Near to this Mournfull Marble lies Interr’d the Body of the Hon. Coll.
Charles Price who was divested of the Robe of Mortality on the 23d day
of May, 1730, Aged 52 years.
Who was a Loving Husband, an Indulgent Parent, a peaceable Neighbour,
and a faithful Friend; Just, Charitable, Courteous, Affable to his
Inferiors, patient of Injuries and Slow to wrath.
A Man of Integrity, and so firm to his word, that he inviolably
preserv’d the same even to the strictest Nicety of Honour; meek he was
but truly Brave, and every way fited for his Hon. station, and for a
Loyalist was second to none.
He was possessed of such a singular ingaging temper and sincerity of
mind, which render’d him a very desirable Companion to all, but more
especialy to those who had the happyness of being intimately
acquainted with him for he knew no guile neither was deceit found in
his heart. If he had any Enemies, they must have been the Sons of
Envy, and became such not thro’ any real cause by him given, but from
some invidious and Malignant seeds planted and foster’d in their own
turbulent and uneasie breasts.
To say more of him would be but still to say too little, only that he
is now gone to that place which alone knows how to reward those
vertues, of which he was here the happy possessor.
O may we then like him resign our breath,
In life his vertues share, and be like him in Death.
Pallidæ [_sic_] mors æquo pulsat Pede pauperum Tabernas Regumque
Turres.
Lawrence-Archer, in his “Monumental Inscriptions of the British West
Indies” (1875), gives the same information as Roby. Nothing is now known
of such a tomb near Aylmers, and the tombstone in memory of Price, as
quoted by Roby, is now on the floor of the church near the north door;
but the tinctures on the arms are quite gone. There is no record of the
removal from wood to church. It was evidently subsequent to 1849, but
the reference in Lawrence-Archer is no certain proof that it was still
in the wood in 1875.
Charles Price was the third son of Francis Price, who came to Jamaica as
a captain under Venables. His eldest son, Charles, who achieved much
fame in Jamaica and was made a baronet in 1768, and lies buried at
Decoy, his estate in St. Mary, will be dealt with under that parish.
Charles Price was member for St. John in 1713 and St. James in 1725, but
was expelled for non-attendance in the same year. He was custos of St.
Catherine. His two sons and six daughters, who all died between 1716 and
1727, lie buried in the church. He left three surviving sons.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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