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English:

St Mary's Church, Great Cressingham, Norfolk, mural monument to Mrs Elizabeth Lobb (d. 27 September 1725), wife of Thomas Lobb (1692-1764) of Great Cressingham, and daughter of Thomas Chute (1660-1702) of Pickenham Hall, Norfolk (which he purchased in 1700), 2nd son of Chaloner Chute II (1632-1666), MP, of w:The Vyne, Sherborne St John, Hampshire (son of Chaloner Chute I (d. 1659) of The Vyne, Speaker of the House of Commons) by his wife Catherine Lennard, a daughter of Richard Lennard, 13th Baron Dacre. Elizabeth Chute (Mrs Elizabeth Lobb) became the heiress (in her issue) to both her paternal property of Pickenham Hall (both her brothers having died without issue) and also to The Vyne. Her son Thomas Lobb Chute (1721-1790) inherited Pickenham Hall and The Vyne and adopted the additional surname of Chute. His children included William Chute (d.1824) of The Vyne, MP for Hampshire (died without issue), Rev. Thomas Vere Chute (d.1827) of the Vyne (died without issue), Mary Chute and Anne Rachel Chute, who were childhood friends of the author Jane Austen, who spent much time at The Vyne.

Arms: Argent, a pheon gules between three boar's heads couped sable tusked of the field (Lobb) impaling: Gules, three swords extended barways the points to the dexter or (Chute). Thomas Lobb was the son of the London "joiner" (i.e. carpenter) architect and builder Henry Lobb (d.1706) (brother and partner of fellow joiner William Lobb (d.1697)), by his wife Sarah Rowell (d.1748) (Source: The Family Of Brice and Cathy Alvord, By Brice Alvord, p.150[1]). Henry Lobb (d.1706) and his brother William Lobb owned an estate in Kensington Square, London, now nos 36,37,38, which they developed for housing. ('Kensington Square and environs: Individual houses (north side)', in Survey of London: Volume 42, Kensington Square To Earl's Court, ed. Hermione Hobhouse (London, 1986), pp. 40-46 [2]). Henry Lobb completed various wainscotting work for the 1st Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire and at Berkeley House in Piccadilly (later re-named Devonshire House) (Source: Hannah Waugh, William Talman in London: The Remodelling of Berkeley House, Journal of the Georgian Group, Vol.18, 2010, pp.179-80 [3]). He also worked 1685-6 as a joiner on the rectory of St James's Church, Piccadilly (https://www.sjp.org.uk/the-church-building/) and in 1697 on Ormonde House in James's Square, the townhouse of the 2nd Duke of Ormonde (now nos 9,10,11, St James's Square) (Source: 'St. James's Square: Nos 9, 10 & 11', in Survey of London: Volumes 29 and 30, St James Westminster, Part 1, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1960), pp. 118-134 [4]). The ledger stone of Henry Lobb (d.1706) is before the communion rail of, St Mary's Church, Great Cressingham and is inscribed: Supra et Infra, quod supra anima est, quod infra Corpus Henrici Lobb, qui natus est Saltash in Comitatu Cornwall, diu vixit in Piccadilly Westminster, non mediocris famæ architecta, hic autem recessum quærens, ipse etiam a vita recessit, die Septembris 25 1706 (Above and below: what is above is the soul, what is below is the body, of Henry Lobb, who was born at Saltash in the County of Cornwall, lived long in Piccadilly in Westminster, not of middling fame in architecture, however here seeking retirement, he himself retired from life on the 25th day of September 1706"). (Source: Francis Blomefield). Inscribed in Latin: (Source: Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of South Greenhoe: Great-Cressingham', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6 (London, 1807), pp. 94-107 [5])

M(emoriae) S(acrum) Elizabethæ Uxoris Thomæ Lobb Armigeri, Thomæ Chute Armigeri filiæ Natu maximæ qui patrem habuit Chalonerum è Com' Hants. Armig' in Comitiis Provincialibus non ita pridem Prolocutorem. Virtutis exercitatæ non minus quam Patriæ virum. Ipsa vero acceptam hanc a Proavis, si non adauxerit, propriam certe fecit, cum omnes quæ filiam, Uxorem, et Matrem commendare possunt, impleret partes, Hinc parvum fortasse videatur quod Patrimonio a Fratre Tho. Lenn. Chute, ei relicto, mariti locupleret Ædes, cum antea Cumulatiori multo dote se Virtutum omnium cohonestastat. Die Septembris Vicessimo Septimo Ano. Dni. 1725. Puerpura infeliciter extincta est, Filium unum, duasque Filiolas Connubialis Tori pignora relinquens, Memor et Mœrens hunc Lapidem posuit Maritus.

Which may be translated:

Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Lobb, Esquire, eldest daughter of Thomas Chute, Esquire, who had as his father Chaloner Chute from the County of Hampshire, Esquire, in provincial counties not that long ago Speaker. A man not less experienced of virtue than of his country. She in truth having received this from her great grandfather if she had not augmented her own certainly she made, with all that a daughter, a wife and mother are able to commend, that she should fill the parts hence perhaps seen as little what by the patrimony from her brother Thomas Lennard Chute, left to her, she should enrich the house/family of her husband with before a much accumulated dowery she of all virtues should honour/dignify. On the 27th day of September AD 1725 she was extinguished in unhappy childbirth, leaving one son and two little twin daughters .... ... pledge of love of the marriage couch .... her grieving husband placed this stone to her memory

This has since been added to the tablet : Hic etiam Thomae Lobb ipsius reliquiae annos triginta novem vixit superstes nuptus hic primum juventus 1720, Mortu(u?)s hic demum Senex 1764, aetatis 72. Cuius memoriae extremum hoc et Honoris et Pietatis optis trist(iti?)ae ministerium tradidit filius. (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol.1, 1885, p.73 [6]). ("Here also of the remains of the same Thomas Lobb who lived surviving (her) thirty nine years; he married firstly as a young man in 1720, he died at last as an old man in 1764, of his age 72. To the memory of whom his son handed over this last employment both of honour and of piety ... of sadness ... ?")