Peter Richardson, Tudor Royal Jeweller
In 1720, in the parish church of St Mary Savoy in London, lay an inscription in memory of William Vevian. William came from a family in Cornwall, and lived in London, working as a servant to the Earl of Worcester in the early sixteenth century. The monument to his memory records his tragic and accidental death.
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