It is somewhat remarkable that a church of so much historic interest and antiquity should possess so few sepulchral memorials of pre-Reformation date. The oldest known to exist is the tomb of William Walton, the first prior; it stands beneath a plain pointed arch on the north side of the high altar, and is covered with a grey marble slab, in the centre of which is an incised cross of floreated character, and the following inscription in Longobardic characters carved upon the edge-- HIC. IACET. FRATER. WILELMVS. DE. WALTONA. PRIOR. DE. KERTMEL. There are some other memorials of departed priors, though the inscriptions are too much worn to admit of their being deciphered; but the most imposing is a canopied tomb on which are the recumbent figures of a knight and his lady, placed beneath an arch on the south side of the choir. It is commonly known as the Harrington monument, and has long been a source of perplexity to antiquaries; there is no date discernible upon it, and considerable doubt exists as to where it came from--for it is clearly not _in situ_--and which of the Harringtons it was intended to commemorate. It has been variously assigned to Sir John Harrington of Hornby, who was knighted by Edward III. in recognition of his services in Scotland; to Sir Thomas Harrington, who married a daughter of the house of Dacre, and fell fighting on the side of the White Rose at Wakefield on the 31st of December, 1460--a day fatal to the House of York and scarcely less fatal to the victorious Lancastrians--and also to his son, Sir John Harrington, the brother-in-law of the black-faced Clifford, who received his death-blow fighting by his father's side in the same battle. For the benefit of those who are curious in epitaphs we quote the following from a marble slab on one of the walls of the south transept:-- 1600 HERE BEFORE LYETH INTERRED ETHELDRED THORNBVRGH CORPS IN DVST IN LYFE AT DEATH STYLL FYRMELY FIXED ON GOD TO REST HER STEADFAST TRVST HIR FATHER JUSTICE CARVS WAS HIR MOTHER KATHERINE HIS WIFFE HIR HUSBAND WILLIAM THORNBVRGH WAS WHYLST HERE SHE LEDD THIS MORTAIL LYFF THE THYRDE OF MARTCH A YEAR OF GRACE ONE THOWSAND FYVE HUNDRED NINETIE SIX HIR SOWLE DEPARTED THIS EARTHLY PLASE OF AAGE NIGHE FORTIE YEARES A SIX TO WHOSE SWEET SOVLE HEAVENLYE DWELLING OVR SAVIOVR GRANT EVERLASTINGE.