Page Memorial - St Peter & St Paul - Shorne, Kent - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

Page memorial in the chancel of St Peter & St Paul's church, Shorne.
Figures on the West Side: George and Isabel Page;
on the East Side: Sir William and Lady Elenor Page

"Lady Eleanor Page erected the large Page memorial in the chancel in memory of her husband Sir William Page who died in 1625 and his father George Page. Sir William kneels in the bravery of half armour and trunk hose, whilst his father kneels opposite him in a lawyer’s robes. Both are supported by their respective wives. From the lengthy Latin inscription it appears that George Page was a lawyer, and Sir William Page, after a youth spent in martial exploits (there are no details) later took up literary pursuits and was a justice and prominent in local affairs.
The Page family at that time had been associated with the village for over a hundred-and-fifty years. A Page was among those pardoned for participating in the Jack Cade rebellion of 1450. In 1495 Thomas Page, in addition to his bequest for a bell, bequeathed to the parish the house then called Normans, but now The Old Vicarage, which was the home of vicars for over three hundred years. The death of another George Page marks the quite sudden termination of the family’s association with Shorne. Though he had six children, some of whom pre-deceased him, none of the survivors nor the many collaterals seem to have continued to make the village their home. The solution to their disappearance from the parish appeared when Colonel George Wilson Page of Maryland U.S.A. visited the parish church seeking his ancestors who emigrated to America in 1662."

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Inscriptions on the monument read -

On the West Side of Cornice
THEIS ARE NOT DEAD BUT HENCE DEPARTED ARE,
T ACCEPT BLEST KINGDOMS IN A COUNTRY FARRE

On the East Side of Cornice
MORS FINIS HUJUS MISARAE PRINCIPIUM MELIORIS VITAE

West Side Below Figures
EN HAC SIMILACRA TIBI REPRESENTANT AMONTISS IMOS
GULIELMI PAGE MILITIS PARENTES GEORGIUM PAGE ARMIG. LEGIS
PERITUM ET ISABELAM UXOREM EJUS SIMUL AC PIETATUM
FILII OPTIMI QUI VIVAS JUSSIT EORUM MEMORIAM SIC FIERI
PERPETUAM PROTRAXIT DEO PERMITTENTE VITAM PRAEPATUS
GEORGIUS USQUE 22nd DIEM JANUARII ANNO SALUTIS 1611
QUANDO PLENUS ANNORUM OBIIT ISABELLA DIU PREANTEA
HUIC MUNDO VALEDICENTE

East Side Below Figures
HIC QUIESCANT OFFA ET CINERES GUILIELMI PAGE EQUITIS AURATIS QUI POST
QUINQUAGINTA ET QUIMQUE ANNOS ANTE SEPTIMUM DIEM MENSIS MAII ANNO
SALUTUS NOSTRAE 1625 RETROACTUS SPIRITUM IN MANUS REDEMPTORIS
SUI PIE REDIDIT
IN JUVENTUTE REBUS BELLO FLAGRANTIBUS ARMA SEQUE BATUT MATURIOREM
ACTATEM ABJECTIS ARMIS LITERIS ALIISQUE TUM ANIMI TUM CORPORIS ORNAMENTIS
DEDICABAT QUIBUS TANDEM SEIPSUM IDONEUM MONSTRAVIT AD SUBCUNDAM
JUSTITIAE ORDINARIAE AUCTORITATUM QUAM JUBENTIBUS JACOBO ET CAROLO
PRIMIS PRINCIPIBUS SUMMA DILIGENTIA ET INTEGRITATE IN HAC PROVINTIA
EXERCEBAT NULLAM RELIQUIT POST SE PROLEM UXOREM TAMEN MOESTISS-
MAM ELENOREM FILIAM ROBERTI EDOLPHI ARMIGERI QUAE PERPETUAE OPTIMI
UTRIUSQUE DOMICILIUM

Approximate Age of Artefact: 1625 Relevant Website: Not listed

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