Drake Tomb - Forncett St Peter Church

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The Tomb in the North Aisle of St Peter's Church - to Thomas and Elizabeth Drake, 1485

Rosemary Izat, in her Historical Outline of the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Forncett St Peter, states that the inscription on the tomb once read 'All Christian people that walk by this tomb early or late, of your charity say a pater noster for the soul of Thomas Drake' (Weever's Funeral Monuments).

The portraits on the top of the tomb:

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