- J. EVELYN.)
George Johnson Esq. bencher of the Middle Temple, digging for marle at
Bowdon Parke, Ano. 1666, the diggers found the bones of a man under a
quarrie of planke stones: he told me he saw it. He was a serious
person, and "fide dignus".
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At Wishford Magna is the inscription, "Hic jacet Thomas Bonham,
armiger, quondam Patronus istius Ecclesi?, qui quidem Thomas obiit
vicesimo nono die Maii, Anno Domini MCCCCLXXIII (1473); el Editha uxor
ejus, qu? quidem Editha obiit vicesimo sexto die Aprilis, Anno D'ni
MCCCCLXIX. (1469). Quorum animabus propitietur Deus.- Amen." They lye
both buried under the great marble stone in the nave of this church,
where is the above said inscription, above which are their
pourtraictures in brasse, and an escucheon now illegible. Beneath this
inscription are the small figures of nine young children in brasse.
This Mr. Bonham's wife had two children at one birth, the first time:
and he being troubled at it travelled, and was absent seven yeares.
After his returne she was delivered of seven children at one birth. In
this parish is a confident tradition that these seven children were
all baptized at the font in this church, and that they were brought
thither in a kind of chardger, which was dedicated to this church, and
hung on two nailes, which are to be seen there yet, neer the bellfree
on the south side. Some old men are yet living that doe remember the
chardger.
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