For the Table Book.
BAKEWELL, DERBYSHIRE.
Ancient Monuments and Inscriptions in the Church.
Upon the tablet over the mural monument in the chantry of the Holy Cross, is the following inscription:
Godfrey Foljambe, Knight, and Avena his wife, (who afterwards married Richard de Greene, Knight,) Lord and Lady of the Manors of Hassop, Okebrook, Elton, Stanton, Darley, Overhall, and Lokhawe, founded this Chantry in honor of the Holy Cross, in the 39th year of the Reign of King Edward the 3rd, 1366. Godfrey died on Thursday next after the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord, in the 50th year of the reign of the same King; and Avena died on Saturday next after the Feast of the Nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary, in the 6th year of the reign of Richard 2nd, 1383.
N. B. The Dates are taken from the Escheat Rolls, which contain the Inquisitum post mortem, 50th Edward 3. No. 24.
In the Vestry, there is an effigy in alabaster, of sir Thomas Wendersley de Wendersley, who was mortally wounded at the battle of Shrewsbury, 4th Henry IV., 1403, and was buried at Bakewell, where formerly were several shields of the arms of his family carved in wood. (See Brailsford’s “Monumental Inscriptions of Derbyshire.”)
Adjoining the vestry are several handsome monuments of the Vernon and Manners’ families.
In the centre is the tomb or cenotaph of sir George Vernon, inscribed thus:
Here lyeth Sir George Vernon, Knight, deceased, ye daye of Ano 156 and Dame Margaret his Wife, dowghter of Sr Gylbert Tayllboys, deceased the daye of 156 and also Dame Mawde his Wyffe, dowghter to Sir Ralphe Langfoot, deceased the daye of Ano 1566, whose solles God p—don—.
On the right is a monument to sir John Manners, with this inscription: