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[Monuments.] Cheape Ward. [St. Lawrence Jury.] | 48 |
[Monuments.] Cheape Ward. [St. Lawrence Jury.]
de, quali cum fructa præstiterit. Fama magni Nominis longe lateque
divulgata,
vocalius & diutius durantissimo Marmore, proclamabit. Venerabilis iste
Theologus, pro
spectatissima Probitate, Prudentia singulari, & Eruditione optima, Doctrina
perquam
Divina, Vitaque pari, Doctrinæ, Laude omni Major, (Qualis qualis, quantus
quantus
fuit) Post Valetudinem prosperam diu habitam, Morbo, potius, quam Senecta,
fractus
(Annorum tamen ac Famæ ac Opum Satur) vitam minus vitalem, cum meliori
commutavit; Anno post salutiferum Partum MDCLXXXIII. ætatis suæ
LXXIV.
Patruo suo summe Honorando hoc Monumentum Posuerunt Executores ultimi Testamenti
B. & C.W.
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Upon the same East Wall a fair figure of a young Maiden in white Marble:
Erected to the
Memory of Mrs. Mary Browning, Daughter of John Browning Merchant. Dyed 1692.
Aged 13 years.
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William.Bird, a Child, 1698.
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John Davis Son of Richard Davis, 1681. And Richard Son of the same Richard,
1691.
And Christian his Daughter, 1696.
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James Ware, 1672. And Elizabeth his Wife, 1699.
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John Browning, 1687. By him lye his Daughters Elizabeth and Mary.
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Augustin Munford, 1666. Also Richard his Son, 1695. and Anne his Wife, 1698.
and
Augustin his eldest Son, 1701.
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Against the West Wall of this North Isle a fair Monument with three Effigies
half way in
Stone, of a Man and two Women; viz. William Haliday Alderman of the City, dyed
1623.
And Susanna his Wife, after married to Robert Earl of Warwick; dyed 1645. and
Anne his
eldest Daughter, married to Sir Henry Mildmay, Kt. Dyed 1656.
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Under the Man, is this Inscription: In or near this Place lyeth interred the
Body of William
Haliday Alderman of the City of London; with his Wife, Sister of Sir Henry Row
of
Shakelwel in the County of Middlesex. By whom he had two Daughters, Anne,
married to
Sir Henry Mildmay, and Margaret, married to Sir Edward Hungerford, below
mentioned:
He dyed about the 14. of March, 1623. Being a worthy Magistrate of this City.
Who for
his Piety, Charity and Prudence deserveth immortal Fame.
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Under the Womnan on the right hand, SUSANNA Relict of William Haliday: After
married
to Robert Earl of Warwick, Admiral of the Seas. She departed this Life, and was
buried in
this Church the 21 of Jan. 1645.
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Under the Woman on the left, ANNE, eldest Daughter of William Haliday, by
Susanna his
Wife; married to Sir Henry Mildmay, Kt. By whom she had five Children, two
Sons, and
three Daughters. The second Daughter, named Diana Maria, about seven years of
Age,
was buried in this Place Sept. 26. 1643. This ANNE departed this Life about the
12 of
March. 1656.
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An Inscription underneath instructeth, who erected this comely Monument: viz.
Dame
Magaret Hungerford. Who by her last Will, appointed a Monument to be set up for
her
Family, in this Church, when it was rebuilded. She was Relict and Executrix of
Sir Giles
Hungerford, Kt. who was Executor to Dame Margaret Hungerford, Relict of Sir
Edward,
Kt. of the Bath, his Eldest Brother.
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Flat Stones in the middle Isle, lying over Robert Monteth, Merchant, third Son
of James
Monteth of Greenwich, Gent. 1684.
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Margaret first married to John Robins, Citizen and Pewterer of London, afterward
to
Robert Petty of Otteford in Kent, Gent. dyed at Otteford, 1684.
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Francis Lane, Schoolmaster, 1685.
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South Isle. Flat Stones over
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Elizabeth Gilbert, Widow, 1687.
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Three and all the Children of Will. Hopkins, B.D. and Avarill his Wife, taken
away within
ten months, viz. William five years old, 1685. George three years old, 1684. and
Avarill
eight months old 1684.
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Will. Smith Son of Thomas Smith, Gent. 1674. And Elizabeth Smith his Mother,
1694.
Against the Wall in this Isle Monuments for
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Christopher Goodfellowe, Sergeant at Law, Judge of one of the Sheriffs Courts:
deceased
1690. Aged 74. and John Goodfellowe his Son, one of the City Counsel, and after
Town
Clerk, 1700. Aged 45.
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Elizabeth Rawstorne, Daughter of Edwin Browne, and Wife of Sir William
Rawstorne, Kt.
and Sheriff of London.1678. She dyed 1675. Aged 29.
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In this Vault rest the Ashes of the Rawstornes and the Baxters, Families whom
Love and
Affinity have joyned together.
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North Isle. West End, these Flat Stones thus inscribed:
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Hic inhumatur Corpus Janæ, uxoris Tho. Dugdale, Civis Londini, Filiæ
Ambrosii Audry de Melkham in Com. Wilts, Generosi, &c. She dyed Sept. 17.
1692.
ætat. 31.
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Also the Body of Tho. Dugdale, Dyed Dec. 2. 1711. ætat. 52. And his
only
Daughter: Who dyed 7. April 1713.
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Next to this. Underneath lyeth interred the Body of Mary Goddart, Relict of
Tho.
Goddart, of Rudloe House in the Parish of Bocks, on the County of Wilts, First
Daughter
of Ambrose Audry of Melkham in the said County, Gent. Who departed this Life
the 17.
Dec. 1707. ætat. 50.
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In this Church I find two Fraternities or Guilds founded in the Reign of King
Edward III.
The one, of the Holy Trinity. They were bound to set up a Wax-Light to brenn
before a
certain Image of the Crucifix: and that all the Brethren and Sisters should come
to the said
Church on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, and there be present at the
Mass, and
offer a Penny, &c.
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Guilds of the H. Trinity and S. Anne in this
Church.
Regist. Lond.
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The other Fraternity was founded in the Honour and Worshipp of our Lord Jesus
Christ,
of his Blessed Moder, our Lady Seint Mary, and of S. Anne, of whom the Image
Stant in
the Chappel of S. John in the Church of St. Lawrence in the Jeweze, &c.
beginning on the
day of S. Anne in the yere of the Reygne of King Edward III. after the Conquest
the 46.
Alexander Seyvyle, William Reymond, Thomas Adam, and William atte Brigge were
the
Keepers of this Fraternity of S. Anne.
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One of the Articles of this Guild was,
"If any of the Company be of wicked
Fame of his
Body, and take other Wives than his own. Or if he be single man, and be hold a
common
Lechour, or Contehour, or rebel of his Tongue; He shall be warned of the Warden
three
times: and if he will not himself amend, he shall pay to the Wardens all his
Arrearages that
he oweth to the Company, and he shall put off for evermore. So that the good
men of the
Company be not slaundered, by cause of him."
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Provision also was here made, for such as fel in Mischief by Sickness of Body,
or by
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