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MISCELLANEA A BRASS TABLET IN DAROWEN CHURCH Mounted on a modern oak base and affixed to the north wall of the chancel of Darowen church is a brass plate of the early seventeenth century. It was apparently formerly on a stone near the south-east end of the old church, which was replaced by the present one in 1862. The plate is approximately 20 inches high by 15 inches broad and has a i-inch border with an incised pattern of leaves and tendrils. It is somewhat damaged at the lower left-hand corner. The inscription is given, with one or two errors and with the unaccountable omission of the date, in Mont. Coll. III (1870), p. 185, where the plate (not described) is stated to be "not yet replaced". The identity of Theodor Morgan seems to be unknown: the name does not appear in the pedigrees of the Morgans of Aberhafesp nor of the Morgans of Plas Canol, Barmouth in any of the volumes of Mont. Coll. The inscription is as follows: the first word of the penultimate English line and the first letter of the first and the first two letters of the second Latin lines are now missing. THE EPITAPHE OF THEODOR MORGAN WCH HE MADE FOR HIMSELF A LITTLE BEFOR HIS DEATH WHO DEPTED THIS LYFE THE 15th OF MAY 1627. If any frend will looke vpon this stone That hides my body, let him make no mone For why, my soul allready doth inherit Eternall blisse, through Christ my saviours merite And I doe know, that this my body shall Awake & rise, when ye last trump will call With out corrption, & more glorious be A thousand fould, then ere you did me see, And jointly wth my soule, with joyfull cries Shall meete my sauior, coming in ye skies, To Iudg ye world, false antichrist, & hell And all ye diuills yt therein do dwell. They shall his Iustice, & his mercie taste And haue full Ioy yt evermore will last, To noe desert I trust, nor to noe good But to Christ merite, passion, death, & blood. Vita caduca vale, procul, o procul esto prophani Cui venit in domino, vita perennis erit. JESVS, BE MY JESVS J. D. K. LLOYD