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St Lawrence Church, Towcester-Monumental Inscriptions

Hastings Memorial
Image of Hastings monument
Image of Hastings monument
Hastings monument
Drawing by T. Trotter 1802

NEAR THIS PLACE LIETH THE BODY OF

MARY HASTINGS WIFE OF JOHN HASTINGS
CITISEN AND TALLOW CHANDLOUR OF LONDON
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 28 DAY OF
MAY 1686 AND IN THE OF HER AGE.

NEAR TO THIS PLACE ALSO LY INTERRD
THE SAID JOHN HASTINGS, WHO DIED
MAY THE 16th ANNO. DOM. 1698
AGED 45 YEARS.
AND REBECCAH MOTHER OF Y SAID
JOHN WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE OCTBR 1693
AGED 63 YEARS.

NEAR TO THIS MONUMENT WILLIAM
FATHER OF THE SAID JOHN HASTINGS
WAS ALSO BURYED OCT. 10th A.D. 1713
AGED 84 YEARS

NEAR THIS MONUMENT LYETH THE BODY OF
ELIZ: DAUGHTER OF WILL. HASTINGS AND
WIFE OF JOHN GOODCHILD, WHO DIED
FEB. ye 6TH A.D. 1722. AGED 70 YEARS.
NEAR TO THIS MONUMENT ALSO LYETH THE
BODY OF REBECCAH CUTHBERT DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE NAMED
WILL. AND REBEC. HASTINGS
WHICH SAID R. CUTHBERT DYED APRIL Y 16th
A.D. 1727 AGED NEAR 70 YEARS.