94 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



THE MONUMENT. 



To the Memory of 



JOHN CORBET, Esquire, of Sundorne, 



who departed tfiis Life on the 19th day of May, 1817, aged 65 years. 



He was in the twenty-first degree of lineal descent 



from Corbet, a Nobleman of Normandy, 



who accompanied William the First to the Conquest of England; 



and received an ample donation of lands and manors in the 



county of Salop, during tlie reign of that Monarch. 



In tlie same vault are deposited the remains of his first Wife, 



EMMA ELIZABETH, 



daughter of Sir Charlton Leighton, Baronet, 



of Loton, 



who died the 19th day of September, 1797. 



And of their only Son, 

 JOHN KYNASTON CORBET, 



who died the 23d day of April, 1806, aged 15 years. 



This Monument is erected by his second Wife, ANNE, daughter of the 



Reverend William Pigott, A. M. Rector of Edgmond and 



Chet\vynd, as a Tribute of Gratitude and Affection 



to the best of Husbands, the Remembrance 



of whose Virtues is deeply engraven 



upon her Heart. 



