248 The Churches of Devizes. St. Mary's. 



Johnson, Rector of Devizes, who died in 1681. It consists of a 



slab of black marble, with the following inscription : — 



M. S. 



Post tantos Labores 



Totidemq Serinones 



Hie demum Quietc Silet 



Dignissime Rcverendus 



Henricus Johnson A.M. 



Hujxis Eeclesia' Hector, 



Pidpitiq dominator, 



Concionator strenuus frequensq 



Prcepotens ac desiderabilis, 



Dictis factisq primarvus, 



Yere et omnimode Theologus; 



Sacris Paginis, 



Literis Insuetis, 



Versatissimus : 



Rara tamen niodestia 



Praistabat. 



Vir Sobrietate Vita? gravis 



Suavitate morum placidus 



Nulliq molestus 



Quern in Sylvis virorum 



Solitudini vacantem 



Dolorosa (Heu) tandem fistula 



Sibi fceliciter 



Graviterq alias 



In Sanctorum turbam 



Fideliumq Salutem 



Erogavit. 



Oct, 31, 



1681. 



The others commemorate — 



John Garth, Esq. (son of Colonel Thomas Garth of Harold, Co. Bedford, by 

 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Colleton, Esq.), for some time Recorder of 

 Devizes, and afterwards one of the representatives of the Borough in Par- 

 liament. He died 1764, aged 63. 



Arms. Or, two lions passant in pale between three cross crosslets fitchee 

 sable, Garth; impaling, Or, two lions passant in pale gules, Brojitton. 

 Crest of Garth. A goat passant argent, collared or. 

 Mrs. Rebecca Gaeth, widow of John Garth, Esq., and daughter and co- 

 heiress of John Brompton, Esq., died in 1785. 



Arms. On a lozenge Gaeth as above, with a crescent for difference, 

 impaling Brompton. 

 Frances, daughter of John Garth, Esq., died 1768. 

 Abel Filkes, died 1815, aged 65. James, his son, 1796, aged 8. 



