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MONUMENTAL
INSCRIPTIONS
WALTHAMSTOW

PART II

walthamstow antk3uarian society

Official publication no. 27

1932

THE BONNELL MONUMENT IN WALTHAMSTOW CHURCH.

St. Mary the Virgin, Walthamstow

INSCRIPTIONS

IN THE

CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD

Part II.— MEMORIALS IN THE CHURCH

STEPHEN J. BARNS

Walthamstow antiquarian Society

Official Publication No. 27

1932

WALTHAMSTOW ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

GEO. ED. ROEliUCK, Hon. Secretary

MONOGRAPHS ALREADY ISSUED

No. I. The Manor of Walthamstow Toni or High Hall. G. F. Bcsworth. 1915.

No. 2. A History of St. Mary's Church, Walthamstow. G. F. Bcsworth. 1916.

No. 3. George Monoix: The Story of a Walthamstow Worthy. G. F. Bosworth. 1916.

No. 4. The Rectory Manor, Walthamstow. G. F. Bosworth. 1917.

No. 5. Essex Hall, Walthamstow, and the Cohan Associations. G. F. Bosworth. 1918.

No. 6. The Manor of Hicham Bensted, Walthamstow. G. F. Bosworth. 1919.

No. 7. The Manors of Low Hall and Salisbury Hall. G. F. Bosworth. 1920.

No. 8. .\ History of Walthamstow Charities, 1487-1920. G. F. Bosworth. 1920.

No. 9. Walthamstow Wills, 1335-1559- George S. Fry, C.B.E. 1921.

No. 10. The Manor of Walthamstow Tom or High Hall. G. F. Ooswokth. 1922.

No. II. Walthamstow Deeds, 1595-1890. S. J- Barns. 1923.

No. 12. Some Walthamstow Houses. G. F. Bosworth. 1924.

No. 13. Walthamstow Vestry Minutes; Churchwardens' and Overseers' Accounts, 1710-1740.
S. J. Barns. 1925.

No. 14. Walthamstow Vestry Minutes : Churchwardens' and Overseers' Accounts, 1741-1771.

S. J. Barns. 1926.
No. 15. Historical Panels— Walthamstow and Higiiam. Constance Demain Saunders. 1926.
No. i6. Walthamstow Vestry Minutes: Churchwardens' and Overseers' Accounts, 1772-1794.

S. J. Barns. 1927.

No. 17. George Monoux: The Man and His Work. G. F. Bosworth. 1927.

No. iS. The Walthamstow Tokens. John Coxall. 1927.

No. 19. Original Documents relating to the Monoux Family. G. F. Bosworth and
Constance Demain Saunders. 1928.

No. 20. More Walthamstow Houses. G. F. Bosworth. 1928.

No. 21. Walthamstow Deeds, 1541-1862. S. J. Barns. 1929.

No. 22. Chapters in the History of Walthamstow. G. F. Bosworth. 1929.

No. 23. Monumental Inscriptions, Walthamstow. (Section A.) C. Hall Crouch. 1930.

No. 24. Walthamstow Place-Names. P. H. Reankv, M.A. 1930.

No. 25. Walthamstow Marriages, 1650-1837. G. E. Roebuck. 1931.

No. 26. Thb Walthamstow Armorial. G. E. Roebuck. 1932.

INTRODUCTION

The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Walthamstow, is beyond question the most ancient institution the
town possesses, and around its site have centred the domestic and communal activities of the inhabitants for
nearly nine hundred years. Here the infant in the arms of its parents was submitted for baptism and reception
into the church : here, too, the young men and maidens from the hamlets of Walthamstow, and elsewhere,
pledged their troth and were joined in wedlock by priest or parson ; and here, finally, infant, child, youth, man
and maiden, middle-aged, or venerable grandsire, were brought preparatory to burial either in church or
surrounding yard. Many, indeed most, lived unknown and passed " unhonoured and unsung" into the oblivion
of forgetfulness, virtues and vices alike forgotten, existing, if at all, as names only in some Manor Court Roll or
Parish Register. For the great majority no memorial survives to record their names, ages, parentage, progeny
or virtues, and to express a pious hope of triumphant resurrection and glorious immortality. Yet all alike,
gentle and simple, cherished the desire to be held in perpetual remembrance, and to this end those whose wealth
enabled them to do so founded and endowed schools, or a chantry in a church which they had, perhaps, rebuilt
or enlarged, so that prayers might be recited or a sermon preached at stated times for the well-being of their
souls. Others, may be, constructed roads or causeways over marshy, boggy lands liable to flooding, or earned the
gratitude of their fellows by procuring a water supply to waterless neighbourhoods, or one of greater purity than
that to be obtained from contaminated wells and springs in the days when drainage of a scientific character was
unknown. Deeds of charity to the poor and needy, and funds left for their succour and maintenance ; the erection
of houses of alms to shelter them in age or adversity; all proclaim the desii e of the benefactors to be remembered
by the generations following after.

Many such excellent benefactions continue to keep alive the memory of the founders, and many grateful
partakers vouchsafe their meed of thankfulness and perpetuate the memory of hiin, or her, who long before had
by these means ensured the continuance of name and fame. Even so, such bids for futurity were possible
only to the comparatively few, and yet there were many good and charitable men and women, who had served
their day and generation passing well, and who to lamenting relatives and friends seemed deserving of some
lasting commemoration. Some were actually sepulchred within the church, the place of honour being the
chancel, others in aisle or crossing near unto the pews they occupied in life. To the more important of these
large and costly monuments were erected, and to those of lesser degree a marble slab or ledger stone, adorned
with the arms they bore and inscription of their names and record above the place of the interment of their
mortal remains.

Naturally, the floor space available was limited, and so, whether buried in church or churchyard, many
slabs, ornate or plain in design, were placed upon the walls and pillars where all could see and read. These
slabs succeeded largely the former method of commemorating the deceased by the representation of his effigy
and that of his wife, or wives, and children in brass or " latyn," or by an inscription only, in the same material,
inlaid in a matrix in a slab upon the floor or on the flat upper surface of an altar tomb. Each type of
memorial is well represented in Walthamstow Church, for of brasses we have (15) Wm. Rowe, (21) Robert
Rampston, (59) George Monoux, (60) Henry Crane, and (61) Hale, etc., while of the more important monu-
ments those of 3) Stanley, i22) Merry, and (45) Traflbrd are noteworthy. Yet another method was the record
in stained or painted glass with which some of the windows were filled, and this was employed in times both
ancient and modern. .^Vt- (36), (37) and (121).

Of some of the monuments we know a little more than the records that they give; for instance, that
to Sir Thomas Merry and Dame Mary his wife. Sir Thomas held the office of Chief Controller, and received the
honour of Knighthood in 1617. His wife Mary died in 1032, and Sir Thomas erected this monument to their
joint memory on her death. The date of his death is not recorded on the tomb. For the making of this
monument Sir Thomas employed the best craftsman of his time in the person of Nicholas Stone, architect and
sculptor, and master mason to the King. He was responsible for about eighty monuments in the churches of
many counties, mostly in London, the South and Midlands, although there are two examples of his work in
Northumberland and four in Yorkshire. London has twenty, SuflTolk nine, and Kent and Norfolk eight each.
In our County there are two— the Pynchon monumental Writtle, for which he received 100 marks, ;.c., £66 13s. 4d.,
and the one in our own church. Nicholas Stone was born at Woodbury, near Exeter, in 1586, died

24 August, 1647, aged 61, and was buried at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 28 August, 1647, where there was
a monument to his memory, which was wantonly destroyed when Gibbs erected the new church, 1721-6.
A description of this monument is given in Hatton's " New View of London,'' 1708, and Vertue preserves the
inscription which will be found in the British Museum Additional MSS. 23068, p. 83. From his account book
which is printed in Vol. 7 of the Walpole Society's publications we learn that —

" In 1633 I mad a tombe for Ser Thomas Meary & his lady & it standeth at Waltham Stow
hear by in Esex for the which I had £50."
Although this is a finer and larger monument than the Writtle one, the cost was less, accounted for, perhaps, by
the lesser distance from London. The panegyric verses are said to have been written by Sir William Uavenant,
the Royalist poet, which is quite likely, for Sir Thomas Merry was an ardent adherent of the Royal cause, and
suffered heavily for his loyalty. As shown by deeds, in the possession of the Town, Sir Thomas Merry's
VValthamstow residence was the " VVinns." In the same year that her mother died, Anne, one of the daughters
depicted upon the base of the tomb, married Thomas Cheney, of Sundon, co. Bedford, Esq., son and heir
apparent of the Right Worshipful Sir Thomas Cheney, Kt.

Several of the charitable benefactions to the Town carried a contingent liability for the maintenance and
repair of the testator's tomb in church or yard. Sigismund Trafford (45), by his will dated 1723, for keeping his
tomb in the Church in repair gave £10 per annum, 10s., part thereof to be paid the sexton by quarterly payments
for keeping it clean. His will requires a fund of £50 to be raised as a stock for the above purposes and the
overplus of the said annuity to be disposed of as the minister or churchwardens in Vestry assembled shall deem
meet. Proviso, if the tomb be out of repair for six months, or other interments than by permission be made in
the vault the legacy reverts to the possessors of the fee simple of lands in St. Mary's Lincoln from which the
rent charge is paid.

