Inscription
To the eternal memory of the truly vertuous and pius Elizabeth Hampden, wife of John Hampden of Great Hampden Esquier, sole daughter and heire of Edmund Symeon of Pyrton in the countyof Oxon esq. The tender mother of an happy ofspring in 9 hopeful children
In her Pilgrimage
The state and comfort of her neighbours
The love an dglory of a well-ordered family
The delight and happiness of tender Parents
But a Crowne of Blessings to a husband
In a wife to all eternal paterne of goodness
And cause of joye
whilst shee was
In her Dissolution
A losse unvaluable to each yet herselfe
Bless't and they fully recumpenc'd in her
Translation of a tabernacle of claye
and Fellowship with Mortalls to a Celestiall
Mansion and Communion with Deity the
20th Day of August 1634
John Hampden
her sorrowful husband in perpetuall testimony
of his coniugall love hath
dedicated this
monument
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