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| Keywords: ElizabethPeryamHeantonPunchardon.JPG 1107743 Mural monument to Elizabeth Peryam 1571-1635 wife of Sir Robert Bassett d 1641 Heanton Punchardon Church Devon A mural monument to Elizabeth Peryam 1571 “1635 heiress of Little Fulford and wife of Sir Robert Bassett 1574 “1641 of Heanton Punchardon North Devon MP for Plymouth in 1593 is situated on the east wall of the Basset Chapel in Heanton Punchardon Church She was one of the four daughters and co-heiresses of Sir William Peryam 1534 “1604 Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer by his second wife Anne Parker daughter of John Parker of North Molton Devon ancestor of the Earls of Morley of Saltram House near Plymouth She bore her husband two sons and four daughters <ref>History of Parliament biography of Sir Robert Bassett MP</ref> amongst whom was Colonel Arthur Basset MP who erected the monument It is inscribed in Latin as follows Memoriae Sacrum Dominae Elizabethae Bassett uxori Roberti Bassett militis clarissima stirpe oriundi filiae et cohaeredi Gulielmi Peryam militis Schaccarii Regii Baronis primarii Judicic integerrimi et religiosissimi piae prudenti justae patienti modestae castae temperanti constanti hospitali misericordi beneficae pauperum matri et medicae suae familiae conservatrici Arthurus Bassett armiger filius eius primogenit us debitae gratitudinis et observantiae ergo H oc M onumentum M atri M aerens P osuit Anno Domini 1635 aetatis suae 64 ad Dominum remeaunt <br> Should monuments goe by merit then surely thine <br> With pretious stone and orient pearle should shine <br> But since thy world of worth ye world doth know <br> This marble stone may serve thy name to show <br> Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Psal 34 19 <br> Ita in fornacem prodiit aurum Which may be translated literally into English as Sacred to the memory of Lady Elizabeth Bassett wife of Robert Bassett knight arisen from a famous stock daughter and co-heiress of William Peryam knight Lord Chief Justice of the Royal Treasury he was most impartial and duty-bound she was pious prudent just long-suffering modest chaste temperant constant hospitable compassionate kind a mother and healer of the poor a preserver of her own family Arthur Bassett Esquire her sorrowing first-born son of a duty of gratitude and respect therefore placed this monument to his mother in the year of Our Lord 1635 of her age 64 may she remain to the Lord Thus does gold come forth into an oven own photo Monument 1635; photo May 2012 own photo St Augustine Heanton Punchardon Wall mounted church monuments in Devon Basset arms Peryam arms | ||||
