228 ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 



Five sonnes he left alive, five sonnes and daughters dead, 

 When he the waie which we must walke, himself to us he led 



His liefe it is not loste, his spirit above the skiies, 

 His love and fame amongst his friends and heare his bodie lies. 



Border Inscription. >f Christ is to me liefe and death is 

 to me advantage. 



WEST STAFFORD, ST. ANDREW. 



Position. Three inscribed brasses, formerly in slabs on 

 the chancel floor (the slab of Giles Long now forms part of 

 the nave floor, and measures 5ft. Gin. by 2ft. lin., having 

 matrix across its centre for the brass). At present mural. 



(1) Size. 5jin. by ISJin. 



Inscription. Here lyeth buried Giles Long, who deceassed 

 the \ xxviith of August Anno 1592, being of thadge of \ xxxth 

 years, and then lord of Frome Belle tt, and \ patrone of the 

 parsonadge of Frome Bellett, and \ Stafford, and presented 

 Richard Russelle \ Clarck unto the same. 



(2) Size. Gin. by 19in. 



Inscription. Hie sepultus jacet Robertus White \ qui 

 uxorem habuit Annam Richardi Russell \ filiam natu 

 maximam ; et qui obiit Octobs. ii \ ^Etatis suae Ixviii Anno 

 of Domi. MDCLXXX. 



Here lyeth buried Robert White, who had a wife Anna, eldest 

 daughter of Richard Russell and who died October 2 of her 

 age 68 in the year of the Lord 1680. 



(3) Size. 8|in. by 19|in. 



Inscription. Laetae Resurrectionis spe hie quiescit 

 Robertus | Roberti White films natu major | Richardi 

 Russell Ecclesiae hujus Rectoris et Patroni | ex Anna filia 

 natu maxima, Nepos | qui cito nimis patrem secutus, heu ! 

 obiit iiiito nonas Martii. ^Etatis suae xxxiido | Annoqz 

 Domi. MDCLXXXII. 



Here rests, in the hope of a joyful resurrection, Robert, 

 elder son of Robert White, Grandson of Richard Russell (from 



