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The Churches of Devizes. St Mary's. 



Johnson, Rector of Devizes, who died in 1681. It consists of a 

 slab of black marble, with the following inscription : — 



M. S. 



Post tantos Labores 

 Totidemq Sermones 

 Hie demum Quicte Silet 

 Dignissime Reverendus 

 Henricus Johnson A.M. 

 Hujus Ecclesise Rector, 

 Pulpitiq dominator, 

 Concionator strenuus frequensq 

 Prcepotens ae desiderabilis, 

 Dictis factisq primeevus, 

 Vere et omnimode Theologus; 

 Sacris Paginis, 

 Literis Insuetis, 

 Versatissinms: 

 Rara tamen modestia 

 Prsestabat. 

 Vir Sobrietate Vitse gravis 

 Suavitate morum placidus 



Nulliq molestus 

 Quern in Sylvis virorum 

 Solitudini vaeantem 

 Dolorosa (Heu) tandem fistula 

 Sibi foeliciter 

 Graviterq aliis 

 In Sanctorum turbam 

 Fideliumq Salutem 

 Erogavit. 

 Oct. 31, 

 1681. 



The others commemorate — 



John Garth, Esq. (son of Colonel Thomas Garth of Harold, Co. Bedford, by 

 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Colleton, Esq.), for some time Recorder of 

 Devizes, and afterwards one of the representatives of the Borough in Par- 

 liament. He died 1764, aged 63. 



Arms. Or, two lions passant in pale between three cross crosslets fi.tch.ee 

 sable, Garth; impaling, Or, two lions passant in pale gules, Brompton. 

 Crest of Garth. A goat passant argent, collared or. 

 Mrs. Rebecca Garth, widow of John Garth, Esq., and daughter and co- 

 heiress of John Brompton, Esq., died in 1785. 



Arms. On a lozenge Garth as above, with a crescent for difference, 

 impaling Brompton. 

 Frances, daughter of John Garth, Esq., died 1768. 

 Abel Filkes, died 1815, aged 65. James, his son, 1796, aged 8. 



