of our age, who although ample Poffeffions 
 have been devolved to them by their kind friends and Relations, yet 
 grudge to allow them a poor Graveftone to preferve their Memory to 
 Pofterity, who indeed very little deferve to be remembered themfelves. 
 Thefe Wolleys have been men very memorable in their Generation, fome 
 of which ftock are ftill living, of whom I fhall give the World a more 
 particular account, in my Great Hiftory of the Tombes and Monuments 
 of the Renowned City of London. 
 
 In the South-fide of the Quire, ftood an Old, but well-contrived 
 Monument, the Perfon to whom 'twas Dedicated, appearing in a well 
 polifht ftature, in the formalities of a Divine, with his Book in his 
 Right hand, whofe Infcription thus reprefents him.^ 
 
 ^ic fitus ell D : 3(0 : Coletus, \mx% ecctie £)ecan, Oeologujs 
 mfi0:nis qui ati eremplum %'] PauU temper egit gratuitum 
 (ZBuangelice Doctrmae pcaeconem, ac fpncerae Doctrinae perpetua 
 tJitae tpnceritate refpontiit. ^cbolam Paulina fuo fumptu folus et 
 inflituit, et annuo retiDitu Dotauit : tenuis ijonellifimum Cf)tilli 
 DotitJus co|)oneflauit ; praecipue fotJdetate mira, ac putiicitia : 
 nunc fruitur OHuangeUco Q^argarita, cuiu0 amore neglent 
 omnia, tJirit liij, aDminiflrauit xvj. a^; mcccccnr. 
 Q^otere muntio ut tiiuas Deo. -Mc^in- 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the tomb with inscription as above.— Ed. 
 
 lO 
 
74 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here refteth Doctor JOHN COLET 
 Dean of St. Paul's and a moft Memorable Divine, 
 Who according to the Bleffed example of St. Paul, 
 Was a Free and Conftant Preacher of the Golpel, 
 The ftrickt Difcipline of his Life 
 Regularly correfponding with the Integrity of his Doctrine, 
 He built St. Paulas School at his own proper Charges, 
 And worthily endowed it with an Annual ftipend. 
 He fupplied the neceffities of poor true hearted Chrillians, 
 
 With large and liberal allowances. 
 He was a Perfon of exceeding Sobriety and Temperance, 
 Who now enjoyes the Celeftial Jem above with his Saviour, 
 For whofe Sake, He renounced all things below. 
 He many Years together vigilantly Adminiftred, and Governed 
 The Affairs of this Church, 
 And Dyed in the Year of Grace, 15 19. 
 Whofe Motto was 
 Morere Mundoy &c. 
 Dye to the World, that Thou mayft live to GOD. 
 
 Then follows an Epitaph on Him, in Hexameter and Pentameter. 
 Written by the Learned and much Ingenious Mr. William Lilyy the 
 Firft Mafter of St. Paul's School, to whofe Memory, I and many now 
 living owe much obfervance, and due Relpect. 
 
 In memoriam venerabilis viri JOHANNIS COLETI, facrce Theo- 
 logice Doctoris, ad divum Paulum Decaniy et Schola ibidem Fundatoris ; 
 WILHELMI LILII, primi ejufdem Scholce Magijlri in gratitudinis 
 monumentum, ogdajiichon. 
 
 Inclita JOHANNES Londins gloria gentis. 
 Is tibi qui quondam^ Paule, Decanus erat ; 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 75 
 
 toties magno refonabat pectore Chrijiumy 
 Doctor et interpres fidus Evangelii. 
 
 ^ui mores hominum multum fermone diferto^ 
 Formabaty vitce fed probitate magis. 
 
 ^ique Scholam Jiruxit celebrem, cognonime yESU, 
 Hac dormit tectus membra Coletus humo. 
 
 Floruit fub Henrico 7. et Henrico octavo Regibus : 
 Obiit Anno Domini MDXIX. 
 Di/ce mori mundoy vivere difce DEO. 
 
 [alfo at the top of the tomb.] 
 
 10 : COLLET DECA : S'i PAV: 
 
 [and on two tablets.] 
 
 THE ^-GNNE OF HENRy 
 COLLETE KNYHTE TWY.9E 
 LORD MAIOR OF THE CYTs 
 TYE OF LONDON AND FREe 
 OF THE COMPANYE AND 
 MI^-TERYE OF THE MERCERY". 
 
 lOHN COLLETE DOCTor 
 OF DIVINITIE DEANE OF 
 PAWLED AND THE ONLY 
 FOWNDER OF PAWLED" ^-C-- 
 HOLE WHO DEPARTED this 
 LYEFFE, ANNO DOMINI j5j9 
 
 [and underneath.] 
 
 ^ 3[fluc cecitiit ffloria cami0 
 ^ ^orete munno ut Wm Deo 
 4» loue anD l^ue. 
 
 Lately upon taking up the Body of this reverend good Churchman 
 I had the favor to fee his Coffin, and the Plate of Lead Nailed thereto, 
 about the breadth of a large fquare Trenchar, on which I found this 
 Infcription in Fair Capitals. 
 
 JOHANNES COLETTUS HENRICI COLETTI 
 iterum Prcetoris Londini, Filius & Hujus Templi Decanus magno totius 
 populi dolore & marore ( Cui ob vitce integritatem, & Divinum Concionandi 
 MunuSy omnium fui 'Temporis fuit Chariffimus J decefjit Anno Chrifti 
 
76 
 
 ruE roMBEs OF sr. pauls. 
 
 Nato MDXIX. & Inclyti Regis Octavi XI, Menfe Septembris XVI. 
 Is in hot Ccemiterio Scholam condidit, Magijiris perpetua Jiipendia contuUty 
 & omnium Bonorum pofiyfe Dpfiderium reliquit. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 JOHN COLETT (the Son of Sir HENRT COLETT Knight, 
 and twice Lord Mayor of London) Dean of this Church, to the great 
 grief and lofs of all men. To whom, He was much acceptable and 
 delightful for his Eloquent and powerful Preaching, and for the Integrity 
 of his fincere Life and Converfation. He departed this Life, in an 
 afTurance of a better, in the Year of Grace 1 5 1 9, in the Eleventh Year of 
 the Renowned King Henry the Eighth, on the Sixteenth day of the 
 Month of September. 
 
 The Dean built a Fair Free-School in the Church-Yard on the 
 Eaft-End of this Church, and endowed it with an annual ftipend for the 
 fucceffive Mafters thereof for ever, and left the World, being equally 
 beloved and lamented of all that knew him. 
 
 His Leaden Coffin lately taken up, was Six Feet Two Inches long, 
 Three Feet Two Inches broad. The Armes found in the Stone work 
 were thus Emblazoned. He bore Sables on a Cheveron Argent^ Three 
 Annulets of the Firft, between as many Hindes Trippant of the Second. 
 Which Coat is at this day borne by the immediate and Lineal Defcend- 
 ants from Sir Henry Colet Knight. Twice Lord Mayor of London, viz. 
 bv Thomas Colet of Middle/ex Efq; and one of His Majefties Juftices of 
 the Peace, and alfo by his Son John Colet of the Middle Temple Efq ; 
 Counfailer of Law, and a Worthy Member thereof. Of which Wor- 
 fhipful Family I fhall fay more in my Great Hiftory of the Tombes and 
 Monuments of the Renowned City of London, and the circumjacent 
 Parts thereof, when I come to fpeak of the above mentioned Sir Henry 
 Colet Knight, Buried under a Fair Monument, in the North fide of the 
 Chancel of Stepney Church. 
 
 Of this Famous Free School of St. Pauls (Built by this Right 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUL'S. 
 
 11 
 
 Worthy Dean Colei) there have been many Memorable Mafters, and 
 fome in my Remembrance, viz. the Learned Mr. Alexander Gilly Mr. 
 Langley, Mr. Crumbleholme y with the Learned and much obHging 
 Dr. Gaky long fince Mafter of Arts in trinity Colledge in Cambridge y the 
 Incumbent Mafter of this Famous Free School, of greater Antiquity, 
 though lefs Incomb, than that of Wejiminjiery of which he was fometimes 
 a Kings Scholar. 
 
 In the South-Ifle5^towards the upper end of the Quire lay a Fair 
 Grave-ftone of Blew Marble, thus Infcribed.^ 
 
 Here lies the Body of John Acton, Heir-male of the Antient Family 
 of the Actons y of Acton Hall in the County of IVorceJier Efq : and Gold 
 Smith to our late Sovereign of BlefTed Memory King JameSy and alfo 
 to our Sovereign Lord King Charles. He departed this Mortal life on 
 Munday the Thirtieth of Auguji 1630. To whofe memory this is 
 Dedicated, by his Beloved Wife Blandina Acton, who yet furviveth. 
 Of this fpreading Name, and Diffufive Family there are feveral worthy 
 Perfons at this day Living in feveral Counties, of whom I fhall fpeak 
 more particularly in my large Hiftory of the Tombes and Monuments of 
 London, and the circumjacent parts of that Renowned City. 
 
 In the fame Ifle on an old worne Grave-ftone, was this Infcription 
 
 2Df pour cfjaritpe praj)e for tfje ^oule of Cfjomas! 
 Dfeeforo, fometpme taicar of tW Cfturcfje, t&e tol)icb 
 DeceafeD i^z xiiij'."^ tiap of augufl tfje geatc of our lorD 
 Mcccccviij on toDofe foule lefus \mt mercp, amen. 
 
 Of his Name, I know none in England, only a Village of that Name 
 called Ockford-Fitzpane in the County of Dorfet, which Parfonage (with 
 
 ' See p. 166 for inscription as given by Dugdale. — Ed. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of this brass with inscription as given. 
 
 —Ed. 
 
78 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Fourteen or Fifteen more) is in the Gift and Donation of the Worthily 
 Honored and Highly every where efteemed for his difcreet aeconomick 
 Conduct, oblidging Candor, and public hofpitality THOMAS FREKE 
 of Shronoton c. freed. Efq ; (Grand- Child of that moft Memorable 
 and publick Spirited Patriot of the Weft, the moft Famous late Sir 
 THOMAS FREKE Knight) long fince High Sheriff of His County, 
 Juftice of the Peace, and one of the Deputy Lieutenants thereof. 
 A Perfon fo popular and well-beloved that He hath been long fince 
 ftrongly Counted and importun'd, to accept of his moft memorable 
 faid Grand- Fathers Dignity, of Knight of the Shire for the Honorable 
 Court of Parliament, but hath ever modeftly refufed it, till the year 
 1679, being generally defirous, rather to oblidge others than to be 
 oblidged to any. 
 
 This Parfonage of Ockfordy was lately enjoy'd by that Learned and 
 truly worthy Gentleman, my ^ondam Tutor, the Reverend Mr. JOHN 
 DENNET, B.D,, and was lately in the Pofteffion of the Reverend and 
 Right well deferving Mr. THOMAS RTFE, B.D. Brother to the 
 Worthily Honored GEORGE RTFE of Rand/on Efq; and a flouriftiing 
 Branch of that fairly fpreading, and diffufive Family of the -Ryves Com. 
 prasdicto. And the faid Parfonage fince his Death was lately moft 
 worthily confer'd on that Eminently Learned and much oblidging 
 Gentleman Doctor William Frampton the moft deferved Dean of 
 Glocejiery and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, and a Branch of tlTat 
 Right Antient Family of the Frampfons^ com. Dorf of which, William 
 Frampton Efq ; and fometimes Sheriff thereof, is Chief. 
 
 In this Church lay another fmall Marble, thus Infcribed. 
 
 l^ic lacet ting WiiWm JRptf)pn quonnam iRector ecclie fete jFitiis 
 mmoc Canonicu0 et €lemofinanu0 eccUe fcti Pauli lonDo qui 
 otiijt xx?^ Die apriUs, anno Dni mcccc° cuius aie ppitier Deus, ame. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the brass v^fith inscription as given. In the engraving the day and month are 
 given as xx April, and in the letterpress as xix April. — Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 79 
 
 Englifht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of William Ryfheriy fometimes Rector of St. 
 Faith's and one of the petty Canons, and Almoner of St. Paul's ; who 
 dyed the Twentieth day of April. Anno Dom. 1400. 
 
 There is a very Antient Family of this Name in the North of 
 Englandy of which I may Ipeak more, when I come to Ipeak of George 
 Rythen Efq ; Buried under a Mural Monument in St. Martins Church 
 of the Fields, 
 
 In the Quire of this Church, lay a flat Marble curioufly adorned 
 with Sculptures, on which you have this Infcription.^ 
 
 HIC lACET VALENTINVS CAREY SACR^ THEOLOGI^ 
 DOCTOR OLIM DECANVS HVIVS ECCLESItE; QVI OBIIT 
 EPUS EXON: CVIVS MONVMENTVM IBIDEM ERECTVM 
 PATET, j626. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Valentine Carey Doctor of Divinity, and fome- 
 times Dean of this Church of St. Paul's^ who dyed Bifhop of Exeter, 
 whofe Monument ftands there. Erected Anno Dom. 1626. 
 
 This Valentine Carey defcended from an Honorable Family, (and 
 bearing the Antient Coat thereof, viz. Argent on a Bend Sable, Three 
 Rofes of the Firft) was fometimes Mafter of Chrijis CoUedge in Cam- 
 bridge, and there (amongft other Honorable Perfons) was Tutor to the 
 Right Honorable, and much accomplift "John the penultimate Earl of 
 Clare, and his Brother the Right Honorable, Eminently Learned, and 
 no lels confpicuous for his Prudence, Fortitude, and Noble Conduct, in 
 the difcreet management of his magnificent Embafies, both in France, 
 and the Netherlands, DENZIL, Lord HOLMES, Baron of Ifeild ; cujios 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the stone with inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
8o 
 
 rUE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Rotu/orum, for the County of DorJ^f, one of the Lords of His Majefties 
 Privy Council, and High Steward of the Queens Revenues ; a Peer 
 Generally oblidging, and equally loving, and beloved of thofe w^ho have 
 the Honor of his kind acquaintance. 
 
 In the fame Ifle another Graveftone, whofe Brafs work was curioufly 
 Engraven, and thus Infcribed.^ 
 
 \^ic imt putritium corpus Q^agiflri 3loanm0 Bctocourt, Dccretorum 
 Doctons, num Dint Decani €cclefiae CoUcgiatae De aukelauD, tt 
 Canonic! f)um OBcclefiae; qui obijt xxiij^? tJie ^eptemtjus anno 
 Domini mcccclxxxv cuius animae propicietur altiflimus, amen. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Corrupted Corps of Mafter yohn Newcourt Doctor, 
 and Mafter of the fentences and lometimes Dean of the Collegiate 
 Church of Auckland, and one of the Canons of this Church of St. Pauls ; 
 who died the 23 of September in the year of our Lord God one thoufand 
 four hundred fourfcore and five. On whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 On another fair Marble, was there a fair piece of Brafs, on which 
 was fairly portraid the Effigies of the Perfon reprefented ; on each fide 
 of whom flood a Dove, out of whofe mouth proceeded this fhort prayer, 
 IRefpiCe, et miferere, at the bottom at whofe feet was fixed this 
 Infcription.^ 
 
 ©rate p. aia ^agri iRicartii JLicbfilD, nuper Canonici EefiDenciarii 
 Ccclefiae Catbeoralis ^ll PauU lonDon legum Doctoris et arcbniaconi 
 ^iDD: et IBatbonie qui otiijt xxvij Die menfis jFetiruari), anno Dni ^iUimo 
 cccc? nonagefimo ferto: cuius aie ppitietur Deus, amen. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the brass with inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 8i 
 
 EngHJht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Richard Litchfield, late Canon Refidentiary of 
 St. Pauls London, Doctor of the Civil Laws, Arch-deacon of Middlefex 
 and Bathe, who died the xxvii day of February in the year of our Lord 
 1496. On whofe Soul, ^c. 
 
 It hath been doubtfully dilputed, and never yet fully decided by fbme 
 Antiquaries, whither the Town of Litchfield in the County of Stafford 
 was firft denominated from this Mans Family, or his Name & Family fo 
 firft denominated from that Town, both being of long continuance, and 
 rivals in Antiquity. 
 
 In the North Ifle of the new Work in St. George his Chappel was 
 the Memorial of one Boys, thus infcribed. 
 
 ©rate pro animatjug 3[ot)anni0 nc 150^0 in comitatu (ZBlTeriae armigeri ; 
 ^ pro animatjus Jl3icolai Eife&iU armigerij $ Dommae 3llatiellae 
 Quonoam uroris eorum 5 Ciuae Jfafiella obut xxviij juUj, anno Domini 
 MccccxLiii. Ciuorum animatJUg, propitietur aitiflimusf, 
 
 EngHJht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Souls of John Boys of the County of Effex Efq ; and for 
 the Souls of Nicholas Rickdel Efq ; and for Ifabell their Wife. Which 
 Ifabell died on the 28 of July a.d. 1443. On whofe Souls. 
 
 On a Pillar on the South-fide of our Ladies Chappel, flood a fmall 
 but well-contrived Monument, thus infcribed. 
 
 DEO Optimo Maximo Sacrum, 
 Memories viri Daws nobilifiimi, 
 PETRI GILDENSTIERN Domini de Bifirup ; 
 ^i Italia, Galliis, Britannia Germania fceliciter, perlufiratis, 
 Madridi in Hifpania dum peregrinatur, 
 
 1 1 
 
82 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 In cakjiem Patriam emigravity 
 
 Anno Dom. MDCXXXVI. 
 Funus in Daniam deducendum ; 
 heic requiem invenit. 
 Virtuti pretium 
 Statuentes Hceredes, Hoc memoria pofuerunt, 
 
 Engliji thus. 
 
 Sacred to the moft Merciful and Moft Omnipotent God, 
 
 And to the Memory 
 Of a Perfon very eminent amongft the Danijh Nobility ; 
 Peter Gildenjiiern Baron of Bijirup. 
 Who after he had travelled through Italy^ France^ and Britain 
 With good Improvement 
 And intending to Travel to Madrid in Spain, 
 Here ftopt, and finifht his courfe. 
 In the year of our Lord 1636. 
 His Funerals being to be folemnized in Denmark^ 
 His Body doth here acquiefce, under this Monument 
 
 Which his Exequutors have erected 
 As a Guerdon due to his exemplar worth, and vertues. 
 
 In the North Ifle w^as an other fair Marble, thus Infcribed. 
 
 Johannes Tomkinus Mujicce Baccalaureus Organijla fui temporis 
 celeberrimus ; pojiquam capellcs regali per Annos duodecem^ huic autem 
 Ecclejia per Novemdecem fedulo inferviijjety ad ccelejiem chorum migrauity 
 Septembris XXVII. Anno Domini 1638. /Etatis fua 52. cujus 
 dejiderium moerens uxor hoc tejiatur Marmore. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 yoh?i Tomkyns Batchelor of Mufick, and the moft Famous Organiil: 
 of his time ; after he had ferved his Soveraign in his Chappel Royal the 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAULS 
 
 83 
 
 term of 12 years, and ferved his generation in this Church the term of 
 1 9 years, was fummoned and tranflated to the coeleftial quire of Angels 
 the 27 of September, in the year of our Lord God 1638, and in the 52 
 year of his age. 
 
 Whofe dear lofe and abfence his bewailing Wife doth witnefs in this 
 Marble erected to his Memory. 
 
 The which I'omkyns appears to be a Branch of that florifhing 
 Family of thofe of Monington in the County of Hereford, of which 
 pleafant feat that worthily honor'd and obliging Gentleman TJFEDALE 
 TOMKINS of Monington Efq ; is the full and free proprietor. The 
 which TJdale or Vvedale Tomkyns, is the eldeft Son and heir of the late 
 Sir Thomas Tomkyns of Monington Knight, and a Member of the Houfe 
 of Commons, by his laft Wife the fometimes moft accomplifht, both by 
 the beautiful embellilhments of mind and body the Lady Lucie Uvedale, 
 one of the Daughters and coheirs of that honorable and moll antiently 
 defcended Knight, the late Sir William Uvedale of Wickham in the 
 County of Southampton Knight, and Mother of the worthily Honor'd, 
 Learned, and much obHging the prefent THOMAS NEALE of 
 Warmford in the County of Southampton Efq ; and one of the Deputy 
 Lieutenants thereof ; a Member of the Honorable Houfe of Commons, 
 and Grome-Porter, and Groom of the Bed-chamber to the Sacred 
 Majefty of King Charles the Second. This Lady Lucie was likewife 
 Mother to the faid prefent right worthy Gentleman WED ALE 
 TOMKTNS of Monington Efq ; who having fometimes fince married 
 the much accomplifht Mrs. Mary Capel of Capel-hall in the County of 
 Hereford, (the Elder Houfe of the Capels in England,) is in a fair pro- 
 bability of lengthning and ftrengthning the worthy Name, and Family 
 of the Tomkyns in the aforefaid County. 
 
 Of which Name I (hall fay more in my great Hiftory of the Tombs 
 and Monuments of London and Wejiminfter, when I come there to fpeak 
 of fames Tomkyns Efq ; buried under the fair Monument in St, 
 Margarets Wejiminjier. ^ 
 
84 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 In the North ifle of this Church ftood a fmall, but well contrived 
 Monument, thus infcribed.^ 
 
 NEERE VNTO THI^ PLACE 
 LYETH BURIED THE BODY 
 OF THAT WORTHY AND 
 LEARNED GENT 
 5IMON BA^KERVILE 
 KNIGHT AND D. IN 
 PHmCK; 
 WHO DEPARTED THI^S LIfe 
 THE 3 DAY OF JVLY j64j, 
 AGED 68 YEAR^. 
 
 ''This worthy Gentleman was defcended from that antient and 
 honorable Family of the Bajkervils in the C. of Hereford ; to which 
 Noble Family he was no fmall Ornament, He being publickly reputed 
 an excellent Humanift, profound Philofopher dexterous and practical 
 Phyfitian. He was educated in Exeter Colledge Oxford, where he laid 
 his firft and firmeft Foundation in the knowledge of Arts, and became 
 fo eminent for his excellent parts, and quicknefs in arguing, that at the 
 firft coming of King fames to vifit that Famous Univerfity, he was 
 chofen as the fitteft perfon to difpute before him in the Philofophy Act, 
 which he performed with great applaufe. He was afterwards Proctor 
 of that Univerlity, and afterwards applied himfelf to the practice of 
 Phyfick according to that known Method of ubi defnit Philofophus, 
 ibi incipit Medicus. In which Faculty he commenced Doctor, and was 
 worthily Knighted by the late King Charles the firft of BlelTed Memory. 
 
 Of his worthy Name and Family I may fpeak more when I come to 
 take cognizance of a Perfon intomb'd in Mercers Chappel London Where 
 I find Humphrey Bafkervile Sheriff and Alderman of London interred. 
 
 ' Dugtlalc gives an engraving of the tablet with inscription as given. — Ed. ^ Copied from Dugdale.— Ed. 
 
rHE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 85 
 
 Near King Ethelred's tomb flood the Memorial of Fulk LmeQ but 
 fo fhattered that nothing was fcarce legible, or at leaft intelligible. 
 
 Heic jacet Magijier Fulco Lovel, quondam Archidiaconus Colceftria 
 Vos qui tranfitisy pro me rogitare velitis. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Mr. Folk Louel Archdeacon of Colchejiery who 
 florifht in the Reign of King Henry the 3rd. 
 
 You that pafi this way 
 Entreat for me I pray. 
 
 In the North-fide of this Cathedral flood a very flately Monument 
 of Marble, and Alabafler, dedicated to the Memory of that renowned 
 Hero of his time William Earl of Pembrook, whofe enfuing Epitaph, thus 
 reprefents him. 
 
 Ferpetuce Fietati Sacrum. 
 Gulielmo Herberto Fembrochice Comitiy 
 Equiti auratOy prcenobilis ordinis Anglici, 
 
 Henrico Octavo a cubiculis : 
 Eduardo Sexto Regi equitum Magijlro ; 
 Wallise Frajidi: Humultu accident ali 
 Cum Fuffelloy et Grayo Baronibus paribus aufpiciis. 
 Summed Rerum Frcepojito : 
 Mari£e Regina, 
 Contra perduelles, ac Expeditione ad Auguflam 
 Veromanduorum, Bis totius Exercitus Duci : 
 Bis Summo in Agra Caletum Limitum Praefecto : 
 Elizabethae Regince 
 Officiorum feu Magno Regio Magijiro. 
 
 ' Stow and Weever give : — 
 " An inscription in the wall 
 
 Hie jacet Magifter Fulco Lovell, quondam Archidiaconus Colcejlrie. Floruit fub Henrico 3 Rege."— Ed. 
 
86 
 
 rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUL'S. 
 
 Parker et Domince Anns, 
 Ex vetujio Parrorum Gente oriundcey 
 Sorori Catharinas Regince (Henrico octavo Regi Sexto matrimonio conjuncta) 
 
 ac Marchionis Northamptonii, 
 FrudentiJJimce Fc^mincey Pietatis Religionism 
 Probitatisy omnijq ; avitce virtutis 
 RetentiJJimce Jidis Comitisy 
 Conjugi Secundi fuperjiitey 
 Georgo Salopice Comitie ; 
 Injigniy prater antiquum nobilitatis decusy genita, virtute fcemind ; 
 
 Henrico Pembrochias Comite. 
 Liberis relictis ex prima \ Edvardo Equite aurato. 
 
 Domina Anna, Baroni Talbot nupta. 
 
 Obiit { f'f' I An. i ^3 
 ( Salutis ) ( J509- 
 
 Henr. F. ac Comes P P. Charifs. ac fuis P. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 Sacred to everlafting Piety 
 And to the Memory of WILLIAM HERBERT 
 Earl of Pembroke Knight, 
 And ICnight of the moft Noble Order of the Garter, 
 Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King Henry the Eighth 
 Mafter of the Horfe to King Edward the Sixth, 
 Lord Prelident of Wales ; 
 And for the Pacification of thofe Uproars in the Weft, 
 Joynt-Commiflioner and Commander in Chief 
 With the Lord Rujfely and the Lord Grey. 
 
 In the Reign of ^een Maryy 
 In that Noble Expedition to St ^intan. 
 Twice Commander in Chief, 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 87 
 
 Twice Governor of the Garrizon of C alike, and the Marches thereof; 
 Great Mafter of the Houfhold to Queen ELIZABETH, 
 
 And Hujband to the Lady ANNE 
 (A Defcendant from that moft Antient Family of PARRS 
 Sister to Queen Catherine, Henry the Eighth's Sixth Wife; 
 And Sifter to the then Marquis of Northampton) 
 Which Lady indeed was a very difcreet Woman, 
 Richly Embellifht with all the Beautiful perfections 
 Of Piety, Religion, and Integrity. 
 And withall, a moft perfect Retainer of her Illuftrious Anceftors 
 Hereditary, and Heroick Vertues. 
 His Second Wife, Surviving him. 
 Was the Daughter of George Earl of Shrewjbury, 
 Who in truth was a Lady, 
 (Befides her moft Noble, and very Antient Extraction) 
 
 Every way Eminently confpicuous. 
 The Children which He had by his Firft Lady, were 
 Henry, his Son and Heir, Earl of Pembrook, 
 Sir Edward Herbert Knight. 
 With the Lady Anne married to the Lord Talbot 
 Henry his faid Son, and Earl of Pembroke, 
 Erected this Monument for Himfelf, and Dear Parents. 
 He Dyed in Anno 63. the Clymacterique year of his Age 
 And of our Lord, 1569. 
 
 The which memorable William Herbert Earl of Pembrook, lineally 
 Defcended from that Famous HENRY FITZHERBERT of great 
 Antiquity, both in France and England, and Chamberlan of the Houfe- 
 hold to King Henry the Firft. 
 
 This William Earl of Pembroke was Lord Herbert of Cardiff ; of the 
 Privy-Chamber to King Henry the Eighth, Great Steward of His Royal 
 Houftiold; Privy Counfailor, and Knight of the Garter, and one of 
 
88 
 
 THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 King Henry the Eighth's Exequutors. He was alfo Mafter of the 
 Horfe to King Edward the Sixth, twice General of his Forces then fent 
 into Picardy ; Privy Counfailor, Lord Prefident of Wales, twice Governor 
 of Calice, and the Marches thereof, and Created Lord Herbert of 
 Cardiffey and Earl of Pembroke. 
 
 He was in the Reign of Queen Mary made General of the Army 
 then raifed for the fuppreffion of Wyat, and Captain General of the 
 Forces at the Siege of St ^intans, and alfo Privy Counfailor to Queen 
 Elizabeth, and Great Mafter of her Houfhold, who dying at Hampton- 
 Court in his Clymacterick year was conveyed to London, and magni- 
 ficently Buried in the North-fide of this Cathedral. 
 
 To whom fucceeded his Son and Heir, Henry Earl of Pembrook, one 
 of the Peers upon the Tryal of the Duke of Norfolk, and alfo upon the 
 Tryal of the Queen of Scots. He was alfo Prefident of the Council in 
 the Marches of Wales, and Privy-Counfailor to Queen Elizabeth, who 
 dying at Wilton in the Forty Third year of her Reign, was Buried 
 among his Noble Anceftors in the Cathedral of Sarijbury. 
 
 To whom fucceeded that memorable, and much magnificent Peer, 
 William Earl of Pembrooke, Lord Herbert of Cardiff, Roffe, Kendal, 
 Parre, Marmion, St ^intan, and St Hugh, Chancellor of the Famous 
 Univerfity of Oxford, Governor of Portefmouth, Joynt Commifiioner with 
 Thomas the Great Earl of Arundel, for the making fuch Perfons Knights 
 of the Bath ; as King CharHes the Firft fhould admit to that Dignity at 
 his Coronation. He was alfo Warden of the Stanneries, and Great 
 Juftice in Eyre, of all His Majefties Forrefts, Chaces, and Parkes South 
 of 'Trent, and was alfo Chamberlain to his Houfhold, Privy Counfailor, 
 and one of the Knights of the Garter, ^c. who dying at his Houfe of 
 Baynards Caftle (where He lived in the Quality and Pomp of a Prince) 
 in the Thirtieth year of his Age, and in the year of our Lord 1630. 
 He was thence conveyed to his own County, and Buried amongft his 
 Noble Anceftors in the Cathedral of Sarum. 
 
 To whom (for default of Male Ifiiie) fucceeded his Brother, the 
 
THE rOMBES OF Sf. PAULS. 
 
