St. James, Swimbridge: Grabmal für Tristram Chichester of Hearsdon (1624-54) mit einer Inschrift, die lautet:

Tristram the sonn of Tristram Chichester of this parish, Gent, was here interred the 30th day of March 1654 aetatis suae 30.
 
Stay thou that passest by, look here & see,
An image of thine own mortalitie,
If genteel birth or youth or the loud call,
Of friends could have repreiv'd me I had all,
But sith nor these nor many helps beside,
Could sheild me from that stroak wherof I dy'de,
Be thou admonish'd so to watch and ward,
That death may not assail the unprepar'd.

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