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A History of Horncastle, from the earliest period to the present time

Note 176b — APPENDIX.

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Gervase Holles gives the following as the inscription existing in his time (circa 1640), “Hic jacet Gulielmus Brackenburg et Emmotta ejus uxor, qui quidem Gulielmus obiit 6 die Januarii, An’o D’ni 1476, quorum a’iabus p’pitietur Deus. Amen.” There are, he adds, “figures of themselves upon the stone, and ten children, all in brasse.” Harleian MS., Brit. Mus., No. 6,829, p. 177.

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