 89 
 
 Right Honorable and innately Noble Sir Philip Herbert Knight of the 
 Bath, Earl of Pembroke^ and Earl of Montgomery., Baron of Sheirland in 
 the Ille of Shipway, Lord Herbert of Cardiffe, Rojfe, Kendal, Parre, 
 Marmion, St ^intan, Shurland, and St Fitz Hugh, Chamberlain of his 
 late Majefties Houfhold, Chancellor of the Univerfity of Oxford, one 
 of the Lords of His late Majefties Privy- Council, and Knight of the 
 Garter. Which Philip with his faid Elder Brother William, having 
 both of them in their times been the publick Patrons, and encouragers 
 of Learning and Learned Men, will live longer in their publick Dedi- 
 cations and Infcriptions of many Learned pieces fubmitted to their 
 Patronage, than in thofe Noble Monuments their Pious fucceffors have, 
 or may Erect to their Memories. This Earl Philip dying in the year 
 of our Lord 1649. was Buried amongft his Noble Anceftors, in the 
 Cathedral of Sarum. 
 
 To whom fucceeded his Son and Heir, the Right Honorable, and 
 innately Noble, the late Philip Earl of Pembroke, and Earl of Mont- 
 gomery, Baron Herbert of Cardiffe, Rojfe, Kendal, Parre, Marmion, St. 
 ^intam, Shurland, and St. Fitz Hugh, who by his Lady Penelope (fole 
 Daughter and Heir to Sir Robert Naunton Knight, Mafher of the Courts 
 of Wards and Liveries) Widow of Paul Bayning Vifcount Sudbury, had 
 one Son William, who fucceeded to his Fathers Hereditary Honors, but 
 He dying in the year 1674. all his Hereditary Titles duely Defcended 
 to his Brother Philip, Second Son of the late Philip Earl of Pembroke 
 and Montgomery, &c. By his Second Wife the Vertuous and Worthily 
 well accomplifht Lady, Catherine Daughter of that Honorable and very 
 Antiently Defcended Gentleman Sir William Villiers of Broke/by in the 
 County of Leicejier Baronet. The which Philip prefent Earl of Pembroke 
 and Montgomery &c. continues the Hereditary Titles, Coat, and Courage 
 of his Heroic Anceftors, mz. He bears parted per pale azure, and 
 Gules, Three Lyons Rampant Argent, and is in Succeflion, the Ninth 
 Earl of Pembroke, by the Noble and Renouned Name of Herbert. 
 
 From the Second Son of the Earl William Earl of Pembroke, Intombed 
 
 12 
 
go 
 
 THE TOMBES OF ST. PJUL'S. 
 
 in this Cathedral, lineally Defcended the Right Honorable JVilliam Lord 
 Herbert, Baron of Powis, Father of the Right Honorable William Lord 
 and Earl of Powis, of which Nobly diffufive Families, I may fay more 
 when I come to the Churches of Hendon, in the County of Middle/ex, 
 and of St Giles in the Fields, com. prced. where Two Honorable 
 Branches of this moft Noble Family of the Herberts lye interred. 
 
 In the Weft End of this Church, and there in our Ladies Chappel, 
 was a Fair memorial thus Infcribed/ 
 
 Orate pro Anifna Radulphi de Baldock, ^i Decanus inferdum fuit 
 hiijus Ecclejia & ejufdem Epifcopus, ^li jioruit temporibus Edvardi Secundi 
 ^i Rex ilium Pegni Cancellarium creabat, cujus officiiim vel ad ufque 
 mortem retinuit, ^ obiit Anno Dom. MCCCXIH. Cujus Animce, 
 
 Engli/lit thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Ralph de Baldock, fometimes Dean of this 
 Church, and Bifhop of London, who was confecrated Bifhop of Londo?i, 
 1 305. and flourifhed in the Reign of Edward the Second, who confti- 
 tuted him Chancellor of England, the which Dignity he retained till the 
 day of his Death, who dyed in the year of our Lord, 131 3. On whofe 
 Soul &c. 
 
 This Ralph de Baldock fo denominated from the Town of his 
 Nativity, was chofen Bifhop of London on St Matthias Day, [1303] 
 and Confecrated Jan. 30. 1305. He was a man well Learned, and 
 (among other good Pieres) wrote a Latin Chronicle of the Affairs of 
 England. He contributed very liberally towards the Building of the 
 Eaft End of our Ladies Chappel, where he lies interred. And that he 
 might be perpetually remembred by his Exequutors, he fettled Lands 
 on the Dean and Chapter of this Church, for the Maintainance of Two 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed, 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 91 
 
 Priefts to Celebrate Divine Service for his Soul, at the Altar of St. 
 Erkenwald within the New Work ; as alfo for the Soul of yohn Chijhul 
 fometimes Bifhop of London. 
 
 And here by the way, I think it not much out of mine own way to 
 digrefs, and acquaint the Reader, that in digging the Foundation of the 
 above named Chappel, there were more than a Hundred Heads of 
 Oxen, Kine, and Stags there found, which difcovery may well ratifie 
 that old well-grounded opinion of many wife men, that this Church in 
 its firft Inftitution, might poffibly have been a Temple Dedicated to 
 'Jupiter and Diana, and that they had their Oblations therein before 
 the planting of Chriftian Religion had fuperfeded, and utterly abolifhed 
 thofe Idolatrous Rites and Superftitious Sacrifices. 
 
 This Memorable Bifhop Baldock, having (as was faid) been made 
 Chancellor of England, in the Reign of King Edward the Second, being 
 fick upon his Death-bed, fent the Great Seal to the King, then keeping 
 his Court at CarlUe. 
 
 There was alfo (as our Chronicles tell us) another Bifhop of the 
 fame Sir-name, viz. Robert de Baldock Bifhop of Norwich, in the Reign 
 of the fame King, whofe elTential Chriftian, and Sir-name is to this 
 day continued, and borne by a Gentleman of the felf-fame County, 
 and probably Kindred Sir ROBERT BALDOCK of Tacolfton in the 
 County of Norfolk Knight, and there Recorder of Great Yarmouth, 
 Sergeant at Law in the Honorable Society of Grayes-Inn and Incumbent 
 Bencher, and lately the Moft Generous Reader thereof, in Anno 
 to which Society he is fo Fair an Ornament, he being a Gentleman 
 of profound Law, General Learning, and great Candor, who beares the 
 Coat of his Memorable Name, viz. He bears Checquy Or and Gules, on 
 a Fejfe Three Efcolops Argent. 
 
 An Antient Memorial in the Quire, was thus Infcribed.^ 
 Here lies the Body of Anne, Daughter of John Duke of Burgundy, 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdele and Stow. — Ed. 
 
92 
 
 THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 Wife of yohn Flantagenet, Third Son to King Henry the Fourth, and 
 Brother to King Henry the Fifth, The which Anne Dyed in the year 
 MCCCCXXXIII. On whofe Soul. 
 
 This yohn Plantagenet was one of the eminenteft Perfons for Place, 
 and Power that Age produced. For from Earl of Richmond he was 
 created firft. Duke of Bedford^ and afterwards by the unanimous confent 
 of Parliament. He was conftituted Lord Protector of the Realm of 
 England, in the abfence of his Brother King Henry the Fifth being in 
 France. He was alfo conftituted Prelident of the Council and conftable 
 of this Kingdom. Laftly He was made Lieutenant-General of France, 
 and chief Regent thereof with the acceffion and fuperaddition of the 
 new honors of Aniou, Mayne, Harecourt, and Kendal, with the Earldom 
 of Dreux, and Vifcounty of Bellemont. He was a puilTant and victorious 
 General and won feveral Battles in France, after whofe death the affairs 
 and Englifti intereft there began gradually to decline, and at laft came 
 to little or nothing, having before fo fairly profpered by the courage and 
 prudent conduct of fo brave a Chieftain, whofe Body lies buried in the 
 great Cathedral of Koane under a magnificent Monument which Church 
 one of the Kings of France vifiting, and being told by one of his 
 Courtiers how great an Enemy he had been to France, and that if His 
 Majefty thought good, they would erace his Tomb and root out his 
 remembrance ; to which the wife King anfwered with no lefs magna- 
 nimity than moderation, No, no ( quoth he ) let his Tomb alone, and let us 
 not offer any injury to his duji and AJJies, whofe face when living we durft 
 not look on, and for my part I could heartily wijh all mine Enemies now 
 living were fo fairly buried. 
 
 He died in the year of our Lord one Thoufand Four Hundred 
 Thirty Five ; This his Lady Anne dying 2 years before him. 
 
 Oppofite to the Earl of Fembrooks Tomb ftood another fair Monu- 
 
1'HE rOMBES OF sr. PAUUS. 
 
 93 
 
 ment dedicated to the Memory of the then Sir yohn Mafon, whofe 
 Epitaph thus Ipeaks him in thefe Elegiacks.^ 
 
 QVI^S ERAT PRVDENaS VNQVAM, FIDV^Q^; SENATor, 
 SI QyiS ERAT PATRI^ CHARV^, AMAN^-QVE SVM, 
 SI QYIS AD EXTERNA*^ LEGATV*^ IDONEV^ ORA^, 
 
 CVI lYSTYVlIE CVRA BONIQVE, FVIT, - 
 IS MA^-ONV^S ERAT, ^IT TOTA BRITANNIA TE«STis, 
 TEOT5 AMOR PROCERVM, SYV POPVLIQ^; FAVOR. 
 TEMPORE QVINQ^; SVO REGNANTE.S ORDINE VIDIT; 
 HORVM A CONCILII^S QVATVOR, ILLE FVIT. 
 TRE5 ET *SEX DECIE*? VIXIT NON AMPLIV*?, ANNO.S; 
 HIC TEGITVR CORPV^" mRITV^S A5TRA TENET. 
 
 HVNC TVMVLVM CONIVX PO.SVIT DILECTA MARITO 
 
 QVEMQ; VIRO POmT DE^STINAT IP^A ^IBI. 
 
 TRI^TE NEPO^ CARMEN QVEM TEGIT ADOPTIO NATV, 
 TVM PATRI^S IN*SCRIP*SIT TVM PATRVI TVMVLO. 
 
 APRIL XXi 1566. 
 
 Englifhf thus. 
 
 If ever Senator, or Statefman were 
 Grave, Prudent, Juft, or to his Country dear ; 
 If any travell'd through moft parts, or flood 
 Stouter for Juftice, or the common good ; 
 This Mafon was the Man ; great Brittain's beft 
 Nobles, and Commons, can this Truth atteft. 
 Five Princes Reigning He beheld ; to Four 
 Of which. He was a Privy-Counfellor. 
 Sixty Three years He lived ; His Body here 
 Is plac't ; his Soul in the Cceleftial Sphear. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the tomb with the inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
94 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 His Nephew adopted, writ thefe lines, to fhew. 
 His love to a Father, and an Unckle too. 
 [Died April xxi, 1566]. 
 
 This Memorable Sir yoh?i Mafon, though but Threefcore and three 
 Years old at his Death, yet lived and flourifht in the Reigns of Five 
 Princes ; vide. Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary, 
 and Queen Elizabeth. To Four of which having been of the Privy 
 Council, and an eye witnefs of the various revolutions, and viciffitudes 
 of thofe times, towards his latter end being upon his Death-bed, called 
 for his Gierke, and his Steward, and deliver'd himfelf in thefe terms. 
 
 Lo ! here I have now lived to fee Five Princes and have been a 
 Privy Counfellor to four of them. I have feen the moji remarkable 
 obfervables in Forreign parts, and have been prefent at moji State 
 'Tranfactions for 'Thirty Tears together, and I have learned this after 
 fo many Tears experience, that Serioufiefs is the greatefi wifedom. 
 Temperance the befi Phyfck ; a Good Confcience the beft Eftate ; and were 
 I live again, I would change the Court, for a Cloyjler, my Privy Counfellor s 
 Biijiles for an Hermits retirement, and the whole life I lived in the Palace, 
 for one hours enjoyment of GOV), in the Cliappel ; all things elfe forfake me 
 befdes my GOD, my Duty, and my Prayer. 
 
 The Family of thefe Mafons is fo diffulively numerous, that 'tis 
 difficult to rank them in good order according to their Seniority, or 
 firll exiftance, though undoubtedly it be an old Norman Name, eminent 
 in England at the firft Ingrefs of the Gonqueror, where they have been 
 at Beaverly many Genturies. To which Name (of later times) the 
 Worthily Honor'd Sir Robert Mafon late of Hantjliire, and the prefent 
 Sir Richard Mafon of the Gourt, have been fair Ornaments as likewife 
 the late Sir William Mafon, and Doctor Charles Mafon, as alfo that 
 Memorable Doctor Mafon one of the late Mafters of Requefts, with his 
 Son Gaptain Chrijiopher Mafon of Depthford, a Perfon of much Gandor 
 and great Gourage, exemplified in feveral fignal Services at Sea, having 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAULS. 
 
 been formerly, and being at this day, a Worthy, and reputed Com- 
 mander of one of His Majefties Men of War. 
 
 But of this numerous Name, and Family of the Mafons I hope to 
 give the World a fairer account in my great Hiftory of the Tombs, 
 and Monuments of London. 
 
 When I fhall have the Honor and Happinefs to be acquainted with 
 that Worthy Gentleman Efquire Mafon of Berk/hire who I am informed 
 hath a fair Collection of moft of the Mafons of England. 
 
 In the North Ille of the fame Cathedral was another Memorial thus 
 infcribed. 
 
 Heic jacet Robertus Benn de Newport -Cranky in comitatu Surrey 
 generofus ; obiit decimo die menjis Febriiariiy Anno verbi incarnati 
 MDCVI. Cum ante annos triginta in vigor e fcilicit cetatis fu<:e mortis 
 non immemor, Jepulturcs Jibi locum in Hdc Lcclejid a Decano, & capitulo, 
 impetraverat. 
 
 Hanc Novijimam, & ultimam fuam voluntatem Elizabetha Benn 
 dilecta conjux ejus executa eji. 
 
 Veniet iterum. 
 ^i me in lucem reponet Dies. 
 
 Engli/ht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Robert Benn of Newport Cranky in the 
 County of Surrey Gentleman, who dyed the loth day of February in , 
 the year of our Lords Incarnation One Thoufand Six Hundred and 
 Six Who Thirty years before he dyed (in the Strength and Vigor of 
 his Age) being mindful of his mortal condition, obtained a grant from 
 the Dean and Chapter of a Burying place for himfelf in this Church. 
 
 The which laft will, and delire of her dear Hufband, Elizabeth Benn 
 his furviving Wife performed accordingly. 
 
 There will come a day 
 Which will reftore me into the light, and Land of the Living. 
 
96 
 
 rHE rOMBES OF sr. PJULS. 
 
 In the South Ifle of the Quire Hood a Fair Monument for that mofl 
 Memorable Man of his time Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Keeper of the 
 great Seal, there lying in the habiliments of a Statefman, with his two 
 Wives, under whom you have this ingenious Infcription^ written by 
 that great Schollar, and mofl: excellent Poet George Buchanan Tutor to 
 King James. 
 
 HIC NICHOLAV ME BACONEM CONDITV 
 
 EXISTIMA ILLV, TAM DIV BRITANNICI 
 
 REGNI SECUNDV COLVME EXITV MALIS; 
 
 BONIS ASYLV CCECA QVEM NON EXTVLIT 
 
 AD HVNC HONORE SORS, SED EQVITAS FI^ 
 
 DES DOCTRINA, PIETAS, VNICA, & PRVDENTIA: 
 
 NEV MORTE RAPTVM CREDE; QUI VNIcA BREVI, 
 
 VITA, PERENNI EMERIT DVAS; AGIT 
 
 VITAM SECVNDAM CCELITES INTER ANIMAS 
 
 FAMA IMPLET ORBEM, VITA QViE ILLI TERTIA EST. 
 
 hAc positum in ara est corpus, OLIM ANIMI DOMUS, 
 
 ARA DICATA SEMPITERN^E MEMORISE. 
 
 Engltjlif thus. 
 
 Think not great Bacon can be coopt up here ; 
 The Pillar, and bright Poleftarr of our Spheare. 
 The Good Mans Refuge, but the bad Mans terror. 
 Whom not the Wheel of Fortune or blind error, 
 Prefer'd by Chance, but Solid Juftice, Truth, 
 Religion, Learning th' Inmates of his Youth. 
 Nor think Him dead, who by exchange of one 
 Poor Life, gain'd two, and now fits in a Throne 
 Among the Bleft ; whofe fame like Incenfe hurl'd 
 On Flaming Altars, hath perfum'd the World. 
 
 ' Dugda'.c gives an engraving of the tomb with inicrijition as given.— Eu. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 91 
 
 Thus He lives thrice ; whilft this rich Marble Mine 
 The Wardrobe of his Reliques, muft infhrine 
 His pretious Duft, till the whole World fhall Burn 
 To Cinders, and Calcine him in his Urn. 
 
 Upon the -taking up of his Body lately (among others) there was 
 found fixed on his Breaft a Plate, on which was engraven this Infcription. 
 
 Hie jacef Jl3iCf)0lailS TBaCOtl miles, nuper cujios magni Jigilli Anglice, 
 ^ifunBus eJi Eodem Magifiratu viginti Annas tempore Elizabethce 
 Regince, & obiit vicejjimo die Februarii A.D. mdlxxviii. cetatifque 
 fuee fexagejjimo octavo, 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Sir NICHOLAS BACON Knight, late Lord 
 Keeper of the Great Seal of England, which office he did Execute 
 for the Ipace of Twenty Years, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth-. 
 And dyed the Twentieth of February, 1578. In the fixty eighth year 
 of his Age. 
 
 This Famous Sir Nicholas Bacon, was contemporary with the moft 
 Learned Mr Cambden, who gives Sir Nicholas this Comprefs but copious 
 Character. 
 
 Erat (faith he) vir prapinqui Corpore fed Ingenio acerrimo ; Jingulari 
 Prudentid, fummd Eloquentid, tenaci Memorid, & facris Conjiliis alterum 
 columen. 
 
 He was (faith he) Corpulent in Perfon ; of an acute and quick Wit, 
 of Angular fegacity, admirable Eloquence, and one of the Principal 
 Pillars on which Her Majefties Privy Council depended. 
 
 In fine, he was a Provident, Prudent, and Humble Perfon, and was 
 contented rather to live in Old Buildings, than to Erect New Fabricks ; 
 Whereupon living at his houfe in Gorham Bury (the prefent Seat of the 
 Honorable Sir HARBOTTLE GRIMSTON Baronet, and his Honor- 
 able Wife, the moft practically Pious, Religious, and moft Charitable 
 
 ^3 
 
98 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Dorcas of her Age the Lady GRIMSTON, this Sir Nicholas his Great 
 Grandchild) where being Vifited by Queen Elizabeth his Royal 
 Miftrefs, who being fomething ftraightned at her Entrance into the 
 firft Wicket, was pleafed to fay. Sir Nicholas, your Houfe is too little for 
 you ; To which he no lefs Wittily, than gratefully replyed. No Madam, 
 *tis your Highnefs Goodnefs hath made me too Great for my Hoife. 
 
 He was a Perfon of a quiet and fedate Temper, the Motto of his 
 Coat MEDIOCRIA FIRM A fitly correfponding with his moderation. 
 
 This Famous Sir Nicholas had feveral Sons, the Eldeft being Sir 
 Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave in the County of Suffolk, the Firfl Baronet 
 of England ; there being at this day Two Honorable Baronets, the one 
 of Suffolk the other of Norfolk, with many Knights and Gentlemen 
 defcending from the Loines of this Moft Memorable Sir Nicholas Bacon 
 Lord Keeper that Prudent Patriot, the true Father (fays one) of his 
 Countiy, and Sir Francis Bacon Vifcount Virulam, Lord Chancellor of 
 England, and Great Mafler of Law and Learning, who though his 
 Body be confined to the narrow Cincture of a Country Chancel in St 
 Albans (Antiquely Virulam) yet his Books the beft Iffue of his Brain, 
 will be ftill Ubiquitary, and diffufe his Memory to the remoteft parts 
 of the World. 
 
 In the North fide of the Quire was a fmall Memorial thus Infcribed.^ 
 Heic jacet carnis fucE Refurrectionem refpectans Richardus de Novo- 
 portu quondam Epifcopus Lond. ^i Richardus ex hoc feculo migravit a 
 partu Virginis MCCCXVIIL Cujus animce propitietur altijjimus. 
 
 Englifht thus. 
 
 Here in expectation of the Refurrection of his Body, doth refl 
 Richard Newport Bifhop of London. The which Richard dyed in the 
 year from the Birth of our Saviour, 131 8. On whofe Soul, ^c. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale and Stow. Weever states that ' the little infcription was not long ftnce to he read, 
 exprejjing the day and yeare of his confecration, which was March 26. 1 31 7. Ami the like of his death, which 
 ha/>/>eued Augufl 2:^. 1318.' — Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 99 
 
 Of this difFufive Name have been feveral Memorable Perfons, fuch 
 as William de Newport Sheriff of London, Anno Dom. i275- with feveral 
 others w^hich I £hall mention in my Great Hiftory of my Tombes of 
 London. But the Chief this day of that fpreading and right Antient 
 Name, is the Right Honorable and innately Noble (Eminent for his 
 fignal Loyalty, Active Services, and Paffive Sufferings in the Caufe of 
 His late Majefty) the Lord Francis Newport , Vifcount of Bradford, and 
 Baron of High-Ercall, the w^ell Beloved Lord Lieutenant of his Native 
 County of Salop ; at firft Comptroller, and fome years fince the prefent 
 Treafurer of His Majefties' Houfhould, and many years lately one of the 
 Lords of the Council : he is the Son and Heir of the late Lord Richard 
 Newport for his Eminent Loyalty and Courage, Created Baron of High- 
 Ercall by King Charles the Firft. The w^hich Vifcount Francis his 
 Eldeft Son, having by his Honorable Wife the Lady Diana Ruffel, 
 (Daughter to the late Right Honorable Francis Earl of Bedford), feveral 
 Children, with his Son and Heir the Honorable and much accomplifht 
 Mr Richard Newport one of the Knights of the Shire, for the County of 
 Salop is in a fair probability of propagating his Noble Name to future 
 Generations. 
 
 Likewife I have read of one Andrew de Newport, of great Antiquity 
 and Honor, whofe Paternal Coat w^as Argent a Cheveron between Three 
 Leopards Heads Sable. Which effential Coat is this day borne by the 
 Right Honorable this mention'd Vifcount Francis, and his Dear Brother 
 the Honorable Andrew Newport fecond Son of the late Right Honorable 
 Lord Richard Newport Baron of High-Ercall) Coumptroler of His 
 Majefties Wardrobe, and a Member of former Parliaments. 
 
 Near to the North Middle Door ftood a Fair Mural Monument, with 
 
 this Infcription. 
 
 Memories Sacrum 
 Edwardo Stanhopo, Michaelis Stanhopi ex ordine equejlrt, 
 
lOO 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Filio ; Equiti aurato ; 
 Legum DoBori ; Epifcopi Londinenfis Cancellario ; 
 Archiepifcopi Cantuarienjis 
 Vicar io Generali ; 
 In Publicis Ecclejics & Reipublica 
 negotiis verfatijjimo : 
 certa fpe in Chrifto refurgendi, 
 Picy placideque animam DEO reddidit y 
 Decimo fexto die Martiiy MDCVIII. 
 Johannes Baro Stanhopus de Harington, 
 Et Michael Stanhopus eques auratus, 
 Fratres mcejiijjimi 
 Officiofcy Pietatis ergo P.P. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Sacred to Pofterity 
 And to the Memory 
 Of Sir Edward Stanhop Knight, and a Knight's Son ; 
 Doctor of the Civil Laws, 
 And Chancellor to the Bifhop of London^ 
 And Vicar General to the Archbilhop 
 
 Of Canterbury. 
 He was a Perfon Induftrioufly Active 
 In the Concernes 
 Of both Church and State. 
 And in an AfTurance of a BlelTed Refurrection in Chrift ; 
 Moft Chriftianly, Pioufly, and Peaceably 
 Refigned his Soul into the Hands of his Redeemer 
 On the 1 6th of March 1608. 
 In Remembrance of whom 
 His two fbrrowful Brethren 
 'John Lord Stanhop Baron of Harrington^ 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 lOI 
 
 And Sir Michael Stanhop Knight 
 Have erected this Monument in Teftimony of their Pious affection 
 
 to their deceafed Brother. 
 
 How Honorable and ancient thefe Stanhops have been, I fhall 
 acquaint the World in my great Hiftory of the Tombs, and Monu- 
 ments of the City of London^ and the Suburbs thereof, w^hen I come 
 here to mention the late Philip Earl of Chejierfield buried under a fair 
 Mural Monument in the Chancel of St Giles in the Fields erected by 
 the pious care and coft of the Right Honorable, and exemplarily Noble 
 Philip Stanhop Earl of Chejierfield &c. And I fhall then alfo £hew how- 
 near affinity thofe two Honorable Houfes of Chefierfield, and Harrington 
 have, from the latter of which this here mentioned Sir Edward Stanhop 
 was lineally defcended. 
 
 Near to the Wall on the left Hand as you entered in at the North 
 Door, flood a fair Mural Monument thus infcribed. 
 
 THOMAS LYNACRUS, 
 Regis Henrici Octavi Medicus ; 
 Vir & Grace et Latine, atque. in re Medicd, 
 Longe eruditijfimus :' 
 Multos ( cetate fud ) languentes, 
 Et ^ijam Animam defponderanty 
 Vitce Refiituit : 
 Multa Galeni Opera 
 In Latinam Linguam mira et Jingulari facundia vertit : 
 Egregium Opus 
 De emendendd firucturd Latini Sermonis, 
 ( Amicorum rogata J 
 Paulo ante Mortem edidit 
 Medicince Jiudiofis Oxoniae Publicas Lectiones duas. 
 
I02 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Cantabrigia2 unam. 
 In perpetuum Jiabilivif. 
 In Hdc Vrbe Collegium Medicorum 
 Fieri Sua Indujiria curavit, 
 Cujus Et Prslidens Proximus electus eji. 
 FraudeSy dolofque mire perofus ; 
 
 Fidus Amicis ; 
 Omnibus ordinibus juxta clarus : 
 Aliquot annos antequam obierat, 
 Prejbyter factus. 
 Plenus annisy ex hac vita migrauity 
 Multiim dejideratus 
 Anno Domini MDXxiiij die 20 Octobrisy 
 
 Aloft flood this Hemiftique in Capitals. 
 VIVIT POST FUNERA VIRTUS. 
 THOMM LTNACRO CLARISSIMO MEDICO. 
 JOHANNES CAIUS POSUIT, ANNO MDLVII. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 THOMAS LINACRE Phyfitian to King Henry the 8th. 
 A mofi: fkilful Critick in the Greek and Latin, 
 And an Excellent Phyfitian befides ; 
 Who in his Generation did many miraculous Cures 
 And reflored feveral to life, paft to the help ; 
 And even at the very point of Death. 
 He Tranflated Galens Works out of Greek and Latin, 
 With fingular perfpicuity, and clearnefs ; 
 He compiled a rare Piece 
 For the rectifying the Frame, and Module of the Latin Tongue, 
 The which He publiiht a little before his Death 
 at the defire, and entreating of his Friends. 
 
ruE roMBEs OF sr. paul's. 
 
 He gave Two Lectures to the Univerfity of Oxford, 
 And one to the Univerfity of Cambridge, 
 
 And eftabHfht them for ever. 
 By his means, and induftrious endeavours 
 The Phyfitians College in London vv^as firft founded, 
 of which, Himfelf was elected the firft Prelident. 
 He was a Perfect hater 
 Of all indirect, or fraudulent Dealings ; 
 Being fincerely faithful to his Friends 
 And well beloved of all ranks, and degrees of Men. 
 Some years before his Death He entered into Holy Orders 
 And at length in a good old age departed this Life, 
 Being of all much beloved and lamented. 
 He dyed the 20th of October Anno Dom. 1524. 
 Whofe Vertuous Fame will furvive 
 His FUNERALS. 
 To Thomas Linacre the moft excellent 
 of Phyfitians 
 JOHN KETS hath erected this A.D. 1557. 
 
 This Thomas Linacre was Born in the County of Darby, and 
 quefi:ionlefs was a Man of the greatefi: Learning that Age had. And 
 for this "John Keys he was a Perfon of a Public Spirit; and not only 
 erected this Monument to his dear Friend Linacre (to whom the 
 CoUedge of Phyfitians ought to erect a Statute) but alfo was the co- 
 founder and raifer of a far more Noble Monument in Cambridge vide 
 Cajus and Gonvils Colledge, fo denominated from himfelf, and partner 
 Gonvil ; which Colledge hath been the fruitful Seminary of many 
 Learned Men efpecially in Phylofophy and Phyfick, of which Colledge 
 (among many other) in our Memory were Dr. Gojiing, and that moft 
 Famous and much Memorable and admired Phyfitian the late Doctor 
 William Harvey, as alfo that Profound, and Univerfal Schollar the late 
 
I04 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Doctor FRANCIS GLIPSON Regius Profeffor of that faculty in that 
 Famous Univerfity, and Senior Fellow, and long fince Prefident of the 
 Colledge of Phyfitians in London : To whofe Learned Lucubrations, and 
 deep difquifitions in Phyfick, not only great Britain^ but Remoter 
 Kingdoms owe a particular refpect, and veneration. Which Doctor 
 lately dying, to him worthily fucceeded the much Learned and Obliging 
 Doctor Robert Brady Doctor of Phyfick a fair Proficient in the Studies 
 of Antiquities ; and the well-deferving Mafter of Caj'us Gonvil Colledge ; 
 and of fome Years before the fupplemental Chayreman of Phyfick in 
 the place of the faid Doctor GLIPSON living wholly in London. 
 
 In the Porch of the Northern Door was fixed a Memorial for the 
 Famous Mr. William Lilly the firft School Mafter of St Paul's School 
 in London^ and for Agnes his Wife whofe Infcription thus Ipeaks them. 
 
 M. S. 
 
 Gulielmo Lilio Paulince Scholce olim 
 Prceceptori Primarioy 
 Et Agnet£ Conjugiy 
 In SacratiJJimo hujus Templi Ccemeterioy 
 nine a tergo nunc deJiructOy 
 Confepultis ; 
 Georgius Lilius hujus Fcclejice Canonicus, 
 Parentum Memories pie confulens, 
 Tabellam Hanc ab Amicis confervatam. 
 Hie Reponendam Curavit. 
 Obiit ilk G. L. Anno D. 1522. V. Calend. Martii: 
 Vixit Annos LIV. 
 GraviJJima tunc pejie per Londinum grajfante 
 
 ' Line omilled by Dugdale and Wecver. — Ed. 
 
THE "tOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Then follow thefe Elegiacks ^ on his Wife. 
 
 Hagnes hie iaceo coniux olim Gulielmi, 
 
 Lilia cognomen cui tribuerey fui. 
 Septem ter denos cetas mea viderat annos^ 
 
 Bis Septem vixi^ tres quoque iuucta viro : 
 Mater eram fcelix ter ^inque prole, Puellce 
 
 Sex fuerant numero, Ccetera Turba Mares 
 Me luce Octauo Menjis Sextilis adorta eji. 
 
