Wing - All Saints - Thomas Cotes Memorial - wording

A mid C17th brass plaque with wording explaining SP8822 : Wing - All Saints - Thomas Cotes Memorial - image A transcription of the wording (retaining original spelling) follows: 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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