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Transcript of inscription on the monument in Ely Cathedral of Sir w:Mark Steward (1524-1604), of Heckfield in Hampshire and of Stuntney in Cambridgeshire, a Member of Parliament for Stockbridge in Hampshire (1597) and for St Ives in Cornwall (1588–9). Transcript, from: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, Volume 1, 1662, pp.259-60[1]:

« Premendo sustulit. Ferendo vicit. “ Secundum Redemptoris Mundi adventum expectat hic Marcus Steward Miles, filius hæresque Simeonis Steward Armig. Nicholao Steward Armig. geniti, qui patrem habuit Richardum Steward Armig. quem genuit Thomas Steward Armig. Johannis Steward Mihtis filius, cujus pater erat Johannes Steward Miles, ejus nominis in Angliâ primus, qui cum Jacobo Roberti Scotiæ Regis filio in Franciam transfretans (regnante tunc Henrico quarto) vento eorum propositis opposito, in Anglicano littore applicuerunt, ubi diu post pro obsidibus custodiebantur: Sed hic Johannes in amorem cujusdam virginis Anglicanæ, nomine Talmach, incidens, obtentâque Johannæ Reginæ veniâ, cui ancilla inserviebat, eam in conjugem cepit, infidemque Regis Henrici dum vixisset solenniter est juratus. Hujus pater erat Alexander, quem genuit Andreas Steward Miles, Alexandri cognominati Ferocis filiorum natu minimus, cujus pater erat Walterus Steward, à Dundevale in Scotiâ dictus. Sed primus in Genealogiâ hâc summonitus, & hic sepultus, ex Annâ unâ filiarum & Hæredum Roberti Huicke Armig. Reginæ Elizabethæ Medici primarii, varios habuit liberos, quos omnes inadultos Fata rapuere, præter duos, Mariam scilicet Gulielmo Forster in Com. Berke. Militi nuptam, & Simionem Steward Militem, Hæredem filiumque suum mæstissimum, qui pii officii, singularisque erga Patrem Amoris gratiâ, hoc posuit monumentum, ubi inscriptum legas, quòd cum multos Annos, & Bello & Pace, pro Patriâ feliciter egisset, ætate tandem confectus militari singulo, & Auratis Calcaribus à Jacobo Rege Serinissimo ornatus, senex pene octogenarius fatali Necessitati concessit, 28^o Februarii, anno Salutis 1603." ”

Which may be translated:

"Awaiting here the second coming of the Redemptor of the World is Mark Steward, Knight, son and heir of Simon Steward, Esquire, born of Nicholas Steward, Esquire, who had as father Richard Steward, Esquire, whom bore Thomas Steward, Esquire, the son of John Steward, Knight, of whom the father was John Steward, Knight, the first of that name in England, who crossing the sea with James, the son of Robert, King of Scots (during the reign of Henry IV) with an opposing wind to their intentions they steered their ship towards the English shore where for a long while afterwards they were held as hostages. But here John, falling in love with a certain English virgin by the name of Talmach, and having obtained leave from Queen Johanna, whom she was serving as a maid, he gained her hand in marriage and was solemnly sworn into fealty of King Henry so long as he should live. Of him the father was Alexander, whom bore Andrew Steward, Knight, of Alexander called “the Fierce” the youngest-born of his sons, of whom the father was Walter Steward, called “of Dundeval” (Dundonald ?) in Scotland. But the first one mentioned in this genealogy and buried here, from Anne, one of the daughters and heirs of Robert Huicke, Esquire, the first physician of Queen Elizabeth, had various children, whom all before adulthood were seized away by Fate, apart from two, that is to say Mary, married to William Forster, Knight, in the County of Berkshire, and Simon Steward, Knight, his most sorrowing son and heir, who by pious duty and by grace of exceptional love towards his father, placed this monument, where you read what is written, how during many years both in war and in peace, he acted joyfully for his country, at last having finished an extraordinary military age and having been decorated by James, the most Serene King, with gold spurs, as an old man barely an octogenarian he conceded to necessary Fate on the 28th of February in the year of Salvation 1603”"