Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle [1820]: in the county of Lincoln, and of several places adjacentWeir, George
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Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Town and Soke of Horncastle [1820]: in the county of Lincoln, and of several places adjacent
Weir, George
Horncastle (England)
{92a} Gough in his “Sepulchral Monuments,” vol. ii. gives a description
of the arms contained in these shields, as well as in those which were
attached to the figures of the Lord Treasurer and his wife. His
description however differs widely from that given by Mr. Holles in his
MS. vol. of Lincolnshire Church Notes.
{92b} Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii. p. 179.
{92c} 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 about 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: Shield]
_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 affiguntur 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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