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applied to the repair of the road to Stivichall and Warwick, and any surplus to the poor. The intention of the gift is still carried out. Dugdale, in his Memorials, gives the date of Ralph Swillington's Patent as Attorney General Ap. I, 15 Henry 8 (1524).
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This is a marble tomb with flat top, to the memory of the wife and children of Doctor Moore, two shields of arms, (plate vii.), Moore and Harewell.
"Sacrum memoriæ suavissimæ et charissimæ | Conjugis ELIZABETHÆ, ornatissimæ Matris | IUDAETHÆ et trium Inſantolorum, posuit | amantissimus mætissimus Maritus | Filius Pater, IOSEPHUS MOORE, | Med. Dr. Oxon, Anno | Domini 1640.
"Qui jam orbus donec cognati conjungantur | pulveres meliorari non ambit, non obnixe | rogat quam similiter Vivere, Mori | Esse.
Sleepe, Saints, & when your Easter's come about,
A Trumpe will call, the world will light you out.""ELIZABETHA filia Henrici | Harewell, de civitat. Covent. | in comitat civit Coventr. | Armig. obiit puerperi, 15 | Maii, (eodem quo et nata est.) | Anno Domini 1640, ætatis suæ 23. |
"IUDAEETHA filia Thomæ Edmonds | de comitat. Devon, Armig. Uxor Johannis Moore, Dorcest. Gene | rosi. Obiit xi die Septembr. | anno Domini 1636, ætatis suæ 72."
"Memento Mori."
Thus translated—
"Sacred to the memory of my sweetest and dearest Wife, Elizabeth, of my most distinguished mother Juditha, and three infant children ; erected by the most affectionate and sorrowful Husband, Son and Father, Joseph Moore, Doctor of Medicine at Oxford, A.D. 1640."
"Till the union of our kindred dust, he who is now a widower, strives not, asks not importunately for any better lot than to live and die and be like them.”
"Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Harewell, of the City of Coventry, in the County of the City of Coventry, esquire, died in childbirth 15th May, (also the one born) A.D. 1640. Her age was 23."
"Judith daughter of Thomas Edmonis, of the County of Devon, esquire, wife of John Moore, of Dorchester, gentleman, Died the 11th day of September, A.D. 1636. Her age was 72."
"Remember Death."
