Mary, coming to the throne,^c called Sir John Gage to her council, appointed him Lord Chamberlain of her Household, and restored him to the office of Con stable of the Tower; in which character he had the painful duty of attending Dudley, and his family, to the block. It is particularly related by Heylin, that the Lady Jane Gray, upon the scaffold, gave Sir John Gage her tablets, in which she had just written certain sentences in different languages, suggested by the sight of the dead body of her husband, Lord Guldeford Dudley. The Princess Elizabeth was committed for a time to Sir John Gage's charge. He continued in office till his death in 1556. "Thus, "says^d his son, Robert Gage, "havinge served in all these rooms and offices truly and paynfully, from the first yeare of the reign of our Sovaigne Lord King Henry VIII. of famous memory, unto the 34 yeare of the reign of our Sovaign. Lady Queene Mary, untouched with any reproch or unfaithfull service in this time, being 77 years old, he^e ended his life in favoure with his Prince, in his owne house, at Furle, in Sussex. "

Note c. At the coronation, the Queen's train was born by the Dutchess of Norfolk, assisted by the Lord Chamberlain, Sir John Gage; and, during the anointing, he was one of the four Knights of the Garter who held the pall over her Majesty. - Strype's Ecclesiastical Memorials.

Note d. Memoir just referred to.

Note e. Sir John Gage's will bears date the twentieth of February, 1555. His body he requested should be buried in the parish church of West Firle, near his wife, with such moderate funeral expenses as were used for persons of his calling and degree. He directed that forty shillings should be distributed in alms, by twopenny dole, to such poor people as should come thither, and gave other almes to six neighbouring parishes. It was his will that his executors, for payment thereof, should sell his collar of gold of the order of the Garter; his blue mantle of the order he presented to the college of Windsor. It was further his will, that the profits and revenues of the parsonage of Atcham, in Shropshire, of the yearly value of eleven pounds, five shillings, should be applied ( except four pounds per annum, which he gave to the vicar ), for the maintenance of a chantry in West Firle for evermore; and the testator required his executors to prepare a convenient and decent place in the church for that end, and to find a priest to administer divine service, for evermore, to be offered up, principally for the Queen's Highness, and for her most noble progenitors, heirs, and successors, and then for him the said Sir John Gage, and Philippa his wife, his ancestors, and all Christian souls; which chantry priest, and his successors, being obedient and serviceable to his heirs and successors, should have meat, drink, and lodging, in his mansion house of West Firle. And he charged his sons, and their heirs, upon his blessing, and as they should answer before God to the contrary, that they would provide this chantry. And he willed that the parson of the parish church of Crabhouse, in Norfolk, should have the tithe of a field, called Peterfield, part of the demesne of Crabhouse; the said parson or vicar, and their successors, praying for him, by name, in their parish church, at high mass, every Sunday, for evermore. He bequeathed many legacies to his servants, and appointed Edward Gage, his son and heir, and John Caryl, Esq. executors; giving to the former all his plate, jewells, ready money, and effects, in full trust and confidence that he would maintain and leave the same to John Gage, his son and heir apparent, or, if he died before him, to such the testator's heir male as should enjoy his mansion house at Firle; who might thereby be able, with the said stock and furniture of his house, and revenue of his lands, to maintain and keep hospitality; without which stock and store of household stuff ( a schedule whereof was annexed ), the testator feared they would be greatly hindered in their living, and not able to furnish his house without danger of decay: the which he charged his said son, Edward Gage, always to provide for and foresee, as his trust and hope had always been in him. Proved at Doctors ' Commons, 10th June, 1556.

