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.

Maldon.

* 1.1In this towne stood the pallace royall of Cunobeline or Kimbaline, King of great Britaine, a Prince that spent his yonger yeares in the warres, vnder Augustus Caesar, of whom he receiued the order of Knighthood, by whom he was so fauoured,* 1.2 that by his alone request, the peace of this kingdome was continued,* 1.3 without the payment of Romane Tribute, who hauing for a long time enioyed peace, in the vniuersall peace of the world, (for in the xiii. yeare of his raigne,* 1.4 the God of peace our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ, was borne of the blessed Virgin.) He trained vp his people in a more ciuill and peaceable kinde of gouernement, then that to which they had beene formerly accustomed,* 1.5 and departed this world in peace, within this his Citie of Maldon, then the chamber of his kingdome; in the one and twentieth yeare of our redemption, when he had raigned thirty and fiue yeares, of whom thus writeth my Author Io Harding, ca. xlv.

* 1.6Kymbaline, so was his sonne and heyre, Noryshed at Rome, instruct with Cheualre, That knyght was made wyth honor greate and ••ayer By Octauian, reigning then enterly, Emperor then of Romes great Monarchy, In whose time was both peace and all concord Through all the worlde, and borne was Christ our Lorde.

He was buried in this his chiefe citie, some say at London.

Hic iacet Henricus Coggeshale filius et heres Thome Coggeshale filij Thome Coggeshale Armigeri,* 1.7 qui obijt 9. Ian. 1427. cuius.

Quisquis eris quitransieris sta, perlege plora Sum quod eris, fueramque quod es, pro me precor ora.

Orate pro anima Thome Darcy Ar. corporis Regum Edwardi quarti et Henrici sexti,* 1.8 et nuper vnius Iusticiar. ad pacem in com. Essex, ac filij et he∣redis Roberti Darcy militis, nec non pro anima Margarete consortis sue vni∣us filiarum et heredis Iohannis Harleton in com. Suffolk Ar. qui quidem Tho. obijt 25. Mens. Septemb. 1485.

Hic iacet Rogerus Darcy Ar. filius et heres Tho. Darcy Ar. pro corpore il∣lustrissimi Principis Henrici septimi Regis Anglie,* 1.9 et Elizabetha vxor eius filia Henrici Wentworth militis qui obijt vltimo die Septemb. 1508.

Diuers other faire monuments (but shamefully defaced) are here erected to the memory of the Darcies, a numerous familie, and for antiquity and noblenesse of birth, of great respect in many places of this kingdome.

Sir Robert Darcy Knight, remembred in the former inscription, by his last will and testament, bequeathed his body to be buried in this Church; the substance whereof I haue read in an old Manuscript,* 1.10 as followeth.

Robert Darcy Knight, made his Testament, the 5 of October, Anno Domini,* 1.11 1469. his body he willed to be buried in all Hallowes Church of Maldon, before the Altar, in the Isle, where his father lieth in a Tombe of marble. Also he willed l▪ markes to be disposed for two thousand masses for him to be said, within sixe weekes next after his deceyse, iiii. d. for e∣uery masse; and that they be charged for to prey for his soule, his wifs soul, his fathers and his mothers, and for all his sisters soules; and for all their husbands soules, and for all the soules that he is bound to prey for. Of which said l. markes, hee willed to haue somewhat euery Prist that dwelled in Penbroke hall in Cambridge. Also he willed that euery Fryer that was a Prist in Colchester, haue xx. d. and euery little Fryer vi. d. to say three dirgees, considering that he was a brother of that Order. And the house of Chennesford xl. s. the house of Clare xx. s. and each yong Frier vi. d. considering that hee was a brother of their Order. And he made his Executors, Elizabeth his wife, Io. Clopton Esquire, Nicolas Sax∣ton, and Richard Astley, Clerkes. And the superuisors of this his Testa∣ment, my Lord of Essex, my Lord Dinham, Thomas Mountgomery, and Thomas Tirrill Knights; lowly beseeching the said Lord of Essex, the Lord Dinham, Sir Thomas Mountgomery, and Sir Thomas Tirrill, to helpe his sonne Thomas and all his children. Also hee willed that my Lord of Essex, and the Lord Dinham, should each of them haue a But of Malmesey, and that Sir Thomas Mountgomery, and Sir Thomas Tirrill should each of them haue a pipe of red wine. Also he willed that his brother Iohn Clopton, one of his Executors, should haue for his labour xx.l. Also he willed mistresse Anne Darcy his brothers wife, to haue xx. markes. Yeuen at Danbury the day and yeare aboue said. This his will was proued, quarto di•• mensis Maij, coram reuerendo in Christo Patre Domino Thoma Episcopo London; infra manerium suum de Wekeham, Anno Domini 1470.

* 1.12One King a Butcher, with his two wiues, Alice and Anne, lie here inter∣red vnder a goodly marble, richly inlayd with brasse, his Axe for his Armes, with this Epitaph, who died 1415▪

Subiacet hic pictus, diues, durus, nece victus, Nomine Rex dictus, non re, sed homo modo fictus. De Maldon Carnifex, at Rex vir vocitatus, Nostre fraternitatis pater et peramatus. Mundi mense pleno Ianuarii die noueno C. quater, mille, ter et v. tunc Rex ruit ille. Sponse que fantur Alys, Ann secum tumulantur Quibus solamen precor precamur & Amen.

