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quarterly, helmet and crest as before. Below him, a shield with Arms of Gresham and Ipswell quarterly, and below her a shield with Arms of Gresham.

NEAR THIS

Place lyethe Wyll'm Greshame sone and Hayer unto Sir John Gresham
Knyght, late Shryfe of Surrey and Susseks ho toke to wyffe one Beatrys
Gybone by home he had Issewe Jaymes Wyll'm Thomas and John Mary
Elizabeth and Sysselley On whose Soule Jesus have mercy. 1579.

On the same wall is a black marble tablet enchased in white, over it the Gresham Arms, standing on a scull; and in capitals is this inscription (Aubrey, Ib., p. 13). The slab now merely remains, and is fixed on the south wall over an arch in the mortuary chapel :

NEAR

This Place Lyeth The Body

Of Sir John Gresham Of This Parish
Of Titsy K Whoe Married Elizabeth
Eldest Daughter Of Sr Thos Bishopp
Of Parham In The County Of Sussex Kt
& Baronet With Whom Having Happily
Livd In A Conjugall Estate 31 Yeeres
& 5 Months He Dyed Without Issue

In The 56th Yeere Of His Age The 26th Day
Of May 1643. To Whose Merits Truth
Gives This Impartial Character That

He Was

An Orthodox Christian & An Obedient
Sonne Of The Church Of England
A Loyall Subject To His Soveraigne
An Affectionate Lover Of His Lady
A Noble & Bountifull Entertayner Of
His Friends And Neighbours

A Charitable Releever And Benefactor
To The Poore.

To whose pious memory his Deere Consort and
Relict hath Erected this monument as well to
expresse her owne affection as to preserve his
Virtues For the imitation of Posterity. Shee
having continued His widdow ever since
theire seperation desires to be conioyned
againe in the same Tombe when God shall
Please to call her out of this
Mortall Life.

This monument was erected in the yeare of our Lord 1660.

On Trinity Sunday, June 5, 1664, Dame Elizabeth Gresham, Relict of ye said St John Gresham, surrendred her Soule into God's hands, & lyes interrd in ye same tomb. Her piety, prudence, aquanimity, & Charity outlive her Person, And when ye memory of man ceases to retaine her excellent Virtues They shall be found upon Record in Heaven. Aged 74 yeares.

On a brass plate, under the centre window, above the sedilia in the chancel,

In Memory Of Sir John Gresham Bart.

Of Titsey Place Sixth And Last Baronet
Who Died Sep. xx. MDCCCI. Aged lxv. Years,
And Is Buried In This Chancel.

ANCIENT

GRESHAM

OAK

On another, under the left-hand window,

In Memory Of Henrietta Maria Wife Of
Sir John Gresham Bart. And Daughter Of
Sir Kenrick Clayton Of Marden Park, Bart.
She died Jany xxvi. MDCCCIV. Aged lxvi. yrs.
And Is Buried In This Chancel.

On another, under the right-hand window,

In Memy of Katherine Maria Leveson Gower
Only Daughter And Heiress Of Sir John Gresham
Bart. And Wife of William Leveson Gower, Esq.
She Died Oct. vii. MDCCCVIII. Aged xxxviii. years
And Is Buried In This Chancel.

On the north wall of the mortuary chapel, over the entrance door, is a mural tablet of alabaster. Above are the Arms of Gower and Leveson quarterly; over all, an escutcheon of pretence for Gresham. Above, a Wolf for Gower, and a Grasshopper for Gresham. Below, Frangas non flectes, for Gower; Fiat Voluntas Tua, for Gresham.

On a black gravestone on the south wall, under Archbishop Whitgift's tomb, is this Inscription in capitals (Aubrey, 'Hist. of Surrey,' vol. ii. p. 22), now gone :

M. S.

To the memorie of that worthie

Lady Elizabeth Gresham,
late wife of Sr William
Gresham Knight who after
she had lived 72 yeares
unspotted in her Conversation
Charitable to the poore
Sincere in her Religion re-
signed up her Soule into the
hands of her Creator upon the
9 day of December 1632
& lyeth here interred in
hope of a glorious
Resurrection.

For a memoriall of which
singular vertue her deare &
only daughter H. G. hath
consecrated this marble as a

duty she could

performe.