SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF LOWE, 175 
According to Lysons, this Vincent Lowe purchased the manor 
of Park Hall, in Denby, from Sir Peter Frecheville, about the 
beginning of the reign of Henry VIII., and settled it upon his 
younger son, Jasper Lowe, Esq., who succeeded to the Denby 
estate upon the decease of his elder brother, Vincent, in 1653 ; 
and since that time the manors of Denby and Park Hall have 
continued to be united. Jasper Lowe died in 1583, having 
had issue four sons and two daughters. His eldest son, 
Patrick, who was twenty-one years of age at the time of his 
father’s decease, married Jane, daughter of Sir John Harpur, 
of Swarkestone, and had four children. On the north side of the 
chancel at Denby, there is a fine mural monument, which 
“from the armorial bearings may be identified as that of Patrick 
Lowe; but there is no inscription, andvas there are no registers 
belonging to the church extant earlier than the year 1725, 
the date of his decease cannot be ascertained.* The monu- 
ment in question consists of the full-sized effigies of a man 
and woman kneeling beneath canopies, and each holding a 
_book in their clasped hands. The former is represented bare- 
headed and in plate-armour; and the latter in a French cap 
and ruff, with a triple chain round her neck. Their four 
children are likewise representcd in effigy, two of them having 
their heads covered with a veil or shroud, to typify their decease 
in the lifetime of their parents. Patrick Lowe probably left his 
estates somewhat involved, for in 1627, a Special Act of 
Parliament (3 Car. I., cap. 13 pr.), was passed to enable his 
son and successor, Vincent Lowe, of Denbigh, (s¢c.) in the 
county of Derby, Esq., to sell part of his estate for payment 
of his debts. Vincent Lowe, the only surviving son of Patrick 
Lowe, was eighteen years of age at the time of St. George’s 
Visitation in 1612, and was living in 1634. He married Anne, 
natural daughter of Henry Cavendish, Esq., of Tutbury, in 
Staffordshire, by whom he had a son and heir, John Lowe 
_* He was living in the second year of the reign of King James I., for the 
tenor bell of Denby Church is inscribed “ParricKE Lowe, EsQvIRE, ANNO 
Do. 1604.” 