* 1.13Augusti vndena sumpta bis in hac requieuit Petra Richardus Wood coninge cumque Iohanna. Quorum sunt nati quinque, nate quoque sene, Iesu cunctorum miserator sis precor horum.

Farwel you world, I tak leue for euer I am cityd to appere I not where Yen al yis world yis tym had I leuer, A litl spase to mak a sith for fere Of my trespace, broken is for sorrow Myn hart, now be that sal not be to morrow.

Farwell frendys, ye tide bidyth no man; I am tak fro hens, and so salye: But to what passage tel you I ne can, Ye yat be liuyng may prey wel ye be, Nakyd I go, nakyd hider we cam Prey ye for me, Requiem eternam.

Orate pro animabus Tho. Drakes et Elisabethe vxoris eius quondam filia Iohannis Heydon Ar. et Alicie vxoris eius filie et vnius heredum Roberti Swynborne militis qui.... ob.* 1.14 26. Iunii 1464.

* 1.15Orate pro animabus Richardi Lyon Shereman Fundatoris huius capelle et Katherine vxoris eius......

Quisquis ades, qui morte cades, sta, respice, plora, Sum quod eris, modicum cineris, prome precor ora.

* 1.16Here in this towne sometime stood a religious house of Carmelites or white Friers, founded by Richard de Grauesend, Bishop of London, and one Richard Iselham a Priest, about the yeare 1292. valued at the suppres∣sion at twentie sixe pounds, eight shillings: a poore Foundation for so great a Prelate, hauing the assistance and charitable contribution of another Priest.

* 1.17This little couent was honoured with diuers great schollers, which I finde to haue beene therein buried: and first Thomas Maldon, so called of this towne, the place of his birth, brought vp of a boy in this house of the

Carmelites; from whence hee went to Cambridge, when hee attained to ripenesse of yeares, where he profited exceedingly in all kindes of learning; in so much that he was chosen to be the chiefe master or professor of Diui∣nity in that Vniuersity; he was, saith Pits, de illustribus Anglie scriptoribus, from whom Bale doth not much dissent, subtilis disputator, elegans cōciona∣tor, in omni concertatione scholastica promptus et expeditus, in dubiis expli∣candis clarus et dilucidus, in decernendis et diffiniendis rebus arduis constans et solidus.

He was called from Cambridge to take vpon him the gouernement of this Priorie; in which office he ended his daies, in the yeare 1404. and was interred in the Church of his Couent; vpon whose Tombe this Epitaph was engrauen, as I haue it in a Manuscript.

Carmeli Thomas decus hic iacet Ordinis almus* 1.18 Presul, cui virtus tot bona iuncta dedit, Ingenium, Formam, mores, linguamque disertam, Post mortem et vitam: que manet vsque piis, Obiit Anno Domini M.cccciiii.

Robert of Colchester a Carme and a good scholler,* 1.19 was likewise here in∣terred, with this Epitaph or inscription vpon his grauestone.

Orate pro anima Roberti de Colchester Fratris de monte Carmeli litera∣tissimi, piissimique, ac quondam prioris huius Cenobii, Qui obiit in vigiliis S. Agathe virginis, Anno Domini M.cccc.lxv.

An Epitaph to the memory of Frier William Horkisle here inhumed.

Carmelita pius iacet hic pro parte Wilhelmus,* 1.20 Pars erat ad superos Horkisle postea tutus. obiit Anno Dom. 1473.

Hic iacet Magister Frater Richardus Acton sacre pagine professor,* 1.21 huins∣que conuentus carmelitarum peruigilac versutus quondam Gubernator. Qui ex hac luce migrauit Anno Dom. M.cccc.xlvi. cuius anime propitietur al∣tissimus.

Here sometime likewise one Frier Tho. Hatfield was remembred with this Epitaph.* 1.22

In campo mortis Frater celeb••rrimus Hatfelde Conditur, eximium continet vrna virum. Dogmate precipuus, nullique secundus amore, Claruit ingenio, moribus, ore, stilo.

The Monument of another, namelesse, Carmelite was thus inscribed.

Miseri beatus portus hic est corporis, Qui sim viator, queris: ipse nescio. Qui sis futurus, tu tamen per me scies. Ego tuque puluis, vmbra et vmbre somnium. Veni, abij: sic vos venistis, abihitis omnes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Kimbaline, King of Britaine.
• * 1.2

  Camd. in Essex.
• * 1.3

  Speed Hist.
• * 1.4

  Fl••••es Histor.
• * 1.5

  Stow Annal
• * 1.6

  Kimb. the son of T••••oman••ius 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Britaine.
• * 1.7

  Richard Cogge∣shal••.
• * 1.8

  Tho. Darcy and Margaret his wife.
• * 1.9

  Ro Darcy and Elizabeth his wife.
• * 1.10

  In bib. Cot.
• * 1.11

  Sir Robert Dar∣cies Wil•• Ex Regist Epis∣copi Lon••••. Tho. Kem••.
• * 1.12

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 King a Butcher.
• * 1.13

  Rich. Wood and Ioane his wife.
• * 1.14

  Tho. ••rakes and ••lis. his wife.
• * 1.15

  Ri••. Lion and Katherine his wife.
• * 1.16

  Foundation of the white ••••iers.
• * 1.17

  Th•• Maldon.
• * 1.18

  Bale de Carme mel••t•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.19

  Robert Colche∣ster.
• * 1.20

  Wiliam Hor∣kesley.
• * 1.21

  Richard Acton
• * 1.22

  Tho. Hatfield.