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| Description | Monumental brass of Henry Rolle (d.1591), north wall of nave, Petrockstowe Church, Devon. Inscribed in Roman capitals below: "Here lyeth the body of Henry Rolle Esquieer fourth sonne of George Rolle of Stevenston who maryed Margaret Yeo daughter and sole heire unto Robert Yeo Esquir decesed and had issue by hir sonnes & doughters nyneteene". On a speech scroll issuing from Henry Rolle's mouth the words MORS MIHI LUCRUM, from St Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, 1:21 (Mihi enim vivere Christus est et mori lucrum, transated in the King James Bible as : "For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain"). The Rolle armorials, with difference of a mullet for a third son, are shown each side of him: ''Or, on a fesse indented azure between three billets of the second each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants |
| Date | Drawing 19th.c.; Brass 1591; |
| Source | 19th.c. drawing published in Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p.68 |
| Author | Unknown author |
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