 Me luce 'undecima fujiulit ajira lues. 
 Mternce ut pateant hector mihi lumina lucis 
 
 Authorem Lucis fupplice mente roga. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 Agnes here do I lie ; Wife of that fam'd 
 William firft from the Lilly fo Sirnam'd 
 Thirty Seven Years I liv'd ; Eighteen I led 
 In the calm comforts of the Marriage Bed. 
 Of Fifteen Children I the Mother was. 
 That is to fay. Six Girls, and Nine Boys. 
 The Eighth of April Death did me invade 
 And on the 1 1 th. among the Dead me laid 
 That Heavens Gates may be open. Reader Pray 
 That God of light, that only Gate, and way. 
 
 Having Englifht the preceeding Epitaph in Verfe, I fhall give you 
 the fenfe of thefe Elegiacks in plain Profe. 
 
 Sacred to the Memory 
 Of William Lilly the firft Mafter 
 Of St Fauls School. 
 And of Agnes his dear Wife 
 Both Buried together. 
 
 • Omitted by Dugdale. Weever gives the epitapli, ^ as I found it in the Collections of Mafter Camden! — Ed. 
 
io6 
 
 rHE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 In the Confecrated Ground of this Church-yard 
 (Now incroacht upon, and near loft) 
 George Lilly their Son one of the Canons of this Church 
 
 Pioufly confulting the Memory of his dear Parents, 
 Hath placed his Memorial (happily preferved by Friends) 
 And here refixed it, in remembrance of them. 
 He dyed March the 5th. 1522. in the 54th Year of his Age in the 
 time of the great Plague then raging in London. 
 
 His Wife Agnes dyed the 8th. of April following of the fame Con- 
 tagious Diftemper, who had by her faid Hufband 15 Children vide 
 Nine Sons, and Six Daughters, having been Married to her Hufband 
 18 Years, dying in the 37 [? 27] Year of her age. 
 
 This is that Famous Lily who Compos'd the Grammar, and reduced 
 it into Verfe; to whofe Rudiments I do moft gratefully acknowledge 
 my felf much obliged. Neverthelefs though thofe Rules were excellent 
 in that Age, yet have they been much meliorated, and more com- 
 pendioufly methodiz'd in this age, by that moft Critical Grammarian 
 accurate Grascian, Profound Philofopher, moft learned Phyfitian ; and 
 fkilful Anatomift, the worthily Honor'd Sir Charles Scarborrough Knight 
 Doctor of Phylick of long ftanding, and fometimes Preiident of the 
 Col. in Lon. Fellow of Kings Colledge long iince in Cambridge, and 
 Phyfitian in ordinary to his Royal Highnefs the thrice lUuftrious James 
 Duke of Tork, which Honor He the faid Charles hath long and very 
 worthily retained. 
 
 As for this Famous William Lilly. He was Born at Odiham in our 
 County of Southampton, who in his youth travelling as far as Jerufalem, 
 in his return, ftaid at Rhodes and there Studied the Greek Tongue. 
 From thence, he went to Rome ; where he heard the Learned yohn 
 Sulpitius, and Pomponius Sabinus, great Mafters of Latin in thofe days. 
 Upon his Return to E?igland Dean Collet preferr'd him to be the firft 
 Mafter of that Famous Free School of St Pauls which he then had 
 
rHE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Founded. Of which School, there have been fucceffively many- 
 memorable Mafters, fome of which I have formerly mentioned in 
 another place; the incumbent Mafter thereof at this day being the 
 generally Learned and much obliging Dr Thomas Gale D.D. and Pre- 
 bendary of St Paulsy by whofe vigilant care, and discreet conduct, with 
 the Prudent Adminiftration of the Right Worfhipful Fraternity of the 
 Mercers the Worthy Truftees hereof, 'tis rationally believed that School 
 will lofe nothing of that Priftine Splendor and Beauty of which fhe 
 hath been the Aged Mother and is ftill the vigorous and Youthful 
 Miftrefs, 
 
 Near the South Ille lay a fair Graveftone of Marble thus infcribed. 
 
 J^tc meet agagiiJer Cf)oma0 Wintzi^mm, Icgum Doctor, Dum Wit 
 Decanu0 Iflxm (ZBcclefiae, Ciui otiiit ^eptimo Die ^enfis ^eptemdris, 
 anno Dommi j478, €mm ^nimae propidetur Deus, ^men, 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Thomas Winterhurne Doctor of the Laws, and 
 whilft he lived. Dean of this Church of St Pauls. He died the 7th. 
 day of September in the Year of our Lord j478, on whofe Soul. 
 
 On another fair Marble plated with Brafs, you have this Infcription 
 in Hexameter and Pentameter. 
 
 recubat tumulo Gulielmus Meyius ijlo, 
 facrd Bis in hac lEde Decanus erat. 
 Cantabriam teneris petit Jiudiofus ah annis^ 
 
 Ingenium ingenuis Artibus excoluit. 
 Clarus Doc tor um Juris Prudentia fecit y 
 ' Pectore ^i miti, cams ubique fuit. 
 
io8 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Factus Eboracus forte Archiepifcopus idem ejiy 
 ^em fungi officio fata proterva vet ant. 
 
 Attulit hcec mortem^ quce lux concefjit honorem, 
 Maluit ac fieri Prcejiil adire Polum. 
 
 AJpice quatn rebus fit fors incerta caducisy 
 Et pete nulla fint per it ur a die. 
 Obiit Anno Verbi Incarnati 8 Die Augufii. MDLX. 
 
 Englijlit thus. 
 
 Under this Tomb lies William May inter'd 
 Twice to the Deanary of St Faul Prefer'd 
 Cambridge betimes manur'd his growing parts 
 In that rich foil of Sciences and Arts : 
 Where Doctor He Commenc't, who joyntly was 
 Much Mafter of mild manners, and good Laws. 
 Doctor, and Dean ; of York He was defigned 
 Archbijhopy which the Fates' foon undermind ; 
 For he more fit for Heavens grand Hierarchy y 
 Did on that day he was ordained, die : 
 Learn hence how fhort. Earths fading Joys endure. 
 And fix on thofe, more permanent, and fure. 
 
 This Memorable Perfon Doctor William May twice Dean of St 
 Paulsy was Doctor of the Civil Laws, and brought up in Cambridge, 
 and dyed that very day [8 Auguft 1560] on which he (hould have 
 been inftalled Archbifhop of York. 
 
 There is a very Antient and Honorable Family of the Mays ftill 
 extant both in Sufiex and Hampjhirey of which is the worthily Honor- 
 able Baptifia May of Whitehall Efq; and among others the late 
 Thomas May that moft Memorable Poet of his Time, who (abftracted 
 from his fullen fiding with the late long Parliament,) hath done that 
 for the Honor of this Nation was never paralel'd by an Englifli Man 
 before, witnefs in his elaborate pains, and fuccefsful lucubrations in his 
 
 1 
 
rHE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Supplement of hucan, written in fo lofty and happy Latine Hexameter 
 that he hath attain'd much more reputation abroad, than he hath loft 
 at home ; and though he dyed a Batchelor without Bodily Iffue, yet 
 will he for ever live, and be perpetuated to Pofterity in the lovely and 
 lively iffue of his Brain, fince faith that great Orator Tully, Libri funt 
 Liberia Books being the beft Remembrances, of thofe who well write 
 them in a Language fo diffufive and Univerfal. 
 
 There lay another Memorial near the North Door but fo worn out 
 that the Name was not legible. 
 
 IJiic graderisy pauliim te Jijtere quejb, 
 
 Et Rogitans quid eris, in me nunc vermibus ejb. 
 
 EJio memor Mortis y meditare frequenter lova ; 
 
 Mors latet in portis, non eft evitabilis hora. 
 Effundens loculos pro Chrifto dejpice mundum, 
 Clarificans oculoSy ut cernas quo ft eundum. 
 
 Nam ^od quifque ferit prcefentis tempore vitce, 
 
 Hcec fbi mefis erity cum dicitur, Ite, Venite. 
 
 Engli/ht thus. 
 
 You that walk on pray ftay awhile and fee 
 
 Your felf, in this fad fpectacle of me. 
 
 Still mind your end, and on GOD meditate ; 
 
 None can avoid the ambufhes of Fate. 
 
 For Chrift's fake, freely give ; the World defpife ; 
 
 Think where you go, at dire Death's laft furprife. 
 
 For in this Life what every one doth Sow, 
 
 That fhall he reap, when Chrift fays Come, and Goe. 
 
 In St fohns Chappel ftood a fair Memorial for William Harrington 
 Prothonotary Apoftolical, whofe Infcription thus fpeaks him. 
 
I lO 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Gulielmus Harington, y urifconfultus y 
 Protonotarius ApoJlolicuSy 
 Divi Fault Canonicusy ex Hits 
 ^os Rejidentiarios dicunt ; 
 Patrid, Eboracenfis, natus in pago qui Eftryngton vocitatur ; 
 Patre Gulielmo Haringtono, viro vere claro generey orto in 
 Pago Cumberlandias non ignobiliy 
 ^i New Byging nuncupatur ; 
 Et Matre Johanna, 
 Filia Gulielmi Hafke, aliter Balivi dictiy 
 Viri generojiy 
 In eodem pago de Eftryngton nata : 
 Memor Exitus vitce, qui omnibus horis impendity 
 Hoc Jibi fepulchrum pofuit. 
 Anno falutis Humance MDXXIII. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 William Harrington Counfellor at law, 
 Apoftolick Prothonotary, 
 And one of the Refidentiary Canons of St Pauls, 
 Was born in the County of Torky 
 In the Parifh of EJiryngton. 
 His Father William Harrington of a confpicuous Off-fpring 
 Was born at New ling a Village of good note in Cumberland 
 His Mother "Joan Harrington 
 Was Daughter of William Hajke, alias Bayljy 
 A Gentleman of good worth : 
 Which 'Joan was alfo born in the Parilli of EJiryngton. 
 
 He, at length ferioufly mindful of his latter end 
 Erected this Sepulchre for Himfelf in the year 1523. 
 
 The Name and Family of Harringtons have been very antient, and 
 honorable, there having been memorable men thereof ; and how famous 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 1 1 1 
 
 and diffufive that name hath been, I fhall acquaint the world in my 
 great Hiftory of the Tombes and Monuments in the renouned City of 
 London. 
 
 [Near to the tomb of William Harrington was the following 
 infcription given by Dugdale : — 
 
 John Ore, tufjofc Pictute gtatieD in firaf0 on tfje COall pou fee, 
 SJnBer Vm fione fleeping in Cf)nfl in relJ ants peace Dot!) Uej 
 
 Under the old Steeple ftood a fair Monument of wood in the form 
 of a Tabernacle, on which was this Infcription.^ 
 
 Orate pro animd Richardi Fitz-James Legum Doctoris in Collegia 
 Merton Oxonii educati. Anno Dom. 1496. Epifcopi Rojfenjis, confecrati 
 deinde Ciceftrenfis, & pojiremo in Epifcopatum Londinenfem Tranjlati 
 ^i quidem Richardus ex hoc fceculo migravit MCCCCCXXI. 
 
 Englifht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Richard Fitx-James Doctor of the Civil Lawes ; 
 He was educated and commenc't Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford. 
 In the year 1496. He was confecrated Bifhop of Rochejier; next removed 
 to Chichejier, and laftly to London^ where he dyed in the year of our 
 Lord 1 52 1. 
 
 The which Ric. Fit'z-'James was born at Redlinch com. fom. of right 
 antient, & Worfhipful extraction bred at Merton Colledge^ & at length 
 became the much meriting Warden thereof, wherein he built fair 
 Lodgings, and alfo expended much monies in the repair of St Maries 
 Church in Oxford. He v/as (as 'tis faid) fucceffively Bifhop of Rochefter, 
 Chichejiery and London. He was efteemed an excellent Schollar, and 
 wrote fome Books, which if ever they appeared to publick yet never 
 defcended to pofterity. He dyed (as was faid) [Jan. 15,] 1521. and lyeth 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed. 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 buried in his own Cathedral, to which he contributed much towards the 
 adorning thereof. 
 
 He was Brother to Sir yohn Fitz-yames Knight, Lord Chief Juftice 
 of the Kings Bench, in the Reign of King Hen. the 8M. which two 
 honorable Perfons by their mutual fupport ftrengthened one another in 
 the Affairs of both Church and State. They were both of them the 
 Anceftors of the late Sir John Fifz James of Levijham in the County of 
 Dorfety a Gentleman of Polite Learning, and much obliging candor, 
 and a Member of feveral Parliaments. Of which Family I probably 
 may fpeak more, when I come to the Temple Church, where the Son 
 and Heir of the faid Sir John viz. yohn Fitz-yames Efq ; lies Interred 
 under a fair Marble, a young and moft hopeful Gentleman who dyed 
 in the flower of his youth, upon whofe death the beft part of his 
 Inheritance devolved on his furviving fifters. The Brother of that faid 
 Sir yohn being Sir Henry Fitz-yameSy a Collonel in the late Wars, and 
 a Perfon of much honor. 
 
 Not far from this Bifhop Fitz-yames lay a flat blew Marble thus 
 engraven. 
 
 Orate pro Anima Gilberti Seagrave, ex Jiirpe Lincolnias oriundi, viri 
 honiy ac Docti^ qui electus eji ad Epijcopatum Londinenfem, co?ifecratus 
 eji menje Novembris Mcccxiij, & a tertio Anno poji conJecratio?iem cor- 
 reptus ejiyjcilicet Anno Mcccxvij. Cujus AnimcSy &cc. 
 
 Eng/ijht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Gilbert Seagrave, defcended from a Family of 
 that Name in the County of Lincolne. a good, and learned man, and 
 for that caufe was confecrated Bifhop of London the 23 of November in 
 the Year 1313, and dyed in the year ]'^)7' ^^^'^^ years after his confecra- 
 tion. He was born at Seagrave com. Leiceji. bred at Oxford, where he 
 attained to great learning, as his Books do declare. The firfl Prefer- 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 ment conferr'd on him was the Provofts place of St Sepulchers in the 
 City of York ; and on the occafion how he got it is remarkable. It 
 feems the Pope had formerly beftowed it on his near Kinfman, who 
 lying on his death Bed, was troubled in confcience (which fpeaks loudeft 
 when men begin to be fpeechlefs) that he had undertaken fuch a care of 
 fouls upon him, who never was in England, nor underftood any Englijh ; 
 wherefore he requefted the Pope his Kinfman to conferr it on fome 
 learned Englijh man, fo that this Seagrave being found the fitteft Perfon, 
 was accordingly preferred thereto. And was confequently (as it was 
 faid) Bifhop of London, not fitting in the feat full four years, and dyed 
 as was faid 13 17. 
 
 Before St Georges Chappel lay a fair flat ftone thus infcribed.^ 
 
 Heic jacet certijjimam rejurrectionem carnis Juce expectans Johannes 
 Aylmer Epijcopus Lond. quidem Johannes diem obiit fuum Anno 
 
 Dom. MDLXXXXIIlj. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies in an afTured hope of his Refurrection yohn Aylmer late 
 Lord Bifhop of London, who died in the year of our Lord 3594. 
 
 This Bifhop Aylmer was alfo Lord Almoner, and a man of great 
 Learning, Piety, and Prudence, and was Confecrated Bifhop in the 
 year j 576. 
 
 This name of Aylmer, and corruptly Elmer, was originally written 
 Ethelmar, from that Ethelmar Earl of Cornwall (and that even in the 
 Reign of King Edgar) Founder of Cerne Abby in the County of Dorjet. 
 Which Earl had fo great veneration for Eadwald, Brother of St Edmond 
 the Martyr (who led an Hermit's life in Dorjetjhire, near to a certain 
 fpring called the Silver Well) that he, with the help of St. Dunjian 
 
 ' Inscription omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed. 
 
 15 
 
114 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Archbifliop of Canterbury, tranflated his Relicks to the old Church of 
 Cerne. And afterwards in the Reign of King Ethelred, he Founded the 
 Abby of EyneJJiam in the County of Oxford; Hkewife the Priory of 
 Bruiton in the County of Scmerfet, the Antient Seat of that honorable 
 Family of the Berklies. Which Earl Ethelmar, or Aylmer fearing the 
 fury of the Danes then over-running moll: part of the Weft, and Swam 
 their Leader, forcing King Ethelred to flie to Winchejler for fuccour. 
 He then, with fome great men of the Weji fubmitted himfelf to the faid 
 Swane, and gave Hoftages for his, and their peaceable Deportment. 
 
 From this Memorable Earl of Cornwall, defcended this Bifhop yohn 
 Aylmer, Brother to the then Sir Robert Aylmer of Aylmer Hall, in the 
 Parifh of Tillejley in the County of Norfolk Knight. The which Bijhop 
 fohn (faith a grave Hiftorian, and uncontrolable Antiquary) was fifft 
 Chaplain to Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, and Tutor to that learned 
 and accomplifht Illuftrious Lady JANE GRET, fometimes nominated 
 and declared Queen of England. In the Reign of Queen Mary this 
 Worthy Church-man was forced to fly beyond Seas, and in his flight 
 was miraculoufly preferved by a Merchant, in a great Wine-fat made 
 with a partition of Boards in the middle ; at the forepart of which, the 
 Searchers then in queft of him, freely drank Wine ; and by that means 
 happily efcaped their farther difquifition. He had many Children, one 
 of which, was Tobell Aylmer, fo Baptized by Arch-Bifliop Whitgft, 
 which is to fay the Lord is good, in a pious acknowledgment of his 
 Mothers merciful deliverance from a great danger, whofe Coach-horfes 
 being afl^aulted by a furious Maftiff Dog, and the Coach overthrown, 
 and fhe therein, yet had no hurt, though near the time of her Delivery. 
 
 He was (faith the fame Author) a very learned man ; a great dif- 
 putant, and deep Divine. He fat i8 Years Bifliop of London, and dying 
 (as was faid) in the year j594, and in the 73 of his Age, had this 
 diftick ' fixed on his Tomb by Doctor Richard Vauhan Bifliop of London 
 ' and his quondam Chaplain. ' - 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale.— Ed. 
 
THE T'OMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 "5 
 
 'Ter fenos annos Prcejul ; femel Exul ; & idem 
 * Bis Pugil in cauja Relligionis erat. 
 
 Which I thus Englijht. 
 
 Eighteen years Bifhop ; and once Banifht was. 
 And twice a Champion in Religions caufe. 
 
 The eldeft fon of this venerable Prelate was the late Samuel Aylmer 
 of Cleydon com. Suffolk Efquire, fometimes Sheriff of that County, and 
 Grand father to that Ingenious, Learned, and much obliging Gentleman 
 BRABAZON ATLMER of Mooton-hall in the County of Effex, 
 Efquire, who bears that Coat, though not the fortieth part of the Lands, 
 and the great Inheritance of his long-lin'd Anceftors. 
 
 In our Ladies Chappel at the upper end of the Quire, lay an old 
 gray Monument of Marble thus infcribed.^ 
 
 SDrate ^ pro ^ anima ^ JRoberti ^ TSragfjrofee ^ auonBam ^ OBpifcopi 
 
 # ifliu0 ^ OBcclcfie ; ^ cuius ^ corpus ^ Ijlc # tumulatur ^ qui ^ otiijt 
 
 # tJicefimo ^ feptimo ^ Die 'J? ^ menfis ^ augufti ^ anno ^ grade ^ ^ 
 millefimo # quanrmgentefimo ^ quarto ^ cuius ^ anime ^ et omnium 
 ^ fiDelium ^ Defunctorum ^ propttietur ^ neus ^ amen ^ a^€Ji3. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Of your Charity pray for the Soul of Robert Braybrook, who was 
 firft of all Cannon of hitchfield ; next Bifhop of Hereford ; afterwards 
 Bifhop of London, and laftly Chancellor of England, in the beginning of 
 the Reign of King Richard the Second, who after he had fate Bifhop of 
 London the fpace of 20 years, flept in the Lord in the year of Grace 
 1404. on whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the brass with inscription as given. Weever gives ' Orate pro anima Roberti 
 
 Brabrolte quondam Epifcopi huius Ecclefie, cuius corpus hie tumulatur, qui obijt 27. Aiigiifti 1405. cum 
 
 fediffet Ann. 20.' It vi'ill be seen that neither of the inscriptions given by these Authorities accords with the 
 translation given by Fisher. — Ed. 
 
ii6 
 
 rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAUL'S. 
 
 This Venerable Prelate was fo denominated from the place of his 
 Nativity mx. Braybrook in the County of Northampton, he defcen^ing 
 from Ingebaldy who Married Albreda one of the Daughters of that 
 Famous Ivo de Newmarcb, by whom, he had a fon at firft called Robert 
 Mey, but afterwards Robert de Braybrook, a Perfon very memorable in 
 the Reign of Richard the firft ; Mafter of the Wardrobe, Privy Coun- 
 fellor to King yohn, and a remarkable Baron of the Realm, and alfo 
 Sheriff of the Counties of Buckingham, Bedford, Northampton and 
 Rutland : His Son was likewife one of the itinerant Juftices of England. 
 From both which defcended Reginald de Braybrook, and Sir Gerrard 
 Braybrook, with this Robert Braybrook Bifhop of London, and fome little 
 time Chancellor of England ; who by a folemn decree ordain'd that the 
 days of the Converfion, and Commemoration of St Paul (to whom this 
 facred ftructure was Dedicated) (hould be Celebrated throughout all his 
 Diocefs equally with the higheft Feftivals. And to that end that 
 nothing (hould be deficient to the grandieur of this folemnity, he com- 
 manded that all the Clergy of his Diocefs, fhould repair to his Church 
 in their beft Copes, on the days appointed for the annual Solemnization 
 of the Memory of St Erkenwald, according to the cuftoms of old times 
 ufed in this Cathedral. 
 
 The Marble Coffin of this moft Reverend Churchman lately break- 
 ing forth from its place, upon the Chiafma, or rupture of that wall nigh 
 which it was immured ; his perfect fkeliton whole and unconfumed, 
 was expofed to the view, and indeed wonder of many Spectators. The 
 which being made known to the right Reverend the late Humphrey L. 
 Bifhop of London, and the truely Reverend, and Univerfally Learned 
 Doctor WILLIAM SANCROFT then Dean of St Pauls, and fince 
 (without the leaft motion of his own,) the moft meritorious Arch- 
 Bifhop of Canterbury, was by their immediate commands conveyed to 
 the place whence it was taken up, and there decently reinterred. 
 
 The Parfonage of which Braybrook is in the donation of the worthily 
 honored Ed. Grijfith Efquire, Treafurer of the Chamber of King Charles 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PJUL'S. 
 
 117 
 
 the Second, and Son and Heir of the honorable late Sir Edward Griffith 
 of Dingly com. Northampton Knight, and Treafurer of the Chamber to 
 King Charles the Firft, and King Charles the Second, which in his life 
 time condignly conferr'd the fame Parfonage of Braybrook on that 
 Learned, much obliging, and well Born Gentleman, yames Crawford 
 Batchellor of Divinity, and a long time Chaplain to the honorable Sir 
 THOMAS HIGGONS of Gruel com. Southampton Knight and a long 
 time AmbafTador refidentiary to that illuftrious Republick of Venice. 
 
 There was alfo of late time another fkeliton taken up, viz. the 
 Body of Sir John of Ware one of the Cardinal Minor Canons of this 
 Cathedral, who was buried many years, before this Bifhop Braybrook^ 
 yet did he appear in his perfect Habit, with a great part of his linning 
 unconfumed, as it was then feen by my worthing and much obliging 
 Friend, Mr. fames Clifford Gentleman, formerly of the Foundation of 
 St. Mary Magdalene Coll. Oxford^ and many fince, and at this day, one 
 of the Minor Canons of this great Cathedral. Of this fohn de Ware^ I 
 may Ipeak more in my great Hiftory of the Tombs, and Monuments of 
 London, and the circumjacent parts, when I come to treat of the Tombs 
 of Wejiminjier where lies interred Richard de Ware who was in the 
 year 1258. confirmed Abbot of Wejiminjier , by a decree from Rome, from 
 which place he brought fkilful workmen, and Porphiry ftone, and with 
 curious Chequer-work, beautified, and embellifht the pavement where 
 the Communion Table now ftands fettled. Of whom I may fjpeak 
 more when I come to that Cathedral. 
 
 In the Body of this Church lay an old gray Marble thus infcribed.^ 
 
 Orate pro anima ROBERTI MORTON Nepotis Cardinalis Morton, 
 ^i pojiquam undecim Annos fediffet Epifcopus Wigornias, diem Jiium clauft 
 Lond. Anno Dom. 1494. cujus Animce, &c. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 Engliflit thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of ROBERT MORTON Nephew of Cardinal 
 Morton, who after he had fat eleven years Bifhop of Worcejier, died near 
 here in London, and was buried in the year of our Lord one thoufand 
 four hundred ninty feaven, [? 1494] on whofe Soul 
 
 He was confecrated i486, and was Brothers Son to the great 
 Cardinal Arch-bifhop MORTON, a Perfon of Honourable and Antient 
 extraction, whofe Father's habitation was at St. Andrew Milbourn com. 
 Dorjet. The chief of which right antient Family is, that honourable 
 eminently loyal, and generally obliging Gentleman Sir JOHN 
 MORTON St. Andrews- 3/Iilbourn, an Hereditary Baronet of England 
 of the firll Creation, and a Gentleman of fair accomplishments acquired 
 by his generous Education at home, and prudent obfervation refultant 
 from his long travels abroad in France and other countries. 
 
 Since the Difcovery of the Coffin of the aforementioned yohn de 
 Ware, there was found another Jkeliton of a man lying in a Stone Coffin, 
 which was conjectured to be a Bifhop, Abbot, or Prior, the head, and 
 foot of whofe paftoral Staff of Copper gilt, together with a Chalice of 
 Silver double gilt, remained fometimes in the Cuftcdy of my worthy, 
 and much obliging Friend Mr. 'John Tillotfon, Clerk of the works. 
 Auditor to the Dean and Chapter of St Pauls, and Controuler to the fo 
 well govern'd Houfehold of the moft Reverend, right Honourable and 
 Univerfally Learned WILLIAM Laud Archbifhop of Catiterbury. By 
 the means of which Mr. Tillotfms acquaintance, I found the favor not 
 only to fee, and handle the faid Chalice, but alfo to inform myfelf with 
 fome other Curiolities, relating to this Cathedral. 
 
 In the South Ille, on the Backfide of the High Alter flood a fair 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAULS. 
 
 119 
 
 Monument, the Infcription on which, thus reprefented the Perfon there- 
 under interred.^ 
 
 THOMAS HENEAGE EQVES AVRATVS, EX ANTIQVA 
 HENEAGIORVM FAMILIA, IN COMITATV LINCOLNIENSI 
 ORIVNDVS; INGENII SPLENDORE, MORVM ELEGAN^'^ 
 ORATIONIS FACVLTATE, ET OPTIMIS 5TVDII5 ORNATISSI^"^ 
 CAMERA REGI^ THESAVRARIVS PROCAMERARIVS, 
 DVCATVS LANCASTRI^ CANCELLARIVS ET AB INTIMIS 
 CONCILIIS ELIZABETHE REGIME, CVI PRIVATE ET 
 PRINCIPI, FIDE ET FAMA INTEGRA MAXIMIS NEGO^"^ 
 5PECTATV5 SVMMA CVM GRATIA ANNIS 38. INSERVIVIT, 
 HIC SECVNDVM CHRISTI ADVENTVM IN PACE 
 EXPECTAT. 
 VNA CVM ANNA VXORE CHARISSIMA, 
 FILIA NICOLAI POINTZI EQVITIS AVRATI, 
 EX lOANNA FILIA THOM.E BARONI5 BERK* 
 LEY, FGEMINA LECTISSIMA, SANCTISSIMIS 
 MORIBVS, ET A TENERIS AD MORTEM VSQ; 
 ELIZABETHS REGINS, PRSDILECTA 
 FAMVLA: QUM ILLI VNICVM FILIOLVM 
 PRIMA INFANTIA PRSREPTVM, ET VNICA 
 ENIXA FILIAM HSREDEM ELIZABETHS, 
 MOYLO FINCH EQVITI AVRATO ENVPTA 
 OBIIT ILLE 17. OCTOBRIS, ANN : DOM : jS94. 
 PRSIVIT ILLA NOVEMB: ANN: DOM: 1592. 
 OPTIMIS ET CHARISSIMIS PARENTIB, 
 ELIZABETHA FINCH FILIA MCESTISSI 
 HOC POSUIT. 
 
 Englijhf thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of SIR THO. HENEAGE Knight, 
 Defcending from an honourable, and antient Family 
 Of his Name, in the County of Lincoln. 
 He was a Perfon remarkable 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the tomb with inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
I20 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 For the acutenefs of his Wit, and elegancy of his Manners : 
 Together with the Terfenefs of his Style, and language. 
 And choicenefs of his quaint, and curious ftudies. 
 He was Treafurer, and Vice chamberlain to the Queens Houfhold 
 Alfo Chancellor to the Dutches of Lancajler, 
 And one of the Queens Privy Council : 
 By whom (when but a Private Princefs) 
 He was frequently imployed in affairs 
 Of the greatefi: importance ; 
 In all which, with fingular care, and credit 
 He ferved Her Majefly for 30 years together, 
 And here now in Peace expecteth 
 The reappearance of our BlelTed Lord and Savioui. 
 And with him lies here, his dear Wife ANN 
 
 Daughter of Sir Nicholas Poyntz Knight, 
 Her Mother the Lady Joan being Daughter 
 To Thomas Lord Berkley. 
 She was a choice Woman 
 Of a very Religious Life, and Converfation 
 And from her Childhood till the day of her death 
 A conftant, and well-beloved Servant of, and to 
 Queen ELIZABETH 
 She brought unto her Hulband only one Son 
 Who was fnatcht away by death in his Infancy ; 
 
 And one only Daughter Elizabeth 
 Married to Sir Moyle Finch Knight and Baronet 
 He dyed the lyth of October 1594. 
 She dyed before him in November 1592. 
 Dame Elizabeth Finch their only Daughter 
 To thefe her exceeding dear, and well-deferving Parents 
 Hath with much forrow 
 Confecrated this Monument. 
 
THE TOMBES OF Sr. PAULS. in 
 
 How antient and honourable thefe HENEAGES habe been, I fhall 
 acquaint my Reader in my great Hiftory of the Tombes and Monuments 
 of Londony when I come to St Andrews Church Holbourn where I 
 meet with Henry Heneage Efq. ; interred near the North door of that 
 Church, with an Coppy of Verfes, on a Brafe plate fixed on the ftone 
 which covers him, but lately ftoln away by fome bafe facrilegious 
 Pilferer. 
 
