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IN MEMORY OF RICHARD LOCKWOOD ESQUIRE LATE OF THIS PARISH WHOSE REMAINS WERE DEPOSITED IN THE FAMILY VAULT WITHIN THE NAVE OF THIS CHURCH, ON YE 3rd of FEBURARY 1696/7 AGED 67.

Although educated in the warm feelings of attachment to the unfortunate, but exiled, House of Stuart, in the year 1694/5, he was selected for the office of High Sheriff of this his native county of Northampton, at a period, when the dissensions of party were at their height, and agitated with the violence of faction the remotest divisions of a a disunited Empire.

In discharging the duties of a station at that crisis both difficult and arduous, combining in his own person soundness of judgment with moderation , and temper with firmness, be maintained public order inviolate and conciliated conflicting interests long opposed to each other. Nor in the walks of private life was he less deserving of respect and imitation, by a generous yet regulated indulgence to his children, by unshaken constancy as a husband, or by firm fidelity as a friend.

By his side reposeth likewise the body of Susannah his wife, the sole accomplished daughter and heiress of Edwards Cutts, Esq. (cousin german of John Lord Cutts, for his distinguished gallantry in the campaigns of King William, as also in the battles of John Duke of Marlborough, created Baron of Gowran, in the kingdom of Ireland) and descended from the very ancient family of that name long resident at Arkesden, in Essex, and at Childerley, in Cambridgeshire; here buried ye 14th of May, 1709 aged 68.

They left issue two sons and five daughters…..