Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel ?

First Name:

Simon

Last Name:

Every

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1701

Inscription:

SR SIMON EVERY Baronet
Tooke to wife ANNE daughter
And coe heir of SR HENRY LEIGH Knight
by whome he had foure sons & one daughter
HENRY, JOHN FRANCIS SIMON & KATHERINE

SR HENRY EVERY Baronet
Married VERE daughter & coe heir
Of SR HENRY HERBERT Knight
And had by her six sons & five daughters
HENRY, CHARLES, JOHN SIMON, SIMON, WILLIAM
VERE, ANNE, ELIZABETH, FRANCES, MARY

DAME VERE widow of the said
SR HENRY EVERY Baronet
in pious memory of the a bove
mentioned deceased erected this
this MONUMENT
A 1701

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

Every a strong royalist but his actual military role unclear. According to Fisher, F. The Every Family & the Civil War, Derbyshire Archaelogical Journal, volume 074, 1954, 112-127 ,

"after Wingfield Manor had surrendered in December 1643 the "Loyal Earl" of Newcastle proceeded to York,
leaving behind him his own garrison at Bolsover, and six colonels. Of these, five, including Sir John Fitz-Herbert and Sir John Harpur, had regiments but the sixth, Sir Simon Every, "haveing neither men nor armes, and wanting meanes to trouble this county, he went to Oxford to expect the success of the ante-parliament there". (Glover, History and Gazeteer of Derbyshire, Vol. 1, p. 74.)

On informing against him, Richard Ford, a mercer of Repton, stated that Sir Simon was in the "Commission of Array, was in arms at the taking of Leicester, lived long in Oxford, Lichfield and Tutbury garrisons and brought up the rear against the Derby Regiment of Horse". (CaI. Committee for Compounding.)