Old Cumbria Gazetteer - St John or St Stephen, Kirkby Stephen: Wharton Memorial


included in:-	St John or St Stephen, Kirkby Stephen
	St John or St Stephen, Kirkby Stephen: Wharton Memorial
locality type:-	church memorial
locality type:-	effigy

	CAQ42.jpg Wharton memorial (taken 9.5.2014)

evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag 1754
source data:-	goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1754 p.231 "...." "In an isle rail'd off near this monument, northward, is the vault of the honourable family of Wharton, which is now extinct, thro' the misconduct of the last possessor, remarkable for great natural abilities misapplied; there are some monuments, but the inscription was broken off at the east end; however, by the helf (sic) of a friend, I join'd the pieces, and found the whole as follows:" "Round the rim on the side edge at at top, the letters raised, with an effigy at large of himself and his two ladies." "Thomas Whartonus jacet hic et utraque conjuns Elinora suum hinc habet Anna locum, En tibi terra tuum carnes ac ossa resumem Coelos animas tu Deus alme tuum." "On the east end underneath," "Gens Whartonus genus dat honores dextera victrix In Scotos, Stapletona domus mihi quam dedit uxor Elionora jacet ter bina prole parentem Binam adimut teneris, binam juvenilibus annis Fata mihi dat, nominavi bina superstes Anna secunda uxor [oe]lebri est de gente †Salopum" " †Shrewsbury." "The reader will easily discover the puerility of the performance, as well with respect to the language as the poetry; but such as it is, it should be preserved in your Magazine, for a few years more will render it quite illegible on the stone." "This inscription has no date, but the person whom it commemorates is known to have been governor of Carlisle in the 33d of Henry VIII. to have beaten the Scots with a very few men the year following, in conjunction with Sir Wm Musgrave, and to have taken Dumfrize, for which services he was made baron of Wharton, a place which I shall have occasion to mention in my next. He died anno 1568, in the 10th year of Q Elizabeth" "This family and that of the Musgrave's were celebrated defenders of the northern frontiers for many years before the Scotch succession; the Wharton family liberally endow'd Kirkby-Stephen with a free school, but the salary is sequester'd by the purchaser of the family estate, till the trustees admit his choice of a master." "...."

evidence:-	old text:- Pennant 1773 item:- monument; Battle of Solway Moss
source data:-	Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801. goto source Pennant's Tour 1773, page 125 "...." "In a part of the church called Wharton-isle, belonging to Wharton-hall, is an altar-tomb, with the effigies of Thomas lord Wharton on the top in armour, with short hair and a long beard. On one side of him is his first wife Eleanor daughter of Bryan Stapleton esq. of Wighill, Yorkshire; on the other his second wife Anne daughter of George earl of Shrewsbury; the sleeves of one of the Ladies are of a most enormous length. This nobleman was Governor of Carlisle in the thirty-third of Henry VIII. and was greatly instrumental in the infamous defeat, or rather flight, of the Scots at Solway Moss; and in the first of the following reign, he, in concert with the Duke of Lenox, invaded Scotland, and destroyed Annan, the church of which was most obstinately defended. He died in 1568. The following inscriptions on the tomb give his history:" goto source Pennant's Tour 1773, page 126 ""Thomas Whartonus jaceo hic: Hic utraque conjux; Elionora suum hinc, hinc habet Anna locum. En tibi terra tuum, carnes ac ossa resume; Tu Caelos animas, tu Deus alme, tuum."" "At the east end of the tomb are these lines:" "Gens Whartona genus dat honores dextera victrix In Scotos. Stapletona domus mihi quam dedit uxor Elionora fecit ter bina prola parentum: Binam adimunt teneris, binam juvenilibis annis Fata mihi; dat nomen avi mihi bina superstes. Anna secunda uxor celebri est de genti Salopum.""

evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1785 p.969 "MR. URBAN," "ON the N. side of the chancel of the church of Kirkby Stephen, in Westmoreland, is an aisle belonging to the Wharton family, in which is a large monument of alabaster, consisting of a table six feet square, raised three feet and a half from the ground, and containing three figues, at full length, of Thomas, the first Lord Wharton, in the middle, under whose head is a bull's head, supposed by the common people to represent the devil in a vanquished posture; on his right side, Eleanor his first wife, and on his left his second wife Anne. About the table is the following legend:" "Thomas Whartonus jaceo. hic utraque conjux: Eleanora suum hinc, hinc habet Anna locum. En tibi terra, tuum, carnes atque ossa resume; In coelos animas, tu, Deus alme, tuum."
source data:-	goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1785 p.970 "The following jeu d' esprit has been given as a translation of the above:" "Here I, Thomas Wharton, do lie, With Lucifer under my head, And Nelly my wife hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead: O how can I speak without dread! Who could my sad fortune abide! With one devil under my head, And another laid close on each side."

	BRG22.jpg Wharton memorial (taken 17.7.2009) BRG23.jpg Wharton memorial (taken 17.7.2009) BWG31.jpg Wharton memorial (taken 13.4.2012) Click to enlarge BWG32.jpg Wharton memorial (taken 13.4.2012) CAQ44.jpg Wharton memorial (taken 9.5.2014)
	Memorial to Thomas, Lord Wharton, died 1568, and his two wives, Ellen and Anne.
	Eleanor was daughter of Bryan Stapleton, Wygill, Yorkshire.
	Anne was daughter of George, Earl of Shrewsbury.
	The tomb is inscribed:-
	"I Thomas Wharton here do lye With my two wives beside me Ellen the first and Anne the next In hymen's bands who tied me"
	They are actually interred at the church at Healaugh near Tadcaster.

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