St Martins - Thomas Newton and Rebecca his affectionate wife
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Newton Esq, and Rebecca his affectionate wife
Who lived many years the principal inhabitants of this Parish
And whose remains
Are deposited in a vault between the rails of the ???
And the wall to which this monument is affixed.
He was a man well and deservedly loved and as a Mark of ??
Successively elected Sheriff and Alderrman and in the year 1722
Mayor of this City.
Which office he discharged with integrity and peculiar Generosity.
Nor is she less to be remembered in her season
Being endowed with all Social Virtues and a pattern of
Conjugal and Parental affection.
She died the Eight day of February and he did not long survive the loss,
Exchanging this life for a better, the Eleventh day of July 1734(?)
Not out of Ostentation, nor to flatter the Deceased,
is this Marble erected, and this Inscription recorded,
but this short commemorative Recitall,
to testifye the Duty and Gratitude of the Living,
to their indulgent Parents.
One of their daughters, Rebecca, went on to marry a Miles Branthwaite from a well to do Norfolk family - Miles was not only a barrister but among his many roles was chief receiver of rents for the Bishop of Norwich. They had two children before she died and was buried at Hethel.
Mr. Arthur Branthwayte, fellow commoner of Caius college in Cambridge, and one daughter, Elizabeth
www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78162
A portrait of her survives and can be seen here
www.jjhc.info/heinsbranthwaytrebecca1740.htm
St Martins - Thomas Newton and Rebecca his affectionate wife
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Newton Esq, and Rebecca his affectionate wife
Who lived many years the principal inhabitants of this Parish
And whose remains
Are deposited in a vault between the rails of the ???
And the wall to which this monument is affixed.
He was a man well and deservedly loved and as a Mark of ??
Successively elected Sheriff and Alderrman and in the year 1722
Mayor of this City.
Which office he discharged with integrity and peculiar Generosity.
Nor is she less to be remembered in her season
Being endowed with all Social Virtues and a pattern of
Conjugal and Parental affection.
She died the Eight day of February and he did not long survive the loss,
Exchanging this life for a better, the Eleventh day of July 1734(?)
Not out of Ostentation, nor to flatter the Deceased,
is this Marble erected, and this Inscription recorded,
but this short commemorative Recitall,
to testifye the Duty and Gratitude of the Living,
to their indulgent Parents.
One of their daughters, Rebecca, went on to marry a Miles Branthwaite from a well to do Norfolk family - Miles was not only a barrister but among his many roles was chief receiver of rents for the Bishop of Norwich. They had two children before she died and was buried at Hethel.
Mr. Arthur Branthwayte, fellow commoner of Caius college in Cambridge, and one daughter, Elizabeth
www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78162
A portrait of her survives and can be seen here
www.jjhc.info/heinsbranthwaytrebecca1740.htm