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English: Cartmel Priory, above a memorial in the south transept, coat of arms of Rawlinson of Cark Hall, Cartmel: Quarterly of 6, with motto: Festina Lente; crest: A she-drake proper, in her beak an escallop argent:
  • 1&6: Gules, two bars gemelles between three escallops argent (Rawlinson of Cark Hall, Cartmel, Lancashire)
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  • 3: Argent fretty gules, a chief azure (Curwen (Curwen baronet) of Workington, Cumberland)
  • 4: Argent, a cross engrailed sable between four pellets each charged with a pheon of the field points downwards (Fletcher of Hutton-in-the-Forest, Cumberland, baronets) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.361)
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Follows corrupted text from: Stockdale, James, Annales Caermoelenses, or Annals of Cartmel, 1872 460-1[1]

In memory of his grandfather and mother Christopher Rawlinson erected in the south transept of Cartmel Church a handsome marble monument bearing the following copious inscription: " " Near this place lyeth the Body of that most learned and honest Connsellor at Law ROBERT RAWLINSON, of Cark Hall, in Cartmel, in Lancashire, and of Gray's Inn in Middlesex, Esq.; his great integn*it7 joyned With a profoond knowledge of je Law, made him eeteemed and admired by idl that knew him, he wasfaor Terminer for ye Coantys Palatine of Lancaster and Chester to King Charles ye 2d. a great Soffsrer for his Loyalty to King Charles ye 1st. Vice-Chami Earle of Derby he lived beloved of all " so he dyed Uunented Octr. ye 21 1665 Aged 55d Pdent JANE WILSON (eldest Daog -ter of THOMAS WILSON of Haversham Hall in Westmorland Esq.) who dyed 1686 aged 66 " was buried in the same grave wth him; by whom he left CURWEN RAWLINSON, Esq., his eldest " only son (who married) he was a most accomplished " Ingenious Qentleman, " a true Patriot, so succeeded hu Father in ye service " love of his Country " dyed in it 1689 aged 48 being Burgesse for Lancaster Pliament Convened 1688 Jan 22, " was buried Justice of the Peace o Qam and of Oyer and* berlain of ye Cty " Coanty of Chester to Charles He marrie yeru in year in ye Chancell of 8t Mary's at Warwick. Next R.R. lyeth ye remains of ye truely pious " religious ELIZABETH RAWLINSON wife of CYRWEN RAWLINSON of Oirk, Esq. Daughter and Coheir of ve Loyall DR. NICHOLAS MONK, Lora Bishop of Hereford (a great Assistant in ye Restoration to his Brother ye most noble GEORGE MONK Duke of Albemarle and Son of Sb. THOMAS MONK of Potheridge in Devonshire Knight) she was a most duty-^r of ye Church of England, as weU as of a Sblime Patem of a holv Piety a true Charity, a Christian Humility, a Faithful Friend-il, under ye tortures of ye stone, " wth. wh. she resigned h6r Heavenly Soul, Sep. 27. 1691 aged 43, leaving 2 Sous -ful Dahtei being au Prelate c it, ship, a religious care of her Chdren " a Divine Patience MONK RAWLIN80N who dyed 1695 aged 21 " lyeth buried b7 her, and CHRISTOPHER RAWLINSON Bad. now liring born in Essex 1677, who in memory of his Gnuid father " most desrly beloved and good Mother Erected this Monament 1706. In Sandford's genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England, 1707, there is a good engraving of this monument, by Nutting, inscribed at the bottom as follows: " " Tiro nohili Sf omatissimoy liUrarum patronoj Christophero RawliiMon de Cark^ in Comitatu Lem c"utria, armigero ; qui ne dulcis tnemaria avi sui honorahilis et matris eharissima p"reat, monutMtUum hoe teUmitati sacrum "Me voluiV In the centre of this inscription is a shield, quartering the arms of Bawlinson, Plantagenet, Curwen, and Monk, with the motto of the Bawlinsons affixed.. The arms g^ranted in 1662 to Kobert Bawlinson, of Cark, in Oartmel, are " Gules, two bars gemelles, between three escallops, argent; motto" '* Festina Imie;^* crest " a sheU-drake ppr., in its beak an escallop arg. Christopher Bawlinson died of a dropsy at his lodgings in Holbom Bow, Lincoln*s-Inn-Fields, London, on the 8th of January, 1733, aged fifty-five years, having previously left written instructions that he should be buried in the Abbey Church of St. Albans, his body to be wrapped in a coffin of sheet lead, and that to be enclosed in one of heart-of-oak covered with red leather.
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