Mary Lany

Monumental Inscription in St Margaret's church, Ipswich

John Lany, of Cratfield, in Suffolk, Gent., a Counsellor at Law, and Recorder of Ipswich. He had been 48 years Justice of the Peace, in Suffolk. Mary, his wife, daughter of John Poley, of Bradley, Esqr. and of Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Thomas Wentworth, Baron of Nettlestead. He died aged 81 - she and he both in 1633. John, his eldest son, Counsellor at Law, who succeeded in his place, and Benjamin, his youngest son, Doctor in Divinity, and master of Pembroke Hall, in Cambridge, his only surviving children, set up this monument to his memory.