MySource:Dennischap/EPITAPH; In the church of St. Martin, Leicester question

Date: 17 Dec 1825

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To whom it may concern, I found this short piece printed in an old book that I have and was dated December 17, 1825. The following: EPITAPH In the church of St. Martin, Leicester. Here lieth the body of John Heyrick, of this parish, who departed this life the second of April, 1589, being about the age of seventy-six years. He did marry Mary, the daughter of John Bond, of Warden, in the county of Warwick, Esq. He lived with the said Mary in one house full fifty-two years, and in all that time never buried man, woman, nor child, though they were sometimes twenty in the household. He had by issue by the said Mary five sons and seven daughters. The said John was Mayor of the town in 1559, and again anno 1572. The said Mary lived to ninety-seven years, and departed the 8th of December, 1611. She did see, before her departure, of her children, and her children's children and their children, to the number of 142. I hope that tis is information that is an interest to someone connected to the Heyrick line.