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opened a round one of considerable size, which affords an agreeable 

 light, and renders that chantry the most cheerful part of the edifice. 



The church and chancels have all covered roofs, ceiled about the year 

 1633 ; before which they were open to the tiles and shingles, showing 

 the naked rafters, and threatening the congregation with the fall of a 

 spar, or a blow from a piece of loose mortar. 



On the north wall of the chancel is fixed a large oval white marble 

 monument, with the following inscription ; and at the foot of the wall, 

 over the deceased, and inscribed with his name, age, arms, and time of 

 death, lies a large slab of black marble : 



Prope hunc parietem sepelitur 

 GILBERTUS WHITE, SAMSONIS WHITE, de 



Oxon. militis filius tertius, Collegii Magdale- 



-nensis ibidem alumnus, & socius. Taudem faven- 



-te collegio ad hanc ecclesiam promotus; ubi primse- 



-v& morum simplicitate, et diffiisa erga omnes bene- 



volentia feliciter consenuit. 

 Pastor fidelis, comis, affabilis, 

 Maritus, et pater amantissimus, 

 A conjuge invicem, et liberis, atque 

 A parochianis impense' dilectus. 

 Pauperibus ita beneficus 

 ut decimam partem census 



moribundus 

 piis usibus consecravit. 

 Meritis demum juxta et annis plemis 

 ex hac vita migravit Feb. 13. 

 anno salutis 172| 

 ^tatis sue 77. 

 Hoc posuit Rebecca 

 Conjux illius maestissima, 

 mox secutura. 



On the same wall is newly fixed a small square table-monument of 

 white marble, inscribed in the following manner : 



Sacred to the memory 

 of the Revd. ANDREW ETTY, B. D. 



23 Years Vicar of this parish : 



In whose character 

 The conjugal, the parental, and the sacerdotal virtues 



were so happily combined 



as to deserve the imitation of mankind. 



And if in any particular he followed more invariably 



the steps of his blessed Master, 



It was in his humility. 



His parishioners, 



especially the sick and necessitous, 

 as long as any traces of his memory shall remain, 



must lament his death. 



To perpetuate such an example, this stone is erected ; 

 as while living he was a preacher of righteousness, 



so, by it, he being dead yet speaketh. 

 He died April 8 th , 1784, aged 66 years. 



LETTEE IY. 



WE have now taken leave of the inside of the church, and shall pass 

 by a door at the west end of the middle aisle into the belfry. This 

 room is part of a handsome square embattled tower of forty -five feet in 



