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He had an order from Lord Vaughan for 4,440 acres. In 1675 he 

 patented 550 acres — bordering south-west on the sea ; and 18 acres at 

 Withywood. 



In April, 1684 Dorolosa (sic) Knight patented 300 acres at the Bay 

 Macary, bordering on her own land and on the sea. 



The following is the inscription on his tombstone in Vere church : — 

 " D.O.M.L. In piam memoriam dnidni Andrer, Knight, Rotulorum 

 Custodis et Supremi Judicis communium placitorum in Provinciis Claren- 

 don et Vere in Jamaica, et turmae pedestris centurionis, qui obiit 42° 

 Aetatis anno, 19° julii, 1683. 



Epitaphium. 

 Dives opum Andres : famae virtutis et artis 

 ditior ; hocque magis dives honoris erat. 

 Plura darent superi, ni fata invicta negarent 

 sternendo huniani [sic] futile molis onus. 

 Ni superi tamen huic et sors sibi tida deessent 

 urna tenet corpus, mens habet alta polum, 

 dicat, vovet, dedicat. 



Ja. Barclay. 



Arms . . . on~a fess . . . between three bulls heads erased . . . (each 

 with a ring in its nose . . .) a fret between two eagles close . . ." It is 

 thus given in Lawrence-Archer's " Monumental Inscriptions of the West 

 Indies." The monument itself is now in great part covered up. 



It may be thus translated : 



To God, the best and greatest, praise. 



In affectionate memory of Sir Andrew Knight, Custos Rotulorum : 

 and Chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the Parishes of Clar- 

 endon and Vere in Jamaica, Captain of a troop of infantry, who died in 

 the 42nd year of his age, 19th July, 1683. 



Epitaph. 

 Rich in this world's goods was Andrew: richer in his renown for 

 virtue and learning : and therefore the richer in honours. The Gods 

 above had given hiua more, had not the fates unconquerable gainsaid it 

 by laying low the worthless burden of human toil. Yet unless the God* 

 above and his destiny, faithful to itself, prove wanting, a funeral now 

 holds his body, his soul soaring on high is in heaven. 



James Barclay, gives vows and dedicates this. 



In 1683 he gave £20 to the Church and poor. 



Major Richard Scott, the man on whose behalf Banister wrote home 

 just before he died, was probably identical with the member of the 