John Morley (66), by will proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Nov. 19, 1845, gave the
dividends on £300 3% Consolidated Bank Annuities to be paid to the Vicar and Churchwardens for the time
being, they undertaking to apply the same in paying and discharging the expenses of preserving and keeping in
good order and in repairing the vault, monument and tablet in the church and churchyard, and the yearly surplus
to be distributed in bread.

Of a rather different character was the bequest by will dated 16 June, 1735, of Jeremiah Wakelin (44),
who left a piece of land called the Pound Field to the use of the poor on condition that his heirs possess a pew
in the South Aisle of the church and a bricked grave therein with privilege to erect a monument in memory of
his family ; otherwise the profits of the land to revert to his heirs for ever. These particulars are taken from
"An Account of Benefactions in the Parish of St. Mary, Walthamstow, extracted from the original instruments,
by William Houghton, vestry clerk," and printed by order of the Vestry in 1877.

The inscriptions generally tell their own story, but amplifications could be made in most instances if
space permitted. Additional information in the following cases may be desirable.

(9) The Mores are an old Walthamstow family, their connection with the parish gomg as far back as
1533, when Johanna Mores, of Walthamstow, had licence to marry Christopher Yorke, of -St. Stephen's, Coleman
Street, London. The last surviving member of the family, I believe, was Edward Rowe Mores, who built Etloe
House, Leyton, where he died, and was buried at Walthamstow, Dec. 8th, 1778.

(15) William Rowe's friendship with European scholars and divines may very well connect him with the
production of the Geneva Bible with which the two specially mentioned on his brass, viz., Emanuel Tremellius
and Theodore Beza, were intimately concerned. They were members of the group which Calvin gathered
around him at Geneva, which Beza joined in 1548, becoming Greek Professor at Lausanne the following year.
On Calvin's death in 1564 he became his biographer and successor. While admitting his scholarship and
attainments, his biographers say that "as a historian Beza has been the source of serious mistakes, but as an
administrator he softened the rigour of Calvin." His editions and Latin versions of the New Testament had an
influence on the English versions of Geneva, 1557 and 1560, and London, 1611. The famous Codex " D "
was presented by him in 1581 to Cambridge University with a dubious account of the history of the manuscript.
Beza was also a friend and correspondent of Lady Anne Bacon, formerly Anne Cooke, of Gidea Hall, Romford,
and to her he dedicated his " Meditations." Beza died 13 Oct., 1605. Emanuel Tremellius is perhaps best
known for his version of the Psalms issued with Beza's Bible.

(25) The Registers of Wadham College, Oxford, record the death of one of the "large family" of
Tristram Conyers. William, son of Tristram Conyers, of Walthamstow, was admitted at the age of 17 in 1672,
and died about 17 Dec, 1676, and was buried in the Outer Chapel there under a stone inscribed "W.C.17 Dec. 1676."

(45) The wife of Sigismund Trafford was formerly Susanna Ormes, of Dalston, co. Middlesex, widow,
whom he had licence to marry dated 20 Jan., 1678-9.

(58) Mary Lester Blicke was not buried at Walthamstow, but in the churchyard of VVanstead, where
a coped stone records : " Mary Lester Blicke, relict ot W. F. Blicke & late of Walthamstow died 15 Dec. 1866
aged 79."

(75) This pathetic memorial, with its allusion to his father's services in the East, provokes enquiry, and
the following particulars are supplied by the High Commissioner for India from the Library at India House,
Aldwych, London, the sources from which the information is taken being the East India Military Calendar, the
Ormc MSS., and the Gentleman' s Magazine : —

"Alexander Champion, Colonel, Infantry, Commander-in-Chief, Bengal. Lieut., 20 Sep., 1757.
Capt., 1 Sep., 1758. Major, 6 Nov., 1763. Lt.-Col., 4 Nov., 1766. Col., 8 Aug., 1770.
Retired 29 Dec, 1774. Married 11 Feb., 1759, Miss Francis Nynd, who remarried
4 Jan., 1796, Rev. Thomas Leman, of Wenhaston Hall, Suffolk.

" Services : — Served in the campaigns of 1760-1 in Bengal under Majors John Caillaud and John
Carnac ; defeated Kamgar Khan, Nawab of Tirhut, April, 1761. Second-in-Command to
Major (afterwards Gen. Sir Hector) Munro when opposed to Shuja-ud-Daulah, 1764 ;
battle of Buxor. Shortly afterwards commanded a detached force on the Midnapore
frontier. Appointed to command 1st Bengal European Regt. Aug. 1765. First Rohilla
War ; battle of St. George ; Col. commanding 2nd Brigade. Succeeded Sir Robert
Barker as Commander-in-Chief Bengal .\rmy, 18 Jan., 1774, and held this appointment
till 27 Oct., 1774, when he retired and returned to England the following year. He
died at Bath, 15 March, 1793, and is buried in the Abbey there, where there is a mural
tablet by Nollekens to his memory, which says, 'he rose, in the course of twenty years'
active service in India, to the chief command of the Company's troops in Bengal.' "

(79) Although the relationship is not stated, it would appear that the Nash's were the grandchildren of
Capt. Robert Cowley, for on Apl. 25, 1689, Samuel Nash, of St. Dunstans in the East, merchant, batchelor,
about 34, and Lydia Cowley, spinster, above 21, with consent of her father Robert Cowley of Walthamstow,
gent., had licence to marry and did so at Ilford on 2 May, 1689. Apparently Esther, Lydia, Martha, Mary and
James were the issue of this marriage, and dying unmarried, at great ages, were buried in their grandfather's
tomb, the latest interment, that of Mary Nash, taking place, just over 103 years after her grandfather had been
laid to rest.

(84) The Rt. Rev. William Pierse lived in troublous times, and suffered many vicissitudes ; nevertheless,
he did notable work in the reparation of Wells Cathedral and the erection of the Episcopal Palace there. It is
possible that during his deprivation he resided at " Winns," and almost certainly died there, full of years and
" ripe for Heaven."

Very impressive is her husband's heartbroken tribute to his wife in No. 1, after one short year of
married life. No more beautiful record adorns our Church : " Whom the Gods love die young."

The monuments reveal many instances of longevity, there being three nonogenarians — Mary Nash,
97, Rev. William Pierse, 94, and Jane Maria Beal Bonnell, 93— and no less than fifteen octogenarians ; and,
at the other extreme, of those who experienced but fewness of days, the shortest is John Kenworthy (No. 77),
who lived but fourteen.

Nichols's "Anecdotes of Bowyer" give us some particulars of one of our learned Vicars, the Rev. Edmund
ChishuU, 1708-33. Utilising a travelling fellowship from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he travelled extensively
in the East, and being appointed Chaplain to the factory at Smyrna, he resided there for three or four years.
His travels in Turkey were published after his death, but he himself published an account of the Antiquities of
Asia before the Christian Era. Several of his sermons were also printed. During his incumbency he
industriously collected many thmgs relating to Walthamstow and the Church from other writers, correspondence,
inscriptions, etc., which he wrote on spare pages of the Parish Register, and these notes have afforded
useful information.

The illustrations are reproduced from water-colour drawings of very great merit by an unknown artist,
who was an expert at this class of work. They were evidently done to extra-illustrate Lyson's " Environs of

London,' about 1800, or just before, and I purchased them many years ago in order to secure the Essex items,
which comprised about 20 out of a total of 200. The remainder all concern monuments in London's environs
in Middlesex, Surrey and Kent. The two selected for illustration have been chosen in the case of the Bonnell
monument, because this has now unfortunately been broken, and the detached parts are separated. The
illustration depicts it in its completeness. In the case of the Trafford monument this is now somewhat
obscured by the west gallery, and is not so easily seen as the Merry and Stanley monuments, which are
of greater historical interest.

The preparation and issue of this Monograph has been delayed by a protracted period of ill-health, and
even now could not have appeared without the whole-hearted co-operation and assistance of Mr. G. E.
Roebuck. Other friends who have willingly helped are : Dr. P. H. Reaney, M.A., who has rendered the often
corrupt and impure Latin into charming English : Mr. Richard S. Smith, who has patiently checked the
accuracy of many of the inscriptions ; and the Hon. Philip Cary, York Herald, who has revised the heraldic
readings. To each I give my sincere thanks, realising that without their aid this production would have lacked
much that contributes to its value.

STEPHEN J. BARNS.
August, 1933.

Inscriptions in the Parish Church of St. Mary
the Virgin, Walthamstow

(COPIED IN 1910)

ON THE NORTH WALL
(under Gallery)

1.— ANN^ I CHARGE coNiUGi ] JOHANNES WAINWRIGHT | mcerens maritus | posuit 1 hi

Anns. — Argent, on a chevron azure, between three hurts a lion rampant enclosed by two fleur-de-lis
{Wainwright). Impaling, or, a cross ragulee between four trefoils slipped vert (Clarke).

