Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

General

First Name:

William

Last Name:

Waller

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1633

Inscription:

"Sole issue of a matchlesse paire
Both of their state and vertues heire
In graces great, in stature small
As full of spirit as voyd of gall
Cheerfully grave bounteously close
Holy without vainglorious showes;
Happy and yet from envy free;
Learn'd without pride, witty yet wise
Reader this riddle read with mee.
Here the good Lady Waller lyes.''

Allegiance:

Parliamentarian

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

According to Gaunt, '...desecrated by Royalist troops during the Civil War and the features of Waller and his wife badly damaged.'

Memorial Notes:

William Waller featured as reclining figure on the monument, by Epiphanius Evesham, to his first wife, Jane Waller.
See:
Gaunt, Peter 1987 The Cromwellian Gazetteer, Stroud, Alan Sutton Publishing, pp.2-3