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Memorial: M5224

Memorial in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, commemorating William Keeling d. 1619

Location

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, England

Transcript

'HEERE LIETH THE BODDY OF THE RIGHT WORTHY / WILLIAM KEELING ESQUIRE GROOME OF THE CHAMBER / TO OUR SOVERAIGNE KINGE JAMES GENERALL FOR THE [HON] EA / ST INDIAE ADVENTURORS WHETHER HE WAS TH[R]ICE BY / THEM IMPLOYD AND DYINGE IN THIS ISLE AT THE AGE / OF 42 ANNO 1619 SEPT 19 HATH THIS REMEMBRANCE / HEER FIXED BY HIS LOVEING & SORROWFULL / WIFE ANNE KEELING / Fortie and two yeares, in this Vessell fraile / On the Rough seas of life did Keling saile, / A Merchant Fortunate, A Captaine bould, / A Courtier gratious, yet (Alas) not Old. / Such Wealth, experiene, honour & high praise / Few Winne in Twice soe manie yeares or daies. / But what the World Admird, he deemd but drosse / For Christ; Without Christ all his gaines but losse. / For him, and his deare loue, With merrie Cheere /
To the holy Land, his last course he did Steere. / Faith servd for Sailes, the Sacred Word for card / Hope was his Anchor, Glorie his Reward, / And thus with gales of grace, by happie venter, / Through straights of Deaths, heavens harbor he did Enter.'

Details

Description: Painted and gilded wooden board with four shields of arms above the inscription. Between them, a roundel depicting a ship with death at the prow, carrying a banner inscribed 'POST MORTEM', Fame seated in the stern holds out a laurel wreath over the head of a military commander seated in the waist.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: Nave
Materials: Wood?

People

Keeling, William
Age: 42
Date of Death: 1619
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain
Organisation: Honourable East India Company

Extra

Bibliography: 'NADFAS Church Recorders news and Views'2004 p.26.
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