Being

Daughter to the worthy Knight,

Sir EDWARD STANHOPE,

By ELIZABETH his Wife, that was Daughter to
Sir FOULKE BOURCHIER,

Lord FITZ WARREN:
From whom

Our Modern Earls of Bath are sprung.

Son was he

TO WILLIAM, Lord FITZ WARREN,
That was Brother to HENRY, Earl of Efex,
And WILLIAM their Sire,
Sometime Earl of Eu, in Normandy.
Begat on ANNE, the fole Heir of
THOMAS of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester,
Younger Son, to the mighty Prince
EDWARD the Third,

And of his Wife ELINORE;
Co-heir unto

The 10th HUMFREY DE BOHUN,

That was

Earl of Hereford, Effex, and Northampton,
High-Conftable of England.

This Lady bare many Children, To wit,
EDWARD Earl of Hertford, HENRY, and
A younger EDWARD;

ANNE Countess of Warwick,
MARGARET, JANE, MARY, KATHERINE,
And ELIZABETH.

And with firm Faith in CHRIST,

And in moft mild Manner,
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Render'd

Render'd fhe her Life

At Ninety Years of Age,

On Eafter-Day, the 16th of April.
1587.

The Earl of Hertford, EDWARD her eldest Son,
In this doleful Duty careful and diligent,
Doth confecrate this Monument to his dead Parent;
Not for her Honour wherewith living fhe did abound,
And now departed, flourisheth;

But for the dutiful Love he beareth her,
And for his laft Teftification thereof.

[Wefiminfter-Abbey.]

On RANULPH HURLSTON, Efq;

The Body of

RANULPH HURLSTON, Efq;

One of the Honourable Council of the North Parts, Lyeth here in Hope of a joyful Resurrection. Who,

Adorned with great Gifts of Learning, Gravity, and Wisdom, joined with rare Godlynefs, Was always careful of advancing

The fincere Doctrine of CHRIST.
And of that Equity,

Which every where ought to be obferv'd,
Never ceafing his faithful Labours

To profit the

Church and Commonwealth;

Until it pleafed our gracious God,
Mercifully in a very short Moment,
Without any the leaft Dolour of Death,
To end all the Labour of his faithful Servant,
And to Tranflate his Soul to eternal Reft,
13 April, Anno CHRISTI Incarnationes 1587.
All the Days of his Peregrination were 62 Years,
For whofe godly Life

The anointed Saviour be bleffed for ever. Amen.

[St. Peter's, York.]

On JOHN Fox.*

JOHN FOX,

The faithful Martyrologian of our English Church.
A moft difcret Searcher

Into the Antiquities of Histories;
A moft ftiff Bulwark and Fighter
For the evangelical Truth.

Which hath revived the Martyrs as fo many

From the Duft of Oblivion;

Phoenixes

Died the 18 of April 1587, in the 70th Year of his Age.

To whofe pious Memory

This Monument is erected by his lamenting Son
SAMUEL Fox..

[St. Giles's, Cripplegate.]

On Sir THOMAS BROMLEY.*

Here is interred

Sir THOMAS BROMLEY.
Who being, for his extraordinary
Wisdom, Piety, and Knowledge of the Law,
Preferred to be Privy-Counsellor,
And Lord High Chancellor to
Queen ELIZABETH;

After discharging that eminent Office, with Frreproachable Equity, Moderation, and Honour, During Eight Years,

He was carried off by a hafty Death,
To the great Grief of all good Men,
On the 12th of April 1587, having lived 57 Years.
He left by his Wife ELIZABETH,
Of the FORTESCUE Family, Eight Children.
To fo good a Parent

His Son HENRY caufed this Monument to be erected:

[Westminster-Abbey.]

On MARY, Queen of Scots.*

To the gracious Memory, and eternal Hope of MARY STUART, Queen of Scots, Dowager of France, Daughter and Sole-Heirefs of JAMES the 5th,

King of Scots:

And great Grand Daughter of HENRY the 7th,

By:

By MARGARET, his eldest Daughter,

(Married to JAMES the 4th King of Scots.) Defcended from EDWARD the 4th King of England, By ELIZABETH, his eldest Daughter, Confort to FRANCIS the 2d, King of France; True and undoubted Heiress to the Crown of England, And Mother to the moft mighty Prince JAMES, King of Great-Britain.

She was of a moft ancient and truly-royal Defcent,
Related to the greatest Princes of all Europe.
Eminent for all Accomplishments of Mind and Body.
But fuch are the Viciffitudes of human Things!
After an Imprisonment of about Twenty Years,
And a firm, but alas ! 'fuccefslefs Struggle
Against the Calumnies of the Malicious,
The Sufpicions of the timorous,
And the Snares of the implacable,
She loft her Head!

By an Act of unparrallelled Severity,
And to the Disgrace of

The Sacredness of Majefty.

With a noble Contempt of the World,
And a Soul fuperior to the Fear of Death,-
And to the Terror of the Executioner;
Leaving her Soul to CHRIST,

The Kingdom to her Son JAMES,
And to the Spectators of this atrocious Murder,
A Pattern of moft exalted Fortitude;
She composedly fubmitted her Royal Head to the Axe,
And exchanged a precarious Life

For the Eternity of Heaven,

On the 18th of February 1587, Aged 46.