Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

not known

First Name:

Thomas

Last Name:

Dayrell

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1679

Inscription:

IN MEMORY OF SR THOMAS DAYRELL OF YE ANCIENT FAMILY OF LILLINGSTONE
DAYRELL IN YE COVNTY OF BUCKS WHERE IT HATH CONTINUED FROM YE REIGNE
OF KING WILLIAM THE FIRST CALLED THE CONQUEROUR.
HE WAS EMINENT FOR HIS LOYALTY & SERVICES TO THEIR SACRED MAJESTIES
KING CHARLES YE 1ST & KING CHARLES YE 2ND OF BLESSED MEMORY DURING
THE LATE CIVIL WARRS. HE WAS UNIVERSALLY ESTEEMED FOR HIS GREAT LEARNING
& BLELOV’D BY ALL YT KNEW HIM & PERTICULARLY BY THIS COUNTY WHERE IN
HIS OLD AGE HE SERVED IN THE QUALITY OF DEPUTY LIEUTENANT & IUSTICE
OF PEACE TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.
IN HIS YOUNGER YEARES HE WAS OF LINCOLNS INN, WHERE FOR YE COMELINESSE
OF HIS PERSON HE WAS CHOSEN BY CONSENT OF YE FOUR INNS OF COURT
TO COMMAND YE GRAND MASQUE (IN WCH MANY GENTLEMEN OF EMINENT NOTE
& QUALITY IN YE SUCCEEDING TIMES HAD THEIR SEVERALL PARTS) THAT WAS
REPRESENTED BEFORE THEIR MAJTIES YE KING & QUEEN IN YE BANQUETING
HOUSE AT WHITE HALL ON CANDLEMASS-NIGHT IN YE YEAR 1633
AND A SECOND TIME BY SPECIALL DIRECTIONS FROM THEIR MAJTIES TO SR RALPH
FREEMAN THEN LORD MAYOR OF LONDON AT MERCHANT TAYLORS
HALL WHERE HIS MAJTIE AS A MARKE OF HIS ROYAL FAVOUR WAS PLEASD
TO CONFER ON HIM THE HONOUR OF KTHOOD
HE WAS SOMETIME OF THIS PLACE & OF CASTLE CAMPS IN THIS COUNTY
WHERE HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 2ND DAY OF APRIL AN. DOM.1669
IN YE 66TH YEAR OF HIS AGE & WAS INTERR’D IN YE CHANCEL OF YE PARISH
CHURCH NEAR THE ALTAR TABLE ON THE LEFT HAND
HE MARRIED SARAH ONE OF YE DAUGHTERS & COHEIRS OF SR HUGH
WYNDHAM OF PILSDEN COURT IN YE COUNTY OF DORSET KT & BART
BY WHOM HE HAD ISSUE 4 SONS VIZ THOMAS FRANCIS MARMADUKE
& WYNDHAM & 2 DAUGHTERS MARY, & SARAH.
HIS ELDEST SON THOMAS DYED OF YE SMALL POX IN YE 23RD YEAR OF HIS
AGE AN. DOM. 1664, & LIES BURIED NEAR THIS MONUMENT.
HIS 2ND SON SR FRANCIS MARRIED ELIZABETH ONE OF YE DAUGHTERS
& COHEIRS OF EDWARD LEWES OF YE VANN IN YE COUNTY OF GLAMORGAN
ESQ BY MARGARETT HIS WIFE AFTERWARDS DUCHESS OF RICHMOND& LENOX
SR FRANCIS HAD BY HIS SAID WIFE 2 DAUGHTERS ELIZABETH
& MARY BOTH DYED IN THEIR INFANCY. HE DYED OF YE SMALL POX IN YE 30TH
YEAR OF HIS AGE AN. DOM. 1675 & WAS INTERR’D NEAR HIS FATHER IN YE
CHURCH OF CASTLE CAMPS. HIS 3RD SON SR MARMADUKE MARRIED MARY
ONLY DAUGHTER OF SR IUSTINIAN ISHAM OF LAMPORT IN YE COUNTY OF
NORTHAMPTON BART BY YE LADY VERE HIS WIFE ONE OF YE DAUGHTERS OF YE RIGHT
HONBLE THOMAS LORD LEIGH OF STONELY IN YECOUNTY OF WARWICK. SHE
DIED YE [?] OF IUNE AN. DOM. 1679 OF YE SMALL POX IN YE 23RD YEAR OF HER AGE
THIS SR MARMADUKES 2ND WIFE WAS MARY YE ONLY DAUGHTER & HEIR OF WM
GLASSCOCK OF FARNHAM IN YE COUNTY OF ESSEX ESQ BY WHOM HE HATH ISSUE
[?4] SONNES & 2 DAUGHTERS. HIS 4 TH SON WYNDHAM DYED OF YE SMALL POX
IN YE 22RD YEAR OF HIS AGE AN. DOM. 1674 & WAS INTERR’D IN YE PARISH
CHURCH OF ST GILES IN YE FIELDS IN YE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. HE WAS OF
LINCOLNS INN WHERE HE WAS LAMENTED BY ALL THAT KNEW HIM.
HIS DAUGHTER MARY DYED OF YE SMALL POX IN YE 26TH YEAR OF HER AGE
AN. DOM. 1670 AND WAS BURIED IN YE S CHAPEL OF ST GILES
HIS DAUGHTER SARAH WAS MARRIED TO FRANCIS WENDHAM OF CROMER
IN YE COUNTY OF NORFOLK ESQ WHO HATH ISSUE BY HER
3 SONS & 2 DAUGHTERS

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

See: https://churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-the-month/the-monument-to-sir-thomas-dayrell-%E2%80%A01669-at-hinxton-cambridgeshire