Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Lewis

Last Name:

Dyve

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Inscription:

From: https://www.batharchives.co.uk/sites/www.bathvenues.co.uk/files/2022-07/CMH%2520Memorials%2520Issue%25202_0.pdf

On brass wall plaque:

HERE LYETH YE BODY OF SR LEWIS DYVE OF BR= OMHAM IN YE COUNTY OF BEDFORD KT ONLY SON OF SR IOHN DYVE, OF BROMHAM KT, BY DAME BEAT= RICE HIS WIFE, DAUGHTER OF CHARLES WALCOT OF WALCOT IN YE COUNTY OF SALOP ESQ: WHO WAS AFTERWARDS MARRIED TO YE R T HONBLE JOHN EARLE OF BRISTOL: BY WHOM SHE HAD ISSUE BY YE R T HONBLE GEORGE, NOW EARLE OF BRISTOL THE SR S R LEWIS DYVE; TOOK TO WIFE, HOWARD DAUGHTER OF SR JOHN STRANGWAYS OF MEBLURY SAMPFORD: IN YE COUNTY OF DORSET KT & BY HER HAD ISSUE, LIVING AT _____ ON HIS DEATH: THREE SONS; FRANCIS: LEWIS: &: IOHN & ONE DAUGHTER

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

See: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/8373