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.

Saint Bartholomewes exchange.

* 1.1Vpon an old Tombe the defunct thus seemeth to pray.

Exte vite principium, per te vite remedium, In te vite solatium, da nobis vite premium. Genitor ineffabilis, ipsius prolis Paracliti consimilis memento vite fragilis.

This monument (by relation) was made to the memorie of Thomas Pike, Alderman, who with the assistance of Nicholas Yoo one of the She∣riffes of this Citie, about the yeare 1438. new builded this Church.

Hic ..... Willielmus Capel .... Maior Lon:* 1.2 ...fil Iohannis Capel ... Neyland in com. ... ob. ... 1509.

Out of this broken Inscription I fynde this whole history how that Sir Richard Empson Knight (a Sieue-makers sonne in Tocester) and Edmund Dudley Esquire, both Lawiers, were two instruments for King Henry the seuenth, to enrich his, and their owne coffers; and to empouer••sh the sub∣iects, by way of calling the richer sort into question, for breach of old, moth eaten, vnreuiued penall Lawes; amongst many others (whom they most treacherously abused, by a false packt Iurie) they scruzed from this Sir William Capell aboue sixteene hundred pounds, and some twelue or thir∣teene yeeres after, they were at him againe afresh, for two thousand pounds more; which because he would not pay, he was commanded, by Dudley, Prisoner to the Tower; but by the death of the said King (which happe∣ned the same yeere) he was released both of imprisonment and payment, in which yeere he also departed this world, in the loue of all good men, lea¦uing a great inheritance, and an honourable remembrance to his posteri¦tie; and not long after, Empson and Dudley (cater-pillers of the common-wealth, hatefull to all good people) were beheaded on the Tower hill the 17. of August 1510. leauing behinde them nothing they could dispose of for their heires, saue the staine of euerlasting infamie.

He lyeth here entombed in a Chappell of his owne Foundation; he was the sonne of Iohn Capell of Stoke Neyland in the county of Suffolke.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Tho. Pike Al∣s••rman.
• * 1.2

  Sir William Ca∣pell Lord Maior.