Monumental Inscriptions in Ashbourn Church, Derbyshire/Sir Brooke and Dame Phœbe Boothby

MONUMENT,
EXECUTED BY JOSEPH EVANS,
of DERBY.

SACRED

TO THE MEMORY OF

Sir BROOKE BOOTHBY Bart., and Dame PHŒBE his Wife, Daughter and Heir of WILLIAM HOLLINS, Esqr. of Mossley, in the County of Stafford.

He was born Nov. 2d, 1710. and died April 9th, 1789. she was born Octr. 4th. 1716, and died May 5th. 1788.

They were Married in 1742,
and left issue two Sons, and one Daughter:
Brooke, born June 3d, 1744. William, born May 4th, 1746.
Maria Elizabeth, born February 16th, 1758.

Here blameless pair with mild affections blest,
Belov'd, respected, much lamented, rest:
Life's shelter'd vale secure in peace ye trod,
Your practice virtue, your reliance God.
Long days, long love, indulgent Heaven bestow'd,
And sweet content to gild your calm abode;
Friends who through life their faith unalter'd kept,
Children who loved, who honour'd and who wept.
Heroes and Kings, life's little pageant o'er,
Might wish their trophied Marbles told no more.