Title:

Earl

Military Rank:

Lieutenant General

First Name:

Robert

Last Name:

Bertie

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Plaque

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1677

Inscription:

DECET OTIVA
THE HONORable. ROBERT
BERTIE OF THIS PARISH ONE OF
THE SONS OF THE RIGHT HONble.
ROBERT BERTIE OF LINDSEY, LORD
GREAT CHAMBERLAINE OF ENGLAND
AND GENERALL OF ALL Ye FORCES OF KING
CHARLES THE FIRST, WHO WAS SLAYNE IN
THE BATTAILE ATT EDGE HILL
HATH GIVEN
INTO Ye HANDS OF Ye CHURCH WARDENS FIFTY
POUNDS THAT SOE Ye INTEREST THEROF MAY BE
DISTRIBUTED BY THEM FROM TIME TO TIME AND
FOR EVER TO THE POORE IN BREAD.
(VIZ)
TWELVE PENY WORTH ON EVERY SUNDAY IN Ye
Yeare, & ON EVERY NEW YEARS DAY, FIVE
SHILLINGS (IF SUNDAY) OTHERWISE, FOURE
SHILLINGS: & ON Ye LAST SUNDAY OF AUGust
IN THE SAME YEARE, FIVE SHILLINGS
BEGUN THE FIRST DAY OF
JANUARY, 1677
PAUPERIBUSQue




On the west wall of the nave is an oval tablet of white marble, recording the gift by the Hon. Robert Bertie, son of the 1st Earl of Lindsey, of fifty pounds, the interest of which was to be utilised in the distribution of bread and money to the poor of the parish.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

Oval marble tablet recording the gift by the Hon. Robert Bertie, son of the 1st Earl of Lindsey, of fifty pounds, the interest of which was to be utilised in the distribution of bread and money to the poor of the parish.
See: ODNB https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2277