By the late F. A. Carrington, Esq. 77 



The sweet remembrance of a wife so just 

 Affords him comfort though she sleeps in dust. 

 Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Beatee, 

 in the 61st year of her age.* " 



" In Memory of 



And of Thomas Beaver, late of Binfield, Esquire, and of Rachel his wife, 

 daughter of Richard Deane of this Town, Gent: and of their second son 



Thomas, aged 34 : and of Mary his wife, sister of Staverton, of this 



Parish, Esq., aged 39 : and of their first son Richard, who married Mary, 

 daughter of Sir Richard Harrison of Whistley and Hinton in the Parish of 

 Hurst, and sister of the then Sir Richard Harrison, of Hurst. She 

 died set. 77. The said Richard, her husband, died aged 79, and was 

 here buried in peace, after having jointly with their brother, raised three 

 Troops of Horse for King Charles the First, and maintained them years at their 

 own expense : viz. two Troops at the expense of Sir Richard, and one at that 

 of the said Richard Beaver. They served with Algernon Simes (who was slain 

 at the first battle of Newbury, 20 Sep. 1643, as were Lord Spencer, and Sir 

 Robert Dormer, Bart.) of the Little Park, Windsor, Esq. : and with Alexander 

 Taughton, of the Great Park, Windsor, (under the Earl of Crawford, till he 

 was taken prisoner, and sent to the Tower, where he remained nine years.) 

 And afterwards they served under their brother Lord Thomas Howard, Earl of 

 Berkshire, son of the Duke of Norfolk, by His Majesty's appointment. The 

 said Earl, as well as the said Richard Beaver, married a sister of the said Sir 

 Richard Harrison, by whom he left two daughters : the eldest married Sir 

 Henry Winchcombe of Bucklebury, in this County, Bart. The other daughter 

 married a son of Sir Thomas Parker. Sir Richard Harrison married the 

 daughter and heiress of William Deane of Nethercot, in Oxfordshire, Esquire, 

 niece to Sir James Deane of Basingstoke, and to Richard Deane of this Town, 

 Gent. (The two middle lingers of her left hand grew together.) They served 

 together in the Civil Wars, suffered the persecution, sequestration, composition, 

 &c. And of Richard Beaver, son of the aforesaid Richard and Mary Beaver, 

 aged 49. And of Mary his wife, aged 80, who before her marriage was Mary 

 Taylor, late of Binfield, but then of this Town. And of William their son 

 aged 81. And of Mary his wife aged 46. She was daughter and heir to the 

 said Alexander Taughton, Esq., by Mary his wife, who was sole daughter and 

 heir of the said Algernon Simes, by Louisa his wife, daughter of Sir William 

 Kippax, of Bewcot, Berks, Bart. And of William son of the said William 

 and Mary, aged 66. He was heir to the said Alexander's widow, and to the 

 widow Bowlen, the other daughter to the said Alexander. Her husband 

 Thomas Bowlen was a coal merchant, and greatly reduced by serving the Court, 

 for he lost his debt of thousands by the unfortunate King being destroyed. 

 The estates of the said Algernon, Alexander and Richard, were spent and 

 seized and so lost. [Part now is a part of the Great Park, Stone's Farm, and 



Warren, and Hill near Virginia Water.] Of the son of the last 



named William Beaver and Elizabeth his wife, aged 69. She was the eldest 

 daughter of Henry Deane (who was son of the aforesaid Richard Deane of this 



• There seem to be no dates of years : but the epitaph was probably ■written about 1740. 



