Memorial at St Olave’s Church, Hart Street, London commemorating Thomas Morley d. 1566
Location
St Olave's Church, Hart Street, London, England
Transcript
'Man by lyinge downe in his bedde to reste / Signifieth layed in grave by suggeste / Man by sleepinge in his cowche by nighte / Betokeneth the corps in grave withowte spirite / And by risinge againe from reste and sleepe / Betokeneth resurrection of bodie and soule to meete, / when atropos divideth bodie and soule a sonder / thone to thearth thother to heaven wthowte encom[ber] / grante us his grace to be ready to passe / at the hower of deathe with his in spririte to solace / That we maye have or eares attente to heere ye trumpes sounde / Sayinge aryse yee dedde and cume to thy doome / To the blessed joifull, and to the cursed veh and woe, / and to the electe heaven & to the reprobate inferno; / Mr Thomas Morley gentellman & Clarke of ye Quenes / Maiesties storehowse of deptford & one of ye officers of ye / Quenes M'ies Navye deceassed ye 20 daye of July 1566'
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Date of Death: 20/7/1566
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Clerk
Organisation: HM Dockyard, Deptford, Royal Navy
Extra
Recorder: David Proctor