108 HISTORY CP KIRKBY-MOORSIDEJ 



her six sons and five daughters, all kneeling. Above 

 the plate are these lines on slips of black Marble, 

 which as well as the plates are let into a slab of 

 Derbyshire Marble. The inscription is as follows, 



READER, 



Prepare for Death, for if the fatall Sheares 

 Covld have bene stay'd, by prayers, sighes, or teares, 

 They had bene stay'd, and this tombe thov see'sthere, 

 Had not erected beene, yet many a yeare. 



Below the plate is the following inscription : 



HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MY 



LADY BROOKE, 



WHO WHILE SHE LYVED WAS A GOOD 

 WOMAN, A VERY GOOD MOTHER, AND 



AN EXCEDING GOOD WIFE. 



. 



Of these, one only left issue, Elizabeth, married to Sir 

 Edward Greville, of Milcote, in Warwickshire. This 

 brought Beauchamp's-court, and agreat estate to Greville, 

 who was knighted,and died in 1559 ; leaving two sons, 

 of whom Robert, the younger, was ancestor to the pres- 

 ent Earl of Warwick and Brooke. The Willoughby 

 family was related to the Nevilles ; for in the time of 

 Henry VII., there was a contest between Richard Lord 

 Latimer, and Sir Robert Willoughby, Lord Brooke, for 

 the barony of Latimer. The said Lord Brooke challenge- 

 ed the barony as cousin, and heir of Elizabeth, his great 

 grand-mother ; who was sister and heir of John Neville. 

 The Neville family possessed the manor of Kirkby- 

 IVIoorside, Danby, and other places in Yorkshire, and it 

 is probable that the above Lady Brooke lived here, or in, 

 the neighbourhood. 



dome's Analogia Honorum. 



