NOTE 1111 II. 



marble tablet shews) in the cathedral of Chichester ; and whose other daughter 

 was the unfortunate wife of the Lord Castlehaven ; who for his ill-treatment of 

 her was with his accomplice hanged.&quot; 



In consequence of this statement, I applied to a friend at Chichester. The 

 following is the answer : &quot; Our cathedral contains the ashes not of Lady Bacon, 

 but of her grandmother, who, as well as her daughter and Lady Bacon bore the 

 name of Alice, and hence I suppose whoever furnished the paper referred to, 

 was led into a very natural mistake. There is in the south aisle of the cathedral 

 a mural tablet, of brass, hideous enough and coarsely engraved. It represents 

 two figures kneeling. The man in the robes of an alderman with six sons also 

 kneeling behind him, the woman in the dress of the times with her eight daughters 

 ranged behind her, perhaps this goodly patriarchal train moved the sympathy of 

 Cromwell s soldiers, who laid violent hands on monuments of this description, 

 but to keep to the point, these figures as the inscription testifies, are those of 

 William Bradbridge, thrice mayor of this city, and Alice his wife attended by 

 their whole family. One of the eight daughters named Alice, married Francis 

 barnham, alderman and sheriff of London. She became a widow, and erected 

 this monument which was finished in July 1592. In December 1598, Alice 

 Barnham bequeathed 120/. to be freely lent to young tradesmen of this city. 

 In this bequest she is mentioned as the mother of Stephen Barnham, then repre 

 sentative for Chichester. It appears to me, that the Alice who married Lord 

 Bacon, must have been the sister of Stephen Barnham, and that the idea of 

 interment here may have arisen from the name of their mother Alice Barnham, 

 the erectress of the tablet being inscribed on it. If this be correct would not the 

 Bradbridge arms be quartered with those of Bacon 1 Dallaway gives them thus : 

 Arms, sable, a pheon argent, Bradbridge. In Dallaway s Western Sussex, 

 page 138, of the History and Antiquities of Chichester, may be found the 

 inscription verbatim, of which I have given the substance. I shewed your letter 

 to one of our clergyman, Holland, the brother-in-law of Murray the bookseller, 

 the cathedral is his Great Diana, and I thought he would know as much about 

 it as any one, also to others, they all agree with me in thinking the case to be 

 probably as above supposed.&quot; 



Lysons Magna Brittannia, Bedfordshire, page 83. Ey worth, on the borders 

 of Cambridgeshire, about three miles from Potton, and five from Biggleswade. 



In the reign of Elizabeth, Eyworth was the property and seat of Sir Edmund 

 Anderson, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; a man of considerable 

 eminence in his profession, and one of the judges who sat at the trial of Mary 

 Queen of Scots. In the church are sereral monuments of the Andersons. On 

 the floor of the chancel is the tomb of Alice, Viscountess Verulam, and Baroness 

 St. Alban s, widow of the great Lord Chancellor Bacon, who died in 1656, 

 probably at the house of Mr. Anderson, to whom she was related. 



My Dear Sir, Probably the annexed may be new to you, and if so, cannot 

 fail of being interesting as connected with an object dear to your feelings, 



Yours very truly, J. BRITTON. 

 To Basil Montagu, Esq. 



Close to the church at Eyworth was an ancient mansion, belonging to Sir 

 Edmund Anderson, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, one of the 

 Judges who sat on the trial of Mary Queen of Scots. The title became extinct 

 in 1773. Was Lady Bacon related to the Andersons ? the house is levelled to 

 the ground, but several terraces, moats, and garden walls, are evidences of its 

 former consequence. 



Lady Bacon. 



In the chancel of Eyworth Church, Bedfordshire, is a slab of grey marble on 

 the floor, much injured, liable to speedy destruction, thus inscribed : 



Here lieth interred the body of Dame Alice, Baroness Verulam, 

 Viscountess St. Albans, one of the daughters of Benedict 

 Barnham, alderman of London. She departed this life the 29th 

 day of June, A. D. 1650. 