 As for .this Sir Moyle Finch, a Baronet of the firft Creation (He 
 being the 25 Baronet in the Catalogue of King yames his Creation) his 
 name originally was Fifz-herbert, he duly being the lineal OfF-lpring of 
 that Famous Fitz-herbert Chamberlain of the Houfhold to King Henry 
 the firft, whofe name was FINCH; one of whofe Progeny Sir Moyle 
 Finch (A Gentleman of a very fair eftate, and paralel efteem in the 
 County of Kent) fortunately married this ELIZABETH the only 
 Daughter, and Heir of this above mentioned Sir Thomas Heneage 
 Knight, Treafurer of the Chamber, Vice Chamberlain of the houfliould. 
 Chancellor of the Dutches of Lane, and Privy Counfellor to Queen 
 Elizabeth, and of his Wife ANN, Daughter of Sir Nicholas Poyntz 
 Knight, and Grand-daughter by her Mother's Side to Thomas Lord 
 Berkley. So that this ELIZABETH in reference to her noble extrac- 
 tion, courtly Education, and ample Revenues, was by King JAMES 
 condignly created Vifcountess Maidjion, and afterwards by King 
 CHARLES the Firft (of Blefted Memory,) created Countefs of Win- 
 chelfea in the County of Sujfex ; which right honourable Counntefs, laid 
 the fair Foundation of three fucceeding Peers of the Realm of England. 
 
 Firft of the right Honourable her eldeft Son, Sir Thomas Finch 
 Baronet Vifcount Maidjion and Earl of Winchelfea, Father of the right 
 Honourable, Innately Noble, and Worthily well accomplifht Sir Heneage 
 Finch Baronet, Baron Fitz-herbert (in reference to the above faid Famous 
 Fitz-herbert of Eajiwell (Sirnamed Finch) Vifcount Maidjion and Earl of 
 Winchelfea; Eight years Lord Embaflador Lieger to the Grand Seigniour 
 of Tiirky, and many years to this prefent day the moft Loyal Lord 
 
 16 
 
122 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Lieutenant of that never yet Conquered County. of Kenty and for 372 
 years, an entire, and abfolute Kingdom. 
 
 The fecond Peer of this difFufive Family, was the late right 
 Honourable Sir yohn Finch Knight (Second Brother of the laid Sir 
 Moyle) Bencher and Treafurer of Greys Inn; in the 3d year of King 
 Charles the Firft, Speaker of the Houfe of Commons ; confequently, 
 made the Queens Attorney; Serjeant of the Law; and one of the 
 Juftices of the Common-Pleas; laftly Lord Keeper of the great Seal, 
 and Baron Finch of Fordwich in the faid County, where his Anceftors 
 have continued in much honor for many Generations. 
 
 Thirdly, the right honourable and eminently accomplifht with the 
 beft qualifications of a good Statefman, Profound Lav^^er, polite Orator, 
 and generally Learned Schollar, the late Sir Heneage Finch Knight and 
 Baronet (Grandchild of the above faid honourable Sir Moyle Finch, and 
 the Lady Elizabeth Countefs of Wincheljea) Son and Heir of the late Sir 
 Heneage Finch (fourth fon of the faid Sir Moyle) Recorder of London, and 
 Speaker of the Houfe of Commons Anno 1625 whofe faid Son and Heir 
 to this late Heneage was firft Educated, and planted in that fo fair and 
 fruitful Seminary of fo numerous, and Noble Perfons, and Eminent 
 Schollars viz. Wejiminjler School, under the vigilant care, and generous 
 conduct of that Learned, Religious, Loyal, and generally obliging Perfon 
 very many years great Mafter, Amplifier and Beautifier thereof, the 
 truly Reverend Doctor Richard Bujby, the Worthy Prebendary, and 
 EmbellijLher of that Cathedral of Wejiminjler, and charitable Benefactor 
 to the Prifon thereof, and alfo other places in the Counties of Middlejex 
 and Buckinghamjhire. 
 
 From which Noble nurfery he the faid Heneage was tranilated to 
 Chriji-church Oxford, where from a Gentleman Commoner, and excel- 
 lent Scholar, he removed to the Inner Temple London ; and there com- 
 menc't a grand Proficient in the Laws of England, and gradually became 
 - Barrifter, Bencher, Treafurer, Reader, Sollicitor General, Baronet ; 
 Attorney General ; the Kings Serjeant at Law ; Lord Keeper of the 
 
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 123 
 
 Great Seal, Baron Finch of Daventry com. Northampton ; and laftly. 
 Lord High Chancellor of England; and in the clofe Earl of Nottingham-y 
 and fome times Lord High Steward of England. Which Earl lately 
 dying to the great grief of the King, and Kingdom ; left (among other 
 furvivant Children) His Son and Heir the right Honourable Lord Daniel 
 Finch (one of the great Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty and 
 Privy- Counfellor) to fucceed to his Fathers Hereditary Earldom of 
 Nottingham, &c., and his fecond Son the Honourable, and moft highly 
 hopeful Heneage Finch His Majefties Sollicitor General to trace his 
 faid Father in the fame footfteps of Law Learning, Induftry, Riches, 
 and concomitant Honour Fortune frequently being the officious Page or 
 Handmaid to wait on and bear up the Train of antecedent Virtue. 
 
 In a Chappel on the North fide of this Church, lay an old worn 
 ftone, with this Infcription.^ 
 
 Heic jacet Henricus Barton Miles, Civis & Pellitarius London ; ^i 
 fuit etiam civitatis Major anno a Partu Virginis MDXIX.^ 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Sir Henry Barton Knight, Citizen, and Skinner 
 of London, and alfo Lord Mayor of that City in the year of our Lord 
 
 1519- 
 
 In the Quire of this Cathedral hung the Atchievement, and Banner 
 of that unprefidently Generous, and highly Munificent l^ovd,. James 
 Hayes Earl of Carlijle, a bofom favourite and Privy Counfellor to King 
 JAMES, by whom, he was fent Ambaffador to the Crown of France ; 
 the which embafie. He managed with the moft matchlefs Gallantry 
 and Grandieur, that was ever known in the Kingdom to the High 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed. ^ Dugdale gives 1417 as year of mayoralty. — Ed. 
 
124 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Commendation and Honour of this. The Relations, and Kinfmen of 
 this Noble Earl are at this prefent, and long have fo been Peers in the 
 Kingdom of Scotland, with other Perfons of Honour, and good quality 
 of that diffufive Name, and Family. 
 
 Near Robert de Stratford on an old Brafs, was this Infcription.^ 
 
 Orate pro Anima Galfridi de Ayton hujus Ecclejia Sancti Pauli 
 Canoniciy ^lui migravit ex hoc feculo, Cujus Animcey &cc. 
 
 Rnglijht thus. 
 
 Pray for the good Eft ate of "Jeffrey Alton Canon of this Church of 
 St Pauls, who dyed, on whofe Soul, 
 
 Of this Name of Ayton, I fhall fay more when I come to that 
 famous Knight, Sir K. Ayton Mafter of the Requefts to King James, 
 buried under a Fair Monument in Wejlminjler Abby. 
 
 Upon a Column near to Laurent ius Aller thorp, are thefe elegant 
 Elegiacks, checking the Pride and ambition of poor Mortal men. 
 
 Unde Superbus homo f Cujus conceptio culpa, 
 
 Nafci pcena, labor vita, neceffe mori. 
 Vana falus Hominum, vanus labor, omnia vana ; 
 
 Inter vana, nihil vanius eji Homine. 
 Poji Hominem Vermis, poji vermem Fcetor et Horror, 
 
 Sic in non Hominem vertitur omnis Homo. 
 Mors venit abfq ; mora, nefcis cum venerit hora ; 
 
 EJlo paratus ei, cum venerit hora Diei. 
 
 Which I thus Englijh. 
 And why fo proud poor man ? Conceaved ith' luft 
 Of Shame, and Sorrow, and ordain'd to Duft. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale and Weaver. — Ed. 
 
rHE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
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 Vain is thy ftrength, and ftratagems ; nor can 
 There be a Creature near fo vain as man : 
 
 A Prey to worms, worms full of filth, and loathing. 
 Thus man compof'd of nought, returns to nothing. 
 
 Death comes with Wings, yet no man knows her day. 
 Be then prepar'd to meet her in the way. 
 
 At the Upper end of the South Ifle, above the Quire in St. Dunjians 
 Chappel, flood a fair Monument, in Honour of that fo memorable Peer 
 in this time, Henry de Lacy E. of Lincoln, who lay on his tomb in his 
 Military habiliments Crofs-leg'd according to the ill mode of the Heroes 
 of that Age, who had vowed to live, and dye in defence of the Ghofpel, 
 and Crofs of JESUS CHRIST, whofe Epitaph, thus reprefents him.^ 
 
 Orate pro Anima Henrici de Lacy Comifts de Lincoln, jloruit 
 temporibus Edvardi Primi, & Edvardi Secundi Regum Anglic^ & ex 
 hoc fceculo migravit Anno Domini MCCCXI.^ in fejio Sanctce Agathce 
 Virginis, cujus Animce &c. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln, who flourifht in 
 the Reigns of King Edward the Firft, and King Eduard the Second, and 
 departed this life in the Year of our Lord one Thoufand Three Hundred 
 and Eleven, in the feaft of St. Agatha the Virgin, on whofe Soul, ^c. 
 
 This Famous Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln, Baron of Haulton, 
 Conftable of Chejier, Lord of Pontefract Blackbournjhire, Rojfe in Wales, 
 and Rouwenick, fucceeded his Grandmother in the Earldom of Lincoln, 
 and was in the abfence of the King conftituted Lord Protector of the 
 Realm of England, and Viceroy of the Dutches of Aquitain, and in the 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever.— Ed. ^ 'Died Feb. 5, 131$, set. 60' — (Weever). — Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 28 of Edward the Firft, he was made Lieutenant of Gafcoigjie^ and had 
 afterwards many other Honors, and Offices confer'd upon him equiva- 
 lent to the merits of fo great a Soldier, and faithful a Subject. In the 
 35^/2 of Edward the Firft, being with him at Burgh on the Sands in the 
 County of Cumberland (where the King lay fick on his Death-bed) the 
 faid King had fecret conference with him, and defired him to be good to 
 his Son Edward the 2nd, and not permit Pierce de Gavejion ever to 
 return into England again. 
 
 He was a charitable Benefactor to Religious houfes ; and was the 
 firft Builder of the Town, and Caftle of Denbigh. He had only one 
 Son, who being drowned in a deep Well within an high Tower called 
 the Red Tower in Denbigh Cajiky it fo paffionately afflicted this good 
 Earl, that he never finiftit it. His only Daughter the Lady Alice^ was 
 Married firft to Thomas Earl of Lancajier, Son and Heir to Edmmd Earl 
 of Lancajler, Brother to King Edward the Firft. She was next married 
 to Richard de St Martin^ who in her faid Huft)ands life time, claimed 
 her in Marriage by force of arms for his Wife, and upon proof a Pre- 
 contract was carried away with him, her Hulband Thomas Earl of 
 Lancajier then nor ever after being able to recover her. 
 
 This Lady Alice upon her Mothers Marriage with Nicholas de Audlejy 
 (a great Baron in the County of Stafford^ had the Honour of Pontefracty 
 and was (befides her Countftiip of Lancajier) Countefs of Lincoln and 
 Salijbury ; And laftly Marrying with Eubulo le Jirange a great man in 
 thofe times, he the faid Eubulo had a juft title to the Earldom of Lincoln, 
 who was one of the Long-lin'd Anceftors to that Honourable, and 
 hugely antient Family of the Lejiranges in the County of Norfolk, who 
 from old and powerful Barons, are now only Baronets of England. 
 
 This Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln died at his Manfion houfe called 
 Lincolns Inn, his antient Seat erected by himfelf as his Arms in the front 
 of the Gatehoufe demonftrat, which place for many years hath been 
 the fruitful Seminary of So many famous Lawyers, and from this Earl of 
 Lincoln took its firft denomination. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
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 About the middle of the Weft Ifle on a fair brafs-plate, you might 
 have found this Infcription.^ 
 
 Orate pro Anima Richardi Gravefend Epijcopi de London, cancel- 
 larii hujus Ecclejla, cut multa Bona contulit, nec minima Civitati Londini 
 obiit apud Fulham nono Decembris Anno Dom. MCCCIII. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Richard de Gravefend Bifhop of London^ and 
 Chancellor of this Church, to which he bequeathed many good benefits, 
 and no mean ones to this City of London, he dyed at Fulham the C)th of 
 December 1303. He was Confecrated the 12th of Auguji 1282.^ 
 
 Amongft which good gifts given to this Church, one was, in con- 
 ftituting a chaunter to read Divinity Lectures therein, and for an 
 Augmentation of his own allowance, and encouragement of his fuccelTors 
 in that Honour of Chancellor-fhip. He gave, and appropriated thereto 
 the Church of Telling in EJfeXy except 40 1. per Annum payable for the 
 maintenance of a Vicar in that Church. This Richard de Gravefend 
 was Arch-deacon firft of Northampton, and was Confecrated Bifhop of 
 London 1282,^ and was the firft Founder of a Covent of Carmelites^ at 
 Maldon in Effex, and dying at Fulham 1303. was here buried as aforefaid. 
 
 To him fucceeded his Nephew Stephen de Gravefend Bifhop of 
 London, who appointed 200 Marks to be diipofed of to his poorer 
 Tenants, and was Confecrated Bifhop of London 13 18. January the 
 I4th^, and fate about twenty years. 
 
 Alfo I read of one Benedict de Gravefend Bifhop of Lincoln 1258. 
 which muft be in the reign of Henry the third. 
 
 Here was alfo the memorial of that worthy Prelate Ralph de 
 Stratford, Born at Stratford upon Avon, where he built a Chappel to 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed. ^ Dugdale gives ii Aug., 1280. — Ed. 
 
 ^ Dugdale gives date of election as II Sept. 1318, and of inthroneinent 30 Sept. 1319. — Ed. 
 
128 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 the Honour of St Thomas. He was firft Canon of St Paulsy and after 
 on the i^th of May 1339.^ — he was at Canterbury Confecrated Bifhop 
 of London. During his fitting in that See, there hapned fo grievous a 
 Peftilence in London^ that hardly the tenth perfon in feme places did 
 efcape. Then indeed every Church-yard (faith mine Author) was a 
 Polyandrum, fo that the dead feemed to juftle one another for room 
 therein, yea the dead might be faid to kill the living, fo fhallow were 
 their Corps interred. 
 
 Whereupon this good Bifhop in pure charity, bought a piece of 
 ground near Smit/ifield called No mans Landy which afterwards proved 
 every mans Land, who were there Buried, it being Confecrated for the 
 general Sepulture of the then deceafed. This Bifhop having continued 
 about 14 years in his See, dyed at Stebenbeath (commonly called Stepney) 
 
 i355-\ 
 
 This Ralph was a neer kinfman to John Stratford, Son of Robert 
 and Ifabel Stratford, who being preferr'd Bifhop of Winchejler by the 
 Pope, without the Kings confent, viz. King Edward the Second, he fell 
 into his disfavour. But being folitioufly ftudious to regain the Kings 
 good will, by the mediation of Archbifhop Mepham, he was reconciled 
 thereto, and proved a conftant good Subject to the faid King Edward 
 the Second, and forfook him not in his greateft extremity. He was at 
 length Arch-bifhop of Canterbury, and Lord Treafurer of England, and 
 confequently furnifh't King Edward the Third with great Summs to 
 maintain his Wars with France, the which Summs being quickly con- 
 fum'd, the King fends over for more, to whom this thrifty good 
 Treafuror, inflead of Coyn returns good Counfel, advifing the King to 
 alter his Officers, otherwife f fo much was fpent at a Breakfaji the whole 
 Wealth of England would not ferve him for a Dinner. Enraged at his 
 meffage, over comes the King, from whofe Fury this good Man was 
 forced to fly, and conceal himfelf, till publickly paffing his purgation in 
 Parliament, He was reflored to the reputation of his innocency, and 
 
 ' Dugilalc gives 12 March 1340.— Ed. 
 
 " Dugdale gives 1354.- Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PJUL'S. 
 
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 rectified in the Kings wonted good opinion. He Built, and Bountifully 
 endowed a Beautiful Colledge, and having fat Arch-Bi£hop for 1 3 years, 
 he dyed 1348 leaving a Perfumed memory behind him, for his Bounty 
 to his Servants ; Charity to the poor ; meeknefs and moderation to all 
 Perfons. 
 
 Likewife there was Robert Stratford Brother to this Arch-Bifhop; 
 who in the Reign of the faid Edward the Third, was made Bifhop of 
 Chichejier\ Chancellor of Oxford \ and in the clofe. Chancellor of all 
 Kngland. 
 
 In his time there was a rough conteft between the South, and 
 Northern Men, in which was fome Blood fpilt, but afterward the 
 difference was decided and pacified, by the moderation of this prudently 
 interpofing Prelate. 
 
 He was accufed to the King, for favouring the French, with his 
 Brother the faid Arch-Bifhop, and was contented for a while patiently to 
 attend, till pregnant time was delivered of truth her Eldeft Daughter, 
 and then this pair of Prelates appeared Brethren in Integrity. He dyed 
 at Allingbourn in the Ninth of April 1362. 
 
 Many memorable Perfons almoft without number, have been Buried 
 in this great Church, whofe Tombs, Tablets, and Graveftones have been 
 fo much defaced, and eaten up by the Teeth of time (the grand, and 
 greedy devourer of all things) that no Age, not Hiflory can give a jufl 
 account of their Epitaphs, fuch as were. 
 
 Richard Hill Bifhop of London, Confecrated Anno Dom. 1493/ who 
 deceafed 1495, and was Buried in the Body of this Church. 
 
 Robert Munden and fohn Munden, both Canons of St Pauls one 
 Buried 1332, the other 1337. 
 
 William Welford and Richard Placifo, both Archdeacon of Colchefer 
 and both buried before St Thomas Altar. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives 19 Aug. 1489. — Ed. 
 
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THE TOMBES OF ST. PJUL'S. 
 
 With many others, whofe names you will find in Stow's Survey of 
 Londoriy but more particularly in the Tombes and Monuments of St 
 Paulsy more lately publifht by that learned and laborious Antiquor Sir 
 WILLIAM DUGDALE Knight Garter, or Principal King at Armes. 
 
 There was alfo a Memorial for Gilbert Foliot Bifhop of Londoriy 1 162, 
 and dyed 1 1 87, of whom this remarkable palTage is reported. That one 
 Night ferioufly mufing with himfelf about feveral matters, he heard a 
 ftrange voice thus Ipeaking to him. 
 
 O Gilberte Foliot 
 Dum revohis Toty & Tot 
 Deus Tuus eft ASHTEROT. 
 
 To which voice he readily replied 
 
 Mentiris Daemon ; qui eft DEUS 
 SABAOTHy eft ille meus. 
 
 The Both which, I thus tranflate. 
 
 Whilft O Gilbert Fallot 
 Thou doft mufe on this and that. 
 The God thou ferveft is AJhterot. 
 Sathan thou lyeft ; that fo well known 
 GOD of the SABAOTH, is alone 
 The GOD I do adore, and own. 
 
 He was born at Tamerton- Foliot in the County of Devon ; and was 
 Abboty firft of Gloceftery Bifhop of Herefordy and laftly of London. 
 
 I find another worthy Perfon of that diffufive, and fairly flourifliing 
 Family viz. Robert Foliot Arch-deacon of Oxford, who was Tutor to 
 Thomas Beckety by whom he was made Bilhop of Hereford after his 
 death viz. anno 11 86. 
 
 - There was alfo one Hugh Foliot Arch-deacon of Shrewjburyy after- 
 wards Bifhop of Hereford, who dyed 1234. 
 
rUE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Of this right antient and Honourable name, there is ftill living a 
 Noble Perfon viz. the right Honourable Lord Foliot Baron of Bali- 
 Jhanoriy in his Majefties Kingdom of Ireland. 
 
 Here was alfo the Memorial of Bifhop Stokejley Billiop of London 
 the verfes on whofe Gravejion, thus reprefent him. 
 
 Hujus in obfcuro Tumuli interiore recejfuy 
 
 Stokefley cineres^ ojfaq ; tecta iacent ; 
 Cuius Jama patens, vita decuSy ingenijq ; 
 
 Dexteritas calami ; 'Judiciiq ; daunt} 
 Ifte DEOy Regiq ; JuOy populoq ; Jidelisy 
 
 Viueret vt charus perpetuo Jiuduit. 
 Exteritus Jiquidem potuit regionibus uti? 
 
 Contulit in Patriam Icetiiis inde Juam^ 
 ^i Latias lujirauit opesy intrauit Hebrseas ; 
 
 Huic et Grascorum palma parata fuit. 
 Artes quid memorem vanas ad quas penetravify 
 
 ^um KVKXoTTatSetas auctus honore fuit. 
 
 Virginis et Matris cultori certa fupremum 
 Natalem Maris fata dedere diem. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 Th'obfcure RecelTes of this Key-cold Tomb 
 Do Stokejlies Afhes, and Remains inhume 
 Whofe general name ; good life ; dexterity 
 Of Pen, Tongue, Brain, were known both far, and nigh. 
 Who ftudied ftill to ferve GOD and the King, 
 And Benefit the Publick in each thing. 
 
 • Dugdale and Weever render the following lines : — 
 
 Dexteritas luce tamen. 
 
 ^ Doited line in place of ' vXV ' Dotted line only given.— 'Ed. 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PJULS. 
 
 What good he did from Forreign parts retrive. 
 He brought it home, Hke Honey to his Hive. 
 He knew th'Intreagues of Italy and Spain ; 
 And of the Grecian wyles did make much gain. 
 To many Kingdoms of the World being known. 
 And honor'd more, returning to his own. 
 Who on our BlefTed Ladies Day being Born, 
 Did on the felf fame day to duft return. 
 
 He fate Bifhop 13 years, and dying [Sept. 8] in the year of our 
 Lord, 1539. was Buried in our Ladies Chappel. 
 
 Of this right antient Family of the Stokeliesy I may fay more in my 
 great Hiftory of the Tombes of London, when I come to the Church of 
 St Andrew Underjliaft, in the North lide of whofe Chancel, I find 
 another Stokejley interred. 
 
 In the South-fide of the Quire was interred that eminently learned 
 Prelate Doctor yohn King, the mofl beloved Lord Bifhop of London &c. 
 defcending from that right worthy Family of the Kings of Devon/hire, 
 and by the Mothers fide, from that nolefs Honourable, than right 
 Antient Family, of the Conquejis of Houghton Conqueji in the County of 
 Bedford, over whofe Graveftone hung a fair Table, with this fairer, and 
 much more refined Infcription. 
 
 RESVRGAM. 
 Johannis King, Epifcopi Londinenjis, 
 ^icquid mortale eji 
 In hoc pulvere componitur. 
 
 Hie jacet niji quis calumnietur, 
 Mendax Tranfliberinus Ambulator^ 
 Transferri Cineres, Fidemq ; Romam. 
 Et Migrdjfe femel^Jiinulq ; utrumque 
 Prceful Catholicus,^^/ Orthodoxus^ 
 
THE "tOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 133 
 
 Non partis^ JludiofuSy evagari 
 Per Divortia Multa Opinionum, 
 Aut fectas didicit Novas creare : 
 ^od Ji quifuerint notc^ priortSy 
 ^os vulgus facify et colit Magijlros, 
 His tantd levitate non adhajity 
 Ut Ferfon^ Fide magis placeret : 
 Magna nominay fed minora femper, 
 IJihcec omniay veritate duxit. 
 1'antum non fuit ilk de Locujiis, 
 Aut rajis Monachisy Piifque ; nequam, 
 Urbem qui gravidare SepticoUem : 
 ^i circum Capitolium Jirepentes 
 Romanum, velut Anferes fonoriy 
 Cygnceas femerare Cantilenas 
 Audenty per modulamen inficetum. 
 Ft pro vocibus ultimis Oloris, 
 Commendare fuasy et Anferinas. 
 Sedy quod nec Calamiy nec or a Centum : 
 Nec Perjuria mille de Duaco ; 
 Nec Satan decumanus ille mendax, 
 Nec tandem Legio Diabolorum, 
 Extorquere fuis Jirophis valebant : 
 Vnusji DEUS ejiy Fides et una 
 Huic uni immoriensy et Anglicanas. 
 ^od Ji quis Logo-Dadalus prof anus, 
 Aut Famt^ Plagiarius fceleJiuSy 
 ^ic quam facrilego reponat ore : 
 Si vafer fidei MeroucrtasT^s 
 ^i vult de fimild Deum crearCy 
 Ft Chrijium jubet innatare vino : 
 Et fc Hcereticos et Orthodoxos 
 
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 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUUS 
 
 Confundity facit utq ; fymbolizent 
 Plusquam Pythagorce MeTe/At/zu^wo-et, 
 Seductum crepat Hum Apojiaffe : 
 Tarn ventofa Fides videtur Illis ; 
 Ut poji toty docilis feneXy Arijias, 
 AcceJJiJfe putetur imparatusy 
 Infanfq ; ad Documenta hejjiana. 
 Non plures Ubet Arbitros citare 
 ^am Confcire fuum : quod apprecarer 
 Tejiemy Carnificemq ; 'Judicemq ; 
 Illiy quifquis erat facer Poeta ; 
 An plus crediderit fuce Legendae, 
 ^am vulgi plus ilk FafcinatoVy 
 Autor plumbeus aureae Legendae 
 ^in Ji jurat Ideniyfat impudenter 
 Lingua pejerat ; aut quid inde Mentem 
 Injur atus habet ; fcioq ; habebit. 
 Tu Ji credideris feciis viator, 
 Nugisy impliciti necejjitate 
 AJfenfuSy bibulam Jidem recludens. 
 Si quis Seraphicus propinet autor ; 
 Veternum excutias : & abfq ; tandem 
 SufceptorCy Tuum pares adultus 
 Exameny tibiy teq ; cognitorem 
 Ponasy & fapias monente Amico, 
 Sin Jis credulitatis obJlinatcBy 
 Conclamatus es : Illicet. deinceps 
 Te Jiultum jubeo libenter ejfe. 
 
 IN DIEM OBITUS. 
 ^em Ilacrxa Domini fee erat facrum Diem 
 Et Mors Coronis integri certaminis : 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 135 
 
 Hunc ceque amicum Numen induljit Diem : 
 Dejiderando^ quod prope Hie, Capiti jacet, 
 ^0 folveretur uita vitalis parum, 
 Dolorum utrumq ; dixeris recte virum ; 
 Hie faxeam. Ilk Ligneam fenjit crueem. 
 Hie intusy Ilk bajulans extra fuam : 
 DoloruMy utriq ; Lux pofuit una et modum 
 ^in Ipfa Lux hcee mafculum Robur dedit, 
 Vt nil tremendum mortis , ineuteret metus, 
 Sed Pajchay verum Tranjitus potius foret, 
 JEternitati Prodromus. Marmor loquax 
 Spirat RE SURG AM ; myjiicis candet notis. 
 Nee Ipje Saddueceus apparet Lapis : 
 Conditq ; tantum, non premit Corpus : grave 
 Spes ijia fuperat Pondus, et Summum petit ; 
 Nee detinebit mole T>epoJitum fua ; 
 Sed Jponte ruptus exitum tandem dabit. 
 Cum Triduanum dormierit Ipjius tulit 
 Hanc CHRISTUS olim, Tertia Lueis moram. 
 (Nee milk Sceela Triduum exeedunt DEI J 
 Sie tota demum junBa Primitiis Jeges 
 Egerminabit. Hcee via ad Patriam, Mori. 
 C ale at a Mors eji, Surget ad Patriam vigil. 
 Hane Jpem fovebat Ilk : quod feulptum hie legis, 
 Sed corde Jixum fuerat, et ecelo ratum. 
 
 Annagr. Nominis, et Chronogr. iEtatis 
 62. currentis, 
 Johannes Kingus Prcelatus. 
 En. apertus Jonas Anglikus 
 Chronogramma Anno Domini 
 1621 
 
136 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 ECCe CVpio DIffoLVI aC 
 Chrlfto aDglVtlnarl 
 Philip, i. 2, 3. 
 Pauli hoc diffolvi repeti non dejiity ante 
 ^am quce protuleraty Lingua foluta fuit. 
 
 He ceafd not with St. Paul death to invoke. 
 And be difTolv'd, until he no more fpoke. 
 
 EPITAPHIVM. 
 Non hie Pyramides ; non Jcripta Panegyris ambit 
 Hos cineres ; lapidum nec pretiofa Jirues. 
 ^od frugale magisy tibi te committimus unum : 
 Sijaceas aliter^ vilior umbra fores. 
 Nam tibi qui Jimilis vivit, moriturq ; fepulchrum 
 Ille Jibiy vivaXy et Jibi marmory erit. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 No Pyramid, no Panegyrick here 
 Or precious Marble can thy duft indear ; 
 Thy Jelf wer't thine own cheaper Tomb ; fhould we 
 Erect a ftatelier, 'twould detract from thee : 
 For he that liv'd, and dyed like thee, muft have 
 A living Tomby and an Eternal Grave. 
 
 SeqVentVr qVI nonDVM prasCeffere. 
 Which Cronogrammically indicates 
 the year of his death 
 MDCXXI. 1621. 
 This right Reverend Prelate was 
 Brought up in Chrifl Church Oxford 
 (where he was Dean) and was alfo Arch-deacon 
 Of Nottinghamy and Confecrated Bifhop 
 Of London Anno Dom. 161 1. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 137 
 
 He was the Father of the late right Reverend Dr. Henry King late 
 Lord Bifhop of Chichejler, a Perfon as confpicuous for his obliging 
 Candor, as his Univerfal Learning, and unftained Loyalty to the 
 Majeflies of three great Englifh Monarchs. Who being the Offipring 
 of that Famous Robert King the laft Lord Abbot of Ofney, and firft 
 Bifhop of Oxford, did out of his own generous, and pure piety, fome 
 years fince remove the Body of this Robert his Anceflor out of the Quire 
 of Chrifl Church Cathedral Oxford, and placed it on the South fide 
 thereof in a fmall Ifle appropriated thereto, the which Ifle he richly 
 glazed, and beautified at his own cofl, and in it, adorned the Tomb of 
 his faid Anceflor, which I faw when lafl in Oxford. 
 
 The which Bifliop fohn King Bifhop of London, and his Son Henry 
 late Bifhop of Chichejier, were lineally defcended from thofe Kings of a 
 right Noble Family in the County of Devon, and by the maternal line, 
 from the Conquefts of Haughton-Conqueft, one of the Antientefl Families 
 in the County of Bedford. 
 
 About the middle of the Quire was a fair plated Graveflone, in 
 memory of that famous Robert Fitz-Hugh Bifhop of London, whofe 
 Epitaph in thefe Elegiacks thus fpeaks him.^ 
 
 513otiilis antifies Jaotiertus iLontionienQs, / filiii0 ^ugomg, f)ic 
 . reantefdt f)onor / Doctorum, flo0 pontificij quern contuUt / Eome 
 IBafiUe regia facta refert. / piangite cum iRer, ($rer, tria natia tota, / 
 erteca gens, fi qua nouerat ulla pium. / 0emma puDicitie fpectrum 
 t)omtati0, f)onon0/famaq[; lufticie, formula jud0 erat. / ^or0 tJiolenta 
 rapit tJiuentem, unDe cui mors / zixitit et montur tiita tjeata tuUt / ^iUe 
 quaDringenti0 tnginta qumq; futJ anni0 / infeflo ^auri coelica regna petit. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 Robert the Son of Hugh, Londons profound 
 Grave Bifhop buried lies in this low ground; 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the brass vsfith inscription as given. — Ed. 
 
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138 
 
 THE TOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Flower of the learned Doctors ; Ely whom 
 
 Preferr'd to this Court ; by the help of Rome ; 
 
 Whom fhe with 'England, and th'whole Realm fets forth 
 
 In doleful dirge ; and all that knew his worth. 
 
 For a Chafte, Pious, Honour'd life, he was 
 
 Confpicuous, and the Mirrour of the Laws. 
 
 Death fudden feiz'd him ; whence deliverd, he 
 
 Poffefi: the Manfions of Eternity. 
 One thoufand four hundred, thirty years and five 
 He journying, did at length in Heaven arrive. 
 
 This Famous Bifhop Fitx Hugh was Doctor of the Civil Laws, 
 Archdeacon of Northampton^ Bifhop of London, and thrice AmbalTador to 
 Forreign parts viz. once to Rome, and twice to Germany. He fate 
 Bifhop of London 5 years, died in the year of our Lord [Sept. 22] 1435.^ 
 He was elected Bifhop of Ely, but died before his intended tranflation 
 could be accomplifht. 
 
 Thefe Fitz Hughes have been Men Famous in their Generations. 
 The firft of which I meet with is Bardolph Fitz Hugh, who among 
 many great Manners was Proprietor of Ravenjwath ; and alfo I meet 
 with Henry Fitz Hugh a Baron of the Realm fummon'd to Parliament 
 in the Reign of King Edward the Second ; the which Henry was a 
 Memorable Commander in the Reign of the faid King, and at the 
 Coronation of King Edward the Third, was Conftable of England, and 
 afterwards Lord Chamberlain to the Kings Houfhold ; from whom 
 fucceedanoully defcended Sir William Fitz Hugh with Henry Richard, 
 and George, whofe Inheritance for want of IfTue (much moultred in the 
 beginning of King Henry the Eighth,) defcended to Sir Thomas Parre 
 Knight, and yohn Feinnes his Kinfmen, and next Heirs. 
 
 In the North Ifle of the Quire flood a fair Monument, dedicated to 
 
 ' Dugdale gives 1436; Stow and Weever give 1435.— Ed. 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 139 
 
 the Memory of that right Worthy Patriot of his time. Doctor William 
 Awbreyy Doctor of the Civil Laws, whofe Epitaph better exemplifies 
 his great abilities and merits.^ 
 
 GULIELMO AVBREO, CLARA FAMILIA IN BRECONIA ORTO; IN OXONIA 
 DOCTORI, AC REGIO PROFESSORI; ARCHIEP": CANTVARSis : CAVSARV AVDITORI; 
 ET VICARIO IN SPIRITVALIBVS GENERALI ; EXERCITVS REGII AD S. QVINTIN : 5VPREO : 
 
 IVRIDICO. IN LIMITANEV WALLI^ CONCILIV ADSCITO; CANCELLARIE MAGISTRO ET 
 REGINE ELIZABETHEA A SVPPLICVM LIBELLIS. VIRO EXQUI5ITO ERVDITIONE 5INGV". 
 LARI PRVDENTIA, & MORIBVS SVAVISSIMIS QVI TRIBVS FILIIS & SEX FILIABVS 
 E WILGIFORDA VXORE SV5CEPTI5 ^TERNAM IN CHRISTO VITAM EXPECTANS 
 ANIMAM DEO xxiii^ IVLII 75-9/. iETATIS SVM 66 PLACIDE REDDIDIT. 
 OPTIMO PATRI EDWARDV5 & THOMAS MILITES 
 AC I0HANNE5 ARMIGER, FILII MCESTI55IMI 
 P05VERVNT. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Sacred to the Memory 
 Of Doctor William Awbrey 
 Defcended from a confpicuous Family in Brecknock 
 He commenc't Doctor of the Civil Laws in Oxford 
 Where he was alfo Regius ProfelTor. 
 He was Auditor and Judge of Caufes 
 Depending in the Arch-Bifhop of Canterburies Courts, 
 And his Vicar-general in Spirituals. 
 Was Judge- Advocate of the Royal Army fent to St ^intins ; 
 And one of the great Council. 
 Eftablifht in the Marches of Wales. 
 He was one of the Mafters of Chancery, 
 And alfo one of the Mafters of Requefts, 
 To the Majefty of Queen 'Elizabeth. 
 
 In a word 
 Was a Perfon exquifitely well-learned 
 Of Singular Prudence, and of a moft fweet, and winning difpofition 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the tomb with inscription as given, — Ed. 
 
140 
 
 rHE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Who 
 
 (Having by his Wife Wilgiford 3 Sons, and 6 Daughters) 
 On the 23'''^ of 'July 1595 in the Q6th year of his age 
 Refigned his Soul to his Redeemer 
 And here awaiteth for his fecond coming. 
 Sir Edward, and Sir 'Thomas Awbrey Knights 
 Together with their Brother yohn Awbrey Efquire, 
 Their 3 furviving fons have with much fadnefs Confecrated this 
 Marble to his Memory. 
 
 Edward Awbrey this great Doctor William his eldeft Son, was 
 buried in Wales in the Sepulcher of his Progenitors. 
 
 Thomas Awbrey Efq ; eldeft Son of the faid Sir Edward, was Buried 
 in St Dunjians in the Weji, in the Body of the Church 16 of Novemb. 
 1650. of whom I fhall fpeak more, when I come to treat of feveral 
 worthy Perfons, interred in that Church. 
 
 William Awbrey Efq ; Son and Heir of Sir William Knight, was 
 Buried in this Cathedral, at the foot of his Grand-fathers Monument 
 Afi. Dom. 1630. 
 
 yohn afterwards Sir yohn Awbrey of Llanthritill, in the County of 
 Glamorgan Knight, and Baronet had ilTue Mary Elizabeth and yohn. 
 
 Mary was happily married to that Honourable and much accom- 
 plifht Gentleman Mr. William Mountague one of the Sons of that right 
 Honourable, highly Hofpitable ; and Publick-fpirited Patriot, the Lord 
 Edward Mountague Baron of Boughton com Northampton, and a defcen- 
 dant from thefe moft Memorable Mountagues, Antient Earls of Sarijbury. 
 
 The which faid William was many years Attorney General to the 
 Queen, and is at this day, and fo hath been a long time. Chief Baron of 
 the Exchequer. His faid Wife Mary Awbrey (Daughter of Sir yohn 
 Knight and Baronet) being by him the happy Mother of feveral hopeful 
 Children, which were they not the living Monuments of their Honour- 
 able Mothers Hereditary Vertues, yet hath fhe by the excellency of her 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 141 
 
 own Endowments, acquired a more lafting, and durable Monument in 
 the Works of the fecond Jappho of this Age the Rofania, of the moft 
 incomparable the late Mrs KATHARINE PHILIPS. 
 
 Of which Lady Mountague I may fay more, when in my General 
 Hiftory of the Tombes of Londoriy I fhall come to St Fojier Vidajl 
 Church, where her Filial Piety hath before the fatal Conflagration of 
 London And fince, re-erected a fair Monument to the Memory of her 
 dear and highly deferving Grand-mother, the late Lady Gurney here 
 once interred, and twice intombed. 
 
 The prefent Heir of this diffufive Family, is the Honourable Sir 
 yohn Awbrey of LLanthrithill com. Glamor gan^ Hereditary Baronet of 
 Lngland. A Branch of which fair Family, is that moft Ingenious 
 Gentleman 'John Awbrey of FJlon Pierce com. Wilts Efquire, a 
 younger Brother of that old Family of the Awbreys in Wales, and 
 of great antiquity in London, of which I may give the World a 
 further and fairer account, in my great Hiftory of the faid Tombes 
 in London, 
 
 In the Body of the Church, on the South fide thereof, on a Tablet, 
 hung the Memorial of Sir Henry Croft, Scout-mafter-general of Ireland, 
 and Comptrouler to the Houfhold of Queen Elizabeth. He deceafing 
 in Decemb. A.D. 1609. 
 
 Then follows this Epitaph, written antiently by yohn Davies of 
 Hereford. 
 
 %ix lines W.% JImage Qjall Delmeate, 
 ^t0f)t Croft, f)igb tome, m Ipirit anQ Uttnt f)ig^, 
 approtJ'D, tJclotJ'D, a Emgibt, Gout mars mate, 
 LoDe0 fire, Wm flame, in ^eart, J^eaD, ^anti, anD C^e; 
 WiW^ flame Wm Comet, grace noto fo refines, 
 Cfjat firt in ^eatien, m ^mzn ann Cart!) it Hjines. 
 
Profopopeia 
 
 Cfje momh ann Comb in name bz not fo met 
 as life to Deatf), anD mm 10 to tfje iBm: 
 m mn f)oto foon to IBm are Captains tirougfjt, 
 Cbat notti no Utie, ann Die noto toitfj a tfjougfjt: ' 
 Cf)en Captains flap anD reaD, mil tfiinfe on me; 
 jror toitf) a mum. tobat 3f am, pou map te. 
 
 as MARS neet mors mb founD, 
 
 ^0 MORS neer mars 10 founD. ' 
 
 31. D. of ^. 
 [31o!)n DatJies of ^ereforD] 
 
 This Sir Henry Croft (a man very memorable in this Generation) 
 was the Grand-child of the then Sir Ric/iard Croft, of Croft-Caftle in 
 the County of Hereford Knight, whofe Anceftors have been the Pro- 
 prietors thereof for many Generations. Sir Richard Croft was one of 
 the Progenitors of this mention'd Sir fames Croft Scout-mafter general 
 Lord Deputy of Ireland, and Controuler of the Queens Houfhold, and 
 of her Privy-Council. The which Sir James, was Grand-father to the 
 late Sir Herbert Croft of Croft Caftle com. pred. And this Sir Herbert 
 was Father to the late Sir William Croft Knight, and one of the Deputy 
 Lieutenants, and Collonels of that Counties Mihtia; and alfo to his 
 Brother the late Sir James Croft, Lieutenant Collonel of Horfe The 
 faid Sir Herbert,^ died in the Bed of Honour, being flain in the righteous 
 Caufe of his King, and Country. He with his Brother Sir James, bein^ 
 both of them Brethren, to the Right Reverend practically pious, and 
 Univerfally well Learned Prelate Herbert Croft Lord Bifhop Hereford 
 and fometimes Dean of the Chappel Royal to the Sacred Majefty of 
 King Charles the Second. The which place of Truft, and Honour, He 
 fpontanoufly, and of his own accord freely acquitted, to retire to his 
 own Dtoceffes, and there to enjoy that peaceful quiet and tranquility, 
 which IS feldom found in the great Courts, and Palla ccs of Princes. 
 
 ' This should be ^FiVliam.—Eu. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 143 
 
 The Son and Heir of this right Reverend Prelate, is that much 
 accomplifht Gentleman, a fair Ornament of his Honourable name and 
 right Antient Family Sir Herbert Croft Baronet, and eldeft Son of the 
 faid Herbert^ many years Lord Bifhop of Hereford. 
 
 In the Chappel of the BlelTed Trinity, lay Buried the Body of 
 'Thomas Kemp, whofe Infcription thus Reprefents him. 
 
 3|nfra Capellam iiJam requiefcit corpus Dommi Cijomae Eempe, 
 QuonQam (ZBpifcopi iLonninenfis, jFunDatods eiuf Dem, et mim Cantariae 
 petpetuae in eaoem ; qui multa tjona tempore tJitae imz ^cclefiae 
 PauU neDit ; et iJetit xxxix. annis Lxxxiv. Dietius €pif copus lonQ. ac 
 otJijt xxviij. Die menfis ^artu, anno Domini mcccclxxxIx. Cujus 
 animae propitietur Deus. amen. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Beneath this Chappel, refteth the Body of Thomas Kemp, fometimes 
 Bifhop of London, and Founder of this Chappel, and of a Chauntry 
 therein, forever. In his life time, he w^as a Bountiful Benefactor to 
 St Pauls Church. He fate Bifhop of London, thirty nine years four 
 fcore and 4 days, and dyed the 2^th of March, in the year of Grace 
 1489. On whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 This Thomas Kemp, was Nephew to John Kemp Arch-Bifhop of 
 Canterbury, and was by him Confecrated at Tork houje (now Whitehall^ 
 the '^th day of Feb. 1449. 
 
 He obtained licence of the King for the Founding a Chappel, and 
 Chauntry ; conlifting of one Priefl to celebrate Divine Service dayly, 
 at the High Altar of the Holy Trinity, for the good Eftate of the King, 
 and Queen Elizabeth his wife, and alfo for the faid Bifhop, during 
 their abode in this World, and alfo after their departure. The which 
 Chauntry this good Bifhop did then found, in a Beautiful Chappel, 
 
144 
 
 ruE roMBEs OF sr. pauus. 
 
 Built by him for that purpofe, in which, he was according to his dcfire 
 decently interred. 
 
 He built Pauls-Crofs in the form as it lately flood, and was a 
 Benefactor to the Univerfity of Oxford. 
 
 In St Thomas Chappel near the North door ftood a fmall memorial 
 thus Infcribed.^ 
 
 Orate pro Anima Johannis Nevil Baronis de Latimer, qui quidem 
 Johannes diem obiit fuu7n Anno Dofn. MDXLII. Cujus Animce, &c. 
 
 Engli/Jit thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of John Lord Nevil Baron Latimer, the which 
 John died in the year of our Lord 1 542. On whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 This Name of Nevil is exceeding old, and of French Extraction 
 they having been great Men before, and in, and fince the time of the 
 Conqueror, having been of that diffufive and fairly Ipreading Family 
 one Marques, feveral Earls, and many Barons ; the laft Baron of which 
 name, is the right Honourable and Innately Noble Lord John Nevil 
 Baron of Abergavenny, and primier Baron of England. The title of 
 Lord Latimer, being at this day among his other titles worthily worn by 
 the right Honourable Thomas Earl of Danhy, Vifcount Latiiner and 
 Dumhlain ; Lord High Treafuror of England &cc. 
 
 He deducing the title of Danhy, from his Great Grand-father, by 
 the half Blood He?2ry Lord Danvers Earl of Danhy, Lieutenant-general 
 of the Horfe, and Serjeant Major general of the whole Army in Ireland, 
 under Rob. Earl of EJfex temp. Elizabetlice. And afterwards Prefident of 
 Munjier, Governor of Garnjey, Earl of Danhy, Privy Counfellor, and 
 Knight of the Garter by King CHARLES the Firft. 
 
 This prefent Earl of Danhy, deduceth his title of Latimer, from his 
 
 ' Omitled by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever.— Ed. 
 
THE "TOMBES OF sr. PAUL'S. 
 
 145 
 
 Great Grand-mother Elizabeth the eldefl: Daughter, and coheir of John 
 Nevil Lord Latimer. 
 
 He Married the Lady Bridget, one of the Daughters of the right 
 Honourable and Innately Noble, the late Lord Mountague Berty Earl of 
 Lindfey, Hereditary great Lord Chancellor of England, and hath by her 
 Heirs Male, the Lord Latimer, and Lord Dumblain, &c. 
 
 In the South Ifle, not far from Sir William Cockaynes Tomb, was 
 this enfuing Memorial,^ fixed for that memorable Roger Waltham, thus 
 expreffing his Benefactions. 
 
 Hoc Altare in honorem DEI ac heata Virginis Marias Matris, ac 
 Sancti Laurentii Martyris, ac omnium Sanctorum conjiruxit & hanc voltam 
 cwn adjacentihus Picturis Martyrum, & Imaginum in Septis ceneis pofuit 
 Dom. Rogerus Waltham, cujus Ecclejics Prcecentor fuit. Cujus Anima 
 propitietur AltiJJimus. 
 
 Englifh thus. 
 
 This Altar dedicated to the Glory of GOD, and the BlefTed Mother 
 of our Lord the Virgin Mary, and of St Laurence the Martyr, and 
 intended for the good of all Souls; together with this Vault, and the 
 Pictures circumjacent in Brafs-work, and inviron'd with Brazen Bars was 
 erected, fixed, and made at the Coll: and Charge of Mr Roger Waltham, 
 fometimes Precentor of this Church. On whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 This Man (among other good works) was a good Benefactor to 
 this Church, in which, for the conftant fupply of a Chauntry-Prieft, 
 He gave One Hundred Pounds for the keeping his ohiit, who died in 
 the Reign of King Richard the Firft. 
 
 The which Church-dignity of Prsecentorfhip, is at this day (and 
 hath been fo many years) continued, and laudably difcharged by the 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale and Stow. Weever gives ' Hoc Altare in honore Dei ac beate Vi7-ginis Marie Matris, 
 eius ac Sancti Laurentij Martyris, & omnium Sanctorum conjiruxit, & hanc voltam cum adiacentilms Ficturis 
 
 Martyris, &• Imaginum in Septis e.i'eis hie pofttit : & cum duabus Caglarijs fuis perpetuum Dominus 
 
 h'ogcrus Waltham, liuius Ecclefie Precent pro falute aniine fue, et pro faluie anime Rcgine 
 
 omnium Amen, — Ed, 
 
 19 
 
146 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 truly Reverend, much Learned, and worthily obliging Doctor 'Jofeph 
 Crcwther D.D. at firft Schollar, and Fellow of St. 'Johnsy and many 
 years fince the prefent Principal of St Mary Hall Oxford, likewife 
 Chaplain in ord. to his Royal Highnefs James Duke of Tork, and his 
 moft Illuftrious Dutchefs Maria 'Jofepha &c. and alfo Precentor and 
 Prebendary to this Cathedral, and a moft eminently Orthodox, and 
 Publick Ipirited Perfon, witnefs in his feveral Benefactions to feveral 
 places. 
 
 Here was likewife a Chauntry, Founded with an Altar, Confecrated 
 to the BlelTed Virgin Mary, Erected by the Piety of Sir Gerrard Bray- 
 brook Portgrave of London, viz Edward Majnbden, 'John Boys Efquires, 
 and Roger Abbington Clerk, with an annual maintenance of one Prieft, 
 to celebrate the Memorials of them, in a Chappel belonging to the 
 Bifhops Pallace, and to pray for the health of their Souls, and of Robert 
 Braybrook Bifhop of London ; and of John Grandizon Bilhop of Chichejier, 
 and of Nicholas Braybrook Canon of this Cathedral, and for the Souls of 
 all the Faithful departed. 
 
 Here flood likewife (near the magnificent fhrine of St Erkenwald, 
 the fhrine of Mellitus, in fome Authors Malletus (which is queflionlefs, 
 the Names of thofe Mallets, antient Barons of the Realm, and that in 
 the time of the Conqueror) which was the firft Bifhop of this Diocefs, 
 and afterwards Arch-bifhop of Canterbury. And alfo there flood the 
 fhrine, of Richard Fitz-neale Bifhop of London, a name of high note, 
 and great antiquity in Ireland, from whence defcended that couragious, 
 and much accomplifht Sir William Neal of Northampton Knight, Uncle 
 to the prefent Sir Charles Neal of Northampton-fliire Knight, late high 
 Sheriff thereof, and (among others) the worthily Honour'd and generally 
 obliging Thomas Neal of Warmford in the County of Southampton 
 Efquire, one of the Deputy Lieutenants of that County, and members 
 of 4 Parliaments, and one of the Grooms of the Bed-chamber to King 
 Charles the Second, ^c. He being the Grand-child, of that moft 
 
rUE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 147 
 
 Memorable Perfon, and publick fpirited Patriot Sir Thomas Neal, com. 
 pred. Knight, and one of the great Auditors to King James^ and King 
 Charles the Firfl of Bleffed Memory. 
 
 In the North-eaft Ifle, flood another fair Memorial with this Infcription.^ 
 
 Orate pro Anima Thomae Martini militis, & cujus Civitatis interdum 
 Majoris. quidem Thomas Jilius fuit Georgii Martini de Ely in comitatu 
 Cambridge. Major fuit Vrbis Lond. MCCCCCXVIII. cujus Animce &c. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Sir Thomas Martin Knight, and Major of this 
 City. The which Sir Thomas, was the Son of George Martin of Ely, in 
 the County of Cambridge. Sir Thomas was Major in the year of our 
 Lord 15 1 8. On whofe Soul &c. 
 
 Anno 
 
 Near to the foot of the Quire, lay a fair Marble thus Infcribed. 
 
 Spe Refurgendi 
 Hie jacet Thomas Raymond Sacrae Theologias Profeffor, 
 Sancti Alhani Archidiaconus, 
 Hujufque Ecclefiae Canonicus. 
 Obiit 4 die Novembris, 
 iEtatis 47. 
 Salutis 1 63 1. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 In an affured hope of a BlelTed Refurrection. 
 Here refteth the Body of Thomas Raymond D.D. 
 Arch-deacon of St Albans, and 
 Prebendary of this Church 
 Who put of Mortality the fourth of November in the 47 year of his age 
 
 A.D. 1631. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — ECa 
 
148 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 The eldeft Son of this Reverend, and much Learned Church-man, 
 was the late yohn Raymond^ of Greys Inn Barrifter at Law, who from 
 his generous Education at home, and long Travels abroad, render'd 
 himfelf a good Proficient in the more polite, and now practical Lan- 
 guages. Another Son, as I am informed, being living, and is a 
 Merchant of good account, and quality. 
 
 The Cozen German of both which Gentlemen continuing in Greys 
 Inn (to which Honourable Society, he is fo fair an Ornament) is that 
 prefent Man of Law, and Learning, and worthily obliging Gentleman 
 Thomas Raymondy ulter Barrifter, Bencher, and Serjeant of the Laws, and 
 at this day, one of the Juftices of the Kings Bench. An Honour and 
 Ornament, to which diffufive and right antient Family is the prefent 
 right Worfhipful Sir 'Jonathan Raymond Knight, and lately one of the 
 Sheriffs of London ; and in the management of that great trufl, an 
 example of huge hofpitality and much magnificence. 
 
 Not far from hence, flood the Memorial of Sir Gilbert Braybrook 
 Portgrave of London^ which Monument with many more, was totally 
 demolifht in the Reign of King Edward the 6th, and were, by the 
 Command of his Uncle Edward Duke of Somerfet, with the Steeple of 
 Clerkenwell, and the ftones of other Churches, carried clean away, and 
 imployed towards the Building of his great Seat in the Strand^ which to 
 this day retains the title of Somerfet Houfe. The which ftately Palace, 
 hath been of later times much illuflrated, and beautified by the great 
 care, and coft of that moft excellent Princefs and unparalell'd Pattern of 
 Piety, Patience, and other Heroick Vertues, HENRIETTA MARIA 
 a Daughter of France^ and Queen Mother of England. 
 
 Near to the Steeple, lies an old grey Marble thus Infcribed.^ 
 Here lies the Body of Sir John Ward Knight, and Major of this 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed. 
 
tHE rOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 149 
 
 City of London, in the time of King Henry the 8M, who departed this 
 hfe in the year of grace 1501. 
 
 Of this name, I meet with one Symon de Ward, Sheriff of Torkfhire, 
 in the Reign of King Edward the Second ; an office in thofe turbulent 
 and ticklifh times, intrufted only to Perfons of eminent place, and power 
 in their refpective Counties, From this Symon, defcended that couragi- 
 ous Sir Chrijiopher Ward, Standard bearer to King Henry the %th at the 
 Battle of Bolloigne, in whom, for want of Male IfTue, that Family 
 expired. 
 
 Of this name, have been many Memorable Men in times paft, the 
 chief of which, is the prefent Lord Edward Ward, a Baron of the Realm 
 of England, who bears the Paternal Coat of Honourable Family njiz. 
 He bears a Crofs patent or; which coat, is alfo born by the Right 
 Honourable Sir Patient Ward, prefent Lord Major, Alderman, and 
 fometime Sheriff of London, and Mailer of the Worfhipful Company of 
 Merchant taylors ; to which fociety, and renowned City, he is fo great 
 an honour and Ornament, but yet none more Nobler than the Right 
 Reverend, Univerfally Learned, and Practically Pious Prelate. Dr Seth 
 Ward Lord Bifhop of Sarum, and Chancellor of that moft Royal Order 
 of the Garter, &c. 
 
 Towards the North door of this Cathedral, was there a fair Chappel. 
 Founded by Walter de Sherington, Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancajier, 
 who by licence from King Henry the 6th, Ordained 4 Chaplains therein, 
 to celebrate Divine Service, and endowed the Chauntry thereof, with the 
 ftipend of ten per annum, and was himfelf in the faid Chappel interred. 
 
 The which Walter, was a Branch of that once fo highly flourifhing 
 Family of the Slierringtons of Lancajhire, and Cranwortli in Norfolk 
 where that Knightly, and for many generations fplendidly confpicuous 
 Family, flourifht till the Reign of King Henry the 8M, in whofe Reign 
 they were tranfplanted to Laycock, in the County of Wilts &c. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 From which fairly fpreading and difFufive Family, that moft 
 eminently active and victorioufly fuccefsful Commander, the late Collonel 
 William Sherrington a great Officer in the Venetian fervice, together with 
 his near Kinfman William Sherrington of London Efquire, a Memorable 
 'Turky Merchant, and fometimes High Sheriff of his County, are pri- 
 mogenially defcended, who with his Brother, and the reft of that moft 
 antient and indeed honourable Family, I may mention more largely in 
 my great Hiftory of the Tombes and Monuments of London. 
 
 Near to the Chappel of Sir George^ ftood another fmall Memorial 
 thus Infcribed.^ 
 
 Hie j ace t Magijier Richardus PlefTys quondam canonicus hujus Ecclejiaj 
 
 qui obiit anno Dom. MCCCLXI. Cujus anima pro- 
 
 pitietur AltiJJimus. 
 
 EngliJJit thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Mr. Richard Plejfys, fometimes Canon of this 
 Church, who dyed in the year of our Lord 1361. On whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 Another fmall Memorial thus Infcribed.^ 
 Of your Charity, pray for the Soul of Nicholas de Farrendon^ qui 
 juxta Hoc Alt are Sancti Dunjiatj, Alt are co7iftituit. Cujus Animce 
 propitietur ^ &c. 
 
 The name of Farrendon, hath been of great antiquity in London^ 
 where I meet with William de Farrendon Gold-fmith, and Sheriff of 
 London in the year 1281. the which William^ was Father to Nicholas de 
 Farrendon, from both which 2 Memorable Men, Farrendon Ward took 
 its firft denomination. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale and Stow. Weever gives " Hie iacei Magijier Richardus Pleffys quondam Can 
 ob. M.CCC.LX.ir—ED. 
 
 Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Another fmall Memorial of Hammond de Chickwell thus Infcribed.^ 
 
 Here Hes the Body of Hammond de Chickwell, Pepperer, who had 
 been 6 times Lord Major of London, in the fpace of 19 years ; and dyed 
 in the year of grace 1328. on whofe Soul 
 
 At the upper end of the North Ifle, lay interred that Learned Bifhop 
 of his time, Bifhop Ravls, whofe Epitaph ithus reprefents him, 
 
 M.S. 
 
 y Thomas Ravis 
 
 Claris natalibus Mauldence 
 in Suthreia natus, 
 Regius Alumnus in Schola Wejimonjl : educatus 
 Ln Academiam Oxonienfem adfcitus, 
 Omnes Academicos Honores conjequutusy 
 Et Magijiratibus perfunctus, 
 Decanus Ecclesi^^ Chrijii Lbidem conjlitutus ; 
 Et Bis Academia Pro-Cancellarius ; 
 Unde 
 
 Ob Doctrinam, Gravifafem, et fpectatam Prudentiam 
 
 A Rege Jacobo 
 Primiim ad Epifcopafum Gloceftrenfem provectus ; 
 deinde ad Londinenfem tranjlatus ; 
 Et demum a Chrijto, 
 T)iim Ecclejia, Patrick, et Principi vigilaret. 
 In Ccelejtem Patriam evocatus, 
 Placide Pieque emigravit ; 
 Et quod mortale fuit,fpe Refurgendi 
 Hie pofuit die 14 Decembris Anno Salutis MDCIX. 
 ^ Et heic Servatoris Jiii expectat Adventum. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale and Stow. Weever gives the following version " Here Ueth Hamond Chickwell 
 Pepperer, who had beetle Lord Maiorof this Cilie,Jixe times within nine year es. And died about the yeare 1328." — Ed. 
 ^ Line omitted by Dugdale. — Ed. 
 
152 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Sacred to Pofterity, and the Memory 
 Of Doctor Thomas Ravis, 
 Who was Born of a confpicuous Family 
 At Maulden in the County of Surrey 
 He was brought up a Kings Schollar in Wejlminjier, 
 And from thence, fent to the Univerfity of Oxford 
 Where he arrived to all the beft 
 Preferments in that Famous Univerfity. 
 Being made Dean of Chriji-Church there 
 And twice Vice-chancellor of the Univerfity. 
 From whence King 'James upon the great report 
 Of his eminent Learning, Gravity, and approved Prudence 
 Prefer'd him firft to the Bifiioprick of Glocejier 
 And afterwards tranflated him to this of London. 
 
 From whence at laft 
 (After he had many years with much vigil ancy 
 Served his Church, King, and Country) 
 He was fummoned by his Blefi"ed Saviour 
 To that Coelefi:ial Hierarchy of Saints. 
 Preparatory to which. 
 He hath here (in an afiiired hope of a joyful refurrection) 
 Put of the weeds of his Mortality 
 Decemb. \\th A.D. 1609. 
 And here peacefully awaiteth for the re-appearance 
 Of our Blefi"ed Lord and Saviour. 
 
 This Maulden hath been a Town fo Memorable, that it was once 
 the Seat of Cajfabaline^ King of the BritamSy where he had fometimes a 
 ftately Pallace ; and is now one of the titles of the right Honourable, 
 and rightWorthy Peer Arthur Earl of EJjcx. 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 153 
 
 In Thomas Kemps Chappel, was interred the Body of Richard 
 Vaughan Bi£hop of London^ in the year 1604. He was firft Bifhop of 
 Bangor 1593/ and thence tranflated to Chejier, and from thence tranflated 
 to London, in the year 1597. But I find no Monument over him, or 
 Infcription on him. 
 
