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The Antiquities of this Place have been carefully searched forby the present Owner, Mr. Charles Wren , who, among otherCuriosities, discovered a Cornelian, and in another Part a fairUrn, {hut up. in a round Wall, and within that a Vessel of

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ExScl £ di ’ r Geoffry Wren , Brother of William Wren of Sberborne~hcuffc ywas an Instance of a very remarkable Character, who becameConfessor, and Privy-counsellor to two Kings successively, KingHenry the seventh, and King 'Henry the eighth : Canon of theroyal Chapel of St. George at Windsor , Anno'Domini 1515, andFounder of the seventh Stall there. He died A. r D. 1527, andlies interred in the North-aile of the Choir, under his Effigies*in Brass, with Tabernacle-work about it, upon a large MarbleStone, near the Earl of Huntington s Tomb.

;r/ 5 /ir' Co11 ’ hst s Anniversary, or Obit y was heretofore held and celebratedAftmoieo / the on the filth Day of April.

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pciiæ de a * Sedente pro tribunali Domino Richardo Sydnor, locum tenentemnd/er. decani^ comparuerunt generos viri Francifcus et Antonius fratresvenerabilis viri Galfridi Wren, hujus capellæ canonici; feptimœffedis fundatoris [R. R. Hen. VII. et Hen. VIII. a confejfionibuset consliis ;] et petierunt cojtcedi Jibi facultatem adminijlrandi bonadiSH Domini Galfridi nuper defunSli.

Siti?c d ir Francis Wren above-mentioned, one of the two youngerBrothers of Geoffry , was Steward to Mary, Queen of Scotlajidand Dowager of France, while she lived in England.

Dugdaie’, In the Chancel of the Church of Withibrook in the County ofWarwickshire, Warveick, lieth a fair Marble, with Plates of Brass on it, repre-*' l4 °' fenting a Gentleman of this Family and his Wife, with this In-scription-- .

" Of your Charity pray for the Saullis of Chris offer W^en," Gentleman, and Chrisian his Wife; the which Chrisofer de-" ceaffide the xxv Day of November , in the Year of the Lord" MCCCCCXLIII. on whose Saullis, and all Christian Saullis," ffefu have Mercy. Amen."

Chrisopher

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