Floor stone No 7 - 1830 x 715 black marble.   No inscriptions on the marble,but there are indents for missing brasses that are now displayed in St Martins Shenley. These read as follows:

HERE LYETH Y^E BODY OF A ZEALOVS & RELIGI=

OVS GENT⁾ M^R RAPHE ALLWAY OF CANNONS

WHO DEPARTED THIS LYFE THE 22^TH OF MARCH

AN^O  1621 AS AILSO YE BODY OF DOROTHY ALL=

WAY WHO DEPARTED Y^E     OF    AN^O  DNI

      THE HAD ISSVE 4 DAVGHTERS MARY

ANNE DOROTHY AND ELIZABETH

VNDER THIS MARBLE STONE HERE LYE

A IEWELL OF RICH PRISE

WHO NATVRE IN THE WORLDS DISDAYNE

BVT SHOWD & PVT VP AGAINE

HERE LYETH ELIZABETH DAVGHTER OF

RALPHE ALWAYE WHO DYED THE XIX

DAYE OF IANVARYE ANO DNI 1618

BEING OF 6 YERES AND VPWARDES

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