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messuages, and rents in more than a score of other townships in
Derbyshire.
[37] His brother, Godfrey Foljambe, married Margaret Fitzwilliam, the
other co-heiress.
His eldest son, Godfrey, was twenty-four at the time of his father’s
death. He was subsequently knighted, and died in 1585. He married
Troth, daughter of William Tyrwhitt, of Kettleby. The table-tomb to
the fifth Sir Godfrey and his wife bears their recumbent effigies in
alabaster. Sir Godfrey wears a double collar ruff, and ruffles round
the wrists; he is clad in the plate armour of the period, and is
bare-headed; the head rests on the helmet, whilst a lion supports the
feet. The lady is in ruff and mantle, her head on a cushion and a dog
at her feet. Round the margin of the tomb are twenty shields, bearing
the various Foljambe alliances, whilst at the foot is a shield of all
these Foljambe quarterings impaling Tyrwhitt, whose arms are three
tirwhits or lapwings. An elaborate Latin epitaph appears on a mural
slab above the altar-tomb. Sir Godfrey is there described as “highly
adorned by his innocence, his integrity, his faith, his religion, and
his hospitality.”
[Illustration: Chesterfield Church: Foljambe Chapel.]
Against the south wall of this chapel is the table-tomb and monument
of Godfrey Foljambe, the only son of Sir Godfrey Foljambe V., who
erected the elaborate monuments to his parents and grandparents. He
also erected the monument to himself during his lifetime. He died
in 1594; but the sculptor placed on the margin the true date of the
execution of the work, which was 1592. The sculptured work round this
tomb is a beautifully modelled example of renaissance carving, and has
been considered worthy of special illustration in Mr. Gotch’s recent
important work, _Early Renaissance Architecture in England_.
On the floor near by there is a large alabaster slab bearing the
incised effigy of a man in armour, with a much mutilated marginal
inscription. It appears, from church notes of the eighteenth century,
that this is the monument of George Foljambe, of Brimington, who died
in 1588; he was the second son of Sir James Foljambe. In this chapel
there is also to be seen the exceptional kneeling figure of a knight
in plate armour, which is described and engraved in the _Gentleman’s
Magazine_ for 1794. It has undergone various mutilations and
restorations. There is some difficulty in deciding whom this monument
is intended to represent; but it seems probable that it was erected to
the memory of Sir Thomas Foljambe, who was buried at Chesterfield in
1604. He was the son of Francis Foljambe, the eldest son of Sir James,
by his second wife; he was succeeded by his brother Francis, who was
created baronet in 1622.
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