[N.B. — The above inscription appears on a marble pillar, half set into the walling, resting on a squared
base on the face of which occurs a blazon. The column is surmounted by a stone capital, said
to have been brought from the East by the Revd. E. ChishuU.]

2.— Sacred i to the beloved | and cherished memory of | SIR WILLIAM DOMVILLE BAR^ |
of St. Albans, Herts, and I Southfield Lodge, Eastbourne, Sussex | born 22 March 1774, died 21 May

1. — To Anne, his beloved wife, John Wainwright, her sorrowing husband, erected ihis monument. One short year
they had spent together in their home in peaceful happiness and mutual affection when the terrible pangs of child-birth
seized her in the flower of her age, her beauty, and her health. For a day or two she suffered greatly and was at last pain-
fully delivered of a stillborn daughter. Then she was attacked by fever which easily carried her off, for her strength was
shattered. A woman renowned for her many virtues was removed from mortal sight. She was an ornament of her father's
family, a girl of remarkable modesty and piety, a wife of the utmost prudence and attention to her domesdc affairs. She
sought not the splendid and the costly but cared for what was seemly. She was a marvellous mistress of methodical order.
Kindly in conversation, cheerful of countenance, her spirit was gentle, constant, placid. She was eager to do all she could
to make her husband happy. Deprived of this light of his Ufe, this sweet partner and comforter in his anxieties, he is
spending the rest of his life a sad and lonely widower. Unable to forget his bitter, cruel loss, and almost insane with a
natural grief, he places his sole hope in Christ, confident in His promises, eager for immortal life, ever mindful of his
consort, and displaying a love that will live for ever.

^^;„j._QuarterIy, (1) Azure a lion rampant or, a chief gules {Domville). (2) Azure, a lion rampant or.
(3) Or, a bend lozengy sable. (4) Or, a pale lozengy gules. On an escutcheon, the Hand of
Ulster. Impaling quarterly, (1) Azure, a chevron between three soles naiant or. (2) Or, a lion
passant sable. (3) Or, a fess gules between three lions rampant sable. (4) Or, three cinquefoils
gules.

Crest. — Out of a mural crown a demi-lion or.

Subsidiary Crests.— Two lions jambs erect. A lion's head erased argent crowned or.

Motto to Arms. — "Qui stat caveat ne cadat."

Motto to Crest.— ^^ Pax alma redit.'

3.— THO. STANLEY Knight second sonne of Edw'' | Earle of Derbie Lo. Stanley & Strange |
Descended from ye famili of ye Stanleis I Marie'' Margaret Vernon one of y' Daughters I And
coheirs of S' George Vernon of Nether | Haddon in y'' countie of Derbie Knight by | whom he had
issue 2 Sonnes Henri and i Edw, Henri died an infant Edvv survived i To whom this Lordshipes
descended & I Maried La. Lucie Percie second daugh- | ter to the Earle of Northymberland by her I
he had issue 7 daughters & one sone she & | her daughters Arabella Mary Alis and | Priscilla
are interred under a Monument I in y' Church of Walthamstow in the | Countie of Essex Tho
his son died an | infant & is buried in y' Parishe Churche | of Winnkke in y"^ countie of Lanca
y' other | three Petronella Frauncis & Venetia | are y' livinge.

And on a panel immediately below Lady Lucy, and originally just above the faldstool : —

The souls of saints I live. I

4.— Under 1 the same gravestone | with Captain John Bonnell | lyeth also interred the body
of I Margaretta Bonnell, his second wife, | only daughter and heiress | to William Waterson Esq"' |
late of the Custom House | an excellent woman | who departed this life the 13 January 1736 | in
the 61st year of her age. I Here also lyeth the body of I Sarah Bonnell I the only daughter of
John & Margaretta Bonnell | a lady throughout her whole life | religious and charitable As a
convincing proof | she left at her death the amount of i £3,500 capital | in the Public Funds | for
the endowment of a Charity School for Girls | at the Parish of West Ham in this County. I She
died 28th day of February 1766 | Aged 70 years, i and left her only surviving brother | JAMES
BONNELL esq' | her executor and residuary legatee | who consented and concurr'd in obtaining |
a Decree in Chancery for securing | the said funds and establishing | the said school, departed
this life I the 27th June 1774 1 in the 77th year of his age I and lies buried here.

AriHS.—M%fn\., a cross gules quarterly pierced, nine crosses crosslet, 3, 3, and 3 counterchanged
{Bonnelf), upon an inescutcheon azure a fess between three annulets or ( Waterson), quartering,
argent, a chevron between three boars passant sable. The whole impaling the inescutcheon.

5.— Sacred to the memory | of JAMES BEAL BONNELL ESQ" ( who departed this life
September the 12th 1815 I aged 80 years. | If integrity of mind and conduct ; | when founded on
religious principles can elevate man | then | the spirit of the deceased | may await in humble and
pious trust I the resurrection of the dead. | His afflicted widow, conscious of his virtues, | has
raised this monumental tablet I memorial of his character | Also to the memory of | SOPHIA
JANE MARIA BEAL BONNELL | relict of the above James Beal Bonnell esq"= I of Upton House,
Esse.x, and Felling Place, Old Windsor, Berks., I who departed this life March the 18th 1841 |
Aged 93 years.

Arms. — Argent, a cross quarterly pierced gules nine crosses crosslet 3, 3, and 3 counterchanged.
Impaling gules, a chevron or, in chief a bar of the last {Bonne//).

Arms. — Argent, on a chevron sable between three pellets, three crescents of the first ( Walker).
Impaling or, a cross engrailed sable.

7.— Sacred to the memory of | JANE BONNELL | who departed this life September 23rd 1841,
aged 42 | Precious will her memory be to those who knew her well and loved her most I It is
humbly and firmly hoped that she is gone to receive i Through the merits of the Redeemer her
everlasting reward. | Also of | MARY JANE HARVEY BONNELL | of Pelling Place, Old Windsor,
in the County of Berks; | who departed this life Nov'' 15th 1853 in the gO'"" year of her age. |
She lived with the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit | and died with the grace of humble faith
in her Redeemer.

Anns.— In an ornamental lozenge the Bonnell Arms as (4) the first quarter ermine for difference
[Granted to Mary Jane Harvey Bonnell].

8. — Near this place (in a vault without y* wall) | lies interred the body of lOHN BRAINT |
of this parish. Gen' ; and son in law to Mr. Edward Sturton, who with ELIZA | BETH his wife and
two grandchildren | (viz) lOHN and ELIZABETH BRAINT lie buried | under this monument. | He
was a true friend, a good neighbour, | courteous and civil to all, a loving i husband, and an
indulgent father, | Mary, his surviving wife, to her | most deserving husband hath | erected this
monument, obij 8 Octo. | 1728. /Etat 49. | Also MARY BRAINT, wife of the said I lohn Braint.
She departed this life | the 17th of luly 1729. /Etat 47.

Amu. — Gules, a wyvern argent {Braint). Impaling, quarterly 1 and 4 sable, a bend or between six
fountains proper {Sturton). 2. Gules, three swords in pile proper meeting in base {Pawlett).
3. Azure, a stork rising proper.

Crest. — A griffin's head.

9. — Near this place | lies interred the body | of Mistress ANNE MORES, daugh | ter of Robert

Rowe, Esq', the eldest i surviving son of Sir William Rowe of | Higliam Hill in this parish, Knight.

She I was married to Edward Mores of Great i Coxwell in the County of Berks, Gent, by | whom

she had four children, but of them | only remains her entirely devoted and af i fectionate son

Edward, Rector of Tunstal, in | Kent; who in memory of her, the most tender i and indulgent, yet

prudent and best of mothers, | exemplary for all the duties of a truly humble, I devout and zealous

Christian, hath erected I this monument. [ She dyed at the Parsonage of Tunstal I aforesaid Ian

the fifth A. D. MDCCXXIV, | aged Ixxvii years and xi days. | Here also lies the body of the above

named EDWARD | MORES who died on the 8th day of April 1740 in Grace | Church Street ;

London, and whose especial desire | it was to be buried in the same grave with his I said dearest

mother.

Anns.— Or, on a fess gules, between three pheasants proper, a garb or {Mores). Impaling, gules, a
quatrefoil or (Ro'we).

[Note. —The plaque on which these arms occur is affi-xed over the Lowther memoria!, and vice 'I'ersa,
a mistake which occured most probably when the walls of the aisles were raised and the
memorials placed in new positions.]

10.— Near this place lyeth the body of JAMES i the son of James and Martha CUNNINGHAM, |
who departed this life 16th June 1741 | Aged 9 months. | Likewise as also the body of | Mrs.
MARTHA CUNNINGHAM, wife of | James Cunningham & eldest daughter , of Sir John Rush
of Streatly in Berks | who departed this life 17th February, 1754. I Aged 41 years.

Arms. — Argent, a shake fork sable (Cunningham). Impaling, gules, on a fess between three colts
courant, argent, three pomeys {Rush).

11.— PROPE AB His MiINIBUS lACETSEPVLTVS | HENRICVS BIRCHENHEAD DE WALTHAMSTOW |
QVI OBllT XI CAL : IAN :

ANNO { ^

\ REDEMPTIONIS NRi«

1656.

