Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

Parish Church, Selmeston

Inscription:

Here lyeth ye body of Henry Rochester
Dyed May 28 1646.
Apostrophe AD
Omnes.
This life that's packt with ielovsles and fears
I love not. That's beyond the lists of fears.
That life for me. For here I cannot breathe
my prayers ovt. There I shall have breath
to say Ovr Father that's in heaven wth me
where chores of sancts and innocents there be
Christianos.
No sooner christened bvt possession
I took of the heavenlie habitation.

Monument details:

Type: Stone Tablet.

Monument Condition: Unknown.

Inscription Condition: Unknown.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Rochester.

First Name(s): Henry.

Birth date: Not given.

Death date: 28 May 1646.

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Unknown.

Batch: Unknown.

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