fayth and repentance are the best - Coggeshall Essex
Brass effigy of Thomas Paycocke 1580, scroll issuing from his mouth inscribed " Only fayth justifyeth,"
Round the edge of the stone was the following legend
" Here lyeth buried Thomas Peaycocke, the sonne of Robert Peaycocke, who departed this lyfe the xxvith day of December 1580, and left behinde hym two daughters, Johan and Anne. Wvch Thomas Peaycocke dydd gyve CC pounds to buy land for the continuall relief of the poore of Cogsall for ever."
At the feet of the effigy are the following lines :
" Thou mortall man yt wouldest attayne
The happie haven of heavenly rest,
Prepare thyself : of graces all
Fayth and repentance are the best."
(Apparently his charity is still in existence today)
At each corner of this stone was an escutcheon, long since torn off, and above the figure was a merchant's mark, which shows him to be a clothier.
Thomas was the son of Robert Paycocke 1520 of Braziers +++, brother of John Paycocke 1533 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/djtm7A whose son John d1584 was recorded in the parish registers as the last male Paycocke
Children - 2 surviving daughters
1. Johan (Judith) m1 Thomas Tyll , clothier. m2 Richard Constantyne (they lived in a house on the corner of Market Hill,
2. Anne m Richard Benyon who built the present Abbey farmhouse c1581
In his will he left "to Joane Tyll my daughter £20 and later . To Judith the daughter of Richard Constantyne and of late Judith my daughter deceased £40 at 20 or marriage, the great brass pot which I bought of mother Adams, if she die before, to Richard Constentyne her father.
To Anne Benyon my daughter a featherbed which she hath the use of already. and to her children, viz Elizabeth, Tabitha and Anne Benyan each £40 at 21 or marriage; if any die before, to the rest of the children of Richard and Anne by equal parts.
He also refers to the family business, leaving 20 shillings 'to William Gyon my weaver'; also 'Item, I doe give seaven poundes tenne shillinges of Lawful money of Englande to and amongest thirtie of the poorest Journeymen of the Fullers occupacion in Coggeshall aforesaide, that is to every one of them fyve shillinges.' William Gyon or Guyon was related to a very rich clothier, Thomas Guyon 1592 - 1664, who is said to have amassed £100,000 by the trade.
This was one of several brass memorials in the north chancel aisle where stood the altar to St Catherine, the chantry founded by Thomas Paycock
Inscriptions recorded read:
His great grandfather " Hie jacet Thomas Paycocke quondam Carnifex (onetime butcher ) de Coggeshal, qui obiit 21 Mayi, 1461, et Christiana uxor ejus quorum animabus."
His uncle "Here lyeth Thomas Paycock, Cloth-worker, Margaret and Ann hys wyfs : which Thomas died the 4 of September, 1518."
His parents +++ " Pray for the soul of Robert Paycock, of Coggeshall, Clothmaker, for Elizabeth, and Joan his wyfs, who died 21 Oct., 152O, on whos soul . . . "
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- Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Great Coggeshall Essex
fayth and repentance are the best - Coggeshall Essex
Brass effigy of Thomas Paycocke 1580, scroll issuing from his mouth inscribed " Only fayth justifyeth,"
Round the edge of the stone was the following legend
" Here lyeth buried Thomas Peaycocke, the sonne of Robert Peaycocke, who departed this lyfe the xxvith day of December 1580, and left behinde hym two daughters, Johan and Anne. Wvch Thomas Peaycocke dydd gyve CC pounds to buy land for the continuall relief of the poore of Cogsall for ever."
At the feet of the effigy are the following lines :
" Thou mortall man yt wouldest attayne
The happie haven of heavenly rest,
Prepare thyself : of graces all
Fayth and repentance are the best."
(Apparently his charity is still in existence today)
At each corner of this stone was an escutcheon, long since torn off, and above the figure was a merchant's mark, which shows him to be a clothier.
Thomas was the son of Robert Paycocke 1520 of Braziers +++, brother of John Paycocke 1533 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/djtm7A whose son John d1584 was recorded in the parish registers as the last male Paycocke
Children - 2 surviving daughters
1. Johan (Judith) m1 Thomas Tyll , clothier. m2 Richard Constantyne (they lived in a house on the corner of Market Hill,
2. Anne m Richard Benyon who built the present Abbey farmhouse c1581
In his will he left "to Joane Tyll my daughter £20 and later . To Judith the daughter of Richard Constantyne and of late Judith my daughter deceased £40 at 20 or marriage, the great brass pot which I bought of mother Adams, if she die before, to Richard Constentyne her father.
To Anne Benyon my daughter a featherbed which she hath the use of already. and to her children, viz Elizabeth, Tabitha and Anne Benyan each £40 at 21 or marriage; if any die before, to the rest of the children of Richard and Anne by equal parts.
He also refers to the family business, leaving 20 shillings 'to William Gyon my weaver'; also 'Item, I doe give seaven poundes tenne shillinges of Lawful money of Englande to and amongest thirtie of the poorest Journeymen of the Fullers occupacion in Coggeshall aforesaide, that is to every one of them fyve shillinges.' William Gyon or Guyon was related to a very rich clothier, Thomas Guyon 1592 - 1664, who is said to have amassed £100,000 by the trade.
This was one of several brass memorials in the north chancel aisle where stood the altar to St Catherine, the chantry founded by Thomas Paycock
Inscriptions recorded read:
His great grandfather " Hie jacet Thomas Paycocke quondam Carnifex (onetime butcher ) de Coggeshal, qui obiit 21 Mayi, 1461, et Christiana uxor ejus quorum animabus."
His uncle "Here lyeth Thomas Paycock, Cloth-worker, Margaret and Ann hys wyfs : which Thomas died the 4 of September, 1518."
His parents +++ " Pray for the soul of Robert Paycock, of Coggeshall, Clothmaker, for Elizabeth, and Joan his wyfs, who died 21 Oct., 152O, on whos soul . . . "
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- Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Great Coggeshall Essex