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 In Hunsdon
Church;
in a small Chapel, or Burial-Place, of the Lords of the Manor, is a monument, and inscription, in memory of " SIR JOHN CARY, Knt. Baron of Hunsdon," who succeeded his brother George, second Lord Hunsdon, on the death of the latter, in September,
1603. He had been made Governor of Berwick, and Lord Warden of the East Marches, by Elizabeth; and continued in the north till the accession of James the First, whom he accompanied in his progress to the Metropolis: he died in the
):ear 1617.
Several of the
Calverts lie buried here; some of whom have monuments: and in the chancel is the monument of SIR THOMAS FORSTER, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who died in May,
1612,_ at
the age of sixty-three. Near the pulpit is also
a slab, inlaid with a very curious Brass, representing a Huntsman, with his bugle-horn and broad-sword, levelling a cross-bow at a stag, while Death, delineated as a skeleton, is pointing a dart at
his breast: beneath is this inscription:
BELOVED OF ALL WHILST HE HAD LVFE VNMOANED OF NONE WHEN HE DID DIE:
JAMES GRAY INTERRED OF HIS WVFE
NEAR TO THIS DEATH'S SIGNE BRASS DOTH LYE; YEARS THIRTY-FIVE IN GOOD-RENOWN
PARKE AND HOUSEKEEPER OF
THIS TOWN.
OBIIT 12 DIE DECEMBRIS Ao.
DoNI 1591,
ÆT.
60.
Tradition represents the Huntsman as dying suddenly, while in the act of shooting at a buck: his motto is Sic Pergo; which a celebrated antiquary has translated, 'Thus I go on till the same fate befalls me:'
Britton.
The Beauties of England & Wales:
Hertfordshire, 1807
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