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Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.590
the grave, this brief and simple record:-
Ricardi Watson
Episcopi Landavensis
cineribus scarum.
Obiit Julii 4, A.D. 1816,
AEtatis 79.
Hic etiam conjugem prope
depositae sunt reliquiae
Dorothea Watson,
maximae natulum
Edwardi Wilson de Dallam Tower, Arm.
Vitam obiit III id.
Aprilis A.D.
MDCCCXXXI.
aetatis suae LXXXI.
Another marble tablet, surmounted by an urn and anchor,
commemorates many melancholy events which occurred in a
short space of time in one family.
"On the 7th of June 1832 was lost, with all the crew of her
Majesty's brig Recruit, in a gale of wind, on the passage
from Halifax to Bermuda, Henry C. Poulett Thompson, aged 14
years, youngest son of Andrew Henry Poulett Thompson, esq.
late of Belfield.* On the 7th Sept. 1834 Sophia
Poulett Thompson, his mother, died at Belfield, aged 41. On
the 2d June, died at Greenwich, aged 20, Andrew John Poulett
Thompson, eldest son of the above. On the 28th April 1839
was drowned in the river Thames, by the upsetting of a boat,
Andrew Henry Poulett Thompson, esq. late of Belfield, and of
Austin Friars, London, aged 52 years. On the 5th Sept. 1840
died at Mortlake, Surrey, Charlotte Weguelin, only daughter
of the above, and wife of Thomas Matthias Weguelin, of
Mortlake and Austin Friars."
In the north aisle is a tablet, surmounted by a fine white
marble bust, to the memory of
"Fletcher Raincock, esq. A.M. who died 17 Aug. 1846, in the
72nd year of his age. He was the second son of the late Rev.
W. Raincock, rector of Ouseley, Cumberland, by Agnes, eldest
daughter of the late Fletcher Fleming, of Rayrigg, and
formerly senior Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and
F.S.A."
Passing these and other modern erections, the antiquary will
pause before the oldest monument in the church, erected on
the south side of the altar, over the place where the dust
of many generations of the Philipsons has long been mingled
with its kindred earth. It is a simple slab of black marble,
let into a bed of stone, placed upon a square high stone
pedestal, and adorned with some ornamental mouldings, which
are so much clogged with whitewash as to be almost
undefinable. It is surmounted with their armorial
cognizances, and bears the record of one of the owners of
Calgarth:-
The author's epitaph upon
Himselfe, made in the
Tyme of his sickness.
A man I was, worms meate I am,
To earth return'd, from whence I came.
Many removes on earth I had,
In Earth at length my Bed is made.
A bed which Christ did not disdaine,
Altho' it could not him retaine,
His deathlie foes might plainlie see
Over sin and death his victorie.
Here must I rest till Christ shall let me see
His promised Jerusalem, and her felicitie.
Veni Domine Jesu, veni cito.
Robert Philipson, Gent. xiiiito Octo-
bris Ano Salutis 1631. Anno AEtatis suae 63tio.
There are also several sepulchral memorials on brass, but
none of any interest or far-off date; and on the floor are
numerous tombstones and incised slabs, charged with the
heraldic badges, and obituary epitaphs of those who rest
beneath.
Affixed to the wall, under the window at the east end of the
north aisle, is an iron bracket, ornamented with some scroll
work, and painted in several colours, with the date on it of
1619. I was told this is considered to have been an ancient
candlestick, found some years ago among a pile of rubbish in
the bottom of the Tower. With deference however for such
accredited
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