File:Inscription MonumentalBrass WilmotaGiffard Died1581 StSaviour'sChurch TorMohun Devon.xcf

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English: Latin inscription on monumental brass of Wilmota Giffard (1540/1-1581), St Saviour's Church, Tor Mohun (about 2 inches of left side of brass sheared off):

(Hic) tumulatur Wilmota Cary uxor Georgii Cary
(de C)ockington Armigeri filia et unica heres .s.
(Joha)nnis Gifforde de Yeo Armigeri quae postquam
(filio)s duos filiasq(ue) tres ex marito suscepit in
(Dom)ino obdormivit ... die Junii Anno D(omi)ni 1581

Which may be translated: "Here is buried Wilmota Cary, the wife of George Cary, Esquire, of Cockington, daughter and sole heiress of John Giffard, Esquire, of Yeo, who after she had received from her husband two sons and three daughters she went to sleep in the Lord on the (21st) day of June in the year of our Lord 1581".

Source (with corrections): Fairfax Harrison (of Belvoir House, Fauquier County, Virginia), The Devon Carys, 2 vols., New York, 1920, vol.1, p.198, note 2.[1].

Wilmota Giffard (1540/1-1581) was the daughter and heiress of John Giffard of Yeo Vale in the parish of Alwington, Devon. She married as her second husband George Cary (1541-1616) of Cockington, Devon, Lord Deputy of Ireland 1603-4.
Date photo c.2018
Source Self-photographed
Author Lobsterthermidor (talk) 13:34, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 
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