. The environs of London: being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital interspersed with biographical anecdotes. flabs with figures in brafs of the above-men-tioned Michael Skynner, and of William and his wife Ifabella; theinfcription has been torn from the latter; the date is taken fromAubrey, where it is preferved. The precatory expreffions which formed the beginning and con-clufion of almoft every epitaph before the reformation, have beencarefully obliterated in the infcriptions on the tombs of the Skyn-ners, and others of that age, in
. The environs of London: being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital interspersed with biographical anecdotes. flabs with figures in brafs of the above-men-tioned Michael Skynner, and of William and his wife Ifabella; theinfcription has been torn from the latter; the date is taken fromAubrey, where it is preferved. The precatory expreffions which formed the beginning and con-clufion of almoft every epitaph before the reformation, have beencarefully obliterated in the infcriptions on the tombs of the Skyn-ners, and others of that age, in the church of Camberwell, either bythe reformers in the reign of queen Elizabeth, or by the puritans inthe laft century: had their zeal been always thus moderate, the anti-quary would have no reafon to complain of them. Queen Elizabethchecked the ill directed zeal of her reformers by a proclamation , « Richard Skynner. Agnes. William ob. 1498. S. F. Isabella. Michael ob. 1497. S. P. Surrey Vifitation, Heralds College. AgnesD & Coh. Eliz. D & Coh, Wife of John Scott, who died CI. 6 Edw. IV. ^ Strypes Annals of the Reformation, p. 187. forbidding. B . r-l (—t— tiou O«^ o CAMBERWELL. i-j forbidding them to demolifh or deface any monuments, whether of ftone or metal, they being fet up for memory, and not for fuperflition. On the north wall of the chancel is a monument to the memory of Tombs of theJohn Scott, Efq. baron of the exchequer, who died in 1532, withfigures on brafs of himfelf, his wife, and eleven The armsquartered on the tomb, are Scott and Bretinghurft—they impale Skynner. The Scotts had been fettled for a confiderable time at Camberwell. | One of that family and defcription is mentioned in a record of the I reign of Edward the Fourth . John Scott was appointed third baron of the exchequer in 1529. His eldeft fon John I find recorded in ] Holinflied , on account of fome riots and mifdemeanors in which \ he was concerned with Lord Ogle and Lord
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