THE NAPPER FAMILY REGISTER
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Edmund Napper borne July 29, Ano . 1625, about 12 a clocke in the afternoone : Edmund Powell ye young'r and Mrs. Mary Nap : [ per] , of Cowley, godfath'r and godmoth'r.
Edm . Powell , jun ., of Sandford, Oxon , Esq. , cos. to Edm . Napper , mar. Winifred , d . of Jno. Throckmorton, of Coughton Court, co . Warw. , Esq. Mrs. Mary Napper would be Edmund's sister -in-law . Edmund Napper, after studying humanities at St. Omer's College , entered the novitiate S.J. at Tournay, but had to leave on account of ill-health . He then went to Rome, and was admitted into the Engl. College Oct. 22, 1652. He took the oaths May 1 , 1653, from which, however, he was dispensed on account of lameness contracted through weakness, which rendered him incapable of following his vocation . Hence he left the college with the intention of returning to England May 26, 1656. What became of him does not appear. Mary Naper borne July 4, An . Dni . 1627, on a Wensday, at 8 a clock at night, Utty her godm : faciat eam Dn's
ancillam sibi : she died on Friday, July 13 followinge. Utty was the child's eldest sister Ursula , a nun . Charles Naper borne Septem: , 1631 , beingeThursd : between 6 & 7 of the clocke in ye morninge: Edw : Naper his godf: [and eldest brother]. In another hand , under Edmund Napper's nativity, is written : Edmundus decessit ex hac vita 26° Februarii anno 1654. and the following epitaph is engraven " on a white marble of a diamond square at ye high altar " in Holywell Church :― 1
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bere lyeth the body of Edmund Mapier. Esq ., who deceased the 26 , Feb. An . Dom, 1654, aged 75. The register of his son George's children continues :
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Margaret Naper borne the 30 day of August, being Thursday betwene 7 and 8 in the morning , Anno 1649 : faciat sibi ancilla Dom'us. Mary Naper borne the 15 day of September , being Sunday at II of the clock at noone, anno 1650. Francis Naper borne ye 6 day of June , being Sunday at 10 in the morning, Anno 1652. On the south side of the church at Holywell, at the upper end, is the following epitaph on a black marble table-monument affixed
to the wall :
Demoriæ Sacrum Georgii Mapier de bolywell, Armigeri, Edmundi Mapier filii, et Gulielmi Mapier Mepotis , qui diem supre= mum obiit Septembris quarto, An. Dom. 1671 , et ætatis suæ quinquagesimo quarto bic obdormiscit . Tres filiæ scil . Dargareta, Daria, Francisca, ex Dargareta con= fuge, quas moriens reliquit bæredes, boc qualecunque