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A TOPOGRAPHICAL 



small structure of stone with a square tower, on the western side 

 of which a very beautiful ivy-tree has climbed almost to the pinna- 

 cles, rising like two wings, and leaving the aperture or Gothic 

 window of the belfry uncovered. Among the monuments in the 

 chancel the following to the celebrated Erdeswicke is most con- 

 spicuous : 



" Ricardus de Vernon Bare de Sibroc 20 Willmi Conquestoris Pater harum 

 {familiar 'de Vernon Holgreve et Erdeswick, 1086. 



Hoc sibi spe in Xpo resurgendi posuit 

 Sampson Erdeswick Armiger. qui gen. 

 recta serie ducit a Ruo de Vernon, ba- 

 rone de Sibroc tempore gui' loqst. 



Vernon. 

 Malbauc. 



Vernon. 

 Manderill 



Stafford's 

 Vernon. 



Stafford 

 Walkelin. 



Hujus ffili et heres Hugo de Verno 

 duxit ffilia et haerede Rainaldi Ballioli 

 dm de Erdesnvich et Holgreve dedernt 

 ffllio Mattheo uyu' ffili' inde diet' fuit 

 de Holgreve. 



Vernon 1 Vernon Vernon. Baliole Vernon >-l Holgreve. 



Holgreve. 



Ricardus ffilitis junor Mathaei de Holgreve tertij cum pater illi 

 Erdeswik dedisset nomen de Erdeswik sibi assumpsit reliquit et ex 

 altera hvrede Guil. dni de Leighton Thomam. de Erdeswik genuit 

 cujus pronepos Thomas quartus, accepit in uxore Margareta unica 

 filia et heredem Jacobi Stafford de Sandon militis cujus proava fuit 

 AVda un;> ffiliar et heredu Warini ultimi baronis de Sibroi proar. 

 vero Guil. Stafford ffilius secund' Harvaei Bagod ex Meliceta Ba- 

 ronissae Staffordiae quae fuit proneptis Roberti primi baronis Staf- 

 fordiae qui Anglia GuiL Conquestore ingressus. 



Stafforde 1 Stafforde | Stafforde | Erdeswik Stafforde | Erdeswik | Minshal 

 Erdeswik Erdesw. Clinton Erdeswik 



Erdeswik 

 Erdeswik Basset 

 Erdeswik Harcourt 

 Erdeswik Grey 

 Erdeswik Lee 



Sampson Erdeswik. Elizabetka 

 Dikes well 



Elisabetha uxor prima fuit filia secun- 

 ila et na trium heredum Humfridi 

 Dikeswell de church Waver in com. 

 Warmici armigeri ex qua quinque sus- 

 eepit filias Margaret am nondum nup- 

 cam, Helenam uxorem Thomae Coyne 

 de Weston Coyne in eomitatu Staf- 

 fordiae Armigeria Elizabetham, Mari- 

 am et Margeriam. omnes superstites 

 riecdum enuptas. 



Sampson Erdeswik. Maria Keale 



Maria uxor secunda fuit ffilia secuncla 

 genilaetuna heredu Francisci Neale de 

 Kaythorpe in eomitatu Lecestrie armi- 

 geri quae illi peperit Richardum et 

 Matheaum filios et Jehana ffilia ut pri- 

 ori marito Everardo Digby armigero 

 14 liberos enixa est, e quibus Everar- 

 dus, Joannes, Georgius, Maria, Eliza- 

 betha, Ffrancisca, et Christiana, nunc 

 sunt superstites. 



Vernon Semper Viret. Anno Domini 1601." 



The monument represents a colossal figure of Mr. Erdeswicke, 

 in a recumbent posture, dressed in a jacket, and with spurs on his 

 heels. AboTe, in two niches, appear the figures of his two wives 



