Saint Leonards Fosterlane.
* 1.1When the bells be merely roung, And the Masse deuoutly soung And the meate merely eaten, Then ••all Robart Trappis his wyffs and his chyldren be for∣getten. Thus farre Stow. Wherfor Iesu that of Mary sproung Set their soulys thy Saynts among, Though it be vndeservyd on their syde Yet good Lord let them euermor thy mercy abyde And of yowr cheritie, For their soulys say a Pater Noster and an Aue.The pictures of Robert, Agnes, and Ioan, inlaid in brasse, seeme thus to speake.
* 1.2Sancta Trinitas vnus Deus miserere nobis. * 1.3Et Ancillis tuis sperantibus in te. * 1.4O mater Dei memento mei. Iesu mercy, Lady help.
Robert Traps died the yeare 1526. this Robert had a daughter by Ioan his second wife, married to one Frankland, whose name was Iodoca (I thinke Ioice) an especiall Benefactour to Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford, as the principall, the Fellowes, and Schollars of that house, do thankfully acknowledge, by a faire Monument in the Northwall of the Chancell of this Church, thus inscribed.
* 1.5Felici, piae, et munificentissimae foeminae, Iodocae Frankland viduatae, fi∣liae Roberti et Ioannae Trappes Londinensium: Gratitudinis hoc officij et pietatis Monumentum adoptione filij Principalis et Scholares Colle∣gij de Brasennose apud Oxoniens. exhibuere.
Dilecti cineres, non sic requiescitis vrnae In tenui, vt vobis sola haec monumenta parantur, Quae tandem vel sera dies pessundare possit: Aenea vos monumenta ••egunt, viuumque Trophaeum, (Aeternum meruistis enim viuumque Trophaeum) Vobis vestra dedit Iodoca, paerennius aere, Nos etenim aeternumque omnes, quos postera nobis, * 1.6Secla dabunt voces sumus immortale Sepulchrum.Nomen, Elisa, tuum fama super aethera notum Ae••ternum, magis atque magis post funera floret;