Family:John Temple and Susanna Spencer (1)

Parents: Peter Temple and Mylycent Jekyll John Temple b. Abt 1542 d. 9 May 1603

Parents: Thomas Spencer and Dorothy Spencer Susanna Spencer   d. Bef 8 Jul 1614

m. 24 Nov 1561 Everdon, Northamptonshire, England

Monument

A monument to John Temple and his wife was erected on the east wall of the north transept of All Saints Church at Burton Dassett, co. Warwick, viz., “a tablet with small Corinthian columns of Purbeck marble, supporting an entablature on which rest three shields with arms; between the columns is a rectangular panel with the inscription following, surrounded by twelve shields of arms:—”^[2]

“Here under lyeth the bodies of John Temple of Stowe | in y^e County of Buck Esquier one of the Lords of this mano^r | and of Susan his wife who was the daughter and cohiere | of Thomas Spencer of Everton in the County of Northⁿ | Esquier who had issue sixe sonnes and sixe daughters as | here may appeare. The said Jo. Temple Deceased y^e ix day of | May, 1603, beinge of Lxi yeres, and the said Susan Deceased | the [blank] day of [blank] beinge of the age of [blank] yeres.

“Cur liberos hic plurimos
Cur hic amicos plurimos
Et plurimas pecunias
Vis scire cur reliquerit
Tempellus ad plures abit.”

The shields bear the names of the sons and sons-in-law and the surnames of their wives as follows: S^r Tho. Temple & Sandes, Geo. Temple died younge, John Temple [& another], S^r Al. Temple & Somers, Will Temple [& another], Pet. Temple & Kendal, Saunders & Temple, Risley & Temple, S^r Ni. Parker & Temple, S^r Tho. Denton & Temple, Fiennes & Temple, and Farmer & Temple.

1. ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Everdon (Northamptonshire); Henry Isham Longden; and W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts) Phillimore (ed.). Marriages at Everdon, 1558 to 1812. Northamptonshire parish registers. Marriages. Vol. II. (London: Phillimore, 1909)
   p. 124, citing Volume I of the parish registers.

   “Mr. George Cope & Dorithie Spenser, and Mr. John Temple & Susan Spenser, both the daughters of Mr. Thomas Spenser”

2. ↑ Cossins, Jethro A. “Burton Dassett Church”, in Transactions, excursions, and reports, for the year 1870 [etc.]. (Birmingham, England: Birmingham and Midland Institute, Archaeological Section; afterwards Birmingham [and Warwickshire] Archaeological Society)
   vol. 16 (1891), p. 27, dated 26 Feb. 1890.

   See transcript. Also, see the photographic image of the monument appearing in this profile.