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Notes for Thomas Kemp and Beatrix

"Wye. The ruines of a Collegiate Church are here yet still to be seene; first built by Iohn Kempe Archbishop of Canterbury, borne in this Towne; the sonne of Thomas Kempe, and Beatrice his wife, who were fairely entombed in this their sonnes foundation, with this Epitaph. Hic sistunt ossa Thome Kempe marmore fossa, Cuius opus pronum se probat esse bonum. Dum vixit letus, fuit, & bonitate repletus, Munificus viguit, pauperibus tribuit. Iungitur huic satrix virtutum sponsa Beatrix, Que partitur opes, sponte iuuans inopes. Ex his processit vt ramus ab arbore crescit, Cleri Presidium, Dux sapiens ouium. Christo Lectoris mens cunctis supplicet horis, Vt Patris Deitas luminet has animas." [1]


Footnotes:

[1] John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments (London: Thomas Harper, 1631), 274, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].