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St Peter’s Church part four

 

 

Unfortunately a number of memorials mentioned by Aubrey in his book have disappeared for one reason or another. These include:

 

·            In a North Window are these Arms, viz. England, a Bordure Argent; this belonged to Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, Son to King Edw. I.’ According to Manning and Bray, King Edward III in the first year of his reign gave the Manor of Woking to Edmund of Woodstock.

 

·            on a brass plate, fixed to a gravestone within the Communion Rails (Manning and Bray), Here Lyeth Anne Deveres, eldest Daughter to my Lord Fferys of Charteley. On her Soule, Jesu have Merci’. Mill Stephenson suggests in his book A List of Monumental Brasses in Surrey 1921 that she was  ‘Possibly a daughter of Sir Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers in right of his wife Anne, only daughter and heiress of William, Lord Ferrers. He (Sir Walter) was created a knight of the garter in 1470, and slain at Bosworth in 1485, fighting for Richard III.’

 

In 1469 Lady Margaret Beaufort became concerned for the safety of her son Henry Tudor, later to become Henry VII, who had been under the care of   William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and his wife Anne Devereux at Raglan. In that year Warwick rebelled against Edward IV and Herbert was summoned to Edward’s assistance but his forces suffered bloody defeat at Edgecote. Herbert was captured and executed by Warwick. The twelve year old Henry had accompanied Herbert but fortunately news arrived that the boy had been led from the battlefield and escorted to the home of Sir Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers, the brother of Herbert’s wife.

 

The association between Lady Margaret and her son with William Herbert and Sir Walter probably explains why the latter’s daughter was buried in St Peter’s and so near to the altar of what was after all Lady Margaret’s parish church.

 

·            a brass plate with the Figure of a Man in a Gown, with wide Sleeves, bearing in a baudry a Bugle Horn about his Neck, and a Hanger by his Side, and a Hound at his Feet with an inscription, lost in Aubrey’s time, to Gilberti Gilpyn quondam Parcarii (park keeper) of Woking Parke who died 10^th December 1500.

 

Gilbert Gilpyn, was originally steward of the household to Lady Margaret Beaufort and her third husband, Henry Stafford and came from Westmoreland. He had come into Stafford's service through Lady Margaret’s properties in Kendal. Gilpyn chose to settle in Woking, and supervised affairs there until his death in 1500. On 13 April 1471 a horse was purchased for him, as he prepared to ride with his master to do battle for Edward IV at Barnet. (The King’s Mother, Michael K Jones and Malcolm G Underwood. 1992)

 

 © Phillip Arnold 2006

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