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HERE LYETH BVRIED THE BODIE OF THOMAS ATKINSON
TANNER WHO WAS SOMETIME SHERIF OF THIS
CITTIE OF YORKE WHO DEPTED THIS LIFE THE II DAY
OF APRILL AN DNI 1642 AND WAS THEN AGED 72

WHO SAID OFTEN VPON HIS DEATH BED ALTHOVG I SHALL DYE YE
I TRVST MY LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD FOR WHEN CHRIST WHOI
MY LIFE SHALL APPEARE THEN SHALL I ALSO APPEARE WHIM IN GLOR
vixi Dum volui, volui Dum christe volcbas Mortuus et vivus sum moriorg tuu:

THOMAS ATKINSON, 1642.

YORK, ALL SAINTS, NORTH STREET.

(About one-quarter full size.)

II.

WILLIAM STOKTON, ROBERT COLYNSON, AND THEIR WIFE,

ISABEL, 1503.

Inscription only. Size of plate 22 by 4 inches, of slab 90 by 41 inches. On floor of the south aisle.

Orate Sp'ialiter pro ai'abus Will'mi Stokton' et Rob'ti
Colynson' quondam Maior' Ciuitatis Ebor' et Esabelle
uxoris Eoru'dem Quor' ai'ar' propicictur deus Amen.

A good example of the York school of engravers.1 William Stokton, mercer, free in 1420, constable of the Mercers' Company in 1432, sheriff in 1438, lord mayor in 1446, died intestate before 20 November, 1471, on which date administration was granted of his effects. He was twice married, firstly to Alice, widow of Roger Selby, of York, spicer, and secondly, to Isabel, widow of Robert Colynson, alderman and mercer, lord mayor in 1457. Colynson died in 1458; will, with various codicils, dated 9 April, 1436, 26 October, 1450, and 23 January, 1453, proved 3 October, 1458. Isabel Stokton, widow, died in 1503; in her will, dated 20 May and proved 27 July in that year, she desires to be buried in the church of All Saints, near the bodies of her husbands.

The large slab into which the Stokton inscription has been intruded originally marked the burial place of John de Wardalle and one of his two wives, probably his second wife, Ellen. It still bears the following inscription, cut in the stone in raised black letter, but unfortunately the name of the wife is illegible:

hic iacet Joh'es de Wardalle . . . . . uxor ei’.

John Wardale, citizen and tanner of York, by will dated the Sunday before the feast of St. Andrew, and proved 30 December, 1395, desires to be buried in his parish church of All Saints, North Street, and mentions his wife, Ellen. She, by will dated 4 June, 1400, and proved 9 June in the same year, also desires to be buried in the church of All Saints, "in choro Sancti Nich'i," and mentions Agnes, the former wife of her husband.

III.

THOMAS ASKWITH, 1609.

Inscription and shield of arms. Size of plate 23 by 102 inches, of shield 8 by 7 inches. On wall at east end of south aisle.

HERE. LYETH THE. BODIES. OF. THOMAS. ASKWITH. &

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SOME. TYMES ONE. OF. THE. SHIRIFES. OF. THE. SAME. CITIE

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OTHER LAWDABLE. PARTES. A. CREDITE, AND

ORNAMENT. TO. THIS. CITTIE

Arms: (Sa.), on a fess (or) between three asses passant (arg.), a crescent (gu.).—ASKWITH.

The work of a York engraver, and from the same workshop as the Askwith brass at St. Crux.

Thomas Askwith, draper, born at Potgrange, sheriff in 1592, died 29 August, 1609, aged 71; will dated 22 August, and proved 6 September in the same year; married firstly Ursulay, daughter of Robert Sandwith, of York, bower, by whom he had one son, Christopher, and one daughter, Alice. By his second wife, Anne, daughter of Robert Elleker, gent., of Thoulthorpe, he had one son, Thomas.

IV.

THOMAS ATKINSON, 1642.

A quadrangular plate, bearing a large half effigy, apparently a portrait, and an inscription to Thomas Atkinson, tanner, who served the office of sheriff in 1627, and died 11 April, 1642, aged 72. He is represented with curly hair, full beard and moustaches, and wears a large ruff, doublet, and gown faced and lined with fur.

the inscription:

HERE LYETH BVRIED THE BODIE OF THOMAS ATKINSON
TANNER WHO WAS SOMETIME SHERIF OF THIS

CITTIE OF YORKE WHO DEP'TED THIS LIFE THE 11TH DAY

OF APRILL AÑ DNI 1642 AND WAS THEN AGED 72.

Below is

WHO SAID OFTEN VPON HIS DEATH BED ALTHOVG I SHALL DYE YET

I TRVST MY LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD FOR WHEN CHRIST

WHO IS

MY LIFE SHALL APPEARE THEN SHALL I ALSO APPEARE WTH HIM

IN GLORY.

Vixi dum volui, volui dum Christe volebas.

Mortuus et vivus sum

moriorqz tuus.

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