Memorial: M3328

Effigy Tomb at St Michael’s Church, Oxnead, Norfolk commemorating Admiral Sir Clement Paston d. 1598

Location

St Michael's Church, Oxnead, Norfolk, England

Transcript

'YOU THAT BEHOLDE THIS STATLY MARBLE TOMBE / AND LONGE TO KNOWE WHO HERE ENTOMBED LIES / HERE RESTS Y CORPS, & SHALL TILL DAY OF DOMBE / OF CLEMMENT PASTON FORTUNAT, AND WISE / FOURTH SONE TO OLDERS WILLIAM PASTON KNIGHT / WHO DWELS WITH GOD IN SPHERE OF CHRISTAL BRIGHT / OF BRUTUS RACE PRINCES HE SERVED FOWRE / IN PEACE & WARR AS FORTUNE DID COMMAND / SOMETIME BY SEA, AND SOMETIME ONE THE SHORE / THE FRENCHE AND SCOTT HE OFTEN DID WITHSTANDE / HE TOKE IN FIGHT, & BROUGHT HIM HOME IN FETTERS / OXNETT HE BUILTE WHEREIN HE LIVED LONGE / WITH GREATE RENOWNE FOR FEDINGE OF THE POORE / TO FRENDES A FREND OF FOES HE TOKE NO WRONGE / TWICE FORTIE YEARS HE LIV'D & SOMEWHAT MORE / AND AT THE LAST BY DOMBE OF HIS BEHESTE / HIS SOULE IN HEAVEN HIS BODY HERE DOTH REST.'

Details

Description: Sir Clement Paston’s effigy dressed in armour, is placed on a fine marble tomb chest with white, black and red marble. His head is resting on carved marble woven matting rolled into a pillow. An effigy of his wife, Lady Alice Paston, is shown praying in kneeling position on the left-hand side of the tomb. She is placed between two family coat of arms.
Type: Tomb
Materials: Marble

People

Paston, Clement
Age: c. 83
Date of Death: 18/2/1598
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Sir Clement Paston was a sea captain who served Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Henry VIII called Paston his ‘champion’. Sir Clement died childless and his lands were left to his nephew, Sir William Paston.

Photographer: Pippa Lacey, 2018

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters