Simon Legge

Simon Legge is said to be the son of Thomas Legge. He married Joan Clavering, daughter of John Clavering. Simon is mentioned on the Memorial Inscription for John at Cobham, Kent.

Ancient Funeral Monuments of Great Britain, Ireland and The Islands by John Weever & William Tooke 1767 p. 121-123 "Hic iacet Johannes Clavering quondam filius Roger Clavering, ciuis and pannarji de ciuitate London Orate pro animabus predicti Johannis Clavering, Juliane and Alicie ux. eius & predicti Rogeri Clavering and Johanne ux. eius, patris and matris predicti Johannis Clavering, fratrum and Fororum fuorum, et filiorum, eorum, ac etiam Anne Westbye et Matildis matris eius, et progenitorum nostrorum, et Johannis De Brendward, Thome Legge, et Simon filii eius, at pro animabus omnia benefactorum nostrorum, et omnium fidelium defunctorum, quorum animabus propitietur Deus. Amen.

Here lies John Clavering former son Roger Clavering, a citizen of the city of London and pannarji Pray for the souls of John Clavering, Julian and Alice his wives & Roger Clavering and Johanna his wife, the father and the mother of the aforesaid John of Clavering, unto the brethren, and the markets called fuorum, and children, of them, and they, too, Anne Westby and Maud, the mother's name was, and those of our ancestors, and Joan of Brendward, Thomas Legge, and Simon, the son of his died, though for the souls of all his benefits, our fathers, and of all the faithful departed, O God, by whose atonement for your souls. Amen.