Wall monument at All Saints Church, Chelsea commemorating Anne Chamberlayne d. 1691
Location
All Saints Church, Chelsea, London, England
Transcript
'HIC JUXTA IN CONDITORIO JACET ANNA / EDVARDI CHAMBERLAYNE, L.L.D. FILIA UNICA / LONDINI NATA XX JANUARII, 1667 / QUAE DIU SPETO CONNUBIO, MAGNA QUE / SUPRA SEXTUM ET AETATEM MOLIENS / XXX JUNII, 1690 / CONTRA FRANCI GENAS ARMIS HABITUQUE VIRILI, / IN RATE FLAMIFERA SEX HORAS SUB DUCE FRATRE / PUGNAVIT, DUM VIRGO FUIT; DUM CASTA VIRAGO / HEROUM POTERIT STIRPEM GENERARE MARINAM / NI PRAEMATURIS FATIS ABREPTA FUISSET / REDUX AB ISTA NAVALI PUGNA, AC POST ALIQUOT MENSES NUPTA / JOANNI SPRAGGE, ARMIGERO / QUOCUM VIXIT AMANTISSIMI SESQUI ANNUM; TANDEM ENIXA / FILIAM, POST PAUCOS DIES OBIT, XXX OCTOBRIS, 1692 / HOC MONUMENTUM UXORI CHARISSIMAE, NEC NON / PUDICISSIMAE, PONI CURAVIT MARITUS, MOETISSIMUS' [In an adjoining vault lies ANNE only daughter of EDWARD CHAMBERLAYNE, doctor of law, born in London, the 20th January 1667 who having long declined marriage and aspiring to great achievements, unusual to her sex and age, on the 30th June, 1690, on board a FIRE SHIP in mans cloathing, as a second Pallas, chaste and fearless, fought valiantly six hours against the French, under the command of her brother - snatched alas! how soon, by sudden death, unhonoured by a progeny like himself worthy to rule the main! -Returned from the engagement after some few months she married to JOHN SPRAGG, Esq with whom for sixteen more, she lived most amicably happy. At length in childbed of a daughter she encountered death 30th October 1691. This monument for a consort most virtuous and dearly beloved, was erected by her husband]
Details
Position: South west corner
People
Age:
Date of Death: 30/10/1691
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Recorder: Elizabeth Nellist 1983