25 Apr 1556. On the twenty-fifth of April, ^f 1556, his (deceased) remains were deposited in West Firle church, in a chapel, adjoining the chancel, appropriated for the burial place of the family. Attached to the east wall is an altar tomb, with the recumbent figures, beautifully sculptured in alabaster, of Sir John Gage and Philippa his wife; at his feet is a ram, the crest of his family; at her's the crest of Gulde ford, the trunk of a tree, emitting flames of fire. At the west end of the tomb, on a brass plate, are the arms of Gage, quartering St. Clere, and impaling Gulde ford, viz. quarterly, 1st, or, a saltire between four martlets sable, for Guldeford; 2d. argent, a chief sable, over all a bend ingrailed gules, for Halden; 3d. Barry of six or and azure, on a chief, of the first, two pallets between two esquires, of the second, and on an escutcheon of pretence, argent, a pheon sable, for Mortimer; 4th. ermine on a chevron azure, fess between three wolves heads erased azure; 6th. Vairé a canton gules, for Filliol: round the verge of the tomb are the words: Scio quod Redemptor meus vivit, et in novissimo die de terra surrecturus sum, et rursum circumdabor pelle mea, et in carne mea videbo Deum Salvatorem meum, quem visurus sum ego ipse, et oculi mei conspecturi sunt, et non alius: reposita est hæc spes mea in sinu meo. Job cap. xix, versus xx. On a brass plate, at the east end of the tomb, against the wall, in a small canopied recess, are the arms of Gage and St. Clere, quarterly, encircled by the garter, with this inscription:

HIC JACET Jones. GAGE, PRECLARI ORDINIS GARTERII, MILES;

QUONDAM CONSTABULARIUS TURRIS LONDINI; CANCELLARIUS

DUCATUS LANCASTRIÆ; DOMINUS CAMERARIUS HOSPICII REGINÆ MARIÆ; AC UNUS DE PRIVATO CONCILIO EJUSDEM REGINÆ.

ET PHILIPPA UXOR EJUS.

QUI OBIERUNT ANNO 1557,5 QUORUM ANIMABUS

PROPITI ETUR DEUS.

Note f. Strype's Eccles. Mem.

Note g. A mistake for 1556.

by Philippa, daughter of Sir Richard Guldeford, of Hempstead Place, in Kent, Knight of the Garter, he had issue

I. Sir Edward Gage, his heir.

II. James Gage, of Bentley, in Sussex, whose descendants, by Jane, daughter of James Delves, of Frampsted, in that county, and widow of John Bellingham, were^h in possession of Bentley nearly two centuries.

III. Robert Gage, of Haling House, in Surrey, who represented the borough of Lewes in parliament, in the first of Queen Mary: he married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Wilford, leaving two sons, John, his heir, and Robert, implicated in the Babington conspiracy, for which he forfeited his life. John Gage, of Haling, the eldest son, suffered great hardships for the Catholic faith, and was long in confinement for harbouring George Beesley, a missionary priest. By Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Copley, of Gatton, in Surrey, he had, í. Sir Henry Gage, Governor of Oxford, of whom Clarendon, in his History of the Rebellion makes honourable mention, and of whom we have a particular ac count in a tract, entitled "Alter Britanniæ Heros; or the Life of the most ho nourable Knight, Sir Henry Gage, Governor of Qxford, printed by Leonard Litchfield, 1645."

2. Thomas Gage,^k author of Travels in New Spain.

3. George^l Gage, an eminent divine, prothonotory in England for the see of Rome, and much esteemed by King Charles I. and his Queen, Henrietta Maria.

4. Mary, wife of Thomas Coldham, of Midhurst, in Sussex. Their father, John Gage, by his second wife, whom Dodd, in his Church History, calls Mrs. Barnes, had issue Francis Gage, D.D. President of the English College at Doway, whom the same writer particularly notices; and John Gage, also in priest's orders, said to have been the author of a work of piety, entitled "The Christian sodality, or Catholic hive of bees."

IV. William Gage, youngest son of Sir John Gage, died without issue.

V. Alice, wife of Sir Anthony Browne, of Battle Abbey and Cowdray, in Sussex, K.G. Master of the Horse to King Henry VIII. the eldest son of which marriage was Anthony, first Viscount Montagu.

VI. Anne, wife of John Thatcher, of Priesthaws, in Sussex.

VII. Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Jenyns,^m of Halfnaked, in Sussex, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Henry, and Master of the Ordinance at Boulogne.

