Monument St Dunstan’s Church, Stepney commemorating Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Pert d. 1541
Location
St Dunstan's Church, Stepney, London, England
Transcript
‘D.O.M. / HERE UNDER WAS LAID UP YE BODIE OF SIR THOMAS SPERT, KNIGHT, SOMETYME / COMPTROLLER OF THE NAVY TO K. HENRY / VIII. AND BOTH THE FIRST FOUNDER AND / MASTER OF THE WORTHIE SOCIETY OR / CORPORATION CALLED THE TRINITY HOUSE. HE / LIVED ENOBLED BY HIS OWN WORTH, AND / DYED YE 8TH OF SEPTEMB, IN YE YEAR 1541. TO WHOSE PIOUS / MEMORY YE SAID CORPORATION HATH /GRATEFULLY ERECTED THIS MEMORIALL.’, ‘NOT THAT HE NEEDED MONUMENTS OF STONE, / FOR HIS WELL-GOTTEN FAME TO REST UPON, /
BUT THIS WAS REARD TO TESTIFIE THAT HE / LIVES IN THEIR LOVES, THAT YET SURVIVING BE. / FOR UNTO VIRTUE WHICH FIRST RAISED HIS NAME / HE LEFT THE PRESERVATION OF THE SAME, / AND TO POSTERITY REMAIN IT SHALL / WHEN BRASS AND MARBLE MONUMENTS DO FALL. /LEARN FOR TO DIE WHILE THOU HAST BREATH. / SO SHALT THOU LIVE AFTER THY DEATH.’ [Base] ‘AN. 1622. BY THE COMPANY OF THE TRINITY HOWSE / THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED 81 YRS AFTER YE / DECEASE OF THEYR FOUNDER.’
Details
Type: Monument
Position: Chancel, south wall
People
Age:
Date of Death: 8/9/1541
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation: Trinity House
Extra
Bibliography: 'The Trinity House Flag', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 5, p.191 (Cambridge, 1919).