<p>Engraving of "monumental tablet" of Thomas Dalby (d.1526), a canon of Beverley (1503) and Archdeacon of Richmond (1504) and Prebend of North Leverton in Southwell Minster. In the north aisle of the choir of York Minster (Memorials of Beverley Minster: the Chapter Act Book, Surtees Society, Vol.108, Durham, 1903, vol.2, pp.xciv-xcv<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/memorialsofbever02surtuoft/page/n97/mode/2up">[1]</a>; see also "Drake's Eboracum", pp.502-3), where he occupied a stall, resembles the form of a ledger stone. Effigy of Thomas Dalby within an arched niche with Renaissance-style putti in spandrels and acanthus scroll-work on the cornice. In 1509 Dalby served as an executor of the will of Thomas Savage, Archbishop of York (1501-1507), and his arms are shown on the Archbishop's surviving monument in York Minster.
</p><p>Surrounded by kneeling saints (clockwise from right): Saint Mary; Saint John the Evangelist; Saint John Beverlacie (bishop) (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Beverley" class="extiw" title="w:John of Beverley">w:John of Beverley</a> (died 721) Bishop of Hexham, Northumbria, then Bishop of York which was the most important religious designation in the area. He went on to found the town of Beverley by building the first structure there, a monastery); Saint Erasmus (bishop); Un-named monk; Un-named king; Saint John the Baptist; Saint William of York (bishop); Saint Peter, as Pope; Saint Gabriel. Verse below: 
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<p>Miseremini mei my friends all,<br>
This world hath inform'd me to fall,<br>
Here I may no long endure pray for my soul,<br>
This world is transitory and terrestrial.
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<p>Coat of arms of Dalby:  <i>Gules, a chevron ermine between three round buckles or</i> (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.257), with crest of Dalby at bottom: <i>A wolf's head erased</i>. Arms of the Archdeaconry of Richmond: <i>Azure, a garb or</i>, impaling Dalby. Arthur Perceval Purey-Cust (Dean of York), Heraldry of York Minster, 1890-96, p.78<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/stream/heraldryofyorkmi01custuoft/heraldryofyorkmi01custuoft_djvu.txt">[2]</a>: <i>"At the south-west corner of the monument (in York Minster) to Archbishop Savage</i> (Archbishop of York 1501-1507) <i>there is a figure of an angel holding a shield emblazoned with arms similar to those which were on Thomas Dalby's monumental tablet, viz., a garb impaling a chevron ermine between three buckles. The latter is the cognizance of Dalby, but it is difficult to identify the former accurately. Torre, in his MS. history of the Minster and its property, mentions this coat as existing in the prebendal house of Stillington, "in the hall window, in the window of the dining-room above stairs," and carved in stone on the chimney-piece of the same, with another shield containing a garb only. He thus labels them "Richmond Archdeaconry impaling Dalby." For want of more definite information I must accept his statement, but neither in the Diocesan Record Offices of York or Chester, nor in the British Museum, can I find any seal shewing what the device of the Archdeaconry of Richmond actually was."</i> 
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Latin inscription in ledger-line <i>Orate pro a(n)i(m)a M(a)g(ist)ri Thomae Dalby decretorum doctoris Archiadiaconi Richmondi(a)e Praebendary P(rae)bendae de Stevelington ac Canonici Resedentarii in eccl(es)ia metropolitica Ebor(ac)um praepositi et canonici</i> ("Pray for the soul of Master Thomas Dalby, doctor of canon law, Archdeacon of Richmond, Prebendary of the prebend of Stevelington (Stillington ?) and Canon residentiary in the metropolitan church of York ..."). The text is expanded in Memorials of Beverley Minster: the Chapter Act Book, Surtees Society &amp; see full Latin transcript in Drake, <i>Eboracum</i>, 1736, p.503<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/gri_33125011569627/page/n631/mode/2up">[3]</a>: ... "Pray for the soul of Thomas Dalby, doctor of decrees, Archdeacon of Richmond, prebendary of Stillington (Stevelington), and canon residentiary in the metropolitical church of York, Provost and canon residentiary in the church of S. John of Beverley, and treasurer of the household of Thomas Savage, formerly Archbishop of York, chaplain and counsellor of the most illustrious King Henry VII. , and of the most serene and all-powerful King Henry VIII., and Dean of the chapel of the most illustrious Prince, the Duke of Richmond and Somerset; who died 26 January, A.D. 1525" (i.e. 1526 "new style")
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Wellcome Collection "plate 49, page 95", source book not stated<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/aqc42v3f/items?canvas=1&amp;langCode=lat">[4]</a>; also printed in Francis Drake, <i>Eboracum, or, The history and antiquities of the city of York</i>, Book 2, 1736, p.502, Latin text p.503<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/gri_33125011569627/page/n627/mode/2up">[5]</a>