(Vol. vii., p. 65.)
Some time since, when at Tideswell (which is in Derbyshire, not Devonshire), I made a rubbing from the brass of Bishop Pursglove, from which I have copied the inscription asked for by A. S. A., on a plate of brass underneath the figure.
"Under this stone as here doth ly, a corps sumtime of fame,
In Tiddeswall bred and born truely, Robert Pursglove by name;
And there brought up by parents' care, at schoole and learning trad;
Till afterwards, by Uncle dear, to London he was had,
Who, William Bradshaw hight by name, in pauls wch did him place,
And yr at schoole did him maintain full thrice three whole years' space;
And then into the Abberye was placed as I wish,
In Southwarke call'd, where it doth ly, Saint Mary Overis.