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.

All Saints in Sudbury or Allhallowes.

Here ....... Iohn Duke,* 1.1 and Ione his wife.... 1503....

Hic iacet Iohannes Waldergraue Ar. filius & heres Edwardi Waldegraue &Isabelle vxoris sue qui quidem Iohannes ob. 6. Octob... 1514. cuius ani∣me....

Orate pro animabus Georgij Waldegraue Ar. filij et heredis Willelmi Walde∣graue militis,* 1.2 et Anne vxoris ipsius Georgij vnius filiarum Roberti Drury militis, qui Georgius obiit 8. die Iulii anno 1528. Quorum animabus propi∣tietur.....

Of your cherity prey for the soul of Sir William Waldegraue,* 1.3 Knight of Buers Saint Mary in Com. Suff. who died 12. December ... and left be∣hynd, one son and four doughters, on whos souls Iesu haue mercy. The said Sir William Waldegraue died at Callys in France, where his body is buried in Saint Maries Church there.

Here lye buried, (as I haue it by relation) Sir Thomas Eden Knight, and Thomas Eden, Clerke of the starre Chamber, both vnder one monument.

I read,* 1.4 that Alexander Eden, Esquire, Sheriffe of Kent, tooke Iacke Cade, Captaine of the Rebels, in the 29. of Henry the Sixt, prisoner, for which, and for other his good seruices against the said Rebels, he was made Custos or keeper of the Castle at Rochester.

Of this sirname is that learned Doctor of the Lawes, Thomas Eden,* 1.5 one of the masters of the Chancerie, and master of Trinity Hall in Cambridge; of whose Familie I shall haue occasion to speake in another place. And so I will take my leaue of this Towne, with the words of Camden in this Country.

Stour, the riuer, passeth on, and commeth to Sudbury (saith he) that is to say, the South Burgh, and runneth in manner round about it, which men suppose to haue beene in old time, the chiefe towne of this Shire, and to haue taken this name in regard of Norwich, that is, the Northern Towne. Neither would it take it well at this day to be counted much inferiour to the Townes adioyning: for, it is populous and wealthy, by reason of clo∣thing there, and hath for the chiefe Magistrate, a Maior, who euery yeare is chosen out of seuen Aldermen.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Io Duke, and ••••ne his wife. Iohn Waldegraue.
• * 1.2

  George Wald∣graue and Anne his wife
• * 1.3

  Sir Wil. Wald∣graue Knight, buried at Cal∣lis.
• * 1.4

  Stow Annal. Hollins.
• * 1.5

  Tho. Eden Doctor of the Lawes.