The tomb of 19 year old Elizabeth Mayne
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The tomb of 19 year old Elizabeth Mayne
Image: © D Gore Taken: Unknown
Among the memorials in Hoggeston church is this fine 1599 stone and marble altar tomb at the east end of the south aisle. It is the grave of 19 year old Elizabeth Blythe, the first wife of Joseph Mayne of Creslow Manor Image She died in childbirth and on her tomb, which has on it the Arms of Mayne and Blythe and traces of colour, this sad little verse is inscribed :- "A fayre and vertuous wife, Whome once the husband held most deere, Dead in the flower of her age, Doth lye entombed here."
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