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| 説明 | Skeleton underneath the tomb of Sir Lawrence Tanfield c.1551-1625 and second wife Elizabeth Evans 1629 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11192645786/Lawrence was the eldest son of Robert Tanfield by Wilgiford Fitzherbert He m1 Elizabeth daughter of Giles Symonds of Cley, NorfolkChildren - 1 daughter1. Elizabeth 1585- 1639 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11192649915/ m Sir Henry Cary 1st Viscount Falkland 1633 having 11 children including her eldest son Lucius 2nd Viscount www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11192650715/ his grandfather's heir Lawrence m2 Elizabeth Evans of Loddington who erected the monumentLawrence was a prominent lawyer and politician who Probably born in Huntingdonshire, Tanfield was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1569. In 1584 he became MP for New Woodstock, He bought an estate here in 1586 building Burford Priory on the site of the dissolved medieval hospital. He was MP for Oxfordshire in 1604 being knighted by King James after entertaining him here in 1603. He became Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1607 until his death.. He bought the Great Tew estate in Oxfordshire in 1611, which he partially enclosed in 1622. From 1617 he was lord of Burford manor. As a lawyer he enjoyed a good reputation and amassed considerable wealth. There were, however, accusations of corruption and overbearingness. Relations with the townspeople were not good and in the 1620s he was involved in a series of acrimonious disputes with the corporation over town administration. His harshness to his tenants caused several petitions to be brought against him in 1620, inspiring his second wife to threaten to ‘play the very devil’ among the villagers of Great Tew and ‘grind them to powder’. He and his wife Elizabeth's reputation for rapaciousness remained embedded in Burford folklore. for 200 years his effigy was burnt every year .In his will, made to dispose of the worldly goods, ‘whereof God has bestowed upon me a plentiful part’ and left his estates to his grandson, Lucius Carey, the 2nd Lord Falkland,son of his only child Elizabeth Cary who was bypassed probably for converting to Catholicism.After his death his widow took over the north chapel without leave and totally filled it with the monument possibly by Gerard Christmas . In one inscription she bemoans the fact that her husband was not buried in a private church. In her Will she left a house in Sheep street, and appointed trustees to use profits from the property for the upkeep of the tomb and for distribution of alms to 6 poor widows every Christmas. The monument is made of Derbyshire alabaster, Purbeck marble with columns of black marble from southern Italy.www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member...Picture - Julian P Guffogg CCL |
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