[92c] The MS. volume of Lincolnshire Church Notes, notices all the foregoing inscriptions, though not in a very correct manner. It also contains the following account of inscriptions and arms, in this church, which are now gone:
In the upper ende of the Chancell.
Next under another fayre monument of blew marble [as the former] the picture of one also inlayd in brasse, adorned rounde about with a border of curious workemanship in brasse, with the pictures and names of some prophets in the Old Testament, and of other saintes, and some Saxon kinges, as Edmund, Edward, Etheldred, Ethelbert, there is noe inscription, onely this ensuing escocheon upon either side of him.
On the North Side under a Marble.
Orate pro a’ia M’ri Joh’is Gigur baccalaur. Theologiæ custodis hujus collegii, ac etiam . . . Collegij Marton in Oxonia qui obijt 12º. die
On the Wood Worke in the lower ende of the Quire, curiously carved in capital l’rs this,—
Ad honorem & gloriam Dei opt. Max. & decorum domus ejus hoc opus factum est Anno D’ni 1424.
In Fenestris.
The history of the passion depainted. In another Hell’s torments, where are divers creatures bound together in a chayne; amongst whome one with a crowne, another with a mytre on his head, the divell tormenting them, and under them is written—