GRAVES & MEMORIALS
JAMES SPURNAY PLAQUE
ST HIERITHA'S CHURCH
CHITTLEHAMPTON, DEVON
James Spurnay, servant of Caesar Giffard (1682-1715), drowned with his master in the River Torridge. This exterior wall plaque to the right of the main entrance of the church of St Hieritha bears the inscription:
Here
Lyeth ye Bo
dy of James
Spurnay Servant
to Cesar Giffard
Esqr of Brightly
Who Departed
this Life With his
Master May ye
4 1715
[image copyright: Jane Sercombe Lewis]