The History of Oswestry: Comprising the British, Saxon, Norman, and English eras; the topography of the borough; and its ecclesiastical and civic history; with notices of botany, geology, statistics, angling, and biography: to which are added sketches of the environsCathrall, William
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The History of Oswestry: Comprising the British, Saxon, Norman, and English eras; the topography of the borough; and its ecclesiastical and civic history; with notices of botany, geology, statistics, angling, and biography: to which are added sketches of the environs
Cathrall, William
Natural history -- England -- Shropshire; Oswestry (England) -- History
“Sacred to the memory of the Rev. TURNER EDWARDS, L.L.B., Vicar of
this parish, and of Llansilin, in the county of Denbigh; rural dean
of Marchia, in the diocese of St. Asaph; and one of his Majesty’s
justices of the peace for the county of Salop: he departed this life
on the 10th of January, 1803, aged 44, leaving an afflicted widow,
with five children, to deplore his untimely loss. Also underneath
lie the remains of SARAH, relict of the above Rev. Turner Edwards,
and second daughter of the late William Birch Basnett, Esq.; she
departed this life on the 16th December, 1814, aged 52. This
monument, a slender token of duty and affection, was erected by their
surviving children, Turner, John, William, James, and Mary Anne.”
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“Sacred to the memory of the Reverend JOSEPH VENABLES, L.L.B., who
was born 31st August, 1726, and died 14th August 1810. As a minister
of the Gospel, he illustrated his precepts by his example, by his
piety, benevolence, and general character as a man. To his
relations, his affection and kindness were unbounded; for society,
his friendship was ardent and sincere; and when his Creator called
him to another and a better world, he closed a long and well-spent
life, respected and lamented.”
A tablet near the communion table:
“To the memory of THOMAS KYNASTON, of Maesbury, Esq., who died in
1710, aged 33; also of three of his children, and five
grand-children.”
On a plain slab near the town door:
“Sweeney Vault.—Underneath lie the remains of EDWARD BROWNE, Esq.,
who departed this life 22nd of February, 1704, aged 80.”
On a neat marble tablet near the above:
“EDVARDO BROWNE, de Oswestry, in comitatu Salopiensi, armigero, qui
vixit ann. 80. Decessit 8 Calend. Mart., Anno sacro 1794. Sara,
conjux Thomæ Netherton Parker, haeres ejus, ex asse, pio gratoque
animo in avunculum optime de se meritum, hoc monumentum faciendum
curavit.”
Mural monuments near the above:
“M. S. Jacobi Donne, S.T.P., Ecclesiæ Blddwell, in agro Salopiensi,
Vicarii, qui, dum Scholæ Oswestriensi per annos 36 præfuit, quid sit
verus ingenuarum artium finis, quid erga Deum patriamque pietas, quid
strenua illa honestas, nominis Britannici prisca propugnatrix,
præceptis, exemplo, tota vitæ ratione, pro virili edocuit. Quanta
denique Religionis Christianæ vis, ipse jam tandem placida senectute
degens otium, et ad extremam vitæ horam sacris literis officiisque
deditus sanctioribus, sibi suisque feliciter demonstravit. Hoc
monumentum poni curaverunt, qui, disciplina pueri tam honesta
instituti, provectioribus jam annis venerandi illius capitis testari
volunt desiderium.”
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