Historical and descriptive sketches of the town and soke of Horncastle [1822]: in the county of Lincoln and several places adjacentWeir, George
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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)
Hic jacet Edwardus Okey nup. unus sex clericorum hujus Collegij qui
obijt 29 die Januarij An’o D’ni 1519, cujus &c.
_In Insula Australi_.
Hic jacet Ric’us English artium liberalium Mgr. socius ac p’centor
huj. Collegij & Vicarius Eccl’iæ de Burwell qui obijt 27º. die Martij
A’o D’ni 1522.
_Another_.
Orate pro a’ia M’ri Rob’ti Sudbury sacræ Theologiæ Baccalaureus nuper
Rector . . . ac quondam p’centor & socius hujus Collegij qui obijt
19º. Decembris An’o 1482.
_Under the arched worke of the Partition betw. the Chancell and the
body of the Church_, _this_,
Orate pro a’ia Rob’ti de Whalley . . . hujus collegij qui hoc opus
fieri fecit A’o D’ni 1528. cujus a’ie p’pitietur Deus. Amen.
_Within a Chapel on the North side_, _a fayre flat Marble_, _on which
this Epitaph_,
Have mercy on the soule [good Lord] we thee pray
Of Edward Hevyn, lay’d here in sepulture,
W’ch to thine honour this chappel did array
With ceeling, desk, perclose and pourtrayture,
And paviment of marble long to endure.
Servant of late to the excellent Princesse
Mother to King Henry, of Richmond Countesse.
_The Armes on the Gravestone are_
Empaled. A chevron betw. 3 boares heades couped, having so many
pomeis in their mouths; on the chevron a cresc . . . Hevyn
Empaled. A chevron betw. 3 bulls heades . . . Hevyn
Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 184–189.
{96} “One of the Cromwelle’s builded a preaty turret caullid the Tour of
the Moore; and thereby he made a faire greate ponde or lake, brickid
about. The lake is commonly caullid the Synkker.” Leland’s Itinerarium,
vi. 58.
{98} By some called _Bind_, by others _Clunch Clay_.
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