Devon Notes and Queries. 103 (6) A small stone inscribed '*D. Bury 1792.*' (c) Another inscribed S.W. 1839 ; E.W. 1845 ; S.W. 1865. [These are members of the Wells family buried in the Fortescue Taalt which is immediately beneath.] {d) Here lyeth the Body of Sandys Fortescue who dyed the 27th Oct. 1683, ^tatis suae 23. Elizabeth his lady dyed January 19th 1682. {e) Here lyeth the Body of Sir Edmund Fortescue, Knight and Baronet, who dyed 30th December 1666. (/) RL.W. 1789. fe) F.W. 1861. VI. In the chancel : — (a) On south wall. A large marble tablet to the memory of the Rev. Nathaniel Wells, Rector of this Parish, died 28 Sept. 1762, aged 40, and of Catherine his wife, eldest daughter of Thomas Bury of Exeter, died 10 July 1770, aged 43. They had issue eleven children — ^AHce, Catherine, Elizabeth, Edmund, Dorothy, Mary, William, Nathaniel, Samuel, Elizabeth- Fortescae, Thomas. The above was erected by their eleven children. Below the inscription is a shield, Sa a lion rampt {Wells) impaling quarterly (i) and (4) erm on a chev. 02. a rose betw, 2 fleurs de lys {Bury^ (2) and (3) Fortescue. There are the following lines on this monument :— Fame's boastful Chissel, Fortune's silver Plume Mark but the mouldering Cross, and deck the Tomb ; How loved, how honoured once, avails you not ; To whom related or by whom begot ; A heap of dust remains of you alone ; Tis now your Fate, and soon will be our own." (h) On the north wall, A tablet To the memory of Rev. William Wells, 39 years Rector of this Parish, died 20 Aug. 1839, aged 83; Elizabeth his wife, died i Sept. 1836, aged 79 ; William Bury, their only son, died 23 Nov. 1834, aged 52 ; Elizabeth-Fortescue, wife of Vice- Admiral Richard Arthur, C.B., died at Plymouth Aug. 16 1853, aged 69 ; also Caroline Josephus Wells died 25 Feb. 1875, ^UP^ ^2- {c) On the north wall over the screen, A tablet " erected by the Parish- ioners and other friends in loving memory of Henry Reymundo Fortescue, for 54 years Rector of this Parish, who died 21 May 1898, aged 78 years." Below are the arms of Fortescue impaling Gu, betw, a chev, arg, 3 spear heads of the second {Walsh of Staunton Harcourt, Oxford.) VII.* In south aisle : — {a) Large wall tablet to John Eveleigh, Vicar of Winkley, died 1770, and Martha his wife, died 1781. (6) Floor slab. Elizabeth, widow of John Fortescue of Fallapit, Esq., buried 23 May, 1660. "The Casket's here, wherein a mind, Bedect with grace and vertue shin*d ; The Church, ye Poor, ye Rich, a friend Have lost, who Heaven hath gained.*'
- I am indebted to Mr. J. Brooking-Rowe for many of the inscriptions
in Section VII.
