GRAVESTONES AT ST. PETER's CHURCH, DERBY. 49 



desirable to put them all (jn record, for future reference, in thi.s 

 Jour/ial, and the more so, because most of them have again 

 been hidden by the handsome encaustic tile floor which now 

 lies above them.* 



The descriptions of the stones have been arranged in chrono- 

 logical order for easier reference to dates, and those of two 

 are added which were mentionerl by Bassano and others, as 

 seen by them, and copied by Glover and Simpson. 



I. 



Mary Burton died 15 



In the Ninety-ninth Year of her age. 



The Burtons were an ancient Derbyshire family. Samuel, who 

 was Sheriff in 1719, and died in [751, lies in St. AIkmund'.s, 

 where there was a nKjnument bearing the following arms: 

 az. a crescent, arg. within an orle of mullets, or. 



II. 



Here lies the Body of ... . Eaton 

 baptized November the 6.th. 1644. Age 72 Years. 

 Also Rebecka Eaton Baptized June 8th. 1661 

 Aged 67 years. 

 Likewise Elizabeth Eaton Aged 77 years. 



" The late Thomas Eaton's Executors " are given by Glover 

 in the list of inhabitants of St. Peter's parish in 1831. In 

 1806 a William Eaton, of the County Jail, paid 5s. rent to 

 the Derby Corporation Estate. Others of this name were 

 living in St. Alkmund's and St. Werburgh's, and the names of 

 Richard and Thomas Eaton are on the list of subscribers to the 

 Derbyshire Infirmary for 1830. Thomas Eaton was Mayor in 

 1771. 



* This re-luiria] of memorial slalis seems a most unfortunate proceeding. 

 -En. 

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