SOBRIUS, lUSTUS, PIUS, (hOC PERACTO | CIRCULO) SUMMA FRUITUR QUIETE, I VITA CUI CHRISTUS FUIT

HINC SECUTA est ] MORS PRETIOSA. | ALTA MENS VALDE SITIENS SUPERNA, | INFIMIS NOLENS NIMIS

IMMORARI, I CORPUS OPPRESSUM RIGIDO DOLORE | L.€TA RELIQUIT. | VMBRA lAM MORTIS RETINET QUOD

GLIM 1 SOLIS .«TERNI RADIIS REFULGENS | AD NOVUM V1T.« GENUS (aPPLICATA | MENTE) RESURGET.

Arms. — Within a border engrailed, three garbs {Birkenhead).

Arms. — Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant, sable {Finch).

11. — Near this wall lies buried Henry Birchenhead of Walthanistow who died on the 22nd December in the 63rd year of
his life and in ihe year 1656 of our redemption. Sober, just, and pious, now that he has finished his course on e.irth, he
enjoys abundant peace. Christ was his life, splendid his death. His lofty mind, ever striving towards Ihe heights and
unwilling to delay too long in these realms below, has joyfully left his pain-wracked body. And now the shadow of death
enfolds that which once shone in the lays of the eternal sun and will rise to that new life towards which his thoughts were
ever directed.

ON THE EAST WALL
(North Aisle)

13.— In memory of ! WILLIAM HOUGHTON i who for more than 38 years I faithfully
discharged the duties | of Clerk and Legal Advisor to | the local authorities of this town | and by
his integrity and kindly | sympathy won and retained the | respect of all who knew him. I Died
the 19th September 1904 | in the SS'*" year of his age. | This memorial is erected by his i friends
and fellow-townspeople.

14.— Underneath this place I lie interr'd the bodies of I WILLIAM MONKE. M:D: Died 28th
August 1765 I Aged 65 and I JAMES MONKE Esq-^ Died 27th April 1766 I Aged 36 and | MRS.
MARTHA MONKE Died 6th May 1770 | Aged 72 and | WILLIAM MONKE esq"' I Died 30 April
1775 I Aged 40 years.

fN.B. — In the case of first three names the word had been spelt MONK, and there is evidence that the
final E was afterwards cut in and badly cramped.]

15. — GVLIEI.MVS ROWE de higham hill, in comitatv essex | generosvs thom^ rowe

MILITIS FILIVS NATV TERTIVS, OXONII | IN COLLEGIO MERTON OPTIMARVM ARTIVM STVDIJS PR;ECLARE |
INSTITVTVS, CVM SVMMA LAVDE, NON SOLVM DOMI MAGISTRI IN | ARTIBVS ADEPTV3 EST DIGNITATEM:
SED ETIAM FORIS IN GER ! MANIA ET GALLIA, OB SVMMAM ERVDITIONEM ET PIETATEM. VI | RIS
ERVDITIS, PRjtCIPVE AVTEM IMMANVELI TREMELLIO ET | THEODORO BEZ/E LONGE CHARISSIMVS FVIT.
IN MATRI I MONIVM DVXIT ANNA CHEVNEY lOHANNIS CHEVNEV | DE CHESHAM-BOYS IN COMITATV
BVCKING' ARMIGERI FILIAM. I BENEFICVS ERAT IN PAVPERES, KT IN OMNES PRO FACVLTATIBVS | SVIS,
HOSPITAI.IS. PACEM ET COLVIT IPSE ET ALIJS VT EAM MV | TVIS OFFICIJS CONFIRMARENT, AVTOR
FVIT. QVVM PECVNIA | AD VSVS PVBLICOS EXIGERETVR, NE MAIOR, QVAM PRO RATA | PORTIONE VICINIS
SVIS IMPERARETVR, DILIGENTER CVRA | VIT, ET IMPERAT^, NE TENVIORES EXHAVRIRI SE QVERE |
RENTVR, BONA PARTEM IPSE DISSOLVIT : DF.NIQ ET SVIS ET | ALIENIS VER/E PIETATIS ET VIRTVTIS
EXEMPLAR PROPOSVIT : | DEMVM VIT/E HONESTE, ET PIE TRANSACTS PAREM SORTI | TVS EXITVM IPSH
IVCVNDVM, AMICIS ET VICINIS LVCTVO | SVM lUNIJ 29° DIE OBIJT, 1596.

THOM;E PATRE SATVS GVLIELMVS ROVS, EODEM

QVI LONDINENSI PR^TOR IN VRBE FVIT.
NOTVS HOMO PATRIJS, EXTERNIS NOTVS IN ORIS :

TANTA DOCTRINE COCNITIONE FVIT.
PACIS AMANS, PIETATIS AMANS, POPVLOQ BENIGNVS,

CVI LOCVLVS NVLLO TEMPORE CLAVSVS ER.AT :
NATIS QVINQ PATER, NATABVS QVATVOR, ISTO

COMMISIT MORIENS OSSA TEGENDA SOLO.

16. — William Rowe of lligham Hill in the County of Essex, gentleman, third son of Sir Thomas Rowe, was excellently
trained in the study of the humanities at Merton College, Oxford. He won the highest praise and not only gained the degree
of Master of Arts at home, but also, on account of his great learning and piety, became a friend of learned men abroad, in
Germany and France, especially of Emanuel Tremellius and Theodore l{e7a. He married Anne Cheyney, daughter of
John Cheyney, Esq., of Chesbam Boys in the County of Buckingh-amshire. I le was generous to the poor and hospitable to all
so far as his means allowed. He loved peace himself and strove to inculcate it in others by mutual services. When money
was needed for public purposes, he took great care that more was not demanded from his neighbours than their lair share
and himself paid a large part of what was demanded that those of slender purse might not complain that ihey were being
impoverished : finally, for his relatives and others he set an example of true piety and virtue : at last, after a life honourably
and nobly spent, lamented by his friends and neighbours, he died a noble death on 29 June, 1596.

15 (2). — William Rowe, a son of the same father (who was mayor of the City of London), was a man well-known in
his own country and in foreign lands, so great was his reputation for learning. He was a lover of peace and goodness and
kind to the common people to whom his purse was ever open. To his five sons and his four daughters, their father, when
dying, committed his bones to be buried in this soil.

[N.B. — On a sunken rectangular surface to front of an altar tomb and lower part of the Memorial
No. 18.]

18.— Here lyeth interr'd the Body of MARY y' Wife | of Capt. John BONELL of London
Mariner and i Daughter of John Morice of London Esq' and | Grand Daughter to S' W"" Morice
late Secre | tare of State to King Charles the 2''. She I dyed the 16 of September 1691 in the
27"" I year of her Age.

GRATIOR IN PULERO NON VEXIT CORPORE VIRTUS | PARIOR AD SUPERAS MENS NON ASCENDERAT
ORAS I FyEMINA CHARA SUIS VIXIT CHARIA OMINIBUS ALMO | CHARIOR AT SPONSO C^LO CHRISSEMA
OBIVIT. I

Here also lyeth the Body of | Captain JOHN BONNEL | who departeted {sic) this Life the
7th I of January 170| /Etatis 44.

19.— To the memory of | WILLIAM NUTT Esq' | who departed this life y'= 29th of May 1718 |
in y* 70th year of his age & lyeth interred w"" | his eldest son WILLIAM, in the vault of Mr. |
Ralph Hawkins without y' Church on y^ | south side, who's only daughter he married, | by
whome he had six children three sons & I three daughters. He left behind him | a sorrowfull
widdow and three children | viz. : John, Dorothy and Catherine. | He was an affectionate,
loveing & dearly | beloved husband, a carefull & tender father, I a kind master, a faithfull
friend & an honest I just, good man, a generous benefactor to those | that applied to him if
found in | reall need or necessity.

ON THE EAST WALL
(Chancel)

20.— To the memory I of HENRY MAYNARD ESQ I principal benefactor of this parish |
where he was born in the year 1646. | He was fourth son of Charles Maynard Esq | Auditor of
the Exchequer and Mary y' daugh | ter of Zeger Corsellis of London, merchant. His | father
lies buried at Easton a country seat of ye family i in this county: and his mother in a vault |
hereto adjoining in this church. In the same | vault lied the reliques of ye auditor's second | son

18. — More pleasing virtue lived not in any beauteous body ; no fairer mind had ascended (o the realms above. She
lived, a woman dear to her friends, dear to all, dearer to her loving huaband, but dearest of all to heaven, she died.

HENRY, who died an infant, as also of his | third son S" WILLIAM MAYNARD of this place I
Baronet, who died on the 7th day of | November 1685, then aged 44 years. | To the memory of
them and of his deceased | mother the pious benefactor ordered by his I last will the erecting of
this monument; and I dying on the twenty seventh day of November | in the year 1686, was
buried in the same | vault ; leaving at his death many testimonies I of that charity and munificence
of which I he had given a good example in his life. | CHARLES MAYNARD Esq"^; first son of the
Au I ditor died at the age of thirty one years | AD 1665, and lies buried in the Abby | Church
of S' Albans; at which place the | family some time resided, having remov'd | thither from the
County of Devon.

