GRAVES & MEMORIALS
DOROTHY BAMPFYLDE OBITUARY INSCRIPTION
CHAPEL OF OUR LADY
EXETER CATHEDRAL, DEVON
Dorothy Bampfylde /Bampfield (d. 1614, wife of John Dodderidge) was great-aunt to Susan Bampfylde (d.1670) who was the first wife of John Giffard (1639-1712).
The inscription on her memorial at Exeter reads as follows:
As when a ruinous clocke is out of frame
a workman takes in peeces small the same
and mendinge what amisse is to be found,
the same rejoynes and makes itt trewe & gow
so god this Ladie into two partes tooke
too soone her soule her mortall corse forsooke
But by his might att length her bodie sound
shall rise rejoynd unto her soule now crownd
Till then they rest in earth and heaven sundred
att which conjoynd all such as live we then wondred
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