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bases and lower portions of the present piers of the nave arcade 

 may belong to the Norman structure. Of the early English 

 fragments remaining till lately in the chancel mention has been 

 already made. The greater portion of the present building however 

 belongs, as has been intimated, to the sixteenth and following 

 centuries. 



Monuments. 

 1. A mural monument of freestone, till lately on the north side 

 of the chancel, now at the west end of the north aisle commemorates 

 William Ernie, Esq. (a younger son of John Ernie of Cannings, 

 by Lucy, daughter of Thomas Cooke of Salisbury), and his wife 

 Joan. The monument, which was erected in 1587, bears the 



following quaint inscription : — 



" 1587^ 



Anno. Dni. 



Oneli : honore : and 



preise : be : geven : to : God. 



Where : so : ever : a : dead 



earkas : is : even : thither 



will : the : egles : resorte. 



I : beleve : that : my : redemer : liveth : and : that : I : shall : rise : owt : of 



the : earth : in : the : last : dai : and : shall : be : covered : againe : withe : mi 



skinne : and : shall : se : God : in : my : fleshe : iea : and : I : mi : selfe : shall 



beholde : biTn : not : withe : other : but : withe : these : same : eies.* 



w. E. w. E. 



Deathe : in : Jesus : Christe : onli 



is : eternall : salvacion. 



William Ernele 



and Jone his wif." 



On the upper part of the monument are sculptured three eagles, 

 which, together with the passage from an early version of the Gospel 

 of St. Luke (in the authorized version chap. xvii. 37.,) have evidently 

 a reference to the armorial bearings of the Ernie family, — Argent, 

 on a bend sable, three eagles disjilai/ed or. 



These arms, quartering Malwyn, ' and differenced by a crescent, 



• These texts Tvould seem to have been taken from " The Syhle after the translation of Thomas 

 Mathew. Imprynted at London by Robert Toye, fol. 1551." Black-letter. The only difference is, 

 that, in the commencement of the latter text, we have " I am sure " for " I believe." 



' It may be observed that the arms of Malwyn only are quartered here with 

 Ernie, and that those of Best do not appear, though it was by the marriage of 

 John Ernie to Joan, daughter and heii'ess of Simon Best, and granddaughter 

 of John Malwyn, that the Ernie family came into property in this neighbour- 



