Virtuous spouse / impatient widow - Battle Sussex
Elizabeth who died 30th Mary 1591 widow of Thomas Alfraye who died 1st January 1589
She was the daughter of Ambrose Comfort
Elizabeth and Thomas had 2 children a son and a daughter
1. Thomas m Mary ..... (Thomas inherited the manor of Saperton alias Saberton alias Runtington, lands in heathfield, hartfield, East Grinstead and Framfield, Clements, Bromeham and an iron mill (Potmans forge) in Catsfield (the latter 2 bought by his father in 1588)
"Thomas Alfraye good courtious friend interred lyeth heere,
Who so active passe as none was found his peere
And Elizabeth did take to wyfe one Ambrose Comforts child
who with hym 30 and 1 yeares lyvid a vertuous spouse & mild
By whom a sonne and daughter eke behind alyve he left
And eare he fiftie yeares had rune death hym of lyfe bereft
On newe yeares daye of Christe his birth was just eighty nine
one thousand & five hundred eche, loe here of flesh the fine
But then his woefull wife of God with piteous praiers gann crave that her owne corpse with husbands hers might joyne in darkso grave and that her soule his soule might seeke amongst ye saints abov and there in endless blysse enjoye her long desired love
She which our gratious God did graunt to her of March the last
When after that divorcement sower, one yere & more was past"
Virtuous spouse / impatient widow - Battle Sussex
Elizabeth who died 30th Mary 1591 widow of Thomas Alfraye who died 1st January 1589
She was the daughter of Ambrose Comfort
Elizabeth and Thomas had 2 children a son and a daughter
1. Thomas m Mary ..... (Thomas inherited the manor of Saperton alias Saberton alias Runtington, lands in heathfield, hartfield, East Grinstead and Framfield, Clements, Bromeham and an iron mill (Potmans forge) in Catsfield (the latter 2 bought by his father in 1588)
"Thomas Alfraye good courtious friend interred lyeth heere,
Who so active passe as none was found his peere
And Elizabeth did take to wyfe one Ambrose Comforts child
who with hym 30 and 1 yeares lyvid a vertuous spouse & mild
By whom a sonne and daughter eke behind alyve he left
And eare he fiftie yeares had rune death hym of lyfe bereft
On newe yeares daye of Christe his birth was just eighty nine
one thousand & five hundred eche, loe here of flesh the fine
But then his woefull wife of God with piteous praiers gann crave that her owne corpse with husbands hers might joyne in darkso grave and that her soule his soule might seeke amongst ye saints abov and there in endless blysse enjoye her long desired love
She which our gratious God did graunt to her of March the last
When after that divorcement sower, one yere & more was past"