VIII. Cicely, wife of Sir George Baynham, of Clowerwall, in Gloucestershire.

Note h. See Harleian MS. 5829. 6164.; also Sir William Burrells ' Sussex papers. Nichols, in his His tory of Leicestershire, treating of Beaumanor, introduces a pedigree of this branch of the family, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Copley, of Gatton, in Surrey, he had, 1. Sir Henry Gage,ⁱ Governor of Oxford, of whom Clarendon, in his History of the

Note i. This remarkable personage was born in London about the year 1697. His father sent him, at the age of ten, to the schools in Flanders, and from thence to study philosophy under Piccolomini, in Italy. At two-and-twenty he entered into the Spanish service, joining the army at Antwerp, where he remained in garrison a year, and afterward accepted a troop in the English regiment, raised in Flanders by the Earl of Argyle; on the disbanding of that regiment he took a commission in another corps, formed by Sir Edward Parham. At length, through the assistance of the Duke of Lerma, he raised a regiment for himself; to which the old English regiment was subsequently attached under his command: he assisted at the sieges of Bergen - op - Zoom, Breda, Maestricht, and St. Omer's, serving under the first generals of the age, in various campaigns, with great credit to himself. The civil war breaking out in England, Sir Henry Gage, abandoning his own interests, tendered his services to his liege Lord, and, after furnishing his Majesty with arms, joined him at the period when the court was removed to Oxford. He was, in truth," says Clarendon, "a very extraordinary man; of a large and very graceful person; of an honour able extraction, his grandfather being Knight of the Garter; besides his great experience and abilities as a soldier, which were very eminent, he had very great parts of breeding, being a very good scholar in the polite parts of learning, a great master in the Spanish and Italian tongues, besides the French and the Dutch, which he spoke to great perfection, having scarce been in England twenty years before. He was likewise very conversant in courts, having for many years been much esteemed in that of the Arch duke and Dutchess, Albert and Isabella, at Brussels, which was a very great and regular court at that time, so that he deserved to be looked upon as a wise and accomplished person. Of this gentleman the Lords of the council had a singular esteem, and consulted frequently with him whilst they looked to be besieged, and they thought Oxford to be the more secure for his being in it, which rendered him so un grateful to the governor, Sir Arthur Aston, that he crossed him in every thing he proposed, and hated him perfectly, as they were of natures and manners as different as men can be."

One of the quarters of the town was assigned to his care. He afterward undertook a hazardous en terprise, the relief of Basing House, the seat of the Marquis of Winchester, and in a masterly manner effected his purpose. He subsequently assisted in the relief of Banbury and Donnington castle. On his return to Oxford, the King, removing Sir Arthur Aston from the government of that place, to the most general satisfaction, says Clarendon, of all men, his Majesty conferred that government upon Co lonel Gage, whom he had before knighted.

"Sir Arthur Aston, "continues the noble historian," was so much displeased with his successor, that he besought the King to confer that charge upon any other person; and when he found his Majesty would not change his purpose, he sent to some Lords to come to him, who he thought were most zealous in religion, and desired them to tell the King from him, that, though he was himself a Roman Catholic, he had been very careful to give no scandal to his Majesty's protestant subjects, and could not but inform him, that Gage was the most jesuited papist alive, and that he had a jesuit who lived with him, and that he was present at all the sermons among the Catholics, which he believed would be very much to his Majesty's disfavour: so much his passion and envy overruled his conscience. The King liked the choice he had made, and only advised the new governor, by one of his friends, to have so much discre tion in his carriage, that there might be no notice taken of the exercise of his religion: to which animad version he answered, that he never had dissembled his religion, or ever would; but that he had been so wary in the exercise of it, that he knew there could be no witness of it produced, who had ever seen him at mass in Oxford, though he heard mass every day; and that he had never been but once at a sermon, which was at the lodging of Sir Arthur Aston's daughter, to which he had been invited with great im portunity, and believed it was to entrap him. But the poor gentleman enjoyed the office but very little time; for within a month, or thereabouts, making an attempt to break down Culham Bridge, near Abing don, where he intended to erect a royal fort, that should have kept the garrison from that side of the country, he was shot through the heart with a musket bullet. Prince Rupert was present at the action, having approved and been much pleased with the design, which was never pursued after his death; and, in truth, the King sustained a wonderful loss in his death, he being a man of great wisdom and temper, and one, among the very few soldiers, who made himself universally loved and esteemed. "

He was interred in Christ Church cathedral, receiving a public funeral, at which all the court at tended, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice assisting as mourners. The following epitaph is inscribed on his monument in the north transept of the cathedral:

P. M. S.

HIC SITUS EST, MILITUM CHILIARCHA,

HENRICUS GAGE, EQUES AURATUS, FILIUS AC

HÆRES IOHANNIS GAGE, DE HALING, IN, AGRO

SURIENSI, ARMIGERI; PRONEPOS IOHIS. GAGE

HONORATISSIMI ORDINIS PERISCELIDIS, EQUITIS.

