An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, : to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke, and Earl of Warwick : including the history and succession of the several Earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick Castle . s) and that he was remarkably accurate in hisaccounts, and adhered ftridly to juftice in all his tranfaiflions,appears by the whole tenor of his laft v^ill, bearing date the12th ©f September, in the ift year of queen Elizabeth; in xvliich. [ 73 ] which, towards the end, he thus exprefles himfelf: « And my* efpecial reque
An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, : to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke, and Earl of Warwick : including the history and succession of the several Earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick Castle . s) and that he was remarkably accurate in hisaccounts, and adhered ftridly to juftice in all his tranfaiflions,appears by the whole tenor of his laft v^ill, bearing date the12th ©f September, in the ift year of queen Elizabeth; in xvliich. [ 73 ] which, towards the end, he thus exprefles himfelf: « And my* efpecial requefts to my executors for the love I have born** them, and for the travel I have taken in eftablifliing the* hole inheritance, -with my great cofts alfo to be confidcred,* I moft earneftly require them, and on Gods behalf charge* them, that my debts be paied, if I die before the accom-* plifhments thereof. His executors were, his lady, and hiseldeft fon, Fulke Grevile. He died in the ift year of queenElizabeth, and Elizabeth his wife in the 3d ; and both wereburied in the church at Alcefter, where an altar-monument iserected to their memory, upon which the eiBgies of himfelfand his lady are laid, with the portraitures of his children oathe fides, as is here i^ouud tiic verge of tne monument is the following lieth the body of Foulke Grevyll, knight, and ladyElizabeth his wife, the daughter and heir of Edward Wil-loughby, efquire, the fone and heire of Robert Willoughby,knyght, lord of Broke j and lady Elizabeth, one of theditughtcrs and coheircs of the lord Beauchamp of Powyk:which Foulke died the Xth day of November, anno DominiMDLIX; and the faid lady Elizabeth, his wife, departed IXth day of in the year of our lord MDLX 5 of whofe foules God have mercy. Amen. T. They t 74 J They left three fons, and four daughters. The fons were,frfl:, Foullce ; fecondly, Robert Grevile of Thorp-Latymer, inthe county of Lincohi, anceftor to Francis, the prefent
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