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[St. Pauls.] Faringdon Ward within. [Monuments.]
Nobilibus Stipatoribus: L. Vici: Sacratioris Cameræ Generosorum unius, Prætorianorum Militum Ducis: Regii Pro-Camerarii: Sanctioris Concilii Senatoris, summi Angliæ ac Oxon. Acad. Cancellarii, Ordinis Nobiliss. San-Georgiani de Periscellide Equitis.
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Maximo Principis omniumque bonorum mœrore (cum 51 Annos cœlebs vixisset) 20. Novemb. Anno 1591. in Ædibus suis Holburnæ piè facto functi.
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Guil. Hattonus, Eques Auratus, ejus ex Sorore, Nepos, adoptione Filius, ac hæres mœstissimus; Pietatis ergô posuit.
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Quæ vero, quæ digna
tuis virtutibus (Heros) Constituent Monumenta
tui? Si qualia debet, Posteritas, si quanta
tibi prudentia, justi Quantus amor, si quanta
fuit facundia Linguæ, Et decus & pulchro
veniens in corpore virtus, Illaque munificæ
semper tibi copia dextræ; Denique quanta fuit
magna tibi gratia quondam Principis, Eque tuis
quæ creverat inclyta factis: Gloria tanta tibi
statuant Monumenta Nepotes: Ipsa tuos caperet
vix tota Britannia Manes.
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These Verses are inscribed on the other side of the Tomb.
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Stay, and behold the Mirror
of a dead Man's House, Whose lively Person would
have made thee stay and wonder; Looke, and learne to know
how to live and dye renowned; For never can cleane Life
and famous Herses sunder.
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Upon a Monument fixed on a Pillar by the Tomb.
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Hatton lyes here entomb'd,
whose Name Hugh Lupus gave, Lupus the Silices,
Sonne of William Conqueror, For Nigel, his cleer Servants sake,
Worship and Laud: Lo, there the Spring; look here
the Honor of his Ancester.
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When Nature moulded him,
her Thoughts were most on Mars; And all the Heavens to make
him goodly, were agreeing: Thence was he Valiant, Active,
strong, and passing Comely, And God did grace his Minde
and Spirit with Gifts excelling.
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Nature commends her
Workmanship to Fortune's charge; Fortune presents him to
the Court, and to the Queen: Queene Eliz. (O God's deare
Handmaid) his most Miracle; Now hearken, Reader,
Rarity not heard nor seene.
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This blessed Queene, Mirror
of all that Albion rul'd, Gave Favour to his Faith, and
Precepts to his hopefull Time; First, train'd him in the stately
Band of Pensioners: Behold, how humble Hearts
make easie steps to climbe.
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First, she made him one of her Noble Pensioners.
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High Carriage, honest Life,
Heart ever Loyal, Diligence, delight in Duty,
God doth reward: So did this worthy Queene,
in her just Thoughts of him, And (for her Safety) made
him Captaine of her Guard.
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Next, Captain of her Guard.
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Now doth she prune this Vine,
and from her sacred Brest Lessons his Life, makes wise his
Heart for her great Counsels, And so Vice-Chamberlaine;
where forreigne Princes Eyes Might well admire her choice,
wherein she most excels.
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Next, Vice-Chamberlain, and one of the Council.
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So sweetly tempred was
his Soule with virtuous Balme; Religious, just to God
and Cæsar in each thing; That he aspired to
the highest Subjects Seat, Lord Chancellor (measure and
conscience of an holy King.)
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Lastly, Lord Chancellor of England.
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Robe, Coller, Garter,
dead Figures of great Honor, Almes-deeds, with Faith, honest
in Word, frank in dispence, The Poore's Friend, non popular,
the Churches Pilllar; This Tombe shewes the one,
the Heavens shrine all the other. Franciscus Florus ad memoriam Heri sui defuncti luctusq: sui solatium posuit. Anno Domini, 1593.
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Thomas Heneage, Eques Auratus, ex antiqua Heneagiorum Familia, in Comitatu Lincolniensi oriundus; Ingenii splendore, morum elegantia, orationis facultate, & optimis studiis ornatissimus, Cameræ Regiæ Thesaurius, Pro-Camerarius, Ducatus Lancastriæ Cancellarius, & ab intimis Conciliis Elizabethæ Reginæ, cui privatæ & principi, fide & fama integra maximis negotiis spectatus, summa cum gratia, Annis 38. inservivit: Hic secundum Christi Adventum in pace expectat.
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A very goodly Tomb Eastward, behind the high Altar.
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Una cum Anna, uxore charissima, filia Nicolai Points, Equitis Aurati, ex Joanna, filia Thomæ Baronis Berkley, femina lectissima, sanctissimis moribus, & à teneris ad mortem usque Elizabethæ Reginæ prædilecta Famula. Quæ illi unicum filiolum infantia præreptum, & unica enixa filiam, Hæredem Elizabetham, Moylo Finch, Equiti Aurato, enuptam. Obiit ille 17. Octob. An. Dom. 1594. Præivit illa Novemb. An. Dom. 1592.
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Optimis & charissimis parentibus, Elizabetha Finch, mœstissima hoc posuit.
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These are the glories
of a worthy praise, Which (Noble Baskerwile)
here now are read
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