I've just uploaded a few more images, including my all-time-favourite memorial plaque - from a monument to Edmund Fettiplace in the church at Swinbrook in the Cotswolds (Swinbrook is also the village that the Mitfords come from...)
It reads:
IN PIOVS MEMORIE OF SR EDMVND FETTIPLACE, KNIGHT ON
READ AND RECORD RARE EDMVND FETTIPLACE:
A KNIGHT MOST WORTHY OF HIS RANK & RACE:
WHOSE PRVDENT MANEGE IN, TWO HAPPIE RAIGNES,
WHOSE PVBLIQUE SERVICE, & WHOSE PRIVATE PAINES.
WHOSE ZEALE, TO GOD, & TOWARDS ILL, SEVERITIE,
WHOSE TEMPERANCE, WHOSE IVSTICE, WHOSE SINCERITIE,
WHOSE NATIVE MYLDNES, TOWARDS GREAT AND SMALL
WHOSE FAITH AND LOVE, TO FRENDS, WIFE CHILDREN, ALL
IN LIFE AND, DEATH MADE HIM BELOVED, AND DEER
TO GOD AND MENN; AND EVER FAMOUS HEER:
BLESSED IN SOULE, IN BODIE, GOODS, AND NAME.
IN PLENIOVS PARTS BY A MOST VERTIOVS DAME.
WHO WITH HEI HEIRE AS TO HIS WORTH STILL DEBTER
BVILT HIM THIS TOOMB, BVT IN HER HEART A BETTER.
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I hope you're enjoying the program so far. I'm acually looking at your blog and with me is Helene Blowers who developed this program. What a buzz!!
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