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The Dockwray Memorial |
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Here lyeth interred
the
Body of STEPHEN DOCKWRAY M:A: late Vicar of this CHURCH: Son and Succesour of the Reverend THOMAS DOCKWRAY D.D. who was Chaplaine to and Slaine with The Right Honourable the Earle of SANDWICH in that Great Engagement with ye Dutch May the 28th 1672 The said STEPHEN departed this life September the 20th 1687 And THOMAS his Son Aprill ye 13th 1676 |
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The Memorial tablet to Stephen Dockwray, a former Vicar, uses more space on the fact that his father died alongside the Earl of Sandwich who was killed by fire-ships in the Battle of Solebay 15 years earlier, than on Stephen himself. The Battle of Solebay, off the coast of Suffolk, was the opening battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672-74. |
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