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And as a further memorial of him, we find that every window is still [1736] filled with the following letters; the first is a J and an H joined, with Howard's arms in it, for John Howard. The second an M with six escalops in it, to signify Margaret Scales, his mother.

In the windows are the following arms, all which now [1736] remain, except the two last, which are gone, as also the arms of Ufford and Beck quartered; Howard impaling Spencer; Howard impaling Plais; Clifton impaling Howard; Morley, Courtney with a label az. impaling Scales; Shardelowe, ermine a cross gul. impaling Scales; and there still remain these impaled coats, Ufford and Scales, Howard and Scales, Bois and Latimer, though they are somewhat broken. The lion rampant is collared az.

In the nave, at the entrance of the chancel, lies a black marble thus inscribed:

To the Memory of Mr. WILLIAM FLOWERDEW of Fersfield, who died February the 12th 1731.

In the 43d Year of his Age, And of Lawrence & Catherine, Two of his Children, who died In their Infancy.

This Stone is placed by Martha Flowerdew his Widow, In Testimony of her Love and Affection.

On another stone in shape of a coffin:

John Father of Jeffry Ellingham, Died