English: St Giles, Great Maplestead, Essex - mural monument in the Deane Chapel (south chapel) to Sir John Deane (1583-1626), of Dyne's Hall, Great Maplestead, MP for Essex in 1625 and High Sheriff of Essex for 1610–11, Deputy Lieutenant and JP for Essex, 1625. A magnificent monument to his wife survives in the same church. His semi-recumbent effigy wears full armour.[1]

Inscription

Left tablet[2]:

Memoriae Sacrum Johannis Deane Equitis Aurati Equitatus in Agro Essexiensi Propraefecti quem moribus suavissimis integerrimisq(ue) annum aetatis 43 agenti D O M ….Ipsius …. popular … militum sed maxime anni …. uxoris prolisq(ue) numerosi nobis ademit. Anna uxor maestissima cum publico bonoru(m) juncta privatoq(ue) totius stemmatis morori posuit AD 1628 ("Sacred to the memory of John Deane, Knight Bachelor, Deputy Lieutenant in the County of Essex ...... Anne his most grieving wife ... placed (this monument) in 1628")

Right tablet (see legible image[3]):

Lett Posterity know Sr John Deane of Dines Hall in Great Maplestead in ye County of Essex Knt, one of ye Deputy Lieutenants & Justices of Peace in ye same Shyre who was descended from ye worthy family of ye Deanes of Lancashire & who match’t with Mrs (Mistress) Anne Drury of ye honourable tribe of ye Druries of Riddleworth in Norfolk by whom hee had 6 daughters and 2 sonnes (1: Katharine 2: Dru 3: Anne 4: Elizabeth 5: John 6: Dorcas 7: Frances 8: Mildred) dyed on ye 17th day of February in ye yeare of his life 43 & in ye yeare of Grace 1625. His parts & person were admirable. Desarte & hee were twynns. His pietye was ye fountaine of his actions & his hearte was ye seate of equitye. Truth was ye best interpretour of his words. His meditations were wholy bounded in Heaven. His charitye asked tyme to give & gave no tyme to asking. Ye pleasures of his life were ye passages of virtue. Death was his triumphe not his conquerour. He was buried in ye teares of ye faithfull & shall rise in ye joy of ye Righteous. To whose perpetuall memory Anne Deane his eldest daughter did make & dedicate this inscription.

Heraldry

Sable, a fess ermine between three chaplets argent (Deane of Dyne's Hall, Great Maplestead, Essex) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.271 "Deane of Maplestede, Essex and Blackburne, Lincolnshire; Deane of Gosfield, Essex (Granted 1577, per Grantees of Arms ed. W.H. Rylands (Harl. Soc. lxvi), 72., quoted in History of Parliament biography of Sir John Deane (1583-1626), of Dyne's Hall, Great Maplestead, MP for Essex in 1625[4])) impaling: Argent, on a chief vert a cross tau between two mullets pierced or (Drury), damaged. The same arms appear on the monument to his wife Anne Drury, but show the arms of Drury with chief gules, should be vert. Crest of Deane on helm above shield and as footrest: A bear's head or muzzled gules.

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Text per stepneyrobarts.blogspot.com[5]:

On the east wall is Sir John Deane, Deputy Lieutenant and JP for Essex, 1625, of alabaster and marble, set in a recess, with Ionic side columns and a reclining effigy in plate armour with his feet on a muzzled Bear's head. A shelf at the back shows the kneeling figures of his widow, four daughters and two sons and the monument includes two coats of arms. Opposite him on the west wall is a monument to Anne Drury, his wife, dated 1633, erected by her son, Sir Drew Drury, of alabaster and marble with a projecting shelf resting on Ionic columns supporting the recumbent figure, in plate armour of Sir Drew. A large round headed recess at the back contains the upright figure of Lady Anne in a shroud with a broken pediment at the top with two angels and flanked by two arm cartouches. Her epitaph is no less fulsome:

Her shape was rare: Her beauty exquisite Her wytt accurate: Her judgement singular Her entertainment harty: Her conversation lovely Her harte merciful: Her hand helpful Her courses modest: Her discourses wise Her charity Heavenly: Her amity constant Her practise holy: Her religion pure Her vowes lawful: Her meditations divine Her faith unfaygned: Her hope stable Her prayers devout: Her devotions diurnall

Her dayes short: Her life everlasting