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High up on South side of West door is a discoloured stone slab with arms, (plate iv.), and Latin inscription:

""Mem, sacr."

- "Hic etiam jacet Sarah Norton"

Translated—

""Sacred to the memory of John Woolrich, a man very much regretted; he was a remarkable pattern of love to God, charity to his neighbour, fidelity to his friends, and munificence to the poor; at last, as Mayor of this renowned City, he was most faithful as it was most becoming for a citizen to be; he had the best of wives in Maria Rogerson, a woman of a most truly pious character, who being ripe for heaven, departed to join the heavenly throng. He died Dec. 30, in the year of our Lord, 1684, aged 69. Thus gladly to the best of parents has J. W. paid a just recompense as they have deserved.

"Here also lies Sarah Norton, his eldest daughter, and married to John Norton, of London.” John Norton was a great benefactor to Coventry."

Below the last is a brass 20in. by 13½in., placed on the wall, engraved:—

""In obitvm Johannis Wightwick optime spei invenis Collegij Pembrochiensis socij, filij natv minoris Johannis Wightwick, armigeri hvivs civitatis senescalli qui obijt 190 Mart : 1637, 17, annos natvs.

"Ne cives sint urbe unius nominis una Tres, unum mortis systulit atra manus Et ne tres uno cognomine nytriat unum Coenobium socios, unus ademptus erat Atqz domo patris ne sint unius in una Tresnati, natis e tribus unus obit"