The Isle of Wight : its history, topography and antiquities : with notes upon its principal seats, churches, manoral houses, legendary and poetical associations, geology and picturesque localities ... / by W. H. Davenport Adams.

Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891.

Date:: 1884

Credit: The Isle of Wight : its history, topography and antiquities : with notes upon its principal seats, churches, manoral houses, legendary and poetical associations, geology and picturesque localities ... / by W. H. Davenport Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$On a head-stone on the south side of the churchyard, this :— ' Here lyeth y^ body of John Smith, who departed this life y^ 12th day of August, in y^ year of our Lord 1V12, in y^ 24th year of his age. stay, gentle reader, spend a tear Upon ye dust yt sleepeth here ; And whilst thou read'st ye state of me, Think on ye glass yt runs for thee.' On a brass plate on a fine raised tomb near y^ middle of y^ church-yard :— ' Here is laid y« body of Mr. John Stanner, who departed this life ye 26th of March 1713, in y 65th year of his age : a man exemplary for piety, and forward in works of charity, especially worthy of a good and lasting (sic) for an act of gratitude more than common, as in return for a seasonable (tho' noe great) benefaction, he bequeathed y« greatest share of his estate (gotten by an honest industry) to come to y^ great-grand-children of that his benefactor. ' See by this how y^ bread that a man may have cast upon y^ waves, Cometh to be again found after many days.' On another stone in the north part of the church-yard, exactly transcribed :— ' Johes Gilbert, de Pan, Gen. : repentina morte, xxx. Julii, M.D.C.XC.VI. «EYHOTMOTEPOS AIA TOYTO KAI KAKON AHEirATOS ETEAEYTHEEN. ' Subita morte modo non improvisa, Felicius transitur ad portum.' [By a sudden death, not unprepared for, he is borne more happily to the haven.] This is all I could gather during my short stay here {Addit. 3fSS., 14,296). While on the subject of epitaphs and monuments, we may add that in the old churchyard is a tombstone to the memory of Lieu- tenant Shore and his children, drowned in the wreck of the Clarendon, in Chale Bay. The complete decay of the old church rendering necessary its demolition or thorough repair, it was resolved, in 1853-4, to erect on its site a new and more elegant edifice, which should be worthy of the metropolis of the island, and a graceful specimen of modern ecclesiastical architecture. Funds were readily provided by the townsmen, by the gentry of the island, largely assisted by the Queen$