Floor Slab – Anthony Lambert snr & Ann Mason
Description
Cracked blue marble ledger commemorating Alderman and Mayor Anthony Lambert snr and his grand-daughter Ann Mason (sister of the vicar Rev William Mason, and aunt of the poet and garden designer, also William). Anthony Lambert's inscription is carved in low relief capitals in a border around the edge of the stone; Ann Mason's is incised, upper and lower case, within the upper part of the central portion.
The "monument above" mentioned in Anthony Lambert's inscription is the wall-plaque (ID 49).
Inscription and donor(s)
UNDER THIS STONE LYETH
INTERRED THE BODY OF ALDM ANTO LAMBERT TWICE MAIOR OF
KINGSTON UPON HULL WHO
DYED 28 MAY 1688 TO WHOSE MEMMORY IS [E]RECTED
[T]HE [MO]NUMENT ABOVE
HERE also lieth the
Body of Mrs Ann Mason
Daughter of Hugh Ma-
son Esqr late Collector
of his Majesty's Customs
in this Port & Grand
Daughter of Alderman
Anthony Lambert who
died July the 6th 1767
in the 85th Year of her Age