the
Brent Memorial Brass -- St. Mary's Church, Ilmington,
Warwickshire
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THE BRENTS OF STOKE HAVE HAD A PLACE
OF BVRIAL HERE SINCE
THE COMING OF THEIR AVNCESTOR OVT OF SOMERSETSHIRE
ABOUT THE YEARE 1487 BY THE CONCEALED NAME OF JOHN
BVSTON WHO MARRIED MARGERY DAVGHTER OF GEORGE COLCH:
CHESTER THEN OF STOKE & ADMINGTON ESQVIER ABOVT THE YEARE
1498 & DYED 1531.
THEIR SON WILLIAM
BRENT LORD OF STOKE & ADMINGTON DYED
1595. WITH ELIZABETH HIS WIFE HERE BVRIED.
THEIR SON RICHARD
BRENT MARIED MARY DAVGHTER OF JOHN HVGGERSFORD
ESQVIER & KATHERINE HENNAGE HIS WIFE 1572 & DYED 1587. HERE
BURIED.
THEIR SON RICHARD
BRENT MARRIED ELIZABETH DAUGHTER OF
GILES REED ESQVIER & KATHERINE GREVILL HIS WIFE ANNO 1594. &
DYED 1652. HE WAS HERE BVRIED BVT HIS WIFE AT BREDON WITH
HER FATHER.
THEIR SON RICHARD
BRENT MARRIED MARGARET DAVGHTER OF S. JOHN
PASHAIL BARONET & ANNE SHELDON HIS WIFE ANO 1622 FOUR OF WHOSE
CHILDRED (VIZ) FRANCES, MARY, ELIZABETH & GILES LYE HERE BVRIED ANNO
1657.
THE SAID MARGARET BRENT DIED JUNE 20TH 1666. HERE BVRIED.
Cui Familiae propicietur deus:
Tempus edux rerum periunt et nomina Saxa
Omnia Mars' poscit: Lex est non paena perire.*
*To what family is God propitious?
Time is the devourer of all things. Both names and monuments will perish.
Death claims all. It is the law not a punishment to die.
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From The Descendants of Col. Giles Brent, Capt George Brent and Robert
Brent, Gent by Chester Horton Brent.
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