Title:

Baron/Lord

First Name:

Francis

Last Name:

Cottington

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1678

Inscription:

Here lyes Francis Ld. Cottington of
Hanworth who in ye reign of K.Ch. [Charles] ye 1st was Chancellor of His Maties. [Majesty’s] Exchequer,
Mr: [Master] of his Court of Wards, Constable of ye Tower, Ld. [Lord] High Treasurer of England &
one of His Maties. Privy Councell. He was twice Ambassador in Spaine
once for ye said King & a second tyme for K.Ch: ye 2nd now reigning to
both wch. hee most signally shewd his alleagance & fidelity during
ye unhappy civill broils of those times & for his faithfull adhaerance to
ye Crowne (ye usurpers praevayling) was forc’t [forced] to fly his country &
during his exile dyed at Vallidolid in Spaine on ye 19th day of June. An.Dni.
1652 aet. svae. [aged] 74. Whence his body was brought & here interr’d by Charles
Cottington Esq. his nephew & heire, An.Dni.1679.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Very Good

Condition Description:

No obvious defects

Memorial Notes:

Cottington was Constable of the Tower of London in 1640 and 1641 and defended Strafford in Parliament. He joined the King at Oxford in 1643 and served as a privy councillor, councillor of war, and lord treasurer.