mbridge: Judith
Jeamison: Samuel, Sarah, and Catherine, Wicker: Matthew White: Francis
Read: James Waller: John Middleton esq.: Ann Chourn Isabella Ramsden; Sir
Bysshe Shelley Bart. of Castle Goring: Mary Catherina his wife: Catherine
their daughter. All of these monuments, with the exception of six,
belong to the last century.

[Picture: Marriott monument]

The font constructed of Sussex marble, is octagonal, and handsomely
sculptured: date 1455.

[Picture: Font and cover]

The following inscriptions are noticed in the Burrel MSS. (British
Museum,) which at present do not remain.

In mortem Georgii Allen.

Quod fuit esse, quod est, quod non fuit esse, quod esse,
Esse quod est, non esse quod est, non est erit esse:
Vita malis plena est, pia mors pretiosa corona est;
Post vitam mors est, post mortem vita beata est.

In the window of the North chancel, was the following, in Gothic
characters.

Orate pro anima, Wiliemi Attwood de Horsham et Aliciae uxor ejus,
quae istam fenestram fieri fecit; A.D. 1428.

"Madam Eversfield (according to Dallaway) gave one silver flaggon, two
silver cups, one basin for oblation, gilt; pulpit cushion and cloth, with
gold fringe, and a branch of candlesticks to the body of the church. Two
dozen of penny loaves, to be disposed of among the poor every Sunday,
that frequent the church, for ever; the gift of Mr Theobald Shelley."
"The same person with the Lady Matthews, gave this portion of bread to be
disposed of every Sunday for ever, for the encouragement of the poor to
frequent the church." This is inscribed in front of the organ gallery.
In the parish registers mention is made of an attack of the plague, by
which this place was afflicted, though happily not to a very alarming
extent, they commence in the year 1560. Over the vestry, (which was
built in the reign of Edward VI) is a very curious old room reached by
means of a spiral stair-case, terminated by a trap door: the oaken roof
depends entirely upon a large beam in the centre. It is called the
Lollard's tower, and was most probably used as a place of confinement for
that unfortunate sect: the apertures for light are thickly guarded by
double iron bars, and in one place, on the north wall, the remains of an
iron ring are visible: the only thing of any consequence in this cold and
cheerless apartment, is a large oaken chest, cu