Hill, Richarde
HIC NVTRITVS ERAT, NATVS NVNC HIC JACET HILLVS,/
HICQVE MAGISTRATVS FAMA TER MVNERE FVNCTVS,/
CVMQVE BONOS ANNOS VIXISSET SEPTVAGINTA,/
AD TERRAM CORPVS, SED MENS MIGRAVIT AD ASTRA./
HEARE BORNE, HEARE LIVED, HEARE DIED, AND BYRIED HEARE,/
LIETH RICHARD HIL, THRISE BALIF OF THIS BORROW;/
TOO MATRONES OF GOOD FAME, HE MARRIED IN GODES FEARE/
AND NOW RELEAST IN JOI HE REASTS FROM WORLDLIE SORROW./
HEARE LIETH INTOMBD THE CORPS OF RICHARDE HILL,/
A WOOLLEN DRAPER BEEING IN HIS TIME;/
WHOSE VIRTVES LIVE, WHOSE FAME DOOTH FLORISH STLL,/
THIOVGH HEE DESOLVED BE, TO DVST AND SLIME./
A MIRROR HE, AND PATERNE MAL BE MADE,/
FOR SVCH AS SHALL SVCKCEAD HIM IN THAT TRADE;/
HE DID NOT VSE TO SWEARE, TO CLOSE, EATHER FAIGNE,/
HIS BROTHER TO DEFRAYDE IN BARGANINGE;/
HEE WOOLD NOT STRIVE TO GET EXCESSIVE GAINE/
IN ANI CLOATH OR OTHER KINDE OF THINGE:/
HIS SERVANT, S. I. THIS TRYETH CAN TESTIFIE,/
A WITNESS THAT BEHELD IT WITH MI EIE. (Transcription from R. B. Wheler, History and Antiquities of Stratford-upon Avon, p. 58)
Church: Holy Trinity - Stratford-upon-Avon (in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire).
Sex:
Male.
Exemplar:
Exemplar of the Virtues.
Afterlife:
Known.
Literature:
Poetry*.
Year of death: 1593.
Age at death: not given (classed as: Adult).