Aspeden
by Sir Henry Chauncy Vol I pages 240 to 252 first published in 1700
London. Merchant; by whom she had Issue, living at her Decease, Francis Flyer, of Brent Pelham in this County; her second Husband was William Freman of London, Merchant, who died the 23d. of Aug. Ammo Dom. 1623. Aged 68 Years, and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Michael, Cornhill, London; by him she left Issue living Ralph Freman, Esq. Jane the Wife of Thomas Soame of Throcking Esq. and Dame Elizabeth, Wife to Sir Samuel Luke, Kt. she departed this natural Life the 17th. of June, 1633. Aged 67 Years.
Another Monument in the same Wall.
Non procul a Marmore hoc positae sunt Exuviae Radulphi Fremani Armigeri et Mariae Uxoris ejus Filiae Domini Guilielmi Hewyt, Equitis aurati, quae cum septem Filios Radum, Gulielmum, Thomam, Henricum, Johannem, Carolum, Robertum, et quinque Filias peperisset Elizabetham, Uxorem Honoratissimi Gulielmi Mountague Armigeri; Mariam Uxorem Gulielmi Barber, Arm. Annam Uxorem Georgii Pike, Arm. Margarettam quae virgo obiit, et Susannam Uxorem Petri Soame Armigeri, vicessimo quinto die Novembris aetat suae 35. Annoq; a Nato Dom. 1644. Tale consumpta animam exhalavit. llle autem cum sex e duodecim liberis sepulchro condidisset 28 Julii 65 aetat. suae. An. Dom. 1665. cum diu arthidrite et calculo laborasset functus est fatosuo.
Beneath this Monument lye two Marbles with these Inscriptions.
Radus et Maria Fieman quibus idem animus cum vixerint, erat, eodem jam mortui gaudent sepulchro.
Here resteth, expecting the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Body of Elizabeth Freman, Widow, who departed this life the 17th. of June, An. 1633. Aged 67 Years.
An Inscription on the Outside of the South Wall of the Church in the
Church Yard.
Near this Place in hope of a glorious Resurrection, lyes the Body of John Ward, Gent. who was bury'd Jan. 17th. 1655 and Martha his Wife, Who was bury'd March 7th. 1645. They had Sons John, Seth, Clement; and Daughters Martha, Mary, and Katherine; Seth was made Bishop of Exeter, 1662. and thence translated to Sarum, 1667. He erected this Memorial. An, Dom. 1669.
This Seth was born in this Vill on the 15th Day of April, 1617. Educated in the Free-school at Buntingford, under Mr. John Meriton, an eminent Divine, then Master, thence he was removed to Sidney Colledge in Cambridge, where he was Servitor to Dr. Samuel Ward, Master of that House, who advanced him to a Schollarship there. His Genius then tended much to the Mathematicks, which came as it was naturally to him, he was afterwards preferred to a Fellowship in the same House; he delighted much in the Acquaintance of Mr. Charles Scarborough, an hard Student in Mathematicks, and Fellow of Gonvill and Caius Colledge in Cambridge; they were the first that read the Clavis Mathematica to their Pupils in that University; Anno 1643, he with the Master and several others of Sidney Colledge were removed from their several Places to a Prison in St. John's Colledge for their Loyalty to King Charles I.; about which time he, Mr. Peter Gunning, Mr. Isaac Barrow, John Barwick, &c. did write a well pen'd Treatise against the Covenant, which was publisht; after his Release from Imprisonment, he was kindly entertained by that worthy Gentleman Ralph Freman of Aspeden, Esq.; when the civil War ceased, he was retain'd in the Quality of a Chaplain by Thomas Lord Wenman of Thame Park in Oxfordshire. Anno 1649 he was made Master of Arts in Oxford, and Astronomy Professor. He proceeded Doctor in Divinity. Anno 1656 he obtained the Cantorship of the Church of Exeter, and in the Year following was elected by the Fellows of Jesus Colledge in Oxford, to be their Principal, but Francis Howel of Exeter Colledge, an Independent, got it from him by his Interest used to Oliver Lord Protector. Anno 1660 he was made Rector of St. Lawrence, in the Old Jury, London and about the same time admitted a Member of the Royal Society, soon after Dean of Exeter, where in a short time he obtain'd the Favour and Affection of the neigh¬bouring Gentry; Anno 1662, by the Endeavour of a considerable Party of them, who were of the House of Commons, was advanced to the Sea (in the Room of Dr. Gauden, who was translated to Worcester,) where he was consecrated the 26th of July, 1662, but continu'd few Years there, for he was translated to Salisbury, on the 12th of Sept. 1667, and he was made Chancellor of the Garter, on the 25th of Novemb. 1671. He wrote divers learned Trea¬tises, too many here to insert; he gave a considerable Sum of Money about 1672 towards the making of the River of Salisbury Navigable to Christ-Church in Hampshire; he bestowed 1000l. on Sidney-Colledge in Cambridge, Anno 1679; he built an Hospital or Colledge at Salisbury, in 1683 for Entertainment of ten poor Widows of Ministers of God's Word: In the same Year a great Controversie arose between this Bishop and Dr. Thomas Pearse, Dean of the same Church, occasion'd by the Denial of a Prebend to his Son Robert, notwithstanding the Bishop had promised the Re¬version before to another, and in Revenge hereof this Doc¬tor rais'd a Controversie by maintaining that the King, not the Bishop had the Right of disposing the Dignities of that Church, which Controversie the Doctor carried on with that black and dismal Malice, that it did so much discompose the Bishop, that by Degrees his Spirits were exhausted, his Memory perisht, and he died at his House at Knightsbridge near London, on Sunday Morning the 6th of January, 1688, and his Body was convey'd to Salisbury, and bury'd in the Cathedral there.
Those were call'd Archbishops and Bishops in our Law, who held of the King, Farmes of the Church per Baroniam, for they were accounted to take their Baronies by the Alms of the King, although the Farmes themselves were granted often by the Bounty of others.
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