Katherine Palmer

The elaborate cartouche memorial to Katherine Palmer was originally on the wall of the west cloister of Westminster Abbey, near her grave, but was taken down in the 1970s for restoration and not replaced there. It is now on the wall in the Abbey triforium so is not available to view. 

The inscription reads: 

Here lyeth interred ye body of Catherine Palmer, widow, one of ye daughters and coheirs of John Partridge, late of London, Gent. And was the second wife of Andrew Palmer Esq. Assay Master of England to Q. Eliz[abeth], K. James and King Charles the first. She departed this life in full assurance of a glorious Resurrection on ye 4th day of January in the seventy sixth yeare of her age, Anno Dom. 1676

The sculptured coat of arms at the top shows "party per fess, a pale counterchanged three tassels pendant" for Partridge, impaling "on a bend, between two lions rampant, three martlets".

She was buried on 13th January. She had no children. Her will was proved by Charles Francklin of Lincoln's Inn, apparently a near relative.