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High up on South side of West door is a discoloured stone slab with arms, (plate iv.), and Latin inscription:
"Mem, sacr. | Johannis Woolrich viri multum | sane desiderati, pietatis erga Deum, | charitatis in proximum, in amicos | fidelitatis, munificentiæ in pauperes, | exemplum erat singulare; inclytæ de | mum hujus urbis Prætor fidelissimus ut maximé decuit civem : optimam | uxorem habuit Mariam Rogerson | foeminam veré pientissimam quæ | cælo matura, ad | cælitas migravit | Obiit Dec. 30, anno | Dom. 1584, ætat 69. | Sic optimis parentibus libenter merito justa persolvit. J. W. |
"Hic etiam jacet Sarah Norton | filia ejus maxima natu; | et Johanni Norton, Londinensi nupta." |
Translated—
"Sacred to the memory of John Woolrich, a man very much regretted; he was a remarkable pattern of love to God, charity to his neighbour, fidelity to his friends, and munificence to the poor; at last, as Mayor of this renowned City, he was most faithful as it was most becoming for a citizen to be; he had the best of wives in Maria Rogerson, a woman of a most truly pious character, who being ripe for heaven, departed to join the heavenly throng. He died Dec. 30, in the year of our Lord, 1684, aged 69. Thus gladly to the best of parents has J. W. paid a just recompense as they have deserved.
"Here also lies Sarah Norton, his eldest daughter, and married to John Norton, of London.” John Norton was a great benefactor to Coventry.
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Below the last is a brass 20in. by 13½in., placed on the wall, engraved:—
"In obitvm Johannis Wightwick optime spei invenis Collegij Pembrochiensis socij, filij natv minoris Johannis Wightwick, armigeri hvivs civitatis senescalli qui obijt 190 Mart : 1637, 17, annos natvs.
"Ne cives sint urbe unius nominis una
Tres, unum mortis systulit atra manus
Et ne tres uno cognomine nytriat unum
Coenobium socios, unus ademptus erat
Atqz domo patris ne sint unius in una
Tresnati, natis e tribus unus obit
