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Was soe conspicuously manifested, That beside the good acceptance thereof which God testified to her in A numerous Posteritie, Shee had also hereby ingroven soe deepe An Impression in the hearts of all that knew her Pious conversation (That were it not that Mortalitie doth deface the memorie of things) Shee needed no other monument

She dyed about ye 3d of July in ye yeare of
her age 36 Anno Dni 1634
The said Sr. Matthew Boynton to manifest
his love for his so well deserving wife
hath with his owne hand inscribed and
caused to be erected
this Marble.

(From Copy and particulars at Burton Agnes).

Black marble slab.

Under this Marble
Resteth the Body of the Religious
and Honourable Lady Katherine
second Daughter of the Right
Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax
of Gilling Castle, Viscount Emnley,
late wife of Sr. Arthur Ingram
of Temple Newsam in this County
Knt, who departed this life the 23d
of Feby. Anno Dni 1666.

(From copy at Burton Agnes.)

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SOUTH COWTON CHURCH.

Over the south door of the chancel are two coats of arms carved in stone, and on a scroll above each are the words + pofer Boyntō.

The first shield bears—On a fess between three crescents a lion passant, for Boynton of Sedbury, impaling, a bend between two saltires engrailed for (?)

The second shield bears Boynton of Sedbury impaling, two lions passant, for Strangeways.