North Hill, Cornwall
Detail - Cornish slate tomb of Thomas Vincent 1606 , landowner, farmer and attorney at law. wife Jane Lampens 1601 and family www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/hDc8L0 . They lived at Battens farm in North Hill
"Here lye the bodies of Thomas Vyncent, Gentleman, and Jane his wife, by whom he has Issue 8 sons & 7 daughters. He departed this life ye 29th of March 1606. She ye 7th of Januarie 1601
Mourn those who are gathered to grieve these remains
At the chosen occasion of the reader they will be sorrowful.
Uplifted by the beloved, reclining with kindred spouse
While forefathers will have passed away with wings
To embrace both the living and the dead
They lived and lie dead entrusting in the Lord God.
For what reason is human death agonized?
Death is to be reflected upon
Not to be feared by you, But to be feared by evil
The distraught successor to the deceased with the love of his parents, turns this poor being, thus, into the earth
Thomas Vincent .................. "
Above them is the figure of Death with scythe and dart, shown apparently triumphant but higher still on the pediment, Christ is shown trampling on Death and Satan, giving the hope of Resurrection.
In front are carved the arms of Lampen (left) - argent, on a bend engrailed sable, three ram’s heads cabossed of the field attired or Vincent# (centre) – azure, three quatrefoils argent &
Lower (right) – sable, a chevron between three roses argent
He m Jane Lower widow of John Lampen
Children
1. Thomas dsp 1612
2. John bc1591-1646 m Sarah .......
3. Nathaniel
4. Henry
5. Methusalem died between 1603 - 1606
6. Richard
7. William
8. George
1. Katherine died between 1603 - 1606
2. Lydia
3. Frances
4. Mary
5. Rebecca
7. Jane
In his Will of 1603 Thomas states
" Seinge the uncertentye of life, and that nothinge is more sure then death And nothinge more uncertayne then the hower of death , to the ende everie man should be there unto prepared as by experience everie daie, And not longe since in that it pleased Almightie God (to my greate discomfort) to call unto himselfe, out of this myserable and wreched world my deare aand loving wife, with whome I lyved many yeares in peace and love, and had (god bethanked) plentifull fruite of the married life, besides many other blessings of wealth and living. And therefore doe desire nowe Almightie God to graunt me his grace so to Dispise sonne and all worldy vanity that I maie saie with the blessed Appostle Saint Paule, The world is
crucified to me, and I to the world, Christe is to me life, and to Dye is my gaine and advantage. I desire nowe to be loosed, and to be with Christ. Wherefore beinge in good health and of perfect remembraunce (God be thanked) Doe make my will and Testament declaring thereby myne intent and meaninge
of the Disposinge of such wealth and lyvinge , as my good
God of his bounteous liberalitie hath bestowed upon me..........
(His lands went to his eldest son Thomas, with money for the rest when they reached the age of 21 or on their marriage
Son Thomas appears to have had no family, and on his death in 1612 , his deathbed spoken will states:
" on the xxixth (29th) day of June in the six and fortieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James and in the year of our Son [of] God 1612. Thomas Vincent of Northill in the County of Cornwall, Gentleman, being sick and wounded but of perfect mind and memory do make and declare his last will and testament nuncupative in manner and form following, viz: First he committed his soul to Almighty God his maker and redeemer. Then he gave and bequeathed to Catherine his eldest sister the sum of fifty pounds. Item he willed left and bequeathed all things which he had whatsoever to John Vincent his brother in the same manner as his father left them unto him. And he also made [the] [a]foresaid John Vincent his sole heir and executor and willed that he should see the legacies performed in the presence. of John Vincent the elder, Catherine Vincent, William Vincent and others".
The estate then passed to his brother John.
- Church of St Torney:, North Hill Cornwall
opc-cornwall.org/Par_new/n_p/pdfs/north_hill_will_vincent...
North Hill, Cornwall
Detail - Cornish slate tomb of Thomas Vincent 1606 , landowner, farmer and attorney at law. wife Jane Lampens 1601 and family www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/hDc8L0 . They lived at Battens farm in North Hill
"Here lye the bodies of Thomas Vyncent, Gentleman, and Jane his wife, by whom he has Issue 8 sons & 7 daughters. He departed this life ye 29th of March 1606. She ye 7th of Januarie 1601
Mourn those who are gathered to grieve these remains
At the chosen occasion of the reader they will be sorrowful.
Uplifted by the beloved, reclining with kindred spouse
While forefathers will have passed away with wings
To embrace both the living and the dead
They lived and lie dead entrusting in the Lord God.
For what reason is human death agonized?
Death is to be reflected upon
Not to be feared by you, But to be feared by evil
The distraught successor to the deceased with the love of his parents, turns this poor being, thus, into the earth
Thomas Vincent .................. "
Above them is the figure of Death with scythe and dart, shown apparently triumphant but higher still on the pediment, Christ is shown trampling on Death and Satan, giving the hope of Resurrection.
In front are carved the arms of Lampen (left) - argent, on a bend engrailed sable, three ram’s heads cabossed of the field attired or Vincent# (centre) – azure, three quatrefoils argent &
Lower (right) – sable, a chevron between three roses argent
He m Jane Lower widow of John Lampen
Children
1. Thomas dsp 1612
2. John bc1591-1646 m Sarah .......
3. Nathaniel
4. Henry
5. Methusalem died between 1603 - 1606
6. Richard
7. William
8. George
1. Katherine died between 1603 - 1606
2. Lydia
3. Frances
4. Mary
5. Rebecca
7. Jane
In his Will of 1603 Thomas states
" Seinge the uncertentye of life, and that nothinge is more sure then death And nothinge more uncertayne then the hower of death , to the ende everie man should be there unto prepared as by experience everie daie, And not longe since in that it pleased Almightie God (to my greate discomfort) to call unto himselfe, out of this myserable and wreched world my deare aand loving wife, with whome I lyved many yeares in peace and love, and had (god bethanked) plentifull fruite of the married life, besides many other blessings of wealth and living. And therefore doe desire nowe Almightie God to graunt me his grace so to Dispise sonne and all worldy vanity that I maie saie with the blessed Appostle Saint Paule, The world is
crucified to me, and I to the world, Christe is to me life, and to Dye is my gaine and advantage. I desire nowe to be loosed, and to be with Christ. Wherefore beinge in good health and of perfect remembraunce (God be thanked) Doe make my will and Testament declaring thereby myne intent and meaninge
of the Disposinge of such wealth and lyvinge , as my good
God of his bounteous liberalitie hath bestowed upon me..........
(His lands went to his eldest son Thomas, with money for the rest when they reached the age of 21 or on their marriage
Son Thomas appears to have had no family, and on his death in 1612 , his deathbed spoken will states:
" on the xxixth (29th) day of June in the six and fortieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James and in the year of our Son [of] God 1612. Thomas Vincent of Northill in the County of Cornwall, Gentleman, being sick and wounded but of perfect mind and memory do make and declare his last will and testament nuncupative in manner and form following, viz: First he committed his soul to Almighty God his maker and redeemer. Then he gave and bequeathed to Catherine his eldest sister the sum of fifty pounds. Item he willed left and bequeathed all things which he had whatsoever to John Vincent his brother in the same manner as his father left them unto him. And he also made [the] [a]foresaid John Vincent his sole heir and executor and willed that he should see the legacies performed in the presence. of John Vincent the elder, Catherine Vincent, William Vincent and others".
The estate then passed to his brother John.
- Church of St Torney:, North Hill Cornwall
opc-cornwall.org/Par_new/n_p/pdfs/north_hill_will_vincent...