Jane Waller Tomb - Bath Abbey - Bath, Somerset
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N 51° 22.883 W 002° 21.509
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Tomb of Jane Waller located on the South side of Bath Abbey.
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Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/17/2017
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Tomb of Jane Waller located on the South side of Bath Abbey. Coordinates are approximate, as GPS works poorly inside the abbey, to avoid
icon pile-up at the entrance.
"The tomb of Jane Waller is located on the South side of the Abbey, quite near the High Altar. It is one of the grandest in the Abbey, and depicts Jane lying down with her husband William next to her.
William Waller was a Parliamentary General during the Civil War between 1642 and 1651. He commanded the Parliamentary forces at the Battle of Lansdown in 1643.
Jane (nee Reynell) was his first wife, (he married three times in total) and sadly she died in 1633 after giving birth to William’s child. As with many women of this time, there is not much about her other than that she was the heiress to the fortune of her father, Sir Richard Reynell of Devon.
What is poignant about this monument is the fact that the plaque to the right is empty, waiting for William to be laid to rest next to his wife, but it wasn’t to be, as he remarried twice and he lived to be 71. He is buried in Tothill Street Chapel, Westminster."
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The inscription reads:
"Sole issue of a matchlesse paire
Both of their state and vertues heire
In graces great, in stature small
As full of spirit as voyd of gall
Cheerfully grave bounteously close
Holy without vainglorious showes;
Happy and yet from envy free;
Learn'd without pride, witty yet wise
Reader this riddle read with mee.
Here the good Lady Waller lyes."