IN BELGIO MERUIT SUPRA ANNOS XX. IN

OMNI PRÆLIO, ET OBSIDIONE, BERGHÆ, AD

ZOMAM, BREDÆ, AC PRÆCIPUE S. AU DOMARI; EX

BELGIO AD M. BRIT. REGEM MISSUS, ATTULIT ARMORUM

VII. M. MISSUS CUM IMPERIO BOSTALIS ÆDES

EXPUGNAVIT, MOX BASINGIANIS PRÆSIDIARIIS

COMMEATU INTERCLUSIS, STRENUE, RE JAM

DESPERATA SUPPETIAS TULIT. CASTRUM BAM

BURIENSE CUM NORTHAMPTONIÆ COMITE

LIBERAVIT, HINC EQUESTRI DIGNITATE OR

NATUS, HOSTES DENUO BASINGA FUGAVIT.

JAMQUE GUBERNATOR OXON: CREATUS, CUM

AD CULHAMI PONTEM IN HOSTES JAM TERTIO

MILITES AUDACITER, DUCERET, PLUMBEA TRAJECTUS

GLANDE, OCCUBUIT DIE XI JAN. 1644,

ÆT. 47, FUNUS SOLEMNI LUCTU PROSECUTI PRINCIPES,

PROCERES, MILITES, ACADEMICI, CIVES, oes. DO

LOREM TESTATI EX DESIDERIO VIRI, INGENIO LIN

GUAR: PERITIA, GLORIA MILITARI, PIETATE, FIDE, ET

AMORE IN PRINCIPEM, ET PATRIAM, EMINENTISSIMI.

HANC MEMORIÆ EPITOMEN POSUIT ILLI PIETAS, MÆR, LUG, Q. FRATRIS

EORGII GAGE.

In 1647, the parliament issued an order for defacing and demolishing this monument.

Sir Henry Gage, by his wife Mary, daughter of John Daniel, of Daresbury, in Cheshire, had issue several children. Henry Walrave Gage, the eldest son, had his father's regiment in Flanders, and afterward attended King James at St. Germains. He acquired the Seignory de la Woestyne in Flan ders by marriage with Jane Vandenkerchove, daughter of John Seigneur de Vaux and Champagne; and, dying at Tournay in 1702, left a son, Henry Gage; who, by his wife Angelique de Brun, was father of Emanuel Gage, created a Count of the Roman empire by Charles the Sixth, whose only child, Mary, by his wife Mary de Spangen, married Baron Hoogvorst, Mayor of Brussels at the period of the battle of Waterloo.

Note k. This man, a priest of the order of St. Dominick, was a character altogether the reverse of his brother, Sir Henry Gage, having neither religion nor loyalty. Renouncing his faith, he became the persecutor of his catholic brethren, giving a remarkable proof of malice on the trials of father Bell, the near relation of Sir Henry Gage's wife, and of father Wright, his brother's chaplain; both of whom, on his testimony, were condemned to death for exercising their sacerdotal functions. See Dodd's Church History, vol. ij. p. 114. and Memoirs of Missionary Priests, vol. ii. p. 263–349. Against the Jesuits he had an impla cable hatred for their having refused him admittance, in early life, into the society. Catholics, however, were not the only objects of his malignity - he pursued Archbishop Laud with great bitterness. And it appears from his own statements, that being at variance with the members of his family, who were all loyal, he on that account attached himself to the commonwealth: but, perhaps, a stronger motive may be found in his acceptance, from the parliament, of the living of Deal, and other church preferment. The first edition of his travels, dedicated to Lord Fairfax, is entitled, "The English American, his Travels by sea and land, or a new survey of the West Indies, & c. by the true and painful endeavours of Thomas Gage, now preacher of the word of God at Acrise, in the county of Kent, Anno Domini, 1648. "His book is said to have attracted the attention of Cro nwell, and to have induced him to plan an expedition to the Havannah. A new edition was printed in London in 1655, and at Paris in 1677. The frontispiece to a French translation, published at Amsterdam in 1720, represents the author in his Do minican habit preaching to the Indians; whatever credit his work may at first have obtained from its novelty and violent opinions, it is not now held in estimation. Among his controversial works are "His Case; Recantation Sermon, fol. 1642; and a Duel between a Jesuit und a Dominican, begun at Paris, fought at Madrid, and ended at London, 4to. 1651. "

Note l. See the Travels of Thomas Gage; Memoirs of Missionary Priests, vol. ii. p. 263—268., and Dodd's Church History, which, however, confounds him in some particulars with another George Gage, of Firle.

