“Leonis fossa nunc haec Dymoke capit ossa Miles erat Regis cui parce Deus prece matris Es testis Christe quod non jacet hic lapis iste Corpus ut ornetur sed spiritus ut memoretur Hinc tu qui transis senex medius puer an sis Pro me funde preces quia sic mihi fit venie spes.” {30b} [Picture: Monument of Sir Lionel Dymoke] On the floor of the vestry is a stone with this inscription around the verge: “Here lyethe the Boyddes of Thomas Raithbeck & ame his wyf ye founders of the Beidhous Departed thys world in ye fayth of Christ ye last day of October in ye yere of or lord mdlxxv.” On the wall over the door of the vestry is a shield containing three storks proper, on an argent field; the crest a stork; and under the arms this inscription: “Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. Mr. THO: GIBSON, A.M. Forty four years Vicar of this Parish. He liv’d in such times when Truth to the Church, and Loyalty to the King, met with Punishment due only to the Worst of Crimes. He was by the Rebellious Powers carried away Prisoner, four times, from his congregation, once exchanged into the Garrison of Newark, for a Dissenting Teacher: afterwards Sequester’d, and his family driven out by the then Earl of Manchester. He survived the Restoration, and was brought back at the head of several hundreds of his Friends, and made a Prebendary, in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln. As his Enemies never forgave his Zeal to the Church and Crown: so nothing but the height of Christian Charity could forgive the Insults he met with from them. He Died April the 22d, 1678.” Against the wall on the south side of the chancel is a lozenge shaped piece of canvas, on which are painted these arms, Argent, two bars sable, each charged with three mullets of six points or, pierced gules; and under them the following inscription: “Here lieth the worthy and memorable Kt. Sir INGRAM HOPTON, who paid his debt to nature and duty to his King and Country in the attempt of seizing the Arch-rebel in the bloody skirmish near Winceby, October the 6th, A.D. 1643. {32} “—nec tumultum Nec mori per vim metuit, tenente Cæsare terras. Paulum sepultæ distat inertiæ Celata virtus.” Beside the sepulchral memorials already detailed, are a number of others on the floor, and a few of recent date, on marble tablets, against the walls. At the end of the north aisle of the chancel, is the following table: The BENEFACTORS to the CHURCH and POOR of this Town, the Clauses of whose Wills may be seen at large in a Book in the Town Chest. Note these Tables were erected 1724. WILLIAM EVERITT and JOSEPH BROWN Churchwardens. Anno 1611, October.