The following excerpt was taken from pages 187-188 of "The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour (St. Marie Overie), Southwark" written by the Rev. Canon Thompson, M.A., D.D., Rector and Chancellor of the Collegiate Church, as published by Ash & Company in 1904:
Translation from monument:
"William Austin, Esquire, dedicated, whilst living, this plot of ground to be the sepulchre of the remains of the best of mothers, Lady Joyce Clerke, and is destined to be the resting-place of himself and of his most excellent wife. Anna, his spouse, most bright and fair, is first sown, who, after her tenth child-bearing, on the 21st of January, in the year 1628, bade farewell, in her thirtieth year, to her husband and five surviving children. She is covered in this earth, unto the day and the hope of blossoming forth again; and the rest of us are following. 'Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption' (as it is written), she hath made a propitous sowing. The Lady Joyce, a most estimable matron was wedded to James Austin for twenty-two years, and after that for four years to Robert Clerke, a Knight of the Golden Spur, Baron of the Exchequer. For twenty years she remained in the state of widowhood, intent upon good works. She died at the age of 66, in the year of Salvation 1626, and here awaits the change of springing up once more to life in Christ in due season. Finally, William himself, laid aside here in the same hope brought this memorial to a conclusion, at the age of 47, in the year of Salvation 1633."
"He wrote some fugitive pieces of piety, and, on the death of his wife, he composed his own funeral sermon, in which he bewailed her loss...He soon recovered his spirits, however, in finding another better-half-a charming widow this time- to supply the place of the half of him that was missing."
Translation from monument:
"William Austin, Esquire, dedicated, whilst living, this plot of ground to be the sepulchre of the remains of the best of mothers, Lady Joyce Clerke, and is destined to be the resting-place of himself and of his most excellent wife. Anna, his spouse, most bright and fair, is first sown, who, after her tenth child-bearing, on the 21st of January, in the year 1628, bade farewell, in her thirtieth year, to her husband and five surviving children. She is covered in this earth, unto the day and the hope of blossoming forth again; and the rest of us are following. 'Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption' (as it is written), she hath made a propitous sowing. The Lady Joyce, a most estimable matron was wedded to James Austin for twenty-two years, and after that for four years to Robert Clerke, a Knight of the Golden Spur, Baron of the Exchequer. For twenty years she remained in the state of widowhood, intent upon good works. She died at the age of 66, in the year of Salvation 1626, and here awaits the change of springing up once more to life in Christ in due season. Finally, William himself, laid aside here in the same hope brought this memorial to a conclusion, at the age of 47, in the year of Salvation 1633."
"He wrote some fugitive pieces of piety, and, on the death of his wife, he composed his own funeral sermon, in which he bewailed her loss...He soon recovered his spirits, however, in finding another better-half-a charming widow this time- to supply the place of the half of him that was missing."
The following excerpt was taken from pages 187-188 of "The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour (St. Marie Overie), Southwark" written by the Rev. Canon Thompson, M.A., D.D., Rector and Chancellor of the Collegiate Church, as published by Ash & Company in 1904:
Translation from monument:
"William Austin, Esquire, dedicated, whilst living, this plot of ground to be the sepulchre of the remains of the best of mothers, Lady Joyce Clerke, and is destined to be the resting-place of himself and of his most excellent wife. Anna, his spouse, most bright and fair, is first sown, who, after her tenth child-bearing, on the 21st of January, in the year 1628, bade farewell, in her thirtieth year, to her husband and five surviving children. She is covered in this earth, unto the day and the hope of blossoming forth again; and the rest of us are following. 'Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption' (as it is written), she hath made a propitous sowing. The Lady Joyce, a most estimable matron was wedded to James Austin for twenty-two years, and after that for four years to Robert Clerke, a Knight of the Golden Spur, Baron of the Exchequer. For twenty years she remained in the state of widowhood, intent upon good works. She died at the age of 66, in the year of Salvation 1626, and here awaits the change of springing up once more to life in Christ in due season. Finally, William himself, laid aside here in the same hope brought this memorial to a conclusion, at the age of 47, in the year of Salvation 1633."
"He wrote some fugitive pieces of piety, and, on the death of his wife, he composed his own funeral sermon, in which he bewailed her loss...He soon recovered his spirits, however, in finding another better-half-a charming widow this time- to supply the place of the half of him that was missing."
Translation from monument:
"William Austin, Esquire, dedicated, whilst living, this plot of ground to be the sepulchre of the remains of the best of mothers, Lady Joyce Clerke, and is destined to be the resting-place of himself and of his most excellent wife. Anna, his spouse, most bright and fair, is first sown, who, after her tenth child-bearing, on the 21st of January, in the year 1628, bade farewell, in her thirtieth year, to her husband and five surviving children. She is covered in this earth, unto the day and the hope of blossoming forth again; and the rest of us are following. 'Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption' (as it is written), she hath made a propitous sowing. The Lady Joyce, a most estimable matron was wedded to James Austin for twenty-two years, and after that for four years to Robert Clerke, a Knight of the Golden Spur, Baron of the Exchequer. For twenty years she remained in the state of widowhood, intent upon good works. She died at the age of 66, in the year of Salvation 1626, and here awaits the change of springing up once more to life in Christ in due season. Finally, William himself, laid aside here in the same hope brought this memorial to a conclusion, at the age of 47, in the year of Salvation 1633."
"He wrote some fugitive pieces of piety, and, on the death of his wife, he composed his own funeral sermon, in which he bewailed her loss...He soon recovered his spirits, however, in finding another better-half-a charming widow this time- to supply the place of the half of him that was missing."
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