Amis. — Defaced.

21.— ROBERT RAMPSTON, late of Chingford in the County | of Essex gent, deceased.
As he was careful! in | his lyfe time to releive y' poore, so at his ende by his | testament, he gave
XXll' yerely forever to the poore | of div's perishes and prysons, whereof to the poore I of this
perishe of Walthamstowe he hath given | yerely for ever XL^ to be paide in the monethe of I
November : He departed this mortall life the thirde | daye of Augeste MCCCCCLXXX fyve.

22. — scio GUI CREDiDi | By vertue of his death that was the death of death | and in y'
vigor of his resurreccon that is y* resurreccon | and the life even Her victorious lESVS | Heere
rests deposited to the assured hope of ymortality & glory all that was | mortall of that religious &
xtian Matrone Dame Mary Merry late and for ever | the most desired consort of S"* THOS. MERRY
of Waltham Stow in this | County of Essex Knight a Lady whom yf either intensive Piety to her
God or I extensive Charity to her neighbour yf faythfulnes to her Celestial or fidelity to | her
terrestial spouse yf the desires of her friends the prayers of her Children or | the teares of y"
poore could haue embalmed against y^ comon frailty she had not (Reader) | in theis postures stood
the sadd Remembrancer of their losse & thy mortality | Seing she is gone Goe speed thyselfe
(frayle dust) | of a monument of like permanent vertues they, I they are y* likelyest Marble to
transmit thy memory I to posterity that have ppetuated her to eternity | m.\ritus akerentissimus |

MERENTISSIMAE POSUIT | VIXIT ANNOS HEU VIX 6o | /ETERNUM VIVIT. | DEVIXIT ANNO SALUT : REDDIT
MDCXXXIJ

POSTERITATI vEMUL/E SACRUM

Though 'tis but vayne to raise dead stones to her

Whose virtues their owne liue inscriptions were

Yet not to envy future times their part

Of what a wiue's losse hath grau'd on my hart

I haue this hardy pile inspir'd to mutter

Playnts that would breake a widow'd hart to vtter

The type of coniugall obedience,

The patterne of vnconquer'd patience

The closet of religious prayer retir'd

The altar w'l" devout zeale dayly fir'd

The life of discreete hospitality

The soul of home affecting huswifry

The rare example of maternal care

Dead in this one vrn & concinerate are

Presse gently earth & keepe each grayne in trust

Till heaven revisit y' of this rich dust.

^^„„._Quaiterly, 1 and 4, Gules, on a fess engrailed argent, between three water-bougets or, a cross
patty sable, charged with five bezants, and inclosed by two cloves of the fourth {Merty).

2. Argent, three piles, one issuing of the chief, between two others reversed, sable {Huhe).

3. Azure, a cross flory between four swans, argent {Cawbruii^e).

Cres/s.—(0\ev the female figure) Merry, Impaling, quarterly ermine and azure, three fusils conjoined in
fess or {Freeman). (Over the male figure) The atchievenient impaling Freeman.

ON THE EAST WALL
(South Aisle)

23.— Sacred to the memory of | SARAH DEBORAH | the fourth daughter of the late |

Stepiien Todd HOLROYD Esquire | of Leadenhall Street, London | who departed this life on the

12th of August, 1823 | in the 20"" year of her age. I Her remains are interred in the family vault |

in the adjacent churchyard.

See ye who bend in silence o'er my tomb,

Or weep with louder grief my early doom ;

Where is the pledge that, ere one moon is sped.

Ye shall not sleep within the grave's lone bed.'

Is it in youth — in beauty — ye confide ?

Ah ! these were mine, and many a joy beside ;

Oh ! this your prayer — your trust — your treasure make,

"Pardon, Almighty, for my Saviour's sake."

TRISTRAMUS 6° AUGUSTI 1 684 64

OBIJT o , ^ m.1 /*

WINEFRIDA ' 5 APRILIS 1 694 69

Anns. — Azure, a niaunch or, a bend gobony ermine and gules. Impaling, argent, a saltire gules.

22. — I know whom I have believed.

To his most excellent wife her husband, deeply grieving, erected this. She lived scarce (alas !) sixty years. She
lives for ever. She ceased to live in the year of our Salvation 1632.

Sacred to emulous posterity.

25. — Near here lies buried all that was mortal of Tristram Conyers, seijeant-at-law, son and heir of William Conyers,
serjcant-at-law, by Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Ilcrvey, Justice of the King's Bench, together with Winifred, his dearly
beloved wife, daughter of Sir Gilbert Gerard, Bart., of Marrow-on-thellill in the county of .Middlesex. Tristram was one
of the musl famous lawyers of his day. Winifred was by nature pious and generous to the poor and was second to none in
these virtues. They had a large family : five .sons, and six daughteis. Of these, three only survive them, John, Gerard,
and Mary, who will, sooner or later, follow their beloved parents.

Tristram died on 6ih August, 1684, aged 64, and Winifred on 5th April, 1694, aged 69.

26. — H : S : E : I INTER VENERANDOS SUORUM CINERES, | GERARDUS CONYERS MILES | QUI,
JUVENTUTE AD SMYRNAM FEI.ICITER ACTA, FAM,?: ET FORTUNARUM FUNDAMENTA roSUIT | LONDINI,
REVERSUS EA INTEGRITATE & FIDE INCLARUIT, ADEO PRUDENS & INDEFESSUS AUDIVIT, UT, | SUMMO
CIVIU.M CONSENSU, AD PR.tTORIS USQUE MAGISTRATUM EVECTUS IN OMNI MUNERE, ET SUAM, ET |
URBIS, DIGNITATEM OPTIME SUSTINUIT. IN MEDIJS HISCE HONORIBUS, ET BONORUM OMNIUM AMORE,
FELICISSIME I CONSENUIT. TANDEM DIERUM PLENUS, & VIT^ SATUR, OBIJT DIE 20 JULIJ, ANNO DOM :
1737. JETAT 88 I UXOREM DUXIT ANNAM, | FILIAM CHRISTOPHORI LETHIEULLIER, MILITIS : QVJE OBIJT
DIE 16 DECEMBRIS, 1 728 CUJUS RELIQUIAE | HIC JUXTA DEPOSITEE REQUIESCUNT. EX ILLA NULLAM
SUSCEPIT PROLKM ET EDVARDUM CONYERS, | ARMIG : NEPOTEM OPTIME MERENTEM HjEREDEM EX ASSE
RELIQUIT.

Arms. — Azure, a niauncli or, a bend gobony ermine and gules (Coiiyers). Impaling or, a chevron gules
between three parrots' heads couped vert {Let/iieullier).

27.— To the memory of | SOPHIA | wife of THOMAS WILSON, Esquire, of this parish ; |
who departed this life the 24th Nov^ 1832 | in the 63rd year of her age. i Her remains are
deposited in a vault in the churchyard. | Also to the memory of the above named ! THOMAS
WILSON, ESQ" I who died on the 14th April 1841 I in the SO"" year of his age.

Arms. — .\ chevron between three spur-rowels {Wilson).
Crest and Legend. — Gone.

ON THE SOUTH WALL
(Under Gallery)

28.— To the memory of MRS. SARAH HIBBERT | who departed this life on the 8th of May
1817, I in the 38'*' year of her age, | sincerely regretted by her family and friends I and lies buried
with her infant | in the middle aisle by the side of her father | Edward Warner, Esquire, of this
parish. | This humble tribute of unceasing affection is erected i by her surviving husband
Mr. John Hibbert I of the parish of Leyton, Essex. I Also to the memory of Mr. JOHN HIBBERT |
who died on the 17th June 1849 in his 72"^* year | and is buried in the same grave.

29. — GULIELMUS CONYERS serviens ad legem | stirpe clara perantiqua ex agro |

26. — Amidst the venerable ashes of his ancestors, here lies Sir Gerard Conyers. He spent a happy youth at Smyrna
and there laid the foundations of his fame and fortune. On returninc; to this country, he was noted for his uprightness and
good faith. So great was his reputation for prudence and energy in London that, by general consent of his fellow citizens,
he was elected Lord Mayor and in every office excellently maintained his own dignity and that of the city. In the midst of
these honours, he grew old, happy and loved by all good men. At last, full of years and sated with life, he died on 20ih July,
A.D. 1737, aged 88. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Christopher Lethieullicr, who died on 161I1 December, 1728,
whose remains lie buried heie. By her he had no issue, and he left, as his sole heir, his deserving nephew, Edward
Conyers.

30.— In memory I of I a beloved mother | MARGARET HICKS | who fell asleep in Christ |
April 17th 1901 I in the 81=' year of her age.

31.— To the memory of | MRS. DOROTHY NUTT I daughter of Mr. Ralph Hawkins | late of

this parish, & wife of William i Nutt Esq' by whom she had | six children three sons and three

daughters. She | departed this life the 12th of July 1725 | and lies interred in the vault of her |

said father with her husband & | son William | leaving an example | worthy of imitation, as being |

a dutiful! daughter an affectionate | wife and a kind mother ever strict in | her duty to God and

just in her dealings | with men.

