126 ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 



esquire, and was the most happy mother of seventeen children. 

 She lived about 90 years and rests in the Lord. She died on 

 the first day of December in the first year of the reign of the 

 most serene, James, King of England and his 36th year as 

 King of Scotland ; in the year of our salvation, 1603." 



" Hie jacet Maximilianus Mohun armiger, filius Roberti 

 Mohum alias Mouri de Bothehampton in comitat 

 Dorcestrensi armigeri, qui quidem Maximilianus una cum 

 uxore castissima Anna filia et cohaere de Johannis Churchill 

 de Corton generosi tredecem liberorum faelicissimus fuit 

 parcns. Vixit annos circiter 48* ac vita bene beateque 

 peracta, in Domino requiescit. Obiit xiiii die Octobris 

 anno regni serenissimi Jacobi Angloruin regis x ac Scotiae 

 XLV anno Salutis 1612." 



'' Here lies Maximilian Mohun esquire, son of Robert 

 Mohun, otherwise Moun of Bothenhampton in the county 

 of Dorset, which Maximilian, together with his virtuous wife 

 Anne, the daughter and coheiress of John Churchill gentleman 

 of Corton, was the happy parent of thirteen children. He 

 lived about 48 years, and after a well spent and happy life 

 he rests in the Lord. He died the 14th day of October in the 

 tenth year of the reign of the most serene James, King of 

 England and his forty fifth year as King of Scotland ; in 

 the year of our Salvation, 1612." 



" Vir dignissimus, Franciscus Mohun Armiger, filius 

 Maximiliani qui fuit filius Maximiliani Mohun, obiit 25 to 

 Feb. ii., 1711-12 mo., anno aetatis suae 84 to< 



Prisca fides, cultusque Dei, patriaeque mentis, 

 Fidus amor primaerum excoluere virum." 



"The most honourable Francis Mohun Esquire, son of 

 Maximilian who was the son of Maximilian Mohun died 25th 

 February, 1711-12 in the 84th year of his age. 



The good faith of a day gone by, the worship of his God and 

 loyalty to his country in jeopardy, made up a character of 

 pristine excellence." 



Description. These brasses are of familiar quadrangular 

 type, met with in the early part of the 17th Century, and 



