THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED,

BY THREE SURVIVING BROTHERS AND A SISTER,
TO THE MEMORY OF

THE AMIABLE AND ACCOMPLISHED

SUSANNAH LOWNDES,

ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE

RICHARD AND SUSANNAH LOWNDES

OF LIVERPOOL.

SHE WAS BORN IN THAT TOWN 12th AUGUST, 1794, DIED AT WARWICK, ON THE 19th FEBRUARY, 1813, AND ON THE 26th WAS BURIED AT THE ENTRANCE

OF THIS CHANCEL.

NEAR THIS PLACE

ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS

OF

JAMES DRAKE AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE,

INHABITANTS OF THIS TOWN.

JAMES DIED JUNE 24th, 1761,

AGED 75;

ELIZABETH DIED JUNE 10th, 1775,

AGED 79.

THEIR HARMONY IN THE CONJUGAL CHARACTER
AND THEIR TENDERNESS IN THE PARENTAL
WERE TRULY AMIABLE;

THEIR INDUSTRY IN BUSINESS

AND THEIR INTEGRITY IN EVERY RELATION OF LIFE TRULY RESPECTABLE;

THEIR CHARITY EXTENSIVE WITHOUT OSTENTATION, AND THEIR DEVOTION FERVENT WITHOUT SUPERSTITION. TO THE JUSTNESS OF THIS REPRESENTATION, THE ESTEEM OF THEIR FRIENDS,

AND THE DUTIFUL AFFECTION OF THEIR CHILDREN
BEAR AN HONOURABLE TESTIMONY.

SOLID MERIT DISDAINS THE AID OF FLATTERY,
BUT IF GRATITUDE BE PERMITTED

TO COMMEND THE VIRTUES OF THE LIVING,
LET NOT FILIAL PIETY BE CONDEMNED

FOR PAYING THIS TRIBUTE OF SINCERE VENERATION TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

IN THE SAME VAULT

ARE BURIED JAMES AND JOHN DRAKE,
ELDEST SONS OF

THE AFORESAID JAMES AND ELIZABETH.

JAMES DIED MARCH, 1737,

AGED 18;

JOHN DIED SEPT. 28th, 1773,

AGED 49.

THREE OF THE CHILDREN ARE NOW LIVING,
RICHARD, LAURENCE, AND THOMAS.

THIS MONUMENT

WAS ERECTED AT THE JOINT EXPENCE
OF RICHARD AND THOMAS,

A. D. 1776.