Bridget Radley

Bridget Radley is buried in the south aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey and in the window splay nearby is a white marble cartouche. This has scrolls, fruit and flowers, with a shield of arms and a cherub head. The inscription reads:

Here lies the body of Mistress Bridget Radley the most deservedly beloved wife of Charles Radley Esq. Gentleman Usher Dayley Waiter to His Majesty [Charles II], which place he parted withall, not being able to do the duty of it by reason of his great indisposition, both of body and mind, occasioned by his just sorrow for the loss of her. She changed this life for a better ye 20 of November 1679.

The coat of arms is "argent, a chevron gules between three adders coiled, sable" (for Radley) impaling "vert, on a bend indented or three martlets sable". She was the daughter of George Cracroft of Lincolnshire and his wife Elizabeth (Bolle) and married Charles in St Martin in the Fields church in London in 1672. He later re-married and survived her until about 1723.