Cambridgeshire, Harlton - Favoured son
"Greetings to those who look upon these stones. This monument is raised to Thomas Fryer, Doctor of Medicine, the second Aesculapius, most well-de serving father of Henry Fryer Esquire and also to Mary the most devoted wife of Thomas and mother of Henry. The first of these (Thomas) died on 9 May 1623 aged 86. She however on 11 May 1614 aged 57 both yielding up to heaven what was of heaven, returning to earth what was of earth" This monument of memory is raysed by ye executors of Henry Fryer Esquire second sonne of the sayd Thomas Fryer doctor in physique who dyed ye 5 of June 1631 & is here interred leaving his deare wife Bridget to lament his losse & his large almes to ye poore to commend his faith incloistered in these piles of stone the reliques of the Fryer rest whose better part to heaven's gone. The poore man's bowels were his chest and 'mongst these 3, grave, heaven, poore he shared his corps, his sould his store"
Dr Thomas Fryer d1623 in doctors robes with wife Mary d1613 and favoured second son Henry dsp1631 a lawyer who died after a fall from his horse, kneel above Henry's widow Bridget. flic.kr/p/9S3E12
Catholics themselves, Thomas bought the manor from the catholic Barnes family
Thomas Fryer’s will, dated 9 November 1617, explicitly disinherits his eldest son, John, who had followed in both the family profession and the family religion, in favour of a younger son, Henry, a lawyer: - ‘I do give and bequeath to my eldest son John Frier, Doctor in Physick, the somme of fifty poundes of lawefull money of Englande although I must in confidence … confirme and protest and denounce openly and dolorous to all the worlde manifest thorough his many great impieties to his parents and especially towarde his tender carefull and mercifull mother, and other horrible immoralities and enormities, towarde his second brother Henry and other detestable misdemaynor towarde his sister Susan too horrible and shamefull to repeat, he hath not deserved to have one penny nor to be accounted my son, considering the care I took to bring him up to learning with no smale charge …’
The denunciation occupies almost half of Thomas Fryer’s two-page will. John’s offence is made more specific in a letter from a secretary of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot: =. ‘I can write you no news from Croydon, save only that Dr. Friar since the death of his wife goeth about to disinherit the young doctor his son, at the instigation of a younger son, and a daughter Susan, who both charge him with his Paduan Italian lechery towards themselves. My Lord Archbishop had the hearing of the matter. …"
Henry died without issue in 1631 having devised the manor to charitable uses subject to certain bequests, and John Fryer instituted proceedings against his executors. Henry's executors continued to hold the manor in 1634, and in 1635 Henry's widow Bridget obtained her dower, including the manor-house. In 1638 on the king's order John obtained the manor subject to Henry's specific bequests, although disputes over the will continued. By his will proved in 1672 John settled the manor on his nephews John Peacock and Andrew Mathew , sons of his sister Elizabeth Peacock of Petersfield, Andrew Mathew took possession. In pursuance of a decree of the Commissioners for Charitable Uses in 1675, and another of Chancery in 1676, the manor was conveyed to Christ's Hospital in 1677 subject to Henry Fryer's specific bequests and Bridget's dower. The choice of Christ's Hospital was the king's, acting on advice about his powers, and he directed that the endowment should be for his new foundation there for teaching mathematics and navigation. Bridget Fryer leased her dower to Christ's Hospital in 1677 and died in 1684. , After John Fryer’s death the Court of Chancery decreed that the whole of the estates should be vested in the governors of Christ’s Hospital, subject to the payment of specific sums mentioned in Henry Fryer’s will. Fryer’s Charity still exists, its funds now being devoted to educational purposes.
