Devon Notes and Queries. 205 <c« Biles" which rather puzzled me, but with further judicious feeling and poking I subsequently extracted " Vmera" in front of, but detached from it. Finally, at the cost of the Revd. Prebendary Granville (a descendant of Bernard, a brother of Bridget), Mr. Hems, of Kxeter, stripped off the whole super-incumbent paint and filling, and revealed the following inscription cut in a dark fine grained stone: — M. S. Sifte Pedem Lector Terra Precor Sit Levis non Communem Pulverem Calais Cineres Autem Venera Biles Dom««« BRJDGETTiE HIGGONS Multis nominibus Venerandae Celeberrimi Bevilli Granville Equitis Aurati et Militis Vere Regif Ffillia Fuit lUuftrifsimi Comitis Bathoniae Soror Generonrsimi SIMONIS LEACH Armigeri Coniux Simonis Leach Eqaitis Nobilifsimi Ordinis de Balneo Mater Et THOMiE HIGGONS Equitis Tandem Coniux et Relicta Ingens Nobilitatis et Virtutis Specimen Jam Cinis Eft quae Talis Fuit In Terris Resurrectionem In Caelis Praemium Expectat Obiit y^*^ die Martii aetatis 62 Salutis Anno 1691 Et Matri Charifsimae Monumentum Hoc Venerabundus Posuit Nobilifsimus Dom SIMON LEACH Ffillius. [Sacred to the Memory, Stay thy foot Reader May the earthy I fray^ be light. It is no common dust on which you tread But the revered ashes of J^ady Bridget Higgons Under many names worthy of your respect She was the Daughter of the famous Bevill Granville Knight and true Cavalier The Sister of the Most Illustrious Earl of Bath The Wife of the noble Simon Leack Esquire Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Bath Lastly the Wife xind Relict of Thomas Higgons Knight A splendid example of high birth and distinguished character Now the — who was all this — is ashes only awaiting en Earth the Resurrection — in Heaven her Reward, She died on the 7th day of March aged 62 In the year of Salvation i6gi. In filial reverence to his beloved Mother her Son the Noble Sir Simon t^ach erected this Monument.']
