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)
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 flatt 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 Hevyn.
so many pomeis in their mouths; on the chevron a crescent
Empaled. A chevron betw. 3 bulls heades. Hevyn.
Harleian MS. No. 6829. p. 184–189.
{97} “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.
{100a} By some called _Bind_, by others _Clunch Clay_.
{100b} At Donington, 103 yards; and at Kirkstead, 150 yards. A succinct
account of the boring at Donington may be seen in the Transactions of the
Geological Society, vol. 3.
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