First Lord Petre, son of Sir William Petre and his second wife, Anne, and grandson of John Peter of Tor Bryan, Devonshire.
John, Lord Petre was created Baron of Writtle in 1603.
He married Mary Waldegrave.
A superb monument of this family is in the chapel. It is eighteen feet high, and fourteen feet wide, composed of various kinds of marble.
It is surmounted by a noble arch, which is supported by four pillars of black marble, and four of porphyry. Under the arch are the full-length statues of the noble lord and his lady, kneeling, with a book open before them; and beneath them the inscription in Latin.
Between the pillars that support the arch on the left is the statue of the peer who raised this memorial of filial affection, and beneath him are effigies of his eight sons. Between the pillars on the right is the effigy of his wife, the daughter of Lord Somerset, Earl of Worcester; and beneath her are their five little daughters – the whole presenting a beautiful object of interest and art.
John, Lord Petre was created Baron of Writtle in 1603.
He married Mary Waldegrave.
A superb monument of this family is in the chapel. It is eighteen feet high, and fourteen feet wide, composed of various kinds of marble.
It is surmounted by a noble arch, which is supported by four pillars of black marble, and four of porphyry. Under the arch are the full-length statues of the noble lord and his lady, kneeling, with a book open before them; and beneath them the inscription in Latin.
Between the pillars that support the arch on the left is the statue of the peer who raised this memorial of filial affection, and beneath him are effigies of his eight sons. Between the pillars on the right is the effigy of his wife, the daughter of Lord Somerset, Earl of Worcester; and beneath her are their five little daughters – the whole presenting a beautiful object of interest and art.
First Lord Petre, son of Sir William Petre and his second wife, Anne, and grandson of John Peter of Tor Bryan, Devonshire.
John, Lord Petre was created Baron of Writtle in 1603.
He married Mary Waldegrave.
A superb monument of this family is in the chapel. It is eighteen feet high, and fourteen feet wide, composed of various kinds of marble.
It is surmounted by a noble arch, which is supported by four pillars of black marble, and four of porphyry. Under the arch are the full-length statues of the noble lord and his lady, kneeling, with a book open before them; and beneath them the inscription in Latin.
Between the pillars that support the arch on the left is the statue of the peer who raised this memorial of filial affection, and beneath him are effigies of his eight sons. Between the pillars on the right is the effigy of his wife, the daughter of Lord Somerset, Earl of Worcester; and beneath her are their five little daughters – the whole presenting a beautiful object of interest and art.
John, Lord Petre was created Baron of Writtle in 1603.
He married Mary Waldegrave.
A superb monument of this family is in the chapel. It is eighteen feet high, and fourteen feet wide, composed of various kinds of marble.
It is surmounted by a noble arch, which is supported by four pillars of black marble, and four of porphyry. Under the arch are the full-length statues of the noble lord and his lady, kneeling, with a book open before them; and beneath them the inscription in Latin.
Between the pillars that support the arch on the left is the statue of the peer who raised this memorial of filial affection, and beneath him are effigies of his eight sons. Between the pillars on the right is the effigy of his wife, the daughter of Lord Somerset, Earl of Worcester; and beneath her are their five little daughters – the whole presenting a beautiful object of interest and art.
Inscription
"John Lord Petre, of Writtle, son of that William who was Privy Council to four sovereigns, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth, and was likewise despatched as Ambassador seven times to Foreign Princes, and co-founder of Exeter College, in Oxford."
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