Note m. Sir John Jenyns's will dated 18 March, 35 Henry viij. was proved at Doctors ' Commons 14 May, 1547. Lady Jenyns died 14 March, 1557, and on the 16th was buried in the Minories.- Strype's Ecclesiastical Mem.

By Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of John Parker, of Ratton, in Sussex, and Joan, daughter of Sir Richard Sackville, of Buckhurst, in the same county, he had issue nine sons and five daughters:

I. John Gage, of Firle, his heir: he married, first, Elizabeth, who, from the ar morial bearings on his tomb, appears to have been of the family of Littleton, of Frankley; secordly, Margaret,^o daughter of Sir Roger Copley, of Gatton, in Surrey, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Shelley; and dying on the tenth of October, 1595, at the age of fifty - six, without issue, his estates devolved on the issue of his brother Thomas. The tomb of Sir John Gage, in Firle chapel, is made to correspond with his father's; upon it are the effigies, in brass, of himself and his wives, and a label with these words:

HIC JACET JOHES. GAGE ARMIGER ET DUÆ UXORES

EJUS ELIZABETHA

ET MARGARETA QUI OBIERUNT ANNO

DNI. MILESSIMO QUINGENTISSIMO NONAGESSIMO QUARTO

QUORUM ANIMABUS PROPICIETUR DEUS.

On the verge of the tomb is the twentieth verse of the twelfth chapter of Job. Against the wall, within the recess, are three brass plates; on that in the centre are the arms of Gage; on another those of Gage impaling argent, a chevron between three escallops sable, the arms of his first wife; and on the third, Gage impaling, argent a cross moline sable, for Copley, the arms of his second wife.

II. Anthony Gage, born on the twenty - fifth of June, 1540, died unmarried on the twenty - first of January, 1567.

III. Thomas, born on the twenty - seventh of January, 1541, of whom hereafter.

IV. George Gage.

V. Edward, who married Margaret, daughter of John Shelley, of Michelgrove, in Sussex, and left issue a son, John Gage, and a daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Stradling, of St. Donat's, in Glamorganshire, Bart.

VI. Richard.

VII. John.

VIII.^p Robert.

IX. Henry, born the sixteenth of October, 1555.

X. Philippa, wife of Edmund Saunders, of Charlwood, in Surrey, son and heir of Sir Thomas Saun ders, Remembrancer of the Exchequer, by Alice, daughter of Sir Edmund Wal singham.

XI. Agnes, born on the sixteenth of January, 1547, married in 1566 Sir Edward Stradling, 9 of St. Donat's.

XII. Mary, born on the eighteenth of September, 1555, wife of James Thatcher, of Priesthaws, in Sussex.

XIII. Margaret, born on the fifth of June, 1552, married on the nineteenth of November, 1569, Anthony Kemp, of Slindon, in the same county.

