William Tweedie Memorial
The memorial to William Twedy at Little Sampford Church, Essex. William and his wife are in profile, both kneeling and facing each other. He is in plate Armour and both in the ruffs of the period with a prayer desk between them. The inscription is in Latin and when translated reads -Here lies the body of William Twedy, Esquire, who distinguished himself as a military commander first under Queen Elizabeth of glorious memory in surpressing the tumults of the north of England, next under the invincible hero the Lord Baron de Willoughby in France, and lastly under the auspices of the illustrious Earl of Leicester, in the Netherlands, and was Warden of the military works at Bergen-op-Zoom. He married firstly Mabell, the daughter of Sir Henry Curwen, Knight, of the County of Cumberland by whom he had one son and one daughter, and afterwards married Margaret, the daughter of Rooke Green, Esquire, of Sampford Parva, in the County of Essex, by whom he had three sons and twice as many daughters. He died on the 7th July, 1605, whose soul rest in peace.
Picture taken in 1998
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