Joan Barnet

On the north wall of St Margaret's church Westminster is a memorial tablet to Mrs Joan Barnet who left money to poor widows of the parish. The buff marble tablet has a winged cherub's head and skulls. She was baptised on 1st November 1592. The inscription (spelling has been standardized here) reads:

Here lyeth the body of Mrs Joane Barnet widow. Born in this parish (daughter of Mr Michael Simnell and Joane his wife) who settled by deed on trustees of this parish for ever several houses in London for the uses following Viz: £40 per annum to be equally divided every quarter between twenty of the poorest ancient widows of civil life and conversation inhabiting in this parish and those born here to be first preferred: £20 for a yearly sermon in this parish on the feast of All Souls: £20 for a collation for the trustees: £10 for the church officers. She departed this life 6 of May 1674 in the 82 year of her age.