Reader, pawse here a little - Great Witchingham Norfolk
Heraldic ledger gravestone slab - "Here lyeth Oliver le Neve esq, a faithful subject of the King & obedient son of the Church; A stout patron of justice & a true lover of his Country; No friend to Popery or Presbitery ; but a zealous assertor of the Church of England as the neerest to Primitive Christianity, and the very sanctuary of the English interest, liberty and property. He was for his intellectualls of a most sound, solid, deepe and peirceing judgement, for his morralls of a most prudent, sober, grave, just, generous and every way oblidgeing virtuous conversation where in he eminently excelled, and was therein constant to his death which was in January in the yeare 1678, and in the 78 yeare of his age
May his posterity immortalise his name by imitation of his virtues
Vir bonus est hic qui vir leges patriae sic sacram religionem firmiter excoluit
Reader, pawse here a little, reflect on this degenerous age, and then condole with ., the worlds infilicity in the irreparable losse of this brave man"
(Oliver gave the Royal Coat of Arms of Charles ll to the church in 1660 the year of the kings restoration to the throne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9727Y8 He also replaced the medieval screen which was "pluked down" in 1561 - Dated 1674 it was inscribed "Christ eates the pascall lambe, a sign to bee, of the new covenant's most sacred tie. His flesh He gives us t'eate and bloud to drinke and when we do it, bids us on Him thinke" (now also long gone
Oliver was the son of Richard Le Neve 1616 & Katherine daughter of Robert Booty of Saxthorpe
He was the grandson of Francis le Neve & Margaret Tilney www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9ddWzZ
He m Elizabeth 1658 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/40W4bm daughter of Thomas Havers of London ) - Church of St Mary, Great Witchingham, Norfolk
Reader, pawse here a little - Great Witchingham Norfolk
Heraldic ledger gravestone slab - "Here lyeth Oliver le Neve esq, a faithful subject of the King & obedient son of the Church; A stout patron of justice & a true lover of his Country; No friend to Popery or Presbitery ; but a zealous assertor of the Church of England as the neerest to Primitive Christianity, and the very sanctuary of the English interest, liberty and property. He was for his intellectualls of a most sound, solid, deepe and peirceing judgement, for his morralls of a most prudent, sober, grave, just, generous and every way oblidgeing virtuous conversation where in he eminently excelled, and was therein constant to his death which was in January in the yeare 1678, and in the 78 yeare of his age
May his posterity immortalise his name by imitation of his virtues
Vir bonus est hic qui vir leges patriae sic sacram religionem firmiter excoluit
Reader, pawse here a little, reflect on this degenerous age, and then condole with ., the worlds infilicity in the irreparable losse of this brave man"
(Oliver gave the Royal Coat of Arms of Charles ll to the church in 1660 the year of the kings restoration to the throne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9727Y8 He also replaced the medieval screen which was "pluked down" in 1561 - Dated 1674 it was inscribed "Christ eates the pascall lambe, a sign to bee, of the new covenant's most sacred tie. His flesh He gives us t'eate and bloud to drinke and when we do it, bids us on Him thinke" (now also long gone
Oliver was the son of Richard Le Neve 1616 & Katherine daughter of Robert Booty of Saxthorpe
He was the grandson of Francis le Neve & Margaret Tilney www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9ddWzZ
He m Elizabeth 1658 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/40W4bm daughter of Thomas Havers of London ) - Church of St Mary, Great Witchingham, Norfolk