On an altar-tomb in the tower is the following:—
Thomas Gilbert here doth stai
Waiting for God’s judgment day,
Who died August 25, 1566.
A slab on the floor of the south aisle bears this inscription,—
Here lyeth the body of Daniel Knight,
Who all my lifetime lived in spite.
Base flatterers sought me to undoe,
And made me sign what was not true.
Reader take care, whene’er you venture
To trust a canting false dessenter,
Who died June 11th, in the 61st year of his age,
1756.
A friend of Daniel Knight (at whose instigation the above epitaph was engraved during his lifetime, and the future tombstone used as a cupboard door) prepared an inscription for his own tomb,—
“Here lies the body of Thomas Proctor
Who lived and died without a doctor.”
But fate, jealous of the reputation of the faculty, broke his leg, and compelled him to sacrifice to Æsculapius.
Berkshire.
BUCKLEBURY.
Here lyeth the body of Samuel Wightwicke, Esqre. 1662.