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Rh attended his body to the grave, and Dr. George Griffith, afterwards bishop of St. Asaph, preached a sermon at his funeral. A blue stone was placed over his grave with this dateless inscription: "Hic jacet sepultus Johannes Bridgeman," which was replaced in 1657 by a brass with the same inscription. His son Orlando sent down a handsome stone to cover the grave, but such was the state of the times that it was deemed inadvisable to put any inscription thereon. In later and quieter times, however, his great-grandson Sir John Bridgeman, baronet, raised a monument to his memory against the south wall of the chancel of Kinnerley church with this inscription: