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Double headed stone with high round tops checked and mirrored in dip between them and on the shoulders; the MI hard to make out now, but in two columns; on the left-hand side:

In
memory of
Richard
BUTCHER of
this parish, carp-
enter, who died
April ye 17th 1769
aged 75 years.

On the right-hand side:

Here
lyeth ye body
of Elizth, wife
of Richard
BUTCHER,
& daughr
of David HARLOCK,
both of ye parish.
She died August ye 2
1739 in ye 35th
year of her age.

Across both sides:

Had issue 8 children, of whom 4 survive,
John, Elizth, Thos and Mary.
In memory of one of the best of wives.

Haslewood p118-9

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