John Stowe (1525-1605).
[1007]He was of the company of the Merchant Taylors, as by the scutcheon of that company[1008] doeth appeare—quaere +[1009] of that company.
St. Andrewes Undershaft, London, i.e. under, or by, the Maypole, which was anciently called a shaft. It stood over against the west end of the church, where now Mr. <Michael> Weekes's howse is.
His monument is in effige, sitting with a little table before him, with a booke. He was a handsome sanguine old man. 'Tis well carved (of wood) and painted.
On the north side of the chancel at the upper end[BS]:—
Memoriae Sacrum
Resurrectionem in Christo hic expectat Johannes Stowe, Civis Londinensis, qui, in antiquis monumentis eruendis accuratissima diligentia usus, Angliae Annales et Civitatis Londini Synopsim, bene de sua, bene de postera aetate meritus, luculenter scripsit. Vitaeque stadio pie et probe decurso, obiit aetatis anno 80
Die 5 Aprilis 1605.
Elizabetha conjux, ut perpetuum sui amoris testimonium, dolens ...