Who for his Loyalty Prudence and Courage was promoted to Several Commands of great Trust by their/Majesty’s King Charles the First and Second (Viz.) Having raised Six Regiments of Horse and Foot in the late Civil Wars/He commanded a Tertia in his Majesty’s Armies att the Battles of Edge Hill, Newbury, and Knaseby, ye Seiges of Reading/and Bristol. Afterwards being made Governour of York and Commander in Chief of all his Majesty’s Forces in/Yorkshire, He fought the Battle of Selby with the Lord Fairfax, then being Lieutenant General of ye Countys of Lincoln,/Nottingham, Darby, and Rutland, and Governour of Newark. He Valiantly defended that Garrison against the English/and Scotch Armies, till his Majesty Came in Person to the Scotch Quarters and Commanded the surrender of it./At which time he also had the honour of being General of the Kings Horse Guards. in all which Services dureing/the Wars and other Atchievements, he deported himself with eminent Courage & Conduct & received many wounds/Sustained Three Imprisonments in the Tower of London, and after the Happy Restauration of King CHARLES the second/He was made Lord Lieutenant of the East Rideing of the County of York, Governour of Hull, General of His Majesty’s/Forces in Africa, Governour of Tangier, Captain of his Majesty’s Guards of Gentlemen Pensioners, & First Lord/Commissioner of the Treasury to King JAMES the Second. He dyed the 10TH day of September 1689. whose remaines/are deposited in this Vault./
He married to his first wife JANE daughter and Sole Heiress of Sr. ROBERT BOTELER of Woodhall in the/County of Hertford, Knt. by whom he had Sr. HENRY BELASYSE Knt. of the most Honourable Order of the Bath/interr’d in this Vault, MARY Viscountess DUNBAR, and FRANCES both Deceased.
He married to his second Wife ANN Daughter and Coheir to Sr. ROBERT CRANE of Chilton in ye County/of Suffolk Bart. who also lyes interr’d here.
He married to his third Wife the Right Honourable the Lady ANN POWLET Second Daughter of the/Right Noble JOHN Marquiss of Winchester, sister to CHARLES late Duke of Bolton, and is here interr’d, the/Issue by that Marriage as above.
The two remaining memorials in the south porch consist of inscribed marble tablets containing a record (1) of the gift of Richard Holford, who left the sum of £29 a year, issuing out of three houses in the parish, to be distributed quarterly amongst the “most aged & necessitated poore people of the said parish”; and (2) of the gift of John Pearson (died 1707), who bequeathed the sum of £50 a year for 99 years, one half to be utilised for the apprenticeship of boys “Sons of poor decay’d Houskeepers,” and the other half to go to “the 20 Women in the Almeshouses at ye end of Monmouth Street.
In the north porch is an inscribed marble tablet recording the provision made by Sir William Cony for the interest on £50 to be utilised in the distribution of bread to the poor, “that is to say twelve penyworth every Sunday in every yeare and eight holy dayes in the same yeare.”
Of the tombs in the churchyard only a few bear inscriptions which can be dated before 1800.
A stone, now placed against the east wall of the churchyard, records the birth and death of several persons named Hammond, including George Hammond, died 13th September, 1789; George Aust. Hammond, born 6th May, 1761, died 8th November, 179–; Mrs. P. Hammond, died 11th June, 1798; and John Hammond (inscription mutilated).
A stone, now placed against the west wall of the churchyard, records the death of William Harding on 23rd January, 1749, aged 76; and of his wife, Margaret, on 29th October, 1754, aged 82. On the same stone have been cut the later names (19th century) of persons named Orme.
By the side of the path running past the east end of the church is the tomb of Richard Pendrell “Preserver and Conductor to his sacred Majesty King Charles the Second ... after his escape from Worcester Fight.” The visible tomb is not the original one, the raising of the churchyard in the early part of the 19th century[[664]] having made it necessary for a new monument to be erected. This stands upon the black marble top of the older one.