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Sarcophagus with circular panel with mother, suckling child and four other children. Two oil lamps flank upper panel with inscription. Benedict conquest of Irnham in the county of Lincoln esquire, died the 27 of October 1753 aged 40 and Mary his Wife, Daughter of Thomas Markham of Ollerton in the county of Nottingham esquire she died the 2 of February 1745 aged 38. Panel with poem Stop and attentive view this scene of death/ A mother lies this hallowed earth beneath/ Happy in virtue, calm, resignd, serene/ Tho doomd by sickness to a life of pain/ A father lies, whom rich, whom poor, approved/ In death lamented, as in life belovd./ Five children once to bless their love were given/ Two rapt in infant innocence to Heaven;/ Two more, thus God resumd the gifts He gave/ Met just in opening youth an early grave/ One only one, remains, with weeping eye/ The spot to point out, where their relics lie/ Christina pays this duty to their fame/ and marks the marble with a parents name./ Hail shades for ever honourd, lovd’ and mournd,/Tho what was dust, be now to dust returnd./ All is not dead, gone is the vital breath:/ Blest virtue lives immortal een in death./ Those eyes, whence charity taught tears to flow/ And tongues, which once could misery beguile,/ Make orphans happy, and a widow smile./ Rest here, cries hope, in mercy rest secure,/ Parents of Arundell and of the Poor. Panel 3: The Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised (Proverbs 31.30) (Photo Apr 2014).