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St Martin, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, SD40259689 -- "IN MEMORY / of / RASSELAS BELFIELD / a Native of / ABYSSINIA. / who departed this Life on the / 16 Day of January 1822. / Aged 32 Years. / A Slave by birth I left my native Land, / And found my Freedom on Britania's Strand / Blest Isle Thou Glory of the Wise and Free! / Thy Touch alone unbinds the Chains of Slavery!" (photo 18.9.2009)