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Description: 1602 Monumental brass of Alice Lanyon (d.1591), wife of John Rashleigh (d.1582) of Menabilly and mother of John Rashleigh (d.1624); Fowey Church, Cornwall. Embedded in a stone in the nave of Fowey Church. Above her head is an indentation for a now lost brass heraldic escutcheon, and below her feet is a plate bearing the following inscription:(Dunkin, p.55) "Here lieth the bodie of Alice the wife of John Rashleigh Esq. and daughter of Will'm Lanyon Esq. who died the XXth day of August 1591 and her husband who lieth buried under the monument neare adjoyninge died the Xth day of August 1582. At the time of their deathes they left of their issue livinge one sonne & six daughters which sonne caused this stone to be made in remembraunce therof in the yere of Our Lord 1602"
Title: AliceRashleigh 1591 FoweyCornwall
Credit: Dunkin, Edwin Hadlow Wise, The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall with Descriptive, Geneaological and Heraldic Notes, 1882, plate XLV
Author: Drawn by Dunkin, Edwin Hadlow Wise
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