The Public Record Office Museum

Date:
1908
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Public Record Office Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MONUMENTS. Immediately to the left of the steps leading into the Museum is the monument set up in memory of Richard Alington of Lincoln’s Inn, who died 23rd November 1561. It is mainly of alabaster, delicately carved, with two columns of black marble and various inlays, the whole resting on a base of Purbeck marble. The deceased and his wife Jane, who survived until 1603, are represented kneeling towards each other in niches with round heads. Small figures of their three daughters are given in low relief on a tablet. This monument formerly stood against the south wall of the Rolls Chapel, near the east end, but there is reason to doubt whether that was its original position. The burial of Richard Alington in this chapel is due to the fact that his wife was sister of Sir William Cordell, Master of the Rolls, whom he named as one of his executors. The next monument is that of Edward, Lord Bruce of Kinloss, Master of the Rolls, who died 14th January 1611. It is mainly of alabaster, which in places shows traces of the original painting and gilding. The deceased is represented in a furred robe in a recumbent position, his head supported by his right arm, which rests upon a cushion. Below are four detached figures kneeling on cushions. ‘The smaller of those on the left is that of Christian, daughter of the deceased, so called because born on Christmas Day, 1596. She was married in the Rolls Chapel to William Cavendish, afterwards Karl of Devonshire, on 10th April 1608, being then ‘‘a pretty red-headed wench”’ of