They, too, are kneeling in devotional attitude, with clapsed hands. This monument represents Sir Robert in armor, kneeling with clasped hands his two wives are represented beside him. In Chilton Church is an elaborate marble monument to the memory of Sir Robert Crane, who was knighted by James I. "Her best blue velvet gown to Chilton Church to make vestments for a deacon." "Her best black velvet gown, furred with marten and lined with velvet," fell to a lot of relatives. She bequeathed money for wax tapers for the day of her burying, and afterward to use at mass also money for bills to ring dirges at her obsequies. They were lords of the manor, and the direct descendants of Lord Arundel's family, who inherit the blood of Charlesmagne and Hugh Capet.ĭame Arundel's will was recorded and proved in 1521 at Sudbury, and is a curious old document.
The emigrant Cranes were descended from the Cranes of Chilton Hall, a moated manor of some distinction near Sudbury, Suffolk, England, fifty miles from London, and twenty miles from Coggeshall, Essex, England.
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