Notes : [TRANSLATION.-Wouldst thou know the excellency of this person? She was virtue itself, which made her to be beloved by her husband, and dear to her God. Let womankind repair to this monument, that from thence they may learn the duty of a wife and the tenderness of a mother. Do not enquire whether it was erected in memory of her piety or the grief of her spouse? Her death was the occasion of it being placed
here.-
Supposed to be written by Chr. Wyvill, D.D., Dean of Ripon.
Here lies the body of Christopher Wyvill, D.D., Dean of Ripon, youngest son of Sir Christopher Wyvill of Constable Burton, Bart., by dame Ursula his wife, eldest daughter of Conyers, Earl of Holderness. He was Dean of this Church of Ripon 24 years, and departed this life 7th January, 1710-11, in the 59th year of his age.-
-(On a brass plate in the ground near the altar rails.) |
