About four miles from Antoney, to the right of the road after passing Craft Hole, is Sheriock Church, an antient building containing some curious tombs of the Dawnay’s, and a superb monument to the memory of Sir Edward Courtenay and his Lady. The following beautiful lines are also engraved on a memorial for one of the Duckworth Family, who died at an early age:
Dear lost Penelope, and must this tomb,
Quench the sweet promise of thy opening bloom,
Crush the sweet harvest of a mind so fair,
Its early piety, its filial care.
No there are seeds that angry tempests brave,
These cannot perish in a timeless grave,
Sprung from the Tree of Life, to them ’tis given,
Though sown on earth, to germinate in heaven.
Passing from hence through the hamlet of Hessingford, at a short distance is Bake, the seat of Sir J. S. Copley, Bart., His Majesty’s Solicitor General, which is a handsome modern edifice, built on the site of an antient mansion noted in former times as the residence of the Moyle’s, and which was destroyed by fire a few years ago.