 On the South-fide of Sir yohn Beauchamps Tomb, lay a fair Brafs 
 Plate thus Infcribed. 
 
 Hie "Jacet Dominus lRicatt!U0 BE PidtOtt, quondam Archidiaconus 
 Colcejirice^ CanonicuSy et Jiagiarius hujus Ecckjia, qui obiit die vicejjimo 
 Sexto Augujii Anno Dom. MCCCLXXXFII. cujus anima propitietur 
 DeuSy Amen. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Mr Richard Periton, Arch-Deacon of 
 Colchejiery and Canon ftagiary of this Cathedral ; who deceafed the 26 
 of Auguji 1387. On whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 In the Quire of this Cathedral, was Buried Richard Fletcher Lord 
 Bifhop of London^ who had been fometimes Dean of Peterboroughy 
 Bifhop of Brijiol ; Bifhop of Worcejlery domefi:ick Chaplain to Queen 
 Elizabethy and at laft Bifhop of London, being Elected, and confequently 
 Confecrated to that dignity in the Month of December 1594. The 
 which, he enjoyed not long, for he dyed fuddenly at his Houfe in London, 
 about 2 years after viz. 1596. He had no other, and indeed could have 
 no better Monument, than thofe Peaces he fet forth, the well begotten 
 Off-fpring of his Brain, and alfo that lively Child of his Body, the 
 mofi: Ingenious Mr Fletcher, a Perfon of good Learning, and the moft 
 ingenious Drammatick Poet of that Age. 
 
 ' Dugdalc gives 1595. — Ed. 
 
 20 
 
154 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 In St Dunjians Chappel, was there another Memorial thus Infc/ibed. 
 
 Hie jacet %^\XXZX\X\\X% 2[llCttf)0rp, quondam Thefaurarius Anglice ; 
 Canonicus et Jiagiarius hujus Ecclejiay migravit ex hoc fseculo Menfe 
 yulii die xxi Anno Domini mccccvi. 
 
 EngliJJit thus. 
 
 Here Hes Laurence Allerthorp, fometimes Treafuror of England, 
 Canon and Stagiary of this Cathedral, who departed this life in the 
 Month of July [21ft day] and was Interred in the year of our Lord 
 1406. 
 
 Upon the Digging of the Ground of this Chappel, the Stone Coffin 
 of this Laurence^ was lately difcovered, and in it, a pardon from Pope 
 Boniface the %th [9th] and alfo a bundle of Eagles Feathers at his feet 
 frefh and unconfum'd. 
 
 This Family in the North of England^ is exceeding antient, there 
 being there (and elfewhere) fome Perfons of confiderable Remark ftill 
 living. He was tranflated from a Canon of St Pauls^ to be Treafuror of 
 Englandy in the fecond year of King Henry the 4th. 
 
 In that part of the Quire, called the New work, flood a fmall 
 Memorial,^ thus reprefenting the Perfon it mention 'd. 
 
 Orate pro animd Nicolai Wokenden, hujus Ecclejice Canoniciy cui 
 pecunias multas erogavit^ et ibi fepultus accubat. Cujus Animce &c. 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Nicholas Wokenden, fometimes Canon of this 
 Church, to which he was a good Benefactor, and lies here Interred. On 
 whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 This Nicholas gave a good round Summ, towards the Building that 
 
 Omitted by Diigdale, Stow, and Weever. 
 
rUE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 15s 
 
 part of this Church, and allowed certain Lands in • St. Olaves London to 
 celebrate Services for his Soul, as that great. Learned, and Profound 
 Antiquary of 'England Sir William Dugdale Knight, Garter, King at 
 Arms tells us in his Hiftory of St. Pauls. 
 
 Near the Altar flood another Memorial, for Dr Gabriel Donne, who 
 is thus reprefented in thefe following Elegiacks. 
 
 Mole fub hdc Gabrael Donnus detruditur, Hujus 
 
 ilui Prcejes Templiy Prejbyter atque fuit. 
 Mortua terreno clauduntur Membra SepulchrOy 
 
 Vivens Ccelicolo Jpirttus orbe manet. 
 OJJibus urna locum daty pulvere terra recumbit. 
 
 Sydera funt Animce ccelica tecta fucE. 
 Illius ( adde DEUSJ Menti 'Tua gaudia clemensy 
 
 Corpus in Elizii pace quiefcat. Amen. 
 [Obiit 5. die Decembris, anno 1558.] 
 
 Englijht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Reverend Gabriel Donne, who was 
 Sometimes a Reverend Canon of this place. 
 Earth doth inhume his Earth, whofe Soul foares high 
 And fits incircled in the glorious Skie. 
 Earth to his terrene parts affords an Urne, 
 Whofe Heavenly, to his Saviour doth return. 
 To whom good God fuch joys in mercies daign. 
 That in Eternal, he may live and reign. 
 He dyed the 5th of Decemb. 1558. 
 
 In 'Jefus Chappel, flood another fair Memorial with this Infcription.^ 
 
 !&eec tiefore tf)e 3jmage of Sfjefu Ipetf) tfje tDorQ)ipful anu dgfjt notile 
 
 ' This was in St Faith's church, — Ed. 
 
rHE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 laDp MARGARETE Countefg Of SHROUSBERY, late mitt of m true 
 ann tJictoriouss Enigbt ano renototeo mznm john talbot ccle of 
 SHROUSBERY, tobicf) tiieD in gien for m iRigl)t of tW lonti ; m 
 firft 2Dougf)ter anD one of tht l^zim of the rigbt famous ano renotonen 
 Enggbt, RICHARD BEAUCHAMP late OErle of Warwick, tubicf) DieD 
 in ROAN; antJ of Dame elyzabeth us m^U tfje tnbic!) elyzabeth 
 ttias SDougbter anD ^egre to thomas late JLotD Berkeley on W 
 fine ; anB on W ^oDers fiDe Lang lisle anD t yes. mbicb Counter 
 pafleti fto tbis 2^orlD tbe xiiij Dap of 3Iupn, tbe pere of our Loru 
 MccccLxvii. SDn tobofe ^oule 3It)efu batie a^ercp. amen 
 
 This Lady Margaret, was the fecond Wife of that moft Memorable 
 yohn Earl of Shrewjhury, and General of the Englifh Army : Who was 
 fmitten with a great Bullet from his Horfe, as he was advancing the 
 Relief of Cajiillion, befieged by the French; in whofe fall, the courage 
 of the Fnglijli was much daunted, and may be faid to fall with him. 
 His Body was brought over, and Buried at Whit-church the Seat and 
 Sepulcher of his Anceftors, in the County of Shrop-JJiire whofe Title he 
 worthily bore, of which right Noble and Renowned Name and Family, 
 I lhall fpeak more fully in my great Hiftory of the Tombs of London, 
 and the fuburbial parts, when I fhall come to Wejiminjier where a Noble 
 Earl of that Name and Family, lies interred under a ftately Monument. 
 
 In the North- Ifle of the Quire, ftood an Antient Monument, whofe 
 Infcription, thus reprefents the Perfon purported.^ 
 
 Heic jacet Radolphus de Henghajn. Hujus Ecclejics Canonicus; & 
 unius yujliciorum Regis Band ; & Conjlitutus Capitalis yujiitiarius Com- 
 munium Placitorum. Cujus Animce. &c. 
 
 FnglijJit thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Ralph de Hengham, Canon of this Church, 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the brass with the inscription commencing Per Verfus Cs^c. — Ed, 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 157 
 
 one of the Juftices of the King Bench, and at length Conftituted Lord 
 Chief Juftice of the Common-pleas. On whole Soul, &c. 
 
 This Sir Ralph de Hengham^ or Heueningham, was Lord Chief 
 Juftice of both Benches, but in thofe difficult times fell into fuch a 
 premuniry (with the reft of the great Juftices all peccant except two) 
 that he was forced to expiate the King and Parliaments dilpleafure, with 
 the mulct of a very great fum of Money. He was one of the long- 
 lin'd Anceftors to that exceeding Antient Family, of the Heveninghams 
 in Norfolk \ of which numerous Name and Noble Family, have been 22, 
 or more Knights, fucceffively defcended without interruption. One of 
 thofe later ones being the late Sir Ralph Heveningham Father to the late 
 William Heveningham Efquire, who Married that much accomplifht 
 Lady Mary Carie, Daughter of the Right Honourable, and truly Noble, 
 the late Henry Lord Carie Earl of Dover ; of whofe Family, I fhall 
 difcourfe more prolixly, in my great Hiftory of the Tombs of London, 
 and the circumjacent parts, where in Wejiminjter- Abbey I find one of his 
 Honourable Anceftors viz. Henry Lord Carie Baron of Hunfden interred, 
 under a fair Monument. 
 
 Near to Erkenwalds fhrine, ftood a fair Memorial with this 
 Infcription.^ 
 
 Heic jacet Alanus Boxhull Miles de Garter ; Conjiabularius Turris 
 Lond. Guardianus Forrejiriarum, & vivariorum de Clarendon & Saltuum 
 de Brockhole, Grovel, & Melcheto. Cujus Animce &c. 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Weever. — Ed, 
 
158 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Englifht thus. 
 
 Here lies the Body of Sir Alan Boxhull Knight of the Garter ; Con- 
 ftable of the Tower of London ; great Ranger of the Forrefts Chaces, 
 and Parks of Clarendon ; and of the Chaces of Brockhoky Grovel^ and 
 Melchet. On whofe Soul, &c. 
 
 This Perfon, was Knight of the Garter, and flourifht in the Reigns 
 of King Edward the 3d. and his Grandfon Richard the 2d, to whom he 
 was a great Favourite. 
 
 Here alfo flood the fhrine of Egwolph (in fome writing Egtulph) 
 Bifhop of this Diocefs, then called the Baft Angles, who was a Perfon 
 of great veneration, and fuch Learning, that he gained much eftimation 
 in that Convocation, held by Cuthbert Arch-Bifhop of Canterbury y/\.j 
 Doctor Howjon, Bifhop Durham. 
 
 There was another Memorial, near the undercroft of St Faiths 
 Church, with this Infcription. 
 
 Orate pro Anima Theodreti, Cognomento Boni Epifcopl Londini Cujus 
 Animce^ &c. 
 
 Englifht thus. 
 
 Pray for the Soul of Theodred Sirnamed the good Bifhop of London, 
 On whofe Soul 6cc. 
 
 In the South Ille of the Quire, flood a fair Mural Monument in 
 remembrance of that eminently Learned, and pioufly devoted Prelate 
 Brian Walton Lord Bifhop of Clicjiery with this Elegant Infcription on 
 the Marble.' 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale, Stow, and Wecvcr. — Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 159 
 
 M.S. 
 
 Manet hie NoviJJimam Refurrectionis Angeli Tubam, 
 Brianus Walton 
 Olim Cejirenjis Epijcopus. 
 Epitaphium aliud ne quceras viafory 
 Cm\ latum eji vel Ipjiim nomen Epitaphium. 
 ^od Ji explicatius velis, 
 Famam confule, non Tumulum. 
 Interim 
 
 Hie Ilk eJi (Ji nefcire fas Jit ) EximiuSy 
 ^ifub nupera Tyrannide laboranti Eeclejice 
 Suppetias cum Primis, tulit 
 Religioni apud nos Reformatcey ProfeJJ(^y 
 Gloriam attuiit 
 Dum fremente licet Gehenna 
 Byblia Polyglotta fummo prce aliis Jiudio 
 Excoluity & excudi procuravtt. 
 JJnde 
 
 Utrumque Tejlamentum 
 Promeruit Jibi Monumentumy 
 Et Maximis Impends pofuit 
 ^are 
 
 Longo titulorum Syrmate fuper vire non mdigety 
 ^i Nomen iam fcriptum habet 
 In Libra Vitce. 
 DeeeJJit vigiliis Sanett Andarce 
 /Etatis Anno ( LXII 
 Confecrationis \ PRIMO 
 Annoque Bom. ( MDCLXI. 
 
 Englifht thus. 
 Here awaiteth the Sound of the laft Trump 
 
i6o 
 
 rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAULS. 
 
 Brian Walton Lord Bifhop of Chejier. 
 Reader, look for no farther Epitaph on him, 
 Whofe very Name was Epitaph enough, 
 Neverthelefs, if thou look'ft for a larger and louder one, 
 Confult the vocal Oracles of his Fame, 
 And not of this dumb Marble 
 For let me inform thee (if it be not ?i fhame to be ignorant) 
 
 Thisy was He 
 That with the firft brought fuccour, and Affiftance 
 To the true Church Sick, and Fainting 
 Under the fad PrelTure of Perfecution 
 
 Thisy was He 
 
 That fairly wiped of thofe foul, and Contumelious Afperfion 
 Malicioufly caft upon her pure, and fpotlefs Innocence, 
 By thofe illiterate and Clergy-trampling fchifmaticks. 
 
 Thisy was He 
 That brought more light, and luftre 
 To the true Reformed Church here eftablifht ; 
 Whilft, maugre the Malice of thofe Hellifh Machinators 
 Hcy with more earneft zeal, & indefatigable labor than any 
 Carryed on, and promoted the Printing 
 Of That great Bible in fo many Languages. 
 So that both the old and new Teftament 
 May well be His Monument 
 Which he erected with no fmall expence of his own. 
 Therefore he little needs the pageantry of pompous titles 
 Emblazon'd, or difplay'd in Heraulds Books, 
 Whofe Name is written in the Book of Life. 
 He dyed on St Andrews Eve [29 Nov.] in the 62 year of his age. 
 In the firft year of his Confecration. 
 And in the year of our Lord God. 1661. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PJUL'S. 
 
 i6i 
 
 In the lame Ifle, flood another fair Mural Monument, in memory 
 . of that truly Reverend, lincerely Religious, and both actively, and 
 paffively Loyal Doctor yohn Barwick, Dean of St. Pauls^ and Brother 
 to Dr. Peter Barwick M.D. long time Dr of the Colledge of Phyfitians 
 in London^ and fometimes fellow of St Johns Colledge Cambridge. The 
 quaint and well-coucht Infcription on which Dean ; thus truly repre- 
 fents him.^ 
 
 S. Amoriy & Mternitati 
 ^uijquis es viator 
 Oculum, Animum hue adverte^ 
 Lege, Luge. 
 "Jacent Jub hoc Marmore 
 'Tenues Exuvia non tenuis AnimcE 
 Johannis Barwick 
 S, S. Theologize Doctoris. 
 ^em Jiium 
 Natalibus glorietur Ager Weftmorienlis. 
 Standiis Academia Cantabrigienfis. 
 Admijfum Socium, Sancti Johannis Collegium. 
 Indeque ( quod magis Honori eji J 
 Puljiim a Rebellibus : 
 ^i nec Rebellium Rabiem 
 Nec Hasmoptylin [quamvis ceque cruentum) 
 
 S^uicquam Moratus, 
 Pro Rege, & 'Ecclejice fumme Ardua Molitus 
 Diro Carcere perquam inhumana pajfus^ 
 [InconcuJJ'a Jemper virtute) 
 
 ^inatum denuo vidit 
 Et Diadema, & Infulam, 
 Etiam fua non parum objieticrante manu. 
 ^i deinde functus 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale and Stow. — Ed. 
 
 21 
 
l62 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Decanatu Dunelmnenfi paucis menjibiis ; 
 Paulino verum Triennio 
 Parum diuyjed utroque fideliter. 
 Tandem poji Caelibatum, 
 Cum Primis fancte^ cum Pri?nis Cajie Cultum, 
 Labe Pulmonumy et curis Publicis ConfectuSy 
 Heic Requiefcit in DominOy 
 Atque inter Sacras Mdis Paulinae Ruinas 
 Repofuit JiiaSy 
 (Utriufque Refurrectionis fecturus) 
 [ Mtatis fuce LIII. 
 I Humance falutis MDCLXIV. 
 Ccetera fcire fi velisy defcede, et difce 
 Ex Illuflri Primcevce Pietatis Exemplo 
 
 Etiam hoc fequiori feculo 
 ^id Jit effe vert Nominis Chriftianum. 
 
 EngliJJit thus. 
 Sacred to Love, and to Generations to come. 
 Thou that paffeft by, whofoever thou art. 
 Bring hither thine Eyes, and Underftanding alfo. 
 Intuitively both to look, and lament. 
 For within this Marble Wardrobe 
 Are folded up the thin w^orn weeds 
 Of the valuable, Subftantial, and well accoutred Soul 
 Of Doctor yohn Barwick Dr of Divinity. 
 To whom, Weftmorland may well boaft 
 To have given firll Breath and Being. 
 Next, Cambridge may boaft 
 To have given him his firft Matriculation and admiffion 
 And St Johns Colledge there 
 To have endowed him with a Fellowfhip in that Foundation 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 From which Fellowfhip 
 (Which ftill makes more for his honour) 
 He was unjuftly ejected by a pack of Parricides ; 
 Who notwithftanding, 
 Regardlefs of the rage of thofe Bloody times 
 Or his own Blood-lpitting Malady (equally pernicious) 
 Boldly attempted, and fuccefsfully manag'd 
 Matters of the greatefl: difficulty, and danger. 
 In the behalf of the King, and Church. 
 And for that caufe. 
 Was fhut up in a dire and loathfome Prifon, 
 Where he fuffered Inhumane, and Barbarous Ufage 
 Yet with a Conftant, and Undaunted Spirit. 
 And in the end 
 He faw by the Miracle, as it were of a new Creation 
 The Revivifal of both Crown, and Mitre, 
 Himfelf playing the Man-Mid-wives part. 
 And vigoroufly affifting at the new Birth of both 
 Laft of all 
 
 As the due Guardian of his Active Services, and paffive fufferings 
 He was dignified with the Deanary of Durham 
 Which he held a few Months, 
 And afterwards of St Pauls, which he enjoyed 3 years. 
 Though either of them too fhort a feafon. 
 Yet difcharg'd Both with fingular care, and fidelity. 
 Living, and dying a Batchellor,^ 
 And ftrictly chafte, and fanctimonius both in Soul, and Body, 
 And being much debilitated by a long, and lingring Confumption, 
 Here he refhs in the Lord, and depofites his laft Remains 
 Amongft thofe Ruinous ones of St Paul's Church, 
 Being confident of the Refurrection both of the one, and other. 
 
 ' 22 Oct. 1664 (Dugdale). — Ed. 
 
164 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 He dyed in the 53 year of his Age, and of our Lord, 1664. 
 Reader, if thou defireft to know more of this Reverend Churchman, 
 
 Go home, and Learn. 
 By the confpicuous Coppy of his fincere devotion 
 What it is to be a true Chrijiian indeed. 
 
 At the entrance of the North-door, lay a fair Blew Marble, thus 
 Infcribed.^ 
 
 Sub Hoc Marmore tumuldtur 
 Doctrinay Pietas, et Charitas ; 
 
 ^ippe Monumentum eft 
 Illius Marci Franck S. T. P. 
 Reverendijf. Gilberto Archiepifcopo Cantuarienfi 
 A Sacris ; 
 Sancti Albani Archidiaconi ; 
 Ecclefia 'Thefaurariiy et Prcebendarii ; 
 , Aula PenbrociansE Cantab. Prafecti. 
 Cujus 
 
 Virtutem Humilitatem, Eloquenttam 
 In Jingulisque fagacitatem 
 Dictis metiri non liceaty 
 Dicat Pojleritas 
 Obiit cetatis Anno LL 
 Salutis Humance MDCLXIV. 
 
 Engliftit thus. 
 Under this Marble 
 Are contractedly coucht, and cointerred 
 Learning, Piety, and Charity. 
 For behold 
 
 Thefe are the Remains of th at fo Memorable 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale and Slow.— Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 165 
 
 Doctor Mark Franck Doctor in Divinity, 
 Domeftick Chaplain 
 To the moft Reverend Gilbert Arch-bifhop of Canterbury 
 Arch-Deacon of St Albans ; 
 Treafuror and Prebendary of St. Pauls ; 
 And Mafter of Penbrook-Hall in Cambridge 
 
 Whofe Moral Graces and Vertues 
 Humility, Eloquence, and fignal Sagacity, 
 Are too copious 
 To be comprehended within the fcantling Circle 
 Of a Tomb-ftone ; 
 Let Pofterity be their Pen-man. 
 He dyed in the Fifty firft year of his Age 
 And of our Lord 1664. 
 This Tomb was erected by the coft and Pious care, of his Religious 
 Lady 'Jane^ who alfo twice erected another Tomb in St Fojier Vidafi for 
 her dear and highly deferving Father the late Dr. Fuller Dean of Ely. 
 
 Here likewife was the Memorial for that Right Reverend Church- 
 man Dr 'John Howfon, who was born in St. Bridgets Parifh, and bred a 
 Schollar in St Pauls School, from whence, he became a Canon of Chriji- 
 Church Oxford, A.D. 161 9 being his Birth-day in his Climacterical, 
 then entering upon the d^d year of his Age. 
 
 He was in the clofe removed to the Bifhoprick of Durham, but con- 
 tinued not long therein, for he died in the 73d year of his age, the 6th 
 of Feb. 1 63 1, and was there folemnly Buried. 
 
 His Learned Book, treating in what cafe a Divorce is lawfull ; with 
 his Sermons againft Sacriledge, and ftating the Popes Supremacy in 4 
 Sermons enjoyned him by King fames (to clear his cauflefs alperfion of 
 favouring Popery) and never fince replyed by that Party, have made 
 him famous to Pofterity. 
 
i66 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PJUL'S. 
 
 [Infcription to yo/in Acton as given by Dugdale] 
 HEERE LYETH INTERED THE BODY OF lOHN 
 ACTON ESQ^ HEIRE MALE OF THE AVNCI^ 
 ENT FAMILIE OF ACTON OF ACTON HALL IN Y? 
 COVNTY OF WORCESTER & GOLDSMIDTH BO™ 
 TO OVR LATE SOVERAIGNE LORD KING lAMES 
 OF BLESSED MEMORIE, & TO OUR NOW SOVER. 
 AIGNE LORD KING CHARLES WHO DEPARTED 
 THIS MORTALL LIFE ON MVNDAY Y^ XXX OF avgvst 
 j638 TO WHOSE MEMORIE THIS IS DEDICATED 
 BY HIS BELOVED WIFE BLANDINEE ACTON WHO 
 
 YET SVRVIVETH.^ 
 
 [Over the north door,^] 
 
 ail tbofe tt)at Iljall enter toitljin tf)e CJ)urc& tore, 
 COitf) TBurtben or TBafket, mufl gitie to tbe Poore: 
 ant) if tl)ere te ang affee tofjat tbep muft pap 
 Co iW iBor, 'Ci0 a Penng ere tbeg pafle atoap. 
 
 Near to Actons Graveftone in the fame Ifle, flood the Memorial of 
 Simon Edolph, thus reprefenting him.^ 
 
 [HE ARE LTETH BURIED T 
 BODY OF SYMON EDOLPH 
 OF ST RADYGUNDE IN THE 
 
 COVNTY OF KENT 
 ESQUIRE WHO DEPARTED 
 THIS MORTALE LYFE ON 
 THE XXix DAY OF OCTOB : 
 ANNO DOMINI ]S97 
 
 ' See atite p. 77. — Ed. 
 
 - 2 Omitted by Fisher. A path had been made across the Cathedral from North to South. Weever adds, " li 
 could be tvijlied, that ivalking in the middle IJle of Panics might be forborne in the time of Diuine Seruice." — Ed. 
 ^ Dugdale gives an engraving of the stone with inscription as given. — F-D. 
 
rHE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 167 
 
 Thefe Edolphs, have been a Saxon Family of great Antiquity ; of 
 which, there have been feveral Knights and Perfons of great Eftates, 
 and equal efteem, exceeding antient in the County of Northampton, 
 and of good antiquitie in the County of Kent, where Simon Edolph 
 of St. Radegunds com. pred. Efquire, and a Gentleman of great 
 Loyalty to his Prince, and obliging Candor to all Perfons, is at this 
 day living. 
 
 In the North Ifle, flood a fair Monument for John Mollins Arch- 
 deacon of London, whofe Infcription in Heroicks, thus reprefents him.^ 
 
 OBccl : 38. 22. Memento juris tui f)oc 
 quoq : im tuum eflfe ; 
 
 Clatuis 3lof)anni3 tJitae moneramine ^uUmg;, 
 Doctrmae infignig; plenis fenilitiug annig 5 
 £Xui KLonnmenfis fmt ^rcbitiiaconus, atq ; 
 aetiig item Mm meriio, er primoritJus, mm, 
 ^oUiter f)ac urn^ compolitug, pace qmefcit : 
 ^piritu0 an celum retiijt ; f eD poflf)uma Wtm 
 Mmxm% aetemum manfit filDillima cuflos. 
 %m eanem futeunoa tihu ifQ quanno tJiator, 
 Mtim ; certa licet tamen ^ora incogtrita mortis* 
 
 [Tranflation of the verfes on the monument of Sir Philip Sidney.^] 
 The fame tranjlated by the faid King. 
 Thou mighty Mars, the Lord of Souldier's braue. 
 And thou Minerve, that dois in wit excell. 
 And thou Apollo, who dois knowledge haue 
 Of euery art from Parnajfus fell. 
 
 ' Dugdale gives an engraving of the stone with inscription as given. — Ed. ^ Weever, p. 321. — Ed. 
 
i68 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 With all your fillers that thaire on do dwell. 
 Lament for him, who duely feru'd you all : 
 Whome in you wifely all your arts did well, 
 Bewaile (I fay) his vnexpected fall, 
 I neede not in remembrance for to call 
 His race, his growth, the hope had of him ay. 
 Since that in him doth cruell Death appall 
 Both manhood, wit and learning euery way : 
 But yet he doth in bed of Honor reft. 
 And euermore of him (hall Hue the beft. 
 
 [Infcription on the monument of Henry de Wengliam, as given by 
 Ftflier and Weever — see p. 26.] 
 
 T)e Wengham natus Henricus ad aftra lenatus 
 Hie nece proftratus iacet, anno Pontificatus, 
 Ter vix, & Domini, Mil. fexagint. bis, que bis C. 
 Huic fis laluamen, Deus, O, te deprecor. Amen. 
 
 [Verfes on a pillar near the monument of William Worjley^ omitted 
 by Dugdale & FiJJier^ fee p. 28.] 
 
 And vpon a pillar adioyning to this Monument^ theje verjes following 
 are engrauen in brajfe : 
 
 Vnde fuperbis Homo cuius conceptio culpa, 
 
 Nafci pena, labor vita, neceffe mori. 
 Vana falus hominum, vanus labor, omnia vana ; 
 
 Inter vana nichil vanius eft homine. 
 Poft hominem vermis, poft vermem fetor & horror. 
 
 Sic in non hominem vertitur omnis homo. 
 Mors venit abfque mora, nefcis cum venerit hora 
 
 Efto paratus ei cum venerit hora diei. 
 
 ' Weever, p. 368. — Ed. 
 
THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 169 
 
 S^ommmtal ^n^enptions^ 
 
 in sr. FAITH'S church 
 (omitteD in tbe fotegomg toorfe.) 
 
 " At the weft End of this yefus\ Chapel, under the Choir of St 
 PauPsy alfo was, and is, a Parifh Church of St Faifh^ commonly called 
 St Faith's under St. Paul's ; which ferved for the Stationers, and others, 
 dwelling in St. Paul's Church-yard, Pater-noJier-RoWy and the Places 
 near adjoining. The faid Chapel of Jefus being fuprefled in the Reign 
 of Edward the Sixths the Parifhioners of St Faith's Church were 
 removed into the fame yefus's Chapel, as to a Place more fufEcient for 
 Largenefs and Lightfomenefs, than their former Church was, in the Year 
 1 55 1, and fo it ftill remaineth to that Ufe. 
 
 We cannot in this Place keep our ordinary Courfe in fpeaking of 
 Decays and Repairing, for as it is anciently faid of this Church, 
 
 This Church needs no Repair at all. 
 For Faith's defended by St Paul." 
 
 \_S tow's Survey. '\ 
 
 [ I ] Above an elevated Tomb in the nave of the Church. 
 
 As I was fo are ye. 
 
 As I am ye (hall be. 
 
 That I had, that I gave. 
 That I gave, that I have. 
 
 Thus I end all my coft. 
 
 That I left, that I loft. 
 
 22 
 
170 
 
 THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 [ 2 ] On a brafs let into a pillar fixed near the fizid 'Tomb. 
 
 WILLIAM LAMBE, fo fome time was my Name, 
 
 Whiles alive dyd runne my mortall Race, 
 
 Serving a Prince of moft immortall Fame, 
 
 HENRT the Eight, who of his Princely Grace, 
 
 In his Chapell allowed me a place. 
 
 By whofe favour, from Gentleman to Efquire, 
 
 I was prefer'd with Worfhip for my hire. 
 
 With Wives three I joyned Wedlock Band, 
 
 Which (all alive) true Lovers were to me, 
 
 JOANE, ALICE, and JOANE ; for fo they came to hand, 
 
 What needeth Prayfe regarding their Degree ! 
 
 In wively Truth none ftedfaft more could be. 
 
 Who though in Earth Death's Force did once diflever 
 
 Heaven yet, I truft, fhall join us all together. 
 
 0 Lambe of God, which Sinne didft take away ; 
 And as a Lambe was offred up for Sinne, 
 
 Where I (poor Lambe) went from thy Flock aftray. 
 Yet thou, good Lord, vouchfafe thy Lambe to winne 
 Home to thy Folde, and holde thy Lambe therein ; 
 That at the Day, when Lambes and Goates fhall fever. 
 Of thy choice Lambes, Lambe may be one for ever. 
 
 [Under which Remembrance there are two Verfes, containing both 
 a Petition and an Injunction of Duty to the Poor, who weekly receive 
 their Allowance at the Hands or Appointment, of the Worfhipful Com- 
 pany of Stationers : To whom he bearing great Affection, and having 
 alfo no fmall Affiance in them, made them his Difpofers and Stewards 
 in that Behalf]' 
 
 1 pray you all, that receive Bread and Pence, 
 To fay the Lord's Prayer before ye go hence. 
 
 ' Stow's Survey. — Ed. 
 
"THE TOMBES OF ST. PAUUS. 
 
 171 
 
 In the Northern aijle. 
 [3] Here lyeth the Bodie, taken from Lyfe, 
 
 Oi MARGARET, ANTHONT KTT SON'S Wyf ; 
 Whofe Vertues evry where were fuch. 
 As his great want bewayleth much. 
 Ten fair Babes fhe brought to Blys, 
 And of th'eleventh now departed fhe ys : 
 She ys gone before, he is yet behinde. 
 And hoopes in Heaven his Wyfe to fynde. 
 Whofe leeke on earth, for his degree. 
 He never looks aHve to fee. 
 Obijt xxj. November j567. 
 
