Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Francis

Last Name:

Bluett

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1644

Inscription:

"The remains of her younger son Coll. Francis Bluet & Joan his wife lye here interr'd also. He was kill'd before Lyme 1644" (see memorial notes)

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

Condition unknown

Memorial Notes:

According to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bluett

"The remains of her younger son Coll. Francis Bluet & Joan his wife lye here interr'd also. He was kill'd before Lyme 1644" inscribed on the same slab as he much worn grave slab of Joan, mother of John Bluett, (remarried to Philip Poyntz, a recusant, probably of the ancient Poyntz family of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire, whose grave-slab in the Bluett Chapel records his death on 16 August 1645: "Here lyeth the body of Phillip Pointz, gent., who deceased the 16 day of August Anno Dom(ini) 1645. My flesh shall rest in hope, psal. 16:9") inscribed: "In memoriam...Joa...Poyntz olim Arthuri Bluet ar(mi)g(e)ri at nuper Philippi Poyntz, gent...conjugis charissima obiit 19.o[5] die Junii...aetatis 58.o[6] et salutis 1641. Parce...hic mea...sic mea... servari in creda sanguin.." ("In memory of Joan Poyntz once the most beloved wife of Arthur Bluet, Esq., and recently of Philip Poyntz, gent. She died on the 19th day of June...of her age 58 and health 1641...Spare me...this my...to serve in the blood...")

Colonel Francis Bluett succeeded his older brother Sir John Bluett (1603-1634) after his death. Colonel Francis killed in April 1644 (see Norman, Ben 2020 "A History of Death in 17th Century England", for an account of his death)
and buried 10 May 1644 (https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp142-170)

See: http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/509812 for portrait of Colonel Francis Blewett (1607/8 - 1644) of Holcomb Court and Wadham, at Benthall Hall, Shropshire