THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE 
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Four kings in CAMPS he truly seru’d 
And from his Loyalty ne’er sweru’d. 
FATHER ruin’d, the SON slighted. 
And from the CROWN ne’er requited, 
Lofs of ESTATE, RELATIONS, BLOOD, 
Was too well known but did no good. 
With long CAMPAIGNS and paines o’ th’ GOVT 
He cou’d no longer hold it out. 
Always a reftlefs life he led. 
Never at quiet till quite dead. 
He marry’d in his latter dayes 
ONE who exceeds the common praise ; 
But wanting breath still to make known 
Her true AFFECTION and his OWN, 
Death kindly came, all wants supply’d. 
By giving REST which life deny’d. 
An illustration of this brass is given in Poole’s Antiq. of 
Coventry, p. 140. 
In addition to these there are several other inscriptions 
on brass plates, the most noteworthy being :— 
“ Here lyeth Mr. Thomas Bond, Draper, sometime mayor 
of this cittie, and founder of the liospitall of Bablake, who 
gave divers lands and tenements for the maintenance of ten 
poore men so long as the world shall endure, and a woman to 
looke to them, with many other good gifts; and died the 
xviii. day of March in the year of our Lord God MDVI.” 
Lisle Cave, Esq., 1622. Mrs. Mary Vavasour, 1631. John 
Wightwick, of Pembroke Coil., Oxford, 1637; fourteen Latin 
elegiacs, with punning allusion to the Holy Trinity; Abraham 
Astley, M.D., 1662 ; a Greek motto and twelve Latin elegiacs. 
The Honble. Caroline Hood, 1858. 
Poole quotes the following from Sir John Harrington 
(temp. James I) :—“ The pavement of Coventry Church is 
almost all tombstones, and some very ancient; but there 
came in a zealous fellow with a counterfeit commission, that 
for avoiding superstition, hath not left one pennyworth nor 
penny-breadth of brass upon all the tombs of all the inscrip¬ 
tions, which had been many and costly.” (Poole, p. 141.) 
Holy Trinity Church. John Whithead , mayor , 
and tvs ., circ. 1600. Haines. 
This brass is wrongly assigned by Haines to S. Michael’s. 
It is 2ft. 4fin. by 18in., and is inlaid in a mural tablet with 
moulded border. The mayor wears a ruff and his official fur- 
edged gown. Ilis hair is brushed back from the forehead, 
