Wing - All Saints - Thomas Cotes Memorial - image
A charming little indented brass plaque dating from the mid C17th. It is to be found at the southwestern end of the nave of All Saints, Wing. Beneath it is a second brass plaque explaining the picture, this can be seen here SP8822 : Wing - All Saints - Thomas Cotes Memorial - wording The wording on the lower plaque is as follows (spelling as written): Honest old Thomas Cotes, that somtime was porter at Ascott=Hall, hath now (alas) left his key, lodg, fyre, friends and all to have a roome in Heaven, this is that good mans grave[.] Reader, prepare for thine, for none can tell but that you two may meete to night, farewell[.] He dyed the 20th of November 1648 Set up at the apoyntment and charges of his friend Geo Houghton
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