Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton.

  • Carlton, William J. (William John), 1886-1973.
Date:
1911
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    to his wife weariness of this life, and inconsolable sorrow at his loss. Having testified a more than ordinary grief, and only survived her beloved husband ten [? fifteen] days, she followed him to heaven on the fifth day of the month [of October] ; he having died on September 20th [? 25th], 1617. They lived together nine [? seven] years, in incomparable sweetness of dis- position, unexampled harmony, and with the warmest regard of their friends. They rest here in the same sympathy that united them in life, until they shall rise together in eternity.”1 Administration to the barrister’s estate and the tuition of his four children were granted on November 7, 1617, to Thomas Lewis, of Marr, his brother-in-law, who the same day proved the will of the widow, “ sick in body, but of good memory.”2 The latter bequeaths £600 out of the leasehold of the impropriate parsonage of Royston to her eldest son, Timothy (who also had a son Timothy), and a similar sum between her three other children. She mentions her mother-in-law, 1 “ Hie jace[n]t Timotheus Bright, armiger, jurisperitus, et Editha, conjux. Ille moriens, conjugi vitae taedium, sui desi- derium reliquit. Quae, marito mortuo, dolorem testata plusquam vuPJgarem decern [? quindecim] dies superstes maritum ad superos secuta. Ille 20 die mensis Septembris obiit, haec quinto die mensis [sr'c], anno Domini 1617. Convixerant annos novem [sic], morum suavitate incomparabili, unanimitate inaudita, amicorum summa congratulatione, et jam eadem, qua vixerunt Concordia requiescunt, donee in aeturnum simul resurgent.” The confusion of dates in this inscription is perhaps attributable to some carelessness on the part of Roger Dodsworth, who copied it in 1620, and who must have omitted “ Octobris ” from the date of Edith Bright’s death, as her will is dated October 4. It is not clear whether ten or fifteen days elapsed between the decease of husband and wife, while the seven years of their wedded life are here expanded into nine (see Yorkshire Archae- ological Society, Record Series, vol. xxxiv., 1904, p. 118). 2 Reg. Test., xxxiv., 748.