John Astley

“ Thus translated—
"Sacred to the memory of my sweetest and dearest Wife, Elizabeth, of my most distinguished mother Juditha, and three infant children ; erected by the most affectionate and sorrowful Husband, Son and Father, Joseph Moore, Doctor of Medicine at Oxford, A.D. 1640."
"Till the union of our kindred dust, he who is now a widower, strives not, asks not importunately for any better lot than to live and die and be like them. ”

“ Pray for the soul of Elizabeth Swillington, widow, the wife of Ralph Swillington, Attorney General of the Lord King Henry VIII., recorder of the City of Coventry, formerly the wife of Thomas Essex, esqre., which same Elizabeth died in the year of our Lord 15.. ”

“ This tomb formerly stood in the Drapers' Chapel. On the front in basso relievo are the figures of Nethmyl and his wife and ten children, in the attitude of prayer; between them a shield of arms impaling those of the Drapers' Company, (plate viii.) , above is a scroll, having the following inscription, springing from the shield and dividing the scroll is a representation of our Saviour on the Cross-
"Hic jacet Julianus Nethermyl, pan'ari', q'nda' Maior huj Civitas, qui obiit xi die me'sis Aprilis, an'o d’ni mvxxxix, et Johan'a uxor eju', quoru' a' i'abus propitietur Deus. ”