Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Henry

Last Name:

Slingsby

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1693

Inscription:

Sancti Roberti
Huc Saxum advectum est
Sub eodemque nunc jadet hid
Henriduw Slingesby Henrici Filiuw
Cui e parliament ejecto
Et ex plebiscite bonis omnibus exuto
Nihil aliud Supererat
Quam ut vellet animam suam saluamesse
Parsus est anno aetatis suae LVII
Sexto Idus Iunias Annoque Christi MDCLVIII
Fidei in Regem legesque patrias Causa
Non periit sed ad meliores Sedes translatus est
A tyranno Cromwellio Capite mulctatus
posuit Thomas Slingesby Baronettus non degener Nepos
Anno AErae Christ
MDCXCII


This stone of St Robert’s was
Brought here, and under it was
Laid Henry, son of Henry
Slingsby, who being expelled the
House of Commons, and all his
Goods confiscated by act of
Parliament, nothing else
Remained for him to do but to
Endeavour to save his soul. He
Suffered on the 6th day of June,
1658, in the 57th year of his age,
On account of his fidelity to his
King, and attachment to the laws
of his country, being beheaded
by order of the tyrant, Cromwell,
he was translated to a better
place. Sir Thomas Slingsby,
Baronet, no degenerate heir of
His father’s virtues, place this in
The year 1693.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

See: https://geneagraphie.com/histories/Miscellaneous/alumnicantabrigipt1vol4univuoft.pdf, p.90

C.H. Firth: Sir Henry Slingsby, Dictionary of National Biography, 1897

David Scott, Sir Henry Slingsby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004

Rev. Daniel Parsons "The Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby", London 1836