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The Churches of Devizes. 



Edward, fourth son of John Eyles, Esq., died 1792, aged 79. He married Mary, 

 widow of the Hon. Governor Gumley, and daughter of Sir John Wittewrong, 

 Bart. 



Katharine, wife of George Flower, and daughter of John Eyles of Chalford. 



John, their infant son, died 1725. 

 George Willy, Esq., of New Park, died 1770, aged 75. "William Willy, 



Esq., of London, one of the representatives of this Borough, died 1763, 



aged 61. 



Arms. Willy, as hefore, p. 224. 

 Prince Sutton, Justice of the Borough, died 1779, aged 78. Mary (Willy) 

 his wife, and four of their children, Willy, Mary, Sarah, and Anne. 

 Arms. Sutton, impaling Willy, as before. 

 James Sutton, Esq., of New Park, died 1801, aged 68. He married Eleanor, 

 second daughter of Anthony Addington, Esq., M.D. of Reading. 

 Arms. Sutton impaling Addington. 

 James, son and heir of James Sutton, Esq., died 1784. Also three other 

 children, George, William, and Mary. [This monument exhibits a female 

 figure, in white marble, leaning on a broken column — the symbol of Forti- 

 tude]. 



John Merewether, M.B., died 1724, aged 69. Jane, his wife, 1725, aged 69. 



Francis, their youngest son, 1716, aged 22. Anna Merewether, died 1690. 

 Arms. Or, three martlets sable on a chief azure, a sun in splendor 



proper, Merewether; impaling, Or, a saltier engrailed between twelve 



billets sable, Aldworth. 



The same arms of Aldworth are also carried on an escutcheon of pretence 



over the coat of Merewether. 1 

 Eleanor, wife of Winch Holdsworth, D.D. of Chalfont, Co. Bucks, and 



daughter of John Merewether, M.B., died 1758, aged 62. 

 Thomas Thurman, died 1777, aged 86, and two wives, Susannah, and Anne. 



John Thurman, his son, died 1764, aged 43. 



Arms. Argent on a pale azure between two lions rampant gules, a tilting 



spear of the first, 



William Salmon, Esq., of Southbroom, died 1826, aged 78. [Monument of 



white marble, sculptured by Baily]. 

 Mary, wife of Joseph Needham, died 1732, aged 19. Penelope, his second 



wife, died 1736, aged 22. Joseph Needham, died 1778, aged 75. 



Samuel Taylor, five times Mayor of the Borough, and Captain of the 



Devizes Volunteers, died 1818, aged 82. Sally his wife, two of their sons, 



Thomas and Samuel, (both of whom died in foreign service) and two daugh- 

 ters, Penelope and Elizabeth. Also Sally, a third daughter, wife of Joseph 



Goodwin. 



1 According to the present rule of blazon, this would indicate two matches with Aldworth, one an 

 heiress, the other not ; but at the date of this monument (1724) such an arrangement of the female 

 coat was usual, where a man had married but once, that wife being an heiress, and having issue. 

 A similar case may be seen in Steeple Ashton Church, on the Hatchment of Robert Smith, who 

 married Mary, heiress of Thomas Bennet, Esq. of Steeple Ashton. 



