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Under this monument lieth the body of Daniel Berry, Bachelor of Divinity sometime minister of this church and that of the parish of Knowstone wherein he was born. Who for his zeal in the support of the Church of England and loyalty to that martyred King King Charles the first was first sequestrated by the then rebels and ever after persecuted till he died, being ye 18th day of March in the year of our Lord 1653/4 & of his age 45, leaving behind him 7 sons, Robert, John, Daniel, Nathaniel, Anthony, Philip and Thomas, and two daughters Elizabeth and Anne, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Moore of Moorehaise of this county Esq., who died the 13 th day of October in the year of our Lord 1663, and lieth here likewise interred.

The second of their sons, who hath received the Honour of Knighthood from his present Majesty King Charles the Second for his long and many good services at sea, honouring the memory of all orthodox and loyal men of the late times and out of a pious regard of his father's sufferings, erected this monument, 17th day of July in ye year of Our Lord 1664