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Monuments & Memorials in St Mary the Virgin, Old Linslade

The following list is based on the current situation (as of 2004) and also reflects the details listed in 1847, by George Lipscomb in his book "The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham":

Atoun memorialIn the north wall of the chancel, on a small rectangular plate of brass (moved since 1847, when Lipscomb recorded it as being in the floor near the north wall of the chancel):

Hic jacet Agnes Atoun Mater Johes Atoun Priores de Cheksonde cujus Anime propitietur Deus. Amen

The inscription is to Agnes Atoun, mother of John Atoun, Prior of Chicksands. John was the vicar of Linslade from 1480

     

Gough memorialOn a small mural monument, on the north side of the chancel. The inscription reads:

Between this and the opposite Wall
lie the Remains of the Reverend
Mr. OWEN GOUGH,
who died March the 4th 1777,
aged 78 Years.
And of MARY his Wife,
who died November the 14th 1761,
aged 50 Years.
Also of JANE, Daughter
of the abovenamed,
who died Sept. the 14th 1756,
aged 13 Years.

 

Charity BoardA Charity Board on the north wall of the chancel has the following inscription:

In the year 1826 twenty five Pounds were given by Sir Andrew Corbet Bart, the income to be distributed annually in Bread among the Poor of Linslade Parish, which sum has been invested in the Purchase of £25..15..11. stock £3 per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities
William Stevens Cooper, William Cotching, John Osborne Junr. - Trustees 1852

Mrs Mary Peacock late of Redbourne in the County of Hertford, Spinster left by will dated 30th Sept. 1830 and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, June 8th 1837 the sum of one Hundred Pounds Consolidated 3 per Cent annuities to the Minister and Church Wardens of this Parish upon trust to apply so much of the Dividends as shall arise therefrom as will be necessary to keep the Tomb Stones over the Graves of her late Father Abraham Peacock her late mother Mary Peacock her late brother William Peacock her late Aunt Jane Wilson in the Churchyard in good preservation particularly that the same be painted and repaired once in three years and distribute the surplus annually in halfcrowns among aged widows the sick and most necessitous families resident in this Parish at the discretion of the Minister and Church Wardens for the time being the said one Hundred Pounds Stock was transferred by the Exors. of the late Mary Peacock free of legacy duty on the 9th Jany. 1838 to the Revd. Benjamin Robert Perkins Minister and Messrs. John Osborne and William Cotching   Church Wardens

 

Charity BoardA Charity Board on the north wall of the chancel (directly below the one detailed above) has the following inscription:

HADLEY BEQUEST

MR JAMES HADLEY, by his Will dated January 4th 1890, bequeathed the sum of £100 free of legacy duty to the Vicar and Churchwardens for the time being of Linslade in the County of Buckingham, to be laid out and invested by them in their names, and the interest or income arising therefrom applied by them in maintaining in good repair his Family tomb in the Churchyard of Linslade Church, the residue or surplus of such interest or income to be given by the said Vicar and Churchwardens to the poor Widows in the same Parish in bread on St Thomas' day.

--------------------

MRS JAMES HADLEY, as sole surviving executrix of her husband's will, subsequently added £50 to the above Bequest and agreed that instead of bread, tickets for bread or anything else might be substituted as the Vicar and the Churchwardens might think fit and in compliance with conditions suggested by the Charity Commissioners further agreed that the total income arising from the Bequest, thus augmented should be applied to the relief of poor Widows, the Bequest as to the maintenance of the Family tomb notwithstanding. ------

The augmented Bequest of £150 was thereafter placed by the Trustees in the hands of the Charity Commissioners to be invested by them for the purposes of the Charity. ------

 

Corbet AchievementAn ancient achievement, affixed to the north wall of the chancel. They are the arms of Corbet, in twelve quaterings (in Lipscomb's book it is recorded as being affixed to the south wall of the nave). The achievement is described as follows:

    1. Or. a crow Proper, with the Canton of Ulster. Corbet, Baronet.
    2. Or. A carbuncle S.
    3. Gu. a lion ramp. within an orle of cross crosslets fitchè Or.
    4. Or. three bars Az. on a chief of the First, two pales of the Second, with an inescutcheon barry of six Arg. and Gu.
    5. Gu. three lucies hauriant, within an orle of cross crosslets Or.
    6. Az. within a bordure engrailed Or. six lioncels ramp. Arg. 3, 2, 1.
    7. Gu. within a bordure engrailed Or. two lioncels passant Arg.
    8. Arg. three chevrons Az.
    9. Gu. within a bordure engrailed Or. a lion ramp. of the Second, debruised, with a bend Az.
    10. Barry of six Or. and Az. each charged with six fleur-de-lis, counterchanged.
    11. Gu. two bars vaire.
    12. Gu. ten Bezants, 4, 3, 2, 1, in chief, a label of three points Az.

