Floor Slab – Ann Lambert (née Saltmarshe)
Description
Blue slate heraldic ledger commemorating Ann Saltmarshe (1635-84), wife of Anthony Lambert snr. Style is similar to that of her son, Anthony jnr, with upper case inscription in low relief in 2 rows around the edge of the stone, and a central heraldic roundel. This shows the arms of Lambert impaling Saltmarshe. Lambert: gules, a chevron between three lambs passant argent, a chief chequy or and azure. (Red, with three white/silver lambs in profile and a chevron in silver; across the top, a checked band of blue and gold); Saltmarshe: argent, three cinquefoils gules between nine cross crosslets of the last. (Silver, with three red five-petalled flowers between nine small red crosses with crossed arms.) This is also sometimes decribed as Argent, crusily gules, three cinquefoils of the last – meaning the small red crosses are scattered over the silver background, with three red flowers. On top of the helmet, the Lambert crest is a lamb passant argent (standing lamb in profile, white or silver).
Inscription and donor(s)
HERE LYETH INTERED THE BODY OF
ANN THE WIFE OF ANTHONY LAMBERT ALDERMAN MAIOR OF THIS
TOWNE IN AN:O 1667 WITH WHOM HE
WAS MARRIED 29 YEARES AND 5 MONTHS AND HAD BY HER 8 SONS
AND 5 DAUGHTERS AND AFTER A PRU
DENT AND PIOUS PILGRIMAGE DEPARTED THIS FRAIL LIFE IN THE TRUE
FAITH OF CHRIST AUGUST THE 21
1684 AGED 49 YEARES WAITEING FOR THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST