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Notes for John Keriell and Joan Clitheroe

Joan [Clitheroe] died before 7 March 1454/5 (date of her father's will) and was buried in St Nicholas Church in Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent. Her father asked to be buried near her in the choir of the church. A photograph of her tomb is included in Dunlop's pedigree of the Crioll/Kyriell family of Kent. [1] The tombs of Joan and her parents Roger and Matilda Clitherow are described in Weever. He transcribed the monumental brass in Ash to [Roger] Clitherow and his wife [Matilda] who was the daughter of John Oldcastle as, "Hic iacet ... Clitherow, Ar. & ... uxor eius filia Iohannis Oldcastell qui obijt ..." Following the transcription of the tomb for Clitherow and his Oldcastle wife is Weever's transcription of the tomb of Joan Keriell, daughter of Roger Clitherow:
Pray for the sowle of Ioane Keriell,
Ye frends all that forth ypasse;
In endlesse lyff perpetuall;
That God it grant mercy and grase,
Roger Clitherow her fader was,
Tho erth to erth of kynd returne,
Pray that her sowle to lyff may come. [2] [3]

"The name of Kereill, hath been of great note and antiquity, within this country; sir Nicholas Kereill flourished in the reign of king Richard II and Sir Thomas Kereill, beheaded with the lord Bouvile, the day after the second battle at St. Albans, in the reign of king Henry VI, or slain in the battle according to John Harding." [4]


Footnotes:

[1] J. Renton Dunlop, "Pedigree of the Family of Criol or Kyriell, of co. Kent," Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Fifth Series, 6 (1927), 254-261, at 257.

[2] John Weever, Antient Funeral Monuments (London: W. Tooke, 1767), 63, [GoogleBooks].

[3] John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments (London: Thomas Harper, 1631), 265, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[4] John Weever, Antient Funeral Monuments (London: W. Tooke, 1767), 63, [GoogleBooks].