ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OP DORSET. 229 



his eldest daughter Anna), Rector and Patron of this Church, 

 who followed his father too quickly and alas died iiii nones 

 of March, of his age 32. In the year of the Lord 1682. 



UPWEY, ST. LAURENCE. 



Position. On wall above altar tomb outside the North 

 wall of the Chancel. 



Size. 18in. high by 17in. wide. 



Description. A shield-shaped plate with lettering calling 

 for no special comment, but having in spaces near the lower 

 border the emblems of death and the implements of burial. 

 The Upwey Register mentions this burial in 1681. William 

 Gould, of Broadwey, Co. Dorset, was a Commander in the 

 Dorset Militia, and was born 1633. He was the second son 

 of John Gould, of Upwey, by Sarah, daughter of William 

 Every, of Cothay, Co, Somerset. 



Inscription. I nos te ordine sequemur | Anima Creatori 

 pie placideque red | dita, hie depositis mortalitatis exuviis 

 | secundum Redemptoris adventu | praestolatur Gulielmus 

 Gould de Broadwey Generosus | Priscea fidei, primae 

 religionis | Vir, qui ad annos fere xlix, in via | peregrinator, 

 coelebs tandem | in Patriam migravit | tert cal. Martii | 

 A.D. MDCLXXXI. | Resurgam ubi tuus, Mors, 

 aculeus ? | 



Go thou, we shall follow thee in due course. His soul 

 having been reverently and calmly restored to his Creator, 

 the garments of mortality having been laid aside, here 

 William Gould of Broadwey, a generous man, of ancient 

 faith and of the religion of his youth, who for well nigh 

 49 years was a traveller on the journey (of life) and a single 

 man, at length departed out of life to the land of his fathers 

 on March 1st*, 1681, waiteth for the second advent of The 

 Redeemer. I shall arise. Where is thy sting, Death ? 



* See the Pedigree of Gould of Upwey, p. 842, Vol. II., Hutchins' 

 Dorset. 3rd Ed. 



