Essex, Arkesden

John Withers 1692 Barister at law and his wife Ann Cutts / Cutte / Cuttes ister to John Lord Cutts 1707 and daughter of Richard Cutts.

“ Sacred to the memory of John Withers, of the Middle Temple, who lies under this marble, together with his dearly beloved wife, Ann, daughter of Richard Cutts, esq., formerly of this parish: he,after having lived 73 years, died on the 2Sth of November, in the year of our Lord 1692; but she in the bloom of youth. William Withers, nephew and heir, erected this monument, as a testimony of his gratitude to his very dear and worthy uncle.”

Ann was the daughter of Richard Cutts dc1669 of Woodhall manor Arkesden by Joan daughter of Sir Richard Everard of Much Waltham. She predeceased her brother Richard Cutts dsp 1707. Her sister Margaret m John Acton of Basingstoke; another sister Joanna remained unmarried. Richard Cutts left his entire estate to his widowed cousin Mrs Dorothy Pickering, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and to his sister Joanna, executor of his will.

 

Monument by Edward Pearce

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