Arms. — Per fess azure and argent, a pale counterchanged, three pheons of the second [Nutt). Impaling,
sable, on the waves of the sea proper, a lion passant or, in chief three bezants {Hawkins). They
are in a lozenge.

32. — Near this place rests | in hopes of a blessed resurrection | MARTHA BRIDGES, wife to
William Bridges Esq | and daughter to Edmond and Elizabeth Clarke | late of this parish ; | who
after living in the most constant and uninterrupted love | and friendship with her dear consort, |
died in childbed Sep'' the 12th 1723, | to the unspeakable loss and grief | of all her relations and
acquaintance, | she being as universally loved and esteemed | as known : | To the Almighty's will
she submitted | with the utmost patience and resignation | having been early formed to a love of
Him I by the religious care of her excellently wise | and virtuous mother I whose useful instruc-
tions she so improved | that thro' her whole life in sweetness of temper and behaviour | engaging
and unaffected humility | in generous friendship and liberal charity | and in every other grace that
could adorn a Christian | she had few that equalled, none that excelled her. i To perpetuate the
memory I and excite to imitation | of so admirable and excellent a woman, | her afflicted husband |
has erected this memorial.

Arms. — (Within a wreath) Argent, on a cross sable a leopard's head or {Bridges). Impaling, or a cross
ragulee between four trefoils slipped, vert {Clarke).

33.— To the memory of 1 EDMOND CLARKE ESQ" and ELIZABETH his wife | both of
them great examples | of a true uninterrupted conjugal affection | highly liberal, tender and
indulgent | to all their children | eminent for all good offices | of charity, friendship and good
neighbourhood | constant attendants on God's service | and faithful members of His Church. |
This monument is erected by their most dutifull I and gratefull son Thomas Clarke, i She died
on the 8th of Sep"" 1719 aged 63. | He died on the 16th of Oct' 1721 aged 67.

Arms. — Or, a cross ragulee between four trefoils slipped, vert {Clarke), impaling, or, on a chevron
between three eagles' heads erased azure, three cinquefoils argent {Jackson).

29. — William Conyers, serjeant-at-law, born of a noble and ancient family of the county of York was heir and successor
of his uncle Tristram Conyers, Esq., formerly an inhabitant of this parish. Tristram died without issue in 1620 A.D. and
lies buried close by. William was twice married and had a large family. By his first wife, Mary, daughter of
Sir Francis Hervey of Northamptonshire, one of tlie Justices of the King's Bench, he left living Elizabeth, Tristram, Mary,
and William. By his second wife, Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Bcecher of Bedfordshire, he had five sons and five
daughters, of whom Oliver, Dorothy, Judith, and Margaret survived their father. He died in 1659, aged 73, and lies
buried here side by side with his wife Dorothy.

34.— In memory of WILLIAM COOKE ESQ | late of Church Hill | in this parish | who died
Jan>' the 24th 1792 | aged 52 years.

35. — In a vault | near this place are deposited I the mortal remains | of ANN, I the much
beloved and deeply lamented I wife of James CORBETT Esq" of this village. I She died the
2** of August 1814 I Aged 59 years. | In the same vault are also deposited the mortal remains of |
JAMES CORBETT ESQ"' ( many years resident in Marsh Street | who died | (affectionately
beloved by his family and I respected by all who knew him) i 20th August 1825. Aged 74 years.

36— The above window* was erected | by the widow of the late | THOMAS MAYNARD |
for 38 years Sexton of this parish | who departed this life 22nd October 1909 I In his 5T^ year.

* This refers to the entire third window from the east.

37.— A. M. D. G. I And in memory of I ROBERT MAYNARD, born 1752, died 1830 |
ROBERT MAYNARD, born 1800, died 1865 | THOMAS MAYNARD, born 1829, died 1871 |
"Officers of this Church."

Sacred to the memory i of | EDWARD HUMPHREY | of St. James' Street, Walthamstow. |
Born Dec. 15, 1855, died Sept. 4, 1903. | Also of his daughter May, died Feb. 17, 1888.

[N.B. — These two inscriptions refer to the left and right panels of the fourth window from the east.]

38.— Sacred I to the memory | of I JAMES COLLARD ESQ" I moneyer of the Royal Mint |
who died on the 8th February 1791 | aged 52 years. I Also | ELIZABETH, relict of the above, I
who died on the 4th April 1842 I aged 87 years.

ON THE SOUTH WALL
(Above Gallery)

j4r/>ts.— {In a lozenge) Gules, on a saltire argent, a rose of the first {Nevitl). Impaling, or, on a cross
sable five crescents, argent {Ellis).

40.— Near this place lyes the body | of M'^ THOMAS SHARP | ob' 6 Julv 1747 aged 53.
Anns.— Sa.\i\&, with a bordure a pheon or {Sharp), impaling, argent, a bend engrailed, gules.

41. — M. S. I HIC INFRA RECONDITUS QUIESCIT | IN DIC.'^TO EIUS CINERIBUS DORMITORIO |

JOHANNES CONYERS de walthamstowe arm | filius tristrami conyers servientis ad

Anns. — Sable, a mauch or, over all a bend gules, quartering on a fess three fusils {Duck). On an
inescutcheon quarterly 1 and 4 gules, a fess chequey or and azure, between ten billets argent
4, 3, 2, and 1 {Lee). 2 and 3. Gules, two bars between six lozenges argent, 3, 2, and \ {Goodwin).

41. — Below here, in the vault set apart for his ashes, lies buried John Conyers, Esq., of Walthamstow, son of Tristram
Conyers, serjeant-at-law, by Winifred, daughter of Sir Gilbert Gerard, Bart., of Harrow-on-the-llill. He was educated at
Queen's College, Oxford, was a member of the Middle Temple, London, a King's Counsel, and, like others of his family,
famous as a lawyer. He was truly virtuous and of a kindly disposition, wise in counsel, and constant in deed, a servant of
the Slate and devoted to the church, for more than thirty years a Member of Parliament, diligent, faithful, energetic. He
was happily married lo Mary, a noble and excellent woman, daughter and sole heir of George Lee of Shropshire, Fellow of
Lincoln College, by Cecilia, daughter and likewise sole heir of Robert Goodwin, Esq., of Sussex. He loved her dearly as
long as she lived and when she died, cherished her memory with unceasing devotion, for his beloved wife died on
7th March, A.D. 1701, aged 38. He himself followed her on loth March, A.D. 1724, aged 76, his reputation unspotted,
his health good, his fortune whole. Of his sixteen children, Edward, Cecilia, Elizabeth, and Dorothy survived him.

THE TRAfFORD MONUMENT IN WALTHAMSTOW CHURCH

43.— Near this place lyeth the body of AN | THONY LOWER of Maske in Clieve | land in
the County of York, Esqs descen [ ded from the aiitient family of the Low | thers of Lowther Hall
in the County | of Westmorland, Baro'^ He died 27 | day of January 1692. Aged 52 years. | He
married Margaret daughter of S'' | William Penn, Knight, by whom he had | issue six sons and
three daughters, vid' | Margaret, William, Elizabeth, Robert, | William, Anne Charlotte, Anthony, |
John, and Anthony, of which the follow | ing five lye here buried, Margaret mar | ried to Benjamin
Poole Esq', William aged | 6 months, Robert (a Gen' of great | hopes and learning) died in the
twenty | second year of his age, very much lamen | ted, Anthony aged one year and eight |
months, and Anthony aged twenty years. | Here also lyes the body of MARGARET wife to ! the
abovesaid Anthony Lower Esq' who | died the 5th day of Decern"" 1719 aged 73 years.

Anns. — (In a lozenjje) Or, six annulets, three, two and one, sable {LowtAtr). Impaling, argent, on a
fess sable, three plates, in chief a lion passant gules {Penn).

[Note. — These arms are placed over the .Mores Monument in North Aisle, and vice versa.']

Anns. — Vert, a lion argent {Wakelin).

IN THE WEST WALL

(South Aisle).

45. — Near this place in a vault with Susannah | his wife and Susannah their infant daugh |
ter, liesSIGISMUND TRAFFORD of Dun | ton Hall in Tidd S.Marys in the county of | Lincoln
Esq. He was born in this parish | being the son of John Trafford Esq. and | Margaret his wife and
descended from | the antient and honorable family of | Traffords in Lancashire after an | elegant
and well spent life valuable | in many instances but chiefly that | which he valued most, religion
and I virtue. He died at the age of LXXX | years on the XI day of July, A.D. MDCCXXIII | Near
this place in a vault lie buried | SUSANNAH y"^ wife of Sigismund Trafford | of Dunton Hall in
Tidd S' Mary in the | County of Lincolne Esq. and one | Daughter of their bodies whose fami | lie
lived formerly in this parish & his | mother with several of his relations | lie buried in this church.
He in his lite | time ordered y« making of y« vault & the ( erecting this monument to y^ memory |
of his wife who departed this life in i y" XLVll year of her age on the XXX"" | day of March Anno
Do MDCLXXXIX.

