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English: The Hales Memorial in Cantebury Cathedral, dedicated to James Hales (d. 1589), who died at sea following the attack on Cadiz in 1589, a reprisal for the Spanish Armada attack the year before. |
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Transcript and translation
- Transcription
'MEMORIAE ET POSTERITATI SACRUM / JACOBO HALES MILITI VIRTUTIBUS ET MUNERIBUS CIVILIBUS INSIGNI ET PATRIAE CHARO IN / EXPEDITIONE PORTUGALIENSI THESAURARIO IN QUA PATRIAM REVISURUS ANNO D. 1589 OBIIT / D: ALICIA EIUSDEM JACOBI RELICTAE FAEMINAE SUMMIS NATURAE ET PIETATIS DOTIBUS / ORNATA QUA ANNO D.1592; MORTUA EST: / CHENEIO HALES UNICO EORUNDEM JACOBI ET ALICIAE FILIO QUI ANNO D.1596. / IMMATURO FATO PERIIT / RICARDUS LEE ARMIGER EIUSDEM ALICIAE / MARITUS SUPERSTES MARENS POSUIT'
- Translation
"Sacred to the memory and posterity of James Hales, Knight, outstanding in virtues and in civic duties and dear to his country. Treasurer in an Portuguese expedition in which about to return home he died in the year 1589. Dame Alice, widow of the same James, decorated with the gifts of the highest feminine nature and with piety, who died in the year 1592. Perished by immature fate. Richard Lee, Esquire, surviving husband of the same Alice, placed (this monument), mourning"
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