I found more about concerning the contents of my last post.
In 'The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom; with Their Paternal Coats of Arms,
Volume 3.' 'By John LODGE (Deputy Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Tower.) · 1754' 'Family of Stanway, Baronets':
Richard, the 2d Son, had by his Father's Gift, the Manor of Stanway in the County of Gloucester, Part of the Possessions of the Abbey of Tewksbury, granted to him by the Crown upon the Dissolution of Monasteries.----He was well educated, and wrote feveral Treatises in Defence of his Father's Faith, very learnedly and judiciously.
In 2 Eliz. he was Shenff of the County of Gloucester, and by Barbara, 3d and youngest Daughter to Sir Thomas Lucy of Cherlecote had 3 Daughters, and as many Sons, Paul, Nathaniel and Samuel; the eldest of whom succeeding, served the same Office of Sheriff, the 28 Eliz. and 8 James I. which King conferred on him the Dignity of a Baronet 29 June 1611, being the 30th created from the institution of the Order.---He married Anne, Daughter of Sir Ralph Shakerley (m), by whom he had 20 Children, ten of each Sex, viz. Richard bis Successor; Paul ( whose Son of his Name died 1 June 1618, and was buried under a white Marble in the Chancel of Bansted-Church, Surry, bearing the Figure of a Child in swadling-Cloaths) Shakerley, Alexander, William, Nathaniel, Thomas, Nathaniel, John, Vicesmus (so called from being the youngest Child) Anne, married to Edward Hall of the County of Worcester, Esq; Lucia, to Bray Aylworth of Aylworth in Gloucestershire, Esq; Alice, Hesther, Elizabeth, two of the Name Susan, Barbara, Margaret and another.---The furviving Susan was married to William Price of Winchester, Esq;, one of the King's Privy Chamber, and dying 13 March 1632, before she had been married full 14 Weeks, was buried in St. Martin's Church in the Fields, London, under a very fair Table, fastned to a Pillar near the Pulpit, curiously adorned with Emblems of Mortality, and a very long Inscription, that Part of which over the Figure of Death, is an Address to the Ladies, as follows;
Ladies, when you
Your purest Beauties see,
Think them but Tenants
To Mortality;
There's no Content on Earth,
Joys soon are fled,
Healthful to Day we live,
To morrow dead.
I was as you are now,
Young, fair and clear;
and you shall one Day be
As you see me here.
