Which may be translated as: ("Here lie Giles Strangeways, Knight, the son and heir of Henry Strangeways, Esquire, and of Dorothy his wife, the daughter of John Arundel, Knight; and also Johanna, the wife of the foresaid Giles, and daughter of John Mordaunt, Knight. Giles died on the 11th of December 1547. Of the soul of whom may it be looked upon with favour by God Amen").Dugdale An almost identical monument survives in the same church, under the north arch, of William Brouning/Browning, former lord of the manor, and Katherine Dru and Alice Burton his wives, erected by Alice in 1467.'Melbury Sampford', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1
