Floor Slab – Ann & Henry Maister
Description
Heraldic ledger commmorating Ann Maister (née Raikes) and Henry Maister. See wall plaque ID 51 commemorating the same couple. Upper case inscriptions in low relief: around the edge for Ann, and inserted at the top for her husband, who died some years later. Heraldic achievement in relief in central roundel, 820 mm diameter, showing arms of Maister impaling Raikes. Maister: azure, a fess embattled between three griffin’s heads erased or (blue, with a horizontal battlement-shaped band between three griffin heads in gold.) The Raikes arms depicted are not those generally found in armorials for the family. The crest is for Maister: Out of a mural coronet or, a unicorn's head azure, armed and crined of the first. (A gold coronet shaped like battlements, out of which rises a blue unicorn's head with gold horn and mane.)
Inscription and donor(s)
HERE RESTETH THE BODY OF MRS
ANN MAISTER WHO WAS WIFE TO ALDERMAN HENRY MAISTER BY
WHOM HE HAD NINE SONS AND TWO
DAUGHTERS SHE DIED THE [14TH OF] DECEMBER 1685 AGED 48 YEARS
HERE IS ALSO INTERRED THE
BODY OF ALDERMAN HENRY
MAISTER WHO DYED THE 5TH
APRIL 1699 AGED 67 YEARS
