72 LEONARD WHEATCROFT, OF ASHOVER. 



"An Epitaph : — 



" Here lyes the Body of Jemima Bourne 



The eldest daughter of a famous Knight — 

 Sir Thomas Beckingham, — his daughter born 



By his faire Dame, Elizabeth, most bright, 

 Of Tolson towne in Essex, county faire. 



This lady was unto a parson given, 

 And by her life and conversation rare 



This relict now is made a saint in heaven. 

 Three score and nineteen years of age was she 



As by her tomb appears in letters tine. 

 July the 19 her funerale I see 



One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy nine." 



" An Epitaphe vpon the death of my very lovinge vnckle 

 Robert Norman : — 



" Here lyes a man who did provide 

 His coffin and his stone 

 For many years before he died : 

 His name is Robert Norman. 

 December he the Twenty eight, 



Did goe from hence away : 

 He buried was in 'Seventy nine, (1679) 

 Who's now returned to clay. 

 His age was four score years and five, 



Before he lost his breath, 

 Besides three quarters of a yeare. 

 But now hath left this earth."* 



* From the will of Robert Norman, of Ashover, dated nth November, 

 1678, which was in the possession of the late Mrs. Nodder :— 



"Theseaven pound bond which will become due tome from my kinsman 

 Abraham Norman, June 10, 1680, to be equally divided among the children 

 of my kinsmen Richard Hawley of Sutton, and Leonard Wheatcroft of 

 Ashover. 



"To Richard Hawley . . . my ceiled bedstead in the parlour. To my 

 kinsman Edward Norman my ceiled chest at my bedside and to my sister Anne 

 Hawley, that chest in the parlor with the lock upon it. To my sister Frances 

 Norman the other chest in the parlor. To my kinsmen George and Robert 

 Norman 20 ^'"" apiece. All the rest of my estate I give to my kinsmen 

 Richard Hawley and Leonard Wheatcroft the elder, and I make my kinsman 

 Richard Hawley sole executor." 



