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On Eliz^th Daughter of James Bond, 1659.

Low, here she is, deprived of lyfe,

Which was a verteous and a loving wife;

Until the graves again restore

Their dead, and Time shall be no more;

She was brought a-bed, but spous above,

And dyed to pay the living pledge of love.

On Mr. Hugh Shepley, sometime Rector of Newbvrye, 1596.

Full eight and twenty years he was your pastor,

As hee was taught to feede by Christ, his Master;

By preaching God’s Word, good life, good example,

(Food for your soules, fitt for God’s house or temple)

Hee loved peace, abandoned all strife,

Was kinde to strangers, neighbours, children, wife;

A lambe-like man, borne on an Easter daye,

So liv’d, so dide, so liv’s again for aye;

As one Spring brought him to this world of sinne,

Another Spring the Heavens received him in.

In the Parish Church of Aldermaston is the following:—

To the precious memorie of four Virtuous Sisters,

daughters of Sir H. Forster, 1623.

Like borne, like new-borne, here like dead they lye,

Four virgin sisters, decked with pietie;

Beavtie and other graces, which commend

And make them all like blessed in their end.