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value of money at that date, and that there were no resident 

 gentry then in the parish, but only working farmers and working 

 people, and the rate of wages being less than half that now 

 paid, is by no means complimentary to the liberality of church- 

 goers of the present day. The comparative poverty of the 

 parishioners is testified by the plainness and rarity of memorial 

 stones then set up. There are two plain slabs in the floor of the 

 chancel, one to Andrew and Isabella Burn of Hartside, and one 

 to the Moffits of Ingraham, both early in the 18th century.^'' In 

 the church-yard there is a lair stone to the memory of the Reeds of 

 the Clinch about the end of the 17th century, but only two head- 

 stones belonging to parishioners anterior to the year 1800, one to 

 the Youngs of Ingram Farm, and one to Robei't Clai-k of Greves 

 Ash, who died April 26, 1720. So their contributions fi-om 1706 

 to 1728 were very generous in comparison with those that are 

 now given. 



There is a curious contract in the Wardens' account for 

 the year 1736, viz. : " That Robert and George Snowdon are to 

 keep the roof of Ingram Church in sufficient repair for ten year 

 having twelve shillings in hand and five shillings a year for ten 

 year : the Parish to find all slates, lime, and pins." And in the 

 following year : " That the same party are to keep the quire in 

 sufficient repair for ten year [torn off] shillings and six pence in 

 hand and six pence a year for ten years." 



1" As these inscriptions may become illegible in time they shall be 

 set out : — 

 I. — Monnmentum Andrea Burne et Isabellas Barne de Hartside. Haec 



mortem obiit 28 Nov. anno Dom. 1712. Suae aetatis 71. Ille tertio 



sext supra decimum lustri anno aetatis obiit 14 Dee. anno Dom. 1716. 



Here lyes the body of Thomas White of Gallilaw, who died the 



26 of August 1748, aged 58 years. 



II. — Here lyeth the body of Richard, son of George Moffit of Ingraham, 

 who departed this life Feby. 6th 1717, aged 38 years. Also the 

 body of George, son of Richard MoSit, who died Jan. 14 1716. 

 Likewise the bodies of Elizabeth, Isobel, both daughters to Richard 

 Moffit. Also the body of Mary, wife of Thomas Moffit, buried 

 March 28 1732, aged 25 years. Also the body of Thomas Moffit, 

 husband of the above Mary Moffit, buried Jany. 22 1737, aged 

 42 years. Likewise the body of William, son of Richard Moffit, 

 who was buried July 1744, aged 25 years,— Ed. 



