CERNE AND MINTERNE MEETING. XXXV. 



Also to 



Sir Nathanael Napier, who died in 1708, aged 72. His 

 second wife died 1724. Mceren s posuit Charissimus Conjux, 

 Desunt verba dohnti. 

 On the north wall to 



Mary, Countess Dowager of Edward, Earl of Gains- 

 borough. Her life was exemplary for piety, prudence, 

 charity, and other divine and moral virtues. Departing 

 hence, she left the fragrancy of them behind her to 

 embalm her memory. She died 9 April, 1693, * n the 45th 

 year of her age. 



On the south of this Napier aisle is a tablet with the inscrip- 

 tion : 



Here reposeth the most virtuous, most obliging, and 

 charitable good lady, Blanche Napier, married to Sir 

 Nathanael Napier, Knight and Baronet, and by him had 

 thirteen children. She was one of the daughters and 

 coheirs of Sir Hugh Wyndham, Knight, Judge of the 

 Common Pleas. She was 53 years old, who, languishing 

 under a tedious sickness of half a year, with great joy 

 and willingness received the fatal stroke from the cold 

 hand of death i April, 1695, wno carried her from all her 

 sickness, pains, and miseries here below; to joy, ease, and 

 happiness unspeakable, there to live in the blest habita- 

 tion of angels to all eternity. Erected by her dear 

 husband, Sir N. Napier, 1695. 

 On a brass in this chapel is also an inscription : 



In memory of Humphrey Sturt, of Horton, Critchell. 

 Brownsea Castle, Grange, and Cliffe, each in this Shire, 

 of which he was one of the Knights from 1759 to 1784. 

 His mother was Diana, daughter of Nathanael Napier, 

 Bart. 



Of Charles Sturt, second son of Humphry Sturt. He 

 married Mary Anna, only daughter of Anthony, 5th Earl 

 of Shaftesbury. He died May 12, 1812. 



