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Mary Southwell Sent Leger

Birth
Norfolk, England
Death
19 Dec 1603 (aged 36–37)
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Burial
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland Add to Map
Plot
Large Mural Monument in North Transept
Memorial ID
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Heare lieth buried ye bodie of Dame Mary Sent Leger late wife to Sr Anthony Sentleger, Knyght . . .
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Source: The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St. Patrick near Dublin, from it foundation in 1190, to the year 1819: comprising a topographical account of the lands and parishes ... and biographical memoirs of its deans. Collected, chiefly, from sources of original record, by William Monck Mason, esq.
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Heare lieth buried ye bodie of Dame Mary Sent Leger late wife to Sr Anthony Sentleger, Knyght . . .
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Source: The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St. Patrick near Dublin, from it foundation in 1190, to the year 1819: comprising a topographical account of the lands and parishes ... and biographical memoirs of its deans. Collected, chiefly, from sources of original record, by William Monck Mason, esq.
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Inscription

Lies buried the Body of Dame Mary St. Leger, late / Wife to Sir Anthony St. Leger, Knt., Master of the Rolls / And of his Majesty's Privy Council of Estate in the / Realm of Ireland; and Daughter to Francis Southwell / Of Wyndham-Hall in Norfolk, Esq.; first married / Thomas Sydney of Wyken in the said County, Esq;, / By whom she had Issue three Daughters, Eleanor, who / Died young; Anne, which died 3d. of Octob. 1602, and is / Here likewise buried; and Thomasin, married to Sir William / Godolphin, Kt. after the said Dame Mary was married / To Nicholas Gorge of London, Esq;, by whom she had no / Issue: And to her 3d. Husband she married Sir Conyers / Clifford of Bobbinge-Court in Kent, Knt., Governor of / Connagh, and of the Privy Council of Estate in this / Realme, by whom she Issue 2 Sons and a Daughter, / Henry and Conyers now living, Frances the Daughter / Died young. Lastly, she married the said Sir Ant: St. Leger, / By whom she had Issue Anthony, and Frances a / Daughter, who died 4 days after her birth, and of whom / The said Dame Mary died in Childbed the 19th day of / December 1603, being 37 Years of Age, whose Soul (no / Doubt) resting in all joyful Blessedness in the Heavens / With her Saviour Jejus Xt., whose true and faithful / Servant she lived and died.



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