St Petroc: memorial painted on copper to John Prideaux & wife Agnes, erected 1639 by their son John, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford & Bishop of Worcester (shown in red gown)
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John Prideaux (the son) is depicted wearing a black cassock and over it a red sleeveless doctor's gown (academic cope), a black hood and a skull cap.
Here rest the bodies of John Prideaux of Stowford, and Agnes his only wife,
The Parents of (7) Sonnes and (3) Daughters To Whom John Prideaux the 4th Sonne Doctor of Divinity and the King's Maiesties Professour thereof in the University of Oxford Rector of Exeter Colledge and Chaplain to Princy Henry, King James the first and King Charles the first hath left this filiall Remembrance July 20, 1639
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on 4 July 2017
