76 Facts relating to Wohingham. 



and his two wives, all three in a devotional posture, was an inscrip- 

 tion, now lost ; out of the mouth of the woman on the right hand 

 proceeds a lemma, thus inscribed : — 



" ^Ojttlia noS JBctt^ ^alutart'^ no^tcr, 

 <£t prnjtcr elortam nnmintS tut 5B0mmt." 



Out of the woman's mouth on the left hand : — 



♦• iltticra nai et ^ropittuS t^ia pcccatf)S nn^trt^ 

 Propter namtn tuum ne in cteniuiu tra^tartiS nabii" 



On a brass plate, fixed within the south wall, under the figures 

 of a man and woman kneeling opposite to each other, between 

 them a faldstool containing two books, and on it this inscription : — 



" Witt, Wealth, Shape, Birth, lye buried here, 

 Thinges, while we live, we value all too dear ; 

 JBtit such as leave us when we leave our Breath, 

 Unfaithfull Freindes, forsaking us in Death ; 

 No Covenant tcith tht Grave, we xuust resign. 

 Some of us now, and some another Time, 

 He liveth not long, that many Yeares can tell, 

 But he liveth evermore, that liveth well." 



On this is neither name nor date to give any intelligence to 



•whom it belonged. 



On a black gravestone, in capitals, this : — 



" Under this stone lyeth buried Michaell Townesend, and Saeah 

 TowNESEND, the children of Nathaniell and Maet Townesend, of London, 

 1656." 



On another gravestone : — 



" Judeth Beooksbanke, daughter q/" Joseph and Maet: who departed 

 Aug. 10, 1689, in 8th year of her age." 



In the middle He, on a large black marble gravestone : — 



"Mr. Simon Weatee, citizen and cutler of London, born in this Parish; 

 departed this life 25 Nov., 1699, in the ISth year of his age." 



[The above are all that are given in Ashmole's Berks, as within 



the church.] 



Inscriptions on the Beaver monument, at Wokingham : — 



" Beneath this stone doth rest the mortal part 

 Of her who once delighted every heart. 

 How good she was, and what her virtues were, 

 Her Guardian Angel can alone declare. 

 The friend that now this little tribute pays, 

 Too exquisitely feels to speak her praise ; 