XIV. Margery, born in 1559, wife of Henry Darell, of Scotney, in Kent.

Note a. On the seventeenth of December, 1566, he made his will, directing that his body should be buried in the parish church of Firle, and that twopenny dole should be distributed to such poor people as might resort to his burial — that his executors should cause several sums of money to be given to the poor house holders of many adjoining parishes, and that they should provide a decent stone to lay on his good fa ther and mother, with the pictures of them and all their children, with these holy words engraven on brass: "Credo quod redemptor meus vivit, et in novissimo die de terra surrecturus sum, et in carne mea videbo salvatorem meum. "Likewise that they should provide a decent grave stone to lay on him and his wife, all his sons to be kneeling behind him, and all his daughters behind her, with the same holy words to be engraven on brass. He gave to his well - beloved wife, Elizabeth, dwelling in his mansion house at Firle, so long as she remained his widow, and left her the charge of bringing up all her children except his heir apparent; and for the better maintenance of her, and for the bringing up and finding maintenance for his children, he left her various lands, all his jewels, and three chains of gold she had usually worn; bequeathing to each of his daughters Margery, Lucy, and Margaret, five hundred marks on the day of their marriage, and to his daughter Philippa, in consideration of her being the eldest, and for other reasons, five hundred pounds; also ten pounds yearly to each of his daughters for their maintenance till they received their portions; and the like annuity of ten pounds to his sons Anthony, Thomas, George, Edward, Richard, John, the younger, and Robert Gage, the payment whereof he directed to be made out of the rents of his manors and lands in Heighton, Firle, Hosiers, Hollendale, Compton, Excett, Fryston, Lamporte, and Egington, or elsewhere, in the county of Sussex, and the manor of Crabhouse, in Norfolk, and his lands in West Dereham, or elsewhere, in the said county, except those appointed to descend to his heir by course of inheritance, and excepting all such estates before bequeathed to Elizabeth his wife; which said manors, after his debts and legacies were paid, he settled on John Gage, his son and heir, and in default of issue male of his body, on his other sons, and their issue male, remainder to the testator's brothers, James Gage, Robert Gage, and William Gage, and their issue. The residue of all his goods, plate, jewels, household stuffs, and effects, he bequeathed to his eldest son, John Gage, in full trust and confidence that he would maintain, preserve, and leave the same to his son and heir: and if he died without issue, to the next of kin, heir male, that God caused to succeed him, and inhabit his mansion house of Firle as his good father left it him; and he did thereby charge him to leave it to such heir male, whereby he might be able, with the stock and furniture of his house and land, to maintain and keep hospitality, to serve God, his prince, and the commonwealth, without the which stock he would be greatly hindered in his living, and not like to be able to keep his house without great danger and decay, the which he charged his said son, John Gage, always to provide for and foresee, as his hope and trust was in him. He likewise willed and required, and in God's name charged his said sons and brothers, and every of the heirs of their bodies, to be satisfied and contented with that his last will and testament, and not, without great necessity and urgent cause, to violate, in-fringe, or break it.

Note o. Marriage settlement dated 26 May, 1st Elizabeth.– Firle Evid.

Note p. In St. Giles's church, Cripplegate, is the following monumental inscription, probably referring to the Robert Gage mentioned in the text:

MEMORIÆ SACRUM.

HIC JACET ROBERTUS GAGE, ARMIGER; OMNIUM LITERARUM HOMO. VITA INTEGER: MORTE CHRISTIANUS: NECDUM MORTUUS, NAM IN MEMORIA

ÆTERNA ERIT JUSTUS. - SOLUS CHRISTUS MIHI, SOLA SALUS.

ANNO DOMINI, 1625.

We will now notice the monuments. In the north-east angle of the chapel is a well-executed tomb, constructed of marble, and free-stone coloured, to the memory of Margaret, Countess of Bath, and her three husbands, Sir Thomas Kytson, Sir Richard Long, and John Bourchier, Earl of Bath. Figures of the Earl and Countess, on a raised altar, recline under a canopy supported by six pillars. He is clad in armour, girded with his sword; gauntlets on his hands, which are joined in the attitude of prayer; his beard long and bipartite; a ruff round his neck; at his feet a hawk with expanded wings. The Countess is ha bited in her robe of scarlet and ermine, over black, fastened at the neck by a large brooch. On her head she wears a close black coif, encircled by a coronet; at her feet is couched a talbot, collared. On the wall next the effigy of the Earl is this inscription:

Here Iyeth the body of the Right Honorable John Bourchier Fitzwarren, Earl of Bathe, who marryed Eleanor Mannors, Daughter to the Lord Roose, (by whom he had issue John Lord Fitzwarren, who married Frances the daughter of Sir Thomas Kytson knt) afterwards to the Lady that lieth here intombed; by whom he had two daughters, the Lady Susan and Bridget, and departed this life ths xxth of Mar. m.d.lx. aged lxxii.

On the entablature of the tomb, in three compartments, is the following epitaph in memory of the Countess:

Here Iyethe the Righte Honourable Margaret Countese of Bathon, daughter and heire of John Donnington, Esquier, first married Sr Thomas Kytson, Knight, by whom she had issue, one sonne, and four daughters; next, to Syr Richard Longe, knight, by whom she had one sonne and three daughters; and last, to ye Right Honorable John Earle of Bathon, by whom she had two daughters; and departed this life the xii. day of January¹, in ano. Dni. m.d.lxj, et ao. ætat suæ. lij.

Note 1. This was the day of her funeral.