THE MONUMENTS AND REGISTERS OF LOCAL CHURCHES. 265 
penmanship, is recorded the marriage of King Charles II. and the 
Infanta Catherine of Portugal, down to the cramped notice that 
John Smith and Mary Jones were married, jammed in between 
two other entries, or perchance written up and down the margin, 
having been, as the record states, ‘‘ omdtted in tts proper place.” 
The first church to which we propose to refer is Rame. This 
church, which has recently been completely restored, is situated 
near the Rame Head, and within a few minutes’ walk 
of the edge of the cliff beneath which break the 
restless waters of Whitsand Bay, the sound of whose troubled 
waves, as in stormy weather they roll with thunderous crash on 
the rocks beneath, mixes with the voices of the worshippers in 
this lonely fane. 
This ancient building, which was consecrated as far back as 
A.D. 1259, is one of the very few old churches in Devon and 
Cornwall with a spire, and is in such a solitary spot, so com- 
paratively barren, so out of the world, and with so few attractions 
according to modern ideas to induce a residence, that one might 
well expect to find no monumental records of persons of wealth 
or social standing having made it their habitation; but such is 
not the case. The monuments are not those of the territorial 
lords whose line stretches into the dim shadow of the remote past. 
The family of Rame of Rame had merged into that of Dernford 
of East Stonehouse and Rame, whose heiress had conveyed this 
manor to the lordly house of Edgcumbe, more than a century 
before the date of any of the existing monuments, the most 
important of which it will be seen commemorate families con- 
nected with Plymouth. 
The most prominent, and therefore the first to arrest attention 
on entering the church, is a large monument near the east end of 
the south aisle. It consists of a heavy pediment supporting two 
pillars, from which rise an arch. Within this is a black marble 
tablet, with this inscription : 
Rame. 
To the memory of 
John Battersby of Rame in the county of 
Cornwall Esqt¢ who Departed this Life July 27 1672 
and with 2 sons and 2 daughters 
which he had by his wife Grace Daughter 
of Nicholas Opye of Plymouth in the County 
of Devon Esqt¢, Lyeth near this place. 
