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English: Wall-mounted monument in SS Peter and Mary Magdalene parish church, Barnstaple, Devon, on the south aisle wall, to Elizabeth Chichester (d. 1628), a daughter of John II Chichester (d. 1608) of Hall, Bishop's Tawton, and wife of the Barnstaple Merchant Richard Delbridge. The Inscription is as follows: "To the memorie of Elizabeth the wife of Richard Delbridge of Barnstaple, merchant, & daughter to the worthy John Chichester Esq.r of Hall, together with her child of which she died in childbirth December 18 1628". She is depicted kneeling at a prie dieu with a baby in swaddling clothes on the ground in front of her. Above her is a lozenge showing the arms of Chichester, differenced by a crescent. On top of the monument is an escutcheon with the arms of Delbridge (Sable, a chevron argent between three swan's heads and necks couped proper) impaling Chichester.
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