Sacred to the memory of Basil Brooke Knight, the son of John Brooke, Esquire, and Ann, his wife, who was the daughter of Francis Shirley, of Staunton Harold, in the County of Leicester, Esquire, and the grandson of Robert Brooke Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. He had two wives, Etheldreda the daughter and sole heiress of Edmund Brudenell, of Dean, in the County of Northampton, Knight, and Francis, the daughter of Henry, Baron Mordaunt, and the sister of John, Earl of Peterborough. He departed this life the 31st of December, in the year 1646. Here lieth Etheldreda, the wife of Basil Brooke Knight. She was the daughter and sole heiress of Edmund Brudenell Knight—a woman not only well-skilled in the knowledge of the Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish languages, and in the science of music, but also exemplary for piety, faith, prudence, courage, chastity, and gentle manners. She left to lament her loss an husband with an only son, named Thomas, and five daughters—namely Ann, the wife of William Fitzwilliam, Esquire, the grandson of Anthony Fitzherbert Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, eminent for his Commentary on the Laws. Mary, the wife of Thomas More, Esquire, a descendant of that renowned and upright character, Thomas More, formerly Lord High Chancellor of England, a man in his life and death universally esteemed. Also Dorothy, Agatha, and Catharine, of dispositions the most motherly, the best of all. She died in the year of our Lord . . (the date is defaced). INDEX. PAGE. Adams 211 Addenbrooke 242 Anstice, J. 176, 234 „ J. A. 178 „ Memorial 177 „ R. E. 178 ,, William 86, 91, 101, 173 ,, W. R 176, 179 Appendix I Aqueduct 167 Ashwood 211 Assessment for carrying on a vigorous war 57 ,, of Lands and Houses 102, 103 Astley 211 Astun 21