268 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
The monument commemorating the father and mother bears 
the following inscription : 
To the memory 
of the Revere’d Roger Ashton Doctor 
of Divinity of St 
Andrew’s church in 
Plymouth who died on 
the 27 day of March 1677 
and Margaret his Wife 
who Died the 13 Day of 
November in the same 
year and lie buried 
neere this place. 
From the Parish Register we learn that Dr. Roger Ashton, of 
Plymouth, and Mrs. Margaret Warren were married in Rame 
Church the 13th February, 1663, and also that their daughters 
were buried, Mary on the 5th January, 1664, and Anna on the 
8th February, 1667. On the 29th March, 1677, the burial of 
Dr. Ashton himself is recorded, and on 16th November, 1677, 
his widow, Mrs. Margaret Ashton of Plymouth. The reason of 
the Ashtons choosing Rame as their burial-place was undoubtedly 
the fact of Mrs. Ashton being a daughter of Robert Warren, 
the rector, memorials of whose family we shall shortly notice. 
The remaining mural monuments are comparatively modern, 
and are simply inscribed tablets. One tells us that Stephen 
Edwards, of Rame Place, in this parish, died 16th January, 1756, 
aged 42; and that Mary, his wife, followed him to the grave on 
the 9th February, 1797, aged 86. 
In the north porch are three oval marble tablets; they are: 
1. Sarah, wife of Thomas Hunt Ley, clerk, who died 16th 
November, 1857, and was buried at Cumner, Berks. 
2. Elizabeth Ommaney Ley, died 4th February, 1860, 
3. Thomas Hunt Ley, many years rector of this parish, died 
4th March, 1866. 
The east window is also a memorial of this clergyman, who, as 
the inscription in the lower part of the window informs us, was 
for “45 years Priest of this church.” 
A marble tablet formerly recorded that this church was con- 
secrated in 1259, a.p., and restored in 1848. That restoration 
must have been very partial and imperfect ; the church has been 
