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 Katherines by the Tower:

* 1.1This was the Church belonging to the Hospitall, dedicated to the ho∣nour of Saint Katherine, founded by Queene Maud, the wife of King Ste∣phen, and much augmented by Eleanor the wife of King Edward the first, and Philip wife to King Edward the third, who left to it sufficient liueli∣hood: for a Master, 3 Brethren, Chaplaines, and 3 Sisters, tenne poore wo∣men, and sixe poore Clarkes. This house was valued at the generall suppres∣sion, at 315 l. 14 s. 2 d. per annum.

* 1.2Here vnder an Ancient monument ••ouly defaced, lieth entombed the body of Iohn Holland, Duke of Exceter, Earle of Huntington, and of Iuory in Normandy, Lord of Sparre, Admirall of England, Ireland, and Aqui∣taine, Lieuetenant Generall of the Duchie of Aquitaine, Fellow of the ho∣nourable order of the Garter, and Constable of the Tower of London, as he writ in his stile;* 1.3 when Henry the fift, in the fift of his raigne, was to goe o∣uer into Normandy, this puissant Iohn Holland, as then but Earle of Hun∣tington, was sent before to scoure the seas, who meeting with nine Car∣rickes of Genoa, which were going to aide the French King, fought with them, and sunke sixe of them, and tooke the other three, with great store of money and treasure, and brought them, with his prisoners, to the King. This battaile was fought nere Harflew vpon the fall of the Riuer Seyne in∣to the narrow seas, of which an old versifier

* 1.4They faught full sore, afore the water of Sayn, With Carrickes many, well stuffed and arayed, And many other shippes great of Hispayn, Barges Balyngers and Galleys vnfrayed, Whiche proudly came vpon our Shippes vnprayed. And by th'euen their sailes aualed were set, Their enemies slaine in battayll, and sore bet.

And many dryent, were that daye in the Sea, That as our flete rode there then alway, Vnto the feast next of his Natiuitee, The Bodies flete among our Shippes eche daye. Full piteous was, and to see theim ay, That thousandes were twenty, as they then told, That taken were in that same batayll bold.

This valiant braue Duke died full of yeares the fift of August, in the 25. yeere of King Henry the sixt, Anno 1447.

Here lye entombed by him, his two wiues; the first was Anne,* 1.5 daugh∣ter of Edmund, Earle Stafford by his wife Anne, the heire of Thomas of Woodstocke, Duke of Glocester, by whom hee had issue, Henry Duke of Exceter. She had bin formerly married vnto Edmund Mortimer Earle of March and Vlster. I cannot finde the time of her death.

His second wife here entombed was also Anne,* 1.6 daughter of Io. Mounta∣gue, the third of that name, Earle of Salisbury, who formerly had bin twise married, to Sir Richard Hanckford, & to Sir Iohn Fitz-Lewis Knights. She died the 27 of Nouember, 1457.

Here lieth likewise entombed,* 1.7 the body of Constance, sister of the fore∣said Iohn, Duke of Exceter, daughter of Iohn Holland, first of that name, Duke of Exceter, married to Thomas Lord Mowbray, (the sonne of Tho∣mas, who died in banishment) Duke of Norfolke, Earle of Nottingham, and Earle Marshall of England, and remarried to Sir Iohn Grey, Lord Grey of Ruthin; she died the sixteenth of Henry the sixt.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Foundation of S. Katherines Hospitall.
• * 1.2

  Iohn Holland Duke of Exce∣ster.
• * 1.3

  Ca••al. of ho∣nour. ••tow Annal.
• * 1.4

  Harding.
• * 1.5

  Anne the first wife of Iohn, Duke of Exce∣ter.
• * 1.6

  Anne the se∣cond wife of Iohn, Duke of Exceter.
• * 1.7

  Constance, Dut¦chesse of Nor∣folke.