By the Rev. Thomas Miles. 



195 



" Decimo Augusti, 1692. 

 Then dyed Jane, daughter of Archdeacon Ryves, the wife of Martin Tanner, 

 first steward of the Almeshouse : and interred near John their son, who departed 

 17 Junii, 1658. Disce mori." 



The above Jane was probably a daughter of John Ryves, L.L.B. 

 Archdeacon of Berks ; who was succeeded in 1665 by Peter Mews, 

 afterwards President of St. John's, Oxford, and Bishop of Bath 

 and Wells, 1672, of Winchester, 1684. A sister of Jane Tanner 

 was married at Stockton, 29th May, 1666, to Edward Elderton of 

 Warminster. Martin Tanner was a farmer at Stockton. 



The fourth ridged stone from the north, is a small one thus 

 inscribed : — 



" of Martha Lucas, the daughter of Thomas and Jane Lucas, who 



died the 15th (or 18th) day of April, An. Do. 1668." 



This stone was found below the surface when the east end of the 

 chancel was re-built in 1840. It appears from the old church- 

 warden's book that Thomas Lucas was churchwarden in 1688, and 

 was tenant of Mr. Topp's lower farm, supposed to be that, late the 

 property of Mr. Pinchard. Below the gravestones just described, 

 are two very ancient ridged stones, or rather coffin-lids, being in 

 fact the covers of stone coffins, which were examined when the 

 surface of the churchyard was levelled. The place for the head 

 and shoulders was cut out in the solid stone. There are two small 

 head-stones within four feet of the east end of the chancel. One 

 of them is marked, "Anne Good, ob. 1817. "She was mother of 

 the Rev. Henry Good, Rector, who was buried in the same grave, 

 and his name was inscribed on the stone in 1846. His wife 

 Eleanor, is buried on the south side of the above, and a stone was 

 placed at the head of his grave in 1846. Another small head-stone 

 towards the north is inscribed, " William Heley Good, ob. 1804." 

 He was son of the Rector, and in the same grave lies another 

 of his sons, Charles Good, who died in 1824. Below these, a large 

 blue head-stone commemorates 



" Jemima, wife of James Wheeler, who died April 13, 1790, aged 71. And 

 James Wheeler, who died Nov. 10, 1820, aged 91 (or 94)." 



Near this stone are two sad calamities in the shape of iron tombs 



