John Weever [SEP] date of death
John Weever
John Weever (1576–1632) was an English antiquary and poet. He is best known for his "Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion" (1599), containing epigrams on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other poets of his day, and for his "Ancient Funerall Monuments", the first full-length book to be dedicated to the topic of English church monuments and epitaphs, which was published in 1631, the year before his death.
Life.
Weever was a native of
court of common pleas." John Burke from "A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland..." OUP, 1831.
He died in either 1472 or 1477 and was buried in Rougham church. "The inscription on his tomb, printed by Weever, has no date. Rubbings of the monumental brasses to him and his second wife in the vestry of Rougham church. After his death his estate passed to his son William.
Caister Castle and the Pastons.
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