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English: Chest tomb of George Slee (d.1 September 1613), merchant, St Peter's Church, Tiverton, Devon. George Slee of the Great House, Peter Street, Tiverton, was a wealthy merchant and founded Slee's Almshouses, next to his mansion house in Peter Street. The sides of the chest tomb are decorated with strapwork panels. Also displays Caryatids in the form of natives of the New World, or possibly Africa, with which regions he traded. The thick ledger stone on top is inscribed in Gothic lettering as follows: "Here under lieth buried the body of George Slee of Tiverton, marchant, who departed this life the first daie of September anno Domini 1613 ..... He gave by his will, to be distributed to the poorest people of Tiverton, £50; to the parish church and
church-yard of Tiverton, £10; to and for the building of an alms-house, for six poor, aged, and honest women, and to purchase rents for their maintenance, at 12d. the week to each of them, £500; to fifty poor crafts-men, of good and honest fame, 100£; to the poorest, honest, and painfullest labourers in Tiverton, 10£; to the parish church of Coleridge, for the relief and keeping on work of the poorest people there, 10£; to the poor of the parish of Halberton, 40s; to the poor of the parish of Uplowman, 40s. He left behind him living, two sons and three daughters."[1] |
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circa 2014 date QS:P,+2014-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Author | Lobsterthermidor (talk) 20:57, 21 April 2017 (UTC) |
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