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Beeston, knight, son of George Beeston, knight, mindful of mortality, and in certain hope of rising again in Christ, placed this monument to his parents, himself, and George Beeston an only son, of the same knightly order, a youth, alas! snatched away by a too early death. Hugh, the father, died
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Beeston, married Thomasin Coplestone. Secondly in 1579 Margaret Ireland widow of John Aston, possibly thirdly Mary Chetwode. The children of Hugh and Thomasin included George and John. This George Beeston married Eleanor Cave and died while hunting with King James after a fall from his horse.
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And together with him rests a most beloved wife, Alice, daughter of (Thomas) Davenport of
Henbury, esquire, a matron most holy, chaste, and liberal to the poor, who, when she had lived in matrimony 66 years, and had borne to her husband three sons, John, Hugh, and Hugh, and as many daughters, Ann,
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Capteynes of the Vangard and Tygar hathe byn a borde and with the King, who takes it marveylowse kyndly that they were apoynted to offer him service, and is not a lyttel prowde that he used them well; but the villanouse base papists and Spanyers together myused sum of the people, and
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Margaret Ireland (a relation of his son's second wife), they had no children. He married thirdly Mary Chetwode, they had no children. However, it has been suggested that Mary Chetwode was the third wife of his son Hugh Beeston, elder.
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Beeston was paid in 1592 as the keeper of the blockhouse called Wilton or Milton
Bulwark near Gravesend. He wished to resign the keepership of the blockbouse in 1596 citing his age at over 85 years. He was the owner of the manor of Beeston and
180:, esquire, the younger, Receiver General of all the revenues of the Crown as well as in the county palatine of Chester as in the counties of North Wales, set up this monument to parents most excellent and beloved.
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slue a trompetour; wheareupon the King was extreme angry, and willed me that a demand should be put in to the
Cowncell for justice, and it should be granted, for so he wold see it".
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