In the Chancel of this Church are six large blue marble slabs, bearing the arms of Stanhope, Masterman, and Pindar; and also the following inscriptions.
HENERICUS MASTERMAN, ARMIGER, MORTALIBUS VALEDIXIT NONO DIE MARTII, ANNO PARTU VIRGINIS, 1674.
ALTERIUS CINERES TACITAM DUM CERNIS ET URNAM
VITAM MIRARI DESINE DISCE MORI.
QUICQUID D'ARCEI STANHOPE ARMS TERRENUM FUIT IN TERRAM NULLO NON LUGENTE REDIIT UNDECIMO DIE JANUARII, 1681.
HOC MARMOR IN AMORIS MŒRORISQ. TESTIMONIUM ISABELLA UXOR EJUS, DUM VIXIT CHARISSIMA, NUNC, EHEU! VIDUARUM MŒESTISSIMA PONI CURAVIT.
UNDER THIS MARBLE LYETH INTERRED THE BODY OF JOHN STANHOPE, ESQ. OF MELWOOD HALL, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE OCT. THE FIRST DAY, 1705, ÆTATIS SUÆ 29.
TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. ROBT. PINDAR, OF BRUMBY WOOD HALL, IN THIS COUNTY, FORMERLY FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 14TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1795, AGED 55.
HERE LYETH THE BODY OF JOHN PINDAR, GENT. WHO WAS BORN JULY THE 7TH, 1628,
AND DIED THE 22ND FEB. 1703, LEAVING ISSUE TWO SONS, MATTHEW AND ROBERT, AND ONE DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH. HERE ALSO LYETH ANN, THE WIFE OF THE SAID JOHN PINDAR, WHO WAS BORN MAY 1641, OBIIT 1718.
HERE LYETH THE BODY OF JOHN PINDAR, ESQ. WHO DIED MARCH THE 5TH, 1776, AGED 74 YEARS.
TO THE MEMORY OF THOS. PINDAR, ESQ. OF BRUMBY WOOD HALL, IN THIS COUNTY, LATE FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 8TH DAY OF MAY, 1813, AGED 78.
In the middle of the Chancel is a large stone, bearing an inscription, part only of which is legible. From what remains, I conjecture that it marks the burial place of some former Vicar of this Church.
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