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When the Chancel was wainscotted, the late Sir Lionel Pilkington of Chevet repaired this Chantry, and erected therein a handsome monument to the memory of his father and grandfather, composed of a full length figure reclining under a canopy, with the following inscription beneath :-
M. S.

Lyon Pilkington Baronetti,

Viri

Supremis hisce, quos solvimus, honoribus

In tantum digni,

Quantum a suis olim bene meruit,

Et ab aliis, quousq. innotuit, universis ;

Qui, capaci & pene ad omnia versatili ingenio,

Avitam & vere liberalem

Excoluit virtutem.

Summis æquus, inferioribus fungi muniis

Non dedignatus est ;

Justitiæ strenuus, & (quoad potuit) assiduus

Cultor custosq.

Quam suas intrare non passus est ædes,

Alienis expulit discordiam.

In amicitiis vel conpingendis vel confirmandis

Pro ægregia, qua erat, humanitate,

Promptissimus Author, & Adjutor.

Nihil molestiœ,

Nihil incommodi detrectavit,

Dummodo prodesset quamplurimis.

Hac tam felici dotatus indole
Hominumq. & rerum peregrinando gnarus

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Morumq. simul perpolitus Elegantia,
Haud inutilis vixit patriœ Civis,

Nec injucundus amicis

Interfuit Comes.

Obiit A.D. 1714 Ætat. suœ 54.
Dilectissimi conjugis latus claudit

Amata, quam primam sibi junxerat Uxor
Et octo liberorum felix parens ;

Quæ obiit A. D. 1696.

Ætat suce 36.
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Lyon, sex fihiorum maximus
Patriarum virtutum hæres

Ah (oh! properatas moriendi vices!)
Tituli vix vix biennium,

Parentum reliquiis addidit suas

A. D. 1716 Ætat. 34.
Avo & patri possuit Lionellus.
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On a Tablet near the above,-

M. S.

Thomæ Pilkington Bar^ti.

Cui

Avorum

Res. virtus, honos

Hæreditati,

Solum non contigit

eorum

Ætas provectior.

Natus 1773, Obiit 1811.

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On the East Wall of this Chantry are the Arms of Pilkington with the following inscription beneath :-
This South Chantry was founded by Sir John Pukington Knt. in y^e 16^th year of the reign of K. Edw. y^e 4^th. after the conquest, by virtue of his Maj^s. letters pattents bearing date of Westminster y^e 20^th day of De^br. An^o Dm^o 1415, & is maintained at the proper charge of Sir Lion Pilkington of Stanley within this Parish, Barronet, who is lineally descended from y^e above said Sir John Pilkington.
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Immediately underneath on a marble tablet,-
Sacred to the memory

Of Isabella, Wife of Rev. Richard Hawksworth

and youngest daughter of

Sir Michael Pilkington, Bart.

of Chevet near this place,

Born Aug. 29th, 1780,

Died April 30th, 1809. Aged 28 years.
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On the floor in the same Chantry, -
Hic jacet Corpus

Johannis Baskervile S.T.B.

Quondam Scholœ Wakefeldiensis

Ludimagistri, Qui obiit May 15. 1681.
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Here lyeth the bodies of Charles and Elizabeth Pilkington, son and daughter of Sir John Pilkington of Stanley, Barronett, who both departed this life in the year 1689.

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ON THE SOUTH WALL.

Near this place

lies the body

Of Elizabeth, the wife

of

William Marsden

late of

this town, Attorney-at-Law,

who died the 14th Aug. 1766.

aged 37 years.

Also the body of Francis

their son

a Captain in the 5th regt. of foot,

who died the 12th Feb. 1780.

aged 27.

And also the body of the said

William Marsden

who died the 6th Feb. 1793, aged 66.

In respect to the memory of her parents

and her affectionate Brother,

This monument was erected March 1790

By Hannah Maria the wife of John Carr.
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To the memory of Dorothy, wife of Rawstorn Bradshaw of Lum in the county of Lancaster, by whom she

had 14 children, and ended her state of probation of 42

years, Sept. 24, 1737.

In all the changing scenes of this short life,
She was what could be wished for,
As daughter, sister, mother, friend and wife.

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Near this place lies the bodies of William Oates of

Wakefield, Gent. who died 19th Nov. 1737, aged 65 years.

And of Gartrude his wife who died 3rd Dec. 1739, aged

48 years. Also of their sons William, Samuel, Richard

and Francis. William died 13th July, 1730, aged 21 years.

Samuel, Richard and Francis died very young.
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ON A PILLAR in the SOUTH CHANCEL.
In memory of Thomas Oates of Wakefield, Esq. who

departed this life the 24th of Dec. 1783, aged 71. Also
of Elizabeth his wife, who died the 5th of Sept. 1791,
aged 82. Also William their son, who died the 19th of
August 1800, aged 57.

Susanna their eldest daughter married William Crowder late of Wakefield, Esq. and died at Bath the 22nd of April 1806, aged 65.

Elizabeth their daughter married John Crowder of Brotherton, Esq. and died at the Hot Wells, Bristol, the 27th of June 1789, aged 41.

The remains of the two sisters were interred near to each other at Clifton, near Bristol.