Bishops Frome Herefordshire
Very hard to photograph painted figures in oil of George de la Downes of Paunton Court and wife Margery Pritchard / Pychard dressed in black kneeling at a prayer desk looking outwards. A skeleton in a coffin below them.
It was found in pieces behind the altar, carefully cleaned and repaired by Messrs Russel & Ward and enclosed in an oak glazed case, paid for by Mrs Hopton.
" Here lieth Margery, one of the daughters and co heirs of John Pitchar, Esq., the late wife of George De la Downes, Esq who had issue only Frances married to Mychall Wentworth, Esq, who departed this life ye 12th day of January Anno D'ni 1598, in the 41st year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth ."
Above George :
"Though Nature's wrack in thee makes Nature weep
In mee deere wife whose want workes myne anoy
Yet seeing grace in Christ made Nature sleep
I injoying weepe through hope to meete in joy
Such force hath Vertu on Tyme Death and Hell
It makes them live that lives but to dy well".
Scroll : - "Thou who for us did not distain to be crucified,make us , O Christ, with thy Saints be glorified" (Qui pro nobis dedignaris crucian Fac nos Christe cum tuis glorificari)
Aged 60
Above Margery :
"I know that my Redeemer liveth; Lord Jesus have mercy"
"Time drew along (long tyme) hier date of Life
Whose Life then ended when hir Life begune
For death unspoused hir , to espouse this wife
By mortll stroke to God's Immortall Sonne
O blessed stroke, that from Man's rocky hart
Makes streams of Life to flow through death's desert".
Scroll : - "Thou who hast thine own redeemed, truly on us, O Jesu, now have mercy" (Qui tuos Redemisti Vere NosLri Jesu nunc Miserere)
Aged 50
Above the skeleton on a tomb chest; -
"As thou art such have I bene whilst life and lust endured
As I am suche shalt thou be by course of kind assured".
On the tomb chest:
"What was and is, and will be , perishes only in a moment, what does it profit then to be , to have been, to be going to be when they are no more than flowering things without a flower, when everything perishes which was, is and will be"
George Downes 1598 m 1560 Margery co-heiress of John Pitchar / Pychard / Pritchard by ....... co-heiress of Francis Slade
Margery was co-heiress with her sisters Dorothy wife of Robert Downes & Elizabeth Pychard who died unmarried, her share being divided between Dorothy & Margery which included a third part of the manor of Ledon
Children
1. Frances 1639 m 1585 Michael Wentworth 1641 of Woolley Hall, Wentworth Yorks , son of Thomas Wentworth of Mendham & Whitley by Susan daughter of Christopher Hepton 1585 of Armley Hall Leeds Yorks & Margaret Danby
(In 1605-6 Michael Wentworth's quietus upon payment of £180 for the recusancy of Frances his wife.
1610 Grant of lands in Notton by Michael Wentworth to trustees for increase of his wife's jointure. 14th October, 1610
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/23862e86-ca51... )
Between them a coat of arms of Downes of Suffolk, quarterly with Downes of Chester,* impaling Pychard," etc. four quarterings: 1. Gules, a fesse or between 3 escallops arg. (Pichard). 2. Arg., 2 chevronels gu., a file of 4 points in chief gules. (Seymour) 3. Barry of 8 arg. and az. — not known. 4. Arg. 3 horses' heads erased sable, a chief gules. (Slade).
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Bishops Frome Herefordshire
Very hard to photograph painted figures in oil of George de la Downes of Paunton Court and wife Margery Pritchard / Pychard dressed in black kneeling at a prayer desk looking outwards. A skeleton in a coffin below them.
It was found in pieces behind the altar, carefully cleaned and repaired by Messrs Russel & Ward and enclosed in an oak glazed case, paid for by Mrs Hopton.
" Here lieth Margery, one of the daughters and co heirs of John Pitchar, Esq., the late wife of George De la Downes, Esq who had issue only Frances married to Mychall Wentworth, Esq, who departed this life ye 12th day of January Anno D'ni 1598, in the 41st year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth ."
Above George :
"Though Nature's wrack in thee makes Nature weep
In mee deere wife whose want workes myne anoy
Yet seeing grace in Christ made Nature sleep
I injoying weepe through hope to meete in joy
Such force hath Vertu on Tyme Death and Hell
It makes them live that lives but to dy well".
Scroll : - "Thou who for us did not distain to be crucified,make us , O Christ, with thy Saints be glorified" (Qui pro nobis dedignaris crucian Fac nos Christe cum tuis glorificari)
Aged 60
Above Margery :
"I know that my Redeemer liveth; Lord Jesus have mercy"
"Time drew along (long tyme) hier date of Life
Whose Life then ended when hir Life begune
For death unspoused hir , to espouse this wife
By mortll stroke to God's Immortall Sonne
O blessed stroke, that from Man's rocky hart
Makes streams of Life to flow through death's desert".
Scroll : - "Thou who hast thine own redeemed, truly on us, O Jesu, now have mercy" (Qui tuos Redemisti Vere NosLri Jesu nunc Miserere)
Aged 50
Above the skeleton on a tomb chest; -
"As thou art such have I bene whilst life and lust endured
As I am suche shalt thou be by course of kind assured".
On the tomb chest:
"What was and is, and will be , perishes only in a moment, what does it profit then to be , to have been, to be going to be when they are no more than flowering things without a flower, when everything perishes which was, is and will be"
George Downes 1598 m 1560 Margery co-heiress of John Pitchar / Pychard / Pritchard by ....... co-heiress of Francis Slade
Margery was co-heiress with her sisters Dorothy wife of Robert Downes & Elizabeth Pychard who died unmarried, her share being divided between Dorothy & Margery which included a third part of the manor of Ledon
Children
1. Frances 1639 m 1585 Michael Wentworth 1641 of Woolley Hall, Wentworth Yorks , son of Thomas Wentworth of Mendham & Whitley by Susan daughter of Christopher Hepton 1585 of Armley Hall Leeds Yorks & Margaret Danby
(In 1605-6 Michael Wentworth's quietus upon payment of £180 for the recusancy of Frances his wife.
1610 Grant of lands in Notton by Michael Wentworth to trustees for increase of his wife's jointure. 14th October, 1610
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/23862e86-ca51... )
Between them a coat of arms of Downes of Suffolk, quarterly with Downes of Chester,* impaling Pychard," etc. four quarterings: 1. Gules, a fesse or between 3 escallops arg. (Pichard). 2. Arg., 2 chevronels gu., a file of 4 points in chief gules. (Seymour) 3. Barry of 8 arg. and az. — not known. 4. Arg. 3 horses' heads erased sable, a chief gules. (Slade).
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