Historical and descriptive sketches of the town and soke of Horncastle [1822]: in the county of Lincoln and several places adjacentWeir, George
History
Historical and descriptive sketches of the town and soke of Horncastle [1822]: in the county of Lincoln and several places adjacent
Weir, George
Horncastle (England)
{91a} Joan Lady Cromwell was one of the daughters of Sir Richard
Stanhope, and niece and co-heiress of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell. She
married Humphry Bourchier, third Son of the Earl of Essex, who was
created Lord Cromwell, in the first year of Edward the fourth.
{91b} Matilda Lady Willoughby was the other daughter of Sir Richard
Stanhope, and niece and co-heiress of the Lord Treasurer Cromwell.
{92a} Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii p. 179.
{92b} The MS. volume of Lincolnshire Church Notes, notices all the
foregoing inscriptions, though not in a very correct manner. It also
contains the following account of inscriptions and arms in this church,
which are now gone:
_In the upper ende of the Chancell_.
Next under another fayre monument of blew marble [as the former] the
picture of one also inlayd in brasse, adorned rounde aboute with a
border of curious workemanship in brasse, with the pictures and names
of some prophets in the Old Testament, and of other saintes, and some
Saxon kinges, as Edmund, Edward, Etheldred, Ethelbert, there is noe
inscription, onely this ensuing escocheon upon either side of him.
[Picture: Coat of arms]
_On the north Side under a Marble_.
Orate pro a’ia M’ri Joh’is Gigur baccalaur. Theologiæ custodis hujus
collegii, ac etiam . . . Collegij Marton in Oxonia qui obijt 12º.die
. . .
_On the Wood Worke in the lower ende of the Quire_, _curiously carved
in capital l’rs this_,—
Ad honorem & gloriam Dei opt. Max. & decorum domus ejus hoc opus
factum est Anno D’ni 1424.
_In Fenestris_.
The history of the passion depainted. In another Hell’s torments,
where are divers creatures bound together in a chayne; amongst whome
one with a crowne, another with a mytre on his head, the divell
tormenting them, and under them is written—
‘Sic affliguntur pœnis, qui prava sequuntur.’
The history of Hermogenes that raysed up devills, and of Guthlake
[the saint of the fens] and of Catherina, who cast them into the sea,
that Hermogenes and Philetus raysed.
The history of Cosdre with his decollation.
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