page_title: John Wrey
section_title: Monument at Tawstock
hierarchical_section_title: John Wrey / Monument at Tawstock
caption_attribution_description: Monument to John Wrey (d.1597) of Trebeigh, St Ive, Cornwall. The monument was moved from St Ive Church to its present position against the east wall of the nort transept of St Peter's Church, Tawstock, Devon, in 1924 by Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 12th Baronet (1858-1936), of Tawstock Court.(Pevsner, Nikolaus &amp; Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.790)
context_page_description: John Wrey of North Russell, Sourton, and Bridestowe in Devon and Trebeigh, St Ive, Cornwall, was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1587.
context_section_description: The large monument to John Wrey and his wife Blanche Killigrew exists in St Peter's Church, Tawstock, against the east wall of the north transept. It takes the form of a gothic altar tomb with three-tiered altarpiece or reredos behind, the lowest tier of which resembles a triptych. It was moved from St Ive Church in Cornwall in 1924 by Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 12th Baronet (1858–1936), of Tawstock Court. It consists of a large slate chest tomb with a large slate back-plate behind and above, on which are shown in relief kneeling figures of Wrey and his wife. The monument displays much heraldry. The large slate slab on top of the chest tomb is inscribed within a ledger line thus:
  
  Ye body of John Wrey Esquier who was buried ye 9th of June Ano Domini 1597 Heere lieth the body of Blannch Wrey who was buried ye 16 of December 1595
  
  On the left panel of the tripych is inscribed the following verse:
  Loe here he lieth though dead yet living still, 
  
  His famous name resounding echo saye,
  
  Whereby report of hym the ayre doth fyll
  
  The lastinge fame & name of rightful Wreye,
  
  Good to ye poore bribes never woulde he take,
  
  Voyde of oppression all kind of waye,
  
  He faithful frynds of enemyes did make,
  
  Of quarels greate ceast lawe ech daye by daye.
  
  Death doe they worst this Wreye yet lives & shall,
  
  Thy darte his deeds cannot extyrpe or quayle.
  
  Thousands are they which thou hast causde to fall,
  
  And yet on hym no waye thou canst prevayle.
  
  What resteth then but cease to mourne & moane
  
  For hym whose vertues shine like to the sonne.
  
  Though here he lieth his Sowle to Heave is gone,
  
  Where Angells see hym though his threads be spoone.
caption: Monument to John Wrey (d.1597), Tawstock Church
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