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Church of St Mary

A Grade I Listed Building in Lydiard and Freshbrook, Swindon

St Mary: inscription from the monument to John St John, first baronet of Lydiard Tregoze, d.1648

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Johannes St. John, Miles et Baronettus, annum agens XLIX mortalitatis suae memor, H. M. M. P. C Anno CIOIOCXXXIIII [1634] et sibi et duobus Uxoribus Anne scilicet et Margaret. Anna Filia fuit Thomae Leyghton Eq. Aur. ex Elizabetha Conjuge Gentis Knowlesiae, et Reginae Eliz. tarn virtutis quam cognationis ergo in deliciis. Vixit An. XXXVII. eximiis animi et corporis et Gratiae muneribus dotata, rarura virtutis et pietatis exemplura, XIII. liberorum superstitum Mater. Tandem aerumnosis ultimi puerperii agonibus diu conflictata, etdemum victa, fugit in ccelum XIII. Cal. Oct. CIOIOCXXXVIII. [1638]. Margareta, Filia fuit Guil. Whitmor, Arm., de -Apley provinciae agens annum, virtutis laude spectabilis, et bonis operibus intenta, Requietorium suo tempore (ni aliter ipsa olim statuerit) aggreganda.

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