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English: Bolleit's engraving of the tomb of Clarice de Bolleit and its inscription. Blight's account of it in his article:

"Within the tower, on the pavement, is an ancient tomb which, when Whitaker visited the church about sixty years ago, was "lying near the altar-rails, but on the floor in the northern access to it." According to Hals it was discovered about the year 1665, buried four feet in the ground, by the sexton while digging a grave. The inscription, he says, "was difficult to read," but the "curious" found it to be "Jane, the wife of Geffery de Bolait, lies here: whosoever shall pray for her soul shall have five days pardon, m.lx.ix." Another writer says, that "not only the year, but even the month and the day of the month are both inserted," and he supposed it to mean "March 16, 1101." He then gives an incorrect reading of the inscription. At present there is no appearance of any date on the stone. The county histories vary in the wording of this inscription, owing probably to their authors inaccurately copying what had been previous published, and not taking the trouble to examine the monument for themselves.

"As will be seen from the annexed engraving, the inscription, which is in Norman-French, is cut in letters of the thirteenth century, and runs as follows:—+ Clarice : la : femme : cheffrei : de : bolleit : git : ici : dev : de : lalme : eit : merce : ke : pvr : lealme : pvnt (priunt) : di : ior : de : pardvn : avervnd—"+ Clarice the wife of Geoffry de Bolleit lies here, God of her soul have mercy: who pray for her soul shall have ten days' pardon." The stone is seven feet long, and has a floriated cross on three steps carved in relief on the upper part. The family of Bolleit resided on an estate of the same name as this parish."
Date March 1862
Source Page 254 of Blight's article "Cornish Churches", pp. 247–255, in the issue for March 1862, ed. by "Sylvanus Urban, Gent.", bound as part of The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Vol. CCXII or Vol. XII (New Series), printed by John Henry and James Parker (London, 1862).
Author John Thomas Blight (signed "J. T. Blight"), author and engraver

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