OF TEE MIDDLE AGES. 73 



It would appear as if a man so uncommon in life must have some- 

 thing also out of the common in his burial. Stow says that " his body- 

 was three times bmicd in his own church : first by his executors under 

 a fiiirc monument; then, in the raigne of Edward TI., the Parson of 

 the churche thinking some great liches, as he said, to be buried with 

 him, caused his monument to be broken, his body to be spoiled of his 

 leaden sheet, and again the second time to be buried ; and in the 

 raigne of Queen Mary the parishioners were forced to take him up and 

 lap him in lead as before, to bury him the third time, and to place his 

 monument or the like over him again."" 



We are not informed of the date of Whittington's marriage, or how 

 many years he and his wife lived together in connubial happiness, but 

 we are informed by his will, and by the ordinances of his Alms 

 Houses, that his wife's name was Alice Fitzwarren, daughter of Sir 

 Hugh Fitzwarren" and Dame ilolde, or Matilda, his wife; thus 



V Sir Anthony Munday mentions this monument as a " goodly plain tomb in 

 the chancel, -with new banners to adorn it, veiy lately hung up." 



IV Sir Hugh Fitz-warren, or Yvon Fitzwarren, was of Torrington, in Devon- 

 shire. — Calend. Inqiiis. post mort., vol. 3, pp. 107 — 141. 



Lady Fitzwarren's mother was Anne, or Agnes, daughter and heir of 



Beresford. She was three times married— first, to John de Argentine ; second, to 

 John de Nerford ; and third, to Lord Maltravers. It is not clear by which marriage 

 she became mother of Lady Fitzwarren ; but by her "Will, dated 18th Feb., 1374-5, 

 she leaves a bequest to Yvon Fitzwarren and Dame Maud his wife, mi/ daughter. — 

 Nicholas's Testametita Vesiusta, vol. 1, p. 917. 



The Fitzwarrens also had considerable possessions in Gloucestershire. Fulk 

 Fitzwarren possessed Alveston, Gloucestershire, 15 Edw. I.; his son, Fulk, possessed 

 it, 16 Edw. II., and his widow possessed it in dower, and it continued in the family 

 till 1 Eichard II. "William Fitzwarren possessed the Manor and Advowson of 

 Eodmarton, Gloucestershire, 19 Henry VI. The Fitz wan-ens came over with 

 "William the Conqueror, and were most nobly allied ; they possessed propertj' in 

 many counties in England. Sir Eobert Atkyns says—" King "William the Con- 

 queror gave the Manor of Aleston, i. e. Olveston, to Gwarine de Meez, descended 

 from the house of Loraine. He manicd Millet, one of the daughters of Pain 

 Pcverell, Lord of "Whitington, in Shropshire ; which Lord had declared that who- 

 soever behaved himself with the greatest courage at tilts, at the Castle of Peakc, 

 in Derbyshire, should wed his daughter ; whereupon this Gwai-me meets at the 

 place, and having there vanquished a son of the King of Scotland, and a Baron of 

 Burgoyne, gained her for his wife. Fulk, the son of Gwarine, succeeded him in 



