In Fenestra Orientali.
Orate pro a’iabus fratrum & sororum Gildæ be’æ Mariæ de Cunningsby, qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt.
This is a fayre Window, adorned with the Genealogy of the Kinges of Israel and Judah, David lying along through the whole bottome, from whose roote branch out the several stems. In one part of it below the Picture of King Edward the first, crowned, &c. &c.
Edwardus primus regnavit annos . . .
Orate pro Matilda de Padeholme, et Alicia
On a Gravestone.
Hic jacet D’nus Thomas Butler, quondam Capellanus Gildæ be’æ Mariæ Cunningsby, qui obiit 10 die Mensis Decembris, A’no D’ni 1510. Cujus aiæ &c. &c.
On another.
Pray for the Soule of John Smith of Cunsby sometimes M’chant of the Staple of Calis, which died in the yeare of our Lord God 1470, & Jonet his Wife which died the 24th Day of November in the yeare of our Lord God 1461.
And all good people that this Scripture reade or see
For theire soules say a Paternoster, Ave-Maria, & a creed for Charity.On another the pourtraytures of a man and his two wives on either side of him in brasse with this inscription vizt.
Pray for the soules of Richard Whetecroft of Coningsby M’chant of the Staple at Calice & sometimes Lieutenant of the same, & Jane & Margaret his Wives, which Richard deceased the 23d day of November, Ao. D’ni 1524.
In the Parlour of the Parsonage House.
| Arg. a crosse engrailed G. betw. 4 waterbougets sa. | Bourchier. |
| Quarterly & Quartered with Quarterly . . . Gules billetty d’or a fesse arg. Crumwell and Tateshale | Lovayne. |
| B. a manche d’or | |
| Empaled. Sa. 3 lyons Passant guardant arg. | Dymoke. |
| Empaled. Sa. 2 lyons passant arg. crowned d’or | |
| Empaled. Dymoke | |
| Empaled. Marmyon | |
| Verry a fesse G. | Marmyon. |
| Or a lyon rampant double queue sa. | Welles. |
| Empaled. A coate defaced | |
| Empaled. Welles | |
| Empaled. Verry a fesse G. | |
| Empaled. B. a manehe d’or |
All these Escocheons are in 2 Windowes, in which two Windowes also are these Verses:
Alme Deus cœli Croxby tu parce Johanni
Hanc ædem fieri benefecit sponte Jo Croxby
Anno Milleno quater. c. L. x. quoq. terno.In the other Windowes.
| Barry of 6 ermyne and G. 3 crescents sa. | Waterton. |
| Quarterly Ufford & Beke | Willughby. |
| Verry a fesse G. | Marmyon. |
| Ermyne 5 fusils in fesse G. | Hebden. |
| Arg. a crosse sarcely sa. | |
| Empaled. Quarterly Crumwell & Tateshale | Crumwell. |
| Empaled. B. a fesse betw. 6 billets d’or | Deyncourt. |
| Empaled. Dymoke | |
| Empaled. Welles | |
| Sa. an arming sworde pile in poynte arg. | |
| Empaled. Arg 3 bulls passant | |
| Empaled. G. on a chevron arg. 3 pomeis | |
| Empaled. Arg. a fesse dauuce betw. 3 talbots heads erased sa. | |
| Empaled. Arg. a fesse betw. 3 cootes sa. |
Harleian MS. No. 6829, p. 178 to 182.
[53a] Domesday, folio 354.
[53b] Burton’s Monast. Ebor. p. 215.
[54] The following arms and inscriptions, now gone, were in this church when it was visited by Mr. Holles.
In Fenestra.
| Arg. a plaine crosse G. | |
| G. a fesse betw. 6 crosselets botony fitchy arg. charged with as many mullets or pierced G. | |
| Sa. a bend betw. 6 mullets or pierced G. | Briton. |