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A white marble tablet on grey stone—

""As a token of respect"

- gratitude and veneration

There was also a flat stone in the Mercer's Chapel before the restoration of the Church, a copy of which is given hereafter.

Immediately beneath the foregoing is a quaint monument with the following inscription, in old capitals, surmounted by a shield of arms, (plate ii.):—

""Forbid not"

- little ones to come unto Christ, for of such

And on a panel at the bottom of the monument-

""To live, nor know life did advaunce Thy life to extasy and traunce, And what was dreame before, past on, Comsumated in vision: The Tree of Knowledge, scap'd untasted, is, Thy plea to innocence and paradise.""

This child was buried in the chancel.