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Arundel Society, with a description by my late lamented friend, the 
Rev. J. G. Joyce, late vicar of Strathfieldsaye, who will be remembered by 
some of the members of our Club, as having some years since guided us 
over the interesting excavations made by the late Duke of Wellington 
at Silchester, under his supervision and direction. 
T have stated that the windows were probably placed in the Church 
by Edmund Tame, the son of John. He received the honour of knight- 
hood from Henry VIII, and died in 1534. In his last Will he directs 
his body to be buried in “ our Lady Chapel of the Church of Fairford,” 
and bequeaths to the Vicar the sum of £3 6s. 8d. “ Also I Will that my 
Feoffees of my lands in Castleton to stand and be leased to this only use, 
ie. to find a priest for ever to sing for the souls of my father and 
mother, and for the souls of me and my wife and other my friends, 
according to the Feoffeement thereof made.” 
Sir Edmund filled the office of High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. His 
first wife was a daughter of Sir Edward Greville, and his second a lady 
named Elizabeth Tyringham. He was confirmed in the Commission 
of the Peace for Gloucestershire by Henry VIII., 1510, and was 
returned a second time on the Sheriff’s Roll of his native county in 1513. 
He seems to have withdrawn from business, and to have become 
attached to the household of Henry VIII., as his name appears on the 
list of the King’s officers as “Knight,” and that of his son as an 
“Esquire.” In 1520 the king paid a visit to Fairford and became the 
guest of Sir Edmund for a week. Upon this occasion he received a 
grant of the coat of arms, which appear upon the tomb of his father. 
The king seems to have been so well pleased with his entertainment by 
Sir Edmund, at Fairford, that he created his son Edmund also a knight, 
and so testified his Royal approval ; and it is supposed that Sir Edmund 
Tame acquired the Lordship of the Manor of Fairford either by Royal 
grant or purchase about 1523. 
The last years of the life of the elder Sir Edmund appear to have 
been spent at Fairford, where he died 1st October, 1534, and was 
buried in the Lady chapel beside Agnes, his first wife. A blue marble 
slab in the floor of the chantry, founded by his father, marks his resting- 
place, with an inscription to their memory. 
I have touched upon the family history only in reference to the 
Church and windows ; those that would go more fully into it will find 
