In the South Chapel now known as the Gainsborough Chapel.
Father Sir Baptist Hicks died without any sons and was permitted to pass his honours and titles to the husband of his eldest daughter whose family name was Noel and thus her descendants bear the name Noel and they became the Earls of Gainsborough.
On the South side of the chapel is the fine memorial to Juliana Hicks and her Husband Edward Noel, Lord and Lady Campden. Hardly Cadavers in the normal sense They stand dressed in shrouds in the door of a marble cupboard with the doors ajar ready to emerge on the sound of the last trump.This is supposed to be representing the Resurrection. They clasp hands and both wear their coronets. This monument is by Joshua Marshall,1664 "Master Mason to Charles II. (At The sign of The Hand and Starre in Fleet Street.London.) The Epitaphs are lettered on the inside of the doors and tradition says that they remained closed until after the death of Lady Juliana. Sir Edward Noel fell at Oxford whilst fighting for Charles I.
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MONUMENT IS ERECTED TO PRESERVE THE MEMORY AND PORTRAIT OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE SR. EDWARD NOEL VICOUNT CAMPDEN, BARON NOEL OF RIDLINGTON A LORD OF HEROIK HIGH PARTS & PRESENCE. HE WAS KNIGHT BANNERET IN THE WARRS OF IRELAND ANNO 1611. HE WAS AFTERWARDS MADE BARON OF RIDLINGTON THE OTHER TITLES CAME TO HIM BY THE RIGHT OF DAME JULIANA HIS WIFE WHO STANDS COLLATERALL TO HIM IN THIS MONUMENT A LADY OF EXTRAORDINARY GREAT ENDOWMENTS BOTH OF VERTUE AND FORTUNE THIS GOODLY LORD DIED AT OXFORD AT YE BEGINNING OF THE LATE FATALL CIVIL WARRS WHITHER HE WENT TO SERVE & ASSIST HIS SOVUERAIN PRINCE CHARLES THE FIRST AND SO WAS EXALTED TO THE KINGDOM OF GLORY 8o Martii 1642. |
THE LADY
JULIANA ELDEST DAUGHTER AND COHEIRE (OF THAT MIRROR OF HISTIME) SR. BAPTIST HICKS, VISCOUNT CAMPDEN, SHE WAS MARRIED TO THAT NOBLE LORD WHO IS HERE ENGRAVEN BY HER, BY WHOM SHE HAD BAPTIST LORD VICOUNT CAMPDEN NOW LIVING (WHO IS BLESSED WITH A NUMEROUS & GALLANT ISSUE) HENRY HER SECOND SON DIED A PRISONER FOR HIS LOYALTY TO HIS PRINCE. HER ELDEST DAUGHTER ELIZABETH WAS MARRIED TO JOHN VICOUNT CHAWORTH. MARY HER SECOND DAUGHTER TO THE VERY NOBLE KNIGHT SR. ERASMUS DE LA FONTAINE. PENELOPE HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER DIED A MAYD THIS EXCELLENT LADY FOR THE PIOUS AND UNPARALLELLD AFFECTONS SHE RETAIND TO THE MEMORY OF HER DECEASED LORD CAUSED THIS STATELY MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED IN HER LIFE TIME IN SEPTEMBER ANNO DOMN 1664 |
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