ON THE WEST WALL

(Nave)

Would'st thou, reflecting Reader! know
Of him whose ashes sleep below —
Whose spirit call'd at life's noon day,
Sped thro' yon skies her wond'rous way .■'
— He was a man whose heav'n taught mind
Meek faith with energy combin'd :
Of rapid thought ; and genius strong —
Votary to science, verse, and song:
A soul devout — still upward soaring.
Serving with zeal, with awe adoring.

ON THE W^EST W^ALL
(Tower Arch)

Amis. — Argent, a chevron within a bordure engrailed sable, three bulls' heads caboshed of the first
(Hillersdon). Impaling, .■\rgent, on a chevron gules, between three greyhounds' heads erased,
sable, as many bezants (Church).

ON THE WEST WALL
(North Aisle)

ON THE ARCADING

(North of Nave)

Arms. — Chequey on .i fess three martlets. Impaling, per chevron three martlets (Thorpe).

Crest. — K lion passant.

Motto. — " Patria cara carior libertas."

Arms.— Upon a chevron between three leopards' heads, three pierced mullets {Blicke) impaling a fess.

ON THE ARCADING

(South of Nave)

60. — Hic jACET DNS HENRICUS \ CRANE quondi bacallauri | utriusq juris & vicari

ISTl I ECCLIE qui OBUT XXVIII DIE | OCTOBRIS A° DNI MCCCCXXXVl I CUJ AIE PPICIET' DE'.

61. — FILIA PORTERI, THALAMIS SOCIATA SED halo: I GRANTHAM ME GENUIT : NUNC TEGOR HOC
TUMULO. I QUATUOR, EU, NATOS NATAS TOTIDEMQ' RELINQUO. I NUNC QUOQ' CUM CHRISTO, QUI VOCAT
ECCE MIGRO. I TERRA FUI. CINIS, ET PULVIS, TAMEN ISTA RESUMO. | CUM SANCTIS VIVENS JUDICE LiETA
DEO I VOS ORATE PII LECTORES QUILIBET ERGO | DICAT QUISQ' PIUS PROPITIATO DEUS. 1588.

67. — Near this marble lies all that was mortal of (he Rev. VPilliam Sparrow, M.A., who was a faitliful minister of this
church for forty years. He died on loth December, 1816, aged 73, greatly missed by his friends.

80. — Here hes Sir Henry Crane, formerly Bachelor of Canon and Civil Law and vicar of this church, who died on the
28th day of October, AD. 1436. On whose soul may God have Mercy !

61. — The daughter of Porter but allied in marriage to Hale. Grantham was my birthplace, but now I am covered by
this tomb. Four sons, alas I and as many daughters I leave behind. Lo ! now I depart and dwell with Christ Who
summons me. I was earth, ashes, and dust, and now to these I return. Dwelling with the holy Saints, before God my
judge, I am happy. Kind souls, whoe'er you be who read this, pray for me. Let each of you say, " May God have mercy
on her soul ! " 1588.

63. — HIC INFERIUS i SUB SPE BEATyE | PER | CHRISTUM RESURRECTIONIS 1 JACENT RELlQUIiC

THOM.(ii CLARKE armigeri | filii, natu maximi, | edmundi & elizabeth/e clarke, | quem, sibi

SERO SATIS, HEU ! NIMIS CITO PROPINQUIS | ET AMICIS, INOPINA MORS CORREPIT 27 DIE JU.NII |
ANNO DOM : 1746: AET 58

65.— PARNELL NEVILL | died 1 March 1755 | Aged 47 years.

Arms. — Gules, on a saltire argent a rose of the first {Nevilf). Impaling, or, on a cross sable five crescents
argent {Ellis).

Crest— .\ buirs head couped.

Arms. — On a lozenge within a circle of leaves a lion rampant crowned {Morley).

63. — Below here, in hope of a blessed resurrection through Christ, lie the remains of Thomas Clarke, Esq. , eldest son of
Edmund and Elizabeth Clarke, who died suddenly on 27th June, A.D. 1746, aged 58— late enough for him, but loo soon
alas ! for his relatives and friends.

ON THE FLOOR

(West End of Nave)

Rest of inscription worn away.
Arms.— (In a lozenge) a quatrefoil.

ON THE FLOOR

(Nave— W. to E.)

73.— Beneath this stone lye the remains | of NATHANAEL DOWDING Esq'' | late of the
Inner Temple, London, i who died 11th day of August 17 . . | in the 59"' year of his age.

74.— RICHARD BANKS | I in his 77 year | | MARY, his wife |

I died 182 .

TAis slab is badly worn, and the inscription is almost entirely obliterated.

75. — .■\LEXANDER CHAMPION | mdcclxxvi | obiit | annos v & menses x natus. | polli-

CITUS FRUSTUA INGENIUMQUE ANIMUMQUE VIRILEM. | HIC JACET ORBATO FLEBILIS USQUE PATRI: MANE
NEC ABRUMPENT HUlC TINTINNABULA SOMNOS | VALTHAMICAEQUE GEMET STIRPS GENEROSA SCHOLAE |
AD PATRIS EXEMPLUM, POPULOS QUI STRAVIT EOOS | MARTE FEROX NUMQUAM BELLA CANENDA GERET : |
NEQUICQUAM GENITRIX INDORUM EXPECTAT IN ORIS | AUDIET ET CASUM DILANIATA COMAS. | AT
CESSENT LACRYMAE; SOLUM NAM CORPUS ADEMPTUM | PARS MELIOR SUPEREST ARCE BEATA POLL

75. — Alexander Champion died 1776, aged 5 years, to months. Vain was his promise of the character and spirit of a
man. Here he lies, deeply lamented by his bereaved father. In the morning the bells will not break his sleep and the noble
boys of the school of Walth.anislow will mourn for him. Never will he, like his father who, with warlike spirit, laid low
the peoples of the Kast, never will he wage wars that will be told in story. In vain does his mother await him on the shores
of India ; she will rend her hair when she hears of his death. But tears will cease, for 'tis only his body that has been taken
from us. His better part survives in the blessed vault of heaven.

ON THE FLOOR
(Chancel)

Arms. — Gules, a saltire between four fleur-de-lis or {Batten). Impaling, a fess engrailed between
two dogs passant.

76. — To souls that have been received into the realms of the blest. Here lie the bodies of John Whitchurch who
died II Dec, 1699, aged i, of Anne Whitchurch who died 21 Sept., 1703, aged nearly 4, and of John Whitchurch who
died 3 Oct., 1703, aged 8 months, the children of James Whitchurch and Ruth, his wife.

82.— Beneath this stone lies interred | the body of WILLIAM CROZIER I son of John and
Mary Crozier | of Bishopsgate Street, London, I who departed this life 11th Jan'' 1785 I in the
eleventh year of his age.

granddaughter of the said | Captain I [John] Bonnell i and Mary his wife I who departed this life |
25 July 1711 I Aged | 3 years & 2 months.

ON THE FLOOR
(Sanctuary)

84. — HIC JACET R PR.ESUL GUIL: I PIERSE, QUI A SEDE PETRI j BURGENSI AD EATHOMENSEM
& WEI, I LENSEM TRANSLATUS FUIT AN° CAROLI I | 8° A QUA TEMPORUM INIQUITATE | PROTURBATUS
FUIT USQ AD REDITUM | CAROLI 2^' RESTITUTUS TEMPLUM CA- | THEDRALE WELLENSE REPARAVIT (
EPISCOPALE PALATIUM EX^DIFICAVIT | C/EI.IS MATURUS TERRIS VALEDIXIT | AN° M.' 94 SALUT 1670.

85.— Here lyeth the body of | Mr. ARCHER MARTIN late of | the Island of lamaica merch' |
Obijt the Nth of lune 1707.

86.— Under this marble stone lyes y' i body of Mr. PAUL DARBY | Citizen & Clothworker
of London | who died May the 1st 1699. I Aged 54 years & 10 dayes. I Resurgam.
Anus : A chevron between three garbs {Darby). Impaling on a fess three annulets.
Crest : A garb.

87.— JOHANNA MARGARETTA | PREIST. Died Sep' y'^ 4th 1726 | Aged 3 months.

Eliz 1 f 23 Jan : 16S3

Ann \ Buryed y' \ 12 Apl : 1659
Mary j I 27 Jan : 1679

ON THE FLOOR
(North Aisle-"W. to E.)

89.— SUSANN>E MORES I died Vlll January C03CCLXV11
[Note.— There was a Latin inscription, but the stone is mostly covered by the seating.]

84. — Here lies the Rt. Rev. William Pierse who was translated from the Bishopric of Peterborough to the Bishopric of
Bath and Wells in 1632, from which, in difficult times, he was driven forth until the return of Charles II. When restored,
he repaired the Cathedral of Wells, built the Episcopal palace, and, ripe for heaven, bade farewell to earth in 1670, aged 94.

