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The Monuments of St Martin's Cathedral: St Katharine's, or the Herrick Chapel, Floor Slabs

William Bent

William Bent gent / Son and heir of William / Bent late of this Borough / Gent.
deceased by Elizabeth / His wife also deceased / He departed this life /
December 10 1726 / Aetatis suae 31.

Robert Herrick

Here lyeth the body of Robert Heyrick / Ironmonger and Alderman of Leicester who /
Had been twice Maior thereof. He was eldest / Son to John Heyrick and Marie; and /
Had 2 sons and 9 daughters by one / Wife with whom he lived for 51 years. /
At his death he gave 16 pounds / 10 shillings a yeare to good uses /
He lived 78 years; and after dyed very / Godly the 14th of June in the year 1618 /
All flesh is grasse; both yonge and old must die / And so we passe to judgement by and by.

Robert Heyrick was elected as one of the town’s two Members of Parliament in 1568, the year after he had joined the Corporation. Mayor of the town in 1584, 1593 and 1605, he lived with his wife Elizabeth Manby, whom he married in 1568, in a house on the site of the dissolved Grey Friars Monastery opposite Saint Martin's church.

The North and South Chapels
Of this Church were rebuilt
AD 1865
Raphael Brandon Architect
William Neale & Sons Builders.
The building firm of William Neale & Sons
was based near St Martin's at
6 Peacock Lane.

Anne Turville
Anne Turville, wife of
Richard Turville gent
And second daughter of William Bent
Gent. Died May 1 1718
In the 27th year of her age.
The arms: Gules, three chevrons vaire (Turville) impaling Azure, on a fess Or, between six bezants three hurts (Bent).

Katharine Herrick
Here lies interred Katharine
The wife of Thomas Herrick
Of this Borough gentleman and
Daughter of Robert Bakewell of
Swepston in this county gentleman
Deceased by Ruth his wife.
She departed this life March 26 1730
aged 23.
Here also lie Katharine and Martha
Two of the daughters of the said
Thomas by the said Katharine his wife
Aged about one week each.
Arms: Argent, a fess vair Or and Gules (Herrick) impaling Paly of six Argent and Azure on a chief Gules, a lion passant regardant Or (Bakewell).

William Herrick

Sir William Heyrick was / Here buried March 8 / 1652. / Here also lies interred /
Martha the daughter of the / Said Thomas Herrick by Martha /
His wife who departed this life / The 25th day of December Anno Dom /
1722 aetat 5 months.
This ancient monument was once fitted with brasses, which sadly
have now disappeared.

Joan Herrick

Here / Are the remains of / Joanne Catherine Herrick / Who departed this life / The 26th day of September 1774 / aged 71 years. / She was daughter of / Samuel Herrick MA / Fourteen years a member of / Trinity College Cambridge / And thirty-nine years Rector of / Loddington in Northamptonshire.

Samuel and Ann Barwell

Here lieth interred the body of Samuel Barwell / Late of the Borough of Leicester /
gent. Who departed this life 24th June 1720 / Aged 57 years; who married for his first wife / Jane, the daughter of William Major, late of / The same Borough gent; and
for his second, / Anne, the widow of Babington Bradley late / Of the same Borough M.D. and daughter of / Robert Newton. of the City of London, grocer, / By whom he had issue one only daughter viz Anne. / Here also lieth Anne the wife of the said / Samuel Barwell who died 4th May 1723 aged 47.

The arms: Argent, three martlets between two bars Gules (Barwell) impaling Argent, on a chevron Azure, three garbs Or (Newton)

Elizabeth Fisher

Here lyeth interred the body of Elizabeth / Wife of Thomas Fisher gent of Repton in the / County of Derby and daughter of / Mr Samuel Woodland by Mary his wife /
Who died 8th June 1735 aged 37.

John Farmer

Here lieth the body / Of John Farmer second son / Of Thomas Farmer gent / And Elizabeth his wife / Who departed this life the 21st / Of March 1711 aged four /
Years and six months.

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