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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
* Belfield is a neat modern house in the village of Bowness. - EDIT.
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