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Image: BampfyldeImpalingCoplestone 1650 StMary'sChurch Poltimore Devon

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Description: Ledger stone in nave of Poltimore Church, Devon, of Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet (c.1610-1650) of Poltimore and North Molton and Tamerton Foliot, all in Devon. Inscribed: "Here lyeth John Bampfylde Baronett who died Aprill 24 1650 in the 40 yeere of his age. The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and mercifull men ar taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evill to come". Above are shown the arms of Bampfylde (Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent) impaling Copleston (Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three lion's faces azure), representing his marriage to Gertrude Coplestone (d.1658), a daughter of Amias Coplestone (1582-1621) of Copleston in the parish of Colebrooke and of Warleigh House in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, both in Devon.
Title: BampfyldeImpalingCoplestone 1650 StMary'sChurch Poltimore Devon
Credit: Self-photographed
Author: (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 16:52, 21 August 2015 (UTC))
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