IV.

RICHARD BELL, 1639.

Inscription only, within a border ornamented with cherubs, &c. Size of plate 22 by 12 inches, the border slightly damaged at the right hand corner. Chancel floor.

HERE LYETH INTERRED YE BODY OF RICHARD

BELL ESQ COVNCELLOR AT LAWE LATE OF THIS
PARISH WHOE MARRYED TWO WIVES YE ONE
ANNE YE DAVGHTER OF IOHN ATKINSON GENT' LATE
OF THIS CITTY BY WHOME HEE HAD ONELY ONE
DAVGHTER NAMED MARY WHO DYED VERY YOV

NGE YE OTHER KATHERINE (YETT LIVEING) WHOE
WAS YE LATE WIFE & RELICTE OF IOHN PAYLER ESQ

HEE DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 7TH DAY OF OCTOBER AÑO DOM'

1639.

Richard Bell, counsellor-at-law, married firstly Anne, daughter of John Atkinson, gent., by whom he had an only daughter, Mary, who died young, and secondly, Katherine, widow of John Payler, Esq., who survived him. He died 7 October, 1639.

V.

SUSANAH LOWTHER, 1714.

Inscription only, with shield, crest, and mantling. Size of plate 17 by 9 inches. Chancel floor on same slab as No. iii.

of great Preston in the West Rideing of

Yorkshire aged one year eleven months
and 15 days who departed this life the 6th
of September 1714.

Arms LOWTHER, (Or), six annulets, 3, 2, and 1 (sa).
Crest: A dragon passant arg.

VI.

ANN AND ELIZABETH SIMPSON, 1836.

Inscription only. Size of plate 12 by 10 inches. Nave floor.

WITHIN THIS VAULT

Are deposited the Mortal Remains of

Ann Relict of the late

SAMUEL SIMPSON

Who died Novr 7th 1836.
AGED 70.

Also ELIZABETH their DAUGHTER

Who died Dec 29th 1836
AGED 36.

ST. DENYS.

WILLIAM HOLMES, 1558.

Inscription only. Size of plate 18 by 4 inches. On floor of the south aisle, just within the inner door forming the vestibule to the south door.

HERE. VNDER. LIETH. BVRIED. THE. BODIE. OF. WILLIAM.

HOLMES. LATE. AL

DERMAN. OF. THE. CITIE. OF. YORKE SOMTIME. MAYOR.

OF. THE. SAME. VICE

ADMIRAL. BETWIXE. HVMBER AND. TINE. STWARDE. OF.

SAINT. MARIE. ABBEI

LANDS. COLECTOR. FOR. NEVBROVGH. AND. BORNE. IN.
THIS. CITIE. WHO

DIED. THE. 10 OF. SEPTEMBER 1558 LEAVING. BEHIND.

HYM. LADI. MARGARET

HIS. WIFE. WHO. HAD. ISSVE 6 SONES. AND 7 DOVGHTERS .
VNTO WHOME. GOD

GRANT A IOIFVL. RESVRECTION.

ROBART HOLME.

The inscription is an early example of the use of Roman capitals, and is curious on account of the extensive use of ligatures. It is also noteworthy as giving the ex-lady mayoress her life title of "Ladi," according to the York custom. Whether the signature, "Robart Holme," is that of the engraver, or whether it is to be taken as signifying that the alderman's eldest son, Robert, placed the brass to his father's memory, is uncertain. The little device dividing the Christian and surname seems rather to favour the former theory.

William Holmes, alderman, lord mayor in 1546, vice-admiral between the Humber and the Tyne, steward of St. Mary's Abbey lands, and collector of Newborough, died 10 September, 1558. Will dated same day and year, proved 5 December following. His wife, "Ladi" Margaret, who survived him, bore him six sons (the eldest named Robert) and seven daughters.

ST. HELEN.

BARBARA, 1765, AND ELIZABETH DAVYES, 1767.

Inscription only. Size of plate 24 by 17 inches. On wall of south aisle.

NEAR THIS PLACE LIE THE BODIES OF

TWO MAIDEN SISTERS

BARBARA AND ELIZABETH DAVYES

EACH HAVING COMPLETED HER 98TH YEAR
BARBARA WAS BORN IN 1667 AND DIED IN 1765
ELIZABETH WAS BORN IN 1669 AND DIED IN 1767

THEY LIVED IN THE SEVEN SUCCESSIVE REIGNS OF

CHARLES II.

JAMES II.

WILLIAM AND MARY.

QUEEN ANN.

GEORGE I.

GEORGE II.

AND HIS PRESENT MAJESTY.

TO PERPETUATE THEIR MEMORY

AND THE SINGULAR INSTANCE OF THEIR

LONGEVITY AND DEPARTURE IN

THE SAME YEAR OF THEIR AGE,
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THEIR
AFFECTIONATE NEPHEW

THEOPHILUS DAVYES GARENCIERES.

ST. JOHN.

I.

SIR RICHARD YORK, 1498.

The chamfer inscription on this tomb is a modern restoration. For a full account of Sir Richard York see Test. Ebor., vol. iv, p. 134.