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.

Lestoffe.

* 1.1Here lieth buried the body of Thomas Scroope, otherwise sirnamed Brad∣ley, of the towne wherein he was borne, descended of the noble family of the Scroopes, Qui claritatem generis literis et virtutibus plurimum illustra∣bat: who very much adorned the honour of his birth, by his learning and vertues. He was first a Monke ordinis Sancti Benedicti, of the order of Saint Benet: after that, ad maiorem aspirans perfectionem, aspiring to a greater perfection of life, hee tooke vpon him the profession and rule of a Dominican, and after that, he submitted himselfe to the discipline of the Carmelites, (of whose Institution he writ a learned Treatise) and preached the Gospell in haire and sackcloth round about the Countrie. Then hee withdrew himselfe againe to his house of Carmelites in Norwich, and there remained twenty yeares, leading the life of an Anchorite, but yet af∣ter that time, he came abroad, and was aduanced by the Pope to a Bishop∣ricke in Ireland, called Dromorensis Episcopatus, the said Pope (which was Eugenius the fourth) sent him in embassage to the Ile of Rhodes (of which he writ a booke) from whence being returned, he left Ireland and his Bi∣shopricke,

came into the East countries, wherein hee went vp and downe barefooted, teaching in townes abroad, the ten commandements, and preaching the glad tidings of the Gospell. Quicquid autem vel ex suis redi∣tibus percepit, vel alias a ditioribus lucrari poterat, id totum aut pauperibus distribuit aut in alios pios vsus erogauit: whatsoeuer hee tooke, either of his owne yearely profits, or what he could procure from the richer sort of people; he distributed it all to the poore, or employed it to pious vses. At the length, Anno aetatis suae plus minus centesimo in Leistoft Suffolciencis comitatus oppido viuendi finem fecit, in the yeare of his age, one hundred or thereabouts: he died in this towne of Lestoffe, the fifteenth day of Ianu∣ary, in the yeare of our Lord, 1491. the seuenth of Henry the seuenth. Here he was buried, cum Epitaphio Elegiaco, with an Elegiacall or sorrowfull Epitaph, engrauen vpon his monument: two of the last verses of which, are these two verses following.

Venit ad occasum morbo confectus amoro; Spiritus alta petit, pondere corpus humum.

If you would know more of this learned Irish Bishop, reade Bale and Pit∣seus in his life.

Notes

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  Tho Scroop••, a Bishop in Ireland.