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.

Stoke Clare.

* 1.1Here at Stoke, adioyning to Clare, was a Colledge founded by one of the Mortimers, Earle of March, valued in the kings bookes to bee yearely worth three hundred twenty foure pounds, foure shillings, penny, halfe penny.* 1.2 In this Colledge was entombed the body of Sir Edmund Mortimer the last Earle of March and Vlster of that house, Lord of Wigmore, Trim, Clare, and Conaught; the Grandchilde of that Edmund Earle of March, who married the daughter and onely heire of Leonell, Duke of Clarence, as it is in the Roll.

* 1.3This Edmund, saith Camden, in regard of his royall bloud, and right to the Crowne, stood greatly suspected to Henry the fourth, who had vsurped the kingdome; and by him was first exposed vnto dangers, in so much as he was taken (in a battell fought at Pelale in Wales) by Owen Glendowr a Rebell, and afterward whereas the Percies purposed to aduance his right, he was conueyed into Ireland, kept almost twenty yeares prisoner in the Castle of Trim, suffering all miseries incident to Princes of the bloud while they lye open to euery suspicion; and there through extreame griefe ended his dayes, the nineteenth day of Ianuary, 1424. in the third yeare of the raigne of Henry the sixth.

Of the foresaid battell, his taking and miserable imprisonment, thus much out of Harding, as followeth.

Syr Edmonde then Mortimer warred sore* 1.4 Vpon Owen, and did hym mekyll tene, But at laste, Owen laye hym before, Where in batell they faught, as well was sene, Where Owen toke hym prisoner, as then full kene, With mekell folke on eyther syde slayne. And set Edmonde in prysone and great payne.

He wrote vnto the kyng for great socoure, For he had made with Owen his fynaunce, To whom the kyng wold graunt then no fauoure Ne nought he wold then make him cheuesaunce For to comforte his foes disobeysaunce, Wherfore he laye in fetters and sore prisone For none payment of his great raunsone.

Here also lay buried the bodies of Sir Thomas Grey knight, and his first wife. Luce the wife of Walter Clopton: Sir Thomas Clopton, and Ade his wife.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The foundati∣on of Stoke Colledge.
• * 1.2

  Sir Edmund Mortimer Earle of March.
• * 1.3

  Camd. in Rad∣norshire.
• * 1.4

  Hard. cap. 201.