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Surname	Royce	Alternative Surname
First Name	Nathaniel, of Bury St Edmunds	Initial of Surname	R
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished
Year of Death	- 1769
Biographical Details	Nothing is known of his parentage but his wife was named Anne and she had six children born between 1716 and 1736 including Nathaniel, who became a mason. Royce signs the ‘large and important monument’ to Jacob Harvey at Cockfield, Suffolk (1). It is nearly 18 feet high and features a ‘well-carved bust of a young man, clad in a coat and scarf and wearing his own hair’ set upon a sarcophagus. This is housed within an architectural frame, with Corinthian pillars and pilasters of variegated marble supporting a heavy triangular pediment with a large coat of arms at the apex. This work shows that Royce was a ‘skilled and competent statuary’. Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 333 Archival References: Parish registers, St John Maddermarket and St Mary, Bury St Edmunds