90.— SUSAN SAMMS I Obiit Oct XIV | A.D. MDCCXV | Beneath this stone was interred on I
the XVl"- day of February A.D. MDCCXI | the body of Miss ELIZABETH SAMMS I and on this
XVI I"" day of October ! at the age of LXXXV years was | deposited in the same grave y* body I
of her mother Mrs. SUSAN SAMMS | sometime wife of Mr. Francis Samms | of London, grocer,
and daughter of | Edw"* Palmer of Lamborn in Essex | Esq'' They were both persons of an I
exemplary piety and the latter by | her last will bequeathed a consi I derable legacy to this
Church.

Arms.— (In a lozenge) Three shells, quartering a chief indented.

91— Aspice I Respice Prospice | Here lyeth the body of | Mrs. ANN BAGSHAW the I
daughter of | lohn Bagshaw Esq' of | Culworth in ye County | of Northampton who | departed
this life y* 19th day | of September in y* year of I Our Lord 1700. | Resurgam.
Arms. — (In a lozenge) A bugle suspended between three roses {Bagshaw).

93.— Here lyeth ye body I of Mrs. ANNE DARELL wife | of Mr. Edward Darell of | London
& daughter of | John Pyott Esq"^ & Anne i his wife who died the | 30th of October 1684. ! Aged
34 years.

Arms. — Azure, a lion rampant ducally crowned, or {Darell). Impaling, a lion passant, in chief three

roundles [Pyott).
Crest — A man's head In profile couped at the shoulders and wreathed about the temples.

ON THE FLOOR

(South Aisle— E. to W.)

94.— TRISTRAM CONYERS I Esq. Ob. 4 Aug. I 1684 | WYNIFRID wife of ! Tristram
Conyers I Esq. Ob. April i 1694. | lOHN CONYERS Esq. I Ob. 10 Mar 172J

96.— Here lyeth y" body of Mrs. ANN WAINWRIGHT | wife of in° Wainwright Barrister at
Law I of the Inner Temple, daughter of Edmund | Clarke Esq. & Eliz: his wife. She died

VII Ian I MDCCX^ Aged XXXll. | Here also lyeth four more children of y' | said Edmund &
Eiiz : CLARKE

Edmund "i MX months

'^''■■y r Aged ■ ' y^^""

Roger [ '^^^^ 111 years
George J I XII years

Arms. — Argent, a chevron azure, between three hurts a lion rampant enclosed by two fleur-de-lis
{Wainwright). Inipaiing, or, a cross ragulee between four trefoils slipped, vert {Clarke).

Crest.— A. lion rampant holding a battleaxe.

97._Here lyeth intarred the body of I ELIZABETH STOKES the late wife of leremiah Stokes
who departed this | life November 16th Anno Dom 1707 i Aged 56 years. | Here also lEREMIAH
STOKES the | husband to Elizabeth Stokes | who departed this life lun 13 Ann Dom | 1708.
Aged 50 years. | Here also lyeth the body of RICHARD STOKES their eldest son who dyed | Nov.
6th Anno Dom: 1696. Aged 11 years. I BASILL STOKES fourth son of | leremiah Stokes obijt y^
30 of May 1710. I /Etat 20 years.

Arms. — A chevron between three shells, in chief three pellets.
Crest. — A griffin's head couped.

98.— Here lyeth interred the I body of PETER LENNARDS I Gent. He departed this | life
the 26th of November | 1647.

99.— Here lyeth interred the body of | [Mrs.] MARY READE who departed | [this] life
August 17 1754. Aged 62 I Also here lyeth the body of | [James] READE Esq' son of y^ above
said I Mary Reade who departed this life I on y^ 16 day of August 1776. I Aged 57 years. | Also

the body of I Mrs. SUSANNAH READE* | Mr. JAMES READE i who departed this life

• Stone broken across, losing a line. The lower part of stone lies about four feet to the north.

Arms.— A griffin segreant (Trafford). Impaling crusilly two monkeys holding clubs. On a canton

sinister three fleur-de-lis.
Crest. — A Thresher.

101.— Here lieth the remains of Mrs | ELIZABETH BRUSHFIELD [relict of] | ....
BRUSHFIELD* I Also the body of I CATHERINE COPE spinst : | . . . the abovementioned |
Elizabeth Brushfield i . . . life Dec' y* 25th 1756 | . . . eighty-first year | of her age.
* A good portion of stone worn smooth. The remainder occurs at lower end.

APPENDIX

Additional Memorials recorded by Strype in his "Circuit" dated 1720 but not found in 1910: —

102.— Captain JOHN BONNELL. Died 7th January 1702. Aged 44 years.

[For the remainder of this see No. 83.]

103.— WILLIAM BONNER Esq. son of Hon. Dr. John Bonner born in Jamaica August 1684.
Arrived in England 9 Sep. 1714 & dyed y' 7 Dec. following at London.

104. — HIC JACET DNS WILHELM HYLL NUPER VICARIUS ISTIUS ECCLIyE QUI OBIJT VII°
DIE JUL. M° CCCC° LXXXVII° CUJUS ANIM^. PPIT" D. A.MEN.

105.— WILLIAM JAMES of Walthamstow, Gen' dyed the 15th August 1634 aetat 63 years,
and ETHELDRED his first wife. He had issue one son and two daughters.

106.— JOHN JOHNSON, citizen and merchant-taylor of London, one of the Governors of
St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Died 20th October 1650. Aged 64 years.

107.— THEODORE LONGFORD- Born 29 May 1687. Died 29 August 1692. Certainly
happily blest being the best of children.

108.— WILLIAM MAN, Grocer. Died September 1676. Aged 70 years.

Lysons, in his " Environs of London," records the following monuments not found in 1910 : —

109.— GRACE, wife of Ambrose ANSTALLE. 1598.

110. — Here lyes the corps of THOMAS BROWNE Esquyre engrav'd in ground,
Whose cunnyng skill and conseyens eke the chequer court hath sounde :
A man who lyving fedd the poore and feasted friend and foe,
Did good to many, hurt to none, and feared God also :
Yet dreadfull death berefte his life, his body turn'd to duste ;
His soule with God I hope doth reste and reigne among the just.

24 of Decemb. 1582.

111.— Sir WILLIAM COLES, some time Sheriff of London. 1717.

104. — Here lies Sir William Hyll, late vicar of this church, who died on the seventh day of July, 1487. On whose
Soul may God have mercy ! Amen.

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112.-CHARLES DUMBLETON, Esq. 1771.
113.— Mrs. MARTHA ELLIS, sister of Anne Nevill. 1779.
114.— CHARLES COUGH, Esq. 1774.
115.— GEORGIUS JOHNSON verbi & sacramentorum minister spiritum emisit sep-

TKMBRIS DIE S SALUTIS ANNO 1576. vETATIS SUX 36. SEDIT HIC VICARIUS ANNIS lO.

The Office set to Pastors true

By Cliiist, his flock to guide,

Is unto them his faith to preach,

.■Xtid from it never slide ;

The duty to the flock assigned,

God's Word is to obey,

And on the same to stay themselves.

With Faith & Hope alway.

For here on earth as pilgrims strange.

We daily seek for rest,

Yet finding none because we be

With sinful flesh opprest.

No state on earth, no pomp may last,

No f?esh can long endure,

But being earth, to earth shall turn.

Of this we be most sure.

Then sith our days be full of ill.

While we do pass the same.

Let us redeem them doing good

Not seeking praise or fame.

But glory praise & honour due

Yield we to God of right.

Whose promise is, all darkness past

To give us his true light.

Out of his mouth goes a label with these words :

" POST tenebras spero lucem."

116.— Mrs. LYDIA MARRIOTT. 1777.

117.— MARCERY NYCOLLAS. 1561 (which Rev. E. Chishull transcribed as follows) : Here
lyeth buryed the body of Margery late the wyfe of Bryan Nycolias, & daughter of Marmaduke
Fairborne of Darlington in the Bishoprick of Durham, which Margery dyed the V day of April in
the yere of our Lord God MCCCCCLXI. O Blessed Trinity have mercy on her Soule. Amen.

118.— THOMAS PRATT, Esq. 1756.

119.— RICHARD SOLLY, merchant, 1729.

116. — George [ohnson, minister of the word and the s.^craments, breathed his last on the Sth Sept. in the year of our
salvation 1576, aged 36. For 10 years he was vicar here.

" .After darkness I hope for light."

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120.— Mr. RICHARD TERRILL. 1755.

The Rev. Edmund Chishull entered in the Parish Registers the following description of the
inscription to ROBERT THORNE : | " 1 have collected and replac'd the broken and disorder'd
remains of the inscription once enter'd under the figure of the four Evangelists in the east window
of that (South) Isle, and find them legible as follows" : —

121.— [Christen peojple praye for the [soule of Rob'] Thorne Citizen of Lond[on with whose]
goodys thys syde of thys chirche was new edyfyd [and] fynyshed in [the year of] our Lord
MCCCCCXXXV.

In the same place the Rev. E. Chishull wrote: — "From the broken words and letters
remaining still legible in the windows of the other lie, it appears that there was an inscription of
this tenour ": —

122.—. . . pray for the soul of JOAN and ANNE MONOX and of GEORGE their late consort,
at whose cost this lie was erected.

J. C. PHELP & S<
PRINTERS.

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