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He lyes interd whom (? rich)
And poor bemoan.
He run his race and
Entrance got
His name is savori and
not rot.
A panel at the lower end of the stone contains
a winged cherub's head, book, sandglass
and cross-bones; and at one side of it is
the further inscription Here lyes John Mitchelson
son to James Mitchelson.

[Margin] omit

Within the porch of the church is a small
marble effigy of a child, I should think
a work of art of the early 19th century beneath
which is the following quatrain
"Like a dewdrop kiss'd off by the sun's morning beam
A brief but a beauteous existence was given,
Her soul seem'd to come down to earth in a dream
And only to wake when ascended to heaven."
To the NW. [North West] of the main door of the church
and distant some 30' lies a much worn
slab broken in two the halves of which are
wrongly placed with relation to each other.
On the upper half of the stone in the centre is
a skull & cross bones with a scroll inscribed
"memento mori" around it and beneath it

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