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a fair stone of gray marble with an inscription; which, CHAP, 

 together with those of his two successors, Fletcher and X &quot; 

 Vaughan, are long since defaced and taken away by sacri 

 legious hands, as Dugdale in his History of St. Paul s tells 

 us. But that which was the inscription was as follows ; 



Hicjacet certissimam expectans resurrectionem SUCR carnis 



D. Johannes Aylmer D. Episcopus Londini. Qui obiit 



diem suum an. Dom. 1594. cetat. suce 73. 



Ter senos annos Prcesul ; semel Exul, et idem 

 Bis Pugil in causa religionis erat. 



By an authentic paper in my hands, it appears the vaca 

 tion of this bishopric was reckoned from June 5, 1594, to 

 January following, when the temporalities were restored to 

 Richard Fletcher, Bishop Aylmer s next successor f . 



What worldly estate and wealth he left behind him, it is His estate. 

 not evident ; but it is, that he made several purchases in 

 London, in Lincolnshire, and in Essex ; and lent out mo 

 ney upon mortgages. Among his purchases in Essex, the 

 chief was the manor of Mugden or Mowden Hall, in the 

 parish of Hatfield, the seat of the family of the Aylmers to 

 this day. Whatsoever his estate was, he carefully and pru 

 dently in his life-time divided it among his wife and 

 children by an indenture octopartite ; which he mentioned 

 and confirmed in his last will ; which bore date April 22, His last 

 1594, that is, not six weeks before his death. Therein he Wlll&amp;lt; 

 willed to be buried in some convenient place in the ca 

 thedral of St. Paul s, on the north side, with some decent 

 monument to be erected for him, and his figure set up, in 

 imitation of that of John Colet, sometime Dean of the said 

 church, standing on the south side. He gave by the said 

 will 300Z. to be paid in six years into the chamber of Lon 

 don, for the better maintaining of constant sermons at Paul s 

 Cross : which sum his eldest son Samuel was to pay out of 

 the rents of Mugden Hall ; and 100/. more, deposited with 

 him by the Countess of Shrewsbury for the same purpose : 



{ See Additions, Numb. VI. 



