THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED, BY THREE SURVIVING BROTHERS AND A SISTER, 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 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 SOLID MERIT DISDAINS THE AID OF FLATTERY, TO COMMEND THE VIRTUES OF THE LIVING, FOR PAYING THIS TRIBUTE OF SINCERE VENERATION TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD. IN THE SAME VAULT ARE BURIED JAMES AND JOHN DRAKE, 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, THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED AT THE JOINT EXPENCE A. D. 1776. |