The Royal Windsor guide : with a brief account of Eton, Virginia Water, and the surrounding neighbourhood.

Date:
1839
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Royal Windsor guide : with a brief account of Eton, Virginia Water, and the surrounding neighbourhood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wylliam Canon, sumtirne maior of Wyndesore, and Elizabeth his wyfe, and their childerne, the which Wylliam departed ont of this world the 5 daie of December, in the yere of our Lord God 1509, fyrst yere off the rayne of King Harry VIII. In the nortli aisle is a curious monument, with the follow- ing inscription, but having no date appended to it:— In happie memory of Edward Jobson and Elynor his wyfe, by whom the sayd Edward had issue vi sons : vidt. Edward, Frances, Hvmfrie, James, William, Richard, and iiij davghters, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Catherine, Sara. The parents and nine of their children, habited in the cos- tume of the sixteenth century, are carved in relievo, kneeling on each side an altar reading desk, under which is a recum- bent figure of an infant; above are the family arms, and the sides of the monument are ornamented with fruit and foliage. On the opposite side of the church is a tablet in remem- brance of Miss Catherine Henley and her mother, both of whom were unremitting in their endeavours to ameliorate the condition of the poor in the town and neighbourhood. An urn is represented on the upper part of the tablet, en- circled by a wreath of cypress, and partially covered by a funereal pall; beneath is an inscription, containing the names and ages of the deceased, to which the following lines are annexed:— Gentle they were, and eminently good. By love united more than ties of blood. By kindred virtues, by a blameless life. And sweet domestic smiles that banish strife. Faith, that exalts this mortal to the sky. And bounteous, kind, long-suffering charity. At that great day when earth sbali yield her dead. The books be opened, and the sentence read. Their Lord’s approving voics the just shall hear. And sounds of rapture wake thJ obstructed ear. An almost obliterated gravestone records the memory of Richard Gales, ob. St. Andrewe’s day, 1574, thrise maior of Newe Windsor, in whych office he worthily purchased praise by his discreet government.’' In the north-west entrance is a large monument to a lady named Braham; at the sides of the inscription are the sta- tues of Wisdom and Piety, the pediment is supported by angels, and at the base is an urn with two weeping cherubim. Near this are two tablets, one to the memory of Topham Foot, Esq., with a bust of the deceased by Scheemaker; the other surmounted by a shield hearing a coat of arms, and thus inscribed:— Matthew Day, gent., five times maior and constant patron of the rights and customs of the town and corporation of Newe Windsor * * * After his pilgrimage of 87 years, 9 moneths, and 22 dayes, he finished his covrse, 18th December, IfiOl.