_Davies Queries_ (Vol. iv., p. 256.).--LLAW GYFFES asks for a correct
description of the monument erected to Sir John Davys, Davis, or Davies,
in St. Martin's church. Perhaps the following will answer his purpose:
it is extracted from one of a series of MS. volumes in my possession, in
the autograph of John Le Neve:--
"On the 3rd pillar, on the south range, a plain white marble
monument, in memory of Sir _John Davis_, Knight. Inscrip.:
"D. O. M. S. Johannes Davys, Equestris Ordinis, quondam attornati
Regii Generalis amplissima Provincia regno Hib. functus. Inde in
patriam revocatus inter Servientes Domini Regis ad Regem primum
locum sustinuit, ob. 1626.
"Accubat Dignissimo Marito incomparabilis Uxorque illustre genus
et generi pares animos, Christiana Mansuetudine temperavit,
Erudita supra sexum mitis infra sortem, plurimis major, quia
humilior, in eximia forma sublime ingenium, in venusta Comitate,
singularem modestiam, in Foemineo Corpore virales spiritus, in
Rebus adversissimis serenam mentem, in Impio seculo Pietatem et
Rectitudinem inconcussa possedit.
"Non illi Robustam animam ad res lauta laxavit, aut Angusta
contraxit, sed utramq; sortem pari animoq; non excepit modo sed
rexit. Quippe Dei plena cui plenitudini mundus, nec benig. addere
nec malignus detrahere potuisset.
"Talis Deum jamdudum spirans et sursum aspirans, sui ante et Reip.
fata præsaga, salutisq; Æterna certissima, ingenti lætoq; ardore
in Servatoris dilectissimi sinum ipsius sanguine totam animam
efflavit, rebus humanis exempta, immortalitate induit 3 nonas
Quintilis, _An. Kal._ 1652.
"Arms; on a Lozenge; Argent a Heart Gules, on a Chief Sable 3
Mullets.
"Also at the bottom of the Monument, Sable a Fess Ermin between 3
Cinquefoils Argent."