<< main parish churches page 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":
In
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
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On
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.
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A 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
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A 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.
------
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An
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:
- Or. a crow Proper, with the Canton of Ulster. Corbet,
Baronet.
- Or. A carbuncle S.
- Gu. a lion ramp. within an orle of cross crosslets
fitchè Or.
- Or. three bars Az. on a chief of the First, two pales
of the Second, with an inescutcheon barry of six Arg.
and Gu.
- Gu. three lucies hauriant, within an orle of cross
crosslets Or.
- Az. within a bordure engrailed Or. six lioncels ramp.
Arg. 3, 2, 1.
- Gu. within a bordure engrailed Or. two lioncels passant
Arg.
- Arg. three chevrons Az.
- Gu. within a bordure engrailed Or. a lion ramp. of
the Second, debruised, with a bend Az.
- Barry of six Or. and Az. each charged with six fleur-de-lis,
counterchanged.
- Gu. two bars vaire.
- 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').
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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:
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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.
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On a mural tablet, on the south
wall of the chancel:
TO THE MEMORY OF
CHARLES SHIPMAN ESQR.
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.
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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.
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On the south chancel wall, on
a mural tablet:
Near this Place
lyes the Body of
JOHN HUMPHREYS
Citizen of London,
Who departed this Life
XXIId Janry.
Anno Dom. MDCCXL
In the LVIIIth year
of his Age.
Sunt cætera
Famæ.
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These
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.
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The
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
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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.
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