RACHEL FANE BENEFACTIONS PLAQUE
RACHEL FANE BENEFACTIONS PLAQUE

ST PETER'S CHURCH
TAWSTOCK, DEVON

Countess Rachel (nee Fane) of Bath (1612-1680) is named in the following inscription on an interior wooden wall plaque as a benefactor to the parish and poor of Tawstock:

The right Hon’bl Rachel Countess Dowager of Bath hath laid out in land to the Benefit of the poor of this Parish for ever 1677 ----- 152=0=0
Shee hath also gave the parish a rich embroidered crimson velvet pulpit cloath and cushion and yearly bound out several poor children apprentices and done many other excellant acts of Charity curious memoria macterna benedictione, gave more by the same right Hon’bl Lady by her last will and Testament fifty pounds to the Poor of this parish for ever

[image copyright: Jane Sercombe Lewis]

RACHEL FANE BENEFACTIONS PLAQUE

ST PETER'S CHURCH
TAWSTOCK, DEVON

Countess Rachel (nee Fane) of Bath (1612-1680) is named in the following inscription on an interior wooden wall plaque as a benefactor to the parish and poor of Tawstock:

The right Hon’bl Rachel Countess Dowager of Bath hath laid out in land to the Benefit of the poor of this Parish for ever 1677 ----- 152=0=0
Shee hath also gave the parish a rich embroidered crimson velvet pulpit cloath and cushion and yearly bound out several poor children apprentices and done many other excellant acts of Charity curious memoria macterna benedictione, gave more by the same right Hon’bl Lady by her last will and Testament fifty pounds to the Poor of this parish for ever

[image copyright: Jane Sercombe Lewis]