The Herald and genealogist . of that Order in England. It fortuned (writesWeever) that on the 7th of May, 1540, being Ascension Day, and thesame day of the dissolution of the house, he was dissolved by death,which so strooke him to the heart at the first time when he heard ofthe dissolution of his order. It may be supposed that the Lord Priorhad previously prepared his monument, and erected it in his own con-ventual church of St. Johns, and that it was thence-a-emoved to theparish church, though it is not remembered when. It was alreadyconsiderably injured when thus described by Weever:— I was
The Herald and genealogist . of that Order in England. It fortuned (writesWeever) that on the 7th of May, 1540, being Ascension Day, and thesame day of the dissolution of the house, he was dissolved by death,which so strooke him to the heart at the first time when he heard ofthe dissolution of his order. It may be supposed that the Lord Priorhad previously prepared his monument, and erected it in his own con-ventual church of St. Johns, and that it was thence-a-emoved to theparish church, though it is not remembered when. It was alreadyconsiderably injured when thus described by Weever:— I was sorry to hear that the parishioners had been so precipitate as to take downthe old church before they had made a contract for a new one. The materials pro-duced above 800Z. A great part of them is now working up into houses in St. GeorgesFields. (Gentlemans Magazine, Oct. 17S8, p. 853.) A view of the interior,during the progress of demolition, is introduced at p. 49 of the volume before us. 440 THE HISTORY OF In the north walle of the chancell is a faire marble tombe, with the portraiture ofa dead man lying upon his shroud, the most artificially cut in stone that ever manbeheld. All the plates of brass are stolne away, onely some few pieces remaining,containing these words :— ?ijospitaIitatc tnrlBttis, genei-e ^anc tiriiam officii causa. In the centre, on another plate, in Old English characters, was Sipcs me lion fallat auam in U semper IDatctam?Firgo Da farilcm botis iiatum (qu.) And on another (IStn qtiam rcrnis semper tuo nomini IrebotumSuscipe in sinum birgo iMaria tuum. In the engraving, the matrices of the brasses appear in shadow onthe wall of the recess, but too indistinctly to form a conclusion upon THE HISTORY OF CLERKENWELL. 441 their design. It would seem almost as if there had been two kneelingfigures, and two objects of their adoration. The Virgin was possiblyrepresented as Our Lady of Pity, sustaining the dead body of her th
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