THE WINCHESTER BRASS
A Memoriall.
For this renowned Martialist Richard Boles of ye Right Worshipful family of the Bolleses in Linkhornsheire; collonell of a ridgment of Foot of 1300 who for his gratious King Charles ye first did Wounders att the Battell of Edgehill: his last action, to omit all others, was at Alton in this County of Soughthampton, was sirprised by five or six thousand of the Rebells, which caused him there Quartered, to fly to the church, with near fourscore of his men, who there fought them six or seven houers, and then the Rebells breaking in upon him he slew with his sword six or seven of them, and then was slayne himselfe, with sixty of his men about him.
1641
His Gratiouse Souveraigne, hearing of his death, gave him his high comendation in ye pationate expression. Bring me a Moorning Scarffe; i have Lost one of the best Comanders in this Kingdome.
Alton will tell you of that famous Fight
Which ye man made and bade this world goodnight,
His Verteous life feared not Mortalyty,
His body might, his Vertues cannot die.
Because his blood was there so nobly spent
This is his Tombe, that church his Monument.
Ricardus Boles Wiltoniensis in Art Mag:
Composuit Posuitque dolens
An Dom 1689.
A somewhat similar bit of spelling is this from a private
diary:—
"The iiii day of Sept 1551 ded my lade Admerell wyffe in Linkolneshire and ther bered."
The third brother, Edward, died and was buried at Louth, 1680 A.D., at the age of seventy-seven. He left £600 to purchase land, the rents "to be divided among the poorest people of Louth at Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide for ever, and to be disposed of 'in other charitable and pious uses for the good of the said Toune.'" The income of the bequest is now worth £85 a year.
Sir Charles, the elder brother, had a son and a grandson called John, the last of the name. This John's half-sister, Elizabeth, whose mother was a Vesci, married Thomas Bosvile, rector
