MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | AliceRashleigh_1591_FoweyCornwall.jpg (2902x5547) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: AliceRashleigh 1591 FoweyCornwall.jpg en 1602 Monumental brass of Alice Lanyon d 1591 wife of John Rashleigh d 1582 of Menabilly and mother of John Rashleigh d 1624 ; Fowey Church Cornwall Embedded in a stone in the nave of Fowey Church Above her head is an indentation for a now lost brass heraldic escutcheon and below her feet is a plate bearing the following inscription Dunkin p 55 Here lieth the bodie of Alice the wife of John Rashleigh Esq and daughter of Will'm Lanyon Esq who died the XXth day of August 1591 and her husband who lieth buried under the monument neare adjoyninge died the Xth day of August 1582 At the time of their deathes they left of their issue livinge one sonne six daughters which sonne caused this stone to be made in remembraunce therof in the yere of Our Lord 1602 Dunkin Edwin Hadlow Wise The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall with Descriptive Geneaological and Heraldic Notes 1882 plate XLV Drawn by Dunkin Edwin Hadlow Wise 1882 Fowey Monumental brasses in Cornwall Menabilly PD-old-100 | ||||
