Military Rank:

Governess?

First Name:

Mary

Last Name:

Bankes

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1661

Inscription:

To the memory of LADY MARY BANKES, the only daughter of Ralph Hawtery, of Riselip, in the county of Middlesex, esq. the wife and widow of the Honourable Sir John Bankes, knight, late Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, and of the Privy Council of his Majesty King Charles I. of blessed memory, who, having had the honour to have borne with a constancy and courage above her sex a noble proportion of the late calamities, and the restitution of the government, with great peace of mind laid down her most desired life the 11th day of April 1661. Sir Ralph Banckes her son and heir hath dedicated this. She had four sons: 1. Sir Ralph; 2. Jerome; 3. Charles; 4. William (since dead without issue), and six daughters.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

from photograph

Memorial Notes:

See:
Fraser, Antonia 1985 (1st edn. 1984) The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth Century England. London, Methuen London Limited.
Plowden, A. 1998 Women all on Fire: The Women of the English Civil War. Stroud, Sutton Publishing Limited.