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Elizabeth Garrard monument (inscription)

Elizabeth Garrard monument (inscription)
This reads:

Here lyes the body of
The virtuous ladie Dame Elizabeth
Garrard, late wife of Sir John Garrard, Knight
And Baronet, one of the deputie luietennants of this
Countie: sonne of Sir John Garrard, and Grandchild of Sr.
William Garrard, Knights, both of them sometyme Lord Maiors
Of the Cittie of London whose ancestors lie buryed in the parish
Church of Sittingburne in Kent, but themselves in the Parish Church of
St Magnus in London: she was the eldest daughter of Sr Edward Barkham Kt.
Sometyme Lord Maior of the Cittie of London, married in the yeare of our
Lord 1611, called by God out of this life the 17th day of April in the yeare of our
Lord 1632: being then in the 39th yeare of her age: mother of 14 children, sixe
Sonnes and eight daughters (whereof two, a sonne and daughter, went before her
To heaven, the rest she left behind her upon earth, first comendinge them by devout
Prayers unto God and then deliveringe them over with hearty desires to her beloved
Husband, to be further instructed in the feare of God:) Towards God a most faithfull child
Towards her hwsband a loyall spouse towards her children a most lovinge mother
Towards the poor a most charitable neighbour in health praysing God, in sickness bearing
Patiently: she lived most Godly, and dyed most comfortably: beqveathing her body unto earth
In assured hope of a blessed resurrection: and her soule unto God, in confidence of her
Salvation.

Here resteth the vertuous body of Isabella Garrard
Youngest daughter of Sir John Garrard Knight and
Baronet and by his wife the Lady Jane Garrard who left
This life for a better in the yeare of her age the
10 day of August Ann 1677.
Virtus Sepulcri Ignara Est.

Interestingly, despite the male effigy, it doesn't appear that her husband is buried here. Note also that the number of years for Isabella is missing. There is gap which appears to have never been completed.

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