Monument by Maximilian Colt
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fryer_(17th-century_physician)
harltonparishcouncil.org.uk/Pages/Church/Fryer.html
harltonparishcouncil.org.uk/Pages/Church/Fryer.html
www.harltonvillage.org.uk/church/the-fryer-monument/ - Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Harlton Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire, Harlton - Favoured son
"Greetings to those who look upon these stones. This monument is raised to Thomas Fryer, Doctor of Medicine, the second Aesculapius, most well-de serving father of Henry Fryer Esquire and also to Mary the most devoted wife of Thomas and mother of Henry. The first of these (Thomas) died on 9 May 1623 aged 86. She however on 11 May 1614 aged 57 both yielding up to heaven what was of heaven, returning to earth what was of earth" This monument of memory is raysed by ye executors of Henry Fryer Esquire second sonne of the sayd Thomas Fryer doctor in physique who dyed ye 5 of June 1631 & is here interred leaving his deare wife Bridget to lament his losse & his large almes to ye poore to commend his faith incloistered in these piles of stone the reliques of the Fryer rest whose better part to heaven's gone. The poore man's bowels were his chest and 'mongst these 3, grave, heaven, poore he shared his corps, his sould his store"
Dr Thomas Fryer d1623 in doctors robes with wife Mary d1613 and favoured second son Henry dsp1631 a lawyer who died after a fall from his horse, kneel above Henry's widow Bridget. flic.kr/p/9S3E12
Catholics themselves, Thomas bought the manor from the catholic Barnes family
Thomas Fryer’s will, dated 9 November 1617, explicitly disinherits his eldest son, John, who had followed in both the family profession and the family religion, in favour of a younger son, Henry, a lawyer: - ‘I do give and bequeath to my eldest son John Frier, Doctor in Physick, the somme of fifty poundes of lawefull money of Englande although I must in confidence … confirme and protest and denounce openly and dolorous to all the worlde manifest thorough his many great impieties to his parents and especially towarde his tender carefull and mercifull mother, and other horrible immoralities and enormities, towarde his second brother Henry and other detestable misdemaynor towarde his sister Susan too horrible and shamefull to repeat, he hath not deserved to have one penny nor to be accounted my son, considering the care I took to bring him up to learning with no smale charge …’
The denunciation occupies almost half of Thomas Fryer’s two-page will. John’s offence is made more specific in a letter from a secretary of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot: =. ‘I can write you no news from Croydon, save only that Dr. Friar since the death of his wife goeth about to disinherit the young doctor his son, at the instigation of a younger son, and a daughter Susan, who both charge him with his Paduan Italian lechery towards themselves. My Lord Archbishop had the hearing of the matter. …"
Henry died without issue in 1631 having devised the manor to charitable uses subject to certain bequests, and John Fryer instituted proceedings against his executors. Henry's executors continued to hold the manor in 1634, and in 1635 Henry's widow Bridget obtained her dower, including the manor-house. In 1638 on the king's order John obtained the manor subject to Henry's specific bequests, although disputes over the will continued. By his will proved in 1672 John settled the manor on his nephews John Peacock and Andrew Mathew , sons of his sister Elizabeth Peacock of Petersfield, Andrew Mathew took possession. In pursuance of a decree of the Commissioners for Charitable Uses in 1675, and another of Chancery in 1676, the manor was conveyed to Christ's Hospital in 1677 subject to Henry Fryer's specific bequests and Bridget's dower. The choice of Christ's Hospital was the king's, acting on advice about his powers, and he directed that the endowment should be for his new foundation there for teaching mathematics and navigation. Bridget Fryer leased her dower to Christ's Hospital in 1677 and died in 1684. , After John Fryer’s death the Court of Chancery decreed that the whole of the estates should be vested in the governors of Christ’s Hospital, subject to the payment of specific sums mentioned in Henry Fryer’s will. Fryer’s Charity still exists, its funds now being devoted to educational purposes.
Monument by Maximilian Colt
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fryer_(17th-century_physician)
harltonparishcouncil.org.uk/Pages/Church/Fryer.html
harltonparishcouncil.org.uk/Pages/Church/Fryer.html
www.harltonvillage.org.uk/church/the-fryer-monument/ - Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Harlton Cambridgeshire