Views of the Most Interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain, by J.P. Neale and J. Le Keux. with Historical and Architectural Descriptions [By T. Moule]. (Paperback)

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. 1824 Excerpt: ...There are also monuments in the Church for Richard Caple, Esq., ob. 1601. Thomas Chambers, Esq., ob. 1605. John Heywood, Esq. of Wellington, alias Prior's Court, in this county, ob. 1614. Thomas Cupper, Esq. of Glympton, in Oxfordshire, ob. 27 June, 1621. In the Chancel is buried John Thornton, D. D., Vice Chancellor of Oxford, and Master of the Hospital, in this town, founded by Hugh Foliot, Bp. of this Diocese, dedicated to God and St. Catherine, for the reception of poor people and travellers. Anne, the wife of Ambrose Elton, of the Hazel, Esq., daughter of Sir Edward Aston, Knight and Baronet, and sister of Sir Walter Astou, Baron of Forfar, of Tixall. She died, 5th Feb. 1660. Her husband was buried by her in 1659. Stay, reader, here lies the body of James Bailey, late of Ledbury, Corvisor, who departed this life 13 December, 1674, aet. 100 yrs. and 8 mths. He was the youngest brother of Humphrey Bailey of Ocul Pychard, and of Samuel Bailey, late of Hereford. These three brothers lived the age of 300 yrs. What one wanted the other made up.--Mors rapit omnia. John Hoskins, D. D. Vicar of this Church, is buried here with an epitaph beginning thus: --Sub pedibus Doctor jacet hie in legibus Hoskins, Esse Pius docuit, quodq. docebaterat, &c. The Tower of the Church is distinct from the body, and is surmounted by a modern spire.' The town of Leominster is situated in a rich and fertile vale, and on the banks of the river Lug, which making a considerable flexure, flows along both its northern and eastern sides, and here receives a second tributary stream, the Pinsley. It is distant about thirteen miles north from Hereford, and one hundred and thirty.seven west.north.west from London. It appears from a comparison of various authorities, that a Monastery was ...