where there's a will ...... - Bickleigh Devon
Once against the east wall of the south aisle adjoining a door to the vestry, stood the table tomb on which rested the brass figures of Nicholas Slanning 1583 & his wife Margaret Amadas
By 1790 , according Prince's “Worthies" the tomb was dilapidated and the inscriptions scarcely legible.
When the church was restored in 1838, the tomb was done away with and replaced by a wall memorial funded by a gift of £30 from surviving relations, which now stands over the south aisle doorway .
The Latin inscription records::
"Idem caedis erat nostrae simul auctor et ultor
Trux homicida mei mox homicida sui
Quemque in me primum mox in se condidit ensem
O! nostrum summi judicis arbitrium"
Below round the skull are the words, “O man remember thy end”.
Underneath a brass incription states:
"Mans lyfe on erth is, as Job sayth, a warfare and a toyle
Where nought is wonne, when all is donne, but an uncertayne spoyle
Of things most vayne, and for long payne, nothing to man is lefte
Save virtue sure, which doth endure, and cannot be berefte
A prouffe of this apparent is by Nicholas Slannyng here
Who, as we sawe, alpt for God’s lawe right famouse did apperee
In just and right was his delyght to exercise the laws
To wrong no weigh but as he myght to help the friendlesse cause
The fere of God and his rod was styll before his eies
Constant in fayth and no wise the truth would he disgies.
Nicholas Slannyng, Esquier, lyvd 59 yeres, and endid the 8th day of Aprill, in the yere of our Lorde God, 1583”
Nicholas born 1523/4 was the eldest son of Nicholas Slanning of Ley in Plympton St. Mary by Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Maynard of Sherford.
He was Town clerk of Plymouth by 1546 & coroner by 1552
He m Margaret daughter of William Amadas & Jane daughter of Anthony Butshid (The Amadas family produced a number of goldsmiths and court officials of Henry VIII)
Children - an only daughter
1 Agnes 1566 - 1591 m Edward youngest son of Anthony Marler by Elizabeth Gonson, having 3 daughters:
A. Margarett her heir baptised at St Lawrence Jewry , London on 7 October 1584 m1 her second cousin Gamaliell Slanning eldest son of Nicholas Slanning 1599 of Leye +++ and Margaret Champernowne (The marriage united the fortunes of the family which had led to court action in the past - They were the parents of Nicholas Slanning 1643 a Royalist officer who died in the Civil War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Slanning also buried here)
Gamaliel Slanning united the fortunes of his family when he married his second cousin Margaret Marler about 1605.
B. Blanca- bp. 9 June 1587 in Crayford Kent ; bur. 23 May 1589
C. Maria - bp. 28 December 1589 in Crayford Kent -died young?
The Slannings had acquired land in eastern and southern Devon at the dissolution of Buckland abbey and Plympton priory. His father inherited the bulk of the property in 1559 from his brother John, and Nicholas himself was as yet unprovided with landed estates. His father made this good by settling various manors on him in May 1559 and October 1560. Still living in Plymouth in 1561 he contributed 13s.4d. toward the establishment of the grammar school, and in 1564-5 became it's mayor. in 1568 he settled the manors of Bickleigh and Shaugh and the advowson of Bickleigh upon his wife Margaret for her life, and in 1579 entailed all his estates on his brother John, with the remainder to the heirs of his brother William.
To his only child Agnes, he bequeathed £200 and an annuity of £10.
To his nephew Nicholas, son of his youngest brother William, he left the mansion house of Marystow. He also made numerous charitable bequests: to the inhabitants of the almshouse of Plymouth and the sick in the Magdalens of Plymouth and Plympton and to the poor of Bickleigh, as well as 20s. for the repair of the parish church of Bickleigh of which he had been patron and where he was buried. The executor of the will was his brother and heir, John, who proved it a week after his death.
+++ However Agnes must have received more than money & an annuity, as lawsuits were filed against "Edward Marler and Agnes daughter of Nicholas Slanning Esq. of Bickleigh in Devon who died in 1583, and whose heir she was" - the inheritance was disputed in 1590 by a nephew Nicholas Slanning of Ley in Devon (d. 1599) +++ : "13 July 32 Eliz. [1590] Nicholas Slannyng of Ley in psh Plympton St Mary, Devon, esq., nephew of Nicholas Slannyng of Bickleigh, Devon, esq., decd v Edward Marler of London and Agnes his wife, daughter of Nicholas Slannyng. Settlement by Nicholas Slannyng of his estates in Bickleigh and elsewhere on his heirs males, payment of monies to the defendants under the terms of the settlement." The suit continued until 1596 after the death of Agnes: "Affidavit of judgement in the Court of Wards and Liveries allowing Nicholas Slanning to proceed in a suit for the recovering of estates from Edward Marler on the death of his wife Agnes, who had been the heir of Nicholas Slanning, the elder, deceased ..."
