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Grabmal für Robert Kelwey in der Kirche Exton Saints Peter and Paul
mit der Grabinschrift:
Here lies Robert Keylwey a distinguished esquire amongst civilians
(whilst he lived), renowned for talent, learning and virtue, who
loved retirement, lived as a Christian and died in the Lord on the
21st of February in the year of our Salvation, 1580, and the 84th
year of his age. He left Anne his sole heiress and only most dearly
loved daughter married to John Harrington of Exton, Knt., whom he
had always affectionately loved as a son and friend, by which Anne
the said John had during the life of the aforesaid Robert two
children, a son, Kelwey, who died Dec. 2nd, 1570, 21 weeks old, and
lies buried here with his grandfather, and also a daughter Lucy
still surviving, and may God grant her a long life. To pay,
therefore, a just tribute to so dear and affectionate a parent and
to leave to posterity an evidence of their deep gratitude, the said
John and Anne have raised this monument and dedicated it to their
father, Keylwey, and their son, Keylwey (to their lasting memory if
it so please God) and design it, if God will, as a sepulchre for
themselves also.
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