PARISH CHURCH OF WEAVERHAM 'L. ,v 333

monuments

The church is not rich in monuments or old brasses, but I must mention just a few. The one in the Crowton Chapel is the oldest, put in to the memory of Thomas Hatton, the owner of Crowton Hall, who died in 1G75. The lettering is quaint and the inscription also. After extolling the virtues of her husband, Mrs. Hatton concludes :—

" By whom you may all learn to amende, He loved his Cod, his King, his friendc."

Our oldest brass is dated 1680, and is to the memory of William Barker, the founder of the Grammar School, with its curious Latin inscription, which the engraver thereof kindly translates :—

" The reliques here of Will Barker lyes, More speeches needles are. His name alone will certainly suffice His praises to declare."

Against the south wall there is a marble tablet to Colonel John Mompesson, Governor of the Isle of Wight, who lived and died at Wallerscote jn this parish.

The Crowton Chapel also contains brasses and memorials to the members of the Wilbrahatn family. Over the vestry door is a memorial to Lieut. Aston, who " died the death of the brave 011 the field of Waterloo," and on the north wall just outside the Chapel Screen is a copper plate recording the death of Daniel Milner, ancestor of the late Viscount Milner, with a very eulogistic inscription which concludes : " Such virtues, reader, are the more valuable because they are rare : that they might not die with the dead they are here recorded ; not through ostentation, but for thy contemplation and practice."

A notable monument in the Crowton Chapel is the Oseley gravestone. The inscription runs thus :—

" mors hominem puerum vocat .etas angelus autem. corde senex. sophia si sangtus. viseris illum."