Monuments and Brasses of Swaffham Prior
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Brasses currently to be seen in St Mary's Church
Robert Chambers, Gentleman, Buried 28 August 1638
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John Tothyll [= Tothill/Totehill] and wife, 1462
Richard and Alice Water [= Waters], 1515
William and Alice water [=Waters], 1521
Anonymous, Early 1500s?
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Monumental Inscriptions and Coats of Arms from Cambridgeshire, chiefly as recorded by John Layer about 1632 and William Cole between 1742 and 1782.
William
Palmer,
Book
in British Library and Cambridgeshire CRO.
From page 162.
Swaffham
Prior, St Maries; Aug 18th 1744.
‘To
the north of this on a free stone small coffin near the middle isle is this
inscription, at the foot of the pulpit: Here lieth Margerie the wife of William
Chambers deceased the VII November An. Dni. 1583’
[She
was Margery Rogers who married William in Swaffham Prior on 4 Nov 1574. In 1584
William married Mary Norwich.]
Swaffham
Prior, St Ciric; Aug 18th 1744.
‘Before
the pulpit in the isle lies an old stone with this inscription. Here lieth the
body of John Chambers buried the 13 of February 1586 and the body of Margery
his wife buried the 5 of December 1582.’
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