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[....................IURIS..................] [....] QUI DESPONSATUS FUIT [........THEAE] ROBERTS FILIAE THOMA[S] [.............S] ARMIGERI ET OBIIT ANTE [.........]SALIA [..........O] DIE [.....]EBRIS [........] DOMINI MILLESIMO QUINGEN [........] VICESIMO [.........] ET HIC [........US] EST CUI DEUS SIT PROPICIUS AMEN
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[.................lawyer?......] [......] who was promised in marriage to [Dorothy] Roberts daughter of Thomas [Roberts] Esquire and died before [the nuptials...................................] [in the year of our Lord?] One Thousand Five Hundred [.....] Twenty [........] [and this?] [........ to whom God be favourable? ] Amen |
The underlined words have been neatly obliterated. Scratching out of doctrinally sensitive words on monuments by friends of the deceased was common just before the Reformation in order to prevent complete destruction of a monument by enraged Protestants. However, why the units digit of the date of death is scribed out is not known.
A 16th century brass in Ewell Church, Surrey, informs us that Dorothy later married "Allen Horde of ye Middle Temple, Esquire; and then Syr Lawrence Taylare of Doddington in the countye of Huntington, Knyght": She died 11th May 1577 aged 70 years.
It is highly unlikely that this tablet is in its original position. There is old tilework packing, particularly at the top and left sides; as if the stone had been used to fill an aperture. Until the 17th century there was a "lepers window" in the south wall somewhere near here. Perhaps the tablet survived merely because it was a convenient piece of packing.
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