Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations. A worke reuiuing the dead memory of the royall progenie, the nobilitie, gentrie, and communaltie, of these his Maiesties dominions. Intermixed and illustrated with variety of historicall obseruations, annotations, and briefe notes, extracted out of approued authors ... Whereunto is prefixed a discourse of funerall monuments ... Composed by the studie and trauels of Iohn Weeuer.

Wrotham.

De Strattone natus iacet hic Rogerus humatus,* 1.1 De Wrotham Rector sacre pagineque Professor.

Credo quod redemptor meus viuit et . . . . .

Orate pro anima Iohannis Burgoine filij Iohannis Burgoine de Impington in Com. Cantab. . . . Cuius.

These Burgoines were ••ometime Lords of Caxton in Cambridgeshire,* 1.2 by whom it came to the Iermins.

Orate pro anima Richardi Ieames .: . . . huic Ecclesie Benefac. . . . qui obiit 15. Sept. 1501.* 1.3 Cuius.

This man, say the Inhabitants, was a speciall Benefactor to this Church, a Tradesman and a Smith, as appeares by the picture of a paire of Pinsers vpon his Monument.

Marmoreo lapide Thomas Gawge subtumulatur,* 1.4

Qui vero dum vixit residens Doctor Thelogie, Sistebat; etiam tum Cancellarius ille Prenobilis Ducisse fuit pariter Eboraci. Quem Deus euexit nuper ad agamatha regni, Octobris mensis X. bina dieque secunda. M. Domini quater hiis addito septuagena.

* 1.5Hic iacet Iacobus Peckham Ar. et Margareta vxor eius filia Thome Bur∣goine de Impington in Com. Cant. Ar. qui ob. 28. Febr. 1500. et Margareta ob.—die—quorum.

* 1.6Of yowr cherity pray for the sowls of Reynald Peckham the elder, Squire for the body of the most excellent Prince king Henry the eight, who dece∣sed 27 Feb. 1525. and for the sowl of Ioice Colepeper his wife which decesed 20. March, 1523.

Hic iacet Willelmus Peckham Ar. * 1.7 Cironomon Tho. Bourchier Episcopi Cant. et Cardinalis, qui obiit 28. Iunij 1491. et Katherina vxor que obiit 23. Aug. 1491. Quorum animabus.

* 1.8Hic iacet Thomas Peckham et Dorothea qui ob.... die .... An. Dom..... et Dorothea ob. 19. Decemb. 1512. quorum, &c.

* 1.9Of yowr.... of Iames Peckham Esquire, and Agnes his wife, the which Iames decesed 5. Aug. 1532. on whos soule and al Christian souls, Iesu haue mercy.

* 1.10Here are two tombes in the Church-yard, and neare to the Church∣doore, the one of which (saith Francis Thinne Lancaster Herald) was ere∣cted to the memory of Martin Peckham Esquire: the other to Margerie Peckham his wife; by the marriage of which Margerie ample reuenues came to the family of the Peckhams, she being daughter and heire to Yald∣ham, Lord of the Mannor of Yaldham. Glouer Somerset Herald in his Col∣lections saith, that Iohn Peckham did hold the Mannor of West-Peckham, in the first of Henry the third. But certaine it is that Iohn Peckham Archbi∣shop of Canterbury, in the raigne of Edward the first, was the first man that aduanced his name to those great possessions, which his posteritie enioyed euen till these our times.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Reg. Stratton Parson.
• * 1.2

  Camd. in Camb
• * 1.3

  Rich. Ieames a Blacksmith.
• * 1.4

  Tho. Gawge.
• * 1.5

  Iames Peckham and Margaret his wife.
• * 1.6

  Reynold Peck∣ham and Ioice his wife
• * 1.7

  Cupbearer. Will. Peckham and Katherine his wife.
• * 1.8

  Tho Peckham and Dorothie his wife.
• * 1.9

  Iames Peckham and Agnes his wife.
• * 1.10

  Martin Peckhā and Margerie his wife.