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marler-693 All thankfully resolved with the marriage of Margaret Marler & her 2nd cousin Gamaliell Slanning +++ )
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bickleigh, Devon
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Slanning
someolddevonchurches.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/st-mary-the... www.wikitree.com/wiki/Slanning-10
where there's a will ...... - Bickleigh Devon
Once against the east wall of the south aisle adjoining a door to the vestry, stood the table tomb on which rested the brass figures of Nicholas Slanning 1583 & his wife Margaret Amadas
By 1790 , according Prince's “Worthies" the tomb was dilapidated and the inscriptions scarcely legible.
When the church was restored in 1838, the tomb was done away with and replaced by a wall memorial funded by a gift of £30 from surviving relations, which now stands over the south aisle doorway .
The Latin inscription records::
"Idem caedis erat nostrae simul auctor et ultor
Trux homicida mei mox homicida sui
Quemque in me primum mox in se condidit ensem
O! nostrum summi judicis arbitrium"
Below round the skull are the words, “O man remember thy end”.
Underneath a brass incription states:
"Mans lyfe on erth is, as Job sayth, a warfare and a toyle
Where nought is wonne, when all is donne, but an uncertayne spoyle
Of things most vayne, and for long payne, nothing to man is lefte
Save virtue sure, which doth endure, and cannot be berefte
A prouffe of this apparent is by Nicholas Slannyng here
Who, as we sawe, alpt for God’s lawe right famouse did apperee
In just and right was his delyght to exercise the laws
To wrong no weigh but as he myght to help the friendlesse cause
The fere of God and his rod was styll before his eies
Constant in fayth and no wise the truth would he disgies.
Nicholas Slannyng, Esquier, lyvd 59 yeres, and endid the 8th day of Aprill, in the yere of our Lorde God, 1583”
Nicholas born 1523/4 was the eldest son of Nicholas Slanning of Ley in Plympton St. Mary by Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Maynard of Sherford.
He was Town clerk of Plymouth by 1546 & coroner by 1552
He m Margaret daughter of William Amadas & Jane daughter of Anthony Butshid (The Amadas family produced a number of goldsmiths and court officials of Henry VIII)
Children - an only daughter
1 Agnes 1566 - 1591 m Edward youngest son of Anthony Marler by Elizabeth Gonson, having 3 daughters:
A. Margarett her heir baptised at St Lawrence Jewry , London on 7 October 1584 m1 her second cousin Gamaliell Slanning eldest son of Nicholas Slanning 1599 of Leye +++ and Margaret Champernowne (The marriage united the fortunes of the family which had led to court action in the past - They were the parents of Nicholas Slanning 1643 a Royalist officer who died in the Civil War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Slanning also buried here)
Gamaliel Slanning united the fortunes of his family when he married his second cousin Margaret Marler about 1605.
B. Blanca- bp. 9 June 1587 in Crayford Kent ; bur. 23 May 1589
C. Maria - bp. 28 December 1589 in Crayford Kent -died young?
The Slannings had acquired land in eastern and southern Devon at the dissolution of Buckland abbey and Plympton priory. His father inherited the bulk of the property in 1559 from his brother John, and Nicholas himself was as yet unprovided with landed estates. His father made this good by settling various manors on him in May 1559 and October 1560. Still living in Plymouth in 1561 he contributed 13s.4d. toward the establishment of the grammar school, and in 1564-5 became it's mayor. in 1568 he settled the manors of Bickleigh and Shaugh and the advowson of Bickleigh upon his wife Margaret for her life, and in 1579 entailed all his estates on his brother John, with the remainder to the heirs of his brother William.
To his only child Agnes, he bequeathed £200 and an annuity of £10.
To his nephew Nicholas, son of his youngest brother William, he left the mansion house of Marystow. He also made numerous charitable bequests: to the inhabitants of the almshouse of Plymouth and the sick in the Magdalens of Plymouth and Plympton and to the poor of Bickleigh, as well as 20s. for the repair of the parish church of Bickleigh of which he had been patron and where he was buried. The executor of the will was his brother and heir, John, who proved it a week after his death.
+++ However Agnes must have received more than money & an annuity, as lawsuits were filed against "Edward Marler and Agnes daughter of Nicholas Slanning Esq. of Bickleigh in Devon who died in 1583, and whose heir she was" - the inheritance was disputed in 1590 by a nephew Nicholas Slanning of Ley in Devon (d. 1599) +++ : "13 July 32 Eliz. [1590] Nicholas Slannyng of Ley in psh Plympton St Mary, Devon, esq., nephew of Nicholas Slannyng of Bickleigh, Devon, esq., decd v Edward Marler of London and Agnes his wife, daughter of Nicholas Slannyng. Settlement by Nicholas Slannyng of his estates in Bickleigh and elsewhere on his heirs males, payment of monies to the defendants under the terms of the settlement." The suit continued until 1596 after the death of Agnes: "Affidavit of judgement in the Court of Wards and Liveries allowing Nicholas Slanning to proceed in a suit for the recovering of estates from Edward Marler on the death of his wife Agnes, who had been the heir of Nicholas Slanning, the elder, deceased ..."
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marler-693 All thankfully resolved with the marriage of Margaret Marler & her 2nd cousin Gamaliell Slanning +++ )
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bickleigh, Devon
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Slanning
someolddevonchurches.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/st-mary-the... www.wikitree.com/wiki/Slanning-10