Mingay, John
Left panel: This monument is erected in memory of the right wor. Iohn Mingay Maior of this City Ao Dni 1617, and of Susan his wife daughter of Richard Skynner gent; wch said Iohn & Susan had issue 7 Children fower sonns & three daughters, they both lived lovingly together in wedlock 44 yeares untill death did part him from her the last day of Ianuary 1625, being aged 69 yeares & 9 months, & she left this life the 18 day of August, 1642.
Right panel: Why do wee [...]/ When Marbles make men after death to live,/ And thought these stones were silent, yet ye tongues/ Of prophets, people and the poore in thongs/ Shall freely speake, and tell Posterity/ Here rest their Friends, Patterns of Piety.
Side panels: Prudentia/Justitia/Fortitudo/Temperantia/Pietie/Pitie/Modesty/Humility
Beneath: Post Mortem Vita Est - after death is life.
Church: St. Stephen's - Norwich (in Norwich, Norfolk).
Profession:
Mayor.
Sex:
Male.
Virtue(s):
Famed after death*, Fortitude*, Good to the poor, Humility*, Justice, Love, Modesty*, Piety, Pity, Prudence, Temperance*.
Exemplar:
Exemplar of the Virtues.
Afterlife:
Known.
Literature:
Poetry*.
Language:
Latin.
Year of death: 1625.
Year of headstone: 1642.
Age at death: 69 (classed as: Adult).
