Rising - Alton Priors Wiltshire
Chest tomb of William Button 1590 with his brass above showing him rising out of his tomb and gazing at the opening gates of Heaven www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/o02Y54 which was erected later c 1621 by his grandson Sir William Button
William 1590 was the only son & heir of William Button 1547 and Agnes 1528 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/pPTeU2 daughter of John Cater of Letcombe Regis (His father William was MP for Chippenham, and aide to Thomas Cromwell at the court of Henry VIII)
HIS WILL: ibequeath.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/benjamin-keen-1710-of-...
The Button family owned the manor 13c - 17c, they supported the crown during the Civil War, and Parliament seized some of their estates and imposed heavy fines on the family. Just before the Restoration they moved from Alton Priors in 1652 to Shaw-in-Alton.- Church of All Saints, Alton Priors, Wiltshire
Rising - Alton Priors Wiltshire
Chest tomb of William Button 1590 with his brass above showing him rising out of his tomb and gazing at the opening gates of Heaven www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/o02Y54 which was erected later c 1621 by his grandson Sir William Button
William 1590 was the only son & heir of William Button 1547 and Agnes 1528 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/pPTeU2 daughter of John Cater of Letcombe Regis (His father William was MP for Chippenham, and aide to Thomas Cromwell at the court of Henry VIII)
HIS WILL: ibequeath.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/benjamin-keen-1710-of-...
The Button family owned the manor 13c - 17c, they supported the crown during the Civil War, and Parliament seized some of their estates and imposed heavy fines on the family. Just before the Restoration they moved from Alton Priors in 1652 to Shaw-in-Alton.- Church of All Saints, Alton Priors, Wiltshire