Military Rank:

Colonel (titular)

First Name:

Thomas

Last Name:

Morton (Dunhelm - trad. name taken on by Bishop of Durham)

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

Post 1659

Inscription:

Latin inscription from image at: https://www.twentytrees.co.uk/History/England/Place/Church-of-St-Peter-and-St-Paul-Easton-Maudit.html

IN MEMORIA SACRA
HEIC UIUIT USQ, ET USQ UIUAT
EXIGUUM ETIAM ILLUD QUOD MORALE FUIT…
…THOMAE DUNELMENSIS EPICOPI…
etc.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

Bishop of Durham was technically the commander of the Durham Trained Bands.
See:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144012642/thomas-morton

See: 'Parishes: Easton Maudit', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman( London, 1937), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp11-17 [accessed 7 October 2024].
"A blue floor-slab at the west end of the chapel marks the burial-place of Thomas Morton, successively Bishop of Chester, Lichfield, and Durham, who died at Easton Maudit 'on the morrow of St. Matthew and was buried on the feast of St. Michael 1659', aged 95. The stone bears a long Latin inscription, in which the bishop is designated 'senex et coelebs'. On the south wall adjoining, below the strainer arch, are Morton's arms as Bishop of Durham, and separate shields of arms of the sees of Chester and Lichfield, all modern."