others, held of Francis Foljambe, knight and baronet, as of his manor of Sladhooton, in socage, by fealty only, worth 10s. a year. William Vescy died Dec. 23 last. John Vescy, gent., son and heir, aged 21 years 9 months and upwards on the day his father died. L. TREETON CHURCH. The Church dedicated to St. Helen, and built in the 13th century, consists of a nave, with side aisles and chancel, a south porch and aisle. The latter, which terminates at the east end with an altar, is called the Brampton Quire, and is the burial-place of the two families of Vescy and Lord. The left side is devoted to the Vescys, and apparently consists of two large vaults, constructed end to end, the further one of which extends under the altar to the outside wall, though some of the family lie in the chancel and other parts of the church. The following inscriptions refer to this article: 1. Heare lyeth the Bodye of William Vescy. day of August Ano: Dni: 1605. 2. Here lyeth the bodie of Elizabeth late wife of William [Vescy, of Brampton, one of] the daughters of Richard Stevenson], of Ounston, 3. Here lyeth the body of Margerie late wife of William Vesscy, of Brampton, gent, sole daughter of Robert Buntinge, late of Rotherham Marchant who has yssue by the said William Fower Sons John Robert William and Matthew was buried the 26 daye of November An: Do: 1618. .... lieth the bodi of Mr John Vescy of Brampton the son 5. Heare lieth the Boady of Ales Vesscy widow, the wife of John Vesscy of Brampton Gentleman who departed this life the 18th Day of October 1658. 6. Robert Vescy of Brampton Gentleman who died the first of July Anno Dom: 1642. 7. Hic Jacet Edwardus Bradshawe Armiger in occiduo sinere expectans eum cui nomen est oriens Qui xxii Die Decemb MDCLXV Occubuit. (Arms: Bradshawe with a crescent for a difference.) 1 Hunter puts his death ten years earlier in his Familie Minorum Gentium, that is Nov. 11, 1629. This is probably a misprint, but the surface of the stone is very much worn. 8. Here lieth the body of Mrs Anne Adams wife of Mr Michael Adams Rector of Treeton who died 6 days after the delivery and death of a male child Jany 27 1665. (A cross' impaling Bradshawe.) 9. On a brass inserted in the centre of the stone covering a vault in which are buried William Routh and his family, is the following:-"Here lieth the body of Elizabeth Bradshawe Relict of George Bradshawe late of Eyam in the County of Derby Esquire who died on the Ninth day of November A D 1677. Ætatisque suæ 64." 10. Here lieth the body of John son of Francis Bradshawe, of Brampton Esq Departed this life the 10th of June 1656 In the first yeare of his age. Here lieth the body of Mary 2nd daughter of John Bolle of Brampton Esq Departed this life 22nd Feby 1673. 11. Here lyeth ye body of Mr Edward Bolle who died ye 15th of November 1696. 12. Here lieth the body of Francis Bradshawe of Brampton in the co. of York Esquire who departed this life the twenty ninth day of December Anno Domini 1677. 13. Here lieth interred the body of Elizabeth daughter of John Vescy of Brampton Gentleman sometime wife of Francis Bradshawe of Brampton Esq', and also late wife of John Bolle Esq who departed this life the fourteenth day of March Anno Domini 1676. 14. Here lieth the body of Margaret Daughter of John Bradshawe of Brampton Esq' who departed this life the 27th August, 1682. Francis Bradshawe of Brampton 21 Dec 1659. [Not discoverable. History of Hallamshire, page 496.] 15. 16. Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. i, page 43. The following was on a marble tablet in the Old Parish Church of St. George's, Doncaster, destroyed by fire 28 Feb., 1853 M.S. Georgii Bradshawe, armigeri, hujusce municipii proprætoris ; qui pro-avorum de Bradshaw-hall in agro Derbiensi, 1 The same as the Vescy coat. It is also to be found on her father-in-law's tomb. longo ordine tam in regis quâm in patriæ emolumentum honeste degentium, agmen claudit. in sermonibus miscendis comis et facetus : in litibus dirimendis sagax et integer: in legibus exequendis fidus et intrepidus. Uxorem duxit Elenam, Roberti Roper de East-Derby in comitatu Lancastriensi, generosi, filiam unicam, ex quâ suscepit filium. in ipso vitæ limine abreptum. Marmor hoc extris curavit Elena in officii conjugalis monumentum. |