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Title
Monument to Sir Anthony Browne (c.1500–1548)
Date
1592
Medium
marble & alabaster
Measurements
H 345 x W 300 x D 195 cm
Accession number
GU29_JD_S012
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Montague Family
Work type
Monument
Owner
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
Custodian
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
Work status
extant
Access
time restrictions apply
Access note
church opening times
Inscription description
front of cuboid structure above middle arch, inset lead letters into plaque: HERE LYETH YE BODYE OF YE RIGHT HONORABLE / ANTHONIE BROWNE VICOUNT MOUNTAGUE CHIEFE / STANDARDBEARER OF ENGLAND & KNIGHT OF YE / HONORABLE ORDER OF YE GARTER WHEREOF HE WAS / ANCIENST AT HIS DEATH & ONE OF YE HONORABLE / PRIVYE COUNCELL TO QUEEN MARIE WHO AS HE / WAS NOBLYE DESCENDED FROM YE LADYE LUCYE / HIS GRANDMOTHER ONE OF YE DAUGHTERS & CO- / HEYRES OF LORD IHON NEVILL MARQUES MOUN- / TAGUE SO HE WAS PERFECTLY ADORNED WITH ALL / YE VIRTUES OF TRUE NOBILITYE & IN YE 66 YERE / OF HIS AGE HE ENDED HIS LYFE AT HIS HOWSE AT / HORSLEY IN SURREY YE 19 OF OCTOBER 1592 / & IN YE 34 YERE OF YE RAIGNE OF OURE MOST / SOVERAIGNE LADY Q ELIZABETH; front of sarcophagus, inset lead letters into left hand plaque: HERE LYETH YE BODIE OF YE LADYE IANE RATCLIFFE ONE OF / YE DAUGHTERS OF ROBART EARL OF SUSSEX WHO ENDED / HER LYFE AT COWDRY Ao Do 1552 YE 22 OF IULYE & WAS / OF YE AGE OF 20 YEARES & YE FIRST WYFFE OF ANTHONY / VICOUNT MOUNTAGUE HERE BURYED BY WHOME HE HAD ISSUE / ONE SONNE ANTHONY BROWNE ESQUIER DECEASED & HERE / LIKEWISE BURIED WHICH ANTHONY WAS FATHER UNTO AN / THONY VICOUNT MOUNTAGUE NOW LIVINGE. HE HAD ALSO / BY HER ONE DAUGHTER MARYE BROWNE YET LIVINGE WHO / WAS MARIED FIRST TO HENRY WRYTHEOSTEY EARLE OF / SOUTHAMPTON & AFTER TO SR THOMAS HENEAGE / KNIGHT VICE-CHAMBERLAN TO Q ELIZA- / BETH & ONE OF YE HONORABLE / PRIVIE COUNCELL; front of sarcophagus, inset lead letters into middle plaque: THIS HONORABLE MAN IN YE YERE 1553 WAS / IMPLOYED BY Q MARIE IN AN HONORABLE / AMBASSAGE TO ROME WITH DOCTOR THYRL- / BIE BISSHOPE OF ELYE WHICH HE PERFORMED / TO HIS GREATE HONOR & COMMENDATION / & YE SECONDE YERE AFTER HE SERVED Q / MARIE AS HER MAIESTIES LIUETENANT / OF YE ENGLISH FORCES AT YE SIEGE OF / ST QUINTINES. / IN YE YERE 1559 Q ELYZABETH SENT / HIM AMBASSADOUR INTO SPAINE TO KINGE / PHILIPP & LKEWISE 1565 & 1566 TO YE DUCHES / OF PARMA THEN REGENT OF YE LOWE / COUNTRIES ALL WHICH HE EFFECTED / BOTH WISELYE & HONORABLYE TO YE / SERVICE OF GOD HIS PRINCE & / COUNTRIE.; front of sarcophagus, inset lead letters into right hand plaque: ANTHONY VICOUNT MOUNTAGUE TOOK TO HIS / SECONDE WYFFE MAGDALEN DACRE, ONE OF YE / DAUGHTERS OF WILLIAM DACRE, KNIGHT LORD / DACRE, GRAYSTOCK & GYLESLAND, & LORD WARDEN / OF YE WEST MARCHES OF ENGLAND FOR ANEMPSTE / SCOTELANDE, BY WHOME HE HAD ISSUE 5 SONNES / PHILIPP WILLIAM SR GEORGE BROWNE KNIGHT, / THOMAS & HENRYE & 3 DAUGHTERS, ELIZABETH / MABELL, & IANE WHEROF PHILIPP WILLIAM / THOMAS & MABELL DEPARTED THIS / LYFF BEFORE THEIR FATHER.; brass inscribed plaque with painted letters, affixed to the wall to the right of the tomb: THE MONUMENT / IN MEMORY OF SIR ANTHONY BROWNE / FIRST VISCOUNT MOUNTAGUE K.G. / WHO DIED 19TH OCTOBER 1592 AGED 65, / FORMERLY STOOD OVER THE FAMILY VAULT IN THE / CHANCEL OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF MIDHURST, / WHENCE IT WAS REMOVED IN THE YEAR 1851 TO THE / POSITION IN THIS CHURCH WHERE IT NOW STANDS. / THE MONUMENT IS SURMOUNTED BY THE / SCULPTURED FIGURES OF SIR ANTHONY & HIS / TWO WIVES THE LADY IANE RADCLIFFE [DAUGHTER / OF ROBERT EARL OF SUSSEX] WHO DIED AT / COWDRAY 22ND IULY 1552. & MAGDALEN DACRE / [DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM LORD DACRE.] / THIS TABLET WAS PLACED IN EASEBOURNE CHURCH IN / THE YEAR 1883 BY IOHN POYNTZ EARL SPENCER K.G. / LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND GRANDSON OF THE / HONBLE ELIZABETH MARY POYNTZ WHO DIED 30TH DECR / 1830, SHE WAS THE ONLY SISTER OF GEORGE SAMUEL / 8TH VISCOUNT MOUNTAGUE WHO DIED IN 1793.