Francis Newman

In the north cloister of Westminster Abbey is a small tablet for Francis Newman. This was originally part of a larger monument. The Latin inscription can be translated:

Here lies Francis Newman, late fellow of All Souls College in Oxford, who was buried here on the Ides of Dec[ember] [13 December] in the year of health 1649. Divested of body and received among the seats of the blessed souls, he is now truly a New-man

He was a son of Matthew Newman of Edmonton in Essex. He was educated at Brasenose college in Oxford and was a fellow of All Souls until expelled by the Parliamentary authorities in 1648. He is sometimes said to have died of shock after witnessing the execution of Charles I but that took place in January 1649.