 [4] Still in the fame aiJle. 
 
 Archilevita Dei rabi ABNUS alme JOHANNES, 
 
 Hue Derobernenfis civis adefto, veni. 
 Oxonias Merton meritos confcendit honores. 
 
 Verba Dei docuit, prsdicat ore, manu. 
 Anglorum Regina potens, tibi Cancellarius, ifte 
 
 Affuit officio dignus & aptus homo. 
 Sufcipe, terra, tuo corpus de corpore fumptum ; 
 
 Spiritus alta petat, nil leti jura nocebunt. 
 
 [ 5 ] Still in the fame aife towards the Eaji. 
 
 ac Prebendarii Prebende de Wroteham in Chrifto 
 
 Ecclefia Ecclefia CathedraU de Lichfield : qui obijt 
 
 viceffimo octavo menfis Maij, anno Domini Millefimo 
 
 Ecce Sacerdos eram, jam factus vile cadaver, 
 
 Et cito pulvis erit, qu^fo memento mei 
 Sifte gradum, qui me teris hie, & funde precatus. 
 Me Deus ut levet hinc, ducat ad ufque polum. 
 
172 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 [ Tranjlation : — ^ 
 
 and Prebendary of Wroteham in Chrift ( ? church) 
 
 of the Cathedral Church of Litchfield : who died on the 
 
 28th of May in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 
 Behold I was (formerly) a prieft now (I am) become a vile corpfe, 
 And foon it will be duft. I befeech (you) to remember me 
 Check (your) ftep you who tread on me here, and pour forth prayers 
 That God would raife me hence and take me to the fkies.] 
 
 [6] Still in the fame aifie. 
 
 Loe Thomas Minde^ Efquier by berthe, doth under tumed^ lie. 
 To fhew that men by natures law are borne to lyve and dye. 
 In Shrop/hire, at the Mynd towne [borne],* the tyme we here prefixe. 
 And dyed the feventhe of February^ in Anno feventie fixe. 
 
 Threefcore and feaven yeeres he faw ; though bodie lye in tomb. 
 His fowle immortal, lives in Heaven, by Goddes eternal dome. 
 Natus octavo menfis Julii j5io. 
 Obijt feptimo Februarii 3576. 
 
 [ 7 ] Still in the af ore/aid aifie. 
 
 Here under thys ftone reftithe yn the mercy of God, the body of 
 Mafter THOMAS DOCKWRAT, Notary; late one of the Proctors 
 of the Arches; Cytezen and Stacyoner of London. And ANNE hys 
 Wyffe; whyche THOMAS deceafed the xxiij. day of June, Anno 
 
 MCCCCCLIX. And the fayd ANNE decefiyed the day 
 
 of whofe dethe have you in remembrance, calling to God for 
 
 Mercy. 
 
 ' The translations of the Latin inscriptions here given are in each Qd&t freely rendered. — Ed. 
 
 - Stow gives ' Alotid,' — Ed. ^ Stow gives • buried.' — Ed. ^ Given by Stow. — Ed. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 173 
 
 [ 8 ] In the Eajiern part of the Church. 
 
 Here buried ys ELIZABETHEy of honour worthy Dame, 
 Her hufband erft LORD SHANDOTS was, her fonne hath now 
 like name. 
 
 Her Father was of mLTON Lord, a GRET of puiffant fame. 
 Here Brother left with us behinde, now Lord is of the fame. 
 Her vertuous lyfe yet ftill doth live, her honour fhall remaine. 
 Her corps, though it be growne to duft, her fbule the heavens con- 
 taine. 
 
 obijt 29. die Decembris, Anno Domini 
 
 [This Lady Shandois was, on the 3d of January 1559, carried from 
 her Place in Knightrider-ftreet, to Jefus'^ Chapel, with Priefts and 
 Clerks linging, attended with Heralds of Arms, of her's and her Hufband's, 
 and of her Pedigree ; the Church hung with Black, and Efcutcheons of 
 Arms ; a Sermon preached, and afterwards, all the Company returned to 
 her Place to Dinner, according to the Cuftom of Funerals in thofe 
 times.^] 
 
 [ 9 ] . In the fecond aijle. 
 
 WILLIAM B ABB AM and ALES DUTTON hys wyef. 
 Anno Domini 1577. 
 See^ here the certeine end of every mortall one, 
 Beholde to daye alive, to morrow deade and gone ; 
 
 Lyve well, fo endlefs lyfe by death ye fhall obtayne. 
 
 Naught lofe the good by deathe, fythe lyfe thereby they gayne. 
 
 [10] Still in the fame aife. 
 
 Of your charitie pray for the fouls of ROGER HUNTTE, late 
 Procurator of the Arches, and Regiftre of the pryncipall Courte of 
 
 ' Stow's Survey. — Ed. 
 
 ^ Stow gives ' Lo.' — Ed. 
 
174 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 th'ammyraltie of England and JOTCE hys wyfe : whyche ROGER 
 dyde the fecond day of December, in the year of our Lord God m.v. 
 and Lviij. on whofe foule and all chriften foules Jefus have mercy. 
 
 [ 1 1 ] Stt// in the af ore/aid aijle. 
 
 Orate pro anima ALICIM JOHNSONM, uxoris ROBERTI 
 yO HNS ONI, procuratoris generalis Curs Cantuarienfis, & reverendi 
 patris EDMUND I BONERI, Londonenfis Epifcopi, Regiftrarij princi- 
 palis : qu£ obijt Anno Domini jS5^- j^- Maij, & annis reg .... 
 
 Phil. & Marias, Francis, Neapolis, Hierufalem, & Hibernias, 
 
 fidei defenforum ; principum Hifpaniarum & Sicilias, Archdiducum 
 Auflrias, Ducum Mediolani, Burgundias, & Brabantis; comitum 
 Habfburgi, Flandriae, & Tirolis, fecundo et tertio. 
 
 m pour Ctaritie prap for m fotolps of Robert iohnson, late 
 one of thz Proctors of tl)t arcfjes, ann alyce i)g0 tnpf, to^o Ipetf) tiotbe 
 tJuneD unDer tl)ls fione: tobicb Robert euDgD tW Ipfe tbe xx. Dap of 
 
 November, Anno Domini j558. ^nD ti}t faiD ALYCE enUgH |)ir Ipfe tf)t 
 
 XVI. Dap of April, j555. tDf)ofe fotolleis anD alle Cbriften fotolUis, our 
 LorD batie mercp. 
 
 [12] In the fouth aiJle. 
 
 Hie homo Catholicus WILLIELMUS WEST tumulatur, 
 Pauli canonicus minor, Ecclefias, vocitatur ; 
 
 Qui fuerat Cardinalis, bonus atque fodalis 
 
 M. Sexageno quater & C. ter duo pleno, 
 
 Augufti denoque die ruit ill fereno. 
 
 ['3] 
 
 In the fame aiJle. 
 WILLIELMI LTLT fervus Chriftique minifter. 
 Hie locus eft illi, fuit artibus ipfe Magifter. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 M. Domini C. quater, femel L. ter & V. lege, frater, 
 X. bis cum quinis, in Adar Marcio eft bonus fibi finis ; 
 Ccelica facta via, lit ei precor alma Maria. 
 
 [14] Sti7/ in the fame aijle. 
 
 Perpetius annis memores eftote JOHANNIS 
 GOOD, Succentoris ; Cardinalifque minoris 
 Canonici, cujus ope nomen dulce Jhefu jus 
 Hie habet, & colitur, per & hunc Elemofyna fcitur 
 
 Diftribui ; Tutor fuit & puerifque ; Minorum 
 
 Collegii Cuftos, dum vixit, canonicorum : 
 
 Hinc migrat M.C. quater L. Xque Decembris : sterna 
 Virgo Dei mater praeftet fibi regna fuperna. 
 
 [ Iranjlation : — 
 
 Keep in perpetual Memory JOHN GOOD a Precentor, cardinal 
 
 and Minor Canon ? ? He was alfo a Tutor and warden of the 
 
 College of Minor Canons during his Life-time. He departed hence 
 (in the year) eleven hundred on the 14th of December (?) May the 
 everlafting Virgin, the Mother of God grant him (an entrance into) the 
 realms above ! ] 
 
 [15] Still in the fame aife. 
 
 Marmore fubtegitur JOHN BREWSTER, & hie fepelitur. 
 Quondam Canonicus minor, Ecclefis fuit hujus, 
 Perfectus fiquidem, necnon Succentor ibidem ; 
 Sancti Rector ita Bendicti tunc apud Hudam. 
 M.C, quater pleno, moritur, ter vintque noveno 
 Virginis & fefto S. Teclag memor efto. 
 
 Qui facis hie ftamen, metra perlege, funde precamen 
 Ut tibi falvamen fit Salvator lefus, Amen. 
 
176 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 [ Tranjlation : — 
 
 The remains of yOHN BREWS'TER are beneath (this) monument 
 and here he is buried. He was formerly Minor Canon of this Church 
 — a perfect character if there be fuch — he was alfo Precentor at the 
 
 fame place and alfo Rector of St Benedict at Huda. He died ( — ?) 
 
 on the feaft of the Annunciation. Oh thou who makeft here ( ?) 
 
 read over (thefe) verfes and pour forth a prayer that the Saviour Jefus 
 may be Salvation to you. Amen.] 
 
 [16] Still in the fame aijle. 
 
 Here lyeth buried the body of MARGARET ROBINSON, the 
 Wyf of CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, one of the Proctors of the 
 Arches; who decealTed the firfl of May, Anno 3560. On whofe foules 
 and all Chryften foules, Jelu have mercy. 
 
 [ 1 7.] In the higher part of this Church, towards the Eaji. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of GEORGE WHITGIFT Efquire, one of 
 the naturall Brothers of JOHN JVHIGTIFT, late Arch-Bifliop of 
 Canterbury : which GEORGE deceafed the j9 day of Apr ill. Anno 
 Domini ]6]]. 
 
 [18] Over another tablet in the fame place. 
 
 Under this Stone lye buried the Bodies of JOHN and FRANCIS 
 ASTLET, the Sons of Sir JOHN ASTLET of Allington-Caftle, in the 
 County of Kent, Mafter of the Revells, and a Gendeman of the Privy 
 Chamber in ordinary to Charles the firfi. 
 
 In obitum immaturum JOHANNIS & FRANCISCI ASTLET, 
 filiorum Domini JOHANNIS ASTLET Equitis aurati : quorum, hie 
 undecem, alter duo deviginti annos natus, ad fuperos migravit ; utrique 
 vero fub eodem marmore tumulantur. 
 
THE "TOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 177 
 
 Sic rebar, folum fpes tantas invida fata 
 
 OftendilTe viris, & rapuifTe fimul. 
 Aut pater omnipotens, & qui dedit abftulit, aptos 
 
 Vidit quippe Aftris, afferuitque fibi. 
 Illi autem humanis exempti rebus, Olympum 
 
 Nunc habitant, ubi pax & fine fine quies. 
 Uno fcelices, quod cum unus venter utrofque 
 
 Foverat, una fimul nunc capit urna duos. 
 
 [ Uranjlation : — 
 
 In Memory of the early death of JOHN and FRANCIS 
 ASTLET fons of John AJiley Knight, of whom one, at the age 
 of eleven, the other at the age of eighteen palTed to the company 
 above but both are buried under the fame monument. 
 Thus v^as I reflecting (with myfelf ), the envious fates only fhowed 
 to men (thefe two of) fuch great expectations, and fnatched them away 
 at that very moment. But the Almighty Father (He who gave and has 
 taken away) faw indeed that they were fit for Heaven, and claimed them 
 for himfelf. But they, releafed from human care, inhabit Heaven 
 where (there is) peace and endlefs reft. Happy they in one refpect that 
 whereas one bofom had cherifhed them both, one urn now holds both 
 their afhes together.] 
 
 [19] Over a marble tablet fixed in the Eafiern Wall of this Church. 
 
 Herd^lieth buried the Body of KATHERINE, third Daughter of 
 EDWARD LORD NEFILL, Baron of Abergavenny, Wife of Sir 
 STEP HAN LESSIEUR of Chfiwike in the Countie of Middlefex 
 Knight. She was brought from her faid Houfe to this Pariih, in hope 
 to recover her bodily Health, by the helpe of God and Phifitians : But 
 the fame God knowing, and having ordained that which was beft for 
 her pious Soule, hath been pleafed to take her from the Miferies of this 
 vaine world, and to receive her Soule, with his Saints in Heaven. As 
 
 23 
 
178 
 
 THE TOMBES OF ST. PJUL'S. 
 
 fhe did profeffe, in all the time that fhe lived in the State of a Maide, 
 and of a Wife, to be a true and obedient Childe of God ; even fo fhe 
 did behave herfelf in her ficknefs, bearing her Affliction with a true 
 Chriflian Patience ; much delighting to read, or to heare the Word of 
 God read unto her, hoping and trufting to be faved by the only Merits 
 and Paffion of our Saviour Jefus Chrijl ; and recommending her Spirit 
 into the Hands of Almighty God, fhe exchanged her mortal Life for the 
 immortal, the 4. of Auguji jGi^o. 
 
 Rev. XIV. 13.1 
 
 Bkjfed are the Dead that die in the Lord ; yea, faith the Spirit, that 
 they reji from their Labours, and their works follow them. 
 
 Quid aliud efl Mors vitae hujus mortalis, quam finis mortis huj is 
 vitalis, & Janua vitse immortalis ? 
 
 Ergo, 
 
 Vive diu, fed vive Deo, nam vivere Mundo 
 Mortis opus : viva eft vivere vita Deo, 
 
 [20] Over another tablet in the fame place. 
 
 WILLIAM NORTON Citizen and Stationer of Lo?tdon, and 
 Treafurer of Clirifs Hofpital, died Anno j593, aged 66 years, and had 
 ifTue one onely Sonne. 
 
 His Nephew JOHN NORTON Efquier, Stationer and fometimes 
 Alderman of this City, died without iffue Anno j6i2. aged 55 years. 
 
 Alfo BONHAM NORTON of Church-Stretton, in the County of 
 Salop, Efquier, Stationer and fometimes Alderman of this City, Son of 
 the aforefaid William, died April 5. anno 3635, aged 70 years. He had 
 iffue by JANE, Daughter of THOMAS OWEN Efquier, one of the 
 Judges of the Common Pleas, nine Sons and four Daughters : whereof 
 three Sons were here buried; THOMAS and GEORGE unmarried; 
 and ARTHUR, who married the only Childe of GEORGE NORTON 
 
 Omitted by L)iiy;dale : but given by Stow. — Eu. 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 179 
 
 of Abbots: Leigh, in the County of Somerjet Efquier, and having by her 
 iffue two Sons, dyed October the 28. anno j636, aged 38 years. 
 
 JANE NORTON, the faid Widow of BONHAM aforefaid, caufed 
 this Monument to be erected neer the Sepulchers of the Deceafed. 
 
 [21] Over another tablet in the fame place. 
 
 Neer unto this Monument, in a Vault, Heth buried the Body of 
 ROBERT FREEMAN Efquier, Citizen and Letherfeller of London; 
 who had to wife ELIZABETH, Daughter of RICHARD IRONSIDE, 
 of London, Letherfeller ; who lyeth buried neer unto him : By whom 
 he had iffue four Sons; RICHARD, SAMUELL, JOHN, and 
 SAMUELL; and three Daughters, ELIZABETH, SARAH, and 
 REBECCA. He had alfo to Wife JOANE the Daughter of JOHN 
 JOHNSON, of Bow, Gentleman; who furvived him. He departed 
 this Life on the xxviij. of December j643. in hopes of a blelTed 
 Refurrection ; to whofe Memory his eldeft Son and Heir RICHARD 
 FREEMAN, hath, at his foie Cofts and Charges, fet up this Monu- 
 ment. The Vault, neer this Place, with a Marble Stone upon the 
 mouth of it, was made by the Appointment, and at the fole Charge of 
 the aforefaid ROBERT FREEMAN. 
 
 [22] Over another. 
 
 PETRUS OSBURNE Armiger, Rememorator Thezaurii Scaccarii, 
 
 vir probus & prudens, obiit. 7. die Junij, Anno Domini j592. Cui 
 
 5. Februarii, j6i5, accefTit vidua ejus, ANNA, lectilTima foemina, ex 
 
 eodem PETRO mater 22 liberorum. 
 
 Fcelices cineres, animas quibus incola Sanctus 
 Reddet in occurfum venientis in ^there Chrifti. 
 
 [ Tranjlation : — 
 
 PETER OSBORNE, Recorder (or Remembrancer), of the Court 
 of Exchequer, a wile and upright man departed (this life) the 7th June 
 in the year of Our Lord j592 whom his widow joined 5th of Feb. 1615. 
 
i8o 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 Anna, a moft courtly Lady — She was the mother of the fame Peter of 
 22 children. 
 
 Oh happy remains to whom may the Holy Spirit reftore 
 (their) fouls to meet Chrift coming in the Clouds !] 
 
 [23] Above another. 
 
 Exuviae Magiftri THOMM ILES Notarii publici, alm^ CurijE 
 Cantuarienfis, de Archubus London, Procuratorum generalium unius, 
 prope componuntur : Qui nuUo (nifi fenectutis) morbo confectus, tertio 
 
 die menfis Februarii, Anno Domini (ftylo Anglias) animam fuo 
 
 Jefu expiravit. 
 
 Majorum Cineres operofo marmore cingat. 
 Fata celebrantis cui nasnia rauca triumphus, 
 Et cui follicitans prasfica dulce melos. 
 
 Pegmata & illorum pretiofa cadavera condant, 
 Quos cava faxa vetant inhumari gurgite Lethes, 
 Me fua Sarcophago nomina ut olfa lilent. 
 
 Hie fibi (dum vixit) monumenta perennia ftruxit, 
 Infigni pietate ; Inopi fuccurrere dextra, 
 Conftanti ftudio reddere cuique fuum. 
 
 Et Lapis officium tibi gratum grate rependet, 
 Ut licet altra dies LapicidcC abolebit honorem, 
 Vivida conftituet fama trophasa tibi, 
 Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit. 
 JOHANNES ILES filius natu minor, pietatis ergo, pofuit. 
 [ Tranjlation : — 
 
 The remains of THOMAS ILES, a public Notary, one of the 
 Procurators General of the Court of Canterbury , of the Court of Arches, 
 London, are at reft near this, who worn out by no difeafe fave that of old 
 age, breathed out his foul to his own Jefus on the 3d. of February in 
 the Year of our Lord (Englifli ftyle) 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAULS. 
 
 i8i 
 
 [Three first lines omitted.] 
 And let the coftly monuments conceal the corpfes of thofe whom 
 the hollowed tombftones forbid to be buried in the whirlpool of forget- 
 fulnefs. 
 
 Here during his life time he conftructed for himfelf lafting monu- 
 ments by his Angular piety —his right hand (ready) to fuccour the 
 needy, by his fteady determination to render to all their dues. 
 
 And the monumental ftone will gratefully repay to Thee its grateful 
 duty. And although fome diftant day may obliterate the work of the 
 Lapidary Fame with erect living trophies to you. 
 
 He died mourned by all good men. 
 
 JOHN ILES, his younger fon, through filial affection erected (this 
 Monument).] 
 
 Epitaphs over the Pillar in the aforefaid Eajiern part of the Church. 
 [24] Here lyes the Body of JAMES TRUSS EL, late of this Parifh, 
 Citizen and Clothworker of London, who firft took to wife JANE 
 HONE, Daughter of THOMAS HONE of Home-Church in the 
 County of EJJex Efquier; and had ilTue by her three Sons and one 
 Daughter; and was after married to ELIZABETH GIBBS the 
 Daughter of WILLIAM GIBBS, and had ifiue by her three Sons and 
 two Daughters. He departed thej/. of Mayj636. 
 
 [25] Heir before this Pillar lyeth the Body of DAVID CLAP HAM 
 of London Gentleman, and one of the Proctoures of the Arches ; which 
 died the xiv. Day of July & Regni Regis Edward fexti Anno 
 
 quinto. 
 
 [26] Heer under lieth buried Mafter JOHN SMTTH Doctor of 
 Phyfick, and one of the Refidentaries to this Cathedral! Church of 
 Sent Pawle; which decefiyd the xxyj. Day of December, Anno Domini 
 MCCCCCXXXIX. on whofe Soule Jhefu have Mercy. 
 
l82 
 
 rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAULS. 
 
 [27] JOHN CAJVOOD, Citizen and Stationer of Londoji, Printer to 
 the moft renowned Queen's Majefly, ELIZABETH; married three 
 wives, and had ifflie by JOANE the firft wife onely, as followeth, three 
 Sons, four Daughters; JOHN his eldeft Son being Bachelour of 
 Law, and Fellow in New Colledge in Oxenford, died j57o ; MART 
 married to GEORGE BISCHOPPE, Stationer; ISABELL married 
 to THOMAS WOODCOCK Stationer; GABRAEL, his fecond Son 
 beftowed this dutifull Remembrance of his deare Parents j59j. then 
 Churchwarden; SUSANNA married to ROBERT BULLOK; 
 BARBARA married to MARK NORTON; EDMUND third Son 
 died j57o. 
 
 He died j. of Aprill j572. he being of Age then 58. 
 
 [28] Neer to this Pillar lyeth the body of RICHARD WATERSON, 
 Citizen and Stationer of London ; who died the xviij. of September, 
 j563. SIMON WATERSON his fon placed this heer the j. of 
 January ^599. 
 
 Qua fide refurrectionem carnis crediderit unufquifquis, in gloriam 
 refurgat 
 
 [ With the fame faith that men believe in the refurrection of the fleJJi 
 ( with the fame ) JJiall every one rife to glory. ] 
 
 [29] Epitaphium M. Sacrum, & more antiquo afcriptum, SIMONIS 
 WATERSON (RICHARDI filii Bibliopoli Stationarii Londinenfis ; 
 civis probi, juxta ac honefti; qui bis in praefecturam fodalitatis fuas 
 adfcitus, & munia fceliciter omnia ejus ac hujus parochis functus, in ple- 
 beium five commune confilium Civitatis exinde electus Anno Millefnno 
 Sexcentefimo octavo, Decembris vicefimo primo ; nec non Anno fequenti 
 duorum Hofpitalium prsfectura decoratus & confignatus : tota qux 
 munia integerrime perfunctus fumma cum fama ac fide, ufque ad plenam 
 
THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 183 
 
 fenectutem, & numerofam annorum feriem, geffit. Uxorem unicam 
 habuit, FRANCISCAM, THOMM LEGATI, in agro Eftfexi^E 
 Armigeri filiam ; quas illi decimam prolem peperit ; fcilicet feptem filias 
 & tres filios ; quorum fuperftites, junior, JOANNES h^eres & Execu- 
 tor, hoc Monumentum mcerens ac pie pofuit. 
 
 Obiit Anno falutis CI3DCXXXIV. Mar. D. j6. ^tatis fu« 72. 
 
 [ Tranjlation : — 
 
 The Epitaph, facred to the Memory and compofed in the old form, 
 of SIMON WATERSON a London Bookfeller and Stationer, and 
 upright and an honourable citizen ; who twice being called to the 
 chairmanfhip of his guild and having honourably difcharged all the 
 duties of that guild and of this parifli was afterwards elected in the year 
 1608 on the 2ist of December as Common Council Man. Alfo in the 
 following year he was honoured by being regtftered as the Chairman of 
 two Holpitals. All which duties he bore and difcharged with the 
 higheft reputation and honour even to an advanced old age and to many 
 years. He had only one wife, FRANCES, the daughter of THOMAS 
 Legat, Knight, in the County of Efi"ex — who gave him 10 children that 
 is 7 daughters and 3 fbns ; the youngeft furvivor of whom, his heir and 
 Executor, in the grief and affection of a fon erected this monument. He 
 died in the year of Our Lord 1634. March 16. aged 72.] 
 
 t , 
 
 [30] Neer to this pillar lyeth the body of FRANCIS COLDOCK, 
 twice Mafler of the Company of Stationers : who departed this life the 
 xiij. day of January j6o2. being of the age of threefcore and twelve 
 years; who married ALICE the widdow of RICHARD WATERSON, 
 and had iffue by her two daughters, JOANE married to WILLIAM 
 PONSONBT Stationer; and ANNE who died young. The third, 
 ALICE, was the daughter of SIMON BURTON, Citizen and Wax- 
 Chandler of London. 
 
rHE rOMBES OF sr. PAULS. 
 
 A fair Monument on the north fide of the chancel. 
 
 M.S. 
 
 [31] Hie [juxta]^ fitus eft RICARDUS IRONSIDE, vir fumma pru- 
 dentia, induftria, vitaeque integritate, una cum duabus lectiflimis 
 uxoribus ; quarum pofteriorem, morum fuavitate, elegantia, & amore 
 
 conjunctam, fato fibi raptam, ^ multo poft fequutus eft : 
 
 Quibus hoc monumentum, in opprobrium mortis, qux has tam pias 
 animas eripuit a trefdecem liberis, qui feipfos pasne quasrunt in illarum 
 defiderio, confecravit E. I. filius & haeres. ]62j. 
 
 [ Tranjlation : — 
 
 Here is buried RICHARD IRONSIDE, a man of great judgment, 
 induftry and integrity of Hfe, along with his two wives, moft diftin- 
 guifhed Ladies — the latter of whom endeared to him by her courteous 
 manners, elegance, and love, when fhe was fnatched from him by fate, 
 he fome time after, followed (to the grave). To thefe three as a 
 triumph over Death, which had fnatched away thefe fo pious fouls from 
 1 3 children, who almoft mourn themfelves in their longing (after thofe 
 who are gone) E.I. his fon and heir dedicated this Monument. 3627.] 
 
 [32] Neer to this Pillar lyeth buried the body of ELIZABETH 
 FREEMAN, the loving and beloved wife of ROBERT FREEMAN, 
 Citizen and Leatherfeller of London, eldeft daughter unto RICHARD 
 IRONSIDE; who had iffue four fons and three daughters, and departed 
 this life the laft of May j632. who lived in the feare of God, died in the 
 Faith of Chrift Jefus, and refteth heere in aflured hope of a glorious 
 refurrection : To whofe memory her aforefaid Hufband hath erected this 
 Monument the twelfth of February j633. R. F. 
 
 Heer quiet I lie in darke and filent Toombe, 
 
 Till Chrift me call to life from Earth's dead woombe. 
 
 ' Given by Stow. — Ed. 
 
 ^ Slow gives ' noH i/a.' — Ed. 
 
rUE rOMBES OF ST, PAUL'S. 
 
 185 
 
 [33] Lodovicus Nicols, Civis London^ filius tertius Thomce Nicolsy 
 Northamptonienjis y hie {e.^Q\it\xv. Obiit 22 Aprilis^ 1592. Anno i^^tatis 
 fuze 28. 
 
 Ad vocem Tubas refurgent mortui.^ 
 
 [In a recefs, at the eaft end [of Faith's Church] the fmall remains 
 of the monuments formerly in the old Cathedral are now collected : the 
 principal of which is the figure of Dr. Donne in his fhroud, carved by 
 Nicholas Stone ; and which, as we are informed by Lord Orford, coft 
 
 In S. Faith's vaults May 19, 1783, I faw with Dr. Hamilton^ pre- 
 bendaiy of S. Paul's, Mr Ordy and Mr. Brookey the following figures 
 remaining of the old monuments, in tolerable prefervation ; the hands, 
 that were elevated, gone.^ 
 
 Dr. Donne's whole figure, the urn flat at top, and never open, in the 
 window of a feparate vault ; and fragments of his tomb are on the other 
 fide of the Church.* 
 
 Sir Thomas HeneagCy to the knee. His lady perhaps. 
 
 Sir (only half his head gone). His lady perfect. Large 
 
 fragments of this tomb lay in an adjoining window. 
 
 Clofe by Heneage a half length of ^iv Nicholas Baron in armour, with 
 mattrefs. A v^^ole figure of a lady. Q. his wife. 
 
 Sir William Cockayne y alderman (a buft in gown) and his wife. 
 
 A buft of whiter materials, as of plafter (see Knight's Life of Colet 
 p. 262) hands down on bafe gone. 
 
 A buft concealed, feemed of an elder knight. 
 
 The Ikull (facelefs) and the fpine on a mat, all of wood, of Colety in 
 a feparate vault. This fine carving had been by fome accident removed 
 among fome old lumber; in which fituation Oct. 3. 1786, it was 
 
 ' Omitted by Dugdale— given by Stow.— Ed. ^ Dugdale's History of S. Pauls p. 213.— Ed. 
 
 ^ Gough Sepulchr. Mon. vol. ii. p. cccxiv. and Notes (Dugdale).— Ed, 
 ^ Since re-erected in the Dean's Aisle.— Ed, 
 
 24 
 
i86 
 
 THE rOMBES OF ST. PAUL'S. 
 
 difcovered by Dr. Ducarel and Mr Nichols^ and reftored to its proper 
 place. 
 
 The fhield and impalement of Wolley lay in another vault among 
 pillars, and bafes, and other fragments.] 
 
 A Table hanging about the middle of the South Ifle of St FaitJis 
 Church, Anno Dom. 1630.^ 
 
 Benefactors y and their Gifts, to the Poor of this Parijh. 
 
 1586. David Smith, Embroiderer, gave 20s per Year for ever. 
 
 1592. The Lady Allington. gave 5I. to be diftributed. 
 
 1 598. fohn Payne, Efq ; gave I2d. per week in Bread for ever. 
 
 1600. fufiinian Kidd, Gent, gave lol. to be employed for ever. 
 
 1605. Francis Lamplow, Clothworker, gave lol. to be employed for ever. 
 
 1 610. George Bijhop, Stationer, Alderman, gave lol. to be diftributed. 
 
 161 1. William Evans, Tallow- Chandler, gave 40I. to be employed for 
 
 ever. 
 
 1612. fohn Norton, Stationer, Alderman, gave 150I. for twelve poor 
 
 People to receive 3d. a-piece every Wednefday, weekly, for ever. 
 
 161 3. Mary Bijhop, the wife of George Bijhop gave lol. to be diftributed. 
 
 1 6 14. John Law, Proctor of the Arches, gave lol. to be employed. 
 1620. Thomas Adams, Stationer, gave lol. to be diftributed. 
 
 1623. Jajper Underwood, Vintner, gave lol. to be diftributed. 
 
 1624. John Sanderfon, Draper, gave 150I. for twelve poor men to receive 
 
 3d. a week, every Sunday, for ever. 
 
 1625. Elizabeth Underwood, Widow, gave lol. to be diftributed, and 
 
 60I. towards a Lecture for ever. 
 
 1626. John Beliall, Silkman, gave lol. to be diftributed. 
 
 1628. Ally Mercer gave 5I, to be diftributed. 
 
 1629. John Speed, Merchant-Taylor, gave 5I. to be diftributed. 
 
 Ex dono Jacobi Trujfell. 
 
 ' Stows Survey, p, 643. — Ed. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abbington, Rev. Roger, 146. 
 Abergavenny, John Nevil, Baron 
 
 of, 144. 
 Abnus, John, 171. 
 Acton, Blandina, 77, 166. 
 Acton, John, 77, i66. 
 Adams, Thomas, 186. 
 Ailmer, Brabanzon, 30. 
 Ailmer, (Bilhop of Lond.), 30, 
 Aiton, Jeffrey de, 124. 
 Alfrida, Queen, 34, 35, 36. 
 Allenthorp, Laurence, 124, 125, 154. 
 AUington, Lady, 186. 
 Anglikus, Jonas, 135. 
 Afhmole, Ehas, 67. 
 Aftley, Francis, 176, 177. 
 Aftley, John, 176, 177. 
 Aflley, Sir John, 176. 
 Audley, Nicholas de, 126. 
 Awbrey, Edward, 140. 
 Awbrey, Sir Edward, 139, 140. 
 Awbrey, Elizabeth, 140. 
 Awbrey, John, 139, 140, 141. 
 Awbrey, Sir John, Bart, 140, 141. 
 Awbrey, Mary, 140. 
 Awbrey, Thomas, 140. 
 Awbrey, Sir Thos.. 139, 140. 
 Awbrey, Wilgiford, 139, 140. 
 Awbrey, Dr. William, 139, 140. 
 Awbrey, William, 140. 
 Awbrey, Sir William, 140. 
 Aylmer, Brabazon, 
 Aylmer, John (Bifhop of Lond.), 
 
 30, 113, 114, 115. 
 Aylmer, Sir Robert, 114. 
 Aylmer, Samuel, 115. 
 Aylmer, Tobell, 114. 
 Ay ton, Jeffrey de, 124. 
 Ay ton. Sir R., 124. 
 Babbam, William, 173. 
 Bacon, Sir Francis, 98. 
 Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 96, 97, 98, 
 185. 
 
 Bacon, Sir Nicholas, Bart., 98. 
 Baldock, Ralph de (Bifhop of 
 
 Lond.), 90. 
 Baldock, Sir Robert, 91. 
 Baldock, Robert de, 91. 
 Balifhannon, Lord Foliot, Baron of, 
 
 131- 
 
 Balfham, Hugh de (Bifliop of Ely), 
 54- 
 
 Barkham, Sir Edward, 53. 
 
 Barlow, Dr. Thomas, 47. 
 Barton, Sir Henry, 123. 
 Barwick, Dr, John, 161, 162, 163, 
 164. 
 
 Barwick, Dr. Peter, M.D,, 161. 
 Balkervil, Bernard de, 32. 
 Balkervil, Sir Humphrey, 32. 
 Bafkervil, Sir Thomas, 32. 
 Balkerville, Humphrey, 84, 
 Bafkerville, Sir Simon, 84. 
 ■ Baffet, Fulk. (or Fulco, Bifhop of 
 
 Lond.), S3, 54. 
 Baffet, Ofmond de, 54. 
 Baffet, Sir Gilbert, 53. 
 Baffet, Sir Philip, 54. 
 Beauchamp, Hugo de, 68. 
 Beauchamp, Sir John, 65, 153. 
 Beauchamp, Sir John de, 66. 
 Beauchamp, Milo de, 68. 
 Beauchamp, Payne de, 68, 
 Becket, Thomas, 130. 
 Bedford, Francis, Earl of, 99. 
 Bedford, John Plantagenet, Duke 
 
 of, 92. ' 
 Beliall, John, 186. 
 Belknap, William, 27. 
 Benn, Elizabeth, 95. 
 Benn, Robert, 95. 
 Berkeley, Thomas Lord, 156. 
 Berkley, Thomas Lord, 119, 120, 
 
 121. 
 
 Bettifon, Sir Richard, Bart., 12. 
 
 Bifchoppe, George, 182. 
 
 Bifchoppe, Mary, 1 82. 
 
 Bifliop, George, 186. 
 
 Bifhop, Mary, 186. 
 
 Boner, Edmund, 174. 
 
 Bonham, John, 56. 
 
 Bonham, Thomas, 55, 56. 
 
 Bonham, William, 55. 
 
 Bonham, Walter, 56. 
 
 Boys, Isabel, 81. 
 
 Boys, John, 146. 
 
 Boys, John de, 81. 
 
 Boxhull, Sir Alan, K.G., 157, 158. 
 
 Boughton, Lord Edw. Mountague, 
 
 Baron of, 140. 
 Brabanzon, Roger, 29, 30. 
 Brabazon, Sir Edward, 30. 
 Brabazon, Sir Robert, 30. 
 Bradford, Lord Francis Newport 
 
 Vifcount, 99. 
 Brady, Dr. Robert, 104. 
 
 Braybrook, Sir Gerard, it 6, 146. 
 Braybrook, Sir Gilbert, 148. 
 Braybrook, Nicholas, 146. 
 Braybrook, Reginald de, 1 16. 
 Braybrook, Robert (Bifliop of 
 
 Lond.), 115, 116, 146. 
 Brewfl;er, John, 175, 176. 
 Bridgwater, John, Earl of, 6. 
 Brooke, Mr., 185. 
 Brownlow, Sir John, Bart., 37, 
 Brownlow, Lady, 37. 
 Buchanan, George, 96. 
 BuUok, Robert, 182. 
 BuUok, Sufanna, 182. 
 Burgundy, John, Duke of, 91, 92. 
 Burleigh, Lord Chancellor, 11. 
 Burley, Sir Symon, K.G., 63. 
 Burton, Simon, 183. 
 Bufby, Dr. Richard, 122. 
 Butler, Ralph Lord, 27. 
 Caius, John, 102, 
 
 Cambden, Lord Baptifl Noell, Vis- 
 count, 63. 
 
 Canutus, 34. 
 
 Capel, Mary, 83. 
 
 Carey, Lady Mary, 157. 
 
 Carey, Rev. Dr. Valentine, 79. 
 
 Carlifle, James Hayes, Earl of, 123. 
 
 Caffabaline (King of the Britains), 
 152. 
 
 Cawood, Barbara, 182. 
 
 Cawood, Edmund, 182. 
 
 Cawood, Gabriel, 182. 
 
 Cawood, Ifabella, 182. 
 
 Cawood, Joane, ■1?2. 
 
 Cawood, John, 182. 
 
 Cawood, Mary, 182. 
 
 Cawood, Sufanna, 182. 
 
 Cecill, Lady Frances, 21. 
 
 Chattefden, Agnes de, 27. 
 
 Chattefden, Henry de (Archdeacon 
 
 of Leicefter),' 26, 27. 
 Chattefden, Nicholas de, 27. 
 Chattefden, Richard de, 27. 
 Chaucer, Anne, 67. 
 Chaucer, Sir Geoffrey, 67. 
 Chaworth, Patrick de, 68. 
 Chaworth, Payne de, 68. 
 Chefterfield, Philip, Earl of, loi. 
 Chickwell, Hammond de, 151. 
 Chifliull, John de, 55. 
 Chudleigh, Hugh Clifford, Baron 
 
 22. 
 
i88 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Clanriccard, Richard, Earl of, lo. 
 Clapham, David, l8l. 
 Clare, John, Earl of, 79. 
 Clifford, Lady Elizabeth, 21. 
 Clifford, James, 117. 
 Clifford, Richd. (Bifhopof Lond. ), 20. 
 Clyfford, Anthony, 21. 
 Clyfford, Hugh, 21. 
 Clyfford, Sir Thomas, Baron, 21. 
 Cokayn, Sir William, 40, 41, 42, 
 43. 185- 
 
 Cokayne, Rev. George, B.D., 43. 
 Cokayne, John, 43. 
 Cokayne, Scipio, 43. 
 Cokayne, Thomas, 43. 
 Cokayne, William, 43, 44. 
 Cockayne, Sir William, 145. 
 Cokayne, Lord Chief Juftice, 43, 44. 
 Coldock, Alice, 183. 
 Coldock, Anne, 183. 
 Coldock, Francis, 183. 
 Coldock, Joane, 183. 
 Colet, John, 73, 74, 75, 76. 
 Colet, Thos., 76. 
 Collet, Dean, 106. 
 Collete, Sir Henry, 75, 76. 
 Colrain, Sir Hugh Hare, Baron, 47. 
 Cork, Richard, Earl of, 21. 
 Cornwall, Ethelman, Earl of, 1 1 3, 
 114. 
 
 Courtneys, , 22. 
 
 Crawford, Rev. James, 117. 
 
 Creeke, Thomas, D.C.L., 48, 49. 
 
 Crcke, Thomas, D.C.L., 48, 49. 
 
 Croft, Sir Henry, 141, 142. 
 
 Croft, Sir Herbert, 142. 
 
 Croft, Sir Herbert, Bart., 143. 
 
 Croft, Herbert (Bilhop of Here- 
 ford), 142, 
 
 Croft, Sir James, 142. 
 
 Croft, Sir Richard, 142. 
 
 Croft, Sir William, 142. 
 
 Crowther, Dr. Jofeph, 146. 
 
 CuUen, Lord Charles Cokayne, 
 Vifcount, 43. 
 
 Cumberland, Geo. Clifford, Earl of, 
 20. 
 
 Cumberland, Henry Lord Clifford, 
 
 Earl of, 21. 
 Danby, Henry, Lord Danvers, Earl 
 
 of, 144. 
 
 Danby, Thomas, Earl of, 144. 
 Davies, John, 141, 142. 
 Denitry, Heneage, Baron of, 43. 
 Dennet, Rev. John, 78. 
 Dethick, George, 50. 
 Dfthick, Gilbert, 50. 
 Dethick, Henry, 50, 51. 
 Dclhick, Lady Jane, 50. 
 Dethick, John, 50. 
 Dethick, Lady Thomafin, 50. 
 Dethick, William, 50. 
 Dethick, Sir William, 49, 50, 51. 
 
 Dockwray, Anne, 172. 
 
 Dockwray, Th imas, 172. 
 
 Donne, Dr. Gabriel, 155. 
 
 Donne, Dr. John, 57, 58, 59, 60, 185. 
 
 Dorfet, Lady Anne, Dowager- 
 Countess of, 20. 
 
 Dover, Henry Carey, Earl of, 157. 
 
 Ducarel, Dr., 186. 
 
 Dudley, Lady Dorothy, 5. 
 
 Dugdale, Sir William, 5, 26, 31, 
 37. 130, 155. 
 
 Dumblain, Lord, 145. 
 
 Dunftan, St. (Archbifliop of Cant.), 
 
 33, 34. 36. 
 Dutton, Ales, 173. 
 Edgar, King, 33, 34, 35, 36. 
 Edolph, Symon, 166, 167. 
 Ellefmere, Lord, 58. 
 Erkenwald (Bifhop of Lond.), 16, 
 
 17, i8, 19, 20. 
 Effex, Arthur, Earl of, 152. 
 Ethelred, King, 32, 33, 34. 
 Ethelwolfe, Earl of tlie Eaft- Angles, 
 
 35. 36. 
 Eure, Hugh de, 71. 
 Eure, Ralph de, 71. 
 Eure, Thos. de, 70, 71. 
 Eure, William de, 71, 
 Evans, William, 186. 
 Ewer, George, Lord, 71. 
 Faith's S. (Infcriptions in), 169 — 
 
 186. 
 
 Falconberg, Euflace (Bifhop of 
 
 Lond.), 24, 25. 
 Falconberg, Philip de (Deacon of 
 
 Huntingdon), 25. 
 Farrendon, Nicholas de, 150. 
 Farrendon, William de, 150. 
 Feinnes, John, 138. 
 Finch, Dame Elizabeth, 119, 120. 
 Finch, Sir Heneage, 122. 
 Finch, Sir John, I2i. 
 Finch, Sir Moyle, Bart., 1 19, 120, 
 
 121, 122. 
 Fitzherbert, Henry, 87. 
 Fitz-Hugh, Bardolph, 138. 
 Fitz-Hugh, George, 138. 
 Fitz-Hugh, Henry, 138. 
 Fitz-Hugh, Richd., 138. 
 Fitz-Hugh, Dr. Robert (Bilhop of 
 
 Lond.), 137, 138. 
 Fitz-Hugh, Sir William, 138. 
 Fitz-James, Sir Henry, 112. 
 Fitz-James, Sir John, 1 12. 
 Fitz-James. Richd. (Bifhop of Ro- 
 
 cheller). iii, 112. 
 Fitzjohn, Payne, 68. 
 Fitz-neale, Richd. (Bifhopof Lond.), 
 
 146. 
 
 Fletcher, Richd. (Billiop of Lond.), 
 153- 
 
 Foliot, Gilbert (Bifhop of Lond.), 
 130. 
 
 Foliot, Hugh (Bifliop of Hereford), 
 130. 
 
 Foliot, Robert, 130. 
 Frampton, William, 78. 
 Franck, Lady Jane, 165. 
 Franck, Dr. Mark, 164, 165. 
 Freeman, Elizabeth, 179, 184. 
 Freeman, Joane, 179. 
 Freeman, John, 179. 
 Freeman, Rebecca, 179. 
 Freeman, Richard, 179. 
 Freeman, Robert, 179. 184. 
 Freeman, Samuel, 179, 
 Freeman, Sarah, 179. 
 Freke, Sir Thomas, 78. 
 Fuller, Dr. (Dean of Ely), 165. 
 Gale, Dr. Thos. (D.D.), 77, 107. 
 Gates, Dr. Thomas, 63. 
 Gaunt, John of, 44, 45, 46, 66. 
 Gibbs, Elizabeth, i8i. 
 Gibbs, William, 181. 
 Gildenftiern, Peter, 81, 82. 
 Gill, Alexander, 77. 
 Glipfon, Francis, 104. 
 Glocefler, Humphrey, Duke of, 65, 
 Good, John, 175. 
 Gofling, Dr., 103. 
 
 Grandizon, John (Bifliop of Chefler), 
 146. 
 
 Gravefend, Benedict de (Bifhop of 
 
 Lincoln), 127. 
 Gravefend, Richd. de (Bifhop of 
 
 Lond.), 127. 
 Gravefend, Stephen de (Bifliop of 
 
 Lond.), 127. 
 Grene, William, D.D., 57. 
 Griffith, Edward, 116, 117. 
 Griffith, Sir Edward, 117. 
 Grimflon, Sir Harbottle, Bart., 97, 
 
 98. 
 
 Grimflon, Lady, 98. 
 
 Halion, Nigel, Baron of, 16. 
 
 Hambden, Edward, 146. 
 
 Hamilton, Dr., 185. 
 
 Hare, Rt. Hon. Henry, 48. 
 
 Plare, Nicholas, 48. 
 
 Hare, Sir Ralph, Bart, 47. 
 
 Hare, Rol)ert, 47. 
 
 Hare, Sir Thomas, Bart., 47. 
 
 Harrington, Joan, 110. 
 
 Harrington, John, Lord Stanhope, 
 
 Baron of, 100. 
 Harrington, William, 109, no, ill. 
 Harvey, Dr. William, 103. 
 Haflce {alias Bayly), William, IIO. 
 Ilatton, Chriftopher, Lord, 16. 
 Hatton, Sir Chriflopher, 7, 12, 13, 
 
 14, 16, 
 Hatton, John, 12. 
 Hatton, William, 12. 
 Hatton, Sir William, 13. 
 Heneage, Lady Ann, II9, I20, 121. 
 I Heneage, Henry, 121, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 189 
 
 Heneage, Sir Thomas, 1 19, 120, 
 
 121, 185. 
 Hengham, Sir Ralph de, 156, 157. 
 Hengham, William, 157. 
 Herbert, James, 29. 
 Herbert, Sir Edward, 87. 
 Herbert, Sir Philip, 89. 
 Heveningham, William, 157. 
 Hewit, Elizabeth, 38, 40. 
 Hewit, John, 38, 40. 
 Hewit, Mary, 38, 40. 
 Hewit, Robert, 38, 39. 
 Hewit, Solomon, 38, 40. 
 Hewit, Thomas, 38, 40. 
 Hewit, Sir Thomas, 40. 
 Hew<it, William, 37, 38, 39. 
 Higgons, Sir Thomas, 117. 
 Hill, Richd. (Bifliop of Lond.), 129. 
 Holmes, Denzil, Lord, 79. 
 Hone, Jane, 181. 
 Hone, Thomas, 181. 
 Howfon, Dr. (Biftiop of Durham), 
 
 56, 165, 
 
 Hunfdon, Henry Lord Carey, 
 Baron, 157. 
 
 Huntte, Joyce, 173, 174. 
 
 Huntte, Roger, 173, 174. 
 
 lies, John, 180, 1 81. 
 
 lies, Thomas, 180, 181. 
 
 Ironfide, Elizabeth, 179. 
 
 Ironfide, Richard, 179, 184. 
 
 Johnfon, Alice, 174. 
 
 Johnfon, Joane, 179. 
 
 Johnfon, John, 179. 
 
 Johnfon, Robert, 174. 
 
 Kemeys, Sir Charles, Bart., 68. 
 
 Kemeys, David, 68. 
 
 Kemeys, Nicholas, 68. 
 
 Kemeys, Sir Nicholas, 68. 
 
 Kemeys, Payne de, 68. 
 
 Kemp, John (Archbifliop of Canter- 
 bury), 143. 
 
 Kemp, Thomas (Bifhop of Lond.), 
 143- 
 
 Keys, John, 103. 
 
 Kidd, Juflinian, l86. 
 
 King, Dr. Henry, 137. 
 
 King, Dr. John (Bifhop of Lond.), 
 
 132, 133, 134. 135' 136, 137- 
 King, Robert, 137. 
 Kytfon, Anthony, 171, 
 Kytfon, Margaret, 171. 
 Lambe, Alice, 170. 
 Lambe, Joane, 170. 
 Lambe, William, 170. 
 Lamplow, Francis, 186. 
 Lancafler, Catharine, Duchefs of, 66. 
 Lancafter, Edmond, Earl of, 126. 
 Lancafler, &c., Thomas, Earl of, 47, 
 
 126. 
 
 Langley, Mr., 77. 
 
 Latimer, John Nevil, Baron, 144, 
 145- 
 
 Laud, William (Archbifhop of Can- 
 terbury), 118. 
 
 Law, John, 186. 
 
 Legat, Frances, 183. 
 
 Legat, Sir Thomas, 183. 
 
 Leicefler, Earl of, 5. 
 
 Leffieur, Katherine, Lady, I77> l?^' 
 
 Leffieur, Sir Stephen, 177. 
 
 Leftrange, Eubolo, 126. 
 
 Leftranges (Baronets) of Norfolk, 
 126. 
 
 Lilly, Agnes, 104, 105. 
 Lilly, George, 104, 106. 
 Lilly, William, 104, 105, 106. 
 Lily, William, 74, 
 Linacre, Dr. Thomas, loi, 102, 103. 
 Lincoln, Lady Alice, 126. 
 Lincoln, Henry de Lacy, Earl of, 
 125. 
 
 Lindfey, Mountague Berty, Earl of, 
 145- 
 
 Lifle, Lady, 156. 
 Lifle, Vifcount, 5. 
 Litchfield, Richard, 80, 81. 
 Lovell, Fulk, 85. 
 Lucy, Geoffry de, 25. 
 Lucy I Richard, 25. 
 Lyly, William, 174, 175. 
 Lynacre, Dr. Thomas, loi, 102, 103. 
 Maidflone, Elizabeth, Vifcountess, 
 121. 
 
 Manny, Sir Walter de, 23. 
 
 Maria, Queen Henrietta, 148. 
 
 Martin, George, 147. 
 
 Martin, Sir Thomas, 147. 
 
 Mafon, Dr. Charles, 94. 
 
 Maibn, Capt. Chriftopher, 94. 
 
 Mafon, Sir John, 93, 94. 
 
 Mafon, Sir Richard, 94. 
 
 Mafon, Sir Robert, 94. 
 
 Mafon, Sir William, 94, 
 
 May, Baptifta, 108. 
 
 May, Thomas, 108. 
 
 May, William, 107, 
 
 Meath, Lord Brabazon, Earl of, 30. 
 
 Mellitus (Archbifhop of Canter- 
 bury), 17, 146. 
 
 Mercer, Ally, 186. 
 
 'Minde, Thomas, 172. 
 
 Mollins, John (Archdeacon of Lon- 
 don), 167. 
 
 Mond, Thomas, 172. 
 
 Moor, Mrs. Anne, 60. 
 
 Moor, Sir George, 60. 
 
 Moore, Sir Thomas, 58. 
 
 Morton, Cardinal, 118. 
 
 Morton, Sir John, 118. 
 
 Morton, Robert (Bilhop of Wor- 
 cefter), 117, 118. 
 
 Mountague, Lady, 141. 
 
 Mountague, William, 140. 
 
 MuUins, John (Archdeacon of 
 Lond.), 167. 
 
 Munden, John, 129. 
 
 Munden, Robert, 129. 
 
 Naunton, Sir Robert, 89. 
 
 Neal, Sir Charles, 146. 
 
 Neal, Thomas, 146. 
 
 Neal, Sir Thomas, 147. 
 
 Neal, Sir William, 146, 
 
 Neale, Thomas, 83. 
 
 Nevil, John, 144, 145. 
 
 Nevill, Edward, Lord, 177. » 
 
 Newcourt, John, 80. 
 
 Newmarch, Ivo de, 116. 
 
 Newport, Andrew de, 99. 
 
 Newport, Hon. Andrew, 99. 
 
 Newport, Richard, 99. 
 
 Newport, Lord Richard, 99. 
 
 Newport, Richd. de (Bifhop of 
 
 Lond.), 98. 
 Newport, William de, 99. 
 Nichols, Mr., 186. 
 Nicols, Lewis, 185. 
 Northburg, Michael de (Bifliop of 
 
 Lond.), 22. 
 Northbury, Sir John, 27, 28. 
 Northumberland, John Dudley, 
 
 Duke of, 5. 
 Norton, Arthur, 178. 
 Norton, Bonham, 178, 179, 
 Norton, George, 178. 
 Norton, Jane, 178, 179. 
 Norton, John, 178, 186. 
 Norton, Mark, 182. 
 Norton, Thomas, 178. 
 Norton, William, 178. 
 No well. Dr. Alexander, 60, 61, 62. 
 No well, Robert, 60, 61. 
 Normandy, Robert, Curthofe, Duke 
 
 of, 68. 
 
 OfFa, King of the Eafl Saxons, 17. 
 
 Okeford, Thomas, 77. 
 
 Ord, Mr., 185. 
 
 Ore, John, 11 1. 
 
 Orford, Lord, 185. 
 
 Ofborne, Anna, 180. 
 
 Olborne, Peter, 179, 180. 
 
 Owen, Jane, 178. 
 
 Owen, John, 56. 
 
 Owen, Thomas, 57, 178. 
 
 Parr, Lady Anne, 87. 
 
 Parre, Sir Thos., 138. 
 
 Patefliull, Hugh de (Bifliop of 
 
 Coventry), 31. 
 Patefliull, Martin de, 30, 31. 
 Patefliull, Simon de, 31. 
 Patefliull, Walter de, 31. 
 Payne, John, i86. 
 Pelegrim, Raymond, 48. 
 Pembroke, Henry, Earl of, 87, 88. 
 Pembroke, Penelope, Countefsof, 89. 
 Pembroke, Philip, Earl of, 29. 
 Pembroke, William, Earl of, 85, 86, 
 
 87, 88. 
 Peverel, Paganus de, 68. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Philips, Katharine, 141. 
 Periton, Richard de, 153. 
 Piriton, Richard de, 153. 
 Placito, Richd., 129. 
 Plantagenet, Anne, 92. 
 Plantagenet, Lady Anne, 92, 93. 
 Plantagenet, John, 92. 
 Pleffys, Richard, 150. 
 Ponfonby, Joane, 183. 
 Ponfonby, William, 183. 
 Portgrave, Godfrey, 51. 
 Poultney, Adam de, 37. 
 Poultney, James, 37. 
 Poultney, Sir John, 36, 37. 
 Poultney, Thomas, 37. 
 Poultney, Sir William, 37. 
 Powis, William, Earl of, 90. 
 Poyntz, Sir Nicholas, 1 19, 120, 121. 
 Rainbow, Edward (Bilhop of Carl- 
 ifle), 21. 
 
 Ravis, Thomas (Bifliop of Lond.), 
 
 151, 152. 
 Raymond, John, 147. 
 Raymond, Sir Jonathan, 148. 
 Raymond, Thomas, 147, 148. 
 ReRal, Judge, 58. 
 Rickdel, Nicholas, 81. 
 Robinfon, Chriftopher, 176. 
 Robinfon, Margaret, 176. 
 Rochefler, Benedict, Bifhop of, 25. 
 Rochefter, Bifhop of, 34. 
 Roet, Anne, 67. 
 Roet, Catharine, 66. 
 Roet, Sir Payne, 46, 66, 67. 
 Roger (The Black, Bilhop of Lond.), 
 
 68, 69. 
 Ruffel, Lady Diana, 99. 
 Rythen, George, 79. 
 Rythyn, William, 78, 79. 
 Ry\'e, Rev. Thomas, 78. 
 Salifbury, Alice, Countefs of, 67. 
 Salifbury, Robert Cecill, Earl of, 21. 
 Salifbury, Thomas Montecute, Earl 
 
 of, 67. 
 
 Salifbury, William, Earl of, 5. 
 Sancroft, Dr. William, n6. 
 Sanderfon, John, 186. 
 Scarborrough, Sir Charles, 106. 
 Seagrave, Gilbert (Biihop of Lond.), 
 112. 
 
 Sebba, King of the Eafl Saxons, 17, 
 19- 
 
 Shandoys, Lady Eliz., 173. 
 Shandoys, Lord, 173. 
 Sherrington, Walter de, 149. 
 Sherrington, William, 150. 
 Shrewfbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 
 156. 
 
 Shrewfbury, Lady Margaret, Coun- 
 tefs of, 156. 
 Sidney, Sir Henry, 5. 
 Sidney, Lady Mary, 5. 
 Sidney, Philip, 8. 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, 3, 4, g, 6, 10, 
 
 167, 168. 
 Sidney, Sir William, 5. 
 Sidney, Baron, of Penfhurfl, 5. 
 St. Martin, Richd. de, 126. 
 Smith, David, 186. 
 Smith, Mr. William, 33. 
 Smyth, John, M.D., 187. 
 Somerfet, Edward, Duke of, 148. 
 Somerfet Houfe, 148. 
 Speed, John, 186. 
 Stanhop, Edward, 99, 100, loi. 
 Stanhop, Sir Michael, loi. 
 Stewart, Sir Nicholas, Bart., 29. 
 Stokesly (Bithop of Lond.), 131. 
 Stone, Nicholas, 185. 
 Stratford, Ifabel, 128. 
 Stratford, John, 128. 
 Stratford, Ralph de, 128. 
 Stratford, Robert de, 124. 
 Stratford, Robert, 128. 
 Stratford, Robert (Chancellor of 
 
 England), 129. 
 Sudbury, Paul Bayning, Vifcount, 
 
 87. 
 
 Suffolk, Henry Grey, Duke of, 114. 
 Swain, 34. 
 
 Swineford, Lady Catharine, 46. 
 Swinford, Catharine, 66. 
 Swinford, Sir Gates, 46, 66. 
 Sydney, Sir Robert, 5. 
 Talbot, Lord, 87. 
 
 Theodorus, Archbifhop of Canter- 
 bury, 17. 
 Theodred (Bifhop of Lond.), 158. 
 Tillotfon, John, 118. 
 Tiptoft, Payne de, 68. 
 Tomkins, John, 82. 
 Tomkins, Uvedale, 83. 
 Tomkyns, James, 83. 
 Tomkyns, Sir Thomas, 83. 
 Toney, Alice, 65. 
 Toney, Ralph de, 65. 
 Toney, Robert de, 65. 
 Truffell, Jacob, 186. 
 Truffel, James, 181. 
 Truffel, Jane, 181. 
 Tubervile, Payne de, 68. 
 Tyes, Lady, 156. 
 Underwood, Elizabeth, 186. 
 Underwood, Jafper, 186. 
 Uvedale, Lady Lucie, 83. 
 Uvedale, Sir William, 83. 
 
 Vaughan, Richard, 114. 
 Vaughan, Richard (Bifhop of Lond.), 
 153. 
 
 Villiers, Lady Catharine, 89. 
 Villiers, Sir William, 89. 
 Virulam, Sir Francis Bacon, Vifcount, 
 98. 
 
 Walfmgham, Sir Francis, 6, 7, 8, 9, 
 10, II. 
 
 Walfmgham, Thos., 11. 
 
 Walfmgham, Sir Thos., 12. 
 
 Walfmgham, Urfula, 10. ' 
 
 Waltham, Roger, 145. 
 
 Walton, Dr. Brian (Bifhop of Ches- 
 ter), 158, 159, 160. 
 
 Walton, Ifaac, 60. 
 
 Ward, Sir Chriftopher, 149. 
 
 Ward, Lord Edward, 149. 
 
 Ward, Sir John, 148, 149. 
 
 Ward, Sir Patient, 149. 
 
 Ward, Dr. Seth, 149. 
 
 Ward, Symon de, 149. 
 
 Ware, Sir John de, 117, 1 18. ' 
 
 Ware, Richd. de, 117. 
 
 Warwick, Elizabeth, Countefs of, 
 156. 
 
 Warwick, Guide de Beauchamp, 
 
 Earl of, 65. 
 Warwick, Richd. Beauchamp, Earl 
 
 of, 156. 
 Waterfon, Frances, 183. 
 Waterfon, Richard, 182, 183. 
 Waterfon, Simon, 182. 
 Welford, William, 129. 
 Wengham, Henry de (Bifliop of 
 
 Lond.), 26, 168. 
 Werrel, Forefl of, 36. 
 Well, William, 174. 
 Whitgift, George, 176. 
 Whitgift, John (Archbifliop of Can- 
 terbury), 176. 
 William I., King, 51, 53. 
 William tke Norman (Bifhop of 
 
 Lond.), 51, 52, S3. 
 Wilton, Lord, 173. 
 Winchelfea, Sir Thomas Finch, 
 
 Bart., &c., Vifcount, 121. 
 Winterburne, Dr. Thos., 107. 
 Wokenden, Nicholas, 154. 
 WoUey, Sir Francis, 72, 73. 
 Wolley, Sir John,'72, 73, 185, 186. 
 Woodcock, Ifabella, 182. 
 Woodcock, Thomas, 182. 
 Worfeley, Sir James, 29. 
 Worfeley, Sir Richard, Bart., 29. 
 Worfeley, Sir Robert, Bart., 29. 
 Worfley, William (Dean of S. 
 
 Paul's), 28, 1 68.