| From the aforesayd Richard Bennet & his wife S<sup>r</sup>. Richard Boyle purchased the sayd Chappel and still keeps it in good repaire to conserve a fair monument of various colour’d marble and curious artifice erected to the memory of his and his honourable Lady’s family. Wherein the chiefest Figures lying at length are these two, First that in highest place represents the thrice vertuous lady Alice Fenton, daughter to the honourable Doctor Robert Weston, once one of the Lords Justices of the Kingdome of Ireland and for 6 yeers Lord Chancellor of the same: wife to Sir Geoffrey Fenton K<sup>nt</sup>, Principall Secretary of State in Ireland who served Queen Elizabeth and King James in that Quality 27 yeers, and mother to the lady Katherine Countess of Cork: she died the 29 of May 1631. Whose Effigies is made kneeling opposite to that of S<sup>r</sup> Geoffries in that splendid monument erected by the Earle of Cork in St PATRICKS Church DUBLIN and which I have sketched off page. <br/>The second principall Figure is that of S<sup>r</sup> Richard Boyle Lord Boyle &c Earle of Cork, underneath the Arch leaning on a cushion on his left side in armour with his Robe of Peer, & his right hand upon the hilt of his sword. <br/>Over his head are the Escutcheons Pedegree and Matches of his sons and daughters, which (being in that compass too small) I have described at large page [blank space] The Arches at his head and feet conteine his two Wives Joan the daughter & coheire of William Apsley Esq<sup>r</sup>. and the other of Katherine daughter of y<sup>e</sup> s<sup>d</sup> S<sup>r</sup> Geoffrey Fenton, by whom he had issue 7 sons and 8 daughters. some of whose figures are described in the following monument in little. The Inscriptions of the monument at large are on the other side this leafe. [p. 224] <br/><br/>RICHARDUS BOYLE MILES DOMINUS BOYLE BARO DE YOGHALL VICE COMES DUNGARVAN COMES CORCAGIENSIS DOMINUS SUMMUS HUJUS REGNI HIBERNIAE THESAURARIUS ET DE PRIVATO CONSILIO DOMINI REGIS TAM ANGLIAE QUAM HIBERNIAE EX ENTIQUISSIMA BOYLORUM FAMILIA HEREFORDIENSI ORIUNDUS QUI PATREM HABUIT ROGERUM BOYLE ARMIGERUM MATREM ITIDEM GENEROSAM IOHANNAM NAYLERAM E SOLO CANTIANO PROFECTAM CUMDUAS SIBI INVICE IUNXISSET UXORES PRIMAM IOHANNAM FILIAM ET COHEREDEM GULIELMI APSLEY ARMIGERI NULLA SUPERSITE PROLE, ALTERAM PRAECLARE FOECUNDAM CATHARINAM NATAM DOMINI GALFRIDI FENTONI EQUITIS REGIE MAJESTATI HOC REGNO A SECRETIS POSTQUAM VARIOS PRO REPUBLICA CEPISSET LABORES NEC IMMERITOS HONORES CONSCENDISSET IPSE IAM SEPTUAGINTA SEPTEM ANNOS NATOS AC MORTE IN DIES IMMINENTEM EXPECTANS SIBI ET POSTERIS HOC POSUIT MONUMENTUM SACRUM MEMORIAE <br/>IPSE DE SE SIC POSUI TUMULUM SUPEREST INTENDERE VOTIS PARCE ANIMAE, CARNEM SOLVITO, CHRISTE VENI<br/><br/>HIC IACET CORPUS REVERENDI PATRIS IOHANNIS BOYLE SACRAE THEOLOGIAE DOCTORIS EPISCOPI CORCAGIENSIS CLONENSIS ET ROSSENSIS AC FRATRIS MAIORIS NATU RICHARDI COMITIS CORCAGIAE &c. QUI OBIIT X DIE IULII AN. DOM. M.D.C.XX. AETAT. SUAE. L. <br/><br/>HAE ETIAM IACENT SEPULTAE ELIZABETHA ET MARIA BOYLE HAEC RICHARDI SMITH MILITIS ILLA PIERCII POWER ARMIGERI UXOR AMBAE SORORES PRAEDICTI RICHARDI DOMINI BOYLE CORCAGIAE COMITIS <br/><br/>HIC JACET PRAENOBILIS DAVID DNS BARRY PROCOMES BUTTEVANT PRIMUS COMES BARRYMORE COMMISSIONE REGINAE PRO GUBERNATIONE MOMONIAE PRIMO DESIGNATUS HEROS PRINCIPI ET CORONAE ANGLICANAE FIDELISSIMUS DE REPUBLICA DURANTE HIBERNICORUM REBELLIONE OPTIME MERENS VERAE QUE CHRISTIANAE RELIGIONIS CULTOR PRAECIPUUS QUI OBIIT XXIX DIE SEPT. MDCXLII ANNO AETATIS XXXVIII<br/><br/>At the bottom of these Inscripcons, is also the name of him who formed this Monument Thus. <br/>ALEXANDER HILLS SCULPSIT.<br/><br/>The Device under the Armes in highest place of the Monument is thus<br/>GODS PROVIDENCE IS OUR INHERITANCE. <br/><br/>[p. 225] <br/> [image: Boyle monument] <br/>The small Figures of the children have the time of their Births superscri{…} Thus <br/>ROGERUS BOYLE NATUS XVII DIE AUGUSTI MDCIV<br/>RICHARDUS BOYLE XX. DIE OCTOB. MDCXII<br/>GALFRIDUS BOYLE X. DIE APRILIS MDCXVI. This is made leaning on a skull or deaths head. <br/>LEWIS BOYLE NATUS XXIII DIE MAII M.DC.XIX<br/>ALICIA BOYLE N. XX. MARTII M.DC.VII. <br/>SARAH BOYLE N. XXIX MARTII M.D.C. <br/>LETITIA BOYLE N. XXV APR. M.DC.X. <br/>IOANA BOYLE N. XIV. IUNII MDCXI<br/>KATHERINA BOYLE XXII MARTII M.DC.14 <br/>DOROTHEA BOYLE DECEMB M.DC.XV. [pp. 223-225] |
