Records of Buckinghamshire Volume 3 (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1870 Excerpt: ... Weston Underwood. 1. Inscr: (marginal) Qui iacet ut cernis modo sub petra tumulatus lohn Olney multis.... parua fuit antiqua capella ruensq'.. nc in plebeam condidit ecclesiam. Insuper a papa perquisivit qd' in euum Jure sepulture gaudeat iste locus. Hie q' sacerdotem semper diuina eauentem Rector ut inueniat causa mouens fuerat Anno Milleno quater C quinq' relictis In Benedicte tua luce recessit ab iacet hie dionisia consors Pro quorum rogo te funde salute preces. 2. Elizabeth, wife of Sir Robert Throkmarton, 1571. Inscr: as follows Hie iacet tumulata dna Elizabeth Hungerford vna filiaru dni Hussey que primu nupta fuit dno Gualtero Hungerford et nuper vxor Roberti Throkmarton Militis que obiit xxiii0 die Januarii Anno dni Mccccclxxio. Weston Underwood Cole, vol. 38, folio 409. Church. John Olney's Brass. "In the middle of the Pavement of the Chancel is a very large Grey Marble, at the Corners of wli were Arms, 3 of which are torn off: the only one that remains has this Coat, viz., a Fess Crenelle, for Olney, Round the Verge of the Stone is a Brass, at each Corner the Symbols of the 4 Evangelists; and on the Brass is this Inscription." Here follow the lines as above, the omissions being supplied. Line 2 "multis Nomine notus erat" Line 10 "Istius et secum jacet...." Elizabeth Throkmarton's Brass. "At the upper End of the S. Isle, on an untlent Stone is the Effigies of a Woman in Brass & at her Feet the Portraitures of 6 Daughters, & the following Inscription on a Brass Tablet, Hie jacet," as above, Abridged from " The Bucks Advertiser and Aylftbury News" of Sept. 3rd, 1864. The Annual Excursion and Meeting was held on Tuesday the 30th of August, the field of investigation being the district including Waddesdon, Quainton, Denhah Court, and Doddershall. The M...