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Church of St Mary

A Grade I Listed Building in Fawsley, West Northamptonshire

St Mary: memorial slab to Richard Knightley, d.1650

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HERE LYETH INTERRED RICHARD KNIGHTLEY OF FAUSLEY IN YE COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTON ESQ (SON OF THOMAS KNIGHTLEY OF FAUSLEY ESQ.) AGED 70 YEARS, & WAS INTERRED YE 19th OF SEPTEMB. 1650.

AS ALSO JANE HIS WIFE WHO WAS YE DAUGHTER OF SR EDWARD LITLETON OF PILLINGTON-HALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD BARROT. AGED 70 YEARES & WAS INTERRED YE 3rd OF SEPTEMBER 1657. BY WHOM YE SAID RICHARD HAD 9 SONS. VIZ. RICHARD EDWARD WALTER WILLIAM DEVEREUX VALENTIN LUCY JOHN SAMUEL. AND FOUR DAUGHTERS JANE ELIZABETH BRIDGET MARY. THE SURVIVING LUCY MARRYED ELIZABETH YE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF GYLES DENTT OF NEWPORT-POND IN YE COUNTY OF ESSEX ESQ. BY WHOM HE HAD 7 SONS (VIZ.) LUCY GYLES THE ELDER RICHARD JOHN DEVEREUX VALENTIN GYLES YE YCUNGER AND 7 DAUGHTERS ELIZABETH MARY JANE REBEKAH SUSANNA LUCY DENTT. GYLES YE ELDER JOHN AND DEVEREUX DYED MINORS ALL YE REST LIVING YE 23rd OF APRILL 1684 ON WHICH DAY YE SAID LUCY WAS 61 YEARES OF AGE AND DID AT HIS OWNE COST & CHARGES CAUSE THIS STONE TO BE LAYD As A MEMORIALL. HE DYED YE 22d OF OCTOBR 1691 & LYES BURIED NEAR THIS PLACE AND SO DOTH ELIZARETH HIS SAID WIFE WHO DIED YE 21st OF JANUARY 1710 AGED 78 YEARS 2 MONTHS & 2 DAYS.

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