THE CONSTITUTIONS, LAWS & LIBERTIES OF ENGLAND,
AND OUT OF FAMILY AFFECTION & ADMIRATION OF
THE UNCORRUPT PROBITY OF HIS LIFE & MANNERS
ROBERT NETTLETON OF LONDON MERCHANT HIS GRAND NEPHEW
HATH CAUSED THIS SMALL MEMORIAL OF HIM
TO BE ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1764.
Further is a tablet of white marble, in the form of an ornamental cartouche, recording the death of John Hawford and Elizabeth his wife, and their two sons John and William. All four deaths occurred between December, 1712, and July, 1715.
Next is a tablet to the memory of Thomas Edwards, who died on 9th July, 1781, in the 71st year of his age. The tablet is of white marble, surmounted by a black cinerary urn, on an oval slab of painted marble. The inscription records his various bequests for the use of the poor of the parish, and explains that the monument was erected by his widow not only as a tribute of gratitude and affection, but with a view to inciting others “whom God has blessed with Abilities and Success” to follow his example. Her own death, on 23rd November, 1818, is also mentioned.
Still in the north aisle, but near the entrance, is a tomb bearing a white marble recumbent effigy of Lady Frances Kniveton, resting on a black marble slab above a stone base. This is one of the two memorials preserved from the second church. The inscription, contained on a white marble tablet, reads as follows:—
In Memory of the Right Honble. Lady Frances Kniveton, (Wife of Sr. Gilbert Kniveton,/of Bradley, in the County of Derby Bart.) lyeth buried in the Chancel of this Church./She was one of the 5 Daughters & Co-heirs of the Rt. Honble. Sr. Robert Dudley Kt. Duke of the/Empire; by the Lady Alice his Wife & Dutchess. which Robert. was Son of the Rt. Honble./Robert Dudley, late Earle of Leicester. & his Dutchess was Daughter of Sr. Tho: Leigh,/and Aunt to the Rt. Honble. Thos. late Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, in the County of Warwick./And the said Honour & Title of Dutchess Dudley, was by Letters Patents of his late Majesty,/of glorious Memory, King Charles ye 1st allowed; & since graciously confirmed to her, by his/now Majesty King Charles ye 2d and She lived & died worthy of that Honour.