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On the east wall the man in ruff and gown faced with fur, long sleeves and ruffles,
kneeling at a desk, his four sons behind him. Thomas's wife, Anne, the daughter of Richard
Eyre of Normanton, Nottinghamshire, is dressed in a close gown and ruffs. Behind her are the
two daughters.
At the top are the arms Qly.
Or and azure, the first two quarters two crescents counterchanged.
Crest: an eagle or, wings close, preying on a rabbit argent (Farnham)
The inscription reads:
Here lodgeth Thomas Farnham late esquire
who hath his house in darkness as you see
he saith rottenes thou art my sire
and to the wormes my brethren must you bee
His bloud had sometimes heat his I nostrell breath
the one nowe childe the other chocke by death.
His linadge from a knight his life unstainde
his hand not slack in bovnrie to the pore
But neither bouiitie life nor linadge gainte.
Release from death nor anye vertues more
yet such his vertues as it death had sense
might and pardon crave and more death to dispense.
The dead even cry the livinge are but vanir.
howses of faith that must to rvins fall
from dust to dust from ashes back againe.
The doome is written in their flesh the for all
This love was sett them from there mothers womb
A cradell for their first their last a tombe
both blessed in the man who first and last
is like that man's that lies entered here
whose bodie thoughe in dust his soule doth fast
the hidden manno which in angles chere
the Christ beneath Christ honors him above
He loved his Lord and him his Lorde doth love.
Sepulchral Effigies of Leicestershire and Rutland
Text copyright Max Matthews 2002. Selected text copyright Bob Trubshaw 2025–6.
Images copyright Max Matthews 2002 or Bob Trubshaw 2002, 2025–6.
No copying or reproduction without prior written permission.
Published by Heart of Albion Press
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