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Suburbs. St. Giles in the Fields. Monuments. | 79 |
Suburbs. St. Giles in the Fields. Monuments.
Tres Elohim: pater est
primus qui procreat, inde
Filius est, ex his
Spiritus almus adest.
Sunt Tria dona Dei:
sit prima Fides pia Mater;
Filia Spes, ex his
tertius ortus Amor.
1626.
Nam Spe servati sumus, Spes autem si cernatur non est Spes: quod enim
quis cernit,
cur speret? Rom. 8. 24.
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Now remain these three, Faith, Hope, Charity, but the greatest of these is
Charity, 1
Cor. 13. 13.
Scriptum est, Justus ex Fide vivet, Rom. 1. 17.
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Next to this downward, the last of this North Ile, is a plain Window, without
either
Colour of Inscription.]
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This Church is built all of rubbed Brick, and so is the Steeple. The South
Gallery was
built in the Year 1671. by Gift, for the Benefit of the Poor; and made uniform
to the
other Galleries. The North and West Galleries as they appear now, were begun
1676/7.
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The Church of Brick.
J. S.
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Now for the MONUMENTS in this Church of St. Giles in the Fields.
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Upon a fair Grave Stone in the middle Ile is this Inscription.
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Monuments.
R.
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Here lieth buried the Body of Elizabeth, late Wife of Richard Maunsel, Esq; one
of the
Daughters and Heirs of Roger Wingfield, of great Dunham, in the County of
Norfolk,
Esquire. She departed this Life upon the sixth of October, in the Year of our
Lord
God, 1620.
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Upon a fair Stone near to the other, is this Inscription:
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Inter'd, the Corps of Baron Birch lies here,
Of Greys Inn sometime by degree, Esquire;
In Chequer eighteen Years a Judge he was,
Till Soul from aged Body his did pass.
Alive his Wife Eliza doth remain,
Of Stydfolk Stock, one Son and Daughters twain.
She bare by him; the Eldest in his Life,
He gave to Thomas Boyer for his Wife.
His Body sleeps till Angels Trump shall sound,
God grant we all may ready then be found.
Johannes Birch, obiit. Ann. Dom. 1581. Maii 30. ætatis suæ
66.
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On another Stone near to the former, is this Inscription.
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Here lieth buried the Body of Elizabeth Birch, Widow, late Wife of John Birch,
Esq;
and one of the Barons of her Majesty's Court of the Exchequer, Daugher of John
Stydfolk, Esq; who deceased the third Day of December, 1588.
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Lieth buried the Body of John Densill, sometime Serjeant at Law, and Mary his
Wife.
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In the same Ile is a very fair Stone, which hath been beautified with many fair
Figures
in Brass: but much of it being gone, all we can see now of it is this:
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Here lieth George Carew, the fourth Son of Sir Edmund Carew, &c. 1583.
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Lies buried the Body of Alexander Barns, Vintner, sometime Churchwarden of this
Parish, &c. He deceased the fourth of November, 1614. being of the Age of
57 Years.
Alexander Barns
here doth lie,
Glory be
to God on high,
For he on Earth
hath finished his Days,
And now liveth in Heaven
to give God Praise.
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On the North side of the Quire.
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M.S.
Charissimæ Matris Alliciæ, Uxoris venerabilis olim viri Alexandri
Sheppard,
Legum Doctoris: necnon Suavissimæ nuper Conjugis Annæ ex
antiquâ
Daunteseyorum Familia in Agro Wilton oriundæ,
Pietatis & Amoris ergô
Posuit Thomas Sheppard hic loci; juxta quem (si Deo videbitur) mortales suas
[Exuvias
humandas, designavit providus, Anno Dom. 1631.
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Another Monument on the North side.
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Here before lieth buried the Body of William Styddulphe, third Son of John
Styddulphe
of Mickleham in the County of Surrey, Esquire. He had Issue by his Wife
Elizabeth,
Daughter of John Fox of St. Johns in London, Gent. William, Jane, Mary, Thomas
and Elizabeth. He departed this Life at the Age of 55. being the last of
December, Anno
Dom. 1600.
Here also before resteth the Body of the abovenamed Elizabeth; who departed this
Life
at the Age of 60 Years, the 10th of February, 1623.
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And now having done with the Monuments in the Church, we begin in the Churchyard
with this Inscription, standing in the middle of the South Wall.
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Laus Deo.
In cujus, & Christianæ Sepulturæ, honorem, nimis arcti olim
CÅ“meterii fines, novi hujus, 128, pedes longi, & 17. lati, Donatione,
Abrahamus
Speckart. Arm. & Dorothea Uxor ejus Ampliarunt, Anno Dom. 1630.
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A very fair Tombstone in the Churchyard. About it these Verses.
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Thornton of Thornton,
in Yorkshire bred,
Where lives the Fame
of Thornton's being dead;
Full South this Stone
four Foot doth lye,
His Father John,
and Grandsire Henry.
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Johannes Thornton, in Memoria Charissimæ Uxoris Margaretæ,
Filiæ
Georgii Collins, hujus parochiæ sancti ægidii in Campis, hoc
Monumentum
posuit.
Under this sad
Marble sleeps,
She, for whom
even Marble weeps:
Her Praise lives still,
though here She lies
Seeming dead,
that never dyes:
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