page_title: Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet
section_title: Monument in The Gaunt's Chapel
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet / Monument in The Gaunt's Chapel
caption_attribution_description: English: Marble monument (c.1635) to Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet(d.1664) and his wife Margaret Hopton(d.1635). Gaunt's Chapel, ("Lord Mayor's Chapel/St Mark's Church") Bristol.
context_page_description: Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet, of Clearwell, Gloucestershire, supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War and was a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire from 1661 until his death on 28 May 1664.
context_section_description: On the death in 1635 of his wife Margaret Hopton aged  25, Throckmorton erected a very costly monument in a variety of coloured marbles to her memory in The Gaunt's Chapel, Bristol. The Gaunt's was a charitable foundation established in 1220 by Maurice de Gaunt (died 1230), who was a member of the Berkeley family of Berkeley Castle. The Berkeleys maintained close links with the foundation even after Dissolution of the Monasteries (16th century) and it appears that the Throckmorton monument was placed here on account of Sir Baynham's descent from his grandmother Elizabeth Berkeley, wife of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, the daughter of Sir Richard Berkeley (died 1604) of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, whose monument is also in The Gaunt's Chapel. The monument is unusual in that it features the still living Sir Baynham, who would survive a further 29 years. He is shown in front of his wife, reclining and dressed in armour with long flowing hair. Over his shoulders he wears a wide lace collar, with knee-plates and wide-toed boots. His wife reclines behind him, half-raised and leaning on her right elbow, looking out towards the viewer. She is richly dressed and with one hand grasps that of her husband whilst with the other she holds their infant son, who is according to Barker "quaintly dressed". The monument contains the following inscription, much mutilated and worn, on two small rectangular black marble panels beneath the ceiling of the canopy:
  
  "Dedicated to the never dying memory of the Lady Margaret Throckmorton, the late wife of Sir Baynham Throckmorton, of Clowerwall, in the County of Glouc., Baronet, and youngest daughter of Mr. Robert Hopton, of that ancient and worthie family of the Hoptons of Witham, in the County of Somerset, Esquire, who lifted up her soule to God upon the 18th day of August in the year of our Lord 1635 and of her age above 25".
  The following lines of verse are contained within an oval tablet of black marble above the effigies:
  "A precious Femme, a Margarite, was lent
  
  To crowne Throckmorton with a rich content
  
  Contented he his Margarite did set
  
  In's faithfull breast his choisest cabanet
  
  She wished no better till her lustre drew
  
  The King of Heaven to like her gracious hue
  
  Who deeming it unfit a subject should
  
  Longer enjoy a femme of that rich mould
  
  Tooke back his loane and fixing her above
  
  Left to Throckmorton this sole pledge of love
  Mors rapax, urna capax, sed spes tenax."
  
  (Translated: "grasping Death, a roomy urn, but hope tenacious")
  On the floor in front of the monument is a stone slab incised with the first part of the above inscription.
caption: Marble monument (c. 1635) erected by Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet(d.1664) in memory of his wife Margaret Hopton (died 1635). The Gaunt's Chapel, Bristol
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