Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Richard

Last Name:

Bolle

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1689

Inscription:

In Vaughan, John 1919 Winchester Cathedral: Its Monuments and Memorials, London, Selwyn & Blount, pp.186-188:

Brass plaque:

“A Memoriall
For this renowned Martialist Richard Boles of the Right
Worshipful Family of the Boles in Linckborne Sheire,
Collonell of a Ridgment of Foot of 1300, who for his
Gracious King Charles the First did Wounders at the
Battle of Edge-hill. His last Action, to omit all others,
was at Alton, in this County of Southampton, was sur-
prized by five or six thousand of the Rebels; which
caused him, there quartered, to fly to the Church with near
four-score of his Men, who there fought them six or seaven
hours; And then the Rebells breaking in upon him, He
slew with his Sword six or seaven of them, And then was
slain himself, with sixty of his men about him.
1641.*

“His gracious Sovereign hearing of his Death gave
Him his high Commendation in that passionate Expression,
Bring me a Moorning Scarf, I have lost
One of the best Commanders in the Kingdome.

“Alton will tell you of that famous Fight
Which this Man made, and bade this World good Night,
His vertuous Life fear’d not Mortalyty;
His Body must, his Vertues cannot die.
Because his Blood was there so nobly spent:
This is his Tombe, that Church his Monument.

Richardus Boles Wiltoniensis in Art: Mag.
Composuit posuitq: Doleus
An. Dni. 1689.”

(Richard Boles of Wilton, M.A., composed and placed
This epitaph to express his sorrow, A.D.1689)

*the year should be 1643.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Memorial Notes:

See also copy in Alton Church where Bolle was KIA 13 December 1643

See: Jones, Serena 2016 No Armour but courage: colonel Sir George Lisle, 1615-1648, Solihull, Helion & Company Ltd.