On a decayed monument in Horndon Church is the following inscription:—
“Take, gentle marble, to thy trust,
And keep unmixed this sacred dust—
Grow moist sometimes that I may see
Thou weep’st in sympathy with me;
And when, by him I here shall sleep,
My ashes also safely keep—
And from rude hands preserve us both, until
We rise to Sion’s Mount from Horndon-on-the-Hill.”
Paul Whitehead, Esq.
Of Twickenham, December, 1774.
“Unhallow’d hands, this urn forbear,
No gems, nor Orient spoil,
Lie here conceal’d, but what’s more rare,—
A heart that knows no guile!”
STANFORD.
On a brass plate in this church is the following inscription:—
“Before this tabernaculle lyeth buryed Thomas Greene, some tyme bayle of this towne, Margaret, and Margaret, his wyves—which Thomas dyed the 8th day of July, 1535. The which Thomas hath wylled a prest to syng in this church for the space of 20 years, for hym, his wyves, his children, and all men’s soules. And, moreover, he hath wylled an obyte, to be kept the 8th day of July, for the term of twenty years, for the soules aforesaid, and, at every tyme of the said obyte, bestowed 20s. of good lawful money of England.”
On the south wall are the following lines, ih memory of Anne, wife of William Napper, who died in 1584:—
In token of whose vertuous lyfe,
And constant sacred love,
And that her memory should remaine,
And never hence remove,
Her husband, in his tyme of lyfe,
This monument did leave his wyfe.