Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Lambeth
- Town
- Lambeth
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- 16th Century Wars (1500-1599)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 56680
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Current location
In storage. Formerly the Church of St Mary at Lambeth.
Garden Museum
Lambeth Palace Road
Lambeth
Lambeth
Greater London
SE1 7LB
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 30591 79015
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- On a board a brass figure in armour with his hands together in prayer, with the Clare family coat of arms above the engraved figure. There was a tablet with the dedicatory inscription written by Earl of Surry but it is now missing.
- Inscription
- Epitaphium Thome Clere, qui/ fato functus est 1545, auctore/ HENRICO HOWARD, comite Surry/ in cujus felicis ingenii specimen, &/ singularis facundiae argumetum,/ appensa fuit haec tabala per/ W. HOWARD, ilium Thomae nuper/ Ducis Norfolciensis, filii ejusdem/ HENRICI Comitis/ Norfolke sprung thee, Lambeth holds thee dead,/ Clere of the Count of Cleremont thou hight!/ Within the wombe of Ormond's race though bred,/ And Sawest thy cosin crowned in thy sight./ Shelton, for love, Surrey for Lord thou chase,/ Aye me! While life did last, that league was tender,/ Tracing whose steps thoug sawest Kelsall blase,/ Laundersey burnt, and batter'd Bulleyn render/ At Muttrell gates, hopeless of all recure,/ Thine Earle, halfe head, gave in they hand his will,/ Which cause did thee this pining death procure,/ Ere summers four times seven thou could fulfull./ Aye, Clere, if love had booted care or cost,/ Heaven had not wonne, nor earth to timely lost.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Clere, Thomas
See details - Commemorations
- 16th Century Wars (1500-1599)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- 16th Century Wars (1500-1599)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass, Stone
- Board
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- History of Lambeth by Allen, Thomas 115 / 1826
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