The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.

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Title: The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.
Author: Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
Publication: London :: Printed for Iohn Williams ...,; 1655.
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Subject terms: University of Cambridge -- History.; Great Britain -- Church history.; Waltham Abbey (England) -- History.
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Vpon the Death of Sir Anthonya Denny.

Death, and the King, did, as it were, contend,
Which of them two bare Denny greatest love:
The King, to shew his love 'gan far extend,
Did him advance his betters far above.
Neer place, much wealth, great honour eke him gave,
To make it known what power Princes have.

But when Death came with his triumphant gift,
From worldly cark he quit his wearied ghost
Free from the corps, and straight to Heaven it lift.
Now deem that can, who did for Denny most.
The King gave wealth, but fading and unsure;
Death brought him bliss that ever shall endure.

Know Reader, that this Lord made this Epitaph by a Poetical Prolepsis; otherwise, at the reading thereof who would not conceive, that the Author surviv'd the subject of his Poem? Whereas indeed this Lord died (beheaded 1546.) in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, whom S^r Anthony out-lived, being one of the Executors of his Will. Nor was it the worst piece of ser∣vice he performed to his Master, when (all other Courtiers declining the employment) he truly acquainted him with his dying-condition, to dispose of his soul for another world.

S^r Anthony died about the second of Edward the sixth, Dame Joan his Wife, surviving him. Daughter she was to S^r Philip Champernoon of Mod∣bury in Devon-shire: a Lady of great beauty and parts, a favourer of the Re∣formed Religion when the times were most dangerous. She sent eight shil∣lings by her man, in a Violet coat, to Anneb Aschough when imprisoned in the Counter; a small sum, yet a great gift, so hazardous it was to help any in her condition. This Lady Joan bought the Reversion in Fee of Waltham, from King Edward the Sixth, paying three thousand and hundred pounds for the same, purchasing therewith large priviledges in Waltham-Forest, as by the Letters Patents doth appear. She bare two Sons to S^r Anthony, Henry Denny, Esquire, of whom hereafter: the second S^r Edward, who, by Gods blessing, Queen Elizabeths bounty, and his own valour, atchieved a fair estate in the County of Kerry in Ireland, which at this day is (if any thing in that woful war-wasted Countrey can be) enjoyed by his great Grand∣child, Arthur Denny Esq of Tralleigh.

Notes

a

Weavers Fu∣neral Monu∣ments, p. 852.

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His issue by Dame Joan his wife.

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b

Fox, Acts & Monuments, fol. 1239.

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