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St Martin, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, SD40259689 -- Memorial:-
"THE AUTHORS EPITAPH UPON / HIM SELFE. MADE IN THE / TYME OF SICKNESS. / A MAN I WAS, WORMES 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 DOD NOT DISDAINE: / ALTHO' IT COULD NOT HIM RETAINE. / HIS DEADLIE FOES MIGHT PLAINLIE SEE; / OVER SINN, AND DEATH, HIS VICTORIE. / HERE MUST I REST, TILL CHRIST SHALL LET ME SEE / HIS PROMISED JERUSALEM AND HER FAELICITIE. / VENI DOMINE JESU, VENI CITO / ROBERT' PHILIPSON GENT: XIIIITO OCT= / BRIS AN' SALUTIS 1631: ANNO / AETATIS SUA 63TIO." (photo 18.9.2009)