Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . inent for his piety, industry, integrity, andconstancy; to his parents most attentive ; to his brothersand sisters most affectionate ; to his friends candid andsincere ; and kind to all. As a memorial of which, we have placed this small monumentof our love and gratitude. MB: SB: IB: The remaining part has been put into verse thus: — Tho death did come, tho life did fade. And in the grave his bones are laid. Yet Virtue lives beyond the grave. And shall from death h
Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . inent for his piety, industry, integrity, andconstancy; to his parents most attentive ; to his brothersand sisters most affectionate ; to his friends candid andsincere ; and kind to all. As a memorial of which, we have placed this small monumentof our love and gratitude. MB: SB: IB: The remaining part has been put into verse thus: — Tho death did come, tho life did fade. And in the grave his bones are laid. Yet Virtue lives beyond the grave. And shall from death his Memory save - Shall triumph oer Lifes fated doom. And be herself, a living tomb ; Whose summit, in the thick clouds hid. Above the loftiest pyramid. Shall mock at rain, and hail, and sleet. Which, harmless, shall around her beat ; Than brass more durable shall be (Existing through Eternity) When in that Ocean without shore, The Earth shall sink and time shall be no more. Other stones in the Chancel commemorate membersof the Butler family. The late Mr. George Slade Butler,, of Rye, claimed descent from the author of. Cimiue Ports Studio Rye. ST. MARYS CHURCH—BUTTRESSES. GUIDE TO RYE. 3J Hudibras, and that the first of his family to settle itiRye were the brothers William and Daniel Butler, men-tioned in these inscriptions. The name Butler, how-ever, is common in the Rye Registers from theircommencement in 1538. From the close of the sixteenth century to the middleof the eighteenth, the Grebells were the most influentialfamily in the town of Rye, and several of them are buriedin Saint Clares Chapel ; but a melancholy interest isattached to tlie record of the last:— Here Iveth the body of ALLEN GREBELL/Esqre., Who, after having served the office of Mayor of this town for ten j-ears, with the greatest honour and integrity, fell by the cruel stab of a sanguinary butcher, on the 17th of March, 1742, aged 50. He left issue one Son and one Daughter. The butchers name was
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