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Between windows Nos. 32 and 33, is a marble tablet with armorial bearings, (plate iv.)

""Sacred to the memory of"

- Sarah, daughter of Bryan Troughton

Translated—

""O dearest! greatly weeping, we hope to meet again in heaven.""

Immediately beneath the last a marble scroll on a grey stone slab, to the husband of Sarah Long—

""This tablet is erected"

- to the memory of

A brass 28in. by 3½.in. has been recently placed here, taken from a stone on the floor of this Chapel (but now replaced by a small square incised slab,) to preserve it from harm—

""Here lyeth Mr. Thomas Bond, draper, sometime maior of this cittie, and founder of the Hospitall of Bablake, who gave divers lands and tenements for the maintenance of ten poore men so long as the world shall endure, and a woman to look to them, with many other good guifts; and died the xviii, day of March, in the yeare of our Lord God, MDVI.""

To record the bountiful gifts of this good man, would occupy too much space. Here in this Church twenty poor men assemble every Sunday, and