Crest: On a wreath, an elephant Proper, caparisoned, and bearing on his back, a castle embattled Or.

Motto: Deus pascet corvos ('God feeds the ravens').

 

There is a tablet of wood, affixed to the north wall of the chancel, and directly below the achievement (in Lipscomb's book it is recorded as being affixed to the south wall of the nave, near the Manorial-pew). The inscription reads:

 

Sacred
TO THE MEMORY OF
SIR ANDREW CORBET
OF MORETON CORBET IN THE COUNTY OF SALOP
AND OF LINSLADE IN THE CO: OF BUCKS, KNT.

OB: ANO. 1637.
AND OF THE FOLLOWING, VIZ.

SIR VINCENT CORBET, BART.
OB: ANO. 1656.
VISCOUNTESS CORBET
OB: ANO. 1679.
SIR VINCENT CORBET BART.
OB: ANO. 1680.
SIR VINCENT CORBET BART.
OB: ANO. 1788
ETAT 19.
RICHARD CORBET ESQR.
OB: ANO. 1690.
RICHARD CORBET ESQR.
OB: ANO. 1710.
ANDREW CORBET ESQR.
OB: ANO. 1757.
RICHARD PRYNCE CORBET ESQR.
OB: ANO. 1779.
ANDREW CORBET ESQR.
OB: UNMARRIED
APRIL 21st.
1796.

ERECTED BY SIR ANDREW CORBET BART.
1810.

Corbet memorial
 

On a mural tablet, on the south wall of the chancel:

TO THE MEMORY OF
CHARLES SHIPMAN E
SQR.
WHO DIED JUNE VTH MDCCXCVII
IN THE XCVIIITH YEAR OF HIS AGE
FORMERLY A MAJOR IN THE BLUES
AND RESIDED FOR MANY YEARS
AT GREAT BRICKHILL IN THE COUNTY OF BUCKS
BUT THE LATTER PART OF HIS LIFE IN LONDON
HE WAS A JUST AND UPRIGHT MAN
A SINCERE FRIEND AND AN AFFECTIONATE FATHER
HE LEFT AN ONLY DAUGHTER TO LAMENT
A SEPERATION AFTER FORTY YEARS ATTENTION
TO HIS EASE AND COMFORT AND WHO AS A SMALL
TOKEN OF HER FILIAL DUTY HAS CAUSED
THIS MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED NEAR
TO HIS REMAINS WHICH ARE INTERRED
IN THE MIDDLE PART OF THE CHANCEL.

Shipman memorial
 

Lipscomb records in his book of 1847, that there was a small stone in the pavement in the chancel, with the following inscription:

C. S. Esq. in the 98th year of his age, 1797.

C. S. is presumably Charles Shipman of the memorial above. The memorial may still be in place, but was not spotted on my visit to the church.

 

Corbet AchievementOn the south chancel wall, on a mural tablet:

Near this Place
lyes the Body of

JOHN HUMPHREYS

Citizen of London,
Who departed this Life
XXII
d Janry. Anno Dom. MDCCXL
In the LVIII
th year of his Age.
Sunt cætera Famæ.

 

Corbet AchievementThese memorial brasses are now mounted on a piece of wood, which is fixed to the eastern end of the south wall of the nave, but they were originally affixed to a slab in the nave near to the font.

In 1847, Lipscomb described them insitu as follows:

Affixed to a slab in the nave, are effigies of a male and three females: at the feet, near the sinister angle, twelve small figures, and the marks of three or four more on the dexter side; but the inscription is gone.

 

Corbet AchievementThe is a memorial brass fixed to the north wall of the nave. The inscription read:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN
COMMEMORATION OF THE DIAMOND JUBILEE
OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. THIS
CHURCH WAS RESTORED BY HENRY FINCH, J.P.
OF THE GABLES, LINSLADE.
ANNO DOMINI 1897

 

Lipscomb described one further memorial in his 1847 book. This was on a slab, in the nave, and the inscription read:

To the memory of the Rev. Hugh Davies, Perpetual Curate of this Parish upwards of thirty years, who died April 26th 1822, aged 68 years. He bore his afflictions with Patience and Resignation to the Will of his Creator.