My Lancashire - My accounts of the local area

Margaret Leyland of Clayton's Gravestone A late-17th-century English gravestone, situated at the Church of St Andrew in Leyland. The inscription reads as follows: HERE•LIETH•INT (here is assumed. That part of the gravestone is damaged.) ERRED•THE•BODY OF•MARGARET•THE WIFE•OF•THVRST AN•LEYLAND•OF CLAYTON•WHO: WAS•BVRIED•THE 5DAY•OF•AVGVST ADGED 27•1686 AS•YUV•ARE•WA LKING•SOE•WAS I•DEATH•DID•ARR EST•AND•HERE•I LIE•AND•MVST•RE MAINE•VNTILL•T HE•JVDGMENT•DA Y•VNTILL•THE•TR VMPET•SOVND•A ND•CALLS•ME•HE NCE•A•WAY Margaret Leyland of Clayton's Gravestone, of 1686, at the Church of St Andrew in Leyland. A Normalised Transcription This transcription is how the information would read in modern day English. Here lieth interred the body of Margaret, the wife of Thurstan Leyland of Clayton, who was buried the 5th day of August, aged 27, 1686. As you are walking, so was I; Death did arrest, and here I lie, And must remain until the Judgment Day, Until the trumpet sound and calls me hence aw...