dangerous needlework - Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
Monument by Francesco Fanelli
"The most exquisite model of natures best workmanship, ye richest magazine of all divine and moral vertues, Penelope Noel having added to the nobilitie of her birth, a brighter shyne of true noblesnesse, ye exemplary sweetness of her conversation, he contempt of earthly vanities and her zealous affection towards heaven, after 22 yeares devotions, commended her virgin sowle into ye hands of its true brydegroome Jesus Christ, May 17th AD 1633 over whose pretious dust here reserved, her sad parents Edward Lord Noel, Viscount Campden and the Lady Julian his wife, dropt theyr teares and erected this marble to the deare memorie of theyre unvaluable losse - Superata tellus Sidera donat."
Penelope was the 3rd & youngest daughter of Edward Noel, Viscount Campden 1642 & Juliana Hicks www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3wJ0p6
She was the grand daughter of Baptist Lord Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden 1629 & wife Elizabeth May www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7N10R7
Lady Penelope is traditionally said to have died from blood poisoning after pricking her finger while sewing with silk thread. (her father made his fortune as a silk importer) and that material held in her left hand indicates this ) Her early death was evidently generally lamented, for a friend of Milton, one A. Gill wrote a very eulogistic elegy to her memory 53 lines long, entitled "An elegy dedicated to the eternal memory of the most beautiful and virtuous Lady Mistress Penelope Noel, daughter to the Lord Viscount Campden, 1633."
- Church of St James, Chipping Campden Gloucestershire
dangerous needlework - Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
Monument by Francesco Fanelli
"The most exquisite model of natures best workmanship, ye richest magazine of all divine and moral vertues, Penelope Noel having added to the nobilitie of her birth, a brighter shyne of true noblesnesse, ye exemplary sweetness of her conversation, he contempt of earthly vanities and her zealous affection towards heaven, after 22 yeares devotions, commended her virgin sowle into ye hands of its true brydegroome Jesus Christ, May 17th AD 1633 over whose pretious dust here reserved, her sad parents Edward Lord Noel, Viscount Campden and the Lady Julian his wife, dropt theyr teares and erected this marble to the deare memorie of theyre unvaluable losse - Superata tellus Sidera donat."
Penelope was the 3rd & youngest daughter of Edward Noel, Viscount Campden 1642 & Juliana Hicks www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3wJ0p6
She was the grand daughter of Baptist Lord Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden 1629 & wife Elizabeth May www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7N10R7
Lady Penelope is traditionally said to have died from blood poisoning after pricking her finger while sewing with silk thread. (her father made his fortune as a silk importer) and that material held in her left hand indicates this ) Her early death was evidently generally lamented, for a friend of Milton, one A. Gill wrote a very eulogistic elegy to her memory 53 lines long, entitled "An elegy dedicated to the eternal memory of the most beautiful and virtuous Lady Mistress Penelope Noel, daughter to the Lord Viscount Campden, 1633."
- Church of